All right, how did I get into kitty? When I was a university student, I studied computer science and at some point I was fed up with my Windows installation and I was looking for alternatives. So everyone was talking about this new thing called Ubuntu thing, which supposedly was amazing. So instead of that, I tried it for an hour and was, yeah, okay, but I was looking around more and there was this Ubuntu thing which I installed and stuck with because I used conversation, the IC client, copied the internet messaging line, K address book, yes, yes, for real, K mail and the file browser, Conqueror back then, and all of them could make use of the address data in the K address book and I was amazed. That did work indeed. So then I was hooked because I really liked the seamless integration between all these applications. And then at some point, a friend of mine who was contributing to Kitty's music player, Amarok, said that since I'm using Kitty's software now, I should do something for Kitty. And that they were going to go to Linux talk in two weeks and that I should come and help run the Amarok booth. And I did that and I had no clue what I was doing. But the nice thing was that people asked the same seven, eight questions over and over again. I had that figured out pretty quickly. And across the hallway, there was the Kitty eBlood with people like Aide and Zebas and Danymo and they were very nice. And since then I'm here. And being the Kitty eB precedent currently, what do you expect the next Academy to be? There are only very few right answers to this question. I think there are many very right answers to this question, but some of them are more right than others. Personally, I wouldn't mind a nice sandy beach with palm trees, but I don't think we have that many of them in Europe. So got to work on that. I started on Kitty that was in 98. So that was like 18 years ago or something. And I just needed a message box for my talk. So a friend of mine had actually shown me one. And so that was quite good. So I decided to use that just to be able to show a message box for my talk. And then I started to do some some more work on Kitty. And then suddenly Torben had to go and write an office suite. So I took over the farm manager. And that was a long, long time ago. So I've been an open source user for more years than I care to admit because it shows my age. Anyway, I for years actually tried to become a contributor to several projects. And Kitty was the first one that actually responded back. Yes, do this. It was Laurent Montel with documentation. And I did tons and tons of documentation for K-Mail. And then I moved on to Kbuntu. And then Jonathan taught me how to package. And that was the end of that. No more documentation.  And that's how I got the CI system, which has, yeah, been exciting, really exciting. And yeah, I don't see myself going anywhere. So, so I was bored. And so I ordered, what was it, Redhead Six or whatever on Amazon. And I installed it. And it was terrible. And then, well, it was. And then I installed KDE, which was called, it's awful back then, weird. And then you got enlightened. And then I got enlightened. No, I really hated it. I really hated it. And then I installed SUSE. And it was better. And then I discovered Amarok. And for some reason that I don't recall, I went to a conference with the Amarok people and started the weird tradition of howling in the hallways, because Amarok's level is a wolf. So obviously he would be howling. And just the fact that one would be willing to do that in public made me stay. And that made me stay with K. That's why I'm here. All right. So what do you have against people not wearing suits? Well, I've, yeah, I don't have anything against them. But I think so, so I think that dressing nicely is a way to show respect to the people you meet. So so what should we think of you now that you're not dressed nicely and not wearing a bow tie? I feel offended. Yeah, as you're rightfully sure. But no, I think I think it is a nice T-shirt. But I think generally dressing dressing up is a way to show appreciation and to just elevate the entire affair of it, right? With everyone wearing T-shirts and jeans, someone has to hold up the flag of fashion as it were.   Nobody wants to wear shorts. No. You obviously haven't got to Southern California, have you? Oh, Arizona. Oh, Arizona, yeah. But we have, like in Katie, you get to travel a lot, right? And so we just decided to go to LA because why not? I wore trousers in LA. Yeah, sure. Good. We have it on tape. Whatever. Well, well, well. Kevin went down to my university to propose a project on Tomahawk, which was a multimedia player, a music player, basically. And it was done with Qt C++. It's not really Katie, but it put me the first finger into the machinery, right? And after that, I was searching for an internship in Spain because I had my girlfriend there. I didn't find an internship to where she was, but I found an internship in Barcelona where there was a blue system company. They were doing mostly Katie. So basically I did a three month internship there and I kept going after that on the Katie side, but not with my girlfriend, but that's all. That's where how I got hooked up. And after that, I kept going on the Denshin project, on K-People project a bit. And let's see what this goes. All right. I got started in Katie in 2008 when I was a student, psychology student, and a classmate of mine made me aware of a program called Season of Usability, which was a bit like Google Summer of Code, but for usability things, it's done by Open Usability. And so I applied. By the time I was still using Ubuntu with Unity, no, back then still to just know. And one of the projects was creating patterns and new interface guidelines for Plasma 4, or back then, at least they're called KDE4. And this was actually the first time I learned about it. And yeah, so then I started using it and at the same time contributing and that got me hooked. And since then, I've been part of the community. Well, so I first tried KDE in Red Hat 6.0, so it was a few years ago. And since then I always love KDE. I first got in contact with the community a few years later, like when in 2007, I was in a free software association in Colonia called HEPU, and there was an active contributors there who said, oh, let's do a genome event. And I said, oh, if it's a genome event, it should also be a KDE event. And so that's been, okay, very well, we are going to do a genome and KDE event, and you have to contact the KDE people. And then was when I got in contact with the community. And well, since then, until today. Yeah. All right. So I got introduced to KDE after using Commando. And after about a week of using Commando, I was upgrading my KDE on like a 256k abuse line and something broke. And I talked to one of the KDE contributors over there. And they went and talked to Harold, over for a second right next to me. And he told me he had to fix it. So I hopped into and Harold goes, yeah, this is how you fix it. And next thing I know, I talk to Jonathan and I'm getting appropriated for packaging fixes everywhere. And about a year later, I am in Disneyland with Harold and Pluto, for some reason, and meeting other, meeting other want to come features. Oh, this is not how it happened.  Oh, why do you guys ever do this? I'm going back to windows. You should all run max stuff. And everybody should join the Nome Foundation. Why don't you join us and in Cascupon to devour and why don't you be productive and look, you can make this fix here. And and and so we took his patch and it didn't work. But it's the first time I've heard this version of the story. Liar. But the second time that Jonathan was involved in some contra... Yeah, that that is suspicious. Well, I think I actually used Katie first when I tried Linux because I was interested in how Linux works when I wanted to switch from Windows. And I didn't like it at Katie three times. It was complicated and weird. So I started with GNOME in some, well, in some SUSE version. And then when Katie 4.0 was released, I wanted to try it out because it was something shiny new and I had enough time. So I looked at this one and it was quite like innovative. And I liked how the design was done. And so it was kind of stuck with Katie 4.0. And then switch to Katie 4.1 and 4.2. And it was actually shitty to use. But it was interesting. And meanwhile, I had discovered Kate. And Kate was what actually made me stick with Katie as a default decimal assignment. But I constantly switched back to GNOME or other desks to, well, check how they all go. They were going. But yeah, my primary desktop is Katie, so Katie. I went to university and they taught me how to make a Java program that could put a button here. And I thought, that's nice. But how do you make a real computer program that there's really interesting things? And the only way to find that out is to look at the open source code that's available there. And Katie is the best source of that. So how I got started. Well, actually I started using it because I first looked at the code. Because I thought that for free software that would be pointless. I was using something I wasn't feeling like contributing to. So I evaluated several options and settled on Katie because I knew C++ at the time and that was what I was most acquainted for. And it didn't take long until I found something I didn't like in there, which happened to be the fact that I hate icons on the desktop. And you could have anything in kicker at the time. So that was the panel that we had. Except for the... except for, yeah, yeah, good one. Nicely done. Thank you. Except for the CDs that we inserted and we had detection. So I just started with plug-in for that for kicker. And then got sucked toward the libraries and


Hey everybody, how's it going? I hope you're doing well, and I honestly mean that I Want to let you know that this video was filmed on Monday the 16th and Usually I wouldn't make a little message like this at the beginning, but our world is changing pretty much by the hour so the topics that I'm talking about and And Everything that's going on in my life in this video right now May be old news to you and things may have completely changed already So just keep that in mind as you watch today's vlog once again, I hope this video finds you in good health and We're all in this Pandemic together Keep getting these videos out to you as quickly as I can And I'm gonna keep trucking through this so hope you guys have a Have a great day and enjoy this video These uncertain times good morning everybody Karen says good morning as well It's my GPS for you newcomers She's a very talkative woman. She likes to talk a lot. She's gonna yell at me in a bit here So it's a Monday morning when I'm filming this we're headed out on a trip. We're headed towards British Columbia We have a load of ATVs behind us, and I think I have about 10 or 12 stops on the way So we got a couple in Manitoba. We all want to Manitoba or we're gonna do that one third. I Know we're gonna go to Saskatchewan first but our first drop in Carlisle Saskatchewan And I believe we got one in Moosman Come back into Swan River Manitoba Oh the tow truck broke down. Oh the tow truck is gonna call a tow truck But we got a couple in like I said Manitoba Saskatchewan We got a couple in Alberta, and then we end off in British Columbia around Kelowna I believe so we're going all across Western Canada on this trip or with this load You know a whole bunch of trips So far when I'm filming this it's business as usual across Canada. I Know all across other parts of the world people are losing their minds Just want to assure you we have a good supply of toilet paper And you watch this I don't know if that's still gonna be a thing or not But you never know people panic about this and they panic about that and they go and buy toilet paper Because that makes sense So we actually didn't go and buy any more than we usually would it was we stopped up on food in the house So that we have about two or three weeks of food in case if Things start to go crazy like they are in Italy or anything something like that Hopefully by the time you watch this again things have started cooling off and not got worse But I really think it's overblown It's a serious thing that you got to take seriously But I think the media is also making it a lot and they're causing people to panic over something That's it's not the common flu, but it's it's like a little worse than the common flu You really got to worry about passing it on to seniors and pregnant women and children right? You don't know what we're talking about. We're talking about the beer virus. I Can't say it on YouTube or they'll demonetize me Not allowed to talk about it Only authoritative news sources are allowed to make you panic. I'm not allowed to make you panic So I'm gonna try to calm you down and say we'll get through it. Okay? It's a good time to remind everybody of things that they should already know wash your hands Don't touch your face Maybe avoid contact with your well physical contact with your grandparents for for a couple of weeks Just fill everything blows over, you know Maybe if you got a friend who's pregnant, maybe just hold off on getting together for coffee for a couple of weeks have like a Video chat or something right and do make sure that you got enough food in your house for your family for a couple of weeks Just in case if things go south like if they go really bad and they shut down like Me they shut me down then, you know, it's bad because Truckers we keep everything moving right we keep food on the shelves Right now. I'm keeping a TV stock. So that doesn't really have anything to do with anything But they do shut me down food for your family for about three weeks Maybe a month my mom's got always got food in her in her house for like two months for like a family of 50 And we've got enough food for a while Hopefully you guys are all healthy watching this if you're not Our prayers are with you.  It's nothing It's a serious thing, but you also don't want people to do what they're doing now. It's just insane I can't really speak for the people in Italy. It looks pretty bad there. So They know better than I do maybe listen to what they're saying For as long as they let me I'm gonna keep trucking try to keep things on the shelves stocked low risk because I'm pretty isolated I'm in the truck by myself here. I only see one or two people every day So I'll be okay. You don't got to worry about me. I got to worry about you I got to make sure your shelves are still stock so Let's keep the truckers moving So I'm sorry you've been staring at this window for so long already this morning We're on the south side of Winnipeg Manitoba. We're headed west like I said earlier our first drop is in Carlisle, Saskatchewan I'm gonna get as many done today as we can and hopefully be done this load by the end of this week I'm gonna need to get some more washer fluid though guys. It's messy out here Yeah, I need to get some new wipers. These wipers do more smearing than anything. Look at this guy. This guy's getting towed On a trailer. That's different Fascinating never seen that before Other tow truck buddy back there who needs the help too. There's like a gallon of washer fluid. It's been five minutes 800 meters slide right on highway two No Slight left into Tim Hortons. That's what you meant to say. I'll forgive you So we're in oak bluff the SO They got a Timmy's here. Oh Look at this. They got new gas or gas. They got new fuel pumps here for the trucks Even though all these guys over on the left are blocking them because they're too lazy to walk from the actual parking lot back there To get their food and their timmies. It's tempting. It's tempting just to park here I know Nice that they put that canopy over it though now. That's nice I just wish people would stop parking over there The only reason they park there is because they want to walk inside and they don't want to walk from back here I've done it before too, but not that bad. There's a couple of trucks that could park big park one two Yeah, two or three trucks there But there's always more people that want to pile in there and then they block everything for everybody. Oh Well, oh well, at least they got a canopy now, right fancy Very fancy I did not line myself up right.  Now we're pointing in the right spot I'm gonna park back here in a parking spot and walk all the way in like a decent human being who doesn't want to Inconvenience anyone wanting to get fuel I'm just joking. You're all decent in the beans But you do gotta use a little bit of common sense.  Come on Check this out They're running transmission lines from the tower on the left of the tower way over on the right and they're using a helicopter to pull it That's cool It's got the highway closed now while they're In the middle of this but ha clean the window here for you So that's how they do it Imagine being that helicopter pilot.  Oh, he's probably getting a couple of dimes Wow That's so cool. That's so cool. That would be so much fun. Imagine that was your job. I guess while he's Doing that we just got to wait here You see him over there? Where's the cable coming from? That way somewhere Fascinating That makes sense. I always wondered how they did that. I Think this is what they call the sura scale It's on highway two here anyways in southern Manitoba Never actually gone through here, but they're open today. So here we are Thought they'd be closed, you know with this whole virus going around and stuff You don't want to see that many people go home stay home, you know, we shouldn't gather in groups of people even if it's just me and you I'll see what there's a Axel He's in there looking at my numbers Slide right on highway two and then keep to the right in 100 meters Looking at my straps looking at my load looking at my lights looking at my tires Thank you very much. You are my friend I'm here in turn left We got the go ahead. We got the DOT approval got my Tim Hortons And I sanitize my lid. Is that weird? what there's one thing that this virus going around has Really brought to light and brought to the front of my mind is personal hygiene cleanliness and germs.  She likes everything to be clean and I just Didn't really care. I mean I preferred it if it was clean, but I never really understood It's okay. It was a little bit of dog hair a little bit of dust. I'd never hurt anybody what But now I understand that with this virus going around that it's very contagious that me just going into Tim Hortons if anybody in there had this COVID-19 and Wiped their nose. Let's say if they had a or like I Don't know got some of their bodily fluids from their tongue or their nose on their hand or whatever you know sort of wiped it on the counter or You know touch something or wiped it on their pants and their pants rubbed against the counter and then I rub the can You know how germs spread right? It's very easy to spread and then I have those on my hands, right? And then I come to my truck and I get an itchy nose and I go I itch my nose right now those germs transferred From that person To the surface that I touched to my hand to my nose now. It's in my nasal system and it's going down into my lungs So it's maybe very health-conscious all of a sudden and I've completely finally come to the same page as my wife. I Want everything disinfected and clean. I have cleaned my whole truck and wiped my like my dashboard down here I've wiped this dashboard down three times today I've wiped down all the handles multiple times that I grab on to when I get in and out of the truck back here as well My door handle here that I'm always touching this here and that there my steering wheel of disinfected three times today I know it's a little bit of overkill, but I'm definitely gonna get into the habit of disinfecting my truck regularly every day Even after this virus is gone It's just a good idea. I finally understand why I'm 31 year I'm just about 32 years old. I finally understand germs Thank you for those of you who had faith in me who always believed in me that I would arrive to this point Here we are took a while, but We're here So every time I stop I've been wiping down different services, right now to me wiping down services before would Pretty much just mean that I was wiping the dust and the dirt off it right the visible things Like if it was dirty like this here. I haven't wiped this down yet I'm not gonna touch it right now, but you can see it's a little bit dirty right there Usually I would wipe that down just when I see dirt just to get the dirt off it to make it clean, right? It's actually not why you wipe things down you wipe things down with disinfectant to kill the germs and bacteria that I've built up on here Because once like let's say I reach in here to get my paperwork.  So even if just a few got on there, you know after a few days There's millions all over here all over here and then I touch it again And then I itch my nose or I lick my fingers after I eat a donut without washing my hands and those are now in my body Freaky stuff right little buggers little tiny little guys Scary stuff and you know most germs you don't have to worry about because our bodies have an immune immunity to them Right some germs actually help keep our immune system strong So you don't want to kill all the germs all the time But now that we have something new in the world that our bodies have no immunity to that's completely new that somehow Magically just popped out of nowhere Hmm now now it's like I think about it more right because I don't want I don't want to get sick I'm young enough and healthy enough that I'd probably get over it the COVID-19 is supposed to it's supposed to be like a really really bad flu and Lot of congestion chest congestion It sort of attacks your lungs and it can cause fibrosis at the lungs So it can get serious if it gets bad, but chances are you know within a week it would pass through my body and I'd be fine again But in that week and in the week prior to that while it's incubating whatever you call incubating You know what I mean? I'm touching things.  You need food Okay, and Necessities toilet paper is not a necessity That's weird that people are going for the toilet paper but besides that it's I Think it's really bringing the world and a lot of people like me around the corner to the table of hygiene not just taking a shower not just you know Making sure everything's neat and gotten a dirt on it to actually you know disinfect surfaces that you touch regularly and Just try not to be a carrier of germs. I don't want to be a germaphobe Don't worry. I'm not gonna become a germaphobe, but you sort of got to be a little bit in this day and age with COVID-19 going around You got to be a little bit of a germaphobe because I just don't want to be down for a week even if I heal and like Get through it and I can self-quarantine and I don't spread it to anybody. I still don't want to be down for a week I'm I need to keep moving my biggest fear is that they're gonna shut everything down.  We're sort of We're doing all right. We're doing better than a lot of people, but I'm definitely not rich I'm definitely not wealthy We have everything under control, but you know if we shut down for eight weeks or something like that Even two weeks like that would really hurt Eight weeks would devastate us. We would be in the tank. We'd be bankrupt like after eight weeks. No work That's two months. I can't I can't afford that. I Can maybe do two weeks if it was absolutely positively necessary, but then That's it like we got to get back to work and work hard hard hard after that and It's that's the thing. I'm worried about most people panicking and government's panicking and Going a little too far But we'll see what happens.  I got a few in Saskatchewan to get done And then a few in Alberta and a few in BC. I'm gonna try to get them all done by Thursday on Thursday It's Monday today when I'm filming so See how it goes we'll see how it goes Odes are a little slippery right now. I'm taking her a little easy Got a lot of wind coming out of the West again. It's just been brutal all day today fighting the wind again Truck is concerning me a little bit again. I Think after this month, I'm gonna bring it into the shop and get it an overhead Overhead adjustment on my truck get them to check my injectors because they're getting pretty old I also got to change the fluid in my transmission as I got one of these sissy automatics I know Which means I got to change my transmission fluid every so and so often I think mine might be a little overdue. I'm gonna go check on it anyways because I bought this truck And I don't have maintenance records on me right now. They're They have them, but they're in a file Oh So I got to check on that I think I got to get my transmission fluid changed and Yeah, like I said an overhead adjustment and check my injectors I Had my engine light pop on a couple of times is very very briefly It goes on and then it goes off right just like it was before it was worrying me it's been concerning me but I learned how to Figure out the code now of what the fault is because I go into my engine faults in my computer here And it says there's no faults, right? So it's it's something that's just barely triggering it And then it goes away barely triggers it then goes away so I was able to catch the code and The code was for injector cylinder one That's what's giving me my fault every you know, but once a week or so it's popped on and then it goes off right away My truck has been I Think that it it's not running at full capacity full power So I think the the overhead adjustment and maybe we might need to replace the one injector I think that'll help quite a bit with my engine And it's time to get it checked anyways. This has got 1.1 million kilometers on there That's probably about 700,000 miles. It's time to start doing this. You know high mileage maintenance. I Also got to get them to check my carrier bearing on my drive shaft Feel a little bit of a vibration when I'm pulling hard sometimes at certain speeds Feels like it's coming from under my cab and I went under there and checked my drive shaft carrier bearing and bearing itself looks good It's tight But the rubber mount that's around it Is it has a little bit of play inside its little frame? And I don't think it's supposed to have any play at all I can move it about like an eight to a quarter inch or something Like that's how much the drive shaft can move Maybe just a hair, right? I don't think it's supposed to be able to do that. I'm gonna get my driveline checked out as well I'm not too happy but having to bring it back to the shop so soon after the last repair That's why I'm trying to like, you know Wait till the end of the month at least till some money comes in But the trucks running well right now. I mean no engine light no fault lights. No nothing but You know, we've got to keep this thing running. We've got to keep it tip-top shape We've got to go get it checked out. I'm gonna bring it to Volvo in Steinbach And see what they see what they have to say to me because they got all the specific parts and technicians and computers to tell me How everything's doing I want to test out my engine Because like I said, I'm really excited to start looking into new trucks in the future It within the next year possibly maybe maybe get into your Kenworth But it might also be next summer 2021 That's the original plan or Maybe I'll hold on to this truck for another five years. I am back and forth Ask my family. I am so back and forth. You know what? There's advantages to both sides and I gotta just I gotta think on it some more Because I'm gonna go back and we're gonna think on it some more think on it pray on it I've got to see what what I should do. I could buy a brand-new truck Have warranty no problems for a while.  I will end up in a new truck eventually. I'm just not sure when We're here in Swan River Manitoba Towns a little bigger than I remember it lives. They got three traffic lights Very nice impressive This is a little bit of a historic town in Manitoba as well every town's historic if you think about it They'll have a history Come on. Give me a green light. Give me green light, please. I see that. Yeah, there we go So when I go and park beside the co-op food store for night because that's the only place I can find Or I could park. It's just on the side of the street. It's right close to my customer My customer is right down Here I think Karen's gonna yell at me to turn right here You know what? Yeah, let's let's do it I wonder if I can park right here then Okay, so I gotta go to the street over Well, shoot that sign right there says no parking over three-quarter ton. I Guess they've had other people try this before All right then Fine, you don't like me. I'm too big. I'm too fat Very nice Find somewhere else to park now. You know I'm gonna park here for now until I find somewhere else to park. How about that? Sue me All right, bear with me people. We found a spot. There's a co-op card lock with truck parking What That's Google talking. That's not Karen. I just googled where I could park and I already got my signal on I know So we'll go find parking over there then they're moving to park here. I'm too fat I've never been so self-conscious in my life My fault I'm so heavy


Hey guys, welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new. For those of you who don't know me, my name's Sam. I am a licensed hairstylist. And in today's video, I am going to be reviewing the Dyson Corral Flatiron. Is it actually worth the hype? Is it worth the high price tag? What is my opinion as a professional? And then I'm also gonna show you how I use it to do like my everyday messy beachy waves. So the Dyson Straightener. This thing retails for $4.99, $500. Now, what is so amazing about the Straightener? Why is it so expensive? The big thing about it is A, it is cordless. You can use it without the wire. And it is supposed to create less heat damage to your hair. I pulled up the Dyson website because I wanted to just read what they claim. They claim that it's the only straightener with flexing plates that shape to gather the hair. And they have videos and pictures on their website that demonstrate that. And because these plates, which I don't understand how it works because the plates don't necessarily look different from just like a regular flat iron. I mean, it looks different, but when you actually look inside like at the plates themselves, there's not like a huge noticeable difference. But I guess because it gathers all the hair together, you can just pass over it one time and it's supposed to create less damage. And you also don't have to put the temperature up as high to get the results that you want. This extra control allows you to create the same style, but with less heat and half the damage. So yeah, I don't know. I will put the link to their website in the description if you wanna go check it out and read more about it for yourself and watch the little video that they have explaining how it works. I will say from personal experience because I've been using this now consistently since like the end of March. It's now the end of July, so about four months now. And I do feel like I notice a difference using this versus using any other flat iron that I have. And I have so many different ones at home from so many different brands. I have professional ones. I have non-professional ones. And this is definitely different from all of them. And I'll explain a little bit more once we actually get to the tutorial part. And I start using it on my hair because it has a digital display. So you have the buttons here. This is the on button. And then you just turn up the temperature. So you can see, you can set it to 330, 365 or 410. My hair, I feel like is a little soft and frizzy today. So I think I'll just do it on the highest temperature. And then there is a little lock so you can lock it closed. And that will automatically turn it off. But let me turn this back on. We'll set it to 410. And you guys can see how quickly it heats up. It just takes a few seconds. I do really like that it's cordless. That is definitely convenient. I'm hoping that that's the future. There we go. It's already at 410. What is annoying about this though, is that the cord, it just hooks in with a magnet. And it's not very strong. So if I am using it with the cord plugged in, every single time I do, it ends up getting unplugged at some point. I prefer using it cordless. And then if I remember to, I'll just plug it in and let it charge after I'm done. For this tutorial, it's pretty easy. I just let my hair down the middle.  Depends how much time I have, you know? So what I've been doing recently that has helped my hairstyle last a little bit longer is spraying a little bit of hair spray on my hair. Before I apply heat and then afterwards too, to really lock it in.  So this is the verb hold in volume strong hair spray. So I'm just gonna grab one little piece from the back and say maybe like an inch and a half, two inches wide.   And when you're curling with a flat iron, you can just twist and then pull all the way down. That's one way that you can do it. But then you see how most of the curl ends up on the bottom there. So that's not typically how I like to do it.  Cause I feel like that gives a little bit more of like a beachy wave, whereas this is like, I don't know, you can see the difference for yourself. And you can alternate the direction that you're curling in if you want a more like PC separated look. I tend to just do mine all in the same direction, all going away from my face. Cause I just like how that lays. And then that way everything like kind of twists up together and it just looks like really soft. So that's what I'm going to do. We're going to go all away from my face. Twist, untwist, pull down. And I do like curling my hair with a flat iron more than with a traditional curling iron because I feel like you're getting heat from all sides. So I feel like it holds better than when you use a curling iron. And I also just feel like it's faster. Like I can just glide through really quickly with this and I don't have to like hold it like I do with a curling iron. Like I just moved through really quickly. So there we go. That's how those curls look.  So it'll help when we hold them in place.  Like I said, I normally will do two to three sections on each side today for the sake of the tutorial and I have time. So we'll do three sections. Give a little spray. So it's funny with this straightener the first time that I used it I really did not think that I liked it because it's just really big and bulky. And especially because it's cordless, it's pretty heavy. And it just felt weird in my hands like compared to my really thin skinny flat irons. But the more that I used it the more that I got used to the feeling and the weight of it. And the more I really started to notice what a difference it made with my hair. So what I mean by that is this, like they claim that it doesn't cause heat damage. And I truly believe that because A, I have noticed that my hair has looked really healthy whereas before I definitely was like getting heat damage. And this, like I just don't feel as guilty using it because I can just tell a difference. When I pass it over my hair, when I touch it immediately afterwards with any of my other hot tools, it feels really hot to the touch and it almost kind of burns for a second. With this though, I can touch my hair immediately after and it doesn't feel super hot to the touch. Yet somehow it still is creating the style that I want and it lasts. To have it all the way up to 410 degrees and it not feel super hot to the touch is crazy. And definitely not like any other hot tool I've ever used. And I mean, it works great for doing waves like this. I've also used it just to make my hair pin straight and it works amazing. You literally, I'll insert a clip actually of me using it on my natural curly hair so you can see how easily it will make the hair like super, super pin straight with just one pass. It's really crazy. So really like it and I don't love the high price tag. Unfortunately, that's like the one thing about it that kind of sucks.  And in the meantime, I'm gonna do the other half of my head and it's just gonna be the exact same thing. So now that my entire head is curled and it has all completely cooled down, you wanna make sure it's nice and cold to the touch. If you feel any heat at all still, leave it alone because if you start messing with it while it's still hot, it's gonna just fall flat and not last as long. So I'm gonna give one more quick spritz of hairspray and then I'm gonna just start pulling the curls apart with my fingers, same thing on this side. And then this is my little trick, this is what makes all the difference. I like to take some dry shampoo, preferably a texturizing dry shampoo. The camera volume dry shampoo is one of my favorites. I also really like the Not Your Mother's Beach Babe texturizing dry shampoo. That's great if you're looking for a drugstore option, but I like to use this on clean, freshly styled hair and I just pick up pieces and I hold it from a distance, you don't wanna be too close and spray out too much product in one spot. But I just do a little mist of it and this not only will add volume and texture to your hair but it also will prevent your hair from getting greasy as quickly and I feel like using dry shampoo preventatively on clean hair is much more effective and just works way better than waiting till your hair is already greasy and then using it on dirty hair. You can also spray it on the ends of your hair too to add a little volume and texture. And then I just like to give it a good zhuzh, like get up there at the root, really rub it in. I love this hairstyle so much, this is my go to because it's just easy and as the week goes on, you know, as it starts to fall and just looks more and more messy, it just looks intentional, you know, which is what I love and I like having the straighter ends because I feel like that just adds to the beachiness vibe to it, but also if you have a blunt cut like I do, it just emphasizes your haircut and it just makes your hair look really nice and full. So that is how I get this style using a straightener and you don't obviously have to use this one specifically, you can use any flat iron that you have. So final thoughts on this, obviously if you couldn't tell by now, I do really like this straightener a lot and I'm really glad that I got it, but do you need it is the question. I think that it really depends.  I wouldn't. I keep all of my Dyson products at home to use just on myself. To me, I don't feel like this is necessarily worth using on clients. I'm fine just using, you know, my regular professional straightener from Babilis. If you are somebody that you only ever use a flat iron on your hair once a month, then no, this is probably not worth it because A, you're not gonna be using that often so you're not gonna get your money's worth and B, you're not really causing that much heat damage to your hair anyway because you're doing it so infrequently.  Still, even with this, you wanna use some kind of heat protectant in your hair of course.  This in combination with some kind of heat protectant will definitely save your hair. So in that case, I think that it's definitely worth it.  So if you go to the Dyson website, on the top of the product page is a 1-800 number.   So yeah, that is it for this video. Those are all of my thoughts on the Dyson Corel flat iron. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. Let me know your thoughts down below. Have you tried this flat iron out? What do you think of it? Do you like it? If you liked this video, please don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel before you go. Also go ahead and follow me over on Instagram for more hair tips and tutorials and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye.


Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy. Congratulations to the first enlisted woman to serve aboard submarines who earned a submarine qualification or dolphins. Chief Culinary Specialist Dominique Saverd assigned to USS Michigan earned her basic, advanced, and underway qualifications becoming the first enlisted female to earn her silver dolphins. Preparing to replace the C-2A Greyhound, Naval Air Forces is conducting a fleet battle experiment with the Navy variant of the Osprey. This experiment will demonstrate the tactics, techniques, and procedures for the Osprey as the new carrier onboard delivery platform. Coastal patrol ship USS Bonsun tested the capabilities of an unmanned aerial vehicle during a missile test in the Arabian Gulf. The Puma is a small UAV that is easily assembled and can be utilized by multiple platforms. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at navy.mil.


Hi there, so today we will share some topic about how we manage data in AI, especially in Kubernetes. Like, we will introduce two solutions together. One is the CSI fields, the one that you guys already see in the actual, in the schedule. And the other one is a newly come out one, it's called ETCD FSBAC. The next kind of a little, like confusing the beginning, but I will go through them one by one. So first introduce myself, so I'm Lu. I am the open source PNC maintainer of Alasio, previously named Tat Yang. And also is the AI platform, Tat Lee at Alasio. So we will quickly go through the AI data management problems in Kubernetes. And we will introduce the two solutions, the CSI fields and the ETCD FSBAC. So quickly go through the problems, like Kubernetes, how is the deployment hard days. But for later scientists, they still need to consider so many problems, like other than the AI logic, like where is my data and why my data is so slow, why it costs so much money, et cetera. Then how can we get away all those storage overhead from data scientists and let them to focus on AI logic more than before. So we will talk about the first solution, the CSI fields. So first we will talk a little bit about what's fields. Fields have a kind of a magic title basically, it can turn your cloud storage into your local file system format. Considering you are open folder in your local Mac, it may look like just a folder or file in your local file system, but it can be backed by some cloud storage, like S3, like GCS. So it has much bigger capability than your local disk. But you can use it just like your local disk. So all the data scientists, they really like this kind of logic. It's something that is wonderful. But everything is not without a cost. So one cost that can't with fields is that it will need more resources, the CPU, memory and disk, because it will launch some of the kernel threads to help deal with the operations. And also like you will use some kernel cache and also some disk for local cache performance. So all those come with some resources cost. And then our data scientist because saying that I only need the fields like the data set which we presented, you are using a field spot in my AI training logic. If I don't need it, can you just not launch it? So like we, so CSI makes it really good that it can launch the fields nodes when the data set is needed. So field spot deal with the storage logic while application part deal with the AI logic. But CSI maintain the same life cycle between these two. So the field spot will only be launched when your application need the data set. Everything sounds perfect, but like data scientists consider like have another question like why my data access is so slow? Like as we all know, like assessing cloud storage data is not your local disk speed. But when data scientists, they are assessing your local data, they is fast sensing similar to your local disk performance. Then come up with like how can we deal with the slow performance? Like one solution is local cache. Like different field solution like S3FS fields, they have their building local cache. You can also use other like GCF fields, they also have their building local cache to solve this problem. But sometimes the AI application, you actually need to data to be shuffling and share between nodes. This come up with the need for distributed caching. So on the left side is the training node. On the right side is the storage system. And we kind of break the logic between the training node and the storage system. Like to two parts, S3FS fields, which can turn cloud storage into a local folder for your training nodes. And in the middle, we can add another like distributed caching layer in between to provide high performance data access. So in this case, you can assess the cloud storage data like the local data, while also enjoy the performance benefit coming from the distributed caching system. And we done some of the benchmark, like the CV data loading between Alasio and S3FS fields and also BOTO S3 API. Alasio is five times faster than S3FS fields and more than 10 times faster than you use BOTO S3 API directly. And sometimes like our user will show us the graph like TensorFlow showing like how much data is actually used in data loading and how much time is actually used in the GPU utilization. So the higher the time spent in data loader, it could directly result in a low GPU utilization rate. And with Alasio field solution, we can reduce the data loader rate from 82% to 1%, which directly improve the GPU utilization rate from 17% to 93%. This sounds amazing, but everything comes across as I mentioned. So there are two problems with fields on Kubernetes. The first one is that you actually need to have a separate container for your fields part because it costs resources and its logic is readily complicated. And on the other part, it needs you to have the system of the main security privilege. Many Kubernetes folks taught to me that we don't want to allow you to have the system of the main privilege because we don't know what you would do in our cluster. Like we don't want you to ruin the host machine or other things. So these two are actually an overhead for us to maintain fields on Kubernetes. Then we jump to the next solution about ETCD FS-Back. So first, what is FS-Back? Any of you guys hear her about FS-Back? Please raise your hand please. Oh, there does have some people here, which I'm really surprised. Anybody of you have heard about Arrow? Raise your hand please. Oh, much more hands, I can see that. Thank you guys. So starting from Arrow, Arrow connecting different data format together, you can read from one data format in one line in Arrow and then write the data format to another data format in one line, like basically write from Arrow write data format. And on the other hand, Arrow has connecting different frameworks together. You can read data from one framework and write it to another framework with only like simply by several lines of code, which makes everything connect together. But when Arrow need to deal with the story system, it will go to FS-Back. It basically dedicate all the cloud story operations to FS-Back. FS-Back define the file system interface for Python and it's kind of learning from the two framework. One is Python IO and the other one is Fuse that we just mentioned before. But compared to Python IO and Fuse, its interface is much easier. It especially made it so easy for the cloud storage vendor to implement it. So basically, for example, if you want to implement a story system just for read, you only need to implement probably like three APIs. List status, get file status, and read range. Basically, that's it. So it's really simple to implement from the engineer perspective. And also, we have different FS-Back implementation on the market as well, like S3FS, AzureFS, GCFS, HackingfaceFS, nearly all the storage vendor you can consider off. Compared to Fuse, it's easy to implement. It's designed for cloud storage. It's easy to use. It does not require Azure container or system admin permission. And talking about performance, it has the same issue that's similar to Fuse. You need to have some kind of local cache to be able to provide faster data access. And it also is not designed for AI workloads that with data shuffling and sharing logic. So it turns, so we bring out our cloud native distributed catching system, which is our new generation of distributed catching system that built for Kubernetes. So on the left side is the FS-Back, which is the client side. On the right side is the Alasio system cache, which is the servers. And for read, we will first check, okay, whether our data is local. If the data is already cached locally, that's great, we can directly get the data from local. And if not, we will go to the distributed catching service. Then we will need to know, okay, I have so many Alasio workers that probably catch data from me. Which worker are more likely to have the data cached there so that I can get my data at a faster speed. So it includes some kind of worker selection logic. For to be able to select which worker, we need to get some information of those workers. And those worker membership information is stored in ETCD. ETCD responsible for periodically get the worker list from all the worker basically say hi to the ETCD. And then ETCD provide those membership information to our clients periodically. And based on those worker information, we will create a constant hash ring. And so that we can know that, oh, worker zero is more likely to have the cached data. So we go to worker zero to serve our request of a certain file. And if anything happen like, if the data is not cached, if the read goes wrong, if a network have some issue, if you guys actually not doing read, you guys want to do write, then all those operations, we will go directly to the underlying FS back. Like S3FS, GCSFS, Hacking Face FS. Basically, we add in one layer of distributed caching logic on top of the existing UFS, like the S3GCS, et cetera. And one question that many people may ask is like, is the distributed caching system then why cloud native? Oh, Alasio previously have the previous version of Alasio and when we actually running in Kubernetes cluster, like many Kubernetes folks like do complain to us, it's like we don't want something stable. Why stable? Can we do stay list? Our whole Kubernetes cluster does not allow any stable data system. And that kind of like may have shot because it's a caching system, we think it's a data system and data need to be sit there like persistently. But considering from other hand is the caching system, the data is able to last just as your kernel cache. The data can be lost, it can be added. So we develop the new system that built for stay list. So like consider some of the workers here, consider you have a Kubernetes cluster, many service make sure the same cluster. And sometimes like when the training jobs gets higher priority, we want it to give a more caching resources. But sometimes like the other jobs gets higher priority, we may want to kill the whole allows your system catch or we may want to scale it down. Or maybe this several nodes are under maintenance, we want to move it to other nodes. Then in this case, for this architecture, like if you do change to the allows your system catch, it will affect temporarily the catch he rate. Basically the newly launched worker, they don't have the previous catch data. And because the caching can shift a little bit, it have a little catch he missed. So in that case, it affect a little bit of performance. But as time go by, when you re-catch all the data, the performance will catch up. So that's a trade off that we did for our users. They can decide that where they want to get stable so that the data is more stable or they want to go stay list so that like it give more control to Kubernetes logic like scheduler and all other resource management logic. And on the other hand, this architecture is highly for Torrent and highly available. For everything that Chris thought, we basically fall back to the underlying file system. Underline file system is always the source of truth. Even if the whole allows your system catch is cured by the Kubernetes cluster, you are still able to serve a request. Basically all operation will be fall back to the underlying file system. And now we will talk more about like how to use this kind of architecture in the real world. So one example is to use Ray with Alasio. So we may talk a little bit about Ray. How many of you guys know Ray? Please raise your hand please. I can see some similar false Ray's hand again and other false, yeah, the same. So Ray is designed for distributed caching. Ray basically really use a distributed scheduler to dispatch chaining jobs to available workers and enable the seamless horizontal scaling of chaining jobs across multiple nodes. And it's have a great group part that it can parallel your data loading, data preprocessing and the chaining logic. So for example, when you are chaining on partition two, you can partitioning and partition one and then loading the partition zero, something like that. So it can do those things parallel to fully utilize your GPU resources and CPU resources. But it also have some performance and cost implementation of Ray. Because like for example, when you use Ray with PyTorch in when you're doing the AI chaining, in each app, you need to load the whole data set. And it's reusing the whole data set at the cluster level. But on each node level, you will, sorry, right? So basically like for each app, you need to reload the whole data set again. Because Ray doesn't tell you to catch the data. It only makes what data is needed to be used by the immediate task. And also you cannot catch the hottest data among multiple chaining jobs optimistically. So basically you cannot have some data sharing logic. And you might be suffering from a costar every time. So we go into the Ray's lab channel and do find some of the users how they about their data reuse problem. Especially when they are doing a large amount of data. And so in the framework is like in the Ray ecosystem, Ray is the unified compute the machine learning pipeline observation. And it obtains like different framework together. Like some data preprocessing framework and some of the chaining and inference framework like PyTorch and TensorFlow. And so it originally directly load data from the remote storage. And Elastio has a high performance data asset layer between the compute layer and the storage system to provide better performance for the compute job. And the usage is also pretty easy. You create the Elastio file system and then you read data using the original Azure URL or original like UFS URL and you say your file system it'll go Elastio. So the usage is pretty simple. And by using this framework especially with the large pocket file we are able to achieve like two times to five times like better performance compared to same region S3. And it not only improve the performance but also reduce some of the data transfer costs like because the data is catch. So originally the large highly concurrent AI workloads they would directly heat to your storage system. And for your storage system it may just say that hey you guys you see my like data access rate you cannot do that much read in that short period of time. And it may just arrow you out. Or they may say that oh we only can give you certain throughput, certain latency. So that's one thing. And the other thing is about the data transfer cost like both in terms of like the cloud storage like the vendor cost and also like the people that managing the data transfer. And on the other hand like we found that there are many of the redundant like API costs like the S3 operation for list status and get file status. So for the storage system we usually found that like even you just read a really small file the read probably really quick but to able to read that small file it need to have at least three metadata costs. So consider you are reading someone something like image now with 1.3 million of files. Maybe the recall is one million and then the metadata cost can be about to four to five million tons. And that is a huge rate for the storage system. They may be under heavy load or they may be give you bad latency. And that's it for our talk. I think we still have several minutes to answer any question. And feel free to scan the QR code if you have any follow up question. And we have all the engineers on our Slack channel and I will have all your live meet us and also like learning materials on the line. Thanks so much. Any question? Thank you.


Hello everyone. My name is Philippe Teherge and I'm managing director for journals at Elsevier. I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to speak at De Nago's See the Future web event in November. We'll be talking about our experiences during this pandemic and comment on post-pandemic expectations about the nature of research and research funding and the relationship of research with policy makers, the public, technology and the environment. So you may use hashtag See the Future to receive updates about the conference. See you on the 17th of November. Goodbye.


the cluster mission has enabled the accurate measurement of the magnetic field along the orbits of its four spacecraft. This has allowed for the study of the three-dimensional aspects of space plasma phenomena on scales comparable to the size of the spacecraft constellation. Additionally, the ability to distinguish temporal and spatial dependencies of small-scale processes has been made possible through the use of the four-point measurements. Preliminary in-orbit calibrations have shown that all components of the magnetic field can be measured with an accuracy of approximately 0.1 and t. Data analysis will further refine this accuracy, and several examples of the capabilities of the investigation have already been demonstrated. The data processing flow and the implementation of data distribution to other cluster investigations into the scientific community in general have also been described. This article was authored by Aballo, CM Carr, MH Akunya, and others.


The same topography that put Wyoming on the map—South Pass and the Platte River trails—also makes Wyoming a prime location for a rapidly developing alternative energy source, namely wind power. The mountain men, wagon trains, pony express, and railroads all use southern Wyoming as a route west because there is a natural gap in the Rocky Mountains. That same gap forms a giant wind tunnel, channeling the prevailing westerly winds along the Interstate 80 corridor and through the Red Butte's Gap west of Casper and on to Wyoming's eastern plains. Wyoming has a long history of using wind energy to pump water for livestock, wildlife, and people. Now the technology is available to use wind to generate electricity on a very large scale. Wind power is a clean and infinitely renewable resource that could reduce the need for non-renewable and polluting fossil fuels. Wind farms like this already exist in the cowboy state and will certainly become more common. We may curse the wind at times, but it is one of Wyoming's great energy resources. I'm Gene Gayde of the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service.


The following is a production of New Mexico State University. We're here today at Ghana-Walska Lotus Land in Santa Barbara, California. Virginia Hayes shows us this spectacular garden. Virginia, how did this garden become established and what's its purpose?  There's an older history here. It was a nursery for a number of years in the 1880s and then it was just a private estate, but Ghana-Walska owned it for over 40 years and created the gardens that we're going to see today. You see a beautiful water feature here. Yes, this pond was actually here in the 1920s, but Madam-Walska did her particular touch to things, which was to dramatize everything and added all the shell features. And around it, we've got plants which don't use a lot of water. We see aloes here. That's right. This is the aloe garden. And these aloes are from what part of the world? They're not from this part? Most aloes are from South Africa and a few from Madagascar and other parts of Africa. Our collection is mainly from South Africa with a few Madagascans. Really dramatic. I like this one. It looks like a tongue. Yes, this is called alo-plicatilis. If you look at the way the leaves fold together, it's sort of like a braid. Oh, okay. And then everyone's familiar with the aloe vera. That's right. And you've got some of that here. We do have that, not right where we are, but the interesting thing is that most of these succulent aloes have the same medicinal properties that aloe vera is famed for. I didn't know that. They are not hardy, probably below 20 degrees. They may survive a few hours in the 20s, but we're essentially frost-free here. So much of the Southwest can actually grow these. I've seen them in Phoenix and Tucson. But we get into the higher desert. It's going to get too cold, so there are houseplants here. Good medicinal houseplants. That's right. There's another tall one right there. Yes. This is aloe spectabilis. That's beautiful. And it is spectacular. It is. They're trees. Exactly. And they get much larger actually in their native habitats than they would here. And these I like. They're nice mound formers. They're kind of nice green here. Aloe brevifolia. That's spectacular. And I understand you've got a world-famous garden with other plants in it here as well. That's right. We have an amazing cycad collection. That's something we ought to see. Okay. Cycad. Now the Sego Palm is a cycad, but it's really not a palm, is it? Right. It's one of the 10 or 11 genera in the cycad family. Mm-hmm. That they look like palms a little bit. A little bit. Over here we've got fan palms, but I've seen a lot of palms that look like these cycads. Right. And so it's easy to see that they're confused. And I say they've got cones on them. Right. They don't have flowers. They evolved long before flowers came on the scene. So they're more like a pine tree. Exactly. Than a palm. Exactly. The interesting thing about them is that they have male cones on male plants and female cones on female plants. Okay. And normally where they grow, the pollination to produce seeds on those female cones would be done by little insects. And this is really here as a scientific collection now, isn't it? Well it started, of course, as one of Madame's collections, just for visual impact, which it certainly has. It does. But because she was able to get these plants so many years ago in the 60s and 70s, she was able to amass a pretty impressive collection of all the genera that grow throughout the world. So they've moved into a bunch of blue ones. Yes. These are adapted for desert climates in Africa and show off that blue coloration that's often seen in those kind of plants. And over the other side, it's really green but tall. Yes. A lot of these actually grow in sort of understory of a forest. And this one grew in South Africa in the forest and is now extinct in the wild. These are some of the offspring of the last plants that were removed over 100 years ago. That's part of your scientific work then to actually propagate these and hopefully preserve the germ plant. Exactly. These, unfortunately, are all male. We don't have females of that species. And you have to hand pollinate, don't you? Right. Right. Look at the cone on that. That's spectacular. Yes. You've only showed us two of the many fabulous gardens here, but they're spectacular. Thank you. You're very welcome. The preceding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.