Hi, this is Pat McDonald, your host for Vote for Vermont, where our tagline is listening beyond the sound bites. Ben Kinsley is joining us today, and Ben is, you have to tell them about Imperium. Yeah, so I have a consulting firm called Imperium Advisors, and we do a lot of public policy development, as well as a number of other things, little bit of government relations, little bit of media consulting, things like that. Lobbying? Lobbying, yeah. We've really jumped the broom or something because we are both lobbyists. It's a sad thing after all these years. Well, you follow the regular progression, right? Well, I do. That's true. I'm just an older lobbyist, but they all are. Anyway, and our guest today is Charlie Papillo, who's the host of Travel with Charlie. Charlie, welcome to the show. Nice to see you both again. Yes, absolutely. As guests on my radio program at one time. This is exactly. It was a couple of years ago. That's right, yeah. It couldn't have been too bad, right? I'm going to invite you back. Charlie retired last year after 20, 30 years. 20 years, 20 plus years doing the morning show. Yeah, he did a morning show on WVMT with Charlie, Ernie, and Lisa. And so Charlie, could you tell us a little bit about your background? We always ask people to do that. Sure. And the fun on Charlie. You didn't bring me any food, Charlie. Well, you know, and I apologize on your show. Right, you had to bring him big time stuff. That was a staunch rule, and it's funny how that whole thing started was basically like everyone that's in this business, in the radio business, anyone that tells you they're original, they're lying. We all stole from everybody else. So I mean, there's only a few originals. Steve Allen, Jack Parr, and I'm going wealth beyond. Yeah, we're going wealth beyond them. Johnny Carson, Jackie Gleason, those are the originals. We all copied from them. And I copied from the great Howie Carr on the WRKO. And of course, he was on my radio station, WVMT, and he still is. And Howie had this thing about graft. And you know, you always think about graft with politicians and stuff. And I said, yeah, what a great concept. If you want to be on the show, we'll be happy to have you on. Make sure you bring something, and that sort of determines how long the segment will go. And because I'm good friends with Senator Mazza, who owns a general store, 10 minutes from our radio station, it used to be people would stop in. And they'd get a pie, or they'd get scones or something.  That's great. As far as my background, radio was my first love. I knew when I was 10 years old, I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to be in radio. I wanted to play music. I wanted to be a disc jockey. And it took me a while to kind of get into that. I went away to Boston. I went to junior college, studied mass communications. I went to professional school for one year. And it took me a long time before I actually got into it. I think it was probably in my late 30s when I started working for a mobile DJ company here in Vermont. And from there, I got an afternoon drive job at WVMT when they were music. And that lasted for about two years. They ended the format and said, we're going to News Talk. And I said, that's the end of my radio career. Just got started, and it's going to end. And they said, well, we're going to do a live and local morning show. And that's all we're going to do local. So we need to look for somebody to co-host with Ernie. Ernie was the news guy. And Ernie's going to still do the news. We need somebody to work with Ernie. And thank God for Ernie. I mean, Ernie and I developed this relationship. I was on from 10 until 3 in the afternoon. And Ernie was on in the morning. Are you serious? 10 to 3 in the afternoon. I've been 12.2. That's four hours? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. But you're playing music. Well, all right.  You better still be awake. Well, you know, five or four hours a day. So this is back in the day before everything was on computer. You actually pulled carts. Again, Ben, you know, I can imagine. It looked like an eight track. And it was a cart. So you'd go and you'd pull the music for your show. And I'd go in an hour before to pull all my music. And while I was in there, of course, Ernie's doing the last hour of his show. And he would, like, come on the air and he'd start saying something. And he'd, well, Charlie Papillo's in with me now. And he'd open up the mic. And we'd start talking. And next thing you know, Ernie and I just, we get along.  And that was the common bond. We just, we love making people laugh and goofing off. So when the owners said, well, we have to do a national search to find someone to work for Ernie, Ernie's always been one that he would get mad. Like when he finds out, you know, the chief of police isn't somebody that was a patrolman for 40 years. He said, why don't they hire from within? So he said, well, what are you looking for? You've got somebody right here. All right, we'll give him a shot. So they said, come in for the next two weeks and play as little music as possible. You can play some music and just talk and see how it works out. And 20 years later, it works out. That when Lisa joined you, Ernie was like two things. Well, you know, Ernie's, Ernie's like, he's, I don't know if you call it old school or whatever, but he doesn't like breaking. He doesn't like change that you've got it.  It's like, well, what are we bringing the third person in? Well, it makes things easier. There's a third person there.  There's somebody here, the two of you can still in vice versa. So, and it was a different viewpoint. You know, it was a female voice. You know, you're always looking. You want to get more listeners. You broaden your spectrum and it worked. And Lisa was with us for 10 years. She left just about seven or eight months before Ernie and I finally retired. So she, the last 10 years, she rode the wave with us. That's what we all met. You made us all feel very relaxed and joking around. So that's good. That's right up my alley. It's one of the top morning shows. Well, I have to say, when he announced, when you announced your retirement, I said to my husband, I give this man six months. He said, no, no, I'm going to continue my pizza business. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'll talk about that. And the phone rings. Exactly. The phone rings. And here you are. So tell us a little bit about your new gig, as we say. Well, you know, it's funny because, you know, Mike Smith, who you know very well, former administration secretary, and he's had many jobs. Yes, he has. Other than that, and I was joked with Mike because he would retire from a job. And next thing you know, he's- He's popped up some more.  He goes in, he fixes it, and then he moves on, he does another thing. And we would joke about you retire and the phone will ring. Like, people want to hire you and want you to do things. And sure enough, you know, I hosted a debate for the city council candidates in Burlington. Somebody called me up and asked me if I would do that. Can't get away from it. So a friend of mine, I know a friend of yours, Brad Furlin, calls me up. You know, Brad and I have known each other for years. He would call me up or email me about getting guests on The Morning Show on WVMT. So when Brad calls me up, he says, ah, I got an idea for a video project. Are you up for it? He says, you're retired now. And I said, well, I'm open to hear about it. I kind of thought I'm not gonna work. I'm just gonna do my pizza business, and that's it. So we talked, and I'd always thought about, you know, doing something in TV at one point or another. So it's a little late in life, but it's not too late. It's never too late. It's never too late, right? Look at this. So I said, let's try it. And I'm having a blast with it. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It looks like a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah. And Ensign Tebbets was on your last show. He came in here, and he was all talking about it and how excited he was, which is hard to do with Ensign, because he's kind of a laid-back kind of guy. Yeah, and he loved it. You know, I mean, 20 years as a news director for Channel 3, and you're able to have fun with him. Sometimes you think these people are very, they're all business. No, not at all.  We had a blast. That's good. Well, and he can be a tough critic, too, coming from the news business. He worked there for quite a while. And I had to work with him.  And all of a sudden, I've got a guy that's, you know, he cut his teeth on camera. Well, he set up this studio for me. When he came on the show, I didn't have anything. Oh, yeah.  Mr. Goodabay said, you were great, he said, but the studio needs to be somewhere. So he helped us a little bit. So I can't say anything. So when the fern comes from, is that? Well, that's the bird oil, the memorial fern. Oh, wonderful. That one stays on here. We had to have that in somewhere. Yeah, right, exactly. And then this is from my RV, all that stuff. So I kept sending him pictures, and I said, is this good? He goes, yes, that's good. Ensign, thank you, Ensign. Yeah. So anyway. All right, so I think we're going to talk a little bit about the show. And you have five episodes out now? Four or five? I think there's about four that are out. We've actually shot eight. Oh, I didn't know that. I've got a couple more. Well, this is something that, and you know, as well in doing this, that you don't just shoot it. It's added in. It takes a while to get it exactly the way they want it. They look at it. We look at it first. I think I'll just change this. Let's change that. So a lot of changes. I've got another one we're shooting next week. So we try to do two in a single day, which can be complicated because you've got guests in the morning and guests in the afternoon. And you try to call people up and have everyone, yeah, that works. I'll be there at nine. And then, OK, yours is at two. Well, that doesn't work. So then you try to switch things around. So it's a little different than what I was doing with the radio show. And you could always move people around. Or it was always before you had to be at work. Because it was like seven or eight o'clock in the morning, you're doing an interview. Or just keep talking, and nobody'd know the difference. Well, we had a show like that. We had no guests, so we just chatted. That happens. We had multiple times. We had a guest that either didn't show up, or you called. And they were West Coast, and they didn't answer. Three hours behind us.  What's the?  And what we're trying to do is have an open conversation. It's a lot like what I did on my radio program. Have people talk with differing points of view, always in a respectful manner. I mean, I take pride in the fact that a lot of the guests that I had on my show, I didn't agree with politically. No, you have to do it. But I didn't mind it. It wasn't like, I mean, I got along with them. A lot of them, I liked personally. I didn't like their politics. Peter Shumlin, I got to say, I got along with him personally. It's like, you know, it's pretty hard to not get along with Peter Shumlin. There wasn't much I liked about his politics. But you know, Bob Kis, Pete Clavel, I consider Pete Clavel a friend. I had a great moment with Pete Clavel years ago. This is when instant runoff voted. The first time they voted, we could do a show just on that. And I still don't know how it really works. And we never really went for a guch of moments where you try to embarrass your guests. We never did.  And Ernie and I still talk about it to this day. And I wish that we had a clip of it. Because we asked him, well, Peter, how exactly does an instant runoff voting work? It's like, no, I don't know. And he didn't. As long as he wins, what does he care? He didn't know. And I was like, and this was perfect. I mean, it just explained exactly what we're doing. And it wasn't meant to embarrass him. But he really couldn't explain it. I think that's why it failed, quite honestly, is because they couldn't explain it.  It's just that you have to understand how to explain it to people. Yeah. Oh, I could, you know, give him a whole conversation. Yeah, the one thing who you interviewed was here before the show started. We were talking about instant runoff. Yeah. I explained to her that I'm still out. Judges out haven't decided yet, because I don't understand that. Now, you vote once.  Right. Yeah, it's an interesting concept. Well, we should do a show on that sometime. But you have to think.  It's like, people don't think that way. No. Well, it basically supports the period. I don't want anybody else. I want him or her. That's it. Right. Well, from a voter standpoint, you go in and just say, here is the order that I would prefer to have them in. So if this person doesn't win, here's the next person that I would really like to win. Maybe it makes you pay attention to the candidates more than just the one you like. Right. That's one thing that it does. That could actually be a benefit. Eventually, yeah. I think, oh, I can't remember if it's New Zealand or Australia is the only country that has national ranked choice. Oh, really? Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Well, we try to make our, we say this is your show. So we always try to make you look good, sound good, feel good. And I think we've had people here that I'm sure neither one of us agreed with. But it's their show. And that's what we do. Exactly. Right. And some people have watched them. I couldn't tell where I was. I mean, that's great. Just one of their two shows. I always had to consider that this wasn't the last show. I'm doing multiple shows. And you want to invite them back on. And you don't want somebody to see and say, I'm not going on that show. They treat their guests terrible. Right. So, oh, I'm sorry. We wanted to talk about the shows. And I'm going to just do the four that, because I'm sure instance will be. Oh, fifth show. Oh, Incense is the fifth show. Yes. We just taped that one. Because we're going to show a clip from each of these four shows, maybe five if Incense is up. But maybe you could take a second and talk about it. Our first show was a discussion on legalized marijuana. And I got Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman, who was a guest many times on my program. And I've known David from Farmer's Market and just being in the food business. David and I are friends. And again, we don't agree on very much. But he's OK with that. Yeah. And he is OK with that. He'll sit down. We've had him on the show a couple of times, I think. I mean, another one of the guys, you sit down and have a beer with him. And just politics aside, we can be friends. The whole issue of tax revenues. Sometimes I think we get kind of thinking that, oh, this is going to be great for Vermont, the economy, maple syrup, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and cannabis. So I've worked on this issue since I first ran for office in 1994. It was not originally about tax revenue. It was really about why is cannabis illegal and alcohol legal? We've learned that a regulated system is a better way to go. And yet this was a way to potentially capitalize on our agricultural strength. But that is not the original reason to. You think you're going to get that shot, really? No. I don't think I'm going to get it. That's what I'm going to try to do. See, not going to happen. So does Vermont become sort of this destination? People come here. Our craft beer. We, as political leaders, go, hey, look at this great thing we have with craft beer. I think it's a bit hypocritical to say that's a great thing. Well, this is something I agree with you about. I mean, this whole thing about the craft beer, every day you turn on the TV, and there is another ad for this charming thing, beer. Yeah, but David, what you're saying, if you don't think so. No, no, well, I don't think so. But I think the promotion of beer is causing more eyewidess and other things. And the promotion of marijuana will do exactly the same thing. Well, no one's advocating for the promotion of marijuana. Well, sure you are. There's no proposal in the marijuana legalization laws that I've heard of that would prohibit advertising or promotion of this stuff. So would you support it if we added that into the bill? No, I don't think so. But I think you should. So we shot that episode at Rossie's Lakeshore Tavern in Colchester. And that was our first episode. We really wanted to make it look unique. The whole concept is, we're not in a studio. I did that for 20 years. The guests would come to the studio. We would get out. And we would shoot it in an area that sometimes it has something to do with the topic. Sometimes it doesn't. I guess alcohol, marijuana, maybe it does. So we're at Rossie's Lakeshore Tavern with Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman and retired judge Ben Joseph, who is against legalizing marijuana. Very much against it. Ben doesn't even think alcohol should be legal, which I'd found out during the show. I shouldn't have offered him that beer. I'm just setting him up. Alcohol is going nowhere. It's so embedded in our cultural restaurant. So you can't get rid of that. So the two of them played pool, shot darts, and played Pac-Man, all while we're having this conversation. And again, credit to Mondo Media, who are taping. When they edit it down, it's just beautiful. There's a lot of different camera shots. So it's constantly moving. And the whole concept is you keep it moving. You make it short, eight to 12 minutes, and people will watch. And they get educated. Joseph, and representative from Essex, Dylan Giambattista. And Dylan came in today and just asked for an off-the-wall cake. And I said, let Joseph show him how to make a real cake. But I also realized that not only do you disagree on how to make a cake and the right ingredients, but also on a couple of issues that Dylan's pretty passionate about. And that's raising the minimum wage in Vermont, as well as paid family leave. So he's all scrubbed up. He's ready to go. Why don't you show him how to decorate this cake? And in the meantime, let's get everyone's thoughts and views. The big discrepancy, I think, in our business is between the front of the house and the back of the house. The front of the house is making five-something an hour. I think when that goes up, we'll go to seven-something plus tip. So they're making around $30 an hour. And the back is not allowed to pull any of the tips from that. So I think that it would be a great idea if they would come up with some carbon equilibrium system where the front and the back of the house are user-friendly towards the income. Does that make sense? Yeah, so you're talking about the tip minimum wage and the discrepancy between what we currently have, which is 10.78 per hour in 2019, and then half of that for tipped workers. No, that's one of the many challenges with looking at how we set a floor for minimum wage. And the whole idea here is you set the floor, wages come up, there's more money in people's pockets. But it should be equal between front and back of the house and the restaurant. The whole thing is we're not just joking and laughing, although we had fun. Hopefully they learned something. You see, both sides presented, and you make up your own mind. We're not telling you what's right or wrong. You make up your own mind. That's the way it should be. We did a show the other day about freedom of the press with Mike Donahue and Steve. We really need to do two shows on that. Yeah, we should have kept on talking for another hour. But they were talking about how it used to be, exactly what you said, you present the facts, and you let the viewer or the listener make up. And now the newspaper people are kind of slipping in there, their ideas about things. Yeah, exactly. So with the second show. Then we did a segment on the $15 an hour minimum wage and paid family leave. And again, I thought, let's take it to a business that it would affect, and somebody that I know very well and was a good friend on my show multiple times, Chef Joseph from Chef's Corner in Williston and Representative Dylan Gianbatista from Essex who supported $15 an hour minimum wage and the Extended Family Leave Act. So again, we get into a restaurant and then we're not, I said, okay, here's the deal, we'll decorate a cake. So Joseph sets out this huge spread of cakes and pies, and he's got the pipette thing with the frosting in it. There's a trick, there's a trick to that. Yeah, and we have this discussion while we're decorating a cake. And Dylan, who presented his side very well, he's very articulate, and he was a great sport.  I do, I do. Have you been to the new Chef's Corner? I have, it's gorgeous. Yeah, that's great. I would recommend that. Their food is fantastic, and they have a lot more seating now than they used to, it was a problem. Yeah, they've got the outside area, and I think they're opening a gelato. There's a plug for chefjosefchefscorner.com. Oh yeah, please do, you've got to go see the new place. Yeah, I think he's opening a gelato in the next block. Oh, yeah, yeah, great place for it. And a pizza there, you can just walk around the block. Yeah, yeah. And the third show.  And I got Senator Chris Pearson to participate. So we started that off in a graveyard, shot it in black and white, and they've got me dragging a shovel. Maybe they'll be showing this clip, but it's a great clip, you know, I'm dragging a shovel, and it looks like, you know, I'm heading up the graveyard. The shovel is all in slow-mo. Doesn't put a positive light on 46, does it? And you can hear the birds, you know, in the background and everything, and then the shovel goes into the ground, and I, you know, yell out. Here, this is the only place you can get a shovel on the ground in Vermont. Shovel, shovel ready, where did we hear that? And the show starts, and not to give the whole ending away, but it's great, we actually pitched a tent, and it looks like we're out in the wilderness somewhere with my buddies, Chris and Jeff, having a conversation about Act 250. I'm with my campin' buddies here, Chris Pearson, Senator from Chittenden County, Jeff Davis, wake up. Good morning. Everyone's got a smartphone with them today. Imagine how easy it would be. Get the phone out, click, boom. You know you got approval, wouldn't that be sweet? I don't think it's gonna be that easy, though, is it? It's a little more complicated. A little more complicated than pizza, I'd say, but yeah. How do you streamline it? So it's not gonna take you seven, 10 years to build. They used to have a process called Act 250 Club, where you would bring in a project that could be controversial or could be complicated to try to sort out issues and see what the true issues were, what studies should be done, those kinds of things. It was informal, but maybe it's something that the committee should look at going forward to make more predictability in the process. It was a time in the 80s and 90s, I think, when people would, just at the conceptual level, start talking to one another before anyone filed for any permits or any of that. And that's something we heard a lot in the year the legislature took going around the state, talking to people about how should we move forward. And it just seems practical. And I think a lot of us are trying to figure out how to do that. And it's sort of a pre-approval discussion, and you don't need lawyers. You just have people look and face-to-face and say, well, I want to put in a development here. You can say, well, our kids play ball there, you know. Okay, well, let's have that conversation. I have a lot of faith in Vermonters coming together and hashing things out. If you were responsible for bringing Wal-Mart to St. Albans, since Wal-Mart has opened, do you find that the people that live in St. Albans and the people that travel to St. Albans are happy that Wal-Mart is here? Are they happy with the project? We think so. Generally, the people are staying in the marketplace and not going to Williston or Plattsburg. So they'll do their basic shopping at Wal-Mart, then go downtown for a specialty and dining and that kind of thing. We partnered with the city. The project here in the Wal-Mart in St. Albans is in the town, but the city had concerns about the impact on their downtown. So we had negotiations, fruitful discussions, and ended up making an investment in the city and some buildings to make sure that our interests were down there as well as out in the town of St. Albans. And these are the kinds of things. These are negotiations, right? And the whole way through, you're trying to balance the citizen's voice and the developer's needs. It's a bit of a legal process, but because we're forcing people to the table, that's what comes out of it. And you got to hold on to that spirit and see if you can cast away some of the... I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting hungry. All right. TrueNorthReports.com, you got to see the ending. Yeah, the ending is really good. The ending is really good. Is it right or wrong or just end the show? No, the ending is just a surprise. It's not a surprise ending. Where we really are. What I love about that, and this is true, really all of your shows that you've done so far, is that you fill them in unique locations with some sort of hook. And it's hard to make something like Act 250 sexy, right? It's hard to get someone's attention with something about Act 250, because everyone kind of knows and they complain about it. Governor complained about it. He tried to start a motorcycle shop and couldn't get the permits. Exactly. And so everyone kind of complains about it, but to put it in context and make it fun and engaging, you start out shooting in a graveyard and end up with a TV show and a tent. And I'm just amazed sometimes, I pinch myself thinking that here I am doing this and I've got grownups and I'm asking them to lie down in a tent like we're sleeping and then we wake up. And it's like, I got a senator and I got a developer who's got important things to do. I got developing to do, you know? And I've known Jeff for years too. I've known Jeff too at the Berkshead bike. And just, you know, they were just great, great sports. So again, a credit to my guests for being great sports. We then went on and did a segment on Act 46 with Senator Cory Parrant and Esquire, our attorney, Dave Kelly. We spent $31 million so far saving money. I don't know how you call that savings, but and all we had to do was look at the state of Maine to see what the fiscal consequences of these consolidations are. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Cory, some of the towns that have already merged, they're not seeing any benefit, are they? Well, it depends on, you know, how the mergers worked out. We've seen a lot across the state, but you know, we saw those early tax incentives early on, which was the difference between what Maine did and what Vermont tried to do. One of the failures the lawmakers who wrote Act 46 felt was that there was no incentives in Maine. They just tried to shove everyone together too quickly and didn't relieve pressure. You know, we provided incentives for school districts to merge early. We then passed Act 49 that when things got a little tight and pressure, kind of a relief valve and to give some more time. And it depends who you talk to. Superintendents will tell you that it's the best thing that they've seen in a while and then they're very supportive of Act 46, but you know, sometimes we hear a different story on the streets and towns. Well, we used to call it the Superintendents Relief Act because essentially what it did was it said, you don't have to deal with school boards anymore.  And instead of doing six budgets, you're only going to have to do one budget. So we're going to make your life a lot easier. And I think with the superintendent's lives being made so much easier, maybe we don't need so many superintendents. We know Dave very well, kind of several times. And we shot that at a school in Franklin. Some of it was in the school yard. A lot of it was on the school bus, wasn't it? Most of it was on the bus.  So here's adults. I got them on these little things and they're rocking back and forth, you know, a senator and an attorney having a conversation. So Corey is a friend of mine. I got a little bit of a chuckle at him. Good. And yeah, most of it was shot on a bus.  And that was the point. We were on this bus for a long time. You could see everything moving in the background. It was all the back roads of Franklin. And again, entertaining and the information gets out there. We learned when we did act 46 that the bus transportation is going to be very expensive because as we said, we were talking before, there isn't a really big bus company that can take care of the whole supervisor union. They're still going to have to contract with smaller things, which could make the cost ridiculous. Well, in particular, a lot of the Northeast Kingdom supervisor unions, it's such so large territory-wise, they couldn't actually go out and get a contract. But no one would contract for that because it's so large. But yeah, that's one of them. Yeah, one of the issues is like, how long is a kid going to be on the bus if you start closing some of these smaller schools? Right, exactly. Or, you know, there's a lot of issues when you start getting down to the local level. That's not quite as... And you covered a lot of this, it's not quite as kind of dry. And it's forced.  Yeah, so- A catalyst had to give up the money they saved. Well, and Franklin, you filmed in Franklin, right? Yeah, yeah. Franklin voted unanimously against the... I mean, when have you ever heard of a unanimous public vote on anything? And they voted against unanimously merging. Well, they did that too. And they still got forced to merge by the state board. Barrie Town voted three times. Same thing every time, no. And then the state group said, look, too bad. Yeah. So I said, why did you even bother? No, why do you bother to vote right now? I mean, just say this is what we're doing. Don't embarrass people or fool them. Seems to me when you have a duly warned meeting, the vote should count, but what do I know? Just an American. So tell us about the fifth show. Well, and then we shot one with Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbets and a organic dairy farm owner. Oh, nice. Jen Lambert. Jen's about 33, 34 years old. I mean, just doesn't fit the mold. Here we go into a, we want to talk about the future of farming and dairy in Vermont. So you expect you got to go to this farm and this old guy comes out and this young girl who wants to farm, her and her husband. But she also talked about the struggles. And she talked about the possibility, yeah, that this is what she wants to do. Luckily, somebody helped her out, not a bank. You go to a bank and say, this is what you want to do.  They'll just laugh. Won't give you a loan. So if somebody lent her some money, she was able to open the farm. It's a beautiful farm. And it's a robotic dairy farm, which I've never seen. Yeah, those are pretty cool. That's the whole, that's the whole deal now. You got any, any of these farm shows and that's all there. It's amazing.  And I mean, I learned a lot from that. I'm a Vermonter. I lived in Boston for about 15 years, but, and I didn't grow up on a farm. I grew up in Burlington.  The cows actually, they go on, cause I joke with Jen. I said, so what's it like, you know, getting up at three in the morning, she says, I don't do that. Yeah, no, they do electronic. They do it, the cows are trained. They do it on their own. When they want to hear the milking parlor and they go in and so there we are standing and I'm watching them and they're in line. And there's like a pecking order. They know like, you know, this one goes before this one and they're waiting and you get milked and the more milk you give, the more food you get. So it's somebody, are they doing it the old fashioned way with attaching anything to the teats? It's totally robotic. So the robot goes on, you've got to see it. Goes on, goes on, what, the teats or whatever the milksack or whatever they, so they pull into the stall and these things come up and wash it like a car wash. And then, and there's a little, like a laser camera underneath there and it goes up, it milks them. The more milk they give, the more food they get so they know, they come back for food.  Well, because they get uncomfortable, they want to. No, they know when it's time to milk. And it's a real thing. Like you, for farms that have, my uncle's owned a farm so I kind of grew up doing this. But, you know, they have, if you have an open stall concept, right? Or a milking parlor and you have an open yard, the cows will bring themselves in when they know it's time. Exactly. And that's exactly what, if you have a robotic setup with a milking parlor, they know exactly where to go. We got to go to a farm, we have to see this. Yeah, we'll have to do this. So, you know, we saw that, but you also see a lot of the struggles that even with the robotics that dairy farms have, you know, all of the numbers of farms that have closed in this state in the last 10 and 20 years, it's just, it's unbelievable. And you're competing with the California's and the 10,000 dairy farms and I think we're around six or 700. Ensign told us very interestingly though, that even though we've lost numbers, which is very sad, production's up because of the technology. So we haven't fallen in production, we've just fallen. And we do have a niche market here.  You got Cabot, you've got Ben & Jerry's, you've got Vermont Creamery, all those things here that are producing. So it doesn't have to travel that far. Exactly. So what else do you have for shows coming up or things that you're working on? Well, we've, we did a show on solar with, with Mary Powell. We're gonna be interested. Yeah, we've got, we did one on the closing schools, you know, like the colleges, yeah. Oh, that is just, that is terrible. Yeah, three colleges. What did you have on for that day? We had Ted Brady, who is the deputy secretary. Oh, we've had Ted on his group. Yeah, and then we had a, we had a person that actually worked for College of St. Joe's. She graduated, I believe, from College of St. Joe's and she was working there. So she was out of a job. Why did you pick Ted Brady from? I couldn't get Mike Shirling. Oh, no, no, don't let Mike, don't let Ted do that now. Well, I'm just wondering about the department rather than education. Because of the jobs, the impact of the laws. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Ted is very good, he's very active. Yeah, and I mean, actually they're doing a lot to work with these. Oh, really? To try to keep them? Yeah, I know, it was Green Mountain College. They're, I think Ted had a meeting there, you know, within days. Oh, I see, sure. When you consider the economic impact on the town, restaurants closed, ices pulled out. I haven't, I'm not really that familiar with any of those three schools, but I'm a Norwich grad and I can appreciate how much of an impact a school like that has on that community. I mean, Northfield would be nothing if it wasn't for the college. Like, there's just really nothing else. You got darn tough socks, but that's really about it going on in town. Yeah, but all the restaurants and places like that where students freak rent and, you know, graduation time when parents are in, all of that. You know, the bed and breakfast, all those, they all prosper. When that's something like that leaves a town, that's a big hole to fill. It's huge. It's a huge hole. Cool, so what else to see here? I've got a couple questions. So what do you plan on doing during the legislative session? Are you planning on doing anything kind of specific to that or are you just kind of keeping an eye on what's hot?  I mean, that's what moves, you know, the clicks. That's, you know, you want to hit on things that are interesting to people and obviously controversial. And I don't think it's going to be hard to get any controversial topics. Sadly not. When the legislature. Once it didn't pass last year. Oh, they'll be back. Right? Yeah, they're back. So you've had, I read an article, we've got some very specific things you want to touch in your show. You know, like property tax and the budget and that sort of stuff. I think it's probably similar to what we're trying to do. Well, it's all things, you know, something I learned, you know, in years of doing a morning show, you could sort of gauge what was popular by the phone ringing. If you were talking about something that wasn't popular, it's like, we're not getting any calls. And when you're doing that kind of a show, it's like, we're not playing music. You want them to call? Yeah, the records that you play are actually the phone calls. So it's like, keep the calls coming and money issues always, the minute you start talking about your pocketbook. Man, the lines light up and taxes, any of that. You know, it kills me so I'm gonna, maybe we should cut the vid, you know, just kidding. One day, we had all the candidates in before the election. What did you hear from constituents? They listed them all. And this was everybody, no matter what party. They listed education, property tax, and blah, blah, blah. And what did they work on when they got down there? Yeah, I mean, really. Banning plastic bags. Exactly. Are you listening?  Yeah, but who keeps electing them back? Well, it's because they keep coming back and saying the same things, right? I'm working on this, this, and this. It happens the same thing at the national level, right? It's always the other guy. It's the other representative from the other town that's screwing everything up. It's not me, exactly. It's the same thing here, it's just a micro scale. It's like, they go back, they say all these things that are constituents, we're gonna work on this, this, and this, get to Montpelier and... And they don't. And they don't. That's really what happens, they don't. And nobody calls them on them. There are some legislators who I know, people don't even know how they vote, but they show up to the chicken pie suburbs and they shake hands so they think they're wonderful. Well, you always say remember in November. I mean, it's a great slogan, but I don't think people can remember it. I have a new one, are you ready to do this? You can't afford free. Yeah, there you go. Is that good? I'm gonna use that one of these days. Anyway, I've been doing my research for having you on. There was an article in Seven Days from 2017 that talked about you all, about your show and how you have big names and serious decision makers. Can you talk a little bit about memory going down? About the radio show. The radio show, I apologize. The radio show about any memories or things you'd like to forget. No, really nothing that I choose to forget. I mean, it was all just a blast, a lot of fun. I had an opportunity to talk with some really big names. I saw that in the article, you should mention some of those. Yeah, and I remember some of them vividly. Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers is one that just really hit me because here's Michael McDonald, Doobie and all that, all kinds of hits and everything. And he agrees to come on our show. He was promoting a new CD that he had. It was kind of a different kind of music or whatever. So he needed some exposure, obviously. But I did a ton of these interviews with people that their publicist would book them, they would come on and say, okay, I gotta do my 10 minutes and they'd come on with you. And then, thank you very much, they'd hang up. And Michael McDonald stayed on the line after he said, and we'll be right back after the news. Thanks for being with us, Mike. And he talks with me for like a minute and a half. That was a great interview. I enjoyed being with him. Thank you very much. And I'm like, wow. This guy didn't hang up. Yeah, I interviewed Bill Cosby before. Before, before. Before all of that. And Bill was another one. He's been to Burlington a number of times to do his show. Didn't his daughter go to UVM or something? Oh really? I don't know that. Something like that. Hit some tie. He did have some ties to Vermont. We brought it up in our interview and we thought it was gonna be one of these things. Again, we'll give you 10 minutes, no more than that. Bill stayed at Amethyst for about 20 minutes. Wow.  Oh no. And just, and he wanted to stay at Amethyst. And we was telling stories about being in Vermont and everything, so it worked. But again, another one, I'm just amazed that some of these people I've been able to talk with, another one was Dom Della Wees. Oh my God. I loved Dom, the funny guy.  Oh no kidding. And I just hounded and tried to figure out a way to get him on and finally. You know who Dom Della Wees is? I know again, I know. I was watching his face, it was no clue. Just Google Dom Della Wees and we're randled together. In movies, Dom and Bert together, just hilarious. This funny guy, one of these guys just. Sorry, I didn't mean to do that, but don't come see from your face. No, I mean, this is some real talent there. Just a super funny, funny guy. And Dom, I don't know if I can tell the story, I suppose I can, but I asked Dom, I said, okay, before we sign off, Dom, I just want you to say, I listened to Charlie and Ernie on WVMT. All right, it's Dom Della Wees, I listened to Charlie and Ernie on WVMT. Oh yeah, sure, sure. And we did this on the air. So I said, so he says, okay, let me write it down. Charlie and Ernie on WVMT, W, William, V, Vermont, M, Mary, T, and I was gonna give the T and Dom yells out, can I say it? Oh no! He yelled out that! That's great. And it went out on the air. Oh my God. Yeah, cause you don't have a lag or anything.  No, no, no, no. And he didn't apologize, we all laughed. We just laughed, but I mean, that's Dom. And he just, boom, he just threw it right in your lap. That's your assignment for the week. You gotta come back and report seriously. And I forget the name of the movie. You should all do it. Burt Reynolds and Dom Della Wees, and Burt thinks that he's going to die. He's got this sickness, this disease. So he hires Dom Della Wees and tells him that he wants him to kill him. I already like the way he's doing it.  And then he finds out he's not sick. He's trying to say to me, yeah. Dom's like, and Dom's just got this look in his eye like he's coming after me. You'll love it, let me know how you like it. I'll look that up, yeah, for sure. Gosh, so anything else that we should talk about? No, we should talk about the pizza. Oh, yeah. Pizza, where are you next? I had no idea about this, by the way, yeah. Well, this is our 10th year. My wife and I started PizzaPapillo, pizzapapillow.com on the web. Plug. Instagram and Facebook. And boy, I can tell you, the radio program was instrumental in boosting our company because we were able to talk about it. Even today, it's like I meet people that heard me on the radio and that's why they called me to do their wedding or their anniversary or whatever the party is. But I've always loved making pizza. And I always had a dream about someday maybe I don't want a pizza shop or something. And I always got cold feet when it came down to paying rent and having employees. Big investment. And just this huge bureaucracy. And it was our son who actually came up with the idea.  And I said, that's not a bad idea. And that's what we'll do. So we did some research together and I found a company in Boulder, Colorado that imports ovens from Italy. They put them on a trailer. It's all custom made. And that was our first thought was that we would do farmer's markets. And thanks to my friends at Mazza's farm in Colchester, you know, Sam Mazza's farm. I was, when I was a mobile disc jockey, I used to do all the strawberry festivals and everything. I did the hokey pokey with the kids and all the fun things.  I want to start this pizza business. And can you help me out? Can your baker make some dough for me? Yeah.  You can park it out front. I said, really? Wow. And again, thanks to Mazza's because they really got us off. And unfortunately, I'm there for just their festivals and the like now because every weekend we're busy doing rehearsal dinners, weddings. Are you not out and about? It's, well, we're out and about but it's at different people's houses. Yeah, so, and it's only because of the exposure that we got at Mazza's where we would, you know, park out front and make pizzas. So where would us regular people Well, Thursday nights, we're at Snow Farm Winery I love Snow Farm. In South Hero. And that's a great venue. Yeah, that's great. You know, great music. Yeah, it's a great spot. We had the Phil A. Bear Band there a while back, July 4th, Quadra was there last week. One of my favorite bands, Young Guys and Girlcare. Shake the Band, they'll be there this coming Thursday. So, you know, you could have anywhere from 1500 to 2000 people out in the field. Just listening to great music and drinking wine and beer and pizza. And eating pizza. What a deal. Yeah. They have great wine there. They do, yeah. Whenever I go out of state to other people's houses, I always bring the Snow Farm, Snow Farm. And also here in our town, we have a winery Fresh Tracks. Fresh Tracks is good. I bring both of them. Nice. Well, Boyden Valley's good. Boyden Valley's very popular but it's a little too sweet for me. A little too sweet.  But that's what's great about Vermont is that we're just so diversified with craft beer and wine and foods and the like. Yes, we are good. Yeah. And cheeses. And cheese. And cheese. Craft spirits now. We've got Stone Cutter and what's the other one? There's one that's opening in Berry, I can't remember. It's open. Bar Hill. Bar Hill. Bar Hill. Bar Hill, it's open. Yeah, that jeans is amazing. It's very good. And where's the one up in Berry? It bends a pro. He's able to get all the mentions in here. Bar Hill. Every, keep going. Smuggler's Notch, number one vodka in the world. Yeah. And what's the one in Greensboro? It's the best brewery in the world. Yeah, Hellfarmstead. Who went to Greensboro to find the best brewery? No kidding. I mean, that's beating Germany in. I know, that's incredible. I mean, it's crazy. We've got so many of the Lawson's. I love the, there's a hotel in Burlington. They have a, they do a wine. They have a little small minivan. Yeah. They take you around. They do a beer tour. Yeah.  That's nice. No, they want you to stay at the hotel. That's what they want you to do. Yeah, I think that you're supposed to stay in the hotel. So what else would you like to tell our folks about your adventure or just a. Well, you should. I should announce we are going to have Charlie Papillo shows here on Orchid TV and we will let you know how that's going to work. Great. And thank you for doing that. Yeah, no problem. You can truenorthreports.com. You can check out that website. It's also on their Facebook page, True North Reports. You can see it there. You know, I always share it on my Facebook page as well. And we're also, you know, Pizza Papillo and. I was gonna say, next time you come to show me. On Facebook and on Instagram. And you have to go do that one. Yeah, we definitely do. Absolutely. So thank you all for tuning in. We really appreciate you being here, Charlie. Thank you so much for having a lot of fun. Absolutely. It's fun to be on the other side. See you next week and in the meantime, keep listening beyond the sound bites.


I'm Sasha Mer, the co-founder and CEO of Mamava in Burlington, Vermont, and this is why you should choose UVM. I am a UVM graduate class of 93. I studied sociology and women's studies, so actually my degree fed perfectly into my career as a mission-oriented business leader. I needed to travel a lot when I had kids. I also wanted to continue to breastfeed when they were babies, and what I found that there was just no place for women to privately use a breast pump besides a restroom, and Mamava was born. Running the business in Vermont has been amazing because of the community's close ties to each other. I often use this expression like Vermont too small to fail in that if you have an idea you positively can network in the Vermont community to get it done. I think sometimes Vermont has this reputation for being all hippies or kind of out there, and yeah there's an independent spirit, but Vermont and Burlington are filled with really smart people at the cutting edge of the industries they work in, and many of them are associated with the university, so it makes for a really excellent ecosystem to tap into both as a student and as an entrepreneur. I think there's something special about UVM at the time they called it a public IV, and that balance between being a public institution with a private sort of class size, it makes for critical thinkers that also have a really good perspective on the world. When I was at UVM I'd love to be in that intense academic environment and then be able to take an amazing breather by being so close to the out-of-doors and Lake Champlain and the mountains, and to this day I still crest Main Street and look down at Lake Champlain and it takes my breath away.


In just one decade, the number of people with diabetes has more than doubled. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by 2050, one out of every three of us may have diabetes. What's the big deal? Well, the consequences of diabetes are legion. The number one cause of Adelon said blindness. The number one cause of kidney failure. The number one cause of surgical amputations. What can we do to prevent it? Well, the onset of type 2 diabetes is gradual, with most individuals progressing through a state of pre-diabetes, a condition now striking approximately one in three Americans. But only about one in ten even knows it. Since current methods of treating diabetes remain inadequate, prevention is preferable, but what works better? Lifestyle changes or drugs? We didn't know until this landmark study was published at the New England Journal of Medicine. Thousands were randomized to get a good double dose of the leading anti-diabetes drug or diet and exercise. The drug, metformin, is probably the safest diabetes drug there is. It does cause diarrhea, and about half of those who take it makes one in four nauseous, about one in ten suffer from asthenia, from the Greek meaning lack of strength, causing physical weakness and fatigue. But the risk of being killed by the drug is only about one in 66,000 every year. And the drug worked. Compared to placebo, in terms of the percentage of people developing diabetes within the four-year study period, fewer people in the drug group developed diabetes. But diet and exercise alone worked better. The lifestyle intervention reduced diabetes incidence by 58%, compared to only 31% with the drug. The lifestyle intervention was significantly more effective than the drug, and had fewer side effects. More than three-quarters of those on the drug reported gastrointestinal symptoms, though there was more muscle soreness reported in the lifestyle group on account they were actually exercising. Other studies subsequently found the same result. Non-drug approaches, superior to drug-based approaches for diabetes prevention. And the 50% or so drop in risk was not for people that actually improved their diet and lifestyle, but just those instructed to improve their diet and lifestyle, whether or not they actually did it. Check this out. This is one of the most famous diabetes prevention studies. 500 people with pre-diabetes randomized into a lifestyle intervention or control group, and during the trial, the risk of diabetes was reduced by that same 50% to 60%. But only a fraction of the patients met the modest goals. Even in the lifestyle intervention group, only about a quarter were able to eat enough fiber, meaning whole-plant foods, and cut down on enough saturated fat, which in this country is mostly dairy, dessert, chicken, and pork. They did better than the control group, and fewer of them developed diabetes because of it. But what if you looked just at the folks that actually made the lifestyle changes, met at least four out of five of those wimpy goals? They had zero diabetes. None of them got diabetes, 100% drop in risk. Bottom line, type 2 diabetes can be prevented by changes in lifestyle, even in high-risk pre-diabetic subjects. The fact then that type 2 diabetes, a largely preventable disorder, has reached such epidemic proportion is a public health humiliation.


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Hey everybody, I'm Lance Coyke. Today we're going to talk about a really common mistake in the pull-up and that is Doing most of the pull-up but not finishing at the top, right? So why would someone do this? Well, if you don't have good shoulder mechanics and you don't know how to do a row It's really common for you to not load the muscles that help you do the row in a really safe position But instead avoiding and using your pecs to kind of tilt your shoulder blades over like that And when you do that you just can't pull up all the way like no matter how hard you try You're either going to hurt your shoulder and get it or you're not going to get it I Don't mean to like say that Doing all this is terrible for your shoulders or whatever I just you gotta if you're gonna get to the top of the bar You got to get your shoulders back a little bit and that's what gives you that Extra that you know those last three or so inches that gets you all the way up there Now why is this important? The reason that I would that I encourage pretty much everyone to do this is because it's just general good shoulder mechanics If you can do it loaded in a pull-up. I'm more confident that your shoulder is not gonna hurt throughout the day Yeah, like even if you do have shoulder problems if you can learn how to do this then it might be really beneficial for you Why would I not? Cue this so this isn't something that I think people talk about that much sometimes. I'm not too worried about it one You're new to pull-ups and I don't want to make it any harder than it already is This is like the hardest body weight exercise that you could think of right you're pulling your entire body weight up Most people in this world have never done a pull-up in their lives is at least in the last 10 years, you know And you know, I want you to still work on your fitness I want you to get stronger and I want you to like doing it So I'm not gonna be super stickler about it too much And then what else if if I'm trying if I'm getting a cue and it looks pretty good and it still hurts Then I'm just gonna say okay. You don't have to come up that far. That's totally fine Simple as that And then I think this is the third one that I would not use it on but Maybe you've already done eight reps and you've done them really good, but I want you to force a little bit more out I want you to force more fatigue into your muscles You're the only way you're gonna do that is by getting reps that don't quite look Exactly the same because it's really difficult to hold yourself up here at the top of the pull-up But it's a lot easier to get here.  That's not what we're talking about here hypertrophy wise if I want to build muscle I need a caloric surplus a protein surplus diet diet diet and I need To stress my system during my workouts. I need to push myself Interreps that I'm not quite sure if I can get Okay, it doesn't you don't need to do sixes. You don't need to do sets of 10 You don't need to do sets of 15 like not one is better than the other You just need to push yourself and you know, maybe do all those different types of rep ranges at some given point in time But that's a really common mistake if you do it. No hard feelings at all Just you know Appreciate why you're doing it if you're if you do it on rep one you probably need to figure something else out You probably need to lower the weights check the ego a little bit at the door You can assist yourself with a band having that pull you up to the bar You can have somebody help push you up to assist you when you get maybe tired later on in the set Or maybe even throughout the entire set. My favorite is just if you have the machine do a lat pulldown machine It's pretty similar You don't have to worry about what your legs are doing and rounding your back out the right way And you can just kind of focus on getting the the nice pulling motion there Those are just a couple ways to unload yourself And then there's some really nice machines that actually have a weight that like counterweights you up. Those are great I don't always like them because they get in the way of what your feet are trying to do But whatever no more than a band does really So give it a shot if you can already do some pull-ups and you can get yourself there all the way Consider that maybe you can force a couple extra reps out Maybe doing half range or three-quarter range not quite getting your chest all the way to the bar But on your first couple reps, especially I want you to make sure you're getting all the way down there So you're training those upper back muscles the trapezius Even some of the serratus anterior helps you with a little bit of the positioning there of the the shoulder blades Externally rotating for all you trainers out there, but yeah work on it


Hello, welcome to my talk log everything with log stash and elastic search to begin with just raise your hands Who uses logging in your applications? Yes, that's great who uses a central lock server That's okay. I hope will be some more after this talk Little bit about me. You can follow me on Twitter. You can get the slides on github I'll post them afterwards and of course you can visit my blog at Peter minasurfman.com I'm a software developer at Blue Yanda. We are a sponsor of this event Blue Yanda is the leading software as a service provider for predictive analytics in the European market We have our headquarters in Karlsruhe and offices in Hamburg in London and about 120 employees We use the full python stack for development We use flask for web front-end SQL alchemy for database access and the pandas numpy scikit-learn stack for our machine learning tools most of our core algorithms are written in C++ and Executed on a custom parallel execution execution engine engine and of course we are hiring So log everything When your application grows beyond one machine, you need a central space to log Monitor and analyze what's going on log stash and elastic search store your logs in a structured way and Kibana is a great web front-end to search and aggregate your logs Just a little disclaimer I'll talk a lot about log stash But I think the same accounts for grey log grey log is also a great tool to collect your logs and I think they have similar strengths and some differences so What do you need if you want to Have a central logging for your applications? Of course your log producers can be your front-end might even be a JavaScript single-page application which uses a custom API to ship the logs to the back-end Might be some API or back-end service might be an Authentication service might be even a database system or the operation system You have to transport your logs to a central station. I think everybody knows syslog I'll talk a little bit about galf. That's the grey log extended logging format But you can also ship your logs via radius queues or via the rabbit MQ system you could even log to log files and pass them back with the block Regular expressions But I think you have more benefits if you'll log your messages in a structured way Then you have to root and filter your logs You can do this with log stash or with grey log 2 server and of course you need some storage where you can store your log files I think elastic search is one of the great open-source tools It not only allows you to search your logs, but do all kinds of analysis based on your log files and To do the analysis you need a front-end to access your logs I'll talk a little bit about Kibana. It's a JavaScript only a framework The grey log 2 server has bundled a web interface, but you couldn't also use the plain elastic search head It's a JavaScript application to Or even use Python with the pious library to build custom queries and reports against your log files So what I'm going to talk today is the logging chain To transport your logs with galf to our log stash server The log stash server pipes them into an elastic search search engine and you Access the logs with the Kibana web framework. It's the the pattern transport root store and analyze If you need to grow further you can You can scale each part of the system. You can add more nodes to elastic search You can use multiple loxas instances or even add Message broker in front of your log stash So that the message broker collects the logs and then ships them to log stash to handle the load better What is galf galf is the grey log extended logging format? It's basically jason over UDP. That means it's non-blocking But it avoids some shortcomings that you have from plain syslog with which is all also text over UDP It's not limited to one kilobyte I know syslog and g can handle more but the plain syslog can just handle one kilobyte Often one kilobyte is not enough especially when you do application Monetary logging because of backtraces and you just have more data Galf also adds structure to your logs so you have a key value relation in jason and it has compression built-in and The possibility to add chunking you can one log message can be chunked to I think about 120 messages Also syslog per default has no support for additional fields and metadata In galf you can add arbitrary fields and arbitrary meta data to your log messages So I think galf is a great choice for logging with applications and Of course, there is the grey pi python handler and clients for all kinds of messages too One thing you have to consider when you want to to log with galf Because it's sent by UDP It's not reliable If your network is flaky or if the server is under high load Messages could get lost So if you really want to get sure that your log message arrive at the server you have to consider different Transport formats like I said earlier a radius or the rabbit MQ system So what does a log message in galf look like? You have a mandatory version field you have the host field where the log message comes from you have a short message You have a timestamp You have the log level and Then you'll have an arbitrary number of custom fields like the facility or Some request ID. I'll talk about this later. So how to use it with Python. It's pretty straightforward Works with the panda with the standard Python logging You just add a galf handler host and port and you can just log as normal and the handler will push it into your galf aware service In our case to lock stash So what is lock stash? Lock stash is a tool for receiving processing and outputting locks. It's written written in j ruby and runs in the Java virtual machine It's based on the pair pipes and filter pattern So you have incoming pipes you transform the messages you filter the messages You may even add fields or the lead fields and it do a bit of a pipe where you output it to elastic search I'm Jordan sizzle the creator of lock stash is now employed by elastic search and the Kibana a web Web analysis toolkit is also under the hood of the elastic search company So how do you run lock stash? Of course? You just download it unpack it and you need some simple configuration As I said earlier you have to define inputs filters and outputs the filters are optional Here I'll just drop all messages with the log-level debug For our system we Define a galf import input filter, but you lock stash can also provide input types like syslog or radius or Other tools are like I said earlier The output is to elastic search pretty straightforward You can also output to a file, but it's of course You get only the benefit if you if you put your structured locks into a lock stash Okay, what's Kibana? Kibana is a single-page JavaScript application. You need no install just unzip it In your antinix root folder or Apache root folder And it's a tool to search and analyze time-based data in elastic search It has a rich set of visualizations and provides the access to the full powerful search syntax from elastic search and You can create and share dashboards For yourself or within the company a big advantage in using Kibana is it is possible for Non-programmers or not so skilled people to query and analyze locks and I think Really important point is you don't have to have access to your servers to analyze your locks But you have to consider Kibana has no authentication built in so it directly talks to an elastic search search service and Who can read from elastic search can also write to elastic search. So if you need extra security you have to put a proxy in between and handle do some authentication the next slides are some possibilities to visualize Search queries from elastic search with Kibana Better map uses geographic coordinates to create clusters on a map You can zoom in You can do this based on country codes in your log messages and Yes, if you want to drill in you can click on the clusters and have a better view on it You can build panels with histograms histograms display time charts It displays counters mean minimum maximum and the total number of numeric fields You can build spark lines spark lines are a great tool to get an open overview of your system. What's going on? it's based on tiny time charts and You don't get the exact numbers, but if you look at a spark line with normally you can Really fast access what's going on and if there is something wrong with your system then Kibana price provides some visualization for the Facet calculation from locks from elastic search Facet calculation means based on a set of filters You can see how one term is distributed here. You can see I think that are locks from a web server what kind of files you have Delivered mostly html some PHP and as some images So it's also nice to get a quick overview of your of your system After talking a little bit About the technology. I'd like to present them some Logging patterns that are useful when you want to add structural logging to your application They are all based on adding context to your log messages So the easiest way to add context to a log message is just use the extra field from your log message it just takes a dict where you can add arbitrary key value pairs and The graylock a gulf handler just pushes them into lockstash a little bit more advanced is using using a filter With a filter you can add context to all of your Logging afterwards. So if we have a web application with a user logged in we can add a filter Which adds the logged in username to all the logging messages just afterwards The request ID. Let's you call it all lock message from a request together So if you generate a request ID at the beginning of a web request and just add them at a content with a context To all the following log messages. It's easy to identify Messages from the same request and it makes debugging much more easier How does this work? Okay, you get a request your application. You set the request ID and all the logging messages have the request ID applied How could you implement this? This is an example for flask flask provides before request handler It's always called when a new request starts. We are generating a UID and We are adding a filter to the logging so that every log message has this request ID applied A correlation ID. Let's you correlate log messages from different applications and systems If you have a front-end server and some back-end AP servers you want to correlate your log message says Over all these servers. So what do you do at the beginning of the request on the front-end server? You generate a correlation ID and when you make requests to the back-end servers You add the correlation ID to all your requests and the back-end servers just read the X correlation ID header field and Add this correlation ID to the log messages Same ID here All the log messages have the same correlation ID and you can follow a web request across different applications Implementation for flask pretty straightforward. You just get the header field if it's set and of again, yeah, I'm you add a filter Yeah I've started the Talk with the claim log everything That's not always true if you have really big systems. Maybe you don't want to log every debug message and There's a really cool handler. It's not yet available in the python logging, but it's available in the logbook from army in one of her What is the finger crossed handler the handler wraps another handler and buffers all the log messages until Trigger as an action level is triggered that means you can buffer all the debug messages And if there's afterwards an error message Then it outputs all the debug messages if there's no error messages. They are dumped So in the error case you all have all your debug messages in your system and everything if everything works, okay You're just they are dumped away It's the implementation Pretty clear. I think Really like a logbook. I think it's a worthy alternative to the standard logging But you have always to wait wait the benefits of using an extra library To the benefits of using the standard what is in python? So that's my talk. I'm finished one minute left. Thank you very much


Why is almost everything becoming so ridiculously dumbed down? Hey there MJ root 22 Dot-com here with another vlog a general interest vlog about the state of society and The world we live in and this is the topic. I think I'm gonna do a regular Feature here about things that are becoming dumbed down for for the Idiocracy that we live in I'm gonna collect things that I see that are like absolutely Like why do they need this? You know, that's that's the whole premise here like I certainly don't need anything explained to me I can figure everything out. I don't need diagrams or pictures or anything unless it's something that's like very Sophisticated like my snowblower, which I tried to fix the other day and they did they didn't really explain in the manual I looked at six manuals Back ten years and they did not explain it like a little before and after photo would have made a huge difference in that instance There are a few things that I can point out in this video that you'll see that they they're unnecessary And you have to ask yourself. Why are they necessary? Here's one. It's a kind of baby formula You know, we know how to open up a pull tab on anything whether it's a can of soup or can a baby formula Or whatever it may be but this baby formula can has a diagram of how to lift the tab and pull it off and to me if you need to see that diagram in order to know how to open that Tub of baby formula. You should not be a parrot and over here is a picture of my weather radio There's an on and off button. It says weather radio on and off But they put an extra sticker on I guess after the fact that says Please ensure the switch is in the on position I mean, hmm, I bought a weather radio and I need to remember that I need to turn it on I don't I don't know. I mean who doesn't know the difference between on and off when it clearly says weather radio on and off Why do they have to put an extra label on it? It's like did someone forget? Did they get stuck in a blizzard and sue the weather radio company? I really don't know.  Huh, that's what she said Um, but they had to put a warning on this baby label thing. It says choking hazard Throw out discard like I wouldn't know that. I mean, I don't leave random little things out for my baby Who would but why do they need to do that? Obviously again? They got sued and now need to have a disclaimer to prevent future lawsuits.  I I don't know I feel bad for the baby that did choke and get sick or die Because the parents didn't realize it and they felt they had to get retribution towards the Uh baby wipe company because they didn't have common sense and then the baby wipe company probably whatever you I can go on and on and here's another one. I love coconut oil I put it on every every single time I take a shower. It makes my skin feel great and I'm I have healthy skin I'm very lucky but This thing says ingredients 100 coconut oil and then you read all this other crap and then at the bottom it says allergens Contains coconut I mean, why why do you need like if I'm allergic to coconut or I have some sorts of Some sort of allergy towards coconut. Wouldn't I see that right on the container? It says coconut oil Like why do they have to put a separate line for allergens contains coconut? I mean, I'm surprised it doesn't say like allergens contains peanuts and acid I really don't know it's it's really ridiculous Anyway, but here's something very another interesting thing. It's a little more Interactive than the last four pictures I showed you but Here's what happens when I dialed a phone number when it was busy Back in the day when you dialed a phone number that was busy all you got was beep beep beep beep Now is it you knew it was busy nowadays. They have to explain what the beep beep beep is Like what the hell? Oh, the the line is busy. Like why do they need to explain it? What's next? Are we going to need explanations for other things like when someone honks a corn a horn in their car?  Or what about this when you set your kitchen timer to tell you when the when the pasta is done Beep beep beep beep. This is a reminder that you set something you were doing Please try and remember what it was so you can attend to it. I don't know how how Dumb down things have to be.


6. Reasons Why Smart People Can't Find Happiness Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know, Ernest Hemingway. Happiness is the feeling of contentment and satisfaction that is craved by many, but only achieved by some. Happiness is relative and subjective, but for many successful individuals, the presence of a great family life and a flourishing career is often not enough. On some occasions, these do not prevent a smart individual from feeling a sense of loneliness, often sadness and melancholy. Here are six psychological reasons why smart people have a harder time finding happiness. Intelligent people overanalyze. Many individuals with high levels of intelligence often overthink and analyze everything that occurs in their life and surroundings. While their ability to analyze things is a great asset, the constant analysis of everything can often lead to frustrations, especially when coming up with an undesired conclusion. Being able to see through people's intentions is a burden that most people don't get to carry.  Not to mention the timeless dilemmas of global and philosophical issues that seem to have no solution is a constant mental plague. In this case, the saying ignorance is bliss is true. 2. Intelligent people have high standards. Smart individuals often hold everything with high standards. The failure to reach these standards often leads to frustration and disappointment, regardless if it is their career, relationships, or anything else that they hold important in their life. The idealistic view of the world and poor practical intelligence of people with brilliant theoretical minds often have trouble coping with the raw reality of life. When faced with issues that contradict their expectations, this inevitably leads to feelings of great disappointment. 3. Intelligent people are extremely self-critical. Unhappiness for highly intelligent people also stems from their deep thinking nature. Not limited to their success and failures, these individuals rigorously analyze and compare themselves to higher standards that they unintentionally seek reasons to blame themselves. Intelligent people often experience flashbacks of events that happened months, sometimes years ago, of situations which they believe they behaved poorly or inappropriately. Negative emotions such as guilt and discontent fills their minds and disturbs their mood, dousing out any form of happiness of the person. 4. Intelligent people are overly ambitious. People with high intelligence cannot be satisfied with what they already have. Their complex mind gives them the ability to seek something bigger and better, a purpose. These people fail to enjoy mundane things in everyday life because their minds crave something stimulating and fantastically idealistic that cannot be found in the real world. This is often manifested by inability to accept the time and space they belong to. They feel that they are living in the wrong place at the wrong time, that everything could be better, but it just isn't. 5. Intelligent people are often misunderstood. Everyone yearns to be understood and accepted. The comfort of having meaningful conversations with a like-minded person, one who shares the same ideas, worldviews and philosophies, is priceless. Most intelligent people hardly ever find someone who can connect with them. This makes them feel alone and misunderstood, that no one is capable of seeing and appreciating the deep brilliance of their minds. While it is scientifically proven that people with high levels of intelligence don't need to socialize as much as average intelligence people to be happy, the human need to interact is still there. People with high intelligence simply prefer to talk


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What was your day like? Good. Nice day. We are in Gujarat and now we are ending it in Karnataka. We just had a big rally. Very responsive crowd. They were especially responsive when we were talking about the Chokidar and about Raphael. That excites people. And then the joblessness in the country that's quite a big issue. And the farmers. Particularly about joblessness farmers and Mr. Narendra Modi's personal corruption with Anil Ambani. And then a little bit about our vision. The Nyai Yajna is going very well. 72,000 rupees per person. 25 crore people. Right in the women's women's bank account. Very empowering part of the thing. Jumpstart the economy. Actually there's a massive crisis when it closes window. There's a massive crisis in the economy because of demonetization. Because of Mr. Narendra Modi's concentration of power in the PMO. And so money has been sucked out of the system. People don't have capacity to buy stuff. So Nyai Yajna is going to fire that up. And then we've got a couple of ideas for youngsters on the job front support to small and medium industry. That we are going to be quite aggressive on. And then some ideas for farmers. Yeah. Do you want to speak to my dear friend Dinesh as well? Yeah, why don't you also put in your... Well first of all, he's putting on weight. Because I've been feeding him chips nonstop. So he's putting on weight. Thanks to all the junk that I'm eating with our congress president. So as it is, my situation is bad, it's getting worse. But yeah, today's been a great day I think. Both the rallies were wonderful. And huge crowds. And the response I think, which we got when we were speaking about the failure of Narendra Modi and his his performance and what vision that we have for the country. What Rahul Ji's vision is there for the country. I think all those issues are getting great response. And I think people have realized. At the ground level I think people have realized that our Pradhan Mantri is a Prachar Mantri. And he's not a doer. And I think that dream of Ache Den is shattered. And that I think is going to be the key thing for this election. So I mean, the crowd's response was tremendous. And I think we've picked up a lot of energy from this visit of Rahul Ji in Karnataka today. I also feel, I don't know what you feel about this. I feel he he doesn't listen. And he actually doesn't grasp issues properly. This is my experience in dealing with the Prime Minister. I don't know what your view is on that. I think he's so close minded. And since he's got a very few people who can approach him. I think he doesn't get the pulse of what's happening on the ground. And people are so scared of him to tell him what the reality is. When there's farmers distress and when there are so many issues of joblessness. I think he doesn't understand what's happening on the ground. And that I think is getting affected in his wrong policies. You know, you were telling me that Rahul Ji was Chief Minister here that he'd regularly meet the press and go for these press conferences. Yeah, I mean, if the press was... We meet the press almost on a daily event to our allergy and official press conferences were done at least once a week. But I don't know why, but he doesn't have the confidence to come in front of the press. I think that is that's the biggest mystery that why he can't take questions because someone who can talk so much. I should be able to take some questions. No, I don't know. I mean, Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji, they used to call him Mauni as a saying or whatever. But I mean, he used to take the press conference every year. He did a press conference. And though I think Narendra Modi has done a few press conferences, not in India. I think some of the upload is done. But those are also scripted. Even the interviews you see, I mean, they are scripted. It's like planned and stuff. There's no open. There's no open. And even in parliament as far as I've seen, I've not seen him taking questions in parliament and replying on any specific subject. We've never done that. I think the other thing, the other difference I find between the congress and Mr. Narendra Modi's system. And this wasn't the case so much with Mr. Vajpayee's system. But he doesn't actually take advantage of the talent that is there. When we are working, we are trying to push our talent, trying to ask questions to our people. I don't think he has that sense. He just decides on something and then he acts on it without much information. I think so because otherwise how will anyone ever decide to demonetize the currency? I think if I listen to people, five people at least, I also don't do it. I think kids. If you ask kids, if you ask a 12-year-old kid listen, what do you think? He'd say, I don't think that's a good idea. And even GST, the concept of GST was one nation, one type, which he also spoke about. And where was the one? 5% 18% It's crazy and people, especially this was our small traders in my constituency, small people, they didn't know what the hell they were doing, they didn't know where the credit is going to come from, how to maintain this economy. They had to get auditors. It was so confusing, complicated. Almost like a financial nuclear weapon. Just firing it without any thought. I think both those things have really killed India's economy and that's what I think we are suffering right now. What I found quite amazing was Manmohan Singh Ji stands up in Rajasabha and shows you his economic understanding and just off the cuff says 2% GDP is going to be damaged. And lo and behold, that's exactly what happened. And that's why one of the things that we did was we went and tested the Nya Yojna with our we discussed it with all the we discussed with the best economists in the world. Including of course our economists in the communist party. Anyway, is that good? Thank you.


What is up ladies and gentlemen Realistic gaming here and today we are here with the one and only Momo And I'm actually doing this video because one of my subscribers like please don't do it momo video well Guess what today? We play some momo and she is here man. All right, and also before we get into this gameplay I want to give a birthday shout out to the duck happy birthday man. Wish you the best. All right So let's begin with this momo is here. Oh It looks scary already. I like it. Okay. What is that open? Oh? Oh, that's loud. Okay. Hopefully momo didn't hear that. Oh All right, this house is trash, bro. What is going on? Clean your house man. You want to have guests over and this time you have your house? The girl is dirty. Okay. I found the key What is that? Let's see open this. Is there anything there? No. Oh computer. It's on here. No Okay, I just want to contact my granny Okay, open this. No, dude. There's that all wire. I see a wire Maybe we can strangle momo with this Because she's trying to kill us. I'm just kidding. Okay. Oh wait, there's a code We need a code the computer. Okay one 13 99 All right, uh, let's input the code here 13 99 Wow, okay Bro, there's a lot of doors Okay, um Open this nothing there Hopefully momo doesn't pop up here Okay, uh, what am I looking for exactly? I have no clue. I'm just roaming around Oh crowbar. Nice. Maybe we can smack momo in the head with this If you dares come across us.   Oh, okay. Are we hiding here? I guess Let's go in here What Bro, that was like narnia. You went in the closet in the wardrobe and you appear somewhere else Okay, um Okay, it seems like we need to activate this Okay, we need some sort of power or something All right What can we use maybe like something I don't know maybe a Yo, I hear some noise What the heck Bro, I hear like footsteps back there. Okay. Oh, it seems like we need multiple batteries for this No What oh my gosh, look at her face She's definitely pretty thick. Hey, whoa, calm me later, man. Calm me later girl. What all right, uh, let's go around I do not want to go face to face with her Oh, heck not hear her movie. There's a battery. Oh, she's coming this way, bro. Why should it look like that though? Like Girl, what are you just staring at? Okay, we have three batteries. How many freaking batteries do you need, bro?  Oh, well. I'm already playing a game as it is. Okay, uh How did she not see us there? I guess she's blind She's blind from her side Okay, where'd she go bro? She right there She's right there. No way Oh, she's tiny Bro, can I just like throw this battery at her? Hi, momo.  What? What is savage? Okay, we're still She's crawling on the ceiling What the I've never seen her do this before this is magical Kind of scary. Oh, she's doing a split now. Oh mama could do a split Bro, can I just like run? Oh I'm totally gonna have nightmares tonight. Oh, bro. I'm gonna survive that. Oh, she's down here. Okay Stick Yeah All right, open up the elevator. Boom. We hear momo.  Okay that there's some sort of code there. We need a code Oh I heard noises. Okay, we got a wire Momo She's a little slow slow. All right. Let's go ahead. Wait. There's a code right there six one three Okay, six on three and then there was a five over there broke all the door all the door Let's just hide it on here. Okay. Now it's like we're playing granny Come on, let's just wait for her to pass by then we'll get through her Give her a little slip, you know Okay She's coming. Oh, that was way too close I was way too close. Yo All right, get out of here.  Thank you All right Restart, please don't tell me restarts all the way Rage quit if you're starting me all the way at the beginning like Not today, bro. I'm about to do all that again She never saw that coming bro. I swear too quick Too quick for you. Momo. It's a little bird legs. I don't know what the heck's going on with her But she's definitely a little weird. Hey here. Oh bro. We can see behind us What is this? Let's see if we can see her back here I can't see her but I hear her. Oh, there she is Where'd she go? Oh, heck no. All right, whatever. Oh, she disappeared. She's calling my phone Bro, I need to block her. She keeps blowing up my phone now. Oh crowbar There is no escape Is there oh the rest of the coast I was six one six one That let's take it was three five three Please don't get me All right, there you go get out of here your chicken brain Okay, let's try that six one three five three nine Go, dude. I was missing one number. Okay, open this Bro, she looks about as nice as right there.  Okay, there's a trapper. Momo. We're definitely gonna trap momo right there Okay, um, that's where I came from Okay, let's check down here My god, let's hope we just play six six six six six nine. Okay, I better not forget that bro Sometimes I'd be forget. Oh my god. That scared me. Okay. What's that? Oh, heck no, it's a trap Okay, uh, you will not survive dude. She keeps threatening me so many times and she's not even doing a thing Like if you're gonna threaten me back it up at least momo Okay, uh Why are there so many curtains? What is going on? I can't open this We need to code. Oh six six six six six nine. Okay, there you go That's what I'm talking about. Oh Okay, we need something to open this What the heck are we looking for? Ah, there it is. How can I miss it? It's blending in with the ground man All right, so let's go over here to open this. Hopefully this works I don't know why you need a crowbar for that. I could have done it with my hand, but okay, um What did I just grab? Was that a gun? Oh, what? Okay, whatever. I just walked through the door because open this drawer. Oh, we got a strap Yo, oh She just went through the door. Oh my god. What is going on? Momo. Oh, she launched it bro. I'll get the gun. Where's the gun? Oh You're looking fine. Oh Oh, no, she's crazy. Look at her. She's doing a little dance. Okay. Oh, she's crawling to it.  Can we trap her?  Oh my god. I thought she stood up there Okay, let's try to stand her up. Mama. Wake up Why are you just on the ground?  I'm sorry. Mama.  I'm so sorry hopefully You can forgive me for this and hit me up sometime. You got my phone. All right. See you later. All right. Let's get the heck out of here What? I just killed her.   What is wrong with her?  What if I kill her now? Oh We're screens though. Help me shoot her man. I'm sorry Okay, yeah, hit the little shimmy honest and yeah, yeah, whatever. Boom There goes the trap She got the Louis Vuitton walls. You see that that D chord back there. She balled. All right. Yeah. Yeah grab the key Don't shoot her. I can't resist. No, that'll help me not shoot her. Thank you. You survived. Thank you for playing What there's no like escape scene or anything What a bummer man. I expected like a Whipping now like in the car or something or the police arriving something cool, you know Like I did all that for just to thank you for playing. You can find this game. I'm steam I'll leave the link for you guys. You do have to buy it for like $2.99 I know it's a little price. He's a little too much. I thought I was gonna be free But it wasn't but it is a pretty enjoyable game.  Thank you guys. Well, thank you for watching and I'll see you all in the next one