My name is Adrienne Burgess, I'm from the UK and I'm here to tell you a story which is what we did around Paternity Leave and it's not just because it's because I think if we think about the world and we think about the different countries now thinking about parental leave, paternity leave, all over the world including in the US it's interesting to hear how other countries have done it and what the pitfalls have been and also the failures and this is a story in lots of ways about failure but it's about the lessons that we're learning along the way. Now I want to also reinforce what Anne Marie said the whole idea that this is a kind of game changer that it may not you know seem to work out so much with lower income families but when you have policies that are up for debate it generates column inches so that this becomes a very visible topic so involved fatherhood becomes a very visible topic so it's incredibly useful to have these conversations to have these conversations you know as you develop the policies. Also what to say with regard to low income families if you have statutory leave that is to say it's state the state says you have a right yeah if at the bottom level at the level where people are earning very little there is no gender pay gap because one of the things that's always been said is that what stops parents sharing is that mum earns more well at the lower levels mum dad earns more at the lower levels that ain't true everybody's badly paid so one of the barriers is immediately gone so if you pay your parental leave at a reasonably even at a low rate but at a reasonably you know better than the minimum wage or even at the minimum wage you will get more sharing okay so now I'm just going to go through our little story if I can yep there it is it all began of course with maternity leave it all began with the need for mothers to be able to stay at home to breast feed to get over the birth and this was a hard one right and it was very late in coming in the UK and it was driven by the trade unions right so it came out of labour law so in the 1970s what was going on well maternity leave was introduced right across Europe and of course we're nested next to Europe in the European Union and in in the UK the first maternity leave legislation came in in 1975 however it was very circumscribed you know what the women had to have worked for so long for the same employer and you know it was pretty difficult so only for less than 50% of working women were eligible for it at the same time in Sweden they already had maternity leave and now they were introducing cross gender parental leave fathers and mothers could take it there was no reserved leave for dads what they call the daddy month which is the sort of what Anne Maria talked about the use it or lose it benefit if if daddy if there's a reserved leave for a parent a mother or a father and they don't use it they can't transfer it over to the other parent and that's truly truly vital to have an element of reserved leave so in Sweden they didn't at that stage have an element of reserved leave but they did they made it open to the sexes and talking about this whole idea of the Super Bowl lad that's coming out which is going to say caring makes you strong now what's so interesting about that is of course it's built buying into stereotypes and we don't know actually how productive that is in lots of ways because on the one hand it's confirming the old stereotype I'm very dubious about that now the Swedes and not in the 70s but in the I think the 80s or the late early 90s they used that image the bottom there can you see it it's he was a famous he was a famous wrestler or something and they had him they had him holding this baby the baby has since grown up and is now talking about parental leave but but what was interesting was again they were trying to deal with that whole idea of masculinity and I came across a wonderful wood carving from the 17th century in France where where the King Henry I'm terrible on really the fourth I think with a son king he had lots and lots of children he brought them all up together at the royal palace illegitimate legitimate he didn't care right he had them all there and there's a wonderful image it's extraordinary in its time I should have brought it where you see him holding a baby and looking at this baby and when you see this you think you never see men doing this this is an extraordinary image for a king to be holding the baby and his leg he's in the doublet and hers and the leg is like this and it's really muscly and what it's saying of course is that real men can hold babies so somebody has analyzed has done in Sweden presumably they've done some studies to see whether this kind of advertising often done through the trade unions did have an impact and they don't think it does so there are other ways they're not sure they don't think that the public information campaigns themselves changed things okay so in the 1980s Britain was lagging behind so we are bad the country is bad the european union who by then is starting to become powerful and and integrated castigates Britain tells them off it says you are the only member state not providing statutory maternity and we Britain had blocked the adoption of a draft directive from the european union setting out minimum standards on parental leave we were really bad and falling behind the game in came the labor government the left first left with left wing government for about 12 or 15 years or something in 1997 and they got to it the trade unions were behind them and they granted mothers 18 weeks paid leave at 90% pay employment relations acts granted all employees the minimum of three months unpaid parental leave now we have had leave for fathers since then in the sense that it's three months well i think it's now four per parent per child non-transferable nobody uses it they don't use it because firstly nobody knows about it only the specialists like myself are even aware that it exists it's never spoken of the government never talks about it it's not in any if you look at employee contracts you never see it so that's one of the main reasons it's never taken up nobody knows and the second reason is that it's unpaid i used to work on cosmopolitan magazine and in 1999 when there was this talk for this first time about paternity leave they brought out this image i don't know if you can see it it's a father breastfeeding a baby i throw it in because it's a truly ambivalent and wonderful image on the one hand it's sort of shocking but on the other hand it's really beautiful and i think that it is in it's truly beautiful what they call the the hairless adonis who holds the baby and we now know that the akar pygmies who are the best fathers in the world they're 47 percent of the time within alms reach of their newborns the akar or i think that's how they're they're the stars of paternal involvement and they do actually offer their nipples for a suck it's a very hygienic way when you're in the middle of the amazon jungle of giving the baby something to suck on if it's not feeding at the time so we move on into 200 2003 and here we are now in 2003 my little organization the fatherhood institute had begun and we were in with the government and with all the organizations lobbying for paternity leave to be included in this and eventually we got it two weeks at below the minimum wage two weeks at below the minimum wage at the same time the maternal lobby extended the leave for mothers from 18 weeks to 52 weeks and my the team my team member who was managing all this stuff from our point of view sat there helplessly and said to the the meeting at the end you have done the worst possible thing for women and they couldn't understand what he was talking about he said you want pregnancy discrimination to continue that's it you are defining the mothers as the caretakers and the fathers as these tiny helpers it didn't they went oh you just want rights for men no he said i'm really really i'm a feminist and this is really bad for women so what tends to happen when you go into these countries across the world if we do start to talk about paternity leave across the world in different states here and in and in the federal arena is don't let them extend maternity leave because once you've got it extended trying to reduce it and make it shared is an almost impossible task let us move on at the time i remember this when it was brought in that fathers would have two weeks paternity leave two weeks the times had a leader the times leader column said men need paternity leave like fish need bicycles that would never be said now so much has moved on since 2003 anyone who said i mean anyone who said that would be considered ridiculous so change happens and you have these forces at the beginning so what have we been doing over the last 12 years since 2003 right we campaigned for a system of shared parental leave where we wanted the father to have his own right to taking it based simply on his employment background like paternity leave a dad can get paternity leave it's a it's a universal and it's specific to what to his employment record if he's if he's worked for a certain company for a certain length of time he can get paternity leave and pay his wife his partner can be a stay-at-home mom it doesn't make any difference it's his entitlement based on his national insurance contributions based on what he does meanwhile over here the mothers have got their 52 weeks maternity leave an individual entitlement they are entitled to maternity leave and pay doesn't matter what their partner has done the worst the worst scenario is where you have transferable maternity leave she owns it 52 weeks ah i've used 13 don't need any more he can have it aha but only if his or if his employment record is good too and what this means is as soon as you have a transferable maternity leave you're taking into account two people's employment records and that immediately reduces eligibility so in our country if you have that system of transferable maternity leave under one in three couples is eligible so it becomes quite a small group and you get a lot of frustration because you get a lot of couples who think they're going to share it and then they find they can't so we asked for an individual entitlement we wanted the daddy month the reserved element they use it or lose it we wanted the dads to have um you know a month that they could that if they lost if they didn't use it mum didn't get it and similarly you have to for gender equality one that the mum would lose if she if she doesn't use it and we asked for better pay we said at least the minimum wage please the mothers a lot of the mother's maternity leave is also below the minimum minimum wage so we were asking for it for both and how did we advocate for it we said this was to government because they're making the policies we said it's what families want i.e. there are votes in it right quite good good way to talk we said it's what families are already doing we said look at all the data the dads are all taking time off they're saving up their sick leave they're saving up their um their holidays they're all sort of trying to have it around the time you know it's happening dads are already doing it how can we make this work better and we also said oh dear the uk is very bad it's very old-fashioned we produced a thing called fifi our fairness in families index we pulled in all the data on mother women's empowerment on fathers participation in childcare and we put it together and we created a table and the uk became satisfyingly right down towards the bottom not as low as the united states but pretty low and that and we immediately got as soon as we published that the minister called us in it had an impact we also said the old arguments were highly qualified women will stay in employment if you de-stigmatize the mommy track by bringing men into it and we made those kind of arguments we also said now recently we've been saying because we've got the conservative government who are in there who are terribly worried about marriage so we said to them well the data says that um couple relationships are more stable if fathers take leave which is true they are so and we said child well-being and we said when fathers don't take leave there's developmental it's correlated with developmental problems in children it's a nice piece of research that so we came out with those kind of statements and it had an effect we thought we have a result we have a win in 2011 the government produced a paper for consultation called modern workplaces a great title and they set out a design an architecture for parental leave there was everything that we could have dreamed of it had a daddy month but they added that onto the leave so it wasn't seen as being taken away from mum they had um they had the sharing starting much earlier so mum could go off maternity leave and go on to parental leave it was all wonderful it was an individual entitlement it depends on his record whether he could take it we thought we're home and dry all this work is paid off however it was defeated not in the house of the houses of parliament but out in consultation because loads of organizations lobbied against it now business lobbied against it business as you know lobby against anything you want to bring in the minimum wage it's going to ruin us you want to bring in maternity leave oh we can't possibly stand that want to extend maternity no we can't do that we knew that business would but what happened was that uh a conglomeration of trade unions uh women's rights organizations family organizations that were mommy people said no no they said we can't have this women must own the leave and if they want to give a bit of it to their partners that's your old transferable maternity leave well that's fine but if you give men an individual entitlement oh my goodness you'll have employers not giving any not topping up payments to mothers because they'll have to do it for both sexes so mothers are going to lose out and they said and we'll also have these men who who want to look after their children forcing the mothers back to work so they they said this this committee so what actually happened was the government who had put forward a wonderful system in the end compromise and what we have is a system of transferable maternity leave so that I think is the end of my story no individual entitlement no reserved leave and the payment rate remains below the minimum wage but we have one thing that I think is important and is a message for any other system one of the problems with the Nordic countries is that they normally allow their parental leave to be shared and individual entitlement all those good things up to the to the child being I think just about eight just before it's a long period of five I think eight in some countries so that you you know it's for raising children in the early years what they don't do is to concentrate on the first year and it's in the first year that the patterns of caring are set it's in the first year if the women have taken a whole year out of the workforce and then they have a second try and take another goodbye that's goodbye to your career what you want is the men and women sharing probably the women will in you know take most of them their months early on but what you want is the men taking the same amount of leave out in the first year and that has not happened in the Nordic countries they weren't on the game they didn't realize when they set up their system so that is the one thing we do have is that all this poor as it is has to happen in the first year thank you very much


Alright, this review triggered how the left thrives on hate and wants to silence us by Donald Trump Jr. It's a raw book about his opinions and perspectives. Triggered yet? That is how personally I troll people. And it works. It happens when words or behavior hurts someone's reality. Like I have to live up to their echo chamber bubble. There's outrage culture on Twitter and gaslighting, feelings hurt, and not PC. Minor microaggressions. And that used to be called teasing when I was younger. And you don't want to be marked with the mark of the bees or a scarlet letter. And these type of outrages can lead to shadow banning on platforms and being cancelled. Who wants to be silenced? There are patterns in this corruption. And most of all, I'm not going to mention the Voltaire quote, but who is trying to silence you? There's a relationship of censorship versus freedom of speech, PC culture, SJWs, combing all your comments of what you said your whole life. This public shaming is somewhat scary.  And it's a fun game and I'm not talking about hiding go seek. Trump Jr. has most of it down. There's humor in this book. It is funny. And he's always being hated on him and his dad. So it is somewhat true. There's discourse and hate speech. Trigger warnings to warn you of your feelings being hurt. Of course, he's going to mention the mobs and socialists. He has somewhat of a communist background with his mom being from Czechoslovakia or something like that. And he grew up and he could speak Czech. So that is why some of the liberals think that he's colluding with the Russians. I didn't know that. There's wokeness. And it's almost, this era is book burning, which is somewhat good because you go read this on Kindle or an e-books and not waste paper. And this reminds me of the alt-right and its epic trolling. Now, how does this book relate to me and where I have been? The truth triggers. So you must use metaphors or try it. I'm mostly aware of everything he talks about. But for the typical person, they might need, this book can help them a bit. It's still very interesting. Now I was at the UC Berkeley riots where Milo Yiannopoulos was attending. I came right when they started that fire, since I live right in the barrier. And then the other riot that happened about, I don't know, two or three months later with the bike you lock professor. I was at that rumble filming it. Both were wild and I had a lot to learn from that. I do believe in having less laws, which many right wingers are unable to pick up. Less police, more men, no matter how much people dislike them. And a funny thing is the next books on my list to review this week are one of them as a coddling of American mind and two not seem to lead books. I do think Donald Trump Jr. is setting himself up to be a good potential candidate for a populist party sometime in the future, whether it be 20 or 30 years from now. If necessary, he might be good, more on that later. And it's easy fact neither Trump is an Abraham Lincoln. We haven't had someone like that in a long time. In reading this book, it was great to acquire data on what these corrupt liberals are doing. Not just new, but also seeing his angle and his details, his somewhat radical opinions on this. With the smearing, the creative editing for soundbites that these big corrupt new channels do. It is very corrupt. And I do like how he reveals all the secrets and struggles of the campaign. The populist, the lack of money, his own money. And not just obsessing over polling data that the Democrats went through because they went out to the country. One person, the underdog, and it was a great run. The Trump train to make America great again. MAGA. And you can recognize establishments, the Democrats corruption and radicals, as well as the Republican party. This book does have a ton of insulting trigger words in it. I do notice out here in San Francisco Bay are people can be weak. Sometimes when I talk, they get triggered. They can't handle the truth, so oh well. I just go about my business. And that's not everybody. When you're from California, you're going to be used to be trying to be taken down. And the best quote in the book and advice you learn from his dad is always remember you don't get anything you don't ask for. Just ask. And make sure you check that link below. So next, I'm going to give my thoughts on Donald Trump Jr. Some of I knew he hunts and fishes took a gap year after college, which I found very interesting. He loves, I love hearing he traveled all over the states, which I have done not to every state, but I drove across the country. That's a fun book. He recognizes Twitter, Facebook, not so much YouTube versus the mainstream outlets. He's trolling other officials, AOC and such. I do not follow Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter, but I do follow AOC and Insta. And it is comical. The gender pronoun jokes. What is going on? It's just so confusing. I just don't care. It's funny that we've gone to the era and now that the economy is crashing in this 2020 time, no one really cares about that. People just want to pay their bills and survive and get their food and toilet paper. Sometimes at the end of the day, he can be full of shift. He recognizes education can be a waste, especially with the college and its debt. I don't think Donald Trump Jr. reads a lot, but I do think he reads more than his dad. And be careful of the image you see. I could see him being a wannabe outstorming. That's what he posts all these pictures at the end of him being a good family man and an outdoorsman. And at least he likes it and at least he's willing to go outside. I do think this path of privilege that was given to him is not his fault. He will have a very hard time understanding that they have knots. He'll mention the rules of radicals, but I don't think that hard is there. He's been approved of. He's a good looking guy. He's not bad looking. He didn't struggle with women. Of course he had status and money, but out of the game maybe he has a little.  You can understand the status. And fake friends. Who's on your side? This is where we learn who's on his side. Him and his dads. You do get a good portrait of his relationship and his opinion of his dad. Even liberals should read this. Now here are my thoughts on Donald Trump. He's got a solid gold look. Angry Cheeto, Orange Man Bad, all these other memes, populists, movements, a snap back attack. He does recognize fake news. He helps me out because of books. Twitter and YouTube are okay. You already know my thoughts on wasting time on Twitter. He doesn't drink alcohol and definitely doesn't take Molly. He helps too by recognizing the failing New York Times. Really helps this channel. He can maintain presence and attention. Speaks to people. Almost makes you want to go out there too. He truly exposed the corruption. That you have to keep on repeating it to other liberals that, hey, this is really corrupt. If they don't recognize certain corrupt, something's wrong with them. He recognizes work. He's a deal maker. The art of the deal. I have not read that book. I do have it. He can make deals. That's one of the great things about him. He's a businessman. He's tapping hearts of people. Freedom of speech is very important.  He's outspoken, ridicules, almost like the Theodore Roosevelt bully pulpit. And you can check my other reviews about him. He's businessman. Economy is good. He's still for the elites, even when the economy crashes. And we do have to stop this boom and bust cycle. It is OK, but you can't have it go crazy like it's happened before. He's impulsive, lies on the whim, maintains the image of that solid gold image. He's got that New York City East Coast gold chains look, even without even wearing him. He's all about his base. The strategies are great. In Robert Green's law, he will court attention at all cost. That is power. He will also play to people's fantasies. He's not a man of empathy. That's my biggest critique of him. Maybe Trump needs Molly. Yeah, Trump needs Molly. Triggered yet? Trump bots. There are narcissistic elements. He's not well spoken. He's got that Trump trend, which can be exciting, the MAGA. Both Trumps talk down to people. That's not game. However, in general, these past few years, it is best to have a wrecking ball present to shake things up. It's a mess. It's a tough job being president to have, say, Abraham Lincoln up there. It takes work and sacrifice. And both can be on the top of the mountain as aggressive know-it-alls. It was not really hard to spot fake news when you get experience. You travel independently and you read. You are on the right channel. And my last thoughts are, I love trolling the Trump bots. There's no mind of their own. NPC, scared to lose to the left, scared to hear an opinion sometimes. Or the truth. They just want to call people lazy. I prefer individualism. And check your retirement account. It's negative since election. And as far as the elephants versus Donald Trump Jr., here's the picture right here. Not for trophy status. I could swallow this pill. It's privilege. I am pro-hunting and outdoorsman. Hopefully the money paid for that tale was used for the elephant's journey towards survival versus someone who does nothing because it does bring awareness. There's nothing better than being talked about. And he says he's a conversationalist, a hunter and a fisherman. I do think he's more conservative and trophy oriented, not wild. And another big tip is to understand real estate. The price isn't just the price, it's propped up. And in terms of construction and what Donald Trump Jr. has learned from his dad, is you need a good foundation. Then you can build up from there. He does tease about the Millennium Towers in San Francisco, which are crooked and sinking. I feel bad for those people, but they bought it. I don't think he understands animal spirits. There's overbought real estate. And there's too many investors that will bail. Thanks for listening to this whole video. I'll post a link down below. And you must not be triggered yet. Hashtag Trump needs Molly.


The Aberdeen Costello Program starring Bob Abbott and Lou Costello brought to you by Camel, the cigarette of costly or properly-aimed tobacco. The Aberdeen Costello Program with a modern rhythm of Will Osbrun and his orchestras, Iris Adrienne, the flingy-thinking of Connie Haynes, and spotlighting that toughy tricky little troublemaker who, when he let the air out of his uncle's tire because he heard the family was looking for a flat, calmly said, Now, Costello, I've been waiting to see you. Where were you this morning? You know you had a date with me to go duck-hunting at daybreak? What did you do, over sleep? Oh, no! I got up before daybreak, Abbott. But something terrible happened. Something terrible happened? What was it? At 5.30 this morning, I kipped out out to the kitchen to cook my breakfast. I put on the main tapering, and I was bending over the stove when the milkman came in. The milkman grabbed me in his arms and kicked me three times! Abbott, you know what? What? I think we're engaged. Oh! Would you please talk, then? You certainly missed great hunting drips this morning. Well, I was too tired anyway, Abbott. I went hunting last night in Griffith Park. Why, you dummy, there's no hunting in Griffith Park. How long have you been in Hollywood? Now, that's great. I don't think you know anything about hunting. Oh, no! What time I sat up there in a foot and knocked all the teeth out? Now, wait a minute. How could you knock a bear's teeth out of a... if you shot him on the foot? He was biting his toenails. Oh, come on! Costella, you should be ashamed of yourself.  Well, I haven't liked that joke, Abbott. In fact, I like it so well, I think I'm going to tell it again. No, no! Not that! Anything but that! Don't tell a joke! Hey, wait a minute. Come here, buddy. If you don't like our program, why didn't you come in here for us? I was listening to you on my car radio. I came in here to prove something. What are you trying to prove? That's right. I thought the radio was on the bump. Now I know the bump is on the radio. That is a nice boy. I'd like to buy him a ticket on a sinking ship. Ah, never mind him, Costella. Why aren't you wearing your Spanish costume? Do you realize that tonight you and I are invited to the Latin American Embassy? Oh, yes, yes, yes. Yes, the ambassador asked us to come over to help him cement friendly relations. Cement friendly relations? Yeah. Not me, Abbott. That's what got my uncle Otis Stevens 20 years in Alcatraz. Your uncle Otis Stevens is in Alcatraz for cementing friendly relations? Yeah. He's through his mother on a concrete mixer. Cut. Ah, nice of you, Costella. You're going to the party. I've always run into your costume. You're going dressed as a Spanish grandee. Just as a what? A grandee. Grandee. Not me.  Ah, yes, Tommy. A grandee doesn't wear a diaper. Oh, no. How about my half a grandee? No, no, no, no. Ah, you're thinking of candy. Oh, sure. I like candy. Hershey's candy with canot. That's awesome. You're going to be dressed as a Spanish grandee. You have a mustachio and a terrapi. Oh, no, I won't. I had that last night at the drug store and it made me sick. You had a mustachio and a terrapi in a drug store. Yeah. Mm-hmm. What are you talking about? Mustachio ice cream covered with chocolate terrapi. No. Ah, mustachio and terrapi, too. Yeah, I can imagine. Look, what are you talking about? Look, you're going as a Spanish grandee from the Andes. You've heard of the Andes. Oh, sure, I hear them every Tuesday night. The Andes and the Andes. Hey, come on, right ahead of that big Spanish program. What Spanish program? River McGee and Tamale. Now, look. You tell me I'm talking about the Andes. The Andes are found in Philly. Well, they have a found in my Philly with beans. Sometimes a little sizzle. You're lucky. Stop talking like an imbecile, Cattella.  You're going to that party. And I say I am not going. Not after the way the Andes. They didn't tell you? Yes, they did.  Right in the very first line. They inspired me by making fun of my thing away with it. Where does it say anything about your shape? Right there, it says it. See your Lucastello. Here, tab-belly-roll. Wait a minute. Tab-belly-roll. That's very nice, Adam. Tab-belly-roll. Don't call me a tab-belly-roll yet. That's tab-belly-roll. What's the matter with you? Can't you read? A tab-belly-roll is a gentleman who takes a drill out for an expensive dinner. Biser flowers and jewelry. He takes it to the finest show in town and then when he takes it home, he doesn't even ask her for a good night's kiss. In South America, they call them tab-belly-rolls. In South America, they call them tab-belly-rolls. Yes. We've got the same things back in Paterson, New Jersey. Yes. But we don't call them tab-belly-rolls. What do you call them? Ha! Ha! Ha! Hey, right there, old Abedin Castello. What's this business, Ken? What goes on? Why, that means hail in ancient Greek. The language employed by that famous wise man of some 3,000 years ago whose name was Jesus. He's bad and I translate. Experience is the best teacher. Yes, what we learn by experience impresses us the most. For instance, during the late Great Cigarette Authority, camels were scarcest of the scare, even though camel production was at an all-time high. Smokers had the experience of trying more different brands then. Then they'd normally try in a lifestyle and did experience to them that there isn't any substitute for the rich, full-favorite and cool mildness of camel superb blend of costly or tobacco. Well, today, more people want camels than ever before in the history of this famous brand. 3,000. Camels, the cigarette-experienced smokers, are asking for more than ever now. And now, here's Will Hodgburn and the orchestra to take you for a ride on that famous Asheson, Tobica and Santa Fe. But I'm not going to go to that Spanish party. I got a date with my girl, Lena Gensher. And if you don't invite her to go with us, then I ain't going either. But wait a minute, Lena would be out of place just while you're here. Table managers are too disgraceful. Have you ever noticed the way she eats? Yes. I think it's huge the way she slides her lower lip onto a plate in front of the meatball office to get in. That's enough to get about, Lena. Come along with me. It's going to be a wonderful party. I am not going, but you're going to have a wonderful Spanish youth. I am not going. But they're going to have me. But they're going to have 50 luscious brown-eyed Latin American girls. You're talking me into it. Come on, let's get out of here quickly before Lena gets here. If she finds out I'm going to any place without her, there's going to be an awful fight. Costella, don't tell me that you fight with Lena. Obviously I do. Last night we fought tooth and nail. Tooth and nail? Yes. She nailed me in the tooth and knocked out my tooth. Well, you'd better not let her get to you when that's better than Scott's you. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? Wait, wait, wait. Don't get excited. Don't get in that bed and pull the covers over you. Come on, hurry up. I'll tell her you're sick. Go ahead. Okay. We hit a large bucket for Ryan and Gabe, too. Here I am. We break our dates tonight, Lena.  I've got a terrible, devil. I never heard of anyone having that. I'm the only one guy in the world that's got it. There's nothing screwy going on here. You don't look sick to me. What are you doing in bed with your hat on? Oh, that's my hat. Why did you tell me that? Why did you tell me I had to have it on? Oh, my hat. Oh, my hat. Hurry up. Look, look, look. You see, Lena, I always wear my hat in bed because if I happen to dream, I'll make you want to sleep. I want to tip my hat to you. Are you trying to kid me? Come on. Get them out of one of those covers. What are you doing in bed with that Mexican suit on? When you've got the pimple zip, you've got to wear a Mexican suit. The pain comes from south of the border. Lena, Lena, please. You'd better get out of here before Costello gets another attack. Yes. Are you all right? Come on. Yes, I am. Come on out. Take it easy. All right. All right. Take it easy. Oh, please. That's no way to talk about Mr. Raddick. Both of you guys are just in Spanish costume. Flip, Costello. I don't know what you're up to, but I'm taking your car. Oh, Lena, don't do that because I mean I... Get out. Yes, ma'am.   And if that doesn't work, I'll torture you. Now, how are we going to get to the party, Costello? Lena's taking your car. Come on, Adam. We'll go to the next door and see my friend, Scottie Brown. See if you can help us. Scottie's home all right. I see a dim light in there. Yeah. That's his reading lamp. He's got a button full of fireflies. Ring the bell, Costello. Ring it off the buzzer and you're using up the electricity. Oh, it's you, laddie. I'd invite you in, but I'm afraid you'll frighten the mice. I've gotten a dining room. I hate to lose those mice. They save me a lot of money. Scottie, how can a mice take your money? Well, you see, laddie, my wife is scared to death of them and she hasn't been downstairs for her meals in three weeks. Look, Scottie, we've got to get out to the Latin American Embassy for a big party and Costello's car is gone. Could you drive us there, please? I'm very sorry, laddie, but I'll only drive the car on Saturday night. Why only on Saturday night? Oh, there's no sense in heating up the water and the radiator unless you can use it in the bathtub. Well, come on, Costello. We've got to get going. We'll be late. Hey, what time is it by your watch, Scottie? I beg your pardon. I thought you liked that. He thought you wouldn't even give us the time. Never mind him, Costello. Hey, here comes the car cruising down the street. We'll form a ride. Come on. Yeah, hey, it looks like a cute babe driver. Hey, she's going to stop, have a s**t up in your lip. I'll lift you right off the ground with an oppercut. Hey, it's too easy. It's too easy. Just sit me again. Hey, Connie, hey. Tonight, Connie sings a new ballad filled on a couple of words everyone likes to say.  Oh, I've had a number, Ken, and one of the best was named Experian. Ah, wise words, fair lady. Old man Ease of the Fable King said the same thing in ancient Greece way back some 3,000 years ago. Tuning in on Ease if we hear of Experian is the best teaching. And how that was proved when camels were hard to get. You know, during the war, it was the service first with camels. And even though production was breaking all records, the civilian demand just couldn't be met in full. Well, smokers tried more different brands than they'd ordinarily experienced in a lifetime. Seems kind of like they found that nothing takes the place of the rich, full flavor and cool mildness of the costlier tobacco found in that cigarette cauld. C-A-S-B-L-S. Camels. For today, more people want camels than ever before in the history of this famous brand. Tostello has outwitted Lena Genster again.  And we find the two of them arriving at the party at the Latin American Embassy. The hostess is greeting the guests at the door. Ah, good evening, gentlemen. Come right here. Thank you, senora. I am Don Pascuali Fernandez. Ah. I am Don Jose Miguelito. Ah. I am Senor Boratis. Ah. And I am Senor Lucas Solz. Who is the Solz Spanish onion? Oh, you may see himself. I am Senora Carmenita Lolita, the creator of Musqueater. And I have you know that we Musqueaters are a big family in South America. You're even a bigger family in New Jersey. You must meet some of the Tangerineses. Ah, here comes Balí. Ah, he is making one day blue. Tonight, he's coming out. He's halfway out already. Then my lovely needs to do. Ah, good evening, my handsome Americanos. Senorita Rosita Margarita Musquita. Now here's the Musqueater. I'd like to buzz around with her. Oh, I like you too. Oh, I have seen you many times in the movie Pictures. Do you really know who I am? Who could ever forget little funky things? That's all folks. The orchestra is about to play a rumba. No thanks, Rosita. The floor is too crowded. But what is the crowded floor to do with it? There's no fun doing a rumba when you can only take your head. That's your needs. Take a walk on the Ferenda, Rosita. Hey, that's a good idea, Castello. I'll go with you. On your way, Abbot, please, to the crowd. I want to talk to Rosita alone. All right, talk to her. Abbot, I mean all alone. Just the two of us. Get out. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me get this right. You mean you want me to go? Oh, this kid is really sharp. Come, sit here with me on the bench and sing your Spanish song. You speak Spanish, don't you? Oh, we read. But why waste time singing? I just want to sit here with you. Uh-huh. You like me, see? Yeah, he sees things. He sees, yeah. He sees things. Bonus knapsacks and hasty bananas. I think you like you, too, senor. Maybe we were drawn together by that. Look at your script, that's fate. Look at you, that's that. Please don't talk, Rosita. It's too wonderful sitting here in silence. You are so lovely, so exciting. You smell of roses and magnolias. Thank you, senor.  I've got to get me some Spanish writers. Rosita, I have something I would like to ask you. But I don't know how to say it. Oh, go ahead, senor. Think what is in your heart. Okay, Rosita. What are you doing Saturday night? Oh, I'm nothing. Then can I borrow your soap to smelly time? Oh, senor, you're so cute. You're for that. I am going to give you a knife.   Senor, you have kissed my sweetheart and insult my good name. I am Don San Francisco, Seno de San Luis Obispo, San Diego, San Bernardino. When you come to Clamble, I'll cut off. Another insult.  Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? You can use a joke right here. Trial and trine, trine. When we started this argument, I was just a pig. I challenge you to the duel. I will meet you on the field around 5 o'clock in the morning to avenge this stolen kiss. I just feel a kiss? Then what is that red stuff on your lips? That is tomato juice. Tomato juice? Yes, from a little South American tomato. That is enough. I will duel you at 5. I will give you the choice to thaw your pistols.  If I was a skunk, I wouldn't need thaw your pistols. Well, here's a dueling deal, cut fellow. You certainly got yourself into a mess this time. Don San Francisco is a great pistol shot. Have it. I can't go through with this deal. Look at me. I'm all nervous and shaky. I can't help it. I walked the floor all last night. I know.  Well, that's silly, cut fellow. I don't want to fight somebody. Well, you do like I do. When I can't get to sleep, I just breathe my feet in the air and let that blood rush to my head. I tried that. It's no good. No sleep? No blood.  We've been waiting for you. I'm the referee of this dueling match. Let me introduce myself. I am Senior Mellon Head. I've seen your Mellon Head around here before.   I resent that remark, cut fellow. I was in bed at 8 o'clock last night with my head resting on my pillow.  Certainly. How do you keep it from sliding off? Cut fellow, what's the matter with you? Mellon Head is the referee of the duel. He's here to help you. That's right, you're fellow. I came here to give you first choice of the dueling pistols. I don't need any pistols. I put my own gun. See, this is the rifle my great grandfather used in the Revolutionary War. It uses flint and powder and shoots iron balls. Ah, you dummy, that old blunderbuss won't work. Yes, it will. Yes, it will. All I do is just strike the flint on the powder. The powder ignites and the iron ball blows out the end of the barrel. Now, watch this. See?  Oh, doctor, settle down. This is Lucas Fellow. All right, Mr. Cicciolo. Let's get right on with the examination. First, I would like to take your temperance. Your temperance. Your temperance. Deppichess? No, billfold. And now I'd like to have you open your mouth. Open your mouth. Open your mouth. Mouth? No, shirt.  Well, you look all right for me, Civill. Now, let's get on with the duel. I gotta get home.  You're gonna jump?  Yeah. Ha, ha, ha. We're gonna get stood together. All right, all right, Cicciolo. Take your place. The duel is about to start. Just a moment, now. How tall are you, Cicciolo? Twice for two. Oh, thank you. Now I can go ahead and dig the hole. Ha, ha, ha. What's with the rabbit? Do you hear that? Yeah, it is. It's too late now, Cicciolo. Here comes John San Francisco's second. Oh, everything, gentlemen. I have bad news. Don San Francisco is unable to duel this morning. Ah, ha, ha, ha. This morning, why, he's snuttin' but a yellow tower, a sneak and penny way. I knew he wouldn't come out here face to me. Why, he's snuttin' but a... A pain? A phony. That is a lie, Cicciolo. Don San Francisco was taken to the hospital this morning with a severe case of people default. Tiffle, tiffle. Now I know he's a phony. Because there's one phony to another. There's no such thing as tiffle, tiffle. Oh, so there's no such thing as tiffle division. I just made it up to pull my girl either. That's injustice. And now, this week's salute in the new series of salutes to the men who won the victory. Tonight, we salute the gallant crew of the aircraft carrier enterprise which has traveled more than 275,000 war miles and raced 18 out of 22 possible Pacific theater stars. In your honor, men of the enterprise, the makers of camels are sending to your fellow servicemen overseas 500,000 camel cigarettes. Camel radio shows us honors the different units of the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guards. A total of a million camels sent free each week. Camel broadcasts go out to the United States twice a week. 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The world needs more hypocrites. We need more people who are willing to make audacious claims about the way the world should be and less people content with the way that it is. The world needs more hypocrites. More people willing to try for an ideal that asks us to give more than we have. To become more than we are to challenge our sense of entitlement and to place us in a position where we are no longer seeking moments of pleasure but instead a life of sacrifice. An ideal like this is a hard one to accept. It is a difficult life to live because it is foolish.  But the world needs more hypocrites.


Hi, I'm Christian the lead bike mechanic at Purefix. Pro bike cases are great. They keep your bike really safe But it can be quite expensive We're gonna make your own travel box with some simple packing supplies and a few tools Does this assemble your bike on this episode of Purefix garage? If you go to your local bike shop and ask nicely They'll probably keep a bike box from shipping for free Tell them to keep all the packaging materials that came inside so that you can use them on your bike If they don't have any you can go to a hardware store and get some basic plumbing insulation just like this to protect your frame If you can't score one from a shop, don't worry. They sell them online pretty cheap The first thing we're gonna do before disassembling the bike is to make sure that the top tube and the down tube are protected Cut the plumbing insulation in size tape it or zip tie it into place Use your allen wrench to take off the front of the stem and remove the handlebars Now put the headset back in place so you don't lose anything Once removed add some bubble wrap to your handlebars take the brake cable and the handlebar Tuck them behind the frame and secure Okay, these aren't going anywhere next we're gonna remove our pedals if you use grease while installing these they should be No problem coming off. I'm gonna use the proper tool, which is a pedal rinse to remove these Putting the wrench on if you pedal backwards the pedals will come off Now you're gonna wrap these in some bubble wrap so they don't bang around in the box Now remove your front wheel using a 15 millimeter wrench Once the front wheel is removed go ahead and wrap any exposed parts with bubble wrap or pipe insulation We don't want anything on this baby getting scratched Next step remove the seat and seat post and let's go ahead and wrap those with bubble wrap, too Now let's start putting this in the box start with the frame and the rear wheel assembly that you have right here Here's a tip Cut yourself some extra pieces of cardboard to cover up the axles so they don't poke through the box during shipping Make sure everything else in the box is secure and add any pipe insulation and or bubble wrap until you think it's all good Now this part's important make sure all the tools and supplies you use for shipping are inside the box So when you get to your destination you can build your bike It's also gonna aid you in packaging it back up to send it home Once you've got it all together and everything's in the box. We're gonna tape it up securely for shipping I like to write my name on the outside of the box just in case This is a simple and cheap way to travel with your bike But you should first check with your airlines because sometimes it's cheaper to ship your bike to the destination Rather than to travel with it. However, the packaging will be the same If you have any questions about this episode drop a comment below or hit us up on social media Thanks again for checking out purefix garage Make sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos on how to keep your bike in tip-top shape Keep the rubber side down and I'll see you next time


I'm a co-founder and CTO of Fiji Networks and someone who has been working on FIER Open Source for a very long time. I started by staying in Anayana city in Aarasi Falls, if you guys would have heard about it. So that was where I started and learned my ropes and we've been doing this for 7-8 years now and I don't know what else we're doing and stuff like that. So quickly moving on to the agenda of the day and the first thing I wanted to convey is how difficult it is to get something on the cloud which works with scales and it seamlessly scales at any point of time without getting hands-on dirty with the underlying technologies of the cloud. And a lot of vendors have tried to make life simpler for a lot of customers as in like people have started updating a lot of ecosystems around their public clouds and so on. So while that may serve as a quick getaway for you to get your POC done very quickly, in the long run it has its own certain challenges. So unless you understand it fully and navigate it correctly, you can potentially have a bit of a challenge in scaling up and so on. And one of the biggest things is the interoperability on the cloud. So essentially your workloads cannot be guaranteed to run across the cloud and so on. So there's no standard, there's no interface, there's no API gateway of sorts where you can just pipe in your workload into an interface and it runs across multiple clouds, nothing like that. And of course Bracken is there, they're in our survey and they have found out that the vendor lock-in on public clouds is one of the key concerns for a lot of players out there. Now what we are trying to answer and probably ask a few more questions myself is to how to do this scaling without essentially being hampered in any way by the underlying technologies and essentially being portable enough and be stable enough to be able to go this way. And let's look at the overall concern for a lot of people with cloud agnosticism. One of the big challenges with cloud native is that when you have really large deployments, you cannot control costs. So that is some of the challenges that you have because you have a challenge in essentially being able to do a lot of cost because once you start scaling, the underlying resources potentially become infinite in the sense that they spin up like a lot of instances and you're not able to control your costs at a very reasonable rate of life. So there has been quite a few studies on how to get this balance right. And of course any cloud native services including that which is provided by AWS, RGCE or anything, there are some absolutely critical stuff that probably no one can avoid to some extent. And if you get that, you should be able to still do that. But then what we also want you to do is essentially be able to convert the rest of the 80% of the cloud native infrastructure into a standalone cloud agnostic infrastructure which essentially runs multi-cloud. So you could essentially go to a dedicated server provider, someone in the U.S. and try and get those bare metal boxes along with your container workloads across different locations and so on. So typically there has been like a lot of studies. I am not quoting those papers actually here but you can potentially see savings of up to 40% is what a lot of studies have proven just by going cloud agnostic with a minimum of a cloud native.  Let's get into the actual technology on when to scale, how to scale, what to scale right. So that is the most important question. Of course I think in this day and age this slide should be remembered in time. Everyone knows there is an equivalent for every service out there right. It's just that there is some time and effort involved in getting that done. So name any technology for any cloud native service you obviously have like an open source and a free and open source equivalent. For example you take Lambda which is one of the sophisticated pieces of engineering you have IBM best. So that point is new. So you have all the technology in the world for every cloud native services that are available. So let's get back to the most pressing question of the day for me. So what do you scale when you scale and why do you scale if at all that matters. And it's also important to understand what cannot be scaled right. One of the biggest mistakes that we all make is that we essentially assume everything is scalable, which cannot be further from the truth for anyone who has seen production workloads and massive amounts of traffic coming in when there has been let's say exponential traffic rays and so on. So you could go viral, you could get on Reddit in just a matter of minutes, some celebrating which tweet you and they bring it like a humongous amount of traffic to your site. So meaning you would prepare for that how do you do that and all those are the questions we want you to answer. So first things first one of the key challenges is to how to get the right box. If you do not have the right box no matter what kind of scaling technology you have it will fail. So it will fail no matter what kind of container is micro services you have, no matter what kind of auto scaling groups or your app engine everything will fail. Simply because you do not have the bare minimum item pertinent unit which can run that request on its own. So the first thing you need to define is what does it take for my application to run a particular request. Let's say 10 requests after self what's the minimum unit of compute and memory and whatever IOPS that I require to run that. Unless you solve this question it's not wise to start scaling. So that is the first thing you have to do and you also have to overcome it on a per box basis. And this is like again you have to do some statistical analysis to find out how much do I overcome it keeping my overall budget in mind. But typically what I would recommend is 20 to 30% overcoming on a per box basis actually helps. The reason is it's actually so good to get carried away by the term called scaling that you stop making all these decisions. No matter what technology you use there is still an inherent latency in getting that new node up, right?  You talk to their architects they will actually recommend that you give some buffer times just to get the node out. And even let's say you go so fast and say look I can spin up like 1000 doctor instances in no time but that still takes time. Right? You can spin 1000 instances that's like the most easiest piece of infrastructure code that you can write. But there is still a finite microsecond latency and you cannot sacrifice your users for that amount of time. So it's still very very common sensible to make sure that you have over committed on a per box basis to just ensure that you have that buffer till your backup plan kicks in. Well whatever array of technology that you have written and code that you have written to take care of that scale. So it's very important to that. And network planning is again super important. So I cannot emphasize this enough. People make mistakes here. I've seen like people under provisioned bandwidth. I think people are not set up to not get with the right way and so on. So how many of you know Atlastian Hitchat? Some of you might have heard about it. So they went down massively because that gateway bandwidth was low. Something like that happened. Of course, you knock on the true extent. This is what they shared as an RCA but you cannot over emphasize the network setup to revive. I've seen people set up encryption between DPCs. That's so ridiculous. DPCs are always supposed to be encrypted.  So this is why I have this game. Make your side decisions, make your network decisions right. So that you're not sacrificing. Even when you scale, you should be able to absorb those stuff. Now the traditional model of scale tells you that you need to monitor a lot of metrics from your monitoring system. Set up very, very fancy data pipelines, Kafka, all that and monitor every metric that you can possibly get. But that cannot be further from the truth. So you have boxes with load averages of 10 and 15 running very, very smoothly without any challenges. Because the number of cores itself are like 72 cores and so on. So who cares about a load average of 15 and more? So you need to get the actual data that counts. And for an end user, if you talk to a business guy in your organization, he will tell you that the browser error that someone sees something going wrong in your website is the single biggest differentiator for the user. If the average page load times are high, the user's bombs, if there is a 504, you get tweeted out on a major sale that cannot be good publicity at all. So the finite x errors and the page load times and surprisingly, surprisingly people still haven't figured out the TTFU problem in this day and age. That is still true.  But if you look at still the major size, they still have that problem. And the first back is still on the higher side. So these kinds of things are or should be your triggers to scale, right? Not the typical monitoring method. So you should have more attention being put into finite tools for a finite force, finite trees and all this stuff, preferably Elastolars, the TLKs and so on, which can pump in notifications whenever they see a pattern of high load, high latency and so on. So that is the most important thing. And again, this is one of the big questions that you have to answer. What is the mode of scaling that you want? Whether you want the proactive method where you essentially take a look, there is a huge sale going to come in. And I'm just going to over provision all my instances by a factor of one or factor of two, right? Just double my instances. I can get over the sale, but the unit economics is not going to help, right? So you inherently assume like a lot of stuff here. Like for example, you assume that there will be latency in getting new instances, right? No matter what kind of technology you use. And you also assume that there will be some warming of problems. See, no matter what speed you spin up a load, you still need to spend some time in getting it up to speed, ensure that some of the caches are built and so on. And before it can be actually predictive.  So that is one of the challenges of scaling. You will end up making the problem more back than what you started out to actually fix, right? So that has to be, you have to assume all these things, right? And typically this, you have to have this massive segregation in your architecture on what is scalable and what is not scalable. Once you have the determination, you should be able to answer this very easily. And basically like, again, you make that slightly machine learning stuff where you can set up your data pipelines, assume rapid provisioning using containers where typically like in less than, let's say a second you have a new container and do like a probabilistic offset where you always have 20% spare capacity on containers. Anyways, you are over committing on CPU and RAM.  Like forget about those monitoring alerts which come in with respect to your, let's say your natural ZappX and all that. Those don't help at all. That's one single piece of advice if you like that I would like to say here. Don't trust them. Trust the newest data pipelines. Look at your ALKs. Look at your Comet DSLs, Bafanas and so on. They are making much more sense. Sensor is again making a lot of sense today. And it's also interesting to understand what cannot be stayed. For example, your DB, no matter what kind of help you have, you cannot scale that. In an instant, you can max add a few slams, basically delay the actual onset of the big problem, but you cannot solve the DB challenges just like that. It would require patience. It would require a lot of re-architecturing, do a lot of sharting. Even if you have to do, let's say, multi-master replication without your UIDs in your application, you cannot do that on the sky. One fine day your product engineer comes in and says, tonight I want this master-master replication. It does not work. You will be in a serious soup if you think you can get away with DB scaling like that. You cannot do that. So it's important to understand that these things require patience and planning. That is it. If you understand that, then you are fine. And again, networks take up like I told you before. So we have seen instances where someone was actually getting bottlenecked on various lookups, because they were doing like millions of lookups to update their customer apps with location data for their own regions, weather data for the customer's region, and so on. Millions of request per second. The deal is quite short. And the entire info was fine. So then we had to set up things like unbound and so on, which can do millions of requests per second without a strike. So those are the kind of things that you have to benchmark, run siege, and stuff like that to ensure that you understand what you have to do. And this is how a typical cloud diagnostic infrastructure looks like. So you have a lot of incoming. Everything is dominated on the firewall and the HEPROXY basically. You essentially have your own HEPROXYs. That should be the single entry point. Anything else fails. First thing, I always say, run HEPROXYs, no matter what kind of traffic you have, it is a stateless traffic, stateful traffic, UDP traffic, whatever it is, just TCP traffic, just running HEPROXY. It takes care of connection management. That overhead is taken off.  So once you do that, it's just essentially building simple microservices using even bare metal or your doctorized infrastructure. For example, I would say the bottom layer here, this typically goes into your pre-provision machines with good IOPS and so on. And this top layer, of course, this is like a simple, simple web and API kind of a setup. But the more complex it gets, the more microservices you have. And this is what typically is stressed in a typical high-scale scenario. If you have a major, major issue in this layer, then you need to go back to your application. That cannot be scaled. Inherently, it cannot be scaled. Although you can manage by doing over-provisioning, setup massive systems, people setup one terabyte RAM boxes, just load everything onto MySQL. You can do those things, but it's inherently not scalable unless you spend that kind of dollars to type out whatever traffic that you have. But the good state problem is here. If you are able to, sorry, I did something. So basically, the good scale problem is here. If you are able to convert all your scaling challenges to this layer, then you are going to give up. If anything else is kind of there, then you essentially need to re-architect your application, figure out what to be done and so on. And this is a slightly low resolution. So this is again that big segmentation I was talking about.  For example, your VAP deployments, your firewalls, or even your major DB deployments and so on. This cannot be changed. Sorry if I have to read this out. Load height of change, high cost of change, and load tolerance for disruption. Changing DB to a sharded mechanism or a master-master-setup mechanism. It's not going to be without its own downtime. And how much downtime you can afford in a production environment, it's always a subject to question. And the app-specific network of the app part of it is what you need to be having maximum maturity with. High weight of change, low cost, and you can potentially have high tolerance of disruption because all these are essentially of the paradigm no single point of failure, and every instance or a container is a pro-way instance.  That is the entire idea behind designing an app-specific network which is of high agility. And how do you get this balance done is, again, there are some very specific open source tools Of course, there are other completing open source technology is very similar to this, but this is something that we have had very, very good results with. And it supports all the container orchestration platforms of today. For example, Kubernetes is, I don't want to flame anyone here, but it looks like that's the one slightly ahead in the race. Although MeSource is also getting quite popular, but Kubernetes is something that a lot of people are betting their next-gen products as far as a lot of public cloud providers are concerned. I'm not talking about hobbyists like me and most of us who are slow, but a lot of public cloud providers are providing betting their stuff on this. And it provides a lot of infrastructure services in terms of your service discovery where you don't have to write Ansible scripts just to add a node to the HF proxy. So those days are gone by. Now, what you need is the moment a node comes up, there should be auto-discovery, service discovery, write the DNS names for that, route traffic to that and automatically detect if that container or whatever goes down. So that is the new paradigm. No one is writing scripts anymore to do manual stuff anymore. So service discovery, load balancing layer, and it also provides an overlay network which you can secure using encryption as well if you want. And it runs essentially on Linux bare metals and you can hook it up with any of the cloud. So essentially you can be truly multi-cloud using this kind of an approach. And again, being multi-cloud, you need to be again prepared for how are you going to handle latency in your data stores across geographical regions. Some of the data stores are very, very amenable to cross geographical replication and so on. For example, Moco is something that a lot of people do. You can run on different continents and it still works very decently. But you have to be very, very careful about what data stores you choose for that kind of a cross geographical replication to ensure that you have a true multi-cloud requirement. So again, Rancher also has a good set of catalogs. So essentially you can set up something like a Parcona extra DP cluster in no time. It's just a single click, just select the number of containers you want and you're on. So you can build your catalogs, you can build your microservices approach and you can scale it up. So what Rancher automatically does for you is it monitors the health of each and every container which is something that Docker has solved recently but that was a very big concern area for Docker deployments. How do I monitor my containers? What do I do if they go down? How do I write those detection algorithms and so on? So Rancher essentially solves all of them along with using a HF proxy for your health checks and so on so that it detects if a container is under due rest and kills them and restarts another container if required so that your application does not lose sense of the hold of this constant.  Right, so this is one simple multi-cloud deployment that we have. So two instances are AWS and one on Google. So these are the three containers I'm running. I'm running a Google container and a Postgres container. If you can see this, this is actually split between these two boxes. So you can set container affinity rules. For example, you can say that this particular microservice will go into, let's say Azure, this particular microservice will go into AWS or whatever. This particular microservice will go or this particular thing cannot even be a microservice. It will be a traditional VM and it will go into a bare metal with a huge amount of IOPS that I have in VM, ASSG, whatever it is. So there are essentially a school of thought that says that some applications shouldn't be containerized, right? So although that's like a very divisive topic. So the school of thought which says everything that can run on a VM can run on a container but there's a school of thought which conservatively says that look, everything should not be containerized. So with that in mind, you can design your application to again, if I have to go back to this. So this entire region is going to be your containerized microservices infrastructure. So having 562 microservices these days for a major deployment is no big deal. People have like hundreds of microservices with different cross-functional teams like handling each one of them and so on. And this is where the most of the action is going to be when a scaling challenge happens, okay? And yeah, this is my summary and we should go for cloud agnostic deployment from the cloud for cost efficiency and also performance improvements because the moment you get built down and run into the bare metal you have a lot of scope for further optimization into it. And for scaling up your app layer, our recommendation is to use microservices for doing this and have new edge metrics like I said, not the traditional monitoring measures follow methods. And the future is going to be any truly web-scale deployment is going to be a mighty zone and mighty cloud, right? You just cannot escape that even if you don't want to, you will be forced to do that. So essentially you have to be prepared for mighty zone and mighty cloud deployments across mighty public cloud. So that is how the deployments are going to be. Time Vimran, we have five minutes for, we have a couple of minutes actually for Q&A. So if you have a question please raise your hand, we'll come to you with a mic and then we can ask you as well. Two questions I have. First one is you're talking about those microservices in the apps architecture, right? So it's a general problem, right? As long as all my communication stays within the box pretty faster, right? Once I disintegrated into multiple microservices and running independently then I have to fit the network model. So is there something that you guys have thought about, like how to disintegrate it? So one simple ways that this congestion happens is typically you have not provisioned enough IOPS on your boxes. So a lot of the times it's actually not network bandwidth but the actual local IOPS bandwidth that you have which becomes the bottleneck for containers across boxes to be able to communicate to each other. And the second challenge is if containers are talking to each other directly, that's an overhead. So which is why what Rancher does and what we also do in our deployments is that every entry point to a microservice should be a load balancer, right? You should not be using one more container service to route request to so on and so on. That should be avoided fully to solve this bottleneck problem. Because Hitchcock C is the one you can pump it like millions of requests literally and it will not take a strike. So every entry point into let's say you have 60 microservices, every entry point to every microservice should be a load balancer with Hitchcock C. So that typically solves the problem. But in practice what we have done is like we deploy our infrastructure on 10 main networks, right? And with enough IOPS on a per-doctor basis which is why again that sizing decision came, what's the good box? So in doctor context you also have to understand what's the good box at a bare metal level where you have to have enough provisioned IOPS.  So you need to decide those things and once you get that box and once you have those entry points in your Hitchcock C as a load balancer, typically works out well. Sure, sure, sure, let's do that. In other words the last one which you said, multi-cloud, you also said multi-zone. Is there any specific reason you want to highlight multi-zone? Multi-zone is see the least we want people to be able to do is at least do multi-zone deployment for DR reasons and so on. That is not escapable at all. But multi-cloud is essentially how it is going to be and if you want to be multi-cloud you have to be agnostic. You cannot put your workloads from one cloud to the other just like that. Multi-zone is generally a safer application. Exactly, exactly. So that is like the low-hanging fruit. If you cannot go cloud agnostic today, go multi-zone. That will essentially like highlight challenges in your architecture on where is my bottleneck with cross geographical replication and so on. And then you can go through in multi-cloud. Thanks.


Nice and easy again. The flowing chain reaction system, it'll be a good day, it'll get hot again closer to noon. We're trying to beat the heat, we're always out early, so we're just gonna get set up and we will get this thing rolling right at the start time. So day two, it's all looking good. Hopefully you're gonna like watching all the behind the scenes. We've got a lot of cool stuff coming, so check it out. Okay, so day two, we are at our break. We've gone two hours, everybody. Two hours we find is always like drill overload. We've just been grinding, we've been using our drill bands. Again, kids look good, the heat is kicking up, this is why we start early. Look at how they all loaded up onto the ball of their foot. So throwers and coaches, remember? I've actually learned a lot. If you look at the throw as a whole, it's really intimidating, you know, like what do you just move around? If you cut it out into what Coach calls the six pillars, you can attack each pillar and try and master those pillars and connect them. But I wanna say you guys did a great job. Okay, give yourselves a hand because you guys worked hard and thank you guys for coming out. Remember the process, take your time, work hard, be patient. If you cut short and do what you're doing, it's gonna shorten up too much. So Arizona camp in the books, camp one of 10. Gonna be busy June. I hope you're gonna enjoy all the behind the scenes, so check it out. Be sure to check out our next videos. Be sure to subscribe. Visit our website for free videos. Click the links below. We have links to our free mini course. Check out our websites for camps and different detailed information. Throw farther faster by understanding the science with the Throwing Chain Reaction System. Thanks so much for watching.


Hey guys, welcome back to Six Sisters Stuff. Today I'm going to talk a little bit about how to make your food last a little bit longer and how to save you more money. So I'm Kristen. I am sister number two out of the Six Sisters. So a lot of times food goes bad in the refrigerator. And so these are a few tips and tricks to help your food not go bad and so they'll last a little bit longer through the week or a few weeks. Before we get started, don't forget subscribe to our channel and push that little bell so you can get all of our notifications on YouTube. Alright, on to the hacks. Number one, make sure that you separate your fruits and vegetables. There are some enzymes in your fruits that can make your vegetables go bad and same with your vegetables to your fruits. So always make sure that they are nice and separated. Number two, milk actually has a spot in the refrigerator. Although they have made a spot that will actually fit your milk in the fridge. That's not where you want to put it. You want to put your milk in the very bottom shelf of the refrigerator. It will stay colder and last longer. Believe it or not, bread is not supposed to go in the fridge. Despite everything that you've heard, it actually is supposed to stay in either a bread box or on your counter somewhere cold, somewhere dark, but not in your fridge. When it gets too cold, the yeast in there makes it go still a little bit faster. So if you're not going to use your whole loaf of bread, which as a family of six, believe it or not, we're not huge bread eaters, so we don't eat the whole loaf in one week. So I will take half of the loaf, put it in a Ziploc bag and shove it in the freezer. And then the rest of the loaf I'll put in the pantry so we can eat it later throughout the week. Clean your refrigerator. Now as silly as that sounds, if you think about it, your fridge is kind of a disgusting place. And if you're like me, there's usually crumbs, leftovers, all kinds of stuff that can easily leak out or spill. And if you're not cleaning those up quickly, they can grow mold, they can grow stuff that you don't even know is there. So be sure to do a good cleaning of your fridge every few weeks so that the food in your fridge can actually stay fresh longer and won't go bad so quickly. Number five. You're not necessarily going to make your items last longer, but they might save some of your food. So be sure to always put your meat in the bottom level because one, that's where it's the coldest, just like the milk. And two, just in case, I mean, you've had it happen that the meat drips down a little bit, it won't drip on all your other food making you get rid of everything. So make sure meat, bottom level. There you go. Number six. Check your refrigerator and freezer temperatures. Now if your fridge is too cold, lots of times you'll have frozen items in the back of your fridge, such as lettuce, that kind of stuff. Once those go frozen, you got to chuck them, which is horrible. Be sure to check your temperature. If it's not cold enough, you'll notice that your food is getting moldy or going bad before it's supposed to. So always be sure, check your temperature, see how it is. Number seven. When you have leftovers, be sure that you use ziplock containers or airtight containers. Many times, you'll get a plate, you cover it with saran wrap or foil and just like that, you have stuff leaking out. So just to make your life a little bit easier, ziplocks and airtight containers will be lifesavers for you. Just like your milk and your meat, you never want to put eggs in the side door because that's an uneven temperature, your eggs can go bad rather quickly. So be sure that you keep those on your bottom level or second to bottom. The closer they are to the bottom, the better. But make sure they're not in the door. Number nine. Watch your expiration dates. So when you're shopping, be sure to make sure you're getting the expiration date that is the furthest away. Your food will last a little bit longer and also when you're buying dry items, if you have multiple items, say in your pantry or in your refrigerator, be sure that you're using the expiration date that will expire first. So the other ones that are going to be waiting, they won't expire while they're sitting on your shelf. Number 10. Don't overstock your refrigerator. Your refrigerator needs room. It needs air to keep everything cold. It's kind of like your dishwasher. If you fill your dishwasher to the max, it actually, they don't get cleaned very well. Your refrigerator is exactly the same. So say that your mayonnaise is stuck in between tons and tons of stuff. Well, guess what?  So make sure when you do a grocery haul or anything like that, be sure that you have room in your refrigerator. Over the years, I've looked at a ton of items, a ton of things, a tons of tips and tricks, and I'll be honest, some of them don't work for me, such as putting plastic on the end of your banana. I'm sorry. It just doesn't work. They still go bad the same amount of time, but there is one that does work and it's wrapping your celery or your broccoli in foil. Many times your broccoli is all flimsy by the time you get to it. But if you put it in foil, it actually makes it crisp and good by the time you get to it. Number 12, these are your berries. Now I've done a lot of research on it. I've seen some people that they take out their berries out of their containers and put them in Ziploc bags, but then I've also seen other research that shows, no, that doesn't work. So I tried it myself. I had two bags of raspberries. One I kept the container that had the air holes and the moisture pad at the bottom of it. And I put one, dried them off, put them in the Ziploc baggie. I'll tell you what, the Ziploc baggie got moldy so much faster than the one with air holes. So I highly suggest when you get your berries, just leave them right there. Stick them in your fridge. Or if you're not going to get to them in a few days, throw them into your freezer. Put them in a Ziploc bag and put them right into your freezer. And then when you're ready to eat them, let them thaw out. We've all had the browned avocado or guacamole because they just don't last. They last as soon as you cut them open. But there are a few tips and tricks. I use Pam. This is a canola oil Pam. The olive oil one works a little bit better. But you can either spray your guacamole with a little bit of Pam. Or if you just have an avocado, make sure your pit is in and you can do a brush a little bit of lemon juice on it and it will help it stay greener much longer. Now I know a lot of you don't like mushrooms. My husband doesn't like mushrooms, but that is one of my most favorite foods. So number 14 is pack your mushrooms correctly. So they come in these little, for me, blue or brown plastic container covered with plastic on top. Well, the mushrooms actually need some air to breathe. And so when they're covered with plastic, they can get slimy and moldy pretty quick. So they suggest using a brown paper bag. I'm kind of weird about brown paper bags, not my favorite. So I put mine in Ziploc baggies, zip them up and throw them in the freezer until I'm ready to use them. They work perfectly. Number 15. If you have salad that you would like to keep through the whole entire week, sometimes two weeks depending on when your expiration date is, make sure you put a paper towel down first and then put your lid on top of your salad.  Number 16. There are certain fruits and vegetables that can be left out on the counter. Now I highly suggest putting your tomatoes and your cucumbers on the counter. They will last so much longer and they will actually hold their flavor and texture like they're supposed to. If you stick them in the fridge, especially the tomatoes, their texture just goes horrible. And last number 17. I just want to share with you my list of all of my favorite things to freeze. Here they are. So this is the fruit that I love to freeze. Now I usually peel them, slice them, put them in a plastic baggie and freeze them. So you can see strawberries, blueberries, bananas just for smoothies because they go brown, kiwis, peaches, plums and apricots. Now these are the vegetables I freeze. There are other ones you can do but these are the ones I use. So I just freeze my mushrooms and onions, my corn and peppers I just put in a zip lock baggie and throw in my mashed potatoes. I put in an airtight container, put the lid on and stick that in the freezer. Thank you so much for stopping by today on Six Sister Stuff. If you love my tips and tricks, be sure to give me a big thumbs up and I would love if you could share it with all of your friends. Alright guys, I hope you have a great day. I'll see you later.


So I made up this power supply. Now this is, let's just disconnect this here for a minute. So it's coming from the variable transformer, the variator, and into this transformer via a current mesh limiter. And that's got two outputs on it. It's good for 24, 0, 24 or 48 volt AC. So what I've done is I've used a switch here and just set it up so I can switch between 24 volts or 48 volts. So if the switch is over towards here, it's on 24 volts. If it's here, it's on 0, and here 48 volts on the AC. It's not quite that amount because the maximum I can put in here is 60 volts DC. So I've set this up so that at the minute, because I can use the variac, the adjustable transformer should say, variac's a brand name, like Hoover and Bucking Queen. Then things nickled me, sorry. Are you sort of a friend who gets something about his jeep and how he was having these troubles with his jeep and all this? And then he, does he bring it around and give it a look at it? Because I've got a couple of jeeps, a couple of Jeep Cherokees. Well, at least I used to have them. And he brought this foxhole frontier around. And I said, mate, look, that's my jeep. That's a foxhole frontier. That's why I have problems. Anyway, I digress. I know one person will laugh out there at that. The variable variac transformer, the variable AC transformer, rooting. So at the minute, I've got it set up. So it's got just under 200 volts. I don't even see the bottom down there. It's got just under 200 volts, which means that on the output of this tops, I've got 54 volts on the DC. I'm using this today because I can plug it in to my power supply up there, which runs off the batteries of the solar panel. And as we've got some solar out there today, I can even put my line on if I want to look at that fancy. Just leave it on. I'm not going to worry about power, even though it does say over there, look, it's using 80 million to attend that light off. Not a lot of difference, let's keep it on. Yeah.  I could probably get a bit lower, but it's just a hand and that's good for like 90 volts. Anyway, so I've put a diode in there, six amp. Don't really know if that's needed at all. I think it's just going to be somewhere there to use heat. We've got voltage truck across there and we had like 0.7 volts or something. And that's going to be a few watts from it. Let's not put a bit of power through that. So the transformer itself is a 160V. That's the four voltage in, you know, tuning 40 volts and going for 48 AC out. So that sort of works out of about three and a third amps through that. At the 48 volts, try and get the 160UVA. What's it like? Right. Yeah. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to just connect this to this and see if it's powers this. Just see what happens. But this is the bit I don't know what it's going to do. I mean if I like it, it shouldn't blow up or anything. But you never know. And I'm going to start it on the low setting as well. I'll bleed this off now quick with this resistor. I'll just put it across the terminals and bleed it off down to zero. And then do that and come back when I've just connected up to the V's converter. So I can't. I've already got one amp, two amps. Okay, so I forgot to actually put this one down. So I took the silly diode out because I really don't know what it's there for anyway. So I'm just going to wire this into this. Okay, so on this meter here then is what's here because I'll just follow these wires to these two probes. And then on this meter here is what's going to be on here set to zero at the minute. And it's on DC of course. So we've got 26 volts there and 56 volts on the output. And if I switch this, we've got 54 volts going in and we've still got 56 volts on the output. And we've got just under 200 volts going in coming out of the variable transformer and going into this transformer here just otherwise would have had 48 volts. You should have worked out to be more 80 volts, which is no good for this. And this works. And it shows down there that we've got a 56.5 volts coming in. So now what we're going to do is connect it up to this little slayer. Just before I connect it up. I just noticed something. So I put this back on and see that 2.3 up to 26 over there up to 56. So now if I switch this to zero, you get to see that we're still generating, even though it's going down to 48, we've still got 56 volts on the output, 37. We've still got 56 volts on the output. Now it starts dropping just as it goes below 10, sort of 10 and a half. It slows down quite a lot. Discharging. That's sort of, I suppose that's just the last little bit of power in the fastest. Okay, let's go again like that. I'll just flip this down. It'll go straight on to 30 volts, 26.5 volts. So it's got 56 on the input going in. Let's see if we get anything else on the output. Doesn't it really nice this stuff. Let's have a look and see what it does. Give us anything there. That isn't what I would want to hear. That doesn't sound very good at all. I don't know if you get to hear that. It just sounded really, really strange. Which means this little power supply is going to need some more work. Okay, so I've got me a four turn coil on there. I don't know what I'm saying that. This is probably the most basic of power supplies. We've got a 240 volts mains, even though I'm not using the full 240 volts. I'm not quite using 200 volts because of the 24 volt and zero 24 volt output of this. I've connected them to this switch. So earlier, so I've got a switch between half, you know, one side of the transformer, one secondary or two seconds. And then that's just going directly into here. Now, the reason why this is turned down is because I can't put more than 60 volts into this. So I'm only going to be putting like 55 volts in, even when this is on both the secondaries on here. And the DC out here is 56 volts, just under 60 volts. And this is also set as well as this booster. So it doesn't output any more than 56 volts, which you can see down here. And we can turn that on. So I'm turning it up. But you can see the waveforms of it. That click was it kicking in. Bit of a breakout. That is a different bulb. That is a warm glow bulb that I've put in, just so it's not so bright. But as you can see, the way it's set to be the minute, we've got 100 watts from now. 50 volts, that's the limit. And two volts. Okay, that's all good. So now I'm going to change that. And I'm going to put the two turns on, because that should get us the full amount, which we can get out of this transformer, which is supposed to be about 160 watts, something like that. It's 48 volts times 3.3. Okay, I thought I'll go straight down to the two, but I've got the two here and I've got the one here, in case we get to using that. And I'll put the three on just to see what it's like. So it was like 98 watts wasn't it? Because it was full power, 50 volts. Let's switch that back on. Full power, 50 volts. 98 watts. So I should get a little bit more out of this now, so I can change the voltage. As soon as that gets a bit closer, hear that pop? No, it didn't pop that time. Okay, that should be three turns. So I'm going to go up, turn that up, 35 volts, 40 volts, and I'm going to turn the 30 watts, turning the 37. 166, 167. And I think that's 3.3, that's the maximum amperage I can draw out of this. Out of this. I'm going to just turn that up again just to see what it actually says on the amperage. I'm going to vary that before it says about one and a half amps. You can see that through there. About one and a half amps. Half way up the scale, it's a three amp scale, that's a sweet driver. Okay, that's pretty good. So we know that works.  It takes a little bit of time for this to drop out because there's 20 millifarads, roughly. That's nice probably about 16, 18. 4.7 times 4, 17 and a half. Millifarads of capacitance there, but when I had two of these on, it made funny noise and it didn't like it, so I just chucked another two capacitors on because they were there already preset up. That's all right, isn't it? That's 166 watts. And that's about right. That's what this can handle. Pretty much what that can handle. And that was in the 36. Now that was in the 56 setting. It's not quite that. I should put the meter back on it so you can see what it is. But it is around about 56 watts going in. I'm going to turn it down over there. All right, okay. I'm going to try it with the two turn on there now. We're going to be limited by the current of this. And we were at, anyway, three and a half amps. It's on there. I'll put the two turn on to see what happens.


A drive-by shooting at the Enbridge facility in Bemidji was discovered when employees arrived to work at 7 o'clock this morning. Enbridge officials say that no one was around and no one was injured when the shooting occurred at an unknown time during the night. The bullets had hit the front office doors and windows of the office building. Trent Wetmore, the Enbridge director for the Superior Region, said in a statement that the incident was reckless and extremely dangerous. As a member of this community for decades, we would hope that others would join us in sending the message that this type of violence is not acceptable. And we hope that anyone who would have any information that may lead to the arrest of individuals responsible would please call law enforcement. Now Enbridge officials say they are taking the matter very seriously and will support the prosecution of all that those are, or that all of them that are involved. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.