What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical below here sure you're talking about a few different topics in this video here today We'll be talking about screen six. We'll be talking about nope I haven't talked about nope in so long. I'll be talking about Jeepers Creepers 4 and then we'll be talking about something I've never talked about on this channel We'll be talking about you in the upcoming fourth season in these images that were released I'll just have them coming across the screen and you'll get to see the new images that were released of the upcoming season So just to jump into screen six the first official first official trailer for screen six is dropping tomorrow at 9 a.m Now that 9 a.m. Section is according to Grace Randolph The other part about tomorrow is from Collider who exclusively revealed this big news this afternoon Big screen leaks did chime in earlier to disclose that the teaser is over a minute long And it begins with a New York subway and then Ghostface will appear at some point. What else is shown in this trailer? I do not know It does sound like they're taking the first Halloween inch trailer reproach That's that sounds like that's what they're using for screen six So I imagine we'll get some quick shots of other events from the movie Hopefully we'll get to see a brief glimpse of hating pants a year get a brief glimpse at Courtney Cox a brief glimpse at Melissa Jenna seeing everybody in character seeing Kirby Gale Sam Tara all of that good stuff Don't know what they'll be showing but it apparently will start in the subway Also viewer now recently revealed if you don't want any minor spoilers again that are comparable to knowing that the grass is green You can click away Viewer now recently revealed that the Kurt that Kirby's favorite Friday the 13th movie is allegedly part 4 That's pretty cool to me I can't wait to see how and why she acts how and why she brings that up like what makes her talk about this I hope it's a scene with Mindy. That's all I have to say there Also, one of the kills in the film will include an oral kill via like a knife to the throat It seems that's also from viewer non. I will have my screen six trailer Talk out by maybe 945 10 a.m. Tomorrow morning. So be able to look out for that because I already have the thumbnail ready I've had it ready for weeks. So just to jump into this next topic here regarding Jordan Pills. Nope Nope is receiving an Oscar campaign from Universal after releasing after they released a new for your consideration trailer A few days back That I will say thoroughly that I thoroughly enjoyed even though I've seen this movie like four or five times now Just watching this trailer and seeing all these quotes about people's high praises for the film Has me eager to revisit it down the road, which I plan to do over the days of my life But as many of us recall this isn't the first time Pill has had any type of tie-in with Oscars He was able to secure an Oscar for get out And I hope a nomination can at least be secured for nope if he was trying this with us. I would or if they were trying this with us I promise Yeah, wait for a better one in this. This is a better one. Nope is better than us especially I hope a nomination can be secured for nope Especially if that leads to Kiki Palmer getting an award for her performers or even Daniel Kahlua Although my inner child is wanting this for Kiki more than Daniel I Want her to get that recognition so bad because I've been watching her since I was a little kid. She's been on Nickelodeon. She's been on Disney Channel, she's been a part of so many of our childhoods that we want to see her get a big moment like this So I could see this securing a best original screenplay nomination at least if nothing else Do you think that nope deserves an Oscar nomination? Let me know down in the comment section why or why not also check out that trailer that they just released again a Few days back. It's the four-year consideration trailer. That's supposed to be starting up their Oscar campaign Looking to get no nominated for some Oscar awards. So again, I hope that Kiki is able to be nominated for a Performance award because I would love for her to win and get that moment to just have a spotlight For her years of work because I feel as though over time Kiki Palmer has done nothing But improved everything I see her in you may disagree But I would love to see her on stage Accepting an Oscar for her performance in note Not that she only has that one good thing because again It would just be like a cherry on top of all this hard work that I've been seeing from her for so long And I just want her to have a big moment. So just to jump into Jeepers creepers 4 talk about some Minor news about it. This is just box office stuff once again It seems to be a hit in Mexico and Russia when it comes to places that are helping it reach this near 6 million total at The box office, and I'm still just like the fact that this movie is doing that It makes it even more frustrating that they handled it the way that they did So in these territories are in these markets rather they are over 1 million each Since the film has released in those territories with everyone else around the globe helping it get to the total that it currently sits at Which is like 5.7 million. I believe or something like that I haven't seen any updates on that lawsuit that is still ongoing though just in case you thought it was dropped It does not actually appear to be dropped at all. It doesn't seem that they settled it out of court It seems as though the trial that is still set to occur in 2024 is still going to happen as well But these numbers again related to the box office there again are a little frustrating when you can see that There is an interest in places that are not the states and they are being treated to poor quality films With a series that does have potential It just was created by the wrong person. Unfortunately with success like this in those markets I would hope that everyone who can and who can and should be a part of future movies That's me bringing up the fact that once again bring back jonathan brick bring back ray wise anyone that can at least showcase some actual talent Please bring them back Because with success like this in these markets, I would hope it would be an eye opener For infinity films if they are involved again at an eye opener for michael ohoven Because again, he's ahead of infinity films and myriad pictures team Kirk demico and the distribution lawsuit and all that stuff that's going on with the current lawsuit to come together and recognize that You have a chance to make money in other territories that are not the states and they are they are hungry for this thing They're hungry for it.  I would think so Jeepers creepers 4 definitely is overperforming for sure because it doesn't deserve these numbers at all But that's really all I wanted to talk about is just the the two markets that I see Helping it really reach the state that it's at right now with the total Just to conclude this by talking about you season 4 a first look via some new images of joe Trying to leave his past behind by starting new life in london have been released You season 4 debuts its first part. I believe on february 9th in the rest on march 9th It's taking the stranger things season 4 approach. I believe that's that's exactly what they just did They did volume 1 and volume 2 in the summer I'm excited for this and i'm certain joe's bad habits definitely will reemerge because he just can't help himself What do you want to see from you season 2 or you season 4? I meant to say do you think love will have a cameo because i'm eager to see how this new setting will Amplify the narrative if at all and to be honest i'm ready for joe to be brought to justice I love this show, but this man needs to be taken down. That's just my honest thoughts on it I know he's also going to be going after the i can't think of her name right now The individual that he was after towards the end of season 3 Can't think of her name. I haven't watched season 3 since it came out I'm looking forward to season 4 Hopefully we get an update on his child too that he left behind because there's so much going on with joe's life Then i'm like, okay, bro Where is your expiration date at because it seems like it's creeping up on him And they're gonna wrap it up at some point because i don't want this show to actually keep on going on and on and on But let me know what you guys think about these first look images down in the comment section below If you haven't already of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post notification at your next video in the description I will have links on my social media accounts. I am on facebook twitter and instagram You can message me there of course to let me know if there are any movies news or reviews You like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


In this topic, we shall discuss the spatial learning and cognitive maps used by animals. Spatial learning is the capacity to establish a memory that reflects environment's spatial structure. This is a learning in which an animal remembers the dimensions and positions of its environment. The spatial learning enhances an organism's fitness and survival in the environment. Every natural environment of the animal has some spatial variation. For example, the available locations of nest sites, various types of environmental hazards which an animal can face, available foods dispersion and prospective mares presence. These are various factors which an animal keeps in mind which are distributed in space, in an animal's environment. Let us take an example of spatial learning. The behavior of female digger wasp explains the spatial learning behavior in an excellent way. This wasp nests in small burrows which are dug into sand mounds. This wasp lives in sand and makes small burrows in sand mounds. When it comes out of its own burrows, it puts sand on its opening or surah and closes it. When it comes back, there are many other holes or burrows in that area. But despite this, it directly goes to its own nest that was actually hidden. It means that this wasp memorized the location of its nest and in this memorization it actually had learned about the position of various types of landmarks which acted as position indicator to find its own nest. The evidence of this is that it had made cognitive maps and the location of landmarks was hidden. The evidence of this is that if we experimentally change the position of these landmarks, that when the wasp leaves its nest and changes the location of its nest, then it is confused. It cannot find its nest. Dear students, the cognitive maps are a representation in the nervous system of the animal about the spatial relationships between objects which are present in animals' surrounding. These are the maps in which the animal relates its position with the landmarks and also relates the position of different landmarks. These cognitive maps are based on abstract geometrical rules. The geometrical rule followed is to identify the half ways between landmarks. This pattern reduces the amount of detail required to remember an object's position or location. Cognitive maps are actually an advancement over relying solely on landmarks' positions. They make navigation more flexible and efficient. These students, cognitive maps give us an example of Clark's nutcracker birds. These birds store 5 seeds in the fall season at thousands of locations which are distributed especially in an area of about 35 km2. In such a large area, thousands of places make hiding places which are known as kashes. These birds also remember these kashes after making their own kashes. They relocate their kashes very perfectly because they have cognitive maps.


Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering ServiceNow, Knowledge 17, brought to you by ServiceNow. Welcome back to Knowledge 17 everybody. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. My name is Dave Vellante, I'm here with my co-host, Jeff Frick, this is our fifth knowledge. We're doing wall-to-wall coverage. This is day one, we'll be here for three days. Giving you all the keynotes, the announcements, talking to practitioners. We're going to talk to one of the leading partners of ServiceNow, Michael Kohler is the Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Vision, Strategy, and Engineering for ATOS. Michael, welcome to theCUBE, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. You get a lot in your plate. I do. Talk about that role, I love that title. So, essentially what I do for ATOS, I own one, the vision and strategy of how we deliver, develop, and deploy our services. And then second, I'm also accountable for how we engineer and build those services and bring them to market. Okay, and also talk about your relationship with ServiceNow, how did it start? How did you get into this space? So, about two, three years ago, we started a need to transform our service delivery platforms within ATOS from the 196 different tool sets that we had across the global services that we provide to really find a better way to do it. We were spending a lot of our time picking tools, integrating tools, trying to figure out what's the right tool for every little corner case. And we said to ourselves, there's got to be a better way to do this. So we started to think about what were the key things we wanted in an ITSM service management platform going forward, and we thought about workflow, integration, orchestration, some of the key things that today are cornerstone to ServiceNow, and it let us down the path to find ServiceNow as our vendor partner of choice for service management and beyond. Okay, so, how's that business going? You know, what's the reaction been from your customers and talk a little bit about the strategy? So from a business perspective, I'll tell you the customers love what we're doing. For the first time, we're able to adapt at their rate of change and differentiate or transform our services, align to how they want to consume it, and to align to their business. Typically in the past, that was a very difficult process for us since everything was bespoke. We wrote code to do it. Now it's a configuration or an orchestration that we do with ServiceNow. So that part's been great. From an overall journey, I will tell you it's been hard. Given that we have a global customer base that we support in 72 different countries around the world, it's pretty hard to get to a standard platform, so it's taken us a considerable amount of time to get there, but the results have been, I think, extraordinary in the way that we can deliver the service, the revenue that we've created with it, and just the ability we're able to respond to customer needs with. So, can you unpack the value flow for our audience? Just help us understand sort of where ServiceNow adds value, where you guys add value, and then where the customers pick up, and what impact it's having on their business. Sure, so first question, where do we provide value? Couple of different areas. So besides the service management discipline that we provide, we're a managed service provider. So all the platforms that go into running their private cloud and public cloud get built, designed, and deployed by ATOS. So that's one of the areas. Second, as it relates to deploying ServiceNow and supporting their needs, we have a set of accelerators, technologies, methodologies, and capabilities that we're able to deploy to allow them to consume our services with ServiceNow faster. Nice part about that is we have our own instance that we provide a shared service out of, but we've adapted that so that if customers want their own instance of ServiceNow and want to grow and leverage that capability, we're able to deploy it in their instance and let them take advantage of it, and then build with it as they want to adapt it or extend it for their enterprise. How about the technology integration challenges? You integrated your business and ServiceNow sort of into your business, I guess. What were the technology integration challenges that you faced and others that you're facing? So the first challenges we went through was just the complexity of the model that we wanted to support. So for us, it wasn't just a single set of services. It really is our entire global portfolio. So that is everything from cloud, our digital workplace solution, our large-scale analytics, including our security offerings. So we had to integrate a global set of offerings into ServiceNow and the platforms that we use. So Amazon, Azure, Google, and other bespoke technologies and writing the code to make that happen. So one of the big challenges that we talk to IT practitioners is migration from A to B. We got to get from A to B and we want to spend a billion dollars doing it and we got to do it fast. How did you deal with the migration from legacy systems to where you are today? So we took an approach that we referred to as big box and little box. So the little box allowed us to take our Greenfield services that have been built with ServiceNow and our net new customers that were consuming those services were deployed straight out onto those platforms. The new capability we've built with ServiceNow. And what we've done with the legacy customers and our legacy services, as we work through either renewal strategies with our customers or they start to consume new services, we migrate them onto the new platform to be able to leverage those services going forward. So it's an evolutionary process. It's not a big bang. We have to do it in a very systematic way so we don't compromise the services that they consume from us that they in turn deliver to their internal IT departments or their customers from Atos. What are the big asks you're getting from customers and how are you advising them? So big ask we get from customers is can we leverage the IP that you've built and help us extend that further faster with us? And what we've done there is originally the frameworks we built at Atos we refer to as the Atos Technology Framework. It was a very proprietary, homegrown type product that we used to transform our services. What we've done over the last several years is turn that into a product essentially an application that we can sell to our customers and they can get it from us as a license and support model to help them on their journey. The ask then is that if they aren't happy or say they want to engage other providers from Atos is to allow them to leverage the IP that we've built with them and have those other providers be part of that ecosystem. So aligned to that we've now created the ability for third parties to interact with our customers and leverage the ecosystem and products and services we built on service now in support of our common customer. Nice. Now, we were talking off camera. You obviously, hybrid clouds, big topic, hot topic. Dell EMC world's going on this week. You guys get a, you've won an award at that show. Yep. Right, you're here obviously, but so what's going on in hybrid cloud? You know, what are you being recognized for? So from a hybrid cloud perspective, we're going to announce private Azure Stack appliance in partnership with VC around VX Rack and VX Rail. One of the other things that when we think about hybrid cloud, what we've done specifically with service now is integrate our offerings that come from Atos, our private cloud platforms. We refer to as our digital private cloud. That was built in concert with Dell EMC around the VMware suite of technologies, VCE and other components of the Dell EMC family. And we stitch all of that together with public cloud providers, AWS, Azure and Google in a seamless framework with service now. And that's I think from us, one of our key value props that we take to customers is the integration of the private cloud on-prem solutions and what we do in the public space with service now is the engine to do that. You see all this stuff coming together, don't you? And just this, you're saying service now is the platform glue that allow you to manage all these sort of disparate systems. Oh, without a doubt, we look at service now as the platform of the future for us and our customers and we look at it and we really refer to them as being platform businesses going forward and you need an integrated platform end-to-end to drive that one, the transformation, but two, to be able to manage that end-to-end service perspective as you think about private, public and the SaaS model that's out there that our customers want to consume. I'll give you the last word on Knowledge 17. What's the sort of bumper sticker for you guys? So I think the bumper sticker for us is at least from an Atos perspective, it's the year of the platform and as we look at what service now is rolling out being a platform provider and the partnership that we have with them specifically in the cloud space to enable a successful outcome of hybrid cloud consumption for our customers. Platform Trump's products every time. So Michael, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE and sharing your knowledge and best of luck. Thanks for your time and I appreciate it. You're very welcome. Keep it right there, buddy. We'll be back with our next guest. theCUBE we're live from Knowledge 17. Right back.


Jayden Ivy has already won the Rookie of the Year award. Look y'all, I already saw it happen. So don't even ask me about another player because I'm not hearing it. So Kobe, what's the game plan now? We're taking Jayden Ivy to win Rookie of the Year at plus 450 over at FanDuel. I mean, it just don't get easier than this. I FanDuel might as well just hand me the money right now. Cause if not Jayden Ivy, then who else? That's what I thought man. Detroit, what up though? Jayden Ivy, Rookie of the Year.


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I'm going to talk about provisioning bare metal resources, not using Razor, Cobbler, Mass, things like that, but actually using OpenStack itself. My name is Dave Ananda of Andriven. I work at HP. That's the blue slides. And you probably heard. You probably heard. OK, you all probably saw on the keynote this morning Mark McLaughlin talking about Triple-O. Triple-O is based on the idea, the functionality of bare metal provisioning. So I'm also the PTL for the Incubated Ironic Project. I'll tell you a little more about that later. But for those of you who are part of the community or were at the summit last summit or the one before, that's what I used to look like.  You might remember me like that and I've had a lot of people be surprised and not recognize me. I'm mentioning this to say that times change. People change. Software changes. We're developing a lot of new things. We're breaking a lot of new ground with OpenStack in data center management, in operations DevOps, but everything we're doing with bare metal provisioning, with Ironic, with Triple-O, this is based on technology that's existed for 10, 20, 30 years. About 15 years ago, NASA published a paper titled Bootstrapping and Infrastructure. This is about the time of the 12th USENIX conference. About the same time, IBM published the specifications for IPMI 1.0 and Pixie, network booting. These in turn were based on much even older means of network booting, remotely controlling machines called RIPL for booting DOS workstations in about 1990. That in turn even based on older work. So we're not really using new technology, we're just adapting it in new ways. People have always wanted to manage large amounts of machines. What is new that we're doing? Clouds seem new. Everyone's talking about clouds these days. It's a lot of hi-end, but maybe there's really something to all this cloud stuff. What is interesting about clouds? Why are we also interested in it? Clouds give us an API to programmatically allocate resources, virtual resources, you know, compute, storage network, et cetera. I'm gonna borrow a phrase from the keynote yesterday, but actually this isn't a virtualization, this is an abstraction. We're abstracting resources. Whether they're virtual or physical, doesn't matter. Now on top of this abstraction layer, everyone's written various tools for deploying applications, for describing whatever your application is and then repeatedly programmatically deploying it. In a test environment, in a production environment, in one data center, somewhere else in the world, you can be guaranteed it's the same result because it's a programmatic API. You're not doing things by hand with small variations here and there. That's the real benefit clouds are giving us. Less errors, more automation, less skew over time. But it turns out, actually building a cloud, if you're building your own cloud, it looks more like that. It's much more complicated under the hood. And so a lot of people are still using homegrown environments to build their cloud and then all the benefits, DevOps, automation, good testing is on top of the cloud, not in the cloud, not the cloud itself. The cloud itself is not abstracted. And so a while ago, maybe 18 months ago, we all had an idea. What if we could simplify deploying a cloud? What if we could use the same tooling, the same automation that we use for DevOps, running things on a cloud and deploy a cloud, repeatably, testably, programmatically. What was missing from that was a way to control physical resources with the same API. NTTDocomo, USCISI, Virtual Tech, Japan, I have some familiar names around here, had proposed a driver for Nova at that point in time to control physical resources, bare metal resources. They were using it for high performance compute workloads. They didn't have, I don't know, we all got together in the Grizzly summit, I think it was, and kind of had a pow-wow, and so I took over, and some of the guys I worked with at HP took over for them in getting this into Nova. It landed in Grizzly as the bare metal driver, and that's sort of how it was born. And then the triple O team started around the same time with this concept of leveraging the bare metal driver to do something else, to automate deploying a cloud. In order to get this to work, we had to change several things in Nova. So we had to create a separate database to store the physical information. The instances aren't VMs anymore, they're real machines, and so the real characteristics of those machines had a separate database schema for that. We had to make some changes to the scheduler to make it aware that a resource is not partially allocated. You can't slice up a physical machine, it's all or nothing. You don't get to, you know, just like with VMs, you can get small VMs, big VMs, with bare metal, it's the whole machine. There is no hypervisor. Oh, flavorX respects. So we had to export some other data about the machines such as what CPU architecture they have to match the image that we're gonna deploy on the machine. Store some extra image about metadata, sorry, extra metadata about images, and we added a new helper service for the actual writing of the image onto the machine hard disk, and I'll talk more about that a little bit later. The process for this Nova bare metal deployment, it's still all done through Nova, and command goes to Nova API, Nova boot this thing, Nova scheduler picks a node, the command goes down to Nova compute, Nova compute pulls the image from glance, issues commands via IPMI to turn the machine on, issues that the machine turns on, it's DHCP boots, gets a response, pixie, and the image gets written to the hard disk, machine reboots, there you go. The machine is now running the image pulled from glance, no hypervisor. Simple version. Limit. So there's a bootable RAM disk. This is an extra component one has to build using the disk image builder, or if you want something else, but really it's easier with the disk image builder project, build a small bootable RAM disk that is fed to the machine as the first response to pixie, that exposes the local disks over Iskasi. This extra service I mentioned, Nova bare metal deploy helper, mounts that Iskasi target, copies the image onto it, partitions it and so on, the total time for this process is approximately two power cycles of your machine, whatever that is, and two times the network transfer for that image. Slow network, slow disks, a little bit longer, but what we've found in production really is that the image transfer time is very, very negligible compared to the power cycle time of hardware. Post, it can be three to five minutes for some machine. So looking at about 10 minutes per deploy, which is all just the hardware power on. And again, if you're in the back, I see people standing in the hall, so try and scoot up a bit if you can. So everything I just described, for those who are more visually inclined, looks like that. I don't think you can see my little laser pointer, but in the top right, step number one, Nova boot, that's just a regular command to Nova API, that trickles all the way through Nova scheduler, which goes out to Nova compute, which talks to Neutron, talks to Glance, writes in the Nova bare metal database, and then uses IPmine pixie to control the physical machine with the help of the Nova bare metal deploy helper service. Now, all of that process I just described is what happens for a single instance, when you're deploying a single bare metal instance. Orchestration lets you do many things at once, like you describe your application broken down into many different resources in heat. Because there's a cloud API on top of bare metal now, you can have heat orchestrate a deployment of many bare metal nodes in parallel. The metadata for each node, whatever it takes to parameterize that node, its host name, its IP address, other endpoints it needs to talk to, maybe it's a WordPress website and you want it to turn on and know where the minuscule server is it has to talk to. All of this can be done with heat passed in through the cloud metadata service, and we have, you know, you can use Shrapp or Puppet or Salt to do this. You can also use some tools that are part of triple O called OS config apply. And the triple O guys will go into way more detail about that than I will right now. The point is because we have now automated deployment on a single node, you can orchestrate deployment on many nodes. And so what kind of workload can you orchestrate? You can orchestrate a high performance compute workload, which is sort of what the original purpose of the bare metal driver was. You can do metal as a service. You can have a cloud where the instances that are being booted are physical instances with no hypervisor. However, the caveat only do that for trusted tenants. People inside your company, different divisions. Because there's no hypervisor, there is many different avenues for attack that don't exist in a virtualized cloud. So do not please do not use bare metal to provide a metal as a service cloud for public users. This is bad right now. We may add better security to prevent firmware attacks down the road, but today, firmware is vulnerable. Of course also, you can use this to deploy open stack itself, which is triple O, which I think is really, really cool. I'm not gonna talk too much about it though. Louder? Okay, sorry, I keep turning my head. Is that better? Okay, so all of everything I just talked about is basically in the Grizzly release. But really, the Grizzly release was just the first cut of this driver. It used DNS mask instead of neutron, which runs into some problems if you wanna do anything besides a flat network. It had a lot of bugs that we ran into as we use this in our test environments, but it was really sufficient to prove triple O is viable. Havana, which just came out, is much better. We fixed a lot of the bugs. We've been running this now on hardware in our test lab for six months. It uses neutron instead of DNS mask. So that simplifies the use of this. It also opens up much better support for software defined networking. You have a switch, an open flow enabled switch, and you're using neutron now with the code around Havana timeframe. You can have some better security and more options for your bare metal deployments. And basic functionality of a bare metal deployment is there in Havana release. However, is it really ready? Well, I mean, like I said, we are deploying this and triple O is actually deploying this on their test cluster about 24 times a day on bare metal. And they're not seeing that many failures, except when they break things, the orchestration layer breaks things. Bare metal driver's working. Some companies, I'm told, are using this in production or in tests. I can't say who, but they poke me every so often to say, hey, look at what we're doing. But all of that, I'm still gonna say no, it's not really ready. Why? Because the Nova compute process itself, running the bare metal driver, that is a single point of failure. There is no way to recover if that were to go away. You'd have to destroy the instances that you've provisioned on bare metal and build them again. You lose control of them. There is really not good support for different disk layouts right now. Whatever the flavor in Nova is, it specifies here's your root gigabytes, here's your swap gigabytes. That determines the disk layout right now. We have plans to change that. Very rudimentary right now. There's no hardware configuration built in at the moment. Again, something we want to do, but right now, if you wanted to use this in production, you'd have to have some other out-of-band mechanism for firmer updates, changing bio-settings, building a RAID config. Mixing different types of hardware gets a little complicated with schedulers, sorry, with exporting properties to the Nova scheduler in just the right way. And it's easy to mess that up right now. Again, things we're working on. Basically, the bare metal driver in Nova is very limited in what it can grow into, because it's part of Nova. And Nova wasn't really meant for non-virtual things. So last summit, I proposed that we rip this out of Nova and make it its own top-level service, part of OpenSack. Between then and now, the technical committee approved and the Ironic project was born. So again, I think kind of a fitting name. It was Portland, Portland was sort of the headquarters of hipsters to love irony. So where are we at today with Ironic? So that commit is actually where Ironic started. It's the very first commit in the project. You have a date there that's roughly six months ago. In those six months, we've grown from 8,000 lines that were copied out of Nova to over 32,000 lines of code today. We've got 28 developers, about half of which have more than five commits. So we're not just seeing people drive by and we're seeing people more than 10, about a dozen developers now jump on this project and contribute. And I'd love to see more. A very sizable portion of this work has not been coming from me. Coming from not just HP, but many other companies are interested in this. Morantis, Red Hat, IBM, Yahoo, a couple others that are all jumping in and helping out. And I would love more people to come help out with this. Particularly any of the hardware vendors, HP, of course I work for them and talking with them, Dell, IBM, AMD I think is here and has some interesting work they have mentioned to me. And I'm really grateful to everyone who's come and helped out and continues to help make Ironic a better project, make it more fully featured for bare metal provisioning. The architecture for Ironic now can really grow. It's been decoupled from Nova. It can grow to be a fully featured bare metal provisioning service for all the things that one might need in the data center.  It's not gonna store a long-term state and things like that. But hopefully it will also be able to do auto discovery and firmware updates down the road. Why does it have to be split out so that it can interface with other open-sack services? Cinder, Glance, Neutron. We're just talking with the Neutron guys upstairs about how Neutron and Ironic can interact to manage the networking for physical machines. So the plan for its interaction with Nova is that Nova will still do all the scheduling. Ironic is just an API to the hardware. You'll define the properties of the node in Ironic but it will export those to Nova so that Nova's scheduler can make the decisions about placement of instances. There's a driver in Nova that is underway right now to bind the two services together. That will talk to the Ironic API service and that'll, for all the regular Nova calls, spawn, destroy, reboot, et cetera. All the things which are not part of Nova's understanding, Nova's understanding, such as interrogation, discovery, et cetera, those will not be exposed to Nova but there will be a separate API or the same API but you'll be able to use those out of band. The diagram I showed earlier for Ironic looks more like this. You can see Nova off on the side and how Nova Compute will talk to the Ironic API which will have its own RPC layer to the Ironic conductor service with its own database controlling the hardware and this service separation will also allow us to do, to make the service, the Ironic service, highly available whereas with Nova you have a single point of failure in the Nova Compute process that is sort of proxying the bare metal commands. Our plans for Ironic is to make the Ironic conductor any conductor able to take over for another conductor if it failed. So reads and writes to the database to enroll in your hardware. These will go through the API to get passed to the conductor for privilege separation. The conductor will use a distributed locking model such that you could run many conductors and have many nodes and each one would be determining at any given moment what action to take and not to step on each other's toes. And of course we have some growth to do these are all in the plans. It already has a pluggable driver interface internally for different hardware vendors so we have basic drivers right now for IPMI and Pixie. And I'm encouraging hardware vendors to come and add additional functionality besides the basics of power on, power off, deploy, console that we have to support for Nova today. There are other functionality that hardware can do like discovery firmware. I know I keep saying those but they're the most requested features for Ironic. Autodiscover hardware and be able to update the firmware. So, the mechanism for doing that is a little bit different for each vendor. I would like to standardize the API that Ironic has but allow each vendor to use their drivers which are different, some may be faster than others. I don't know exactly how to do all of those. I'd like vendors to come help out with that. Each driver itself, there's a contract between the conductor and the drivers internally that they all must adhere to. And there's also a pass through mode for where vendors want to explore features that they have that maybe other vendors don't have instead of requiring Ironic to make everyone standardize the same way and preventing drivers, preventing vendors from taking advantage of their own features. There is a special bypass area for that kind of thing. What else is on the roadmap? Like I said, hardware discovery. This is really, really strongly requested feature. Same thing for firmware updates. Very strongly requested feature that we probably won't get to either of those six months or more from now. We need to get a stable service first and the real roadmap is hopefully get Ironic stable, bring it out of incubation and have it replace the Novogram metal driver. After that, begin adding many of these new features. I know I've said many times I would like more involvement. I'm inviting everyone who's interested to come help out with this project, add drivers, here's some links that help. Everything's like any Opensack product on Launchpad, on GitHub, come join our IRC channel, either Opensack Ironic or Triple-O. And I think I went through my slides much faster than I meant to. So, thank you. All I have time for questions. Any questions? Silence. Yeah, yeah, just. So I was talking with, Oh, sorry, thank you. The question is what's missing to make this work on Windows? And the answer is I don't know how to network boot Windows and not an installer. But I've been talking with that fellow over there who says it's actually much easier than I thought and he's gonna come help us do it. So it could happen, Windows support could happen pretty soon. Yes. Okay, so I think the question is if you know what servers you have and when you're deploying an instance, how do you target a specific server instead of letting the scheduler pick one? Yes? The answer is we already added that functionality to Nova. It's in Havana, it's called dash dash force host and we extended the host definition from what used to just be availability zone colon host. Now it's also colon node, which is a UUID that identifies that machine. So you can do that today and we'll preserve that functionality as we move to Ironic. The question was when I say we did that already, what am I referring to? I'm referring to when I said we already did this. So when I said we already did this, what I mean is it's in the bear, it's in the Havana release supported with bare metal to target a specific node. Yes? Yes. The question was the conductor drivers in Ironic, what is that meant to target? It is meant to target the variations between hardware implementations of remote management. So IPMI is common, but not everyone adheres to standards in the same way and everyone deviates to add their own functionality like remote mounting virtual media. It's not part of IPMI spec, but everyone does it. So the driver is meant to encapsulate those differences and Ironic is the abstraction layer on top of those hardware differences. Yes? I didn't quite understand. Logical partitioning of the disks or of the system itself. Okay, so yeah, I think other vendors have similar things and so we should all talk about how to support this in the Ironic API. Yeah, no, so how do you install if there's no RAID configuration on the machine? Currently you have to have some out-of-band method that has pre-configured the machine, right? And this is one of the limitations of the Nova Bear Metal Driver is it doesn't have any way to model that. And so with the first iteration of Ironic we're just gonna have future parity. You'll still need some out-of-band RAID provisioning. The goal is for Cinder, and I need to start, I'm talking with the Cinder guys tomorrow about this, for you to be able to specify a volume of specification in Cinder. I describe it with the Cinder API. Pass that to Ironic and then Ironic would either through the out-of-band management or through a bootable RAM disk with, I don't know, make a CLI in it or something. Go set up the RAID for you before the image is put down. Turn-based provisioning? Okay, so I think what you're asking about is how do we optimize the image distribution? We'll talk about that tomorrow. I don't have a plan. I want people to come together and figure out what the solution should be. And it's the same thing with the RAID specification that I just mentioned. That's my idea, but it isn't implemented yet. And if people have different ideas or wanna come contribute, we're gonna discuss that tomorrow. The Ironic design track is roughly two to six tomorrow upstairs. Question over there. Not yet. Question is, do we support booting from Cinder volumes? The answer is definitely not yet. It won't fit in November metal, but I'd love to support that in Ironic in time if people wanna come at that. Over there. So the question was for monitoring the nodes. Do I see integration with Cilometer and Ironic? The answer is yes, and I spoke to them yesterday about that and we all are on the same page and it's awesome. And if you wanna come again. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What does Ironic do if the hardware doesn't behave the way you expect it to? Very good question. We have to make sure something reasonable happens in that case. Right now we're working on better representation of state change failures and exposing that to the API. Like you asked a node to turn on, but it didn't turn on. How we are exposing that exploitation mismatch, those errors. Ultimately it's hardware, you know? Sometimes it doesn't do what you want. Is there any community interest and ARM support? Anyone here have interest in Ironic supporting ARM? A few hands went up. Yes, it seems there is. Well, if there are no more questions. Thank you all very much.


Let's explore the major parts of the brain and their functions. Based on the color, you can see the brain can be divided into three parts. We have the forebrain, the big yellow section is the forebrain over here. Then you have the midbrain. This pink section over here is the midbrain, and I used to think that the midbrain is the middle section. No, that is still part of the forebrain. Midbrain is a very tiny section over here. Midbrain is actually connecting the forebrain to the last part. The hindbrain is this part over here, which also contains the brain stem. So let's look at the different parts, like the major, the important parts, and then look at what are their functions. So the forebrain itself can be divided into two major parts. You have this big light yellow section, which we call the cerebrum. And you can think that most of the time when we're talking about thinking, we're talking about our cerebrum. And then what about the inner section of the forebrain? Well, there are three important parts to it. This part over here is called the thalamus. The part that is below it is called the hypothalamus. The word hypo even means below. So it's the hypothalamus. And then one of the important parts over here is the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland is the master gland. It controls all the other glands of your body. So these are some of the major parts of the forebrain. What are the function? Well, here are a few functions. Well, thinking, sensing objects, memory, like memory comes from your forebrain, your emotions. Yes, love, for example, doesn't come from the heart. It comes from the forebrain.  All these are the stuff that your forebrain controls. So these are all the functions of your forebrain. Now let's go to the next part. We will not talk much about the midbrain. It's a very tiny section. We'll ignore it in this video. But let's talk about the hindbrain. There are some important parts over here. You can see there are three important parts. You have this section, this lump-like thing, which we call the pons. Then you have the brain stem, which is called the vejula. Or it's also called the vejula oblongata. And then you have this tree-like structure over here, which people also often call the small brain. It is called the cerebellum. I used to get confused between this term cerebellum and cerebrum. I don't know why people term it like that. But the cerebrum with the R, that's the one that's like the big portion of your forebrain. And the cerebellum with an L, that's that tiny hindbrain. So what are the functions of the hindbrain? Well, if you look at the vejula oblongata, its main function, the brain stem, its main function is controlling the essential involuntary processes, like your heart beating, your breathing, all the important involuntary process that's necessary to sustain life. They are controlled by the vejula oblongata. Along with that, some of your reflexes also go through the brain. And some of these reflexes are also controlled by the medulla. All right, what about the pons, you may ask? Well, we're not worried too much about the pons. Turns out that it also controls some of the essential involuntary controls. So it's not like there's overlap of functions. For example, pons will control sleep as well. Pons also controls your breathing cycle as well. So yeah, so we're not worried too much about it. But then let's come to the cerebellum. What are its core functions? Well, one of its core functions is balance, a sense of balance that you get. For example, your ability to walk or ride a bike. There are, you know, you need a balance over there. That comes from your cerebellum. And when you're drinking, when somebody drinks alcohol, the cerebellum gets affected and that's why they're unable to balance. Secondly, your motor memory. What is that, you may ask?  It just happens automatically, we say. If you have spent enough time on typing on a keyboard, you don't have to remember which key is where. It automatically happens. That's what we call the motor memory. Where you don't, the memory feels like it's just automatic. You don't have to think about it. All of that is controlled by your cerebellum.


It's great to see you again. Thank you, Doug. Thanks so much. I'm excited to see you again. So I'm dying to know what changes you followed through on and how you're feeling now. But first, I want to get listeners up to speed. Tell us the symptoms you were experiencing. Okay. I have to start saying that I was feeling bad for three years. So it's not just eight months. It was three years of going with different doctors. I went with seven different doctors. I felt so bloated. I had to be like even like open my jeans because it was like so uncomfortable. I would feel so dizzy. I would feel weak, no energy. I was really worried about eating anything because I thought I was going to be like really bad. When I was feeling really bad and I had a relapse, I would be bad for maybe like two or three days and nothing would make me feel better. So it was really a nightmare. I thank God every day that I found you because you really got into the point. That's how you say it.  Of course, I did some changes when you told me to, but right now I am the person that I used to be before three years ago. So I can eat everything. I'm not bloated anymore. I have energy. I feel healthy and it's been amazing. So thank you so, so much. Well, thank you and you look fantastic. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. It's because of you. All right. So the last time we met, we reviewed your blood work. Yeah. And let's just say it was less than stellar. It wasn't very good. It wasn't very good. But it's not your fault. You had intestinal permeability or leaky gut and your vitamin D level was in the basement. It was 23. Now, yeah. I personally like vitamin D levels of 100 to 150 and yours was 23. Yeah. You remember you told me, why aren't you dead? Yeah. I don't know, Doc. So, and we went through a lot of other things. What was going through your mind when we were reading your results? Well, the first time I thought it was, you're probably right because I never lay down in the sun. I never get any sun because I'm scared about dark spots. So maybe that's why my vitamin D goes so low. And I never, ever thought that that was going to be a reason for me to have my walls so thin. So of course, I did that change. So you've been good about that. Oh, so much made a huge change in my life. I changed my diet for many months. I removed my egg whites that I loved so much.  That was a huge thing for me, Doc. Well, let's talk about that. Yeah. We did this test called the wheat zoomer test. Yeah. And that's a test that looks for leaky gut, but it also looks as whether you have antibodies to the various proteins in wheat, rye, and barley. Kind of allergic, right to that. Yeah. It's actually not an allergy. It's a sensitivity. But what literally was occurring is that anytime you ate wheat, rye, or barley, or oats, your immune system said, Oh my gosh, we're under attack. And these are evil and they're foreign. And there's a wanted poster in the post office. And we're going to shoot those guys. And it causes inflammation. Yeah. And that was, you'd manifest that with your belly blowing up or just feeling awful. Yeah. So when I asked you to start cutting these things out, and we'll take them one by one, how did you feel about doing that? Because most of us love breads and crackers and cookies. Yeah. Because you know that you think that everything with whole grains is going to be better for you. And it's not. It's actually worse. And that I used to go with like the whole grain bread and with the oatmeal and like so many things that wasn't really helping me. I remember I once went to Universal Studios, and I had this huge mushroom, a creamy soup that it was so good. But I was bad like for three days. It was maybe like so much lactose and cream and the mushrooms like so many things that just like put me so bloated and uncomfortable and I couldn't even slept. So it was really, really bad. And now I know what foods I need to have, what foods are not good for me.  And I don't suffer anymore, you know? Yeah. And most people don't know that if they're having a soup in a restaurant that almost all soups have gluten in them as a thickener. And so even a healthy mushroom soup might get you or most people into trouble because of the gluten. Now you brought up a cream and you may remember that you reacted to almost all forms of dairy and that even quote healthy dairy like goat's cheese or sheep cheese wasn't very good for you. I know. How did, how'd that feel given that up for a while? At that time it was hard because I love cheese. I love milk. I love everything that has dairy. But I had to do like so many changes at the time. I went like with coconut milk, with like sometimes almond. I remember you always say that it's better than coconut milk than the the almond. Yeah, but like I switched it a little bit. But then I started like feeling so much better. Then I just came back to everything like little by little and right now I have to say that I can eat whatever I want and I feel amazing. Well, you bring up a really good point. What I do like you is I say, look, here's your troublemakers right now. Yeah. And let's get those out of you as much as possible. Yeah. Let's fortify the wall of your gut. And then what we found with my patients is your immune system gets retrained that it doesn't hate these things anymore. And so a lot, most of my patients like nine months into it, maybe a year, we can reintroduce these troublemakers and now you can tolerate them. And that's kind of the carrot on the stick I hold out from my patients. That is amazing. Does that mean that my walls in my intestine are already like thicker and I can stand those foods again? Exactly. And also the other thing that kind of goes along with that that I talk about in gut check is we've given your microbiome, your bacteria, a lot of foods that they like to eat and they reinforce their ability to protect you from the foods that you eat.  So it's a one-two punch. I have one question. I remember once that I had a very big relapse. I wrote you on Instagram, what should I take? And I remember you sent me a Biocomplete 3 and that was a huge thing for me. What did that supplement help me? I'm sorry I'm interviewing you again now, but I have to do this question. Well, you know, Biocomplete 3 is kind of a a three-prong attack. So it's got probiotics, friendly bacteria. It's got prebiotics that friendly bacteria need to eat. And it's got nano-encapsulated butyrate. And butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid that, believe it or not, the lining of our large intestine, our colon, those cells, 80% of all the energy requirement they have is only met by butyrate and not by blood flow, believe it or not. They have to have butyrate to survive. And getting butyrate down to where it needs to be is really one of the breakthroughs that makes Biocomplete 3 so popular. And you noticed it really right away. It was my solution, I have to say. And so it really does work and there's actually really good science behind why it works. Yeah, every time someone asks me, like, what did you do? I always recommend that. It's called a supplement, right? Yeah. Because it really changed my life and I loved it. I love it. Well, right. If you remember, we told you that you reacted to a type of lectin in spinach that's called an aquaporin. And I talk about it in gut check for the first time. Did you give up spinach for a while? Oh, totally, yes. Yes, I did. Was it a big part of your diet? Not really. I didn't miss them at all. You didn't have a spinach salad every day? Not really, no. I go with romaine or something else. Yeah, okay. Unfortunately, one of the revelations that I've known for a long time, but I haven't dared write about it, is that there's a class of lectins called aquaporins. And they're present in, unfortunately, spinach. They're present in corn. They're present in soybeans. They're present in white potatoes. They're present in tobacco and tomatoes and peppers. And these little troublemakers, if you're sensitive to them, can really cause leaky gut. They can cause leaky brain. And interestingly enough, they can damage the coating of our nerves called the myelin sheath. When we went through all this, and we took several other things away from you, vanilla beans, you remember. Yeah, the egg whites. And bananas and pineapples and egg whites. Yeah, I remember that.  You know, these are probably some of my favorite foods. I used to have a little banana. Yeah. Yeah. Vanilla, I didn't miss that much. I decided to go with strawberries. Yeah. I really liked because they didn't have like a lot of sugar. Right. Right. And what else? Kiwi, but just a little portion. Yeah, kiwi is great for it. It's actually maybe one of the best fruits. Awesome. What motivated you to try this, you know, difficult life change? That I was feeling so, so bad. Like I was feeling so bad that I didn't know what else to do. I didn't have a life anymore. I couldn't eat anything. Like I didn't have energy. As I was telling you, I would be like dizzy so, so much. I didn't understand why I was so dizzy, bloated, uncomfortable.   I need to eat the carpet, I will do. But yeah, like as soon as I started doing all these changes, and I had the vitamin D and I had those, the biocomplete three, the supplements, total return, all those things, it changed to my life completely. And I felt the change immediately, which was really like magic. So what would you say to someone who's feeling the same way you did back then? What's your advice? I would say go to see Dr. Gondry. Of course, the ideal for me will be to, for them to have like a blood test to and see what foods are causing this damage to them so that they can actually find the roots of their problems and start doing the changes, maybe like taking some supplements, taking also vitamin D or whatever, right? And the good news is I put all that experience in my brand new book, Gut Check. Yes, I got it. I'm so excited. So you don't necessarily have to come and see me. But if you just kind of follow the recommendations, we find, but yeah, most people have very low vitamin D levels. When we look at... I never thought it was going to be so low. Yeah. And most people, even 80% of people in Southern California, they have very low vitamin D levels and everybody goes, what the heck? It's sunny all the time in Southern California. We had, we had some in some blocks, right? We cover up, yeah. And we're not really supposed to cover up. For those of you who are hearing this, it's not about being perfect because a lot of times, if we know the culprits, and believe me, I've known the culprits now for over 23 years, if we know who the culprits are and get them out of our diet, get our vitamin D levels up, then you're a perfect example. We can start re-enjoying these foods. I'm eating everything. Yeah, which is fantastic. And believe me, I'm a big fan of the right cheeses.  But the good news is, most people, we can get this stuff back to them. Yeah. But you got to do a little work to do it. But it's so worth it, right? It's so completely worth it. Now, before I let you go, as you know, I usually do an audience question where an audience member asks me a question. So I'm going to let you be the audience today and you get to ask me a question. You got any? Okay, yeah. Is it possible to mix the total restore and the biocomplete three altogether? It's better to just go with one or the other? I think it's a one, two punch. Okay. And biocomplete three was not only to do that, but to re-change your gut bacteria for the better. So it's kind of one and two punch, total restore and biocomplete three. Perfect. Got it. Because a lot of people ask me that. Yeah. And that's, you know, and it's interesting. They're really usually our number one and number two selling products at Gundry MD. They're amazing. Because, quite frankly, they work. Totally. I always say that. Yeah, they're magic and they can take both. They can also get the vitamin D that is amazing. And that really helped me. And I'm sure it will help to the people too that are watching us. And then the next thing, what I want to do, well, obviously, stay in touch, I want to retest you at the one year mark. So that'll be coming up in a few months. In four months. Yeah. And let's see where it is. I'm ready to get those numbers up. Well, I already have. I'm sure. I feel like I have my numbers up. Yeah. The interesting thing, your point is well taken. People often assume that feeling bad is just what is life has gotten stored for them. And people aren't not supposed to feel bad. They're not supposed to have tummy issues. There are signals of the body, I guess. Yeah, they're signal. You have to listen. You have to listen. And you're a great example. You know, wow, I forgot how feeling good felt. Yes. I forgot I had to take some. I had to, I forgot I had to have some vitamin D. I forgot so many things. Right. Thanks for watching, but don't go anywhere. The next episode of the Dr. Gundry podcast is waiting for you now. Skintags are trying to tell you that you have an elevated insulin level and you most likely have an elevated insulin like growth factor.


Many commodities have remained inflated. Any monetary missteps coupled with continuing issues with many raw materials, such as oil, could send CPI screaming in 2024. Speaking of commodities, perhaps one of the most interesting call-out for a major rally in 2023 was in gold. Here we are, over 2000 and although gold has not doubled in price, it did rise by 25%. So, I had a chat with Matt Caruso, pro trader and the founder of Caruso Insights and Mitch Snyder, chief strategist at MarketGage, around if they expect the price of heavy metals to continue to rise in the new year. I think gold has been under pressure for a few years. If we take a look at gold itself, as a result, we can see we've been around $2,000. We're not so much lower, but this is not significantly higher despite inflation because the Fed had raised interest rates so aggressively, they brought real rates into the market. I think that starts to go the other way. Real rates, when you look at interest rates adjusted for inflation, are going to be falling into 2024. I think that will finally support gold break away from this 2,000 price level. I think the kind of highest-torque way, the most aggressive way to play this would be through silver. If we take a look at the silver ETF, you can see this is way off of its highs. And I think the most aggressive way to play this would be through a silver junior stock ETF, which is still way off of where it was even in 2020-2021. So I think this is just a very good asymmetric setup. There is plenty of upside with, I think, what is minimal downside given that this is still the pressed asset. Coming out of what I think is tax loss season here in December, I think these were probably the lows for the year and we advanced from here. So we are still very much interested in gold and silver precious metals. And as a result, with this year ending into resistance, that 2,000 level in gold, around $25 an ounce in silver, we see a great potential there. We also see the potential for a Fed misstep, even though they haven't actually said they're going to lower rates, obviously the market is anticipating that. And if we get into any of these geopolitical situations, that does indeed impact the U.S. economy, especially in an election year. If we misstep by the Fed in terms of reducing the interest rates could also be dangerous. So that's why we like the metals.


This study aimed to investigate the structure and physical chemical properties of biochart derived from apple tree branches, ATBs, through pyrolysis at different temperatures, 300, 400, 500, and 600 degrees Celsius. The results showed that increasing temperature led to an increase in fixed carbon content, inorganic minerals, and thermal stability, while decreasing the yield, volatile matter, O slash C ratio, and H slash C ratio. Additionally, the pH and ash content were highest in BC 500. The study also found that pyrolysis temperature had a significant impact on the morphological, textural, and functional properties of biochar, such as surface area, pore volume, acidic and basic functional groups, and thermal stability. Therefore, this research suggests that pyrolysis temperature can be used to produce biochars with different properties for various applications. This article was authored by Shersiang Zhao, Na Ta, and Su Dong Wang. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


I'm Indhath Devari and I'm a public policy advisor and now moving on to intellectual property and non-personal data. I think anyone who works in the domain of startups and broadly is a player in the technology ecosystem knows the value of intellectual property. And intellectual property are broadly things like copyright, trademark, patents and other things that make the work takes place within an organization exclusive to the extent that's possible to that organization so that they are the only ones who can benefit from it. Many players actually say that intellectual property is the key to innovation. However, the way that the non-personal data report talks about many of the things that it wants to do with the sharing of information, it is clear that those things will go up against intellectual property in a manner that may not be very pleasant. And that's largely the case for two broad reasons. The first is it's actually quite difficult to distinguish between insights that are derived from data, the processes used to arrive at that insight and the data itself. And the non-personal data report broadly shifts between insights and data in a manner that is quite nebulous and makes it very hard to decide when does it want the data itself to be shared with other players of the government or when it's talking about insights. As you can imagine that any investor as well as companies and startups themselves will be quite reluctant to share things that give them a competitive advantage and with other players. And it's more often than not those very things that give them a competitive advantage that are protected with intellectual property. And that's broadly the first reason why it's going to be quite hard to imagine that intellectual property is something that will not clash with non-personal data. The sort of second issue with regard to intellectual property is that the report often flits between talking about sharing with competitors and sharing with the government itself. When it comes to sharing with competitors, it's quite clear to say that many startups and companies would be very reluctant to share information or data with competitors no matter what their size because it would make it very hard for them to compete equally with them in that same space. As we discussed in the last presentation slide, it is the competitors themselves in this case that the government is hoping to create a more level playing field between. So this is actually an outcome that the government wants. In order to overcome this concern, what in some parts the report talks about is sharing non-personal data with the government instead of competitors directly, where the government would then decide which data to share with which competitor and which ecosystem, and essentially would act as an intermediary between the ecosystem as well as the entity trying to share the data. Now, this is something that comes with its own set of concerns because similar issues in the past such as the sharing of source code with governments before entering into business in a country have been deep issues of concern between players in the Indian government, in the Chinese government and even the government of the United States which sometimes have these demands and have been very critical of such requests at different times in time, at different points in time. And that makes it all the more unimaginable to imagine that this competitive advantage that many of these smaller startups have is something that they would be okay with sharing with governments so that the governments could then distribute them to other players in the space however they deem fit. And trade secrets in particular are a completely different ball game because of the fact that in India the law around trade secrets in itself is quite vague and the definition of what can and cannot be a trade secret is quite broad which is why in India, there may be many players especially some of the larger foreign ones who may be reluctant to carry out research and development because it may at some point at the other end up being classified as non-person leader that has to be shared with the government or with other players completely negating the point in their eyes of indulging in that research in the first place which is why it's critical that the sort of interface between intellectual property and non-personal data is tracked very, very carefully. And no matter what the final outcome it's clear that the conflict that is almost inherent between these two things should be resolved in a manner that allows for the both of them to coexist and the policy objectives behind non-person leader to be achieved without unnecessarily violating intellectual property. And with that, I hope to have told you why you should care about non-personal data if you care about risk, compliance and successful businesses what some of the top kinds of non-person data in the non-person data report in India are including public, private and community non-personal data and then we went over in detail issues around competition and intellectual property rights the way they exist in the report and finally we spoke about how there may actually be some areas of non-person data that would actively become applicable much before a non-person data law comes out due to the data protection bill actually including some provisions about mandatory non-person data sharing with the government. And for all of these reasons it's very important that this issue be tracked very closely by investors and companies alike because it's clear that it is going to radically reshape the data ecosystem not just in India, but in many parts of the world.


Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and we have a little bit more of the Asian Swing to go this year. Of course, it's not the big Asian Swing that we're used to seeing but we do have a staple in the Asian Swing of past years in the Japan Open. Happening this week and we've got some big names playing but some big names have pulled out so let's go to the withdrawal list. So having a look at the four withdrawals here and we've got Brooksby, he's pulled out, Giron has also pulled out, Sosa. And Alexander Zverev has pulled out and we all know that we won't see Zverev potentially for the rest of the year so unfortunately if Zverev won't be playing this event, we don't know when we'll see him again. Having a look at the top of the draw here and nobody gets a buy in the first round, we have eight seeds in this one with Kasparud, the number one seed he takes on Munae in the first round. Winner of that match takes on either Martinez or Poprin in the second round. Then we've got McDonald taking on Uchida, winner of that match takes on either Kwon or the number six seed Diminor in the second round. Then we've got the number four Tiafo taking on Uchiyama, winner of that match takes on either Daniel or Morales in the second round. Then we've got Ketchumanovich takes on Nishioca, winner of that match takes on either Elbert, winner of the eight seed Evans in the second round. So if we're going to talk about potential matchups in the next couple of rounds, we can see maybe Rude versus Diminor in a quarter final, Tiafo versus Evans. But you've got to watch Evan Nishioca, had a very good week this week and he did actually beat Dan Evans along the way to the final this week in Korea. So maybe he can make a surprise and of course Rude versus Tiafo, that could be the semi-finals of course made very good runs at the US Open. Both those guys, so that could be a really fun semi-final as well. Having a look at the bottom half of the draw and the return of Nick Kirios, he's the number five seed he will play Seng in the first round. Very fun to see Keeg's back in action after the US Open. Winner of that match takes on either a Qualifier or Matchesack in the second round. Then we've got Chariots taking on Quali. Winner of that match takes on either Duckworth on the number three seed Fritz in the second round. Then we've got the number seven seed Shapovalov taking on Johnson. Winner of that match takes on a Qualifier because we've got two Qualies going at it in the first round. Then we've got Nakashima taking on Mochizuki. Winner of that match takes on either Kokonakis on the number two seed Nori in the second round. Tough first round for Cam Nori, but could get some interesting matchups in the quarter finals potentially Kirios Fritz. Could be a really fun matchup. Then we've got Shapo or Nori in the quarter finals potentially. Or we could even get something like Nori vs Kirios in the semifinals Fritz vs Nori in the semis. I mean there's some really interesting matchups in this one. Let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win this one. Of course Kirios is going to be on the radar, Tiafo. Maybe he can win the biggest tournament of his life after having a very impressive couple of months winning the Labor Cup for Team World and also making the semifinals of the US Open or maybe Kasparud can further prove that he can play on hardcourts by making a run here. Let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win this event.


The floor may not be in the robot. Greetings. I guess I should say up front that I'm new here, so be patient with me, as I don't know all the rules or etiquette or what, but... A friend of mine linked me to this board after I told him the story, and showed him the materials I'm about to share with you.  Whatever. I'm motivated to share this stuff and need to do so anonymously, for reasons which will become clear. Technically, I'll be breaking the law, but if I understand how this place works, this thread will disappear in a day or so anyway. Here's the deal. I am a production editor at a small independent publisher in the US. I won't say which or where, so don't ask, as I'd like to keep my job. The pay isn't that great, but it's an easy gig, and I like the people I work with.  The kind people flip through when they're bored, but almost nobody ever reads cover to cover. Bland pictorial histories of certain cities or states that sell well in regional gift shops. The occasional book of maps or a biography. A few museums outsource their gallery catalogues to us. That kind of thing. The work is boring, but it's steady and we get enough jobs, and our books make enough money to stay afloat, which is a lot more than most small presses can say these days. Because we've been around a while, our name is somewhat known to history buffs, and people who think they're an expert on such-and-such town in nowhere, Idaho or some esoteric topic nobody really cares about. We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts from people that really shouldn't be writing books and unsolicited CDs full of photographs from people that shouldn't be taking pictures. Because we're small, and don't have a separate acquisitions editor position, the job of going through this slash pile gets passed around the office. Very rarely, somebody will find something worth pursuing and pitch it to the rest of us, but our senior editor publisher gets the final say. For the last nine months I've been working more or less non-stop on a book that everybody at the office was pretty excited about. Our copy editor found it during his turn with the pile. An old guy I won't name had contacted us out of the blue, and offered us the chance to publish his rare archival photo collection, provided we treat the subject matter with the respect and seriousness he felt it deserved. To use his term, and what was going to be the book's title, the photos were all anomalies. That is to say, they depicted something out of the ordinary or otherwise inexplicable, something that usually had an equally interesting story to go along with it. Most of them were from the first half of the 20th century. Like I said, it's not the kind of thing we normally publish, but the few samples the guy sent in with his pitch letter were pretty compelling, and once we had seen the rest of them, heard a few of the stories, and realized that none of these pictures were widely known, we knew we had something that would get people's attention. The format was going to be simple and classy, with a lot of white space and breathing room. Each photo would appear as a high-quality print on the right-hand page, followed by a blank left-hand page, and then a couple paragraphs to caption each photo on the following right-hand page. From the very beginning, the guy was a nightmare to work with, and the job took forever because he refused to send in more than one document at a time. He would send me certified mail, I would get it, scan it, and mail it back certified, and only then would he send the next one. He seemed to think he had an extremely valuable collection and was hugely paranoid about losing it, so he only risked one item at a time. In the end we spent so much money on mailing costs that it would have been cheaper to fly me to where the old guy lived with a scanner and a laptop.  Somebody had offered him a large sum of money for the photos, way more than we were offering for the book rights, on the condition that the book gets shit-canned, and the photos stay out of the public eye. We demanded he come in for a face-to-face and tried to reason with him and cater to his pride and desire for scholarly acclaim, and for a few days it seemed like it had worked. But when he got back home, he flip-flopped again and started cursing out the and my senior editor on the phone, demanding we shelve the book. He hired a lawyer who came up with some BS to void his contract, and then he threatened us with a lawsuit that would bankrupt us if we went ahead with the project and lost. To add insult to injury, the law firm sent this annoying little IT guy to our office to make sure the materials were wiped from our computers. Because the vast majority of it existed on my machine, and I had spent literally months of my life on the project, I felt, and still feel the most violated and bitter about the whole thing. Somebody should benefit from all that work. Hence my reasons for coming here. Unfortunately, I don't have the high-resolution scans I made of the photos, but I did keep working drafts of the original captions and 14 medium-rest placeholder thumbnails that Quark created, as I was laying out the original version of the book. Don't ask me why we're still using Quark. It's what we know and what we paid for a long time ago. I'm not supposed to, but I occasionally take home the working Quark files to tweak on my home machine. The full file, with the full res images embedded, gets way too large and unwieldy to bring home with the most of the time I'm just experimenting with fonts and layout options anyway, so I don't embed the images until the end.  You folks will be the beneficiaries of that. Just to be clear, I don't claim anything with regards to the veracity and provenance of these photos. I'm not here to convince you they're real. I'm just putting them out there, because I think they deserve to be seen and not get in some rich pricks private collection. The Cullinwood Fire. This is the last known photo taken inside the Litview School in Cullinwood, Ohio, before it was consumed by fire on March 4, 1908, killing 172 students, two teachers, and one rescuer. The fire started when a ceiling joist ignited from a nearby steam pipe. Flames blocked escape routes, leading to panic, and a stampede that trapped a large number of victims in a stairwell, where they were cooped alive. Additional casualties were incurred when burning students jumped from second and third story windows. Everyone in this photo perished, except for Mr. Olsen, seated at the far right in the back row. The spectral artifacts in the photo remained unexplained. Charlie Noonan's Last Interview Charlie Noonan was an amateur folklorist who traveled throughout the South and Southwestern United States during the early years of the 20th century, collecting tall tales and stories of the supernatural. According to his wife, Ellie, Charlie was told a story one day by an Oklahoma farmer about a strange woman who lived alone on an isolated property in the penhandle. The farmer claimed the woman was not a woman at all, but something else, something that kept its true nature beneath the headscarf and was never seen without a large dog by its side. Noonan was apparently intrigued enough to try searching for the woman during one of his research road trips. He was never seen again. Ellie Noonan was later contacted by a Tulsa pawnbroker who remembered reading about her husband's disappearance in the papers after finding his name engraved on a camera sold to him by an itinerant. The pawnbroker returned the camera, and Mrs. Noonan had the film inside developed in the hopes of finding a clue as to his whereabouts. This was the only photo on the roll. Unfortunately, neither the location of the property nor the name of the farmer who told him the story was recorded in Noonan's notes. The death of John Ulstead. This prophetically torn photograph depicts a regimental color guard of the Union army one month before they marched into battle at Antium, September 1862. The gentleman on the far right, named John Ulstead, had the right side of his face and right arm blown off by a cannon fire at the start of those hostilities. It isn't known exactly when the damage to the photo occurred. The X-Men of New Orleans. Eduardo was an unsuccessful French photographer and inventor who traveled throughout the U.S. during the first two decades of the 20th century, trying to drum up interest and investors for a device that added timer and automatic exposure features to the X-Popular line of folding brownie cameras. During his travels he took thousands of automated photos to test and refine his invention. Often he would wake up early, set up a hidden camera in an inconspicuous spot on the streets of whatever city he happened to be in, and then walk to a nearby cafe or bar so that he could capture candid scenes of daily life to remember his travels by. The best of these photos were selected by Marble's one and only gallery show in Paris, 1924. Unfortunately, Marble died penniless and unknown in 1955 and it was left to his daughter Jean to sort through the boxes and boxes of photos he left behind to see what should be kept and what could be discarded. During this process she came across this photo taken in New Orleans on the morning of October 28, 1919, a few hours before Marble boarded a steership and returned to France.  This prejudice made him cast aside and overlook what was probably the most important photo he ever took. What makes this photo so special? The night before it was taken, the notorious and still unidentified serial killer known only as the X-Men of New Orleans died his last murder, hacking Mike Pepitone to death in his bedroom and then fleeing the scene, just as Pepitone's wife was discovering the body. Could this be him returning to his residence? It's impossible to say, but if it is, the image appears to belie the legend based on the shaky testimony of Pauline and Mary Bruno and prevailing prejudice of the time that only a black man was capable of such savagery. The Grand Caverns cryptids. This photo was taken in 1895 by an amateur spelunker photographer named Oran Jeffries while exploring an unmatched section of Grand Caverns in southwestern Virginia. At the time it was taken, Jeffries was conducting photographic experiments using super long exposures to see if anything at all could be captured in the total absence of light, otherwise known as cave darkness. He would situate himself on level ground, extinguish his lantern, and then open the lens of his homemade box camera for as long as he could stand the darkness. During one of these experiments, he heard something approached from the deeper recesses of the cave. Frightened, Jeffries abandoned his experiment and set off one of the glit-slitched flashes he used for taking traditional photos underground. According to the reports he later gave to a local newspaper, Jeffries saw three humanoid creatures staring at him from the shadows and took off running in the other direction and didn't stop running until he was top-side. Several days later, he returned with three other men to retrieve his box camera. This is the image that was recorded on the film Inside. The Harlow Twins. 1948 Evergreen Park, Isle, outside Chicago.  During the collision, the cars spun in such as a way as to impact two additional vehicles. Tammy Harlow survived but the boys were ejected through the windshield and killed instantly. A crime scene photographer from the local paper took this shot as a crew of volunteers worked frantically to free John Downing, the driver of the Chrysler. It appears that little Billy and Stevie stuck around to watch. The Sorenson Tragedy. The Sorensons were a Danish family who immigrated to the United States sometime between 1905 and 1906.  Three more children, Simone, Frick and Mathilde, Center, Wright and in the wagon, respectively, soon followed. This photo, taken in 1916, captures all four of the children a few weeks before the tragedy. The three eldest kids were apparently playing fort in the hay barn and must have fallen asleep. Their father, Nicholas, drove a wooden hay-sweep into the pile and dismembered all three in locations accurately suggested by the flaw in the photo. Mathilde, the youngest, was inside the house with her mother at the time and not hurt. According to the son of a neighbor later interviewed by the offer, the donkey later died in equally hideous fashion by getting its head caught in a barbed wire fence and merely decapitating itself in the frenzy to get free. This final detail could not be corroborated. The specter of Viola Peers. Viola Peers was a well-born spinster who lived alone in the small rural town of McCaseville, Georgia. She was much loved in her community for her charitable contributions to the Baptist Church, the soup kitchen, and the local orphanage, especially during the Depression, when those institutions subsisted almost entirely on her larges. In July 1935, Viola was brutally raped and murdered by a drifter named Tom Cullen who had worked briefly at the nearby copper refinery. Cullen proceeded to stay on in Viola's house and savage her corpse for an additional 17 days before he was caught and captured. A posse of enraged locals stormed the county jail, took Cullen, and lynched him from the old bridge over the Taco River. This photo was taken by Garrett Killian, a witness to the lynching, and caused quite a stir when it was published a few days later in the Atlantic Constitution. To most, it suggested that Viola's spirit achieved some measure of peace by attending her killer's execution, but some twisted minds saw in her for lorn countenance alonging to get one last look at her one and only lover. The Ghost of Sarah Eustace Danbury State Hospital, formerly Danbury State Lunatic Asylum, was a Kirkbride-style psychiatric hospital built in 1874 on what was then an isolated site in rural Massachusetts. Like all Kirkbridge Asylums, it was famous for its Gothic architecture and its use of now outdated medical techniques to treat insanity. Danbury's is often cited as the birthplace of the prefrontal lobotomy. Danbury's has several other claims to fame. It was the inspiration for the fictional Arkham Sanatorium that appeared in several stories by HP Lovecraft, and which, in turn, inspired the Arkham Asylum in the fictional Batman universe. It was also where the cult horror film Session 9 was filmed. That film put the vast network of tunnels beneath Danbury's two goods in a magic effect. It's no accident the filmmakers chose to use the tunnels as rumors of their haunting had dogged Danbury's for over a hundred years. The most famous story concerns Sarah Eustace, a patient who escaped her lord in 1955 and snuck into the tunnel system. Despite multiple searches and a weak long lockdown of the asylum, Sarah was never seen again. It was assumed she died down there, lost, thirsty, and alone. A nurse at Danbury's named, Bale Walloy, became obsessed with Sarah's story and spent many of her off hours searching the tunnels for her remains. Though she never found a body, she did snap his photo in late 1966, which suggests Sarah Eustace walks the Danbury's tunnels to this very day. The Stevenson family portrait. Who says ghosts don't have a sense of humor? The Stevenson's were a wealthy Boston family, proud of the industry and longevity with which most the clan was blasted. This portrait, taken in 1945, was an effort to gather the oldest Stevenson's, together with one of the youngest. Emilia, center, aged 102, was granted the honor of matriarch while little Ophelia was the token child at 18 months. What the Stevenson's did not realize until this photo was developed was that they had been joined that day by one of their deceased. James Pullman Stevenson, 1835-1932, seated at left between his niece Jenny and his cousin Alfred, was easily identified by several of those present and remembered fondly as a rascally uncle, known for pranks and dirty jokes. The Disappearances of Mrs. Yerno During her later years, Mrs. Yerno would take a walk every evening at dusk around her beloved neighborhood in Norwich, Connecticut. On November 12, 1945, she set out as usual and never returned. Extensive searches were conducted by a large team of volunteers and the Norwich Police Force, but no sign of her was ever found. Three years later, Mrs. Yerno was found squatting in front of a neighbor's house without a mark on her body and imperfect health. When asked where she had been, Mrs. Yerno wasn't able to understand the question. From her point of view, no time had passed at all. Against the advice of her neighbors and her doctor, she refused all medical treatment and resumed her life as if nothing had ever happened, including her nightly strolls. Another neighbor snapped this shot of her in the fall of 1938. Clouds of smoke from piles of burning leaves give it an appropriately eerie feel. On the same date in November 1940, five years after her initial disappearance, Mrs. Yerno vanished again. This time she was never seen again. The fate of Sally York The 1912 threshing of little Sally York, aged nine, in the cotton loom of the North Fork textile mill, was one of a handful of such accidents that helped legislators push through the Keating Owning Act of 1916, the first child labor law in American history. From the time of the accident, until the mill's closing four decades later, workers consistently complained of cold spots, strange noises, and sudden taps on the shoulder when nobody was near. The mill's foreman never paid these complaints any mind until this photograph surfaced in 1932. It was taken by a traveling photographer named Benny Johnson, who promptly sold it to the North Fork Gazette for an unprecedented $10. The mill had shut down for the Christmas holidays and was empty at the time. The photo was later blamed for the closing of the mill, though the Great Depression was the more likely cause of that. Lily Palmer's eyes Lily Palmer was not quite for when she experienced what her doctors would later call an acute onset of sensory hallucinations. This photo, taken by Lily's mother Annette on Halloween night 1952, purportedly captures the arrival of her disorder. Lily and her Filipino nanny war setting out for a round of trick or treating when the child suddenly screamed and began to claw at her eyes. It was some time before she was calm enough to speak, but when asked what she saw, Lily repeatedly spoke about things crawling in her eyes. Several days later, while unsupervised in her bedroom, Lily punctured both of her eyes with one of her mother's knitting needles. After receiving medical treatment, she was evaluated and committed and remained institutionalized for the rest of her life, first Bellevue, on the east side of Manhattan, and later at the Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, where she remained until she died of heart attack in March 2001. A call to one of her former caregivers at Rockland, confirmed that Lily's episodes were mostly traumatic and around Halloween night, but for the majority of her life, she could be heard begging and pleading with the staff to help her get these things out of her eyes. The Trinity Deception This is one of several famous photographs taken of the first ever nuclear detonation. Conducted by the U.S. Army on July 16, 1945, in the White Sands Proving Ground, located in the Jordan and Adel Mordo Desert, about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the setting off of this implosion design plutonium device, the same method used in the U.S. Fat Band device dropped on Magasaki, ushered in the atomic age and the eventual arms race between the United States and Russia. Only a handful of people were aware that this photo was cropped before it was ever released to the public and they are all now dead. One of them was the original photographer who gave the offer a copy of the original on the condition that it be kept out of the public eye until such a time that the citizens of the world could handle the ramifications of what it depicts. The offer remains uncertain whether this criteria has been met, but given that he likely owns the last extant copy, he has decided his responsibility rests with the truth.