Is it OK now? Oh, thank you. So on this session, we are talking about how to achieve the load latency NFV with the OpenStack. And I'm Yu Hongjie. I'm from the Intel Open Source Technology Center. I've been working on the hypervisor, KVM, and also on the Nova. So currently, I'm working on the KVM for NFV project. So this is a project on the OP NFV site. And we will talk about it later. So I can give some very small background introduction to where we come to this topic. So as I will talk later, the KVM for NFV project is to provide a hypervisor, or maybe a real-time hypervisor, to the OP NFV usage scenario. And one major purpose is to achieve the very low latency NFV. And we have a whole bunch of test cases running on our lab. So because we began our work last year, at that time, the whole Nova and the Neutron is ready for the load latency NFV. So we have to use the batch scripts to achieve our purpose. We have about 20 batch files to do our testing. So it's easy to maintain and to change. Especially when we begin to do more and more work on the testing, like run, launch, maybe 10 and 20 virtual machines at the same time, and still testing the latency result. It seems to be quite difficult. That's the reason we tend to open stack to hope to make sure all test cases are open, or the open stack to be more automatic. And also there will be, in the same way, as the OP NFV test CICD process. So the investigation and all try to come to this topic. So the agenda. Firstly, I will talk about the NFV and the network latency. And then I will deeper dive into detail why the network latency will be a issue on the NFV side. And then I will talk about how to achieve the load latency NFV. And in the end, I will give some example of how to set up the whole stack, including the hypervisor, the virtual switch. The open stack is the whole thing to achieve the load latency NFV. So first is the NFV on the network latency. So as everyone knows, the network latency is very important. So for different network service, maybe the importance will be different. And also the impact will be different. And also the requirement of different network function will also be different. For example, for the real IP service, if the network latency is too long, maybe the most current will be bad. And normally, it says that the latency should be less than 150 milliseconds. And for the interactive game, like the online game, if the latency is too long, maybe the game will have to wait for a long time for the response from the game server. And it will impact the user appearance. And normally, maybe it should be less than 100 milliseconds. And for some like base station, depends on which layer of the protocol we are talking, sometimes the latency should be less than one millisecond. And some extreme scenario, like the algorithmistic trading, which is like using the automatic program to do the stock exchange. On this scenario, maybe the latency requirement will be sometimes tens or hundreds of microseconds. And the latency, if there are some very long latency, even the whole stock exchange will fail and the profit will be impacted as a range of money. So you can see the latency is really important. And also I want to emphasize that when I talk about latency, it's about end-to-end latency. For example, take as a real IP service as an example. When one people calling from Compute A to the Compute B, they'll maybe have several network function load that will be involved. It may be including two computer load are end-to-end, some are edge router and some call router. So the end-to-end latency means all the latency happens in these five machines. In total, it should be less than 150 milliseconds. So for each load, maybe the budget will be only less than 30 milliseconds. So it's important, right? And also the number will be much lower than the 150. Another one is the latency is related to throughput. But normally it's not so strictly related. In most of time, it should be two dimensions of the network performance. And also come to the NFV and the network latency. So I think the NFV is very hard on this of six-star meter and everyone is talking about the NFV. So by understanding, basically the NFV is a change to the traditional network function deployment. Traditionally, the network function will be deployed in the hardware platform like the hardware firewall, hardware slot or switch. And on the NFV scenario, the network function is not running on the hardware. Instead, it's running on a virtual machine. And the virtual machine will be hosted by the high-volume service. And because of the virtualization, it brings a whole bunch of benefits, for example, the flexibility and the manageability. With the virtual machine, it will be very easy to create more and more virtual machines if the requirement for network transaction is increased.  And also because there's no need to host so many hardware platforms like the hardware firewall and the router, the cost of the network administrator, the cost of the air conditioning and the power will all be reduced. And the most important is with the virtual machine, it will be easy to create a new virtual machine. So there's no need for the design, testing and the verification of the hardware platform, which will be a very long time, maybe several years. But with the virtual machine, it will be much easier to do the testing and the deep knowledge. So it will decrease the time to market or not. But also the AF will have so many benefits. It still have a bunch of issues. And one of the major issues will be the latency. Especially if we talk about the summer scenario like the latency requirement will be 100 microseconds, the latency is really a summer thing we have to consider seriously on the AF side. So in this session, I will talk about the different analysis where the network administrator comes from. So this is a very simple example of the open-stack environment. So on this environment, you can see there will be VNF VCPO, which means the virtual network function. And it is in fact hosted on a virtual machine. And on this virtual network function, there will be some network function to run like the router or firewall. It will receive the packet from the virtual leak. And then, somehow, it will send the packet to the virtual leak also. But the time from the virtual leak to the network function on the back is mostly similar as what happened on the physical network function. But there will be some extra time that happens from the packet received by the hardware leak on the real platform to how the packet is received by the virtual leak. So we can see, this is a very generic open-stack deployment, right? There will be one component, the OVS kernel module, which will do the most virtualization of the work. There will be the KVM V-host, which is the hypervisor to the virtual machine. And also, you have to notice, the virtual VNF VCPO is in fact running on the same CPU core together with some other VCPO, which means probably there's some non-VNF VCPO or some IAPS or some service. So in this situation, the network comes from the whole bunch of the flow from the packet received by the leak to see the packet received by the virtual leak. And I will give them more analysis from the packet flow from the view. Firstly, for example, when the packet received by the leak, right, the leak have to tell the OVS kernel module, there's a packet arrived. It will go through the interruptor. But at that time, maybe the OVS kernel module is not running, or maybe the CPU core is running for service or not the higher priority or interruptor. So there will be some latency happen for the packet to, for the hardware leak to notify the OVS kernel module of the through the interruptor. And even the interruptor is received by the kernel module because normally in Linux kernel space, the packet is handled by the software IACO context. But the software IACO may get another delay because software IACO can be preempted by other higher priority interruptor or by other software IACO. So second latency. And the third one is because for the OVS kernel module, it will use the generic kernel network stack. Maybe you know the kernel stack is not optimized for the NAFV packet processing scenario. It's handling of the buffer. The packet queue is not so efficient from the packet processing point of view. So there will be a, the third latency will be the kernel stack. And the first one will be the, on the current open stack environment, there will be multiple bridge be created to handle the packet forwarding mostly for the security purpose. For example, in a generic or neutral environment that will be the integration bridge and also the physical bridge. So the packet have to be copied between these different bridge and they will bring another layer of the latency. So in the end, after all of the latency, the packet is received and handled by the OVS kernel module and then send it to the KVM and the Vhost. But here it will come another whole bunch of the latency. The first one is for the packet to be received by the Vhost, the OVS kernel module have to notify the Vhost and at that time it may go through the virtual interrupt. But it is in current or virtualization for the KVM and the same, the interrupt the container is emulated so they will bring another branch of the latency. Normally the emulation of the interrupt the container may bring 20 microseconds delay in some situation. So in the end, after finishing the virtualization overhead the packet is received by the OVS kernel and we try to put the packet to the guest. But in the time another latency may happen because on the kernel space there will be a lot of the threads of the interrupt or ISR. So it's most importantly, maybe the VCB is not running at that time and it's being pre-empted by some kernel thread like the RCU kernel thread or by some ISR like the timer ISR or maybe some other ISR thread. So this is another latency. And luckily, for example, we have the VTPU not to be preempted by any kernel thread not to be preempted by any ISR. Another chance is because as we said, the VIN FVCPU is sharing the same CPU core together with other non-VIN FVCPU or another generic application or maybe in some situation maybe the OpenStack Nova computer service is running on the same CPU core. So at that time the VTPU is scheduled out already and the other application is running so they'll cause some VTPU scheduling cost. And another one, in the end the VTPU is running that it's not preempted, it's not scheduled out. The VTPU received the packet, right? It will begin to handle the packet just like in the physical network function scenario. They will still have another issue with the virtualization overhead. For example, when the VTPU is running the network function it may cause some transaction to the KVM hypervisor to finish the virtualization for some device model, for example. So that transition may cause, it means the most fast KVM transition will take 10 microseconds in which hardware. So that is still not the latency cost. And in the end, there's another one is hardware short-contention. For example, maybe there's some, as you know in current CPU architecture there's some CPU cache will be shared by multiple CPU core. So although the VTPU is running on this CPU core but it have to contain it with other CPU, other application running on other CPU core for the S3 cache, for the memory bandwidth, for the TRB everything. So when FVC have to contain it, the hardware is solved with other application. So you can see, we analysis the packed flow from the hardware leak to tear the packet received by the virtual hardware leak and the virtual IO leak. And you can see in this process there are so many that latency may happen and each latency will impact the final result run. So on this page, we try to analysis from the packed process point of view. And on the next page, I will try to category the latency type. So basically I think there are two type of the latency. The one type is the virtual contention. The result may include in the hardware CPU the physical cache like the S3 cache or TRB or memory or even IO for example if the leak is shared by multiple CPU. And the contention will come from the other VTPU, other application, other service or even kernel service like the RCU callback thread, the ISR on the kernel. So a whole bunch of people we are trying to contain the hardware result with the VNF CPU and the impact latency. Another type of the virtualization overhead is the, a lot of type of the latency comes from the virtualization overhead. So basically because the virtualization is in different software, the CPU memory on IO is supported by the KVM hypervisor and the network may come from the virtual switch or in some situation the next bridge or maybe other open source or other kernel source virtual switch. So the virtual may come from the CPU and the IO virtualization for example as I said interrupt the controller is kind of emulated. So all the interrupt the controller access will cause the overhead. And the network is sure every packet of the copy between multiple bridge it will cause some latency. So there's another cost of the latency, the result of the content on the virtualization overhead. So how can we achieve the non-latency NFV? Still on back to the reason of the latency rise. So for the result of contention, we can do several things. For example, we can reduce the contention cost. That means for example if the, when the packet arrived for the VNF CPU but there is another application is running. If we can reduce the time the switch from another application to the virtual VCPU it is sure to be, sure to reduce the latency. Another one will be like the priority. We can release the VCPU thread priority. So even there is other application waiting for running the VNF CPU will get a higher priority and can service the packet faster. And on some extreme situation maybe we want to exclusively assign some resource to the virtual CPU. And I think in previous session we have several talk about the CPU pinning, the SIRV, all of this to the purpose to assign the resource to the virtual CPU exclusively. And for the virtualization overhead, there's for the CPU and I will say for example we can use the advanced version of Feature that provided in the nature hardware for the Intel platform to have more and more hardware feature to enhance the virtualization. And also can we should enhance the KVM hypervisor or RZNIC hypervisor to reduce the virtualization overhead. And for the network stack there's it can be a severe option. For example we can use the SIRV to reduce the virtualization overhead. There will still be some although it seems the SIRV can evolve all the virtualization overhead. But if we understand the whole process even with the SIRV experiment there will be still be 10 or 20 microseconds of delay because of the interrupt of the virtualization. Another choice is to use some software mechanism like the software OBS-DPTK to enhance the network virtualization. We'll talk about it in future. So to achieve, as you can see the whole network comes from the virtual switch, comes from the hypervisor, comes from the content of the hardware resource, right? So to really re-achieve the known NFV we'll have to provide a systematic solution for the whole stack from the hardware to the virtual switch, to the hypervisor, to the application, everything have to be done. Of course, open stack. And I will talk about this one by one. So this is in the right side of the picture of what will be done in the end to achieve the extreme known latency environment. And this is in fact what we are doing for our KVM for infrared testing. So you can see on this scenario every virtual network function, virtual CPU were exclusively on one CPU car. All the other applications and other virtual CPU thread will be moved to other CPU car. And even the other kernel thread and other kernel is ISR will be moved to other CPU car. Of course, in generic CPU or Linux it's not so easy to achieve that. We'll use some special analytics to support and remove all the storage to the other CPU car. And also the KVM kernel model is not used anymore. Instead, a user space over DPTK OS will be used to pulling the storage to achieve the latency, a higher latency. And the hardware side will also have a whole bunch of enhancements. Yes, so as we said, we have to do the full static or full stack systematic solution to achieve the known latency. It's basically extremely known latency in NFV. So with this scenario, for example, we can just assign a unique card to the virtual network function. So we can reduce the cost or not because as we said the CPU have no contention with any other kernel thread or any other application. And the unique device is also right. So the latency will be very low, maybe just 20 or 30 microseconds. Another solution, as we said, is the OVS-GPTK packet will go through from the hardware linker card to the OVS-GPTK PMG thread and go to the VCPOG directory. So we are involved in latency, the soft echo latency, the kernel stack and also the packet forwarding in the between multiple bridge. So firstly, we have a look of the advanced hardware platform. VTD and SRV, as you can see, it's not so advanced anymore. It has been here for a long time. So with the VTD and SRV, we can reserve the IO device for the virtual machine to our water contention for the IO site. And the PI is some new feature as it is on hardware platform. But the purpose is to inject or interrupt directly to the guest. So we reduce the interrupt of the virtualization overhead. And in this way, it's very important for the SRLV. It will, in the end, remove all the virtualization overhead for the SRLV. And the CAT is a new hardware feature that is in the brotherware that is released recently. So with the CAT, the idea of the CAT is to reserve part of the cache for the VNF, VCPO. So even there are some other applications running on another CPU call try to contain the CPU cache, which is the VNF, VCPO. Because of the CAT, the part of the cache will be reserved for the VNF, VCPO. And the other application cannot be used, cannot be used any more. So they achieve the cache and they never reservation. And on top of the hardware platform, the real-time hybrid is also important. And generically, we're talking about the Linux side, Linux and KVM. Of course, I know there are some effort on the main side for the real-time hybridizer. I have no idea about the KVM, whether VMware or Hyper-V. So to achieve the non-latency NFV, there's a whole bunch of enhancements that have to be down on the real-time hybridizer. For example, the real-time scheduler. With the real-time scheduler, we can achieve the higher priority for the VCPO thread. And also the full-premises support, that means for example, even if the application is running, when the application is running and the package achieves the thread, the VCPO thread will immediately preempt that running application and begin handling the package so it will reduce the contention cost. And also with the real-time hybridizer, all the current activity, like the ISR, soft IRQ, everything will be done by the thread context. And this thread can be moved to the other CPU core and it will not contain the VINF VCPO. Basically, we achieve the real CPU reservation for the VCPO thread. And of course, CPU attenuation to attenuate the CPU for the guest. So the scheduler will not try to schedule any other application or any other VCPO to the same CPU core. There's a whole bunch of features. In fact, we achieve different level of the latency. And also I'll give some simple introduction of the KVM for infrastructure that we are working on. This is a project based on the upstream real-time Linux kernel. And we have tuned the kernel configuration very carefully to achieve the latency. And also there are some patch that will be on this tree and will be pushed to upstream also to even reduce the latency. For example, there are several enhancements for the KVM hypervisor to the VFIO to reduce the latency. This KVM for NFV has been included in the B-release of the OPMFV. And in the series, we hope that the whole testing with the open stacker support line, the whole testing will be integrated to the OPMF test framework and the CSED. And the project, in fact, I have a whole bunch of the active contributor from the OPMF community. Intel is a one major player and Nokia contributed a lot also and WinRiver also contributed to it. And so while we finish the talk of the hardware platform and the hypervisor, which is the most important part of for the CPU and the IO side. And for the network side, we will do the SIOV to achieve the very low latency NFV. But it has been discussed in last sessions. SIOV have some issue like the migration of the security group. And another choice is to use the software accelerator like the DPTK OVS for the low latency NFV. For those people who have no idea of what the DPTK, they can give us a very short introduction. The DPTK is a library that is first introduced by Intel and now is supported by the open source community. The idea is to improve the package processing on the Intel architecture. And now, of course, it's also supported ARM and other architecture. Initially it's only for Intel. And the DPTK will bypass all the Linux network stack. And we just said the kernel stack will bring some latency to the OVS kernel module. And also with the DPTK, the user space can access hardware registry directly. The DPTK will have one pony mode thread running in the user space to it continues the pony if there are any package arrived. So with this pony mode, we awarded the Intel of the latency. And also it has its own implementation for the queue and the buff management that is basically to achieve, to award the network stack on the kernel and to enhance the latency. So with the DPTK is a generic library and it kind of has been used to enhance the open virtual switch. So here's an example of how the OVS or DPTK OVS is working. So you can see there's a user space or PMG thread which will continue supporting the interrupts if there are any package arrived on the hardware network card. And if there are any, it will pass the package directly from the user space to the guest. So there will be no contact switch from the kernel KVM-V host to the virtual IONIC anymore. So with the PMG thread, with the code buff management and with the user space of the host, it really achieves very low latency in FVM. And the hardware platform, the hypervisor and the DPTK OVS is a low level functionality to support the low latency in FVM. And another layer will be the open stack layer for the orchestration. So for the NOVA or for the computer side, there will be maybe two effort. The first one is the NOVA have to contract the computer very carefully. For example, the NOVA should know what's the physical CPU that has been reserved for the virtual machine exclusively. And then when it tries to assign the isolated CPU or reserve the CPU to the virtual machine, they will make sure the CPU will not be assigned to multiple virtual machine or multiple virtual CPU. And also when the NOVA try to create the virtual machine, it will make sure the VINF virtual machine will get the reserve the resource on occasion. And also the VTB thread will get a very high priority scheduled schedule. So it will be scheduled very hypervisor at the normal thread. And of course, there are some, it makes sure the NUMA support, the whole page support. And also for neutral side, it have to support the VTNIC port corresponding to the SR-IOVNIC. And also it have to support the DBDK OVS and the virtual user scenario. So on this session, I've talked about how we should do the full stack implementation to achieve the very known things in FV. It includes the hardware platform, the real-time hypervisor, the DBDK enhanced OVS, and also it requires support from the open stack, for the NOVA and the neutral to achieve the orchestration. And so we can have a look of the setup and the configuration. In fact, the configuration of the whole stack is not so easy. As I said, we have about 26 ribs to do the overall testing. And for example, for the ARTNICs test setup, we have to support a static parameter to reserve the CPU for the VNF and to move a whole bunch of the kernel thread like the SR-IO callback thread or the timer thread to ARTNIC reserve the CPU. And on the run time, when the kernel is up, we'll have to change the interruptor affinity, change the watchdog, change the SR-IO callback thread affinity, the whole bunch of things. For the DBDK OVS, it's another whole bunch of story. For example, most of the distribution have no DBDK OVS at all. So we have to upgrade it to the DBDK OVS instead of the normal OVS. So we can use the mode DBDK. And also we have to arrange the whole PMD thread affinity very carefully. So for example, we don't want to have two pony-model threads on the same CPU call and the container with the ICS. So there's sure to bring a whole bunch of the data-connected things. But, unfortunately, all this whole configuration cannot be done by the OpenStack yet. We are still trying to figure out if the ironic can help us to automatically set up the whole configuration by the ironic project. But it's still only on the road. And the second one will be configuring the OpenStack. So we have to configure the computer loader. For example, as we said, the kernel parameter will specify what is the CPU that is reserved by the kernel for the VNF only. But we have to pass the information from the kernel to the OpenStack to the Nova. So the Nova will know the CPU from the CPU 3 to CPU 10 is reserved for the VNF with CPU only. And when the Nova tried to launch the VNF with CPU, it will know which CPU will be used. And also, if there were a track, for example, if we have 10 CPU reserved for the VNF scenario, right, the Nova have to know, for example, three physical CPU has been assigned to the virtual CPU already, so only seven left. And once the left CPU, for the future VNF with CPU, the whole thing has to be tracked very carefully by the Nova computer loader. And the Nova have to specify what should or not, what should or what should over any CPU over subscription. So we don't want it to VNF with CPU running on the same CPU right. So normally we have to set the CPU location ratio to be one, so there will be no virtual CPU on the same CPU card. And also we don't want it over subscription of the RAM. And for the PCI, we have to tell the OpenStack what's the PCI device that has been reserved by the kernel, especially for the VNF with CPU. So today they have to track the PCI divider element carefully. So this is the whole thing that has to be done by the computer loader. And also for the VM flavor, when the Nova try to create a VNF or a CPU, they have to, as we said, it has to specify a whole bunch of property for the VM. Have to specify, for example, what's the VCPU? This virtual machine will run. And what's the VCPU's rate of priority? Should it be a high priority, like the real-time priority, or the normal one? And should it be like the, should it, because as we said, the commu will be supported for the VCPU's rate of run. It also have to run the commu's rate carefully for the VCPU. So there are whole bunch of the VM flavor has to be specified for the VM creation. And we have to configure the Neutron side also for the DPTK OVS and SR-IOV. And in fact, pay our understanding of infligation, I think that the DPTK OVS support is still on the way. It should technically be ready by some several enhancement studio on pending. For example, currently the DPTK OVS security group is not managed yet. So although we can create the virtual machine with the DPTK OVS, but there will be no security group supported for the virtual machine. And also as I said, even currently with the DPTK OVS, there will be multiple bridge including the integration bridge, the physical bridge, tunnel bridge should be created by the Neutron or agent. So the package will still have to be forwarded between this multiple bridge. So I'm not sure if anyone is working to only one bridge on the Neutron agent so to achieve the very, very extreme in the network network scenario. So that was still something we haven't looked. And for the SR-IOV, I think Neutron is quite ready and has been working for a long time. So the whole config, this is a summary of whatever talk. We analysis the region of the network network latency in the NFV scenario. And also we analysis the whole workflow from the package received by the NECA card till the package is transformed to the virtual NECA card. The latency from the OVS kernel module to the hypervisor to the kernel threader machine to the other visible machine. So, and we also give our proposal of the full stack systematic solution to reduce the network latency. But here comes to some things called to action. So the first one is documentation. We really hope that the open stack project have a more clear documentation for how to set up the whole thing. In fact, when we do the investigation, I have to check the Nova source code to know what should we do, what's the reason or what's the meaning of the different Nova configuration or the VMAV configuration meaning. Luckily I know about the Nova source code but not everyone knows about that. So documentation is really important and I think it's something we have to do. And also is that we said currently to do the whole configuration is not so easy. The kernel parameter, the kernel run time configuration, the OVS, the DPDK, OVS, PMG threader affinity, the whole bunch of things I think kind of you have to be done manually before we use the open stack to launch. So this is also something we have to do more especially if we need to check if ironic we are supported. And another one is automatic netting test. Currently in either the open stack or the OPMFV have no testing plan or no test case to the latency of testing. And that may bring some issue that we don't know. So that's something I think we should do in future. And this is some reference to the configuration. The first one is the summer week for the KVM for FV project. It gave a very detailed steps by step from how to configure the BIOS, how to configure the kernel parameter, to configure the kernel run time environment. And the second one is the summer source code. In fact, this is the major source I have to check on how to set up the OVS, DPDK environment. It's on the GitHub. And I hope in future there will be more and more documentation of the OVS, DPDK. And the third one is about the SRIOV. Oh, the third one is about SRIOV. The third one is about how to tune the OVS, DPDK to achieve the latency. It's from the OVS official documentation. Okay, that's all. Good presentation. Thank you. I would like to know, since you mentioned Ionic, are you, Ionic only does the bare metal. So bare metal. Bare metal provisioning. Bare metal, okay. So are you looking at only bare metal provisioning in KVM for NFE? Or are you also looking at the virtualized implementation? Well, actually for bare metal, of course we can achieve very little latency, right? Compared to the virtualization, virtual machine environment. But I think that the reason is because if we are using the bare metal, we may miss a whole bunch with the flexibility and the manageability. So the reason we can't focus on the KVM virtualization scenario and also because we're picking our work for the testing of the KVM for NFE project. So we're picking, so we're all focusing more on the virtualization side and the KVM side. So another relevant question to use. Obviously, we are looking at low latency from different angle. One of them is live migration maybe. Another could be CloudLit, which is at the cloud, a VM at the edge of the cloud. VM? VM at the cloud, edge cloud. Okay, okay. So what I am thinking, okay, this is, we are planning to have a project called CloudLit under OpenStack for the tier two cloud. That is, you have the main cloud, you have the edge cloud and I'm looking at, can we tie these two together? CloudVit for NFE, let's say, I call it. Example, just a project name, let's say. Because you are dealing only with the CPU level optimization, I'm looking at network latency optimization or at least coordination between the two. You may not be able to do, speed of light is the limit, we know. That's what we can achieve. But even then, can we do some coordination in that? Maybe yes, but I can talk later about your project. Yeah, I think I'll come to you on that and I'd like to take your support. You can see, we also talk about the Neutron enhancement with the OBS GPGK. There's also some part of the network enhancement too for the low latency. But yes, of course, we can have more talk here. Thank you. Did you have any measurements of before and after for latency? In fact, what we compare is that, as we said, we have a whole bunch of scripts, right, to do the very key for arrangement. And also, we try to use the open stack to do the arrangement. So with the SRIOV scenario, basically, we get a similar environment with all the script that means the manual setup and the open stack setup. For the OBS GPGK, frankly speaking, we didn't finish all the setup yet because, as we can see, there are multiple bridge for the package from bridge 1, integrating bridge, to the fatigue bridge, to the tunnel bridge. So basically, the kind of OBS GPGK cannot meet our test requirement so we didn't try in future. But for the SRIOV scenario, yes. Basically, the open stack environment achieves a similar result as our script environment. And for the package forwarding, we do some very simple one, to run air to forwarding application on the virtual machine. And the latency should have been less than 15 microseconds. 15 microseconds? Yeah. As opposed to, what would it have been without the... If we don't do any optimization like the kernel thread, it have no optimization of the affinity, reservation. The number is a meaningless. More than one millisecond. Maybe you already alluded to this or maybe I just didn't understand as I'm not familiar with the real-time Linux project. But is the goal for these enhancements to be rolled into the existing KVM binary or would this be a parallel KVM binary-specific for an over-the-call for an affinity type functions? Our purpose is to enhance the KVM for the generic scenario. Maybe for them, there may be some special configuration because the KVM parameter is needed, but the purpose is to... It will be in the generic one. So our project will be pushed to upstream. Okay, good. Okay, thank you.


Hey, Psych2Goers. Do you find yourself having a hard time in the dating world? Do you feel like you're doomed to fail because you don't look a certain way? Being attractive isn't just about how you look. The way you act, how you treat others, and how you make them feel can all affect how attractive you appear to others.  Hopefully these few tips can help you believe in yourself again. Number one. Go out with a group of friends. Is there a group of people you usually hang out with? According to the cheerleader effect, an individual is more likely to be seen as more attractive when they're with a group of people than when they're on their own. The idea was first brought up in how I met your mother and was then backed up by multiple research studies. The cheerleader effect seems to happen because of the brain's tendency to summarize and quickly take in information. So your brain will just take in a summary of the group instead of focusing on one person at a time, including the level of attractiveness. If you're hoping to meet someone tonight, why not try going out with a group of friends? Number two. Make them laugh and laugh at their jokes. Are you good at making people laugh? According to Jeffrey Hall, a professor at communication studies at the University of Kansas, humor is an important factor when searching for a relationship. Being funny shows that you're agreeable and sociable. And it's also one of the main ways for men to figure out whether their partner likes them. One of his studies suggests that the more men tried to be funny and the more women laughed, the more the women's romantic interest increased. It's important to note that the opposite didn't hold true. Men's romantic interest did not increase when the women tried to be funny. Number three. Be reciprocal. Have you ever thought about how you show people that you like them? In psychology, reciprocal liking refers to the idea that you're more likely to like someone who likes you. It might sound simple, but oftentimes when you're crushing over someone, you may focus so much on worrying about your feelings and making yourself look good that you forget to show your interest at all. So the next time you see them, find a way to tell them that you like them. Pay them more compliments, give them more of your attention and laugh at their jokes. Let them know that you like them. Number four. Be kind. Do you worry that you don't look attractive enough? In an article from Psychology Today, attractiveness matters, but it's not everything. The study looked into the importance of physical attractiveness. Women and their parents rated other qualities such as level of ambition and kindness to be more important. So there's no need to put all of your efforts into your looks. Being respectful and kind to others can also add to your level of attractiveness. And number five. Open up your body language. How do you normally present yourself? Perhaps you often cross your arms and fold in on yourself. Or you like to take up a lot of space. A way to boost your attractiveness has to do with your body language. A research study looking at how body language influences strangers' perceptions found that those who used more expansive body language appear more attractive to others. This means taking up more space, expressing yourself by moving your limbs and practicing open poses. Remember that it's okay to take up space. Allow yourself to use your body and avoid crossing your arms or legs or putting your hands in your pocket. Do you think you'll try any of these tips? Are you trying to go back into the dating scene? How's it been so far? If you have any more tips or if we've missed anything, leave a comment down below. And if you found this video helpful, like and share it with friends that might find insight in it too. Remember to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell for more content. All the sources used are added in the description below. Thanks for watching. Until next time.


The very birth of the let's celebrate, let's educate, preparing for the future party came from a community partner that gave me an idea to educate seniors on Medicaid and Medicare and she said birthday party and I said oh birthday party and I just took it and I ran with it because that's what I like to do. When I talk to seniors sometimes they are, especially after they retire, they're at home, they have nowhere to go, their family is gone and I hear these stories at the parties and this was an opportunity for them to get out and to see what else extension has that they can connect with. We just want to love you, celebrate. I graduated from Auburn and was selling ADT security systems and I was looking for a job and I went to this couple's house and they said oh well there's a job hosting over at the courthouse and I went and checked it out, got an interview, was so excited and was hired. Really the only thing that I knew about extension at that time is a 4-H because I was in 4-H but when I got in and started looking at actually what I was going to be doing, serving the community, teaching adults, it just really took me to the next level of excitement for extension and I have loved it. Now I'm 25 years in and have just really enjoyed all of the time that I've spent educating and inspiring others throughout my career. Extension is an outreach tool that is just ideal for taking the needs of the community and mainstreaming them and resourcing those needs. The senior citizen birthday party program, it was an opportunity for us to, one, celebrate our seniors because a lot of times when you get to a certain age you don't have a birthday party and then also the couple that a lot of them don't understand that there are resources out there available for them that they could qualify for. So I thought this was a great opportunity to teach them on all of the resources like the Medicaid, the Medicare, all of the other health care benefits, the free attorney services. Over the year that we've had these birthday party programs we have enhanced them to see what other resources can those seniors benefit from. So now with that we have the Tuskegee University College of Nursing and Arbor University College of Nursing working together to help with these events. The seniors, some of them, it might have been a month, a couple of months since they had their blood pressure checked or their glucose, so this was an opportunity for the seniors to actually see what their current readings are. So if there was something that needed to be addressed they could have found it out here at the birthday party. What I have seen to happen with these parties and other programs that we have is when they come they tend to see how much they get out of it so they leave asking when is your next one. What else do you all do? My heart is to serve people, to serve with no strings attached. I don't want anything from you. I want something for you. So this birthday party is a social event too. It's an opportunity for them to get out of the house and it's educational. So it's a two for one. Who wouldn't want that? It's a win.


Penguin Random House Audio presents The Leopard is Loose by Stephen Harrigan, read for you by George Waddell. A note to readers. There really was a sensational leopard escape from the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City in 1950. To take advantage of some of my own childhood memories, I have moved the event forward in time several years and have done some minor tinkering with the chronology of certain TV shows or all-star baseball games. I've also set this novel to some degree within the matrix of my own extended family at a time when I, like Grady McClarty, was five years old. But The Leopard is Loose is very much a fictional enterprise, and especially so when it comes to the depiction of the two uncles in this novel. Their relentless demands of dramatic structure have required me to invent characters and saddle them with various flaws and afflictions, but I'm anxious that these fictional presences never be confused with the uncles for them in real life, who were such steadfast and selfless figures in the lives of two fatherless boys. To them, Joe Burnie, Bob Burnie, Paul D.D. Burnie, and Mike Burnie, this book is lovingly dedicated. Chapter 1 To the Oklahoma Historical Society My name is Grady McClarty. I'm seventy years old, the retired general manager of Wolf Camp Chevrolet in Midland, Texas, where I have resided for most of my life. I'm writing in response to a request I received from one of your archivists, Marguerite Talking Thunder, to record an oral history of the Great Leopard Escape that occurred in Oklahoma City when I was living there as a young boy in the early 1950s. I hope it won't disappoint you if I provide a written reminiscence instead of an oral one. I ordered a little digital recorder from Amazon and did my best to tell this story into it, but I've always found it difficult to order my thoughts when speaking out loud, and even though I tried recording myself in the garage out of the hearing of my wife, Jeanette, I still felt too conspicuous and self-conscious. For one thing, this is an intimate story about a little boy in his family and trying to tell it out loud meant always having to resist the temptation to make it bigger, to inflate it with a meaning it didn't have then, and I assume does not have now. Although of course the Leopard Escape was at the time a very big deal, and I and my family played a part in it, which is the reason you asked for my memories in the first place. This might turn out to be a lengthy document. Your request had the effect of knocking the lid off a big box of memories and reminding me that despite or the cause of a lifetime in the car business, I've always imagined a parallel existence for myself as a writer. Sample complete. Ready to continue?


This is FDA Patient Safety News. In this edition, a new stair-climbing wheelchair, warnings about asthma drugs containing salmeterol, more on drug name confusion, and a caution about drugs that may look like candy. These stories and more on this edition of FDA Patient Safety News. Welcome to the program. For the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, I'm Mark Barnett. I'm Anita Reiner. Let's start with some medical products FDA recently approved. FDA has approved a new powered wheelchair that can climb stairs, go up and down curbs, and operate on gravel, grass, and sand. It can also raise itself up so that the seated user can have an eye-level conversation with a standing person or can reach high shelves. It's called the Independence EyeBot 3000 Mobility System, and it's manufactured by Independence Technology. It works using a computerized system of sensors, gyroscopes, and electric motors. Mark, I've seen other devices that have some of these features like elevating the user. But this device does three things. It climbs the curbs and stairs. It does elevate the user. It also operates on uneven surfaces. So can anyone who currently uses a wheelchair use this device? No, there are some important restrictions. Users must have the use of at least one hand to operate the controls on the chair. They can't weigh more than 250 pounds, and they can't have medical conditions that increase their risk of bone fractures. They also must be able to sit upright and bend their knees so they can use standard foot rests. And it's important that they have the judgment to avoid obstacles that could cause a fall. In fact, patients have to be trained in using the chair, and they have to pass a test to prove they can operate it safely. And health professionals have to undergo special training to prescribe the chair. FDA recently approved a new drug called Ximera for people with a deficiency of alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor who also have evidence of emphysema. Alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor, also called alpha-1 PI or alpha-1 antitrypsin, is a blood protein that protects tissues from being digested by enzymes released during the inflammation process. Ximera, made by a Venice bearing LLC, is highly purified human alpha-1 PI derived from human plasma. It's administered intravenously. So if you have this deficiency, what's the clinical result? Well, deficiency of alpha-1 PI shows up most frequently as lung disease, but it can also affect the liver. How common is this? Possibly more common than some people might think. It's generally thought to be very rare, but some evidence suggests that about one in 3,000 individuals in the U.S. may have this deficiency. Most affected people are not aware of their condition. Aren't there other products on the market to treat this deficiency? Well, there are, and they're made by different companies. But the availability of this new product offers more choice and provides further safeguards against any possible disruption in the supply of these treatments. GlaxoSmithKline has added a new boxed warning and other safety information to the labeling for several drugs containing Sol-Meterol, a long-acting bronchodilator that's used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Those drugs include serovent inhalation aerosol, serovent discus, and advare discus. The new warning describes a small but significant increase in the risk of life-threatening asthma episodes or asthma-related deaths in patients who are taking Sol-Meterol. The new information comes from the so-called SMART study, a large placebo-controlled U.S. investigation of serovent. The study was designed to further investigate the safety of serovent, particularly whether it might cause rare but serious asthma-related adverse events. The trial compared the effects of adding Sol-Meterol versus a placebo to a patient's usual asthma therapy over 28 weeks. FDA and GlaxoSmithKline have analyzed the data, which includes about 13,000 patients each in the serovent group and the control group. There were 13 asthma-related deaths in the serovent group versus four in the control group. Subgroup analyses suggest that the risk may be greater in African-American patients than in Caucasians. FDA is emphasizing that the benefits of treating asthma and COPD with Sol-Meterol products continue to outweigh the potential risks when these drugs are used according to the instructions in the labeling. Patients should not discontinue treatment with serovent or adverse products without consulting with their physician because abruptly stopping these drugs can result in acutely deteriorating asthma control, which could be life-threatening. FDA points out that all asthma drugs, including Sol-Meterol, should be prescribed as part of a comprehensive plan that takes into account the severity of the patient's asthma and educates the patients about the disease and how it's treated. Here's an alert about the rabies vaccine, IMAVAX. The manufacturer, Aventus Pasteur, says that some of their old packages of IMAVAX are missing the vials of freeze-dried vaccine and they contain only a diluent syringe and two needles. Each box should include a vial of freeze-dried vaccine plus a diluent syringe and the two needles. If you stock this product in the older packages, which are gray boxes, Aventus Pasteur says you should open every box in your inventory to confirm that it contains the vaccine vial. And if you find a package where it's missing, contact the company. Pharmacia and Upjohn Company, a subsidiary of Pfizer Incorporated, has issued a letter to healthcare professionals alerting them to important new safety information about their growth hormone product, genotropin. One is used to treat children with growth failure due to Prader-Willi syndrome.  Genotropin is used in Prader-Willi patients to increase stature and improve the ratio of lean to fat tissue. Mark, why the new safety information? What's the problem? Well, the company has found out about seven fatalities worldwide among children who were treated with genotropin because they had Prader-Willi. Well, aside from all having Prader-Willi syndrome, did these children have any characteristics in common that made them more susceptible? They did share one or more of certain risk characteristics. These risk factors were severe obesity, a history of respiratory impairment or sleep apnea, or an unidentified respiratory infection. Male patients with one or more of these risk factors may be at greater risk than females. The package now states that growth hormone is contraindicated in Prader-Willi patients who are severely obese or who have severe respiratory impairment. The warnings go on to say that patients should be evaluated for upper airway obstruction before beginning treatment with growth hormone and that the treatment should be interrupted if patients show signs of upper airway obstruction. For additional information, you can contact Pfizer Medical Information at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Here's a warning about the drug Risperdol, or Risperidone, manufactured by Janssen Pharmaceutical and used to treat schizophrenia. The warnings section of the label for this drug now describes cerebrovascular adverse events in elderly patients being treated for dementia-related psychosis in clinical trials. These events, some of them fatal, included stroke and TIA. The warning goes on to say that Risperdol has not been approved for the treatment of patients with dementia-related psychosis. In a recent letter to practitioners, Janssen Pharmaceutical is offering additional information on these and other clinical trials that are conducted in elderly patients. Call the company at 1-800-Janssen. Every now and then, we alert you to mix-ups that can occur when drug names look or sound alike. This time, we're talking about the similarity between the trade name of one drug and the generic name of another. Puranthal is the trade name of a potent anti-metabolite used in oncology, whose generic name is myrcaptopurine. Propylouricyl is an antithyroid agent available only in generic form. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices points out that although these drug names appear to be quite distinct, there are several common characteristics that may cause confusion. Both names start with P and end with L, both common 50-milligram tablets, and the ure sound in purine and uracil can increase the risk of error. And propylouricyl is often abbreviated PTU, which can be mistaken for purinthal. ISMP describes several examples of mix-ups between purinthal and propylouricyl. In one case, a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia mistakenly received propylouricyl instead of purinthal for six months, even after his parents asked why the tablet looked different. No direct harm occurred, but the patient missed six months of chemotherapy, which then led to modifications in the therapy. Perhaps more serious is the reverse kind of error when purinthal is administered instead of propylouricyl. The dose of propylouricyl is often several hundred milligrams a day, which could be up to six times the maximum dose for purinthal. So mistakes where purinthal is given at these high doses could lead to significant harm, including bone marrow suppression, hepatotoxicity, immunosuppression, and teratogenicity. ISMP suggests some ways to help reduce the risk of this kind of mix-up. Separate these two drugs on pharmacy shelves. List both the brand name and the generic name on prescriptions for purinthal. Avoid using abbreviations. Counsel patients before dispensing these two drugs and fully investigate situations where they report that their drugs look different than usual. In a recent medication safety alert, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices cautions that brightly colored pills could be mistaken for candy by young children. They cite the case of a two-year-old brought to the emergency room after ingesting well-buttern SR. They note that this product is brightly colored in all three of its strengths and that viewed upside down, the drug name and strength that are printed on the tablets might look like a happy face to a child. ISMP reiterates the general need to educate parents to use safety caps, to keep medications out of children's reach, and to teach their children about poisons. But they note that this may be especially important with medications that can look to a child like candy. Speaking of children, the FDA and the Counsel on Family Health have issued a new brochure that helps parents use over-the-counter medications safely for their kids. It's called Gotta Sick Kid and it goes through 10 tips for giving the right medicine in the right amount. It also provides a chart that shows the recommended immunization schedule for children. You can get copies of the brochure from the Counsel on Family Health by calling<PHONE_NUMBER>. And while we're talking about brochures, the FDA has a new one for patients and caregivers who are using medical devices in the home. It's a checklist that helps people use these products safely and effectively. It also provides general tips on maintaining medical devices so they continue to work as they're supposed to, as well as instructions for reporting adverse events. To find out how to get copies, go to our website. If you have patients or family members who wear hearing aids, you may know that they often have trouble using cell phones. Some cell phones cause radio-frequency interference with hearing aids, and user hears high-pitched whistling sounds through the hearing aid or static or thumping sounds. But all cell phones aren't alike in this respect. Some of the phones have lower radio-frequency emissions or different technology that can reduce the unwanted effects on the hearing aids. So you should advise hearing aid wearers that are shopping for cell phones to try several brands and models before they decide. Some hearing aids may be so susceptible to interference that they simply won't work with any of the cell phones that are available while other ones are designed to be resistant to interference. So the same trial-and-error approach is also important when shopping for hearing aids. Fortunately, hearing aids are improving, and before long, it's going to be much easier for hearing aid wearers to find a compatible phone. Also, FDA has begun working with the hearing aid industry on ways to help clinicians and consumers choose hearing aids in cell phones that are likely to work together. The phones will be improving, too. The Federal Communications Commission recently announced that they'll require cell phone manufacturers to make at least some models usable by hearing aid wearers within the next two years. Well, that's all for this edition of FDA Patient Safety News. Remember, you can get more information on all the stories you've seen here today by visiting our website. We also urge you to use the website for problems you've encountered with medical products. That's how we learn about problems so we can alert others. We'll be back next month with another edition, so watch for us. Until then, for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, I'm Mark Barnett. And I'm Anita Rayner. See you next time.


Hello everybody, welcome to part nine B of the Magdalen manuscript where we are going to be getting into one woman story, a duty story, the partner of Tom, who was the person who channeled Magdalen in this manuscript. I am really excited about this section. If you missed the first part, part nine a I will put that down in the description box below, along with understanding the Magdalen which carries all of the playlist for all of the books we've been through in this Sophia Magdalen Divine Feminine playlist. Again, the Magdalen is not necessarily Mary Magdalen. It's the womb, it's the woman. And so we talked about that last week. And so we are going to be getting into one woman story, duty story today, which in my book is page 198. This is a pretty long section. So we are going to be dividing it up into little sections, as we have been doing, just to give you guys each a chance to really digest the things that are being said. If you don't have this book, I was just getting this book. Of course, if you can't afford it, this playlist will be up indefinitely. And the only chance that this playlist is going to come down is if YouTube takes it down. So it will be up for a while if you can't afford it. If you want to re-listen to different parts too, that's totally fine. That's why I'm going through this work because as you guys know, it is my opinion that the crux of this great awakening is each individual person.  And by understanding who you are on an internal level and working through your own stuff as a human being, that's the only opportunity chance that we have to win this war. Right? No one's coming to save you. You have to save yourself. And that is a privilege that has been given to you by our creator. All right. So let's get into one woman's story. Life spit me out of my mother's womb in Appalachia. There I live. Great Appalachian Mountains. Appalachian Mountains are the oldest mountain chain in the world, guys. Absolutely the oldest mountain chain in the world. That's why I love doing road trips up and down the East Coast because you're going through Appalachia and it's gorgeous. Beautiful. So let's start that again. Life spit me out of my mother's womb in Appalachia. Not to find waiting hands but a cold floor as she was unattended at my birth. My mother and I shared this experience in a little clapboard house by the side of the railroad tracks in Pinnick and Gap, Virginia. By birth name was Phyllis Elizabeth Zion, originally Sion. Within months I was thrust into another environment as my birth mother left home with me and my older brother and sister to escape an abusive marriage in search of her dreams. She wanted to be a country singer. And so when I was a month or so old, my father was at work. She put us all on a bus and we traveled across the great state to South Central Virginia where she left us with her parents while she went to find a singing job. But as life which was very shortly after our arrival, grandfather's tractor pinned him underneath when he took a hill the wrong way. My older brother told me the story only a few years ago when we found each other finally. He was running alongside the tractor so he ran to the house for help.  She took out a huge hypodermic needle which she filled with morphine for the pain. He watched her first squirt the liquid into the air and then injected it into my grandfather and then she tried to lift the tractor off him breaking her back instead. That's some heavy karma.  My grandfather died underneath the tractor and grandmother never walked again. I never knew these people. I was an infant as this drama played out left inside the house while life and death called it to its side and who it wanted in the moment. We were handed out in four directions like leaves caught in a swirling wind. I wound up at a motel restaurant owned by a distant cousin while family frantically searched for someone to take an infant. There weren't many adoption agencies in the tobacco plains of Virginia in those years and I suspected families preferred to take care of their own as best they could. And so it was that I was ultimately farmed out like the tobacco I grew up around and raised by Queen Victoria reincarnate a staunch and severe woman a school teacher who couldn't have children of her own. At this apocalyptic juncture of the fates I was still quite shy of one year and I had already learned another equally pretentious name Judy Lee Pope. Ruby Carter poked loved me dearly there is no doubt of that her life and therefore the life of her husband who became my father centered around her church her family her school children and the constriction of me. But her God was a fearsome and jealous thing I couldn't tolerate. And as soon as I got old enough to question which in my instance was quite young, we came to loggerheads. I grew up almost totally without playmates wandering the tobacco fields of the Piedmont region of Virginia with a St. Bernard dog and a borrowed force. She sewed many of my clothes from from flower sacks and never did anything herself but work and sacrifice. These were my models. Oh and the judgment. They do a lot of judging in the country of Virginia. We were very poor though measured against the poverty of Brunswick County Virginia we were middle class I suspect. My father ran a country store that essentially served the abysmal poor black families that lived around us. I remember one barefoot woman who came in daily. She wore one single stocking over her head and ate one can of sardines and earned soda every day and orange soda. She wrote it in dialect and earned soda, orange soda. It never occurred to me then that this was probably all she had to eat and it never occurred to me either that she never paid. Dad wrote up little pieces of paper that represented bills. He died when I was 18 and I found the boxes of these unpaid bills totaling well over 20,000 which was a staggering amount of money to be owed in those days. He must have fed half of Rawlings, Virginia and simply never told anyone. I grew up being schooled in the fork of a pear tree. My teachers were a voice in the wind and whispers in the forest. I fashioned a bow and arrows myself and when the horses across the road were offered to ride I left home for hours every day to find something. I don't know what. I never had riding lessons the horses taught me the saddle and brittle anyone could figure out. And when the saddle slid underneath him with me in it on my first attempt I had a little talk with him about letting the air out of his stomach before I cinched the saddle. I had to have this little talk with him often but it worked. When his ears pricked up one day when he saw a fallen tree in the field I knew what he wanted. He wanted to fly and so we flew over it. I leaned into him. It was just a logical thing to do. He jumped the tree. I just got to fly along with him. After that there was nothing that stopped us. We floored rivers and tried right down the middle of the creeks. We wandered for miles through the dense forest and galloped over fields and meadows. Sorry guys my dog isn't here with me so if you hear some weird scratching noises that's that's Ravi. Hopefully he won't try to clean his wiener while I'm reading. That's very loud and gross but if that happens I apologize. We floored rivers and tried to right down the middle of creeks. We wandered for miles through dense forests and galloped over fields and meadows and if anything got in our way we jumped it. No one ever knew where I went on this forest. You could travel for days and not see another human being if you knew where to go to the forest and back roads of Brunswick County then. I lied to my mother of course. She wouldn't have allowed me to leave the yard but for well crafted lies that became a necessity of life very early. She objected to everything and anything. To her almost everything in life was either sinful or dangerous. I never went to a birthday party or slept over at a girlfriend's house. No one ever slept over at my house. There were fantasies other people lived on television. I had no idea people really lived like that. My adopted mother chose my clothes and told me what to wear every day to school even when I was much older. If I put on a sleeveless dress in June she said I would get a cold and she added layers. If I put on a sweater in January she told me I'd be too hot and dress me down. The ultimate effect of this control was that I didn't have any idea what I felt or what I wanted. I wasn't allowed to date until I was 17 and she sat stone face at the window watching for me to come home even then so she could approve my appearance when I returned to make sure I hadn't discovered anything sinful I'm sure. Once my date walked me to the door with his shirt not properly tucked in I was never allowed to date him again. I think I was still in love with him a decade later when we met and released each other from the fantasies we had each held in our own way for all those years simply because we have never been allowed our time. My father and mother slept in separate double beds in one bedroom. I slept with my mother until I left for college. My grandmother had the other bedroom. Ruby refused heralding a variety of excuses to ever finish the room upstairs. Thusly she even managed to control how I slept at night and she managed to never have to sleep with my father. Sounds like she was raised by a narcissist, a covert narcissist. Quit fidgeting she used to say to me when I turned too often lies still. Summers were endless, drenched in suspicion of tepid, stagnant pools of humidity. Yup, that's the cell. I lay for hours on end too hot to sleep not allowed to move only my mind free to move about. Winters I lay weighted under piles of ancient quilts and moving then due to the oppression of stiff blankets from the Civil War holding me in their spells haunting me with their vision that's still cold in the depths of a Virginia winter. Virginia winters are colder than Georgia winters because they're up in the mountains so I will say that Virginia does get snow. Some parts of Virginia not South Virginia but North Virginia does get snow whereas we don't. But I had my music in dance and I had a forest which instructed me to dance on her naked skin barefoot until I could walk across the forest floor without making a sound. I had borrowed a horse, a beloved Saint Bernard named Nicky, a teacher in a pear tree, a little friend in the jack in the pulpit plant and another in the pink lady slipper. These were my childhood advisers. There was one lesson I will never forget and now I watch it come to pass as prophecy in my own life. From my memory it was my first lesson delivered in the fork of that pear tree where I waged myself daily for years dialoguing with what I call words without a voice. Ravi, Ravi, Ravi. I was told that about every possible life experience would come to me so that I would ultimately understand and have compassion for the human experience. And I was told that someday when I was full of these life experiences my voice would travel around the world sharing what I had learned and that what I had to say would be a tremendous impact but only when I really didn't care about such influence. Funny how that works right? Hey Ravi. I'm sorry guys he's being really loud. And this is the only time I have to film this. I apologize. I also told that there was another part of me that somewhere and that someday I would meet the mate to my being and our work would be together and I wouldn't get up in the morning and go to a job like other people. I was told that he was part of my soul and our work together would have a vast beneficial influence in the world. This is essentially what I care to share of what I remember. Same girl. Same. Same. I know that there's another part of me out there. Girl. Same. Probably for a lot of us. Same. And there is one other early awareness that I distinctly remember. It was so funny because it never... Like growing up I never, I never wanted to like be with a man that had like a separate doll for me. Like the whole idea of the nine to five is just like I just, that just makes me want to cry. Like I never wanted to be like the housewife. I never wanted to like, I always wanted to work with my partner and I wanted our work to be like meaningful. You know, I always felt that connection that my divine masculine, if you want to call it that. And I would like our souls, I didn't know anything about twin flames at that time. And I know, I now know that's what my journey is, is a twin flame journey. Sounds like that's what hers was too. And so, I don't know, I'm resonating with this. And so I just, yeah, I'm sure a lot of us have had that sensation as well. From the time I was a little girl, if you like, a few years ago, well not a few years ago, probably about 10 years ago, there are these girls at this yoga shala that I was practicing at the time. This is right when I first like started going to India. And there was this guy that was practicing there. And the girls were trying to set me up with this guy. And I liked the guy as a guy, like I liked him as a friend. I thought he was really funny, but he wasn't my type. I wasn't like attracted to him or anything. He had some guy, but I just wasn't attracted to him.  He's really wealthy. You know, this is perfect for you. He thinks you're cute. And it hit me at that point how many women will settle just because of security. And I just won't do it. I just won't do it. I always laugh.  Does that make sense?  I don't want my husband working a job that is like another life. Like, you know, we each have our own lives to live. We each have our own dharmas. We each have our own, but I want our relationship to be dharmic. I want to work with my partner and with my divine masculine. I want to do spiritual things with him, even though we have our own individual stuff too. And even though I am fiercely independent, I do like my own time as well. So I know what she's talking about. Like I absolutely know what she's talking about here. I want to travel with my divine masculine and do things with him. And I want to take it to India. You know, although I will suggest if anybody's thinking about taking a loved one to India, make sure you're really comfortable in that relationship first because things happen in India and the floors are all marble. Even the bathroom floors are marble. I would just make sure you're really... India is either going to make or break your relationship. Let me just put it that way. So I don't know, maybe I'm just rambling on, but I feel like a lot of us in this great awakening, I feel like that's confirmation for a lot of us that I guess it's like not wanting to be a part of the matrix. Like even though we have to be a part of the matrix to an extent, like we're born into the matrix, we're born into third density, so we have to play the rules of the matrix. I never wanted to be a part of the matrix. I wanted something more. I wanted something greater than that. And I just never wanted to settle. And I wanted passion with my partner. Like you can't... You know, I think a lot of women just settle and there's no passion. They just kind of go, okay, I'll do what I got to do to be how I want to be. Give me those babies, give me to a house and I'm good. But no, I want to crave my partner. I want to like physically crave him. I just was looking at a reading at the other day about partners wanting to like devour each other. I want with my divine masculine to have that, if that makes sense. So anyway, I think you guys know what I'm saying, and I think you guys can probably relate. All right. And there was one other early awareness that I distinctly remember. I knew that the secrets of the universe lay in physical experiences between a man and a woman when they truly loved each other. I knew that love was the greatest gift you could be given. I knew there was a place you could go. A road only opened through the gateway of physicality and few have ever walked. And I knew that that was why the church changed sexuality and why governments had such rules and regulations to govern what they called marriage. And while the whole subject has been both tabooed and regulated throughout the age of civilization, I suspected the serpent wasn't evil. And I knew that Eve must have been brilliant to want more knowledge. And I knew it was illogical for the loving God who created us to not want us to know anything. And I knew it was illogical for the loving God who had created us to not want us to know everything. I suspected if there was such a beast as the devil, the smartest place for him to hide would be in the church. I have something to say about this. And I think Stephanie and I are going to maybe do a show on this. After sitting like the Apocryphon books, like the Apocryphon books that were in the same books the Bible explained that the Garden of Eden, we were put in the Garden of, or Adam and Eve for lack of metaphor, was put into the Garden of Eden as a jail. Like it was a jail sentence. And it was put there by Lucifer. And Lucifer was the one that told them not to eat from the tree of life. And the serpent that told Eve to eat the apple. Well, first of all, Adam and Eve were twin flames. When it talks about her being made of Adam's rib, it's talking about how they were literally the same soul in two different bodies. So this is all metaphor. I don't think Adam and Eve actually lived. I think it's metaphor. So they're put in, they're jailed, and they're told not to do a certain thing. What does the serpent symbolize? Well, the serpent symbolizes Kundalini or Christ consciousness. And we know from the Magdalen manuscript and from other writings on this, on this idea of Kundalini rising of Tantric yoga, that it's the woman.  Usually the woman has moments of enlightenment before the man does. That's why he moves himself into her, because she is the one that is giving the activation, right? So what does that then mean with the snake? Eve found Christ consciousness and then activated Adam. And so they were taken from the Garden of Eden. They were released from Lucifer's holding, total holding. Eden, I am starting to realize, is another metaphor for hell.  We're living in Eden right now, guys. We're living in hell.  Does that make sense? And we're going to do readings on this.  When you go to church, you're worshiping Lucifer, not source creator. It says so in the Bible. You're satanic. You're following the satanic path. Wake up. Get out of that programming. Get out of that matrix. That's another satanic matrix. She just said it right here. Let me reread this to you guys. I suspect the serpent wasn't evil. And I knew that Eve must have been brilliant to want more knowledge. And I knew it was illogical for the loving God who had created us to not want us to know everything. I suspect if there was such a beast as the devil, the smartest place for him to hide would be the church. Perhaps the church is also Eden. I knew the deepest secrets had to do with love, with what I now call a sacred relationship. I knew that my purpose was somehow tied to reintegration of these secrets. And I also knew there was another part of me out there somewhere and I began a lifetime search for him. I thought I saw him once his face pressed against the window of a bus that slowly passed us on Route 1 on the way to Petersburg. For a minute, the bus in our car traveled at the same speed in ours net. We linked in that brief moment and at some place that was holy, thought we were only maybe, I don't know, 8, 9 or 10 years old. It would be another 40 years before I touched such a holy place with the man again. I knew he played the guitar and wrote songs and had a voice of an angel. I always thought I knew his voice if I ever heard it. I know because twin flames, you don't need to twin flame until later in life. You don't need to twin flame until later in life. Let me re-enerate that. Your twin flame is not your high school sweetheart. It's not your first wife, first husband, second wife, second husband, whatever. Usually you meet your twin flame. Late 30s is the earliest 40s, that time period. Okay. Why is that?  There's so much electricity. If it's not ready, they're not emotionally ready for each other. It can backfire, right? If they have worked on themselves and they come together, then it's the most powerful thing in the world because no one will love you like your twin because they are you. They are your soul. Let me explain that again. Let me just re-enerate this. You're not robots of each other, right? So you are different people. Okay. You have different identities, different families, different life experiences.  You have that choice because your psyches are different. You are different people. You are autonomous, but your soul is the same. Okay. And from what I understand, going through a Plato symposium and all this stuff is that at one point, these are only the oldest of souls that decide to do this because everything's constantly a journey. It's constantly a journey of understanding who you really are in relationship to God.  Let's split. Let's divide ourselves. One will take on the role of the divine masculine, one will take on the role of the divine feminine and we'll go through lifetimes searching for each other. So if you don't have a twin, don't worry. High, high level soulmates are really great because a twin journey is not, is not fun. And the dark, the polarity, the dark forces do a lot to keep twins apart because when that love comes together, that unconditional love comes together, it can change things vibrationally speaking. Right? Look what happened to Adam and Eve, got them out of the Garden of Eden. Look what happened to Magdalena and Yeshua. It opened up the 1,000 years of peace called Tartaria and the Merovingine line. So we have to remember that. And that alchemy though, again, he talked a lot about sacred relationship before when you enter into that. The sacred relationship is you and your twin and your beloved, right? That's, that's, it's not just any Tom Dick or Harry. You don't pick your twin. I know Stephanie, I've talked about this.  No, you don't pick your twin. You have one twin. That's it. One. You don't get to like it. I don't like that twin. I'm going to pick it out. No, it doesn't work that way. All right. And so that's it. And, and she talked about how she knew things about her twin. I can't share, but there were things I knew in my 20s. There were, there's two things that I was told in my late 20s around my Saturn return. I'll never forget. I was in turn of a call Boulevard. And I didn't really know a whole lot about twins at this time. I'd read Plato sympodi symposium for shits and giggles, but I wasn't really, I didn't realize that was what was happening. That's what I was on. This is about 10 years ago, 12 years ago. And I guess it was Magdalene because she's the one that's been speaking to me. And she said two things I'm looking for. I'm not going to say what they are on camera. One day I will. And it was odd because it was things that I had never considered before. And so I know what she's saying here. So anyway, all right, shall we continue? Let's keep going. In terms of what shaped me, I can look back and remember the incidents that made us question the veracity of what was presented as authority. In the church, I was forced to attend. I heard preachings on Sunday about love and non-judgment. I heard preachings about how God didn't care what you wore, but only saw what was in your heart. But I frequently overheard parishioners and the preacher criticizing and deeming each other before they even got out the door. Can you believe she wears that church my young ears heard when my logic knew that was all the poor woman in question had to wear. I could see hearts then and I saw purity in that old woman, but they only saw clothing. That's my favorite thing about the South.  Again, if a Southern woman tells you you look healthy, that means you're fat. You got fat.  Now, when Southern women want to gossip, what they do, what the church ladies do is they say, oh my God, did you see what that girl was wearing to church today? We should pray for her.  We should pray for her. As long as you say that you should pray for them, it's technically not gossip. According to the Southern, savage Southern ladies. So that's my favorite. Do you want to hear some comical gossip? Just go stand outside of a church on Sunday and listen to what the Southern ladies are telling each other, always ending it as we should pray for them. All right. Well, you know where she comes from, don't you? I wouldn't expect much out of her. Her family is trash. I couldn't understand blaming someone for the actions of their parents or their distant cousins. As I remember hearing, always be good to your family. They're all you've ever got. And always remember that blood is thicker than water. Hmm. That's a funny thing to say to an adopted child who had no blood around. I simply never believed what I was told by the humans around me. And there was an extraordinary events that made me look elsewhere for answers. I don't remember how old I was. Maybe eight or nine. I had just gotten into bed one summer night. My mother was grading papers and my father was reading. I distinctly remember pulling a single sheet up to my chin when a glow appeared in the room. I transcended the darkness, creating an unmistakable luminescence, a pregnant witness that made the very air seem visible, like floating molecules beyond my wildest imagination. I had no backdrop for mystical experience, though I'm sure now this is what it was. Three lights appeared in the room, one on either side of the bed and one in the very close center at the foot of the bed. A form appeared below the center light and it seemed to rock. Though now I understand that this is probably a pulsation. I was frozen, completely unable to move, which exaggerated my fear. I told myself that I could only move one digit of a finger. I could break this terrible spell and so I focused all my energy on moving one finger. It was impossible. So then I tried to focus all my will and my throat to scream for help. I can make no sound. I thought I would surely die there, frozen to the spot. My father came down the hallway towards the bedroom and I knew that if he came into the room, he would break the spell. And so I sent him every thought I could muster to please enter the room. But he stopped at the door as if he'd forgotten something and he turned around and never entered. I knew that the lights, whatever they were, had planted a thought to change his mind and I knew I was dead. I don't know how long this other worldly spell lasted, but slowly the lights on the side dimmed. The pulsing of the center finger slowed in direct relation to the dimming lights. The lights on either side disappeared at the same time. Blip! I was now transfixed by only the central light above the rocking figure. Slowly the rocking slowed in direct proportion to the light slowly extinguishing. Finally I was held by the unmoving apparition of formless form underneath a single dim light. As immediately as it had begun, simultaneously the figure disappeared. The light left and I was free to bolt out of the bedroom and tear down the hall.  I refused to go back to bed, though eventually exhaustion went out. Girl, I had all those same experiences when I was a child.  For sure. For sure.  In the morning we received a phone call from an aunt to say that her aged mother-in-law had died at precisely the same time my incident occurred. So it was that it became a legend in my family that great aunt somebody or other had visited me when she passed. My only memory of her was of her sitting in a rocking chair slowly rocking back and forth. And perhaps it was she, though I prefer Metronon's explanation. He says it was an initiation from the three masters from other dimensions, and that could only be given after I'd finally decided to stay in a body. Though that decision, if Metronon is right, had been questioned many times since. I actually was told by a friend once, a friend who's no longer with us. She's since passed away from cancer. My body temperature gets really low. It drops between 94 and 92. When it gets down to 92, I've had at times been rushed into the emergency room as a kid. I know that's typical for RH negatives, but my friend would say all the time that I just tried to leave my body. Like my soul never was happy here in my body, and it has not been until this great awakening and all my work that I've done through yoga that I'm actually starting to actually like being in my body at 30 to 39 years to get here. But I'm actually starting to enjoy being in my body. And now that I understand that I do have the ability to ask for travel, and I do feel it coming. Like I know as I've learned that that I've been asked for traveling for a long time. And I just didn't know what that was. And I feel like I have more control over it. But being questioned many times. Yeah, I think so. A lot of us when we come into this third density body, it just feels so uncomfortable. And the rules of the matrix just feel so wrong that we don't want to be here, especially since we came through the veil of amnesia. We forgot. We made an agreement to forget some certain things to take in this incarnation. So I understand that. I totally understand what you're saying. And I'm sure a lot of you can relate as well. I suppose that because Ruby had not allowed ordinary life to touch me for so many years, I rushed headlong into it. And my father died and I left for college at 18. I clearly began to have those life experiences the voice spoke to me about. I fell in and out of love like children learning to walk or fall down. I was desperate for love, desperate to be touched, desperate for passion. The love toddler landed safely on her bottom until one night when a date refused to take her home. I remember the feeling of the fright when he drove past my street and turned instead down a dark road towards his own apartment building. His intentions were made clear when he used a martial arts grip on my arm forcing me inside his apartment. When he turned his back inside, I bolted running for my life. He took chase. As I ran, I had to make a choice between staying in the shadows or trying to make a phone call. The phone booth lay in light, clearly visible to anyone chasing a frightened young girl. I chose the lighted phone booth, hoping that I could make an emergency call before he spotted me. But when I got to it, the phone was broken and he had spotted me. I ran towards the beach, sinking deeply into the sand with each dried and exhausting myself trying to run through marsh grass and sand dunes. But I got away. After walking several miles along the beach, I saw figures approaching in the dim moonlight. And I panicked and took the back and took back to the roadside to cover the last five or so miles home. It was now the middle of the night closer to dawn than night. It had been a long night of escape and terror.  What's wrong? Let me give you a lift. You're not safe out here walking like this. I appeared to see a safe looking face, one I had never seen before. I must have been crazy because I got into the car. He immediately sped up to a pace that left no possibility of jumping and pulled out a blade and gleamed in the moonlight, leveling it sideways at my throat. He drove somewhere deep into the dismal swamp as far as the road went. The rest of that night meant the dawn was a blur of blood and struggling with the moonlight, sharding off a nightlight. We all can relate to the story as women. After the battle was over, he drove me back to the very street I had tried so hard to get to that night and dropped me off on the corner. I wore a fencing mask for weeks, ashamed somehow of my cuts and bruises. As if a girl trying so hard to get home had done something to deserve the terror of that night. I ultimately went to the police, but at that time, Virginia Beach had a policy of printing all RAP victims named in the local paper. I knew Queen Victoria would hear what happened and I just wasn't ready for what would create. And I just wasn't ready for what that would create in my life. Oh my God, oh my God. If you're a police officer and you guys are putting RAP victims names in the newspaper, I got two words for you.  Don't do that. Don't do that. That's like, that's violating the person all over again. It's very hard, very hard to talk about these things as a woman when you go through these things. I, with my situation, only a few people really know the story. It's hard to talk about this. Okay, so if you are a man or and you think a woman should just talk about it, like, you understand she has to relive that all over again every time.  All right. The thought of her accusations of her screams of sin and guilt were more oppressive, more terrifying than anything that happened to me that night. Yep, the shame. That's why a lot of victims don't come forward. I closed that door and went on with my life with passion. I went to work at a radio station and moved into a phase of success in media and communication that was to continue through all the emotional turmoil of the next 30 years. I met a handsome young man and we began today getting more and more serious. He asked me to marry him. I was thinking about it, though there were signs. I was ignoring things about him and other issues with me. I had been having problems with my period, but nothing else seemed wrong. So I ignored these sporadic appearances and continued my life. Finally, I sought help. Initially, I was told I had a tumor. Then I was told I was seven months pregnant. This was not my life plan. I suppose because I had not enjoyed my own childhood, I had no intention of ever having children of my own. I don't know how women don't know they're pregnant, but I can't judge because I've never been pregnant. Maybe it's because I'm skinny that I think I would definitely know. It would be definitely obvious if I was pregnant. I don't know. Anyway, children from what I had seen around me growing up are what kept women from having a life. I viewed women as trapped in an endless cycle of sacrifice, not to mention that I was scared to death of the shame and the pain. I married the handsome young man and spent a terrifying night getting birth to a girl, I was told. Perhaps it seemed the only solution at the time. My doctor had arranged a private adoption and I never saw her. It was the best choice I felt I could make under the circumstances. I had no money at all and I felt she'd be much better off with a family that I could afford to raise her. I suppose my own childhood of flower sack clothes and few opportunities was still too fresh in my mind. And it was the only way to keep Queen Victoria from knowing and avoiding seeking the illustrious and noble but poor Southern family into shame.  I had learned at a very young age to draw the shades on things that were not supposed to be seen and I had become at that.  And though he loved me as much as a gay man can love a woman, I was after all still a woman. Through all of this I had managed to work my way through college and music, drama and philosophy. I had stumbled into radio as a DJ when women were first allowed that joy and from there I discovered the power of advertising. I moved into one of the most creative ad agencies in North America and worked my way into the position of authority and respect at a very young age in what was still a man's world there as well. I won awards and honors and was highly paid. I had a magic touch that translated into high profits from my clients and I loved what I did. I lived what was, I suppose, a dual life. My dates were filled with producing television commercials, planning campaigns, writing radio jingles, buying media, negotiating with clients and reps. My terrain ranged from the boardroom to the studio. I was a rare duck, equally adept at the creative ends and the business ends. I almost seemed to possess a psychic ability and advertisement. Once I knew the soul of a client, I could see how the business or product or image flowed out of who she or she was and could just as easily see the ingredients were needed to position the image or message. Then I could write and design the piece, whether it was print or audio or voice. And much to my surprise, I could just as easily sense the budget and skew it where it belonged, holding huge traffic patterns of media in my mind. I thrilled at filming in the mental crossword puzzles where the demographics of listeners, viewers, readers cross-matched certain words in a spot or a visual design to reach a certain segment of market, thus assuring sales. But my nights were not as successful. We looked good together and we had bought a home that was way over our heads in all my young yuppies as all young yuppies are expected to do. It was a Spanish mansion with a hand-painted tile fireplace and picture frame molding. There was a fountain in the back courtyard, a marble foyer that ran about 40 feet long to the foot of a staircase that could easily have been the scene for Gone with the Wind. It even boasted a servant staircase. Of course, we had no servants and our nights were spent trying to clean the alternating black and white marble tiles in the front foyer. The roof leaked and sadly needed replacing and the kitchen had never been brought into the 19th century much less the 20th. The illusion was great, but you couldn't cook there. And so after working all day, I worked alongside my husband to renovate this ancient mansion at night. We had lots of parties. He loved parties. But I was always worried about who he'd fallen in love with before that night was over. His depression seemed to get worse when he was drinking and I knew our marriage was as much of illusion as the Spanish mansion. But you never know what will break the camel's back. One morning on the way to work, I skipped along the sidewalk towards my car trying to admire my dark green and Buick Electra. It looked good in the sunlight and the clients liked it. Then my heart ached for my old MG. A construction worker sat forlornly on the curb by the fender of my car. I ignored him as I stepped to the other side of the car and jumped back in shock. The driver's side had been sliced open as if a giant had mistaken it for a can of green peas. I stood there gawking. My jaw hanging against my chest. The construction worker stood up hard had in hand over his chest as if in respect for my now deceased vehicle. My demolition crane was on the way to a job and when we took the corner it jumped off the truck and did that to your car. We had a knife on it instead of the ball. They left me behind to wait for the owner to show up. I don't know why I cracked at the moment but it was the precise moment that I decided I needed to make a change. I managed to get to work only to be called to the president's office. He announced that he was leaving the advertising closing the business that month. I had been there five years and I loved my job. I was a writer and a creator. I produced radio and television commercials and planned campaigns and managed huge budgets for clients. These people were more family than I had ever known. I had just been given up for adoption again and we're going to leave it right there guys. I know that's in the middle of a chapter but I think that's a good place to stop again. This is a long section and I don't want to be on here for three hours with you guys because I don't want us to have time to take in what she's saying because as I've been saying throughout this whole thing, there's so many moments in these stories that we can all relate to and so I'm going to stop it there. Join us next week for part 9C where she is now going to change her life.


Welcome to the New Mexico Smart Grid Center. We are so excited to tell you all about it. But you may be wondering, what is the smart grid and what is the smart grid center? First, let's look at a super simplified explanation of a traditional electric grid. Electricity is sent along power lines from the utility, usually to your house. In a smart grid, the same thing happens, but information is also allowed to travel along the lines. A smart grid is a grid that can support the two-way flow of electricity and information. This project is looking at ways to transform our current electricity grid, the one powering your computer right now into a smart grid. And what is the New Mexico Smart Grid Center? Let's clear something up right off the bat. There's no physical center. It is confusing, we know. If it helps, you can pretend the word isn't there. Even better, when you see the word, replace it with collaborative. This is a collaborative project among organizations from across the state with a shared goal to enable the development of a modern, secure, and sustainable electric grid supported by a diverse next generation workforce. Also, this collaborative is managed by the New Mexico Established Program to stimulate competitive research, or New Mexico EPSCORE, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. And that's it. Hey, thanks for watching our video and learning about the New Mexico Smart Grid Center. If you wanna learn more or watch this whole video, go to our YouTube channel or visit our website at www.NewMexicoEPSCORE.org.