For Research in Manoa, welcome to the program. I'm Linda Martel and I'm happy today to be co-hosting the next half hour with Jeff Taylor and we're both from the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, we call that HIGP. It's in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at UH Manoa. So our topic today is all about the sun and solar eclipses and we're so pleased to have with us Natalie Alzate and she's a visiting scientist at IFA but I'm going to let her pronounce the name of the university in Wales where she's affiliated. So welcome Natalie. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you for having me. So your affiliation is? Alberta Swift University, it's in Wales in the UK. And are you originally from the UK? Your voice is not having an accent. No, no I was raised in the US, I'm originally from Columbia but yeah my accent is American. So you're a visiting scientist at IFA and what group and who are you working with? So I am working with Dr. Sharia Habal, she is a professor at the Institute for Astronomy and I've been working with her for two years now so what she does is she studies the sun's atmosphere or the corona but specifically she changes his total solar eclipses and studies the corona that way because that is when the corona is visible. So that's what I do with her. So we know on the mainland people are getting very excited about the August 21st total solar eclipse. Correct. But as we were talking with Jeff earlier you don't have to wait until the shadow of the moon passes you to understand about the sun and the corona. Right.  Yes, yes. So I got into solar physics about four years ago now when I started my PhD and for whatever the reasons I ended up going to the UK to get my PhD and so my supervisor there Dr. Hugh Morgan he was Sharia's supervisor when he was a PhD student so that's where the connection is and that's how I met Sharia. So what we do is we study the corona using mostly space based instruments. So we have for example the Lasco telescope which is a coronagraph imager and so what it does is it simulates a total solar eclipse. So because it has an occultar that basically serves as the moon in space. You have something physically that blocks it. The problem with that is that you have to make the disk wide enough so that you can actually see the corona because the surface of the sun is so bright. So because of this you're losing a certain field of view from the surface of the sun up to the edge of the occultar so that's why a total solar eclipse is so unique because you have the moon that is a perfect fit if you will. It appears to be the same size of the solar disk so you're able to see what's going on from the surface of the sun out to several solar radii. Where will you be August 21st? So the whole team, I should mention, could we put the first image up please? I should mention that the team, we are called the Solar Wind Sherpas, we are a group of international scientists and what we do is we chase eclipses and sometimes we have to go to very remote places. In this case we went to Svalbard which is in the Arctic Circle so you can imagine the conditions that we had to deal with not just staying warm but also having to deal with any effects that the cold had on the equipment. So we go to several different places. In this case it's in our backyard, it's in the US, it will be on August 21st of this year and so what the group is doing is we are splitting into five different groups. So we're going to have five observation sites from Oregon all the way to Nebraska. So we'll be in Oregon, we will be in Idaho, two sites in Wyoming and one site in Nebraska. So me specifically, I will be in Guernsey, Wyoming. Is that before I'm going to go to Guernsey, Wyoming? Guernsey, Wyoming. Yes, yes. Branching? Yes. I'll be leading a team there. I think we have another image of the amount of equipment that you lug all over the world. Okay, so this was the eclipse in Indonesia last year. So I've only been to two eclipses, the one in Svalbard and then this one in Indonesia which was last year. So here you see those cases, you see the suit cases and there's a lot more to that picture that did not make it into the picture. So what we're doing here is we were gathering all our equipment and to put on those speed boats, you see the blue top there, that's a speed boat because we were going to a remote island to observe. So we usually have maybe just over a ton of equipment. So we're talking about... You mean Sherpas? We are Sherpas for a reason. So we have the telescopes, we have the mounts, we have the tripods and we have computers that control the telescopes, things like that so it all adds up. And so a lot of the things we have to carry them and the fact that we have to carry them sometimes to remote places, that's why the name fits. So the more people we get in the group the better so we can transport all this. Are you going to take the thousand pounds to each of the sites or are you going to divide some of it and does each site have the whole set of gears? So right now we are actually in the process of packing things and weighing things. So this expedition is going to be a bit challenging even though it's not in a remote location but the fact that we have five different sites, we're adding more equipment and we have identical equipment at each site. So we'll see how much weight we come up with in the next day or so and then we'll ship it to the mainland, the bulkier stuff. We will ship. It gives a new view on astronomy. You think of it as set telescopes which are not portable except for and maybe space telescopes that are there but here is this real true exploration. It is. You take an expedition to go to these five sites and the same with Indonesia and the Arctic. Exactly. Exactly and I think that's something that people don't realize.  But yes, in this case it's custom built telescopes and we carry them. If you can put up the next image, I can show you one of the equipment. Here we have our leader Shadiah Abal in the foreground and then the guy standing. He's my supervisor in the UK. So here you see some of the custom made telescopes that we use and these have filters on them that image the specific elements in the sun's atmosphere. So yes, we have to carry all of this and they're operated with computers. So that's adding weight, tents. We set up tents to house the equipment. I would guess sometimes the weather is not perfect. It's not perfect. Like I said, I've only been to two eclipses but one was good, one was bad, weather-wise. And it happens. I mean it's the reality of the game really. It was bad enough so you didn't really get any data from it but when a solar eclipse happens, say it's raining, it still gets dark and all right. So you get some sense of it. You get some sense of it. So the southward eclipse was magnificent. It was nice and crisp, clear skies and everything, amazing data. The one in Indonesia, we were clouded out but the clouds were, they were moving and there were those few minutes where we could still sort of experience it. So from a scientific point of view, bummer. But it was still beautiful to see in the sense that you still had an idea of what was going on, what these celestial objects were doing. Did you just describe what it must feel like to be somewhere where it's daytime and then suddenly it's more like twilight or darker like that? Yeah, so knowing that it's going to get dark, you think, okay, yeah, that makes sense. I know what it's going to look like but it's really hard for anyone to explain to you what it's like. For me, the Eclipses Valbard was, it was just beautiful. The fact that it gets dark, the fact that it gets quiet because once the moon was covering the sun, everyone started cheering but just as quickly it was silent and you didn't have to look at people. You just felt how amazed they were. It's very short-lived that at the same time, it's sort of like those two minutes seem like an eternity because it's such a beautiful spectacle, yes? So we're going to talk a little bit about the science that you gather during the Eclipses. Talk about the filters or the sorts of things that you're putting on your telescope. So we sort of run two main experiments, I should say. So if you put up the next image, please, I'll show you before I get to the filters, I'll show you. So here, this is the Eclipse, 2008 Eclipse, total solar eclipse over China. So this is an image in white lights. This is essentially what we see when we look at the corona when the sun is eclipsed. So here, this white light, what we're showing, the different structures in the corona, you have these rays, these plumes, you have the streamers just moving away from the surface of the sun. So this is representing the free electrons that are moving away from the surface through magnetic field lines. So if you put up the next image, in this image, it's the same eclipse but this one was imaged using two different filters. And so each filter is observing a different element that we know exists in the corona. In this case, we have iron 11, which is the red color that you see. And then the green color is iron 14. And so each color is representative of a different temperature in the corona. So for example, the iron 11, which is the red, is about, the temperature is about a million degrees. And the green, the iron 14, is about 2 million. What do the designators, 11 and 14, refer to? So we're talking about different ions. So for example, iron 13 plus is the iron 14, which means 13 electrons have been broken off essentially through an ionization process, so as it gets heated up. So because of that process, each color, if you will, each element represents a different temperature. And so this is very interesting to us because a long standing mystery of the corona is why is it so hot as you go further away from the surface. So the hot corona was discovered, iron was discovered, but what we've done, what we've been able to discover, is that different structures in the corona have different temperatures within them. So you don't just see one temperature throughout, you sort of have a mix. And that's why you see these, if you can put the image back up, sorry. So for example, on the top right, you have, can you tell there's a prominence sticking out? So that's the red, that's the cooler material, and then it's sort of enshrouded by this green, so it's this hotter material. Wow. Yeah, so this is something that the team was able to show, or image rather, and then show. There are, it looks like it's all going to the side, but it actually goes around spherically, so that some of it's coming right back. Yeah, so it's radiating in all directions, but you know, what we see. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, did you take that, I might have missed this, but are you getting the information separately and putting that picture together, overlaid? Are you gathering? Yeah, so there is a bit of processing, so this is the telescopes that I showed. If we go back to the third image, please. So here you see the different sort of telescopes, so each telescope has a different camera that images, you know, that has the filters that image for each element, in this case iron-14 and iron-11. When you say telescope, the one Shadi is touching, is that a telescope with a camera? Yeah. Yeah. You don't need a very big telescope to do this. You don't. A particular observation. You don't, but you know, it's when you start putting these together so we can take the different images and usually we have a white light camera set up there as well. So I think we're going to continue this conversation after a short break. Don't go away. I'm DeSoto Brown, the co-host of Human Humane Architecture, which is seen on Think Tech Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. And with the show's host, Martin Desbang, we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live, but other aspects of our life, not only here in Hawaii, but internationally as well. So join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii. Back to research. In Manoa, we're talking with Natalia Alzate about the solar eclipses and we're going to show you again an image that the group of the solar sherpas took of the, it's image number four that we saw earlier of the solar corona with the moon in front. Can we back up one image so we can see that shot of the moon? I just want to mention that the U.S. Postal Service right now has a sheet of stamps that you can get, postage stamps that look just like this. But in that case, someone had taken a separate picture of the moon and overlaid it onto the image of the solar corona, but it's also thermal, the ink that they used on the stamps. When you put your thumb on the stamp, you can make the moon appear and disappear. Oh, that's right. I really like that stamp. This image is not a composite image. This is actually the moon blocking the sun from the earth. So why are we seeing the moon? So that is Earth's light reflecting onto the moon, I believe. This is such an amazing picture. It is an amazing picture. Earth's shine. Earth's shine, yeah. It would show too how a full earth on the moon, even at the lunar night, you would see, it would be fairly bright on the surface compared to what you would put, a dark space on the earth at night, you know, in the desert where we put any street lights or something like that. Kind of interesting. Earth's shine. That's an amazing picture. Yeah. Yes, it is. So we're just sort of enthralled with this idea of people in a group going to all over the world looking at solar eclipses. So how many groups are there out there who do this? Actually we are the only group that does the science that we do. I mean, there are several groups that do go out and observe the eclipse, obviously, and they do what they do. But the type of science that we do and the things that we have found out during eclipses, we are the only group. And each eclipse has yielded a new result that we haven't had before. So that sort of sparks our addiction to keep chasing these events. Yeah. It's not just the same thing every time you're in the... Exactly. You don't just see the corona. I mean, it's gorgeous, yes, but we are able to extract science from every observation. You must have gigabytes of data. Well, I don't have it, so I'll have to check on that. But yes, so our... One of our team members, Milosh, Dr. Meehler, he processes the eclipse images.  And so he has a website where he has all of them. Oh, that's great. So at the very least, they are publicly available. When the eclipse happens, the equipment, these telescopes with the camera, it's fully automated so you don't have to worry about it and can enjoy the eclipse. Yes. We do have to do some monitoring. I mean, you want to monitor, but basically the software is set up to run the cameras. And that is precisely what we did in Svalbard. We just sort of... We let them run and we went out and enjoyed. And you don't want to be anywhere near where you might move anything with the eclipse. So you really need to be away from it. Yes. Depending on the instrument, but yes, for the telescopes, they are running for the telescope. I know that there's also a citizen science program going on, and I should have looked up the website. So that the people across the path of totality can email in images that they see, just for probably not in these different wavelengths. Right, no, no, no. To get an idea of what the eclipse looks like. Yes, so I mean, I'm not well versed in that project, but I do believe they're trying to put together a sort of a mega movie of sorts. So I mean, it's great to see the entire eclipse in a movie. Why not? But one thing that I will say since you brought that up is that, you know, if you're going to go out and see this eclipse, see the eclipse. You have to see the eclipse.  You know, the sun's current is always there, but you don't always see it because the surface is so bright. So this is our only chance to really see it. I mean, science aside, it's just the gorgeous thing to see. Don't take pictures, just watch it and enjoy it. And there are plenty of references on NASA websites about the kind of glasses you should be wearing until the moment of total coverage.  Otherwise, you're not going to see anything, okay? But it is safe to see the corona. And so, you know, use the glasses to see the different phases of the eclipse when you see the moon moving over the surface of the sun, you know, because any little bit of sunlight is damaging. But once it is at totality, you are safe to take them off and you can enjoy the beautiful corona. And then put your glasses back on. Two and a half minutes. Well, there have been some, there have been seven minutes. So it does happen. It does happen. But yes, this one is a couple minutes, depending on where you're at, of course. What about the next image you have? Oh, yes. What is this? Image six. Yes. So this was a result from the 2015 eclipse over Svalbard. And this paper was published by Sharia Habal and Adi Ding just recently, actually. And so here what they did is, so Adi Ding built a spectrometer. And so what he did is he placed the slit of the spectrometer near the sort of the edge there, from the surface, if you will, and then moved it outward as the eclipse went on. So one thing that's interesting here, that's off those little rectangles. They each represent a certain speed of some of these structures that are moving. But the thing that was most interesting is that they found these parcels that have such a range in velocity from just under 100 kilometers per second up to 1500. That's the velocity of ions that are moving out? Yes. So some of this ionized material as it's moving. The neat thing that they found is that these parcels have cool material. So it's not just a CME, a hot material. It's also embedded or combined with some cool material. So the interpretation of this was that the CME is made of the hot material, but cool material that perhaps triggered the CME moves with this CME and it's moving away from the observer and the way they know that is because of the red shift from the Doppler shift that they found while they measured using the spectrometer. And the CME again is the coronal mass ejection. So the other thing to point out here is the fact that this parcel would be below the field of view of the coronagraph that I mentioned earlier, the one that simulates the total solar eclipse. So this would have been covered by that occultor. So you wouldn't have seen this result. So it has to be an Earth-based observation of an eclipse. Well, we have to be able to see the entire corona. Yes, yes. Wow. So yes, this is a very neat CME model. A very high speed. Because a kilometer is hundreds to a thousand kilometers per second. Exactly. Which is about hundreds of thousands of miles an hour or something. I, again, do that. Well, let's see. We measure, for example, CME the ejections in kilometers per second. So we're talking about 400 to 800 is the range for a CME. So we're talking about quite the range of speeds here. So it's not... Well, you have to be going 70,000 miles an hour to get into Earth orbit. That's what the orbital speed is. That's only like 11 kilometers per second or something like that. Wow. So these are really fast. Yeah, these are very neat results. So I think at four of the five sites, we're going to have a similar instrument, a spectrometer, also built by Addie Ding, that will carry out a similar experiment. So we'll see what we find. We have an image of the website that you're putting together. Yes. Last image, please. So in previous eclipses, the last two, I put together a blog to just kind of keep people updated on what we're doing, especially because we were going to such interesting places. So now what I've done, which I asked me to do, is to put together a website for the group. So this is a permanent site, and so it houses information on the eclipse, information on the Solar Wind Sherpas, our biographies, how it all started. And then there's a, if you see on the menu, it says science and news. So what I've put on there are the publications that have come out of these, so people can see that it's beautiful, but it's also scientific. And then under blogs, you can see the previous blogs, and I'll be updating the blog. I think I'll actually start blogging for this eclipse next day or so. And yeah, so I hope to be able to blog every single day. I've been able to do more or less previously, so I should be able to for this one. When are, when are you going to leave? You go to the mainland to go to whichever, what site are you going to be at? I'll be in Guernsey, Wyoming, but what we're doing is we'll leave Hawaii on the 11th. And so we're going to Boulder, Colorado, and from there, basically we're all meeting there, and then a couple of days later, we're sort of split to our different sites. Thank you so much for coming and talking to us. Thank you for having me. All about this solar eclipses. We really appreciate it. Thank you. It was fun being here. Thank you so much. Thank you.


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Hey, Sabash. Hi there. And I suppose, first of all, I'll just say congratulations to all of you on the creation of a pretty awesome new meetup. Thank you. It was a beautiful part of the world at one day. I hope to be visiting in person, not virtually from my side. It's nice, good. It is really, really good to see how Agile and Scrum and just communities in general are still continuing to grow because, you know, I think one thing that's been really, really important there for the last 12 months or so has been communities supporting each other and growing. So yeah, good for you in putting your effort into this. I know how much effort goes into organizing things like this first hand. So good for you for doing this. And thanks for the introductions. So yeah, I'm Jeff. As I was saying to a few people before we actually started, someone spoke to my wife yesterday and said, oh, I hear your husband, he writes books. And she was sort of taken back, yeah, yeah, yeah, he has written books, but that's not what he does. He's just happened to have written a few things. So yeah, most of my time is not spent writing books, I can assure you. It is doing what Sebastian said, organic coaching, organic leadership, organic agility. And actually, you described it, basically, it's helping organizations create a more resilient culture. So meeting them where they are and helping them just basically become a little bit more resilient, a little bit more agile every time. Claire, however, has a real job. I don't know about that. Claire basically makes stuff, all right. She helps people make stuff. She's a VP of engineering, a company that I personally have used for, I would say, 10 years or so, and even got my most recent order from them just yesterday. So they're a move, an online printing and design company, really awesome company, really fun place to work. And as well as all the other things that Claire has to do in her job, she's spending a lot of time basically even thinking about, well, what's the next iteration of our working environment? Because it's going to continue to evolve, not just at her company, but elsewhere. And we're calling it work 2.0. But depending on where you are, what your company is doing, it might be 3.0, 4.0, even 20.0 by now. I don't know. But things have changed a lot and they're continuing to change. And I think they're going to carry on changing for a long time. I think one thing that we probably can be certain of regardless of where you're joining us from in the world, and I see in the chat we've got people from all over the world, is that your world of work and probably how you live would have been seriously disrupted over the last 12 or so months. And it's been a shift that it's probably unlikely to ever go back to the same again. And everybody's probably been affected slightly differently.  So we're going to see if we can gauge your personal experiences already over the last 12 months. We've got a Slido poll running. I say we. Claire is the technical genius amongst the two of us. So she's organised all this. So what we want to do is want to hear a little bit from you about what you're doing differently now as a result of the shift that we've all experienced in how we've worked over the last 12 months. So how this works is you can scan that QR code or you can just go to Slido.com in your web browser and type in that code. And you should see either on your mobile device or your web browser this question, how has work changed for you? What are you doing differently now compared to a year ago? It's completely freeform. So you can type as you would speak and we'll just, we should see what's coming in on the screen. So let's see what you're doing differently. Staying at home. Me too. Get better at facilitation. Yeah, working remotely. Wearing tracksuit bottoms. You can't see what I'm wearing. I'm wearing tracksuit bottoms. It's the classic joke, isn't it? It's the news really. You don't know what's going on at the desk, but I can assure you I'm wearing jeans. Enjoying time with my kids. More asynchronous work. We're going to talk a lot about that later on. Trying harder to connect, whether that's connecting to the internet or not, or whether it's connecting to people, I don't know. Having naps. I'm so with that person. Virtual meetings. Having naps. I'm a big fan of that. I've been told I should stop, but I like it. No control over personal time. Yeah, that's going to be challenging. We're going to talk a little bit about that as well. Making more use of Kindle books. More less sound. Less sound. That's sound. Knock-a-mute in. That's a good one. Yep, I'm enjoying having knock-a-mute. Yeah, knock-a-mute. Started freelance training. Hugging my dogs way more. Can't be that way, too much screen time. Yeah, and it's not something we can just winch to our kids about. We're kind of guilty of ourselves now as much as our kids are. Saying, can you hear me? Yeah, are you on mute? Those three in the middle. Working longer hours, working remotely, remote facilitation. Those are the really popular ones, and they are going to form quite a big part of the theme of what we're going to be talking about today. Not wearing shoes. Interesting. Or socks. I love that. No socks. I can't do it. I don't like it. Well, I can if I'm on holiday. I've always got shoes. Okay, cooking more. Lots of webinars. No commute. Less commute. Lots of meetings. Sleeping later. More control over our free time. Cool. Thank you. Thank you for that. We're going to have another Slido poll later on. So we've proven that we can make it work. We've proven that there are people out there. Yeah, we are interacting and responding with each other, which is great. So yeah, some really interesting insights there, isn't it? Lots of different things cropping up and showing that things have changed for us all. So I thought I'd kick off the presentation part of this session with a quote. It's always good to do that. This one from the New York Times, which goes to show that this community is not alone. Many, many others have had to adapt as well. We might not necessarily be in the same boat, but we're certainly experiencing the same storm. And the vast majority of people don't want to go back to what we had before. The majority of the comments we're coming through there were positive, actually. There's pros and cons to this. And lots of people, although we want to get out of the pandemic and out of lockdowns and the like, we don't want everything to go back to the way it was before. So I can see some real change happening over the next decade. We're going to see companies adapting and making the switch from being fully in the office to hybrid or semi-remote and maybe even fully remote. Because people just don't want to go back to what it was before. You have all seen the benefits of doing things in a different way. And we've had our eyes open to the possibilities. So people are going to want to make choices based on their own needs and demand the level of flexibility to be perfectly honest. And the companies that can offer that flexible approach are going to be the ones that are going to attract the best talent and in turn they will thrive. So Geoff and I are going to spend the next, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes talking through some eight predictions, hopefully to provoke some thought and get your minds worrying a little bit. And then we'll come back to a bit more discussion and question at the end of this. So I shall kick off and well, Geoff and I are going to talk through our eight predictions of next. All right, I've just said that. So yeah, here are our predictions on how it's all going to work. So the first one, company clubhouses. So most of our companies probably had reasonable offices in the past. They might have been big or they might have been small. Most certainly had a very grand office in the middle of London. It could accommodate 250, 300 people. But I think going forward as we start working in working in a different way, we're going to see much smaller offices and complexes where there are more, more, more collaboration. So you have people that are going into the office one or two days a week. And it will make these smaller club-like offices more vibrant, you know, be much more about social connection. So I'm envisaging these to be more like resorts. So you'll have employees popping in once or twice a week. And it will all be about collaboration. You're rather than you won't be going into the office to sit there with your headphones on to do your work. You're going to be going in to collaborate with your colleagues. And these spaces are going to be outstanding. They'll be providing the best employee experiences. You'll have great remote working facilities, awesome videoconferencing facilities. And there'll be things going on in and around in the morning and the evening as well. You're encouraging people to come in and use that space for things beyond work as well. So encouraging moments of plan setting, dip and dee. So what might that look like? You know, I think more business lounge rather than rather than Google campus. But yeah, something more like this type of space rather than lots and lots of offices, lots of people crammed in on backs and backs of desks. So I can see spaces being split between collaborative working slash meeting rooms, you know, with some really brilliant technology and logistics to make that in-person experience amazing. If you're going to go into the office to collaborate with someone, you'll have everything that you need at your fingertips to do. So, you know, be that unlimited supplies of post-it notes and sharpies or your high quality videoconferencing facilities for you to engage with people. So the working lounges will replace or I think working lounges will replace rows and rows and backs of desks. You don't think we will go into the office anymore and see that type of environment where you walk in and there are tons and tons of desks. I think it'll be more touchdown areas, hot desks and business lounges. You'll see you can sit down and talk with someone for shorter periods of time before you're up and off again. And of course, people will want to do some work in the office as well. I think they will be, you know, dedicated quieter zones for people to do that and they're being a much more smaller proportion than they are today. And yeah, I can envisage a much bigger investment in areas such as company all-hands. You've, again, put an investment into technology and immersive experiences. So you're building a cinema-like experience or a restaurant-like experience. You might even have food and drink available. And these are spaces that are going to be big enough to accommodate a whole company to come into the office if required, which also makes them quite flexible, flexible spaces to be used for other purposes as well. If you want to have yoga classes in the morning or movie nights in the evening, these spaces can be flexible for that as well, which means that these will become social hubs not just for employees, but other visitors as well. It might start becoming normal to be bringing your family to work rather than just working from home. So that's my first prediction, smaller club-like spaces. So my second one is asynchre is working. This is maybe not a big surprise, but I really do think asynchre is a future. If we're only going to be in the office a couple of days a week, then what's going to change the rest of the time? Asynchre is working a way where you're communicating with people without expecting an immediate response is going to be key. And I really think it's one of the most underrated and important factors in team productivity and remote and hybrid teams. As we've gone through the pandemic, many companies have just tried to replicate what they do in the office while working from home. And let's face it, for many companies that was actually a big step. But we're going to have to go beyond that if we want to get better. Large amounts of real-time communications via video call can be draining and it's not really required in reality. There's lots of other ways for us to communicate if you put a bit more thought into it. So I think we do need to put more thought and effort in how teams communicate and working in any synchronous manner. And this is really going to be a game changer. And I think we're going to see a burst of new tools emerging to support us doing this. There'll be way more things available than Slido and Zoom. I don't even know what they will be yet, but there's going to be tons of them for us to assess, investigate, try out, test out at meetups and experiment and learn and fail. And it means that leaders, managers, and coaches and organisations are going to have to keep up with the learning curve and learn all these new techniques to support their teams. So here's just to put that into practice a little bit. Here's a communications pyramid. And I'm actually in the process of building one of these for Moe. But this one's from a company called Doist, where they've modelled out the different tools that they're using for different asynchronous communications. So I think every company is going to need to put some thought into which method is most important for which type of work and provide guidance to employees on tooling and the best methods to do it. I think over time, as people get more accustomed to these methods, the volume of synchronous work will decline anyway. As people get more comfortable with doing things asynchronously, they'll still see the benefit of the flexibility of doing things in an async manner. And I think leaders or coaches, managers that are struggling to do this are going to find this really, really hard. It'll be a real change for some people. In reality, I think these pyramids need to be moving more to be doing as much as we can in a synchronous manner. So related but slightly different is narrative building. So I've been trying to do some more asynchronous communications in my work already. And you're trying to do more in the written format and sending pre-reads out and the like. And I've realised that the tone in my written communications can come across a bit cynical and negative sometimes as my boss could tell you. It's a real skill being able to tell a story. And you're standing up or speaking up across verbally is one thing. But doing it asynchronously via audio or the written format is something completely different again. So when everyone is in the office the whole time, companies are going to have to search for better ways to communicate more effectively. And that storytelling is going to be absolutely vital. You're beating the written or the verbal format in order to share company vision and ensure everyone's heading in the same direction. That's hard enough to do when we're all in the office and it'd be even harder working in a remote and hybrid way. But it's vital to make sure everyone's been kept in the loop on what's going on. So I think the most successful leaders and team members will be great writers and they'll be able to do it concisely. They'll be able to capture their logic in the written format well. So others can consume and contribute to that in a nice synchronous manner. You know, I think tools that will enable others to do this are going to explode. There will be lots of different ways to help us get better at this. I mean, another sort of method is podcasts. Here's an example from Trader Joe's. You know, text-based and video-based can cause a lot of stress. You know, information overloads. So I think we'll need to think about using a different mix of channels and different methods. So you're something like an internal company podcast could be a way to do that. And Trader Joe's have a really popular and effective one there as an example. But I also think things like async audio or short video clips will become really popular. You know, a clubhouse as an example of async has already been popularized. And I've started trying to use Loom a little bit. And with my long-winded pre-read sending a 30 to 60 minute video clip to convey the sentiment of what I'm trying to get across so people can understand it whilst they're reading it asynchronously. So narrative building and storytelling is going to be really, really important. Right, now I'm going to hand over to Geoff to tell you, to talk to you a little bit more about outcomes and outputs. Yeah, cool. So one of the things that I've really noticed since the pandemic started is that I've seen the difference between the companies that really took Agile seriously and those that didn't. Because it's really forced companies to accept and acknowledge something that a lot of us have been pushing for for a long time. And the companies that really did get the fact that it's not about how long you work, but what comes out of it. They've actually really thrived in the pandemic because they've already built trusting relationships with autonomous people and autonomous teams. The organizations that perhaps were paying lip service to it, they've had to play real catch up or revert back to real micro management. And, you know, in the knowledge economy, the complex environment that most of us are operating in, simply just working eight hours doesn't guarantee success. Doing something for longer doesn't correlate with higher output. And this has really, really magnified that for many organizations. I think that's a good thing. And so because of this, hopefully more companies are realizing that more employees need to have greater control of how they do their work. And so the best workers, they're going to be attracted to the organizations that really do trust their people, that really do let them design their work data be most effective. And they're going to focus on what they produce, not on how long they're working, or how many lines of code they're creating. It doesn't matter when they do it, how they do it, they just do it. They don't need to worry about padding out their time sheets. And so you're probably going to see a lot more focus on, there'll probably be better things than this in the future, but things like OKRs and CFRs, things like that, they're going to be focused on trying to support people who are focusing on outcomes rather than output. And that's really important because not, I mean, these stats here are taken from the UK, but I don't think they're too unrepresentative of the world. We spend a lot of our time at work. And we all need a better way to manage that. So if we've got much more freedom to choose how we're going to do our work, and we don't have to worry about coming into an office from nine to five simply because that's how things have always been done in the industrialized world, then we can start thinking about our work as one big value string. We can almost do a value string mapping exercise on our working day, our working week and start thinking, well, how much of our time is actually value add? How much of it is metaphorically banging our head against the wall or overhead or waste or frustration? And you think of the lot of the overtime that we do. So you can see 204 days overtime. A lot of that historically is because we're not very good at getting to outcomes. And our major compensation is extra output. That's all we can do. We'll just work longer. We'll try and catch up or prove that we work really hard. And that has really, I think we saw this in some of the comments in the Slido poll, that's really only got worse in the last 12 months. It's been harder to stop work. And when we're unsure about whether we're hitting our goals or we're unsure about what people are thinking of us, whether they suspect we're slacking, it's much easier to just log on again and do a little bit more because we've got all the stuff here, it's there, but the boundaries are so blurred. And that has, for many of us, led to a decline in our health and well-being. Now, well-being is sort of hot topic at the moment, and rightly so, because it's not all about the work. The good news is, and again this came out in the Slido poll, but we've got less commuting time. So we're not spending two hours, three hours a day on the train or commuting to work. So we've got more flexibility in how we work, which should mean that we've got more time for health and well-being. And I personally know people who are going out for a run in the middle of the day or they are being there for childcare. Sometimes we've had to because we've been home-schooling, so it obviously hasn't been truly remote or home-working. But we've been integrating our work and our lives rather than trying to balance them. Normally you'd hear about work-life balance. This is a little bit more about work-life integration, if you like. How can we build our working life around our personal life? And I think companies, we're starting to see that. We're starting to see them recognize that, not just from a well-being perspective, but seeing the opportunities they've got. So we're seeing different kinds of benefits packages, for example, to match the perks that our new lifestyle is giving us. So we don't need to worry about some of the previous things that would be quite attractive to us. We're seeing things like mandatory breaks, days off, extra, not public holidays, but private holidays, to make sure that we are striking a pretty good energy balance and make sure that we're not burning out there. We're not blurring those boundaries. We're seeing organizations turn off email service between certain times and having sort of blackouts for periods, so that people aren't able to just go on and do emails in the middle of the night. I think we're probably going to see more of that kind of stuff, sort of flexible mix and match benefits, things like subscriptions to Headspace and Disney Plus or health food subscriptions, things like that. And instead of your cycle to work subsidies, you're probably going to get cycle at home subsidies. I've seen organizations that are providing pellets and subscriptions and the like to enable people to work and live healthier and more mindfully. I haven't yet got it, you can't see underneath my desk, but someone I know who has had for a while a mini treadmill underneath their desk, so they're sort of in their meetings and they're walking, they're getting their 10,000 steps in a day on their treadmill. I like the idea of that. I know people who've got their sort of indoor, I can't remember the name of it, basically an indoor exercise bike, and they're cycling at a relatively pedestrian pace, but they're still exercising while they're in meetings a little bit wobbly, but they're integrating things, which I think you're going to see more of. The other thing I think you're going to see more of is changes in where we live and how we live. Now, my daughter is currently trying, bless her, to finish her A-level exams and these are the exams that would get her into university if she wants to go to university. I really feel for her because not only is she turned 18 during the pandemic, which you can't get back again, she's trying to do, she's trying to navigate this really stressful time of these really important exams through a massive amount of upheaval and uncertainty where she's been sometimes trying to study at home with an 18-month-old toddler running around creating havoc and her brother hogging the bandwidth with playing Fortnite, but she's also thinking about, well, where am I going to live? She's certainly leaving home, so I'm going to be moving to a city where that's where all the jobs are, but it's so different. We could be potentially about to see the biggest urban rural shift for over a generation. This could be absolutely huge. It might not be, but it could be. There's already been a greater shift towards the local and away from the regional and the global. I think it's probably going to increase even more because people are going to reclaim that commute time and they won't want to give that up again. They're going to connect more with the people and the environment around them. It's only really been through this pandemic time that I've really spoken to the people who live near me because I've been here more. At the moment, not everybody lives somewhere with a spare room that they can use as an office. They didn't buy their house thinking, I'm going to be working from home more. Equally, a lot of people haven't got their own garden, green space. I think there's going to see more people move out of those big cities towards the suburbs, the small cities, the villages. It's a lower cost of living at the moment, although if the demand is higher in those places, it won't last that way. But a higher quality of life, properties with a garden and a spare room. We're probably going to see some more small cities in those. Because of that, we're going to see infrastructure investment, faster internet, better schools because more people are going to be moving there. Myself, I live in a town, not a city, over 100 miles away from London. We're having two or three new schools being built right now. We're having our infrastructure upgraded simply because we're having a new cyber hub built here, which would typically have been built somewhere closer, say, to London, like Reading or something like that. But it's being built in a little town called Cheltenham, 100 miles away from London. And we've had this neighborhood plan come through recently, which is the result of the collaboration between the people behind the cyber park and the local neighborhoods, talking about how they're going to create this new village, this neighborhood plan, this park that's going to accommodate more interesting and new and futuristic working, but also benefit the local community with sort of, as you can see on there, public arts and different traffic and sports and luxury planes. There's going to be a lot more of that. I even know of a few people who've sold up, sold their houses, bought an RV and turned it into their portable home office. And they're taking this opportunity to be a truly flexible worker. So I don't think that's going to be really rare. I think that's going to become more common.  So, you know, traveling the world, traveling the area and working wherever we are. So those are some of my predictions. And these please nice nicely onto the last couple. So if we've started that you're getting getting smaller, you go from big cities into little cities and local areas, maybe even an RV. Let's zoom it back out again. You know, I think there will also be, you know, this will make the workforce more fluid in general. You're going to have other people that want to explore the whole world. So I expect to see countries offering remote working visas, be that on a full or remote time, part time basis, you know, to attract people to the local area and boost their economy. You know, this is already happening. You know, a quick, a quick call this morning, I found 16 different countries already doing this, you know, from the Caribbean to Croatia. Don't know if Mauritius is offering one yet. Maybe in the future, who knows. Yeah, I think companies are saying they are and you get a free vaccine when you do. Yeah, there we go. There we go. I shall be checking it out once we, once we finish this. But yeah, I can see this happening more and more. You know, the workforces are more fluid. You know, people are looking for different ways to build communities and boost the local economies. And you know, all of us are realizing we're a little bit less tethered to a space. And you're not everybody's going to want up, up sticks and move and, you know, living in RV or whatever. But having some flexibility is a huge, huge perk. And I think companies that can offer these types of benefits for, you know, digital, digital, no ads that have less ties to a single, a single area. You know, it's a huge opportunity.  You know, it might be six or eight weeks over the, over the summer, or you're going off for the, going off for the winter.  So I might not be able to take advantage of some of these things, you know, so a growing, growing family. But you know, but I'd love to see, you know, the world in general start to think about how we could synchronise our education, for example, that would help make life easier for families to be more fluid in their, in these experiences as well. You know, like kids growing up and being able to experience different cultures and different, different environments is an amazing opportunity. So that's maybe a longer term projection, but it's one that I would, one that I would love to see. So yeah, I see companies creating lots of work from almost anywhere policies. You know, they may give guidance on, on when people must be available for, you know, for example, you might want to say, you know, between two and, two and six GMT, you need to be, you need to be online in order to collaborate, collaborate with your colleagues and your peers. But outside of that, it doesn't matter. And we're not going to insist on a specific location either. You know, all you need is some IT and a stable internet connection at the end of the day. And as long as you're clear of what your outcomes are, how, how you go about doing it and where you go about doing it to, to be honest is, is up to, is up to you. So rather than this being a sort of fully remote, because I think that there are plenty companies that are not plenty, but there are some companies already offering fully remote. I think your companies are thinking more about hybrid or semi remote. May, you know, most considering a concept called whole pass, which would be two, maybe three months a year. You haven't quite figured out the policy to be honest. But if you've been with the company for, for a certain amount of time, then you unlock that benefit. And for two or three months of a year, you can be more, more flexible and go, go, maybe go work somewhere warm and maybe go to Mauritius for the winter or something like that. That might be my aim for this year. Yeah, digital nomad visas. And yeah, from all of this, you sort of blew this up, all these, all these, this crazy thinking, but yeah, new roles are going to, are going to emerge. This is going to require lots of different ways of working. And companies are going to need to dedicate roles to own the remote and hybrid working experience for, for their, for their employees. You know, with much more emphasis on this, there's going to need to be people dedicated to doing it. You're creating, creating these models and coming up with these ideas in the first place is, is hard work. And someone's got to think about how to, how to do it. I mean, how many people are, are working from home right now, not quite sure what their company's going to do in one or, you know, a couple of months time when things start, things start looking down, unlocking, sorry, but you know, the pandemic is easing down. There's a lot, a lot of thinking to be done around how, how we bring back to work, people back to work, not just in a safe manner, but you know, in a way that they're taking advantage of the, of the opportunity. And then there's, you know, doing it one off is, is just a start, isn't it? It will have incremental improvements, we'll have to sustain it, we'll have to improve it. You know, it's going to all be around these internal communities, regardless of where, regardless of where the people are. So, you know, building a great company culture and a hybrid and remote environment isn't going to happen by itself. You're going to need to be people there to, to nurture it and make sure it, make sure it happens. And I don't know about any of you, maybe you can chuck in the chat, if any of you's have seen any, any job titles out there of, of companies advertising roles like this, but I've started to see a few.  So, I can't see the chat to see if any of you's have, I've, I've read anything, but I'll go back and look in a minute. Yeah, but I'll keep you updated. Yeah, keep you going. Yeah, cool. But like the whole topic of this talk was what does this mean for Agile Co-Chain. You know, I'm sure all of us are looking forward to the day where we can go back, back into the office and, and run a workshop where we can throw up, post it notes on the wall, you know, and everybody being engaged and swarming, swarming around a whiteboard. But you know, it's more likely that these things are going to happen maybe, maybe once a week or once a month or once, once a quarter. But, you know, we'll have to think of different, different ways to do it. But the, you know, the thing that I wanted to highlight and, you know, get us thinking about for the last part of this, last part of this discussion is that Agile Co-Chain competencies are very, very relevant to all the things I've just described.  You know, hopefully we're getting up-skilled and figuring out how to, how to run things, run things remotely. You know, we can, we can teach people how to, how to do that. Doesn't always have to be the Agile Co-Chain that does something. You know, we can teach and mentor other people and how to do it. And that will be difficult for some people. They might not like adapting to it. They might not think they can leave someone to do their, their outcomes by themselves and might want to micromanage them. That's going to require some professional coaching for some folks to help them, to help them through that. And, you know, all of the masteries as well are very, very, very relevant here as well. So, you know, Jeff was joking earlier about my technical mastery. I don't know if I would call myself a technical master in anything nowadays, but if I can get a Zoom call working over Slido, then I'm doing all right, I guess. But like that is the type of thing that's going to become, become quite important, just knowing how to, knowing how to make these things work. And it'd be, it'd be seamless and being able to, you know, do some, have a backup plan in case, in case it goes, in case it goes wrong.  You know, we're starting to thinking about outcomes over, over outputs, you know, some of the product mastery that we might, that we might have some expertise in could come in useful. We'd want to Jeff's other books, if you're not familiar with that. Nice.  You know, in any of us that have started doing more training or working outside in, outside of technology engineering and product teams and start to work across a whole organization, you know, being a change catalyst and a change agent across an organization and helping them think differently about things is absolutely vital and really important in this world. So I've talked about everything there, bar the agile lean practitioner. That doesn't mean it's not relevant for some of the concepts and principles from the, from the manifesto embrace everything that I've just described. So you might not be applying it to a scrum framework or you're working with software engineering teams, but those, those practices and principles in the manifesto are just, just as important. So yeah, I mean, the, the, if we think about new roles emerging, I'm really surprised that we're not seeing industry calling upon our community to, to help more, to be perfectly honest. I'm surprised that we're not seeing more adverts for agile coaches to go and help with, help with some of these problems. So I think us as a community have a, have a job to, to show ourselves off and demonstrate and explain to people the skills that we have.  So you can, you can, you can help with things. Or yes, as a whole community, I'd, you know, I'd love to see us all just shouting about these competencies that we've got and reminding the whole world that we're here to, here to help, you know, because by and large, you know, we're all pretty empathetic people. I want to, I want to, I want to help folks at the end of the day, don't we? Right, let's summarize that up a little bit. So we've talked about eight different things, company, company clubhouses. So big, big offices getting smaller and being more, more collaborative, asynchronous working. So there have been lots of different ways of working beyond doing things in an instant manner, like video calls, like now, getting much better at our storytelling and doing it in ways such as a written format or maybe async audio. You're really, really thinking about how we, how we work for outcomes and, you know, explaining to people what the, what the goal is and giving them the freedom to go off and go off and do it whenever, whenever they want, which will help all of our health and wellbeing. You'll be able to have much more flexibility and integrating our work and our lives together is going to be, is going to be awesome. You know, companies will start thinking about how they can adapt their benefits packages to do so. We might all start thinking about moving or getting more engaged with our local community and thinking about what's happening in our media surroundings. Or maybe we want to start traveling the world a little bit more, you know, be that on a full-time or a part-time basis, maybe taking, taking advantages of schemes such as Mauritius and go and see different parts of the, parts of the world. And yeah, new roles are going to emerge, but maybe agile coaches can, can fill some of them. So I think I'm going to pass, pass back to Jeff now to start, start hearing a bit more from you guys on all of this. Well, yeah, we, we want you to start telling us what you, what you think might happen now, what you think you might be interested in doing, what you think other agile coaches have to offer and other change agents have to offer in this space. So we're going back to our Slido poll and you, when you, when you log on now, when you scan the QR code, when you go to the same, same page with that same code, you should see a new question. And that question should say, how could your role adapt to this type of environment?  How can you and your skill set and your mindset help see what comes up? Bring some more life coaching in. So we had another comment from Al Ender in the, in the corner. He feels half your job is already well being coaching. There is, and that quite, I hear a lot of people saying, I feel like a little bit of a psychiatrist or a bit of a therapist for my team at the moment. There is a lot from a leadership perspective here, whether it's team leadership or organizational leadership in terms of making sure that people are okay. Learn and apply more about mindfulness. Yeah, this sort of self-management, self-regulation, self-awareness, emotional management, invested in being a better story teller. We have lots of stories to tell. So he's a practice telling them. Building more human workplaces, contribute in having a more positive work environment in the workplace. Nomad mindset. Maybe define what that is for you, trusting the team, facilitating social occasions. It's, it's something that can be done. You know, we had, we've had spandex comedians and singer songwriters over Zoom, all sorts of social occasions playing games over Zoom watching Netflix party mode and things like that. Connecting people with their needs. Yes, find out what their needs are, what needs are lacking that might be causing me to struggle. Meet the needs. Free people up. Creating psychologically safe environment. Yeah, we need, we need to feel comfortable to be able to take advantage of the opportunities that this situation is giving us. That involves trust and it involves trusting ourselves and also a little bit of self-discipline as well. So psychological safe environment. Challenging the non-value at work. What could we strip out of what we're doing and focus on our outcomes instead? Sedutation skills. Helping people to avoid burnout. Listening to them. Creating environment where people would love to come to work. I think that's, that's, that's got to be the first thing, isn't it? Create an environment where we want to come back, where we want to get better, where we want to keep going. And a lot of that will come from empathy. Not looking for personal gain. Attention to neurodiversity. Yeah, neuro-emote context. Absolutely. Good, good, good. What's that? Canva. I think Digital Fern in Australia has no agile coaches, but has an entire internal life coaching practice to support staff. Seems they're well ahead of the wellness curve. Good for them. I'm a big fan of Canva as well. I'm a personal user. My daughter, again, I bring my daughter. She was a, what do they call her? Mindfulness. Mental first aid coach, I think it was. So a lot of the students were given training in mental. Are you at that, Matt? Hey, folks. We have someone. There we go. I wonder if breaking down how we traditionally think about work will lead to more people actually questioning the value of work and then designing lines that require less work. You might be onto something there at least. That definitely is certainly a conversation worth having. Cool. Entering and coaching executives to help them about that. That's a listening. So yeah, there's a lot more of these people skills, aren't there? What we typically, in the old days, perhaps be referred to as soft skills, but increasingly important to increase that sense of connection and support of one another. I think I've been called lots of things in my life, but I'm generally a believer that if we're okay, then we will do good things. So if I'm seeing dysfunctional behavior or disruptive behavior, that is generally a sign of someone's fundamental needs not being met. And if I can help those needs be met, then people will naturally want to be successful. They'll want to try. They'll want to have value. So good, good. All right, loads and loads of ideas. Let's hand back to Denisha. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Claire and Jeff. It was very nice to have you all the late in Russia. So we had for our first meetup, it was a nice participation. So we came around 35 at some point. So that was good. And it's a very interesting topic. I think it reached us to a lot of us already on the meetup. So it's our first inaugural and we're getting some messages. So I'm sure to send it across to you for those who couldn't like stay a bit longer. But thanks a lot. And it was a very pleasure. And maybe next year when we'll be able to travel, you can come to Russia's for next event. Thank you. Thanks a lot. That would be great. Thanks a lot. Take care. Thanks for having us. See you later. Bye.


Mr. Kimmelman, what do you make of Comcast's argument that they don't compete against each other at all? Doesn't that really underestimate the any competitive implications of this deal? Absolutely, Senator Franken. It's true that they don't overlap geographically, but that is not the entire competitive analysis either for the Department of Justice or for the Federal Communications Commission. The question here is are there ways in which they can leverage unfairly? Do they have excess market power? Can they drive up prices? Can they harm quality and innovation? And there are numerous ways in which they can do that. If Time Warner can no longer discipline their pricing for NBC programming, prices will go up there. They probably will go up across the entire distribution chain, harming consumers everywhere. Having the additional leverage of Time Warner as part of the Comcast family gives them enormous power over how the internet develops the ability to offer new innovative services. What devices? What consumer interfaces work? If they have almost half of the customers in the country, that's what manufacturers will make. Products for that half meet their specifications. If they continue to want that to be through a bundled high-priced set of services, I'm sure it will be. These are all enormous dangers that have significant competitive impacts and tremendous harm for consumers.


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Not less than 15 people recently kidnapped by bandits into Ginnah town of Niger state at the weekend escaped from dear abductors. The 15 were among the adults abducted along with the 156 pupils of the Salihut Hanco Islamic school more than two weeks ago. After dear abduction, the adults were separated from the children and taken into Zamfara Forest, while the children were kept in another location yet unknown. Well on Friday night, the victims managed to open the door of the house in which they were locked in the forest after the bandits stationed to guard them were deeply asleep as a result of drunkenness. The newsmen gathered that the escapees moved in different directions so that they will not arouse suspicion from all the bandits in the forest.


All right, good morning, KubeCon, CloudNativeCon. Good morning, Jeff. All right, let's try that one more time. Good morning, KubeCon, CloudNativeCon. Good morning. All right. All right, I hope everyone is having a great time. Round of applause if you had a great time on day one. Awesome, awesome. So happy to hear that. We have exciting day two plan for you. But first, I want to ask a question. Show of hands, who remembers the first project that brought them into the CloudNative Computing Foundation community? Raise of hands, do you remember? No, no one remembers? It's been a long pandemic, so OK. For me, it was about five years ago. And that first project was Kubernetes. So I'm excited to be here now on the keynote stage, sharing with you some updates from the Kubernetes project. So that's the first thing we're going to do today. All right, so I'm Jasmine James, I lead developer experience in my current organization. And it's really comprised of helping developers have a seamless experience. My first experience with Kubernetes was making sure the developers could adopt it very easily. So I'm excited to share with you some of the recent developments within that project. So how does this work? Every KubeCon, we reach out to the projects and ask, what are some of the cool things that you all are doing? And we get feedback. So this is a result of the feedback that we were provided. This list is not exhaustive. You can always find out more information about Kubernetes and other CNCF projects via Kubernetes I.O. or the CNCF website. So let's get right into it. The first update is from the steering committee. So what even is a steering committee? It is the group that drives innovation in direction of the Kubernetes project. This includes overseeing and designing how much of the project progresses. And right now they're working on establishing a maintainer sustainability program, along with releasing annual reports. So those annual reports I just mentioned are designed to highlight and deep dive on key areas of focus for the project. And it will also highlight project needs, accolades, and so much more. The steering committee is focused on growing maintainers right now, which brings me to that program I mentioned. They'll be paying special attention to testing, infrastructure, and further community building. And they've put out a special ask for reviewers with specialties in quality and security. So if you're interested, drop them a line in the Kubernetes channel. Other things in flight include helping folks transition into an owner role of the project, or stepping forward to be a project leader. The one thing I really appreciate about Kubernetes is the easy way you can consume their documentation and the clarity on how to contribute. So if you work at an organization that uses Kubernetes, reach out in Slack and get more information on how you can become an active participant. All right, next up, SIG Security. So yesterday, we found out that 65% of you here today at KubeCon Cloud Native Con EU, it was your first time. So I thought I'd talk about what a SIG was. So a SIG is a special interest group. And the Kubernetes version of security takes the community building approach to improving security for the project itself and users by working with other SIGs on documentation and features to make Kubernetes safer. It also helps with security self-assessments for Kubernetes. And the subprojects and periodic third party code audits, third party code audits. Recent work included the signing of an official container image, which lays the groundwork for further safety improvements to come and sets an example for how the industry should progress in their software supply chain. Everyone can participate in the improving of the security of Kubernetes together. And you could be the next person to help make Kubernetes safer for everyone. So reach out to this special interest group if you're interested in participating. All right, SIG node. So SIG node is another special interest group. And they are responsible for the components that support the controlled interactions between the pods and host resources. Here we have listed some important initiatives, but I'd like to highlight the remover of Docker Shim. So Docker Shim was always intended to be a temporary solution to support the Docker engine. But maintaining this was a huge burden for the Kubernetes maintainers. So the removal was released in Kubernetes 1.24 version. And you can learn more via the Docker Shim removal FAQ and migration guides. C Group V2 is the next version of C Group Linux API. In this version, there's a single hierarchy instead of a different one for each controller. And some of the improvements are a cleaner and easier to use API, safe subtree delegation to containers, and new features like pressure stall information. For more information on how to configure C Group V2, check out the container runtime docs on kubernetes.io. All right, SIG storage, another special interest group update. So this group is responsible for ensuring the different types of file in block storage are available wherever a container is scheduled. They're also responsible for storage capacity management, influencing scheduling of containers based on storage, and generic operations on storage. And they made a lot of things available in 1.24 version of Kubernetes. So volume expansion. So this allows users to increase the size of their volumes while keeping their workloads online. This feature allows the users to increase the size of the provision volume only using the Kubernetes PVC API. Setting a larger size in the PVC automatically triggers the expansion of the volume that backs the underlying persistent volume, as well as resizing the file system if needed. Storage capacity tracking takes capacity into consideration when scheduling pods on a node. This feature allows a CSI driver to report storage capacity and lets the Kubernetes scheduler use that information to make more intelligent decisions when choosing a node for a pod. Ongoing for many releases now, CSI migration allows Kubernetes to migrate entry volume plugins to out-of-tree CSI drivers. Using CSI drivers allows for better maintainability and reduces the opportunity for vulnerability. It's a big difference. Cluster operators can also only select the storage drivers that their cluster requires. So what does this group need? More contributors. For information on how to get involved, check out their GitHub project. Or you can join their Slack channel at sig-storage. All right, sig cluster lifecycle. So this special interest group examines how we should change Kubernetes to make it easier to manage and operate with a focus on cluster deployment and upgrades. It's an exciting time for cluster API because they have reached production readiness with the 1.0 release. Cluster API enables declarative management for Kubernetes using API, making it easy to create, configure, and update clusters. This simplifies the repetitive tasks of Kubernetes lifecycle while maintaining consistency and reliability. The whole goal of this special interest group in cluster API is to make cluster lifecycle boring. Basically, not think about it. So if you're interested in contributing to making cluster lifecycle the most mundane activity ever, you can reach out via Slack at sig cluster lifecycle. Lastly, sig scheduling. So this group is responsible for the components that make pod replacement decisions in Kubernetes. Recent initiatives include performance improvements, including pod schedule latency and throughput. There also was launch of a new working group focusing on enhancing batch workloads. This is relevant for HPC, AIML, data analytics, CI, among others. Finally, the scheduler plugins sub-project, which now includes 10 plugins addressing features like co-scheduling, load-based scheduling, and elastic quotas. The most relevant impact has been the improvements in the scheduling throughput. It can now achieve 300 pods per second, according to tests conducted by sig scalability. Interested in learning more? Reach out to sig scheduling at sig scheduling in Slack. And that is it for the Kubernetes updates. Hope you have a great rest of KubeCon.


Thank you.  Oh This old lady. She likes to eat everything and if you can remember Oh, I'll wait, but I got an old lady and she is She loves to eat everything now think of the books we've read Oh, keep your thoughts in if you can think of something silly this lady has eaten put your thumb on your tummy What is something that she's eaten? I bet I could almost call on everybody because she has had some crazy things That she has chosen to put into her mouth and her tummy. Vivi. What is she eating?  Should we eat a rose? No, not unless it's chocolate inside Cameron think about the past stories that we've read. What has this lady eaten? She ate chalk. Tayton. What else has she had? A sled. She ate a sled. Mason, do you remember something she ate? Keep your thoughts in if you had a turn. Mason, what's something she's eaten in the past? We've read a lot of her stories Do you remember what she had? Skylar? She ate a pumpkin. Taylor, do you remember something silly that this lady has eaten? A boat. She ate a boat? A boat. Oh, she ate a boat. She ate a boat like in Tayton's hair. She would eat that Oh, and she ate a boat. Well, let's think she ate the book She ate a boat and she ate a boat all things that start with the sound All things that we should eat. No, thank you. Skylar, what's something she has eaten in the past? A boat. Did she eat a boat? Yes. I think she did eat a boat. She eats about everything. All right, now my friends, here's your choice You may lay on your tummy on your letter. You may sit on your bottom But we're about to enjoy a nice book and your job is to look Listen, learn and love, but I will begin today this way I don't begin this way. Do I go from the back to the front? Oh, if I went to the back to the front, we wouldn't learn the story in the right way Everybody say back cover Show me how smart you are. What's this? Spine, where's the spine in your body? Those bumpy bones. And if that's back cover and that's spine, what's this? Front cover and here's the title. There was an old lady who swallowed a rose. Oh my gosh It's written by Lucille Colandro and it's illustrated by Jared Lee I appreciate the way mason's ready to hear a story Here we go There was an old lady who swallowed a rose That would be spiky. You are correct There was an old lady who swallowed some lace. She didn't race to swallow that lace Now if you heard a word or two that rhymed and you put your thumb in the air Let me read that one more time. Listen carefully There was an old lady who swallowed some lace. She didn't race to swallow that lace Oh, I love how Adelines keep it in. Adeline, did you hear words that rhymed? Would you like me to read it one more time? Listen carefully There was an old lady who swallowed some lace. She didn't race to swallow that lace What were the rhyming words in there Adeline? Race and lace. Can everybody say race? Lace. Do they sound the same? Now I'm going to pick someone who can find the next one ready listening ears She swallowed the lace to tie to the rose. I don't know why she swallowed that rose But that's how it goes Taylor, what was the rhyming word? Rose, foes are rhyming words and in the book it was rose and goes Excellent excellent It brought the old lady so much happiness that she smiled laughed and Blew a big kiss To wish you a happy valentine's day The end My librarian is Bodie.


What is happening all you happy tool peeps? We are back here in the shop today to check out some really awesome new tools that we've got going well Some of them are new some of them are old, but as you've seen in the description We're gonna go through in my opinion the top 10 tools that save me time here in the shop I'm feeling really good.  It's really nice I've been waiting for a lot while to get some new contact So finally got them and this is awesome. Here back working in the shop and the 10 tools that I've picked They're not all snap-on tools, but they're tools that just in general save time Everybody's found that one tool that turns that 10-minute job into a three-minute job And when you're working flat rate in this kind of business, it really makes a difference in the long run It really does help It does help So here's a look at my top 10 tools that are gonna save the most amount of time So as a flat rate mechanic working on automobiles, which I am you guys might have something different You might be a diesel mechanic. You might be working on trains or whatever But in my field working as a flat rate tech. These are the tools that I find save me the most time throughout my day First one that we come to is The mini-ductor this thing uses inductive heat puts out a whole bunch of amperage through these coils Inducts this into a bolt and it heats it up cherry red without having to use a torch it's a really neat tool and These heads you're able to get bigger ones smaller ones Whatever ones you need to fit into whatever space you need and Not very many people have seen these they work great Especially if you're like by gas tanks and you can't have an open flame. This is the way to do it Let's see how this thing works real quick So as you can see we have a very rusty sway bar link bolt. This is where this tool really shines We're gonna show you just how this thing works with its induction heat We're gonna be able to put this thing right over the bolt it's not even hardly touching it just put it over it and Pressing the buttons turning now It's gonna heat it up through like I said earlier induction Vibrates the particles in that bolt heating it up without any flames This thing works great for suspension parts it works even better when you're talking about getting things loose around gas tanks So you don't have to have open flames around fuel tanks That nut it has the nylon coating inside of it if anybody's ever done sway bar links before you know that these things they just Spin because this nylon likes to hang on to everything and it won't ever let loose So we're able to heat this bolt up real hot In a matter of you know 20 30 seconds here Now we're even smoking All in all, it's a great tool next when we come to Are these right here? These are wire piercing tools They come with a fluke multi meter or a full fluke multi-pack and it's just another little addition to a great flute kit What you do is these little black tabs right here. You're able to pull them back Insert a wire in there and then tighten this tab down and you can see there is a Little pin right in the middle and that's able to pierce the wire So you're not having to go shove your test light into all these wires jabbing yourself in the hand So you know that tool does save you time Next one in general I do have the two Tools that you see here by snap on in the 14 four line I've got the three eighths impact in the quarter inch air at you know electric ratchet, but they are tools that just in general are a part of the 14 four line that is Just an amazing amount of tools They have the three eighths electric ratchet the three eighths gun the quarter inch gun drills They've got a line that you know feats what you know fills whatever need you need in the shop That's why I have to put the 14.4 snap online into this list Next one is going to be a Lyle tool not a snap-on tool. Yes.  I've got this one specific one out just because I use it most often But they are torque sticks. These are able to go on to my half-inch impact Which would go on like that put your Socket on the end of it and this is a torque stick This one specifically is 100 foot-pounds, which is a lot of the Chrysler vehicles that I work on have lug nuts That go to 100 foot-pounds doesn't matter if I've got my impact gun turned up all the way This thing once it reaches a hundred foot-pounds will start to twist and Then not allow that impact to put that lug nut on any tighter than a hundred foot-pounds You got to test these every once in a while, you know, you they do run it They do wear out so you'll have to replace them I usually replace mine about every three to four years worth which it is a long time, but It works really well Next one is one that I did pick up very recently I'm not sure of the part number on it, but it is another Lyle tool This is for testing draws. So these leads right here. You're gonna unhook your battery Probably preferably the negative end.  It's a really great tool and it saves me a lot of time Next moving on is a small scan tool that i've had for a very long time now. I'm not even sure if they still have these or not, but It is a really good tool that it's a blue point EECR little diagnostic scan tool this thing does An amazing amount of work for the price when I purchased this it was only about 140 dollars So for that price for a scan tool, it's great. It's able to read 90 of engine codes across all manufacturers Also reads and clears airbag codes. I know a lot of scan tools you you were looking for are for the in and out diagnostics This is just able to look at some input pins To this and you're able to clear codes as well When that's all you want to do you want to go out to the car You want to be able to read the code you want to say yes I fixed that clear it and I don't have to wait on my Zeus to power up and take like Seven or eight minutes to you know click through all the little buttons and find out which vehicle I need and want auto ID it and then look in through each module look for the code it just This is a lot faster turns that eight minutes into 30 seconds awesome time saving tool And then one of the last ones we have here I just picked up about two and a half weeks ago And I've used about five times and it saves the most time Probably out of all of these tools It's the snap on cooling system refiller part number is svtsrad 272a I know a lot of other technicians have done things here on youtube showing you how this works Why it works in you know, just a short little tidbit it goes on to your radiator cap Uses shop air to pull a vacuum using venturi Takes it down to 25 Uh, I believe it's Inches of vac inches of mercury and vacuum And then you're able to put this in into a coolant bucket Open the other end and it sucks and fills the system Fills the entire cooling system without having to bleed anything And for you gather multiple our mopar guys The dodge trucks we've been doing a whole lot of water pump recalls lately Using this tool turns that 15 20 minute maybe even half hour bleed time For those trucks to about three and a half minutes The longest thing that I have to do is get a five gallon bucket Clean it out to make sure it's clean to fill the system All in all this is one of the most time-saving tools that I have And if you're wondering that was only nine tools So the tenth tool it is a time-saving amount of tools and it's not just a single one When you look at technician But these are the main three things that I use We've got a fancy little pen flashlight I I've got a Milwaukee one right now, but in general You can use a snap-on one. You can use a stream light one I prefer the little stream light ones But anytime somebody says hey come have a look at this one real quick Instead of having to walk over to my toolbox get a flashlight out go and have a look It's time. I just flipped this out of my pocket Have a look It works Always have to have a pen you're filling out documents as a technician all day long. You need a pen and the best tool in any good mechanics arsenal is The trusty magnetic flat-tip screwdriver I don't really know of any circumstances to where you really need the flathead screwdriver for taking out flathead screws It never happens, but you need trend clips taken off. You get something a little pried out You need a piece of trim pried off That's what that's good for you drop something into a little bit magnetic end Works great It's magnetic It's able to pick up screws if you drop and fits in my pocket Stuffed away to work away all day Well guys that was a look at my top 10 list of the tools that saved me the most time Throughout my day working on cars in the automotive industry which were just in general around the shop Down in the comments I want you guys to give me a couple of descriptions of what you guys use to save you time If you're in the diesel field if you're in the smaller car market you work on lawn mowers I want to hear what saves you the most time Let's can get a conglomeration of you know What you guys use and put those down in the comments and maybe we can help save each other a bunch of time in the long run too Thanks for stopping into the channel again today guys Make sure you leave those comments down below hit that like button and make sure you turn on that little bell icon So you can get notified of when I come out with a new and great comment for you guys to enjoy Thanks for stopping in make sure you guys as always stay awesome


Child abuse rates in the state of Kentucky are among the highest in the entire nation. And in an effort to help raise awareness about that issue, Mr. Gatties in Pikeville held their second pinwheel planting ceremony where over 80 people in attendance heard guest speaker, Pike County Attorney Howard Keith Hall, not only talk about the seriousness of child abuse cases in Pike County, but how complex they are. Even though the public doesn't get to see everything, these cases are, there's many of them and they're very complex and there's a, child abuse is pretty widespread and no one really knows how to define it because there's very subtle cases where someone may have a dirty home, a child may be hungry, not properly fed, there may be financial issues up to the most serious of sexual abuses of children. So it's a very tough problem to diagnose and a very tough, very complex to assess it and also to correct it.  In Pikeville, Shawn Allen, EKB News.