My name is Anand, currently I'm working as a staff engineer at Zscaler. Today I'm going to present production grade Kafka and Kubernetes. We'll see how Kafka can be inbuilt as a first-class citizen in Kubernetes so that people who are familiar with Kubernetes, they will have a ease of deploying Kafka. So, we'll look at the agenda first. So, we're going to cover introduction to Kafka. We are going to look at Kafka capabilities or typical traditional deployment and how the STMC project is going to help us in this overall design. We'll look at the overall deployment architecture, Kubernetes-operated design for Kafka and we'll look at a demo as well. So, Apache Kafka, so basically for folks who are new to Kafka, I'll just take another five minutes to quickly brush you through the concepts like Kafka is an event streaming technology, has a capability to handle trillions of records. It is essentially a commit log with a basic data structure since being created as open source by LinkedIn. In 2011, it has been pretty much being used as a full-fledged streaming platform. Brokers are actually a cluster of Kafka brokers, handles the delivery of messages, and a broker uses these Apache ZooKeeper for storing the configuration and for the cluster coordination. Typical leader election mechanism is also taken care by the ZooKeeper. Capabilities are microservices actually used for sharing the data. Highly useful if a data requires a high throughput, low latency, guarantees messaging ordering. It provides a divine replay kind of a mechanism so that you can reconstruct your complete application state. Message compaction is provided. You can horizontally scale your cluster configurations. Replication of data to control your FT modes, retention of high volumes data for immediate access, all of these you kind of get with Kafka. Some of the use cases, of course, it's very popular in event-driven architectures. Also used in event sourcing to capture changes, message procuring, activity tracking, operational monitoring through metrics, log collection and aggregation. Of course, commit logs and this for the distributed systems, but also stream processing so that applications can respond to the data. Majority of pipelines, if you're building pipelines, Kafka would be the central nervous system in that pipeline. There are certain concepts and terminologies. Let's go by them quickly so that you will be understanding what we mean. Broker is basically a server or a node that orchestrates the storage and passing of messages. Topic is actually a more logical, but it provides a destination for storage of data and each topic is actually split into partitions. Cluster is a group of broker instances. Partitions, basically partitioning takes a single topic log and then breaks it into multiple logs, each of which can have a separate node in the Kafka cluster. This way, the work of storing messages, writing new messages and processing existing messages can be split among many nodes in the cluster. Partition is a key concept in achieving your high availability concept in Kafka. Then you have a partition leader which handles all the producer requests and you have a follower which can replicate as well as consume the request. In total, Kafka cluster comprises of multiple brokers. Brokers contain topics that can retrieve and store data. Topics are then split by partitions where the data is written and then partitions replicate across the topics for fault tolerant. Let's look at the typical component interaction. Here you can see the Kafka cluster which we actually consider as a broker and then you have a zookeeper. These internal communications are managed with TLS and then if you want to build on top of it some metrics, so you will have a Kafka exporter. If you want your clients to be talking through HTTP, you can have a Kafka bridge. If you have use cases where you want to integrate an external system directly to the Kafka or your Kafka needs to directly send the data to an external system, so that's where the Kafka connect comes into the picture. We can use a source connector and sense connector to do this integration. Then Kafka mirror basically allows you to replicate most use for the data replication scenarios and then yes, that's pretty much a typical Kafka component you would see. Let's look at a traditional deployment. If you just imagine if there is no stringy project, how would you look like? How would you look at a Kafka deployment or Kubernetes environment? Basically, you will create stateful sets because you need persistent volumes, you need a stateful set in the end to make sure your logs, your commit logs, what you are actually storing are quickly accessible. You are going to create stateful sets. For zookeeper and broker, you are going to deploy these replica sets, manage these endpoints for external access, you have to manage the versions of all the resources. Remember that for a given broker version, you need to have the right zookeeper version as well.  So it's complex and just imagine if you look at a production-grade scenario where you have more than 100 brokers, more than 20,000 partitions, how would that setup would look like? It's going to be very complex, given that you have to manage all of these resources. And that's where StreamC comes to a rescue. So StreamC provides a way to run a complete Apache Kafka cluster in Kubernetes. It provides lots of deployment configurations. So for development, it's as easy as just running it on a kind and on for production, it gives many capabilities such as rack awareness, deploying on different availability zones, applying taints, tolerations, making sure Kafka runs on dedicated nodes, all of those as possible. And then it also allows us to expose Kafka to end clients in a more secure way. It provides access like a node port, load balancer, ingress, and open shift routes. Also in security, it provides MTLS, Cramshaw, and a layer of authentication plus authorization use cases as well. The Kube native management of Kafka is just not limited broker. So basically, StreamC allows you to manage even the topics, users, mirror maker, connect everything using custom resources. So it's kind of one stop shop for you to deploy everything related to Kafka. This means now we can get more and more familiar with Kafka Kubernetes processes and tools to manage a complete Kafka application. So the whole idea is make Kafka the first class citizen in the Kubernetes world. Now it gives the benefit to all of our SRE because for them, they are looking at Kubernetes resources and now even our one-off critical application is behaving like a Kubernetes resource only. So that's where the Shumzi project comes handy. Let's look at some of the features. It allows you to deploy and run Kafka clusters, seamless installation, seamless deployment, upgrade process. You can manage all the Kafka components. You can manage the different dependencies as well. Whenever you're deploying a particular version of a broker, it will make sure it will spin up the right version of the Zookeeper as well. It makes sure very configurable access to Kafka. It provides a secure way of accessing. Upgrading Kafka is easy. Apart from all of the deployment process, you can also use the same for creating and managing topics and also managing the users. So all in all, anything related to Kafka is being managed. So you don't have to look at any external tool to manage these things. So let's look at the design. In Shumzi, majority of things are actually governed by operators. Different operators have their responsibilities.  So that will be responsible to upgrade your brokers, upgrade your Zookeepers, making sure you are having the right deployments, right set of replicas running. All of that will be governed by the cluster operator. The topic operator is pretty much managing anything related to Kafka topics. So you can actually create Kafka topics on the Kubernetes using the Kubernetes CRs. And similar goes for the user operator. So in general, now you are actually giving the operators more power to actually manage your Kafka clusters. On the same hand, you also have the isolation of the roles what it offers. So in fact, it offers that if you are not interested to use user and topic, you can only deploy the cluster operator and just use it for the cluster management and use any other Kafka toolings to create the topics and users. So it does support these different deployment options as well. Let's look at the complete deployment architecture, how it would look like in a particular scenario. I want to present a more of a 10,000-feet view how you would see a STRIMSI-based project getting deployed on your Kubernetes cluster. So left-hand side section actually talks about your Kubernetes cluster where all of your client applications are running. Sorry, the right-hand side is actually all your services where your clients are actually connecting to the front side which is your Kafka deployments. So here is where you will be deploying your Kafka and these will be running on dedicated nodes. So here you can see it's running on a dedicated Kubernetes cluster. It is under a Kubernetes Kafka namespace and then you can see we have also divided them into different availability zones. So brokers as well as two keepers are on different availability zones and you can see it has been exposed as a load balancer service. So any services which are trying to communicate with the Kafka will be using this load balancer service. Of course, there are different ways to expose this out. You can have the ideal production practices to have both of these, typically in the AWS scenario, both of these VPC-speared and you mostly expose this NLB as an internal NLB so basically the internal NLB will make sure that no outside access is granted. Only the applications can actually communicate with these load balancers. Similarly, you also have a scenario where your SREs can actually communicate more efficiently. So here you can see they will be actually directly talking to the operator. So let's look at the use cases how your Kafka would work. So here you can see an operator which actually goes and deploys and manages your complete deployment. Your operator actually talks to the APS server and constantly reconciles make sure you have the right number of replicas of your brokers and your zookeepers running. And also, SREs can actually run these CRs and make sure that they can build more tools on top of it, kind of create a Kafka Connect model or a Kafka mirror maker. All of these are kind of then honored based accordingly after your Kafka is deployed. So most of the times the zookeeper load balancers are never exposed outside unless until there are certain use cases where you want to do debugging. Otherwise, mostly it is restricted pretty much to the SRE or ops teams only. So what it is holistically when you say there is a complete Kafka system or an ecosystem which is needed. So what SimsE offers is a complete set of ecosystem which is needed on a production grade systems, right? So we just discussed about the Kafka components like broker and zookeepers. We also talked about Kafka cluster operator which kind of allows you to upgrade and manage, maintain your operators. On the other hand, you also have these Kafka resources operator which is for mostly creating these topics and users. You have an observability stack which allows you to generate metrics of your resources and track those resources and also create alerts on top of it. It has a very nice set of configurations. A lot of open source configurations are available which you can actually tune with it. SimsE comes up with a lot of sample Grafana dashboards which we can use to actually export all of these to kind of look at all of these metrics. Then we also have a cruise control capability where you can make sure all of your brokers are evenly balanced. It identifies anomaly detection to make sure that none of the brokers are put into some thresholds. It also makes sure that you can actually avoid throttling based on CPU, based on request, based on memory, based on the events coming in. You have many options based on the number of topics, based on the number of resources being used. You can also make sure that any given broker is not overloaded. All of these capabilities can be taken care with the cruise control. Cruise control is another interesting project from the LinkedIn and it kind of makes sure that your cluster is evenly balanced on a scale system. Then you have a connectors ecosystem. It's one of the ways where you can optimize how you communicate with external systems. Very classic use cases. If you are actually generating events onto the Kafka and you want to actually send this data back to some external system, you don't need any microservice. You can directly have a connector, a Kafka connector. For example, here in this case, we have done for Snowflake, in Neo4j where you can interconnect the data right from Kafka events to Snowflake tables, all of them happening directly with the help of the connector. On the other hand, you can also mention how many number of tasks can be running on that particular Kafka Connect model. All of those are also configurable. Then Kafka Bridge comes where you want to have an HTTP connection model rather than having a general TCP connection that is also supported. Kafka Mirror Maker gives you the disaster recovery solution for your complete Kafka system. Currently, the more prevalent and used is Kafka Mirror Maker 2, which actually uses Kafka Connect, a design pattern to do this complete disaster recovery. It also supports Active Actor. It also supports Active Passive, both the ways. Plus, you can actually build more and more tools on top of it, something like a Kafka UI, a simple Kafka-Cowl-based UI. You can actually just embed into it. Now, the great thing about this is your complete project is very much extensible. StreamZ allows you to plug and play all of these components very easily and kind of, again, on the same side, have a way to kind of manage all of these resources on a central plane. So let's look at the demo. We'll see how things work. Okay, I have an operator running. I'll just show you my project structure just to make sure that I have nothing deployed. So currently, my cluster looks like this. I only have an operator running, and you can see the operator logs running here. So let's go ahead and do a deployment. So I'm going to deploy a CRD. We'll talk about the CRD in a minute. Let's look at the operator. Okay, some action has happened, and you can see here it has created this. Let's go and look at the activities which are happening here. So it has started to create a zookeeper first, and you will see that with the CRD, we are making sure your deployments are streamlined. It is sequentialized. You will first deploy the zookeeper and then only will deploy the broker. And all of this is taken care by the stream itself. You can see now the zookeeper is running, and it will schedule the broker immediately, and we can actually also look at... Yeah, you can see the broker has also started. Another way to look at this is just by doing kubectl get Kafka. And basically, you are now able to track Kafka resources using a Kafka CR. Now, this is a one-stop shop for me to look at everything related to Kafka. This says that I need one desired Kafka broker and one desired replica for my zookeeper, and that's it. It gives me something called as ready and warnings, unless until it's not ready, I will not allow the connection to be open to my end clients. If there are warnings, I will make sure that unless until I fix those warnings, I will not allow... I will not make sure my connections are open. So here it will make sure that the zookeeper Kafka is running, and then we are also running an entity operator. Entity operator is nothing but basically it has three containers, which are like a topic operator, your user operator and other sidecars, which kind of combine together as an entity operator. Unless until all of these are running, this will never show up as ready. And basically, if I just do a describe on this, so you can actually see the complete CRD here. We'll go in detail about the CRD, but the status will always make sure that unless and until this is not met, we will not open up the connection. Here the deployment is still in progress. Yeah, I can see that this is also done. Now if I try to get Kafka, I should see that it is already ready. Everything looks good. Let's look at all the components, what are all there available. And we can see it creates a set of pods. You can see these are the three pods. One is the broker, the other is the zookeeper, and this is the entity operator. It has created certain load balancers, and one load balancer is for an external bootstrap, and the other one is for the Kafka broker. And then you can see an entity operator, which is a deployment, that's the pod for which you can see. And these are the two stateful sets actually, the Kafka and zookeeper, both are stateful sets. So basically just with the CRD, we have actually deployed a complete Kafka cluster, and you can actually see all of these resources available. You can just keep on increasing the number of pods, number of brokers, and number of zookeepers, all of this will get added, and you have managed only the CRD. Let's look at the CRD for a minute. So this is the CRD we have used, and here in the CRD you can see what all we have. We have an external bootstrap. This is the particular kind of an endpoint which we expose out. We have a support for NLP. We have support for making it internally exposed rather than making it outside. Similarly, we have affinity strategies. We have pod affinity and affinity. And just remember that this is a kind of Kafka. This is the CR which we're using, coming from the API version, Kafka, and then we assign some replicas. You can just update these replicas and redeploy, and there will be new brokers coming up. You have different options of exposing the endpoints. We never recommend something like TLS falls, kind of an unsecured load balancer for external usage. We always recommend something like an MTLS base. It's just as simple as making this as true. All the certificate management will be managed by Strimsy. Similarly, you can have a Scram Chef H1 2 based mechanism as well, or a combination of TLS with authorization as well. The interesting thing is you can use storage as JBots and make sure you can have multiple volumes available with it. So as and when you have more and more load coming in, you can just add a number of volumes, and these volumes will get attached to your existing brokers. And all of the configuration, whatever is possible, which is supported by Kafka, you can actually mention all of these here. And Strimsy will inject this as part of your broker and your zookeeper deployments. So anytime you make any changes here, the rolling update happens for all of these pods. It also supports making sure that you can have deployment on a dedicated mode groups as well. You can have teams, you can have tolerations, all of that is also supported. Similarly, for zookeeper as well, we saw all of these and these are the entity operator which contains our topic operator and the user operator. And then you have also use a cruise control to make sure that we can provide some capacities and make sure that your pods never go beyond these capacities. And if it goes, it kind of then give you some hard goals and give you some suggestions and optimization goals based on which you can actually trigger those optimization plans. So this is a single blueprint for me to deploy a complete Kafka rather than looking at different resources. I play around with these values and I can have my Kafka deployment kind of triggering based on the change happening on this because for any change event, there is a reconciliation happening by the cluster operator. So that's what I wanted to present in the demo. These are the references we have. You can look at the website, the GitHub project. You can look at the Slack channel, StreamZ on the CNCF project. We will help you if you have any interesting use case, we will help you to get you guys onboarded with Kafka. That's what I had to cover. Thank you so much. Please ask questions if you have any. I'll be happy to answer them.


I joined the Army at 9-11 of 2018. I joined the Army to gain new experiences and serve my country. Being a rigger, it honestly has taught me that the little things do matter and never to cut corners or skip steps. It just runs through my head that I hope the bundle lands properly. I hope that everyone gets what they need. Just rigging these bundles, while I'm rigging them and we're packing the supplies in there, I'm just constantly thinking of the soldiers on ground. Sometimes before we close up a bundle, we'll write little notes on a package in there and hopes that when they open it, they see a happy, hopeful message.


Good evening everyone. I am presenting a paper on city bus. My topic is role of MRI in detecting a vascular necrosis. Myself Dr. Taron Sagal, I am from MJ Medical College, Arangabad. Introduction of the topic, COVID-19, it was caused by SARS-CoV-2 is the reason of the current pandemic. Since the pandemic, outbreak people are being killed due to the virus. Many medications have been used, including various antivirus and utensil receptor blockers, corticostroids for the treatment of COVID-19. Although many patients are recovering from COVID-19, patients are suffering from many complications after the treatment, including pulmonary and non-pulmonary complications. One of these non-pulmonary complications, rare complication is A-vascular necrosis. Single nucleotide polymorphism in various gene encodes for pro-inflammatory protein, which may affect biological activity and contribute to hypercovability in COVID-19 patients, thereby increasing the risk of bone necrosis. The combination of hypercovability, leukocyte aggregation and vasculitis can impair the blood flow in the blood vessels of the bone and contribute to the development of bone necrosis. Hence, it is important to diagnose avian early to decrease the morbidity and requirement of the surgery. The main aims and objective of these studies is to identify an early diagnosis of avian of hip joint in post-COVID-19 patients presenting with hip pain. Medial methods. This study was done in M.J. Medical College in Rangabat. The duration was 12 months. Sample size was 20 patients, including criteria PCR-indicating COVID-positive COVID-19 infection and hip joint pain during the course of the disease. Prior injury to the affected hip joint, prior treatment with steroids and severe chronic illness like diabetes, malitis and hypertension were included. The study included a group of 20 patients who dwelled symptoms of joint dysfunction, which were classified as avian necrosis in COVID-19 or MR images. Patient was screened with plain radiograph of the affected joint. MRI examination of the hip joint was done on the same day as as plain radiograph. Informed concerns were obtained from the patient. MRI was performed using a 1.5 tesla philis paradoxus CX. Established MRI criteria and staging systems were used for the diagnosis of avian. Pfizer and Arlett classification system for MRI was used for staging avian of femoral head. Results. The main interval between the onset of initial symptoms and MRI was 2-4 weeks. As per the Pfizer and Arlett classification were seen of the cases. Stage 4 avian was seen in 0 cases. Stage 1 avian was seen in 9 cases. Stage 2 avian was seen in 8 cases. Stage 3 avian was seen in 3 cases. 45% of the patients were classified into stage 1. 40% into stage 2, which was seen more in middle and elderly age group. Stage 3 was seen in 3 people. They were seen in elderly age group, which were more than 60 years old. Stage 4 avian was not seen in any cases. This is because the cases were detected early due to the presentation of affected patients earlier. Gender-wise distribution of the cases. Total 14 males and 6 females were taken. The symptoms included fever and hip pain. 10 of the male patients had fever and 9 of them had hip pain. 4 females had fever and 5 had hip pain. Comorbidities, diabetes, malitis. 5 male patients had diabetes and 3 had hypertension. 3 females had diabetes and 3 had hypertensive. So these are the radiograph image. Clean radiograph of right hip showing subtle irregularities. So here we can see there were certain irregularities of right femoral head and marginal sclerosis of the femoral head and the acetabular rim. This is the acetabular rim. On the same day MRI was done, in which coronal, this is the coronal T21 section of the MRI hip joint, which shows certain irregularities of the femoral head. Coronal stud image was taken, which is showing hyper-intensities in the right femoral head and neck extending into the intra-trochanteric region and acetabulum, which is suggestive of marrow edema. The fourth figure suggests it's a coronal stud section image, which shows minimal, here we can see minimal fluid collection in the right hip joint. Plain radiograph and MRI of the patients. This is the plane MRI and the plane radiograph and MRI of the patient, in which there is seen and tested changes in both femoral heads in the geographical pattern. No collapse of the femoral heads and contiguity of the both hip joints maintained. Suggestive of feis and and outlets stage two osteonecrosis of both femoral heads. In coronal MRI, normal appearance of the femoral head is seen in the image. There is normal appearance. In B image, coronal MRI, stud image was taken. Here we can say hyper-intensities are seen, which suggests bilateral stage one avian. In third image, coronal MRI T1 weighted images, bilateral stage two avian of the femoral head, we can see osteonecrosis of the femoral heads. In the fourth image, we can see coronal MRI T1 weighted images, in which we can say right stage three avian of the femoral head and left side we can see stage two. In this whole study, avian is one of the non complications after steroid treatment of severe COVID-19 infections in long COVID-19 infections. We described 20 cases who suffered from avian shortly after a COVID-19 infection without prior steroid treatment. COVID-19 infections alone may aid as a risk factor for developing avian. On average, avian begins two to three weeks after COVID-19 its own cell. The mean age of the patient was 40 years and six women and 14 men were included. The most commonly affected age group in the present study was more than 50 years of age. Clinical symptoms and signs of musculoskeletal system occurred 72 days after 72 days from infection onset and appeared 5 to 10 days after the resolution of acute respiratory symptoms and with elevated body temperature. 11 out of 20 patients were initially treated conservatively, no steroidal and anti-inflammatory drugs, intraarticular steroid injections and therapeutic aspiration of the senile fluid. Three out of 20 patients required arthroplasty also. Conclusion. In post COVID-19 patients, there is a greater risk of developing avian. Mainly if the patient has been on steroids, steroids are a life-saving advantage for the treatment of COVID-19. However, if the avian is diagnosed early, progression of the disease can be controlled. Therefore, it is crucial to diagnose avian early in order to decrease the morbidity and requirement of the surgery. The most sensitive and invasive test to diagnose early avian hip joint is MRI of the both hip joints. Therefore, when post COVID-19 patient present with hip pain, it is recommended that MRI should be advised to rule out avian hip. So, these are the references. Thank you.


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Studying Romeo and Juliet? Here's how you can analyse the prologue. Pay attention to the structure of the prologue. It's written as a sonnet and it's also written in 9-bit pentameter. It sets the scene for what will happen in the play. The caesura in the opening line creates intrigue. We wonder what's so unique about these two households. We'll learn that these households, these families are alike in dignity, however they break to new mutiny. Now this rhyming couplet highlights that this is a story about a family that's been at war. The alliteration here in from, forth, fatal and foes creates a strong sense of foreboding. It foreshadows the tragic end and the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare uses this celestial language to show that the love between Romeo and Juliet was going to be doomed. These words belonging to the semantic field of angered show just how destructive this family feud was. Remember contextually family feuds and blood feuds were quite common so this could be Shakespeare's way of criticising these feuds.


The United States has assured Nigeria of its willingness and determination to support the country in the fight against insecurity. U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, gave the assurance while speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, during a visit to the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. Media A to the AGF, Dr. Omar Guandu, revealed this to a statement issued on Tuesday. Guandu quoted Malami as expressing satisfaction with the support and mutual understanding between Nigeria and the U.S. in the fight against corruption, repatriation of looted funds and extradition of people involved in terrorizing financing. U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, gave the assurance while speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, during a visit to the office of the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard.


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Now, in the past, spirituality and science were polar opposites. But now, especially with quantum physics, that's been able to explain many of the spiritual concepts and principles scientifically. And that's a good thing because that helps us explain them more. And when we explain and understand them more, we then believe in them more, which means we're more likely to use them and benefit from them.


Greetings, friends! This is Survival Doc. Today, I'm going to talk about the greatest battle rifle ever invented. I'm talking, of course, about the Springfield M14, or in this case, the M1A, the civilian version of the M14. But first of all, a little history. The M14 is actually an improvement on the M1 Grand, its predecessor. And here I have my M1 Grand on the same rack up above. Officially designated as United States Rifle caliber 30 M1, it was affectionately known as the M1 Grand, so named after its inventor, John Grand, who was born in Canada but who worked for Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, when he developed the M1 Grand. The M1 Grand was the first semi-automatic rifle to be generally issued to the infantry of any nation. General George S. Patton referred to it as the greatest battle implement ever devised. The Grand officially became the standard service rifle of the United States Armed Forces in 1936, and it maintained that designation for over 20 years until 1957 when it was replaced by the Springfield M14. However, the M1 Grand continued to be used in large numbers until 1963, and to a lesser degree until 1966, giving it a 30-year role in the American Armed Forces. The M1 Chambers 30-06 rounds. These are also known as 7.62 by 63 as the metric designation. The 30-06 was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and was in use until the 1960s and early 1970s. It is still a popular hunting round widely used by civilians. The 30 refers to the diameter of the bullet and the 06 refers to the year of its adoption, 1906. So the M1 Grand was used extensively by U.S. forces in World War II, the Korean War, and to a limited extent the Vietnam War. My grand that you see in this video here was manufactured in May of 1943 according to the serial number, which means that it very likely played a role in both World War II and the Korean War and could have possibly been in Vietnam as well. M1 Grands, by the way, are available for American civilian ownership through the Civilian Marksmanship Program, which is where I bought mine. Visit their website, dcmp.org, for information on ordering one. Now, the M14 replaced the M1 Grand and it was a standard-issue U.S. rifle from 1959 to 1970 when it was replaced by the M16 rifle. And the M16, by the way, was the military designation of the AR-15. The M14 was a selective-fire automatic rifle that fires 7.62x51 NATO rounds. These are the same as .308. Here's a comparison of the .306 rounds of the M1 Grand and the .308 or .7.62x51 rounds of the M14. The M1 Grand rounds go in this in-block clip, which loads from the top of the rifle, whereas the M14 is a bottom-fed magazine, bottom-loaded magazine-fed rifle. This is a .20-round magazine. And that was one of the improvements on the M1 Grand. So there are some other differences, but the major difference you will notice when you compare the M14 with the M1 Grand is the M1 Grand vented the gas way up here toward the end of the barrel to operate the recharger. And one of the improvements that made with the M14 was they vented the gas back here. And what this did was this made the rifle lighter. The other thing I mentioned, of course, is the M1 Grand loads from the top with this in-block clip. And the M14 is a magazine-fed rifle loaded from the bottom. But the rifles internally are so similar that if you can work on one, you can also work on the other. And in fact, the American Gunsmithing Institute covers both of these with their armorers, of course, so DVD. The one on the M1 Grand rifles also covers the M14. And one thing I recommend that you do is I recommend that you learn how to work on all of your rifles. And this is one good place to get DVDs to teach you how to disassemble and reassemble and clean and work on your rifles. They have a DVD for almost every rifle out there, and that's the American Gunsmithing Institute.  You open it. Now one thing I'll mention here is there's a condition known as M1 thumb, or a lot of GIs got their thumbs smashed in here when they were loading their grins. And so they coined the term M1 thumb to refer to an injured thumb. And I can show you how you can load this thing without injuring your thumb. And the key is to put your finger or the edge of your hand right here on the charging handle so that if it does close, what it does is it pushes your hand out of the way. So this is the way you load it.  And of course, as I mentioned, one of the improvements with the M14 was the magazine-fed rifle, which loads like this. Okay, I've mentioned a couple of the differences between the M1 and the M14. I mentioned the gas coming out here, and here on the M14, making the rifle lighter. I mentioned the improvement in the loading, doing away with the in-block clip and going with the magazine. One significant difference, I forgot to mention, is that the M14 was an automatic rifle, or it was switchable from a semi-automatic rifle to a fully automatic rifle. The M1 Grand, of course, was just a semi-automatic. The M14 was switchable. There was a switch right here where you could switch it from semi-auto to full auto. Now there was a problem with the M14 in full auto, and that is because the .308 is such a powerful round, it was really hard to control the semi-automatic firing. What happens with automatic firing is your first round goes on target, but then because the first round pushes the barrel up, your other rounds have a tendency to go up into the sky. So it's easier to control on a smaller caliber rifle, it's hard to control on a large caliber rifle like this. So the M14 never did really work out well for as an automatic rifle. And for that reason, they actually, at one point, the Army actually converted a lot of the M14s into semi-automatic only fire. And of course, the civilian version, the M1A, comes with the semi-automatic version only. Now as I mentioned, the M14 was used from 1959 to 1970 when it was replaced by the M16, which was the military designation of the AR-15. So an AR-15 and M16 are essentially equivalent rifles. Of course, the M16 is fully automatic, the AR-15 generally is semi-automatic. The M14 was referred to as America's last battle rifle. And what a battle rifle is, is a weapon that fires full power rifle ammunition. And the M14 remained the primary infantry weapon in Vietnam from 66 to 67 when it began to be replaced by the AR-15 or the M16. Now the large and heavy M14 was difficult to handle in the thick brush of Vietnam, although its heavy caliber did penetrate through leaves and branches better than the smaller caliber. The M16, of course, uses the 5.56x45 NATO rounds. But the M14 continued to be used, or variants of the M14, continued to be used as the standard issue sniper rifle up until about 1988. And then in 2009, in Afghanistan, a study conducted by the US Army claimed that half of the engagements in Afghanistan occurred beyond 300 meters. Alright, America's 5.56 NATO rounds or the M16s were ineffective at 300 meters. So they actually re-issued thousands of M14s in Afghanistan, because of course the 7.62x51 cartridge is effective out to a thousand yards and beyond. Now the first M1As, or the semi-automatic only civilian versions of the M14, were conversions from the M14s. But eventually Springfield began making the M1As outright. Okay, now let's take a closer look at my M1A, the way that I have mine set up. Of course, the first thing you'll observe is that I have put a scope on mine. Now the site that comes with the M1A, the M14, is the same site that comes on the M1 Grand, is the peep site right there, so very, very good site. But what happens as you get older is you find the peep sites don't work as well for you, and sometimes we need optics. Now I added a scope mount, of course this is the Springfield Armory scope mount. This one is more expensive than some aftermarket scope mounts you will find, but I recommend the Springfield Armory because it's the best one for the job, I believe. One thing I like about this mount is it still allows you to use the peep site. You can look underneath the scope mount. So if you have a close encounter and you want to use your peep site, you still have that option. Now when I installed the scope mount, I had to remove this part here which goes right here. This is the stripper clip guide, and the scope mount comes with this part right here which the scope mount screws into. Let me talk just a minute about the stripper clip guide that goes right here. As I mentioned, the M14 loads the bottom loading magazine, and what happens is when your magazine is empty, you have the option of loading with using stripper clips like this right here. Now you can't do that of course if you have a scope, but if you don't have a scope and you have this clip right here which comes standard on this rifle, you can, without removing your magazine, you can recharge your magazine by using stripper clips. And just to demonstrate how that works, here's a magazine. And this is another way to load the magazine right here is with this little stripper clip guide right here.  Of course it helps if you have a magazine that's not already charged. And that brings me to another accessory that I recommend. This is the Lula magazine charger. It also works for unloading your magazines. And this thing works really well and I really recommend it. It clips on your magazine like this. Okay, let's take a closer look at that. This is the Lula magazine loader and unloader. Clips on your magazine like that. You can see how easy it is. It makes it easier on your hands and also easier on your magazines. And to unload it, this is a stripper clip. This is a 5-round stripper clip. You can also get 10-round stripper clips. And you have your cartridges on your stripper clips ready to go like this. Now when this is on your M14, you just insert the stripper clip like that and push the rounds right into your magazine. To show you how that works, this is an alternate magazine loader. This is a stripper clip guide. It clips on your magazine like this.  It works really well. Work using it this way. Or also using it to load your magazines while they're in your rifle. Now, another accessory I've added to my rifle besides the scope mount, of course, is the scope itself. And what I have is a Vortex. It's a Vortex 4-16x50 Viper model. This is a very, very nice scope. It has the illuminated reticle. This knob right here is how you adjust the brightness of your illumination on your reticle.  You can still see your reticle. It's just black instead of illuminated red. Over here we have, of course, the parallax adjuster and then, of course, the windage and the elevation knobs. It's a 50-millimeter scope, which means it sees very well in low-light situations. Another accessory I have for my rifle is this GI sling. I recommend the GI sling. If you use the sling properly, the sling greatly increases your accuracy of your rifle. And if you don't understand what I'm talking about or don't understand how to use the sling to increase your accuracy of your rifle, I recommend you come to an Apple Seed event. Apple Seed, check it out at appleseedinfo.org. You find a schedule of weekend sheets. All across the country, Saturday and Sunday sheets, where we will teach you correct marksmanship. And even though you may think that you shoot really well and you probably do and you probably never have any trouble getting your deer, still at Apple Seed we will make you a better shooter. We'll teach you how to shoot out 100 yards, 200, 300, 400 yards and beyond. Now when you add a scope to your rifle, a lot of times usually you have to raise the comb of your rifle so that you can get the proper cheek weld when you align your eye up with the scope. If you don't understand what I'm talking about with the cheek weld, then come to an Apple Seed event and we'll teach you these things. Now one thing I want to say to you preppers out there, make sure that you're carrying spare parts for all of your firearms. I recommend that you learn how to operate or learn how to work on your own firearms. When the communists take over and they ban your firearms, you're not going to be able to run down to your gunsmith and have your gun worked on if you do. You're likely to get confiscated and you'll probably be arrested as well. So you need to learn how to work on your own firearms. The DVDs I mentioned from American Gunsmith and Institute are great. They make them for almost every rifle and handgun out there. Make sure you get a DVD for your most critical firearms and learn how to work on your firearms. Learn what parts are most likely to be needed and stock up on all of those parts. These are the springs for the M1 Gran. The things that you're most likely to need are springs, pins and the firing pin. Here is the complete spring set for the M14 and this includes the ejector spring and the ejector spring assembly. Here are some more spare parts for the M14. One thing you want to make sure you have in your spare parts for all of your firearms is an extra firing pin. Now the M14 and the M1 Gran are extremely reliable firearms.  But still you need to be prepared and have the spare parts. The part you're most likely to need for an M14 besides the firing pin would be the spring here. The recoil spring, the main recoil spring. Here is a bunch of parts for my other rifles. These are like 10-22's. I have 10-22's and I have almost every spare part I could possibly need for a 10-22. You also want to make sure you have plenty of spare magazines. When a rifle fails most likely the cause is a problem with the magazine. So you want to make sure you have plenty of extra magazines and also spare parts for your magazine. I do have spare springs for my M14 magazines. Another alternative is to have two of the same rifles. If you have two of the same rifles especially if you have used rifles. If you have two of the same rifles then if worse comes to worst you can always cannibalize one of the rifles to keep the other one going. If you have two rifles of the same type then you always have a complete set of spare parts for one of your rifles including the stock sometimes wooden stocks break. And for the M14 if you happen to have a wooden stock for the M14 one of the spare parts that you need to carry is you need to carry a synthetic stock for your M14. Make sure that you are prepared for the communist invasion of the United States. Rumors are they've completely taken over Washington D.C. They've landed in New York and California. They've parachuted into cities like Chicago and Detroit. And the communists are coming to your town. Will you bring enough gun? This is Survival Doc. Reminding you be prepared or be prepared to be pleased.


Students, now we are going to study the scoping review. In last module, we talked about the systematic literature review. Scoping review, it is somehow different from the systematic literature review. Let's see how it is different from the systematic literature review. According to Grant and Booth, scoping reviews are preliminary assessment of potential size and scope of available research in literature. Scoping review is an initial assessment of available research. This is done in emerging situations. When you conduct systematic literature review, then you have a potential research question. And you have a well-defined need for conducting a systematic literature review. But in the case of scoping review, you just have an emerging social situation and you want to see the academic output of the intellectual community. You want to see how an emerging social situation is understood by the academic community. For that, the initial assessment through the literature search is published as a scoping review. This review aims to identify nature and extent of research evidence, usually including ongoing research. What happens in this is that you see the nature of the research that is conducted, what is its scope, and we include it in ongoing researches as well. For example, if we say that a situation has emerged in Pakistan, like we have a serious economic crisis emerging recently, then there are some issues. We want to see how researchers study it. In that, we will publish the literature review as a scoping review. We will look at the objectives of the scoping review in detail. The first objective is to identify the types of available evidence in a given field. In any field, what kind of evidence is available? How many quantitative studies have been done on it, how many qualitative studies have been done, how many mixed-method studies have been done, what are the sample sizes and their methodologies. We can see that in the scoping review. The second thing is to clarify key concept definitions in the literature. On the basis of the scoping review, we are able to understand the key concept in the literature. If you are looking at a public health crisis or economic crisis, then how are your scientists defining it? You study the arguments of different scientists and see how they define and assess one social situation. The third thing is to examine how research is conducted on a certain topic or a field. We try to analyse the process of our research. The scoping review that you are doing on the topic, how are the methodologies being followed? How are the patterns of the analysis being followed? The second last thing is to identify key characteristics or factors related to a concept. You see what are the contributing factors and intervening factors in your concept. You try to understand them and at the last to identify and analyse knowledge gaps. On the basis of the scoping review, you try to identify your knowledge gap so that the researchers who have worked on this emerging social situation can identify what knowledge gaps are and where you can work in that particular field. When we did a systematic literature review, we saw that we can publish it in the form of a conference paper, a research article and a book chapter. The same is the case with the scoping review as well. If you are doing the scoping review in your thesis or in your research project, then you can publish it in a shape of research article, conference paper and a book chapter. Both the types of publication are similar, but the way they are done is different. We differentiate them a little on this basis.


What happens when you have a job and you don't complete your projects on time? Usually you'll get fired.  What happens in school when you don't complete your assignments on time?  There are direct consequences to not being a finisher in these structured areas of life. In a job, in school, in all these things that we're used to. So when we step out and we start our own business and nobody's holding us accountable, what happens?  And today we're going to talk about how to be a finisher. How to finish projects when you're just left to your own devices sitting in your house in pajama pants. It's three weeks past deadline and nobody cares about you and you can't get yourself to get the job done. So sometimes I'll talk to people and they'll say, yeah, but Christian, you like to finish things.  I just like to start things. And when they say this, it makes me furious because I'm not a finisher. I love to start things. I've started over 30 different businesses. Some of them have had moderate success. Some failed completely. And I think that if I went back in time in a time machine and I stayed with any of those 30 businesses, I could have made any one of those 30 work. But what was the problem? The problem was I like to start things. I didn't like to finish them. But I had to force myself to become a finisher to get the results that I wanted because here's the deal. Starting projects might be fun for you, but it doesn't do any good for the rest of humanity. You starting a project does not provide value to anybody else. It just gets you excited and pumped up. To actually provide value to people, you have to see things through to the end. And I don't just mean complete the first couple of projects in a business. I mean, finish what you started. That means you stick with it until the results are there, until you've got the job done, until you provided unique value to the marketplace that no one else has provided before you. Because you stuck with something long enough to actually get really good at it. That's what being a finisher really means. And if you're one of those people that just likes to start things, the answer is not to go find somebody who's good at finishing.  Because, let's be honest, if you do not have a track record, ideas are not worth anything. You starting a project, if you have no track record, is not worth anything. So you can't expect to do 5% of the work, 3% of the work, 2% of the work by starting a project, and then have somebody else finish 90 something percent of it and you be rewarded for that. It's just not the way it's going to work. Now, once you have a couple of businesses under your belt and you know how to start successful projects, you can actually plant the seeds for great success later, then you can partner with somebody who's a finisher and they can start to finish these tasks. So I'm not saying you have to be a finisher forever, but you have to be able to follow through with something long enough to start getting results. And then you're going to have the resources and the results to bring somebody else in and be that finisher for you. So if you want to get results in your business and you have like a million half-completed projects, if you're watching this, I bet you do because I think all entrepreneurs do and all people who want to be entrepreneurs do. It's just in our nature, we're starters. That's why we're entrepreneurs.  And so we have to develop this side of ourselves that finishes projects in order to get to the next level. So let's talk about, I think you can't even see this whiteboard behind me, but we've got eight ways to become a finisher. Number one is stakes on the line. So at the beginning of this video talked about if you have a job and you don't finish your projects, there are consequences, okay?   But there's no apparent consequences for not finishing the job today. If you said you're going to reach out to 10 people today and you didn't do it, who's going to know? Nobody's going to know. So you have to create consequences. We talk about this all the time, but I have a weekly accountability partner and we have any amount of money on the line somewhere between $100 and $300. And if we don't finish our goals for that week, we have to pay the other person in cash at the end of that week because we didn't hit our goals. So my accountability partner just last week paid me out 3 million rupiah. I think it was 3 million. It might have even been 5 million. I think it was 5 million rupiah. So he had to go to the ATM twice. We're in Indonesia and take out all this money in the hand to me. And it was just like, it's like it's my birthday or something. But he needed to feel that pain of being punished for not finishing his goals so the next week he would finish them. So this is how we set real stakes for not finishing the goals. Number two, I have mandated deadlines. So that's kind of along the same lines is that for those goals we have Sunday at midnight.  There's no exceptions there. So you have to set real deadlines. For whatever project you're working on, clearly outline your project and then have hard deadlines for those just like you would end of semester in school. You're going to hit that deadline, right? If you have hard deadlines at work, you're going to hit those. So you need a specific day and time that you're going to get your important projects done in your business. Number three, we have no exceptions. So a lot of people say, yes, Sunday at midnight, all of that done, but I got sick this week. So you might be able to hear right now, but I'm sick. And I'm recording this video anyways because it has to get done. So my friends said to me a couple of months ago, you know how I know you're successful? Because you record ads even when you're sick. I had a cold back then. And if you look at one of my ads that has done probably $500,000 in sales, one of my video ads, you can barely understand my voice in it because I'm so sick. I was in Vietnam and for some reason when I travel halfway around the world, I tend to get a cold afterwards. So I was in Vietnam when I barely had a voice like I do today. And on my goals, I had to record a video ad for that week. And so I had to record this ad. You can barely hear my voice. And now millions of people have seen that ad. And it's not the best it could be. It could be so much better with a clean audio track on it. And I'm actually going to rerecord it as soon as I get better because I'm going to keep bringing that ad. But the point is there are no exceptions. I didn't say I'm going to wait until next week to record this just because I'm sick because if you give yourself the opportunity to get out of things one time, you will give yourself the opportunity over and over again. Someone who I followed online once said, I would rather die than not go to the gym because if I allow myself to skip the gym this one time, I'll allow myself to skip it anytime in the future. So he talked about how he'd get home from an event at two in the morning. And if he said he was going to go to the gym that day, even though he was dead tired, he would make himself go at two in the morning because then he knows he keeps his promises into himself. And when you keep your promises to yourself over and over again, no matter what, no matter if you're sick or you got too busy or unexpected projects come up, you still finish what's on the list. So with that weekly accountability, someone once asked us, what if you have unexpected projects come into the mix? And we say, it doesn't matter. You still have to finish what's on the list. So no exceptions. Stop giving yourself an out. You cannot have an out to your projects because there's always going to be things coming up. Things will always come up. Number four, we have mid-range planning. That means, yes, we need daily and weekly planning, but it has to fit into a bigger picture. So planning your business by the week is a terrible way to run your business.  You're going to log into Facebook.  We want to plan in quarterly increments. That's three months, periods. We want to write down everything we're going to do, the projects that are going to move the needle for those three months. Then we want to review those projects every single week and see those projects through. So just like on our weekly goals, if things come up, we still have to complete our weekly goals. Our quarterly goals are going to operate the same way because with a clear head at the beginning of the quarter, we're going to set what's important and we won't move the needle. Then when we get distracted, we have to come back to our quarterly goals and say, this is what I said I was going to do. Then we stay on that path because here's the thing, success is not going to come from that one new tactic or hack or shiny object you see on Facebook. It's going to come from consistent progress towards meaningful goals. You have to set those longer term goals and stay on the path towards those even when you get distracted. So quarterly plan and then come back to those goals every single week and then 90 days from now you can reset your goals if you actually want to chase something different, but you're not allowed to change your mind every single week about what you're chasing. Okay, that's a finished real project. Five, we have pain versus pleasure. So human beings are generally moving away from pain or towards pleasure. Now most of the population is going to spend most of their energy moving away towards pain. We have in general very strong aversion to risk and we'll do a lot more, for example, to avoid losing $100 than we will for the chance to make $100. Now entrepreneurs are maybe the exception to this is that we do chase pleasure. Otherwise we wouldn't be in this game, right? We'll work for years and years at the chance to finally make it big because we know it's all going to be worth it because we can live like 99% of people never will be able to. And so you have to associate your goals with the pain of not achieving them. What's going to happen in your life? What's going to look like if you don't achieve these goals, if you don't finish them? And what's the pleasure going to be like if you do? So I have my whiteboard over on the other side of the room right now. I was having trouble finishing a project and so I do this thing called picture it done. And I just wrote down imagine what it's going to feel like when X project is done. And I put it right in my desk so that every time I'm struggling to focus on that project and finish it I can look up at that and then I'm going to imagine I'm going to feel in my body what it feels like to have that project done.  Okay. Now I have to also imagine the pain of not getting it done. And so just remember that we're moving away from pain or towards pleasure to associate massive pain with not finishing your goals and massive pleasure with finishing them. Number six, how to be a finisher. I have turned into a finisher. What does this mean?  You push through, you get it done. What happens at the end? After you finish that workout after the pain's gone you kind of start to feel really good about it. You're kind of like wow I feel like I accomplished something today. My brother always says if you get your workout done for the day you've won the day. So afterwards you get this real sense of satisfaction. Now here's what we have to do with our projects if we want to be a finisher is that you need to just finish the first project and what's going to happen when you finish it. You're going to get a real hit. You're going to get endorphins from finishing that project. Just like you do from finishing a workout or finishing a race it's going to feel good after the fact. So a lot of times when I'm not being productive it's because I'm in the habit of not finishing projects and if I push myself to finish one all of a sudden it feels really good to finish it and I'm like wow I'm really glad I pushed through and I got that done and then the next time when I think about finishing a project I remember those endorphins I got from finishing the last one and all of a sudden I have that pleasure associated with it. So really this is the habit you're cultivating and the more you do it the easier it will be. Success builds success. The more you finish things the easier it's going to be to finish the next project because you have these endorphins that you get from finishing. So it feels really good to finish projects. I know you have to push through and it's hard to get there but once you do it's going to feel great. Number seven I have detachment from outcome. Business is a roller coaster and there are so many factors outside of our control that determine the results. So sometimes I'll have a terrible month in business and look at it and figure out talk to everyone else in the industry figure out it's just seasonality like maybe a lot of people are on vacation this month. So you really have to focus on the process and not the outcome in your business. So you shouldn't look at your results and say should I keep doing this process that I'm doing right now. You can look at them over long term over a quarterly basis but week to week, day to day do not look at your results and make determinations about what projects you're going to work on based on your results. You have to look at the process you put in place at the beginning of that quarter say I'm going to work this plan no matter what independent of the results and most of the time the results you get from projects you complete are going to come months or years down the line and so if you're looking to see if you're getting the results you want to decide if you're going to continue to finish a project you're doomed and I did this for years like I would say I'm not getting the results that I want so I'm going to stop doing this but one day I decided you know what I'm going to do the work no matter what the results are. If I have bad results today I'm going to continue to do the work if I have good results today I'm going to continue to do the work it doesn't matter what the results are good or bad I'm just going to stay on that path and that really made all the difference detachment from outcome you just put your focus on what you can control and let the outcome take care of itself it's a byproduct making money is a byproduct of creating value for other people so your focus should always be on value creation for other people not on how much money you're making or the results you're getting now you still have to evaluate those but do it on a longer term basis like a quarterly basis and then number eight last one how to be a finisher and have Yoda yourself across the finish line so these are all related but here's the deal Yoda said do or do not do there is no try so when I ask a friend or a business colleague hey did you do this thing are you going to do this thing and they say I'm going to try I say okay so you're not going to do it or I say did you do this thing they said oh I tried but and they say okay so you're just going to allow yourself to fail because if you allow yourself to be bogged down by meaningless excuses you'll never get where you want to go in life you have to get it done no matter what whatever it takes that should be your model whatever it takes get it done doesn't matter what the excuses are do or do not do there is no trying okay it's not a thing that's just saying you didn't get it done so that's it how to be a finisher if you want success in life it's not about starting projects it's about finishing them consistently the more projects you can finish the more success you're going to have so starting projects is not really valuable to anyone if you become a finisher eventually you can hire somebody or bring somebody in your business to really handle that part of your personality that doesn't want to finish things so you don't have to do this forever but you have to cultivate the habit of being a finisher and that's how you actually ship things to the market that are valuable to other people if you're just a starter right now chances are you're just thinking of yourself you're not thinking of other people and again money is a byproduct of creating value for other people so number one create stakes number two mandated deadlines number three no exceptions no excuses number four mid-range planning that means plan on a quarterly basis instead of just doing whatever you feel like on a week-to-week basis number five pain versus pleasure associate massive pain with not finishing your goals massive pleasure with finishing them six turn into a finisher you're going to get that chemical hit when you finish things the more you do it the easier it's going to get just like the more you work out and finish your workouts the easier it is to show up the next day number seven detachment from the outcome that means you do the work no matter what you stop looking at the results on a minute to minute hour to hour day to day week-to-week basis and you look at them over a longer time period and you just when you go to work every day you say I said I was going to do this so I'm going to do it stop worrying about results and then number eight go to yourself across the finish line do or do not do there is no try get rid of the excuses finish your projects and you're going to crush it let me know in the comments what you thought of this don't forget to subscribe to the channel like share with a friend if you like this and I'll see you on the next video


If you're looking to get more bookings for your float center, then the following message is for you. My name is Kyle from Maximum of Floats. I don't own a float center, and I've never seen a waffle stump in real life, so you might think my team and I are unqualified to be here. But in order to grow this industry, there needs to be people working on it rather than in it. We're not just marketers, we're die hard floaters since 2017, and we can teach you how to get people running to your spa faster than you can say restricted environmental stimulation therapy. We've worked with these guys for a couple months and couldn't recommend them higher. In five hours we had over 50 weeks. We've booked several appointments and we have more appointments on the go. We're very happy with our relationship with Maximum Floats Accelerator Program. It works, people really respond to it. They kind of appreciate that personal touch. We were booked for like two weekends. For two weeks straight we were just pretty booked and we had one of the best. The strongest September we've had since ever, I think. We've partnered with over 57 float spas, spent over 200,000 in ads, worked inside three different centers, and right now we're ready to hand over the system to getting new float clients in your local market on your own. Are you ready? I'm a wellness advocate and I've actually operated a float center and I love dogs. So if you guys have a dog at home, you want to show me a picture of your puppy sometime during the conference, I'd love to see them. In the next seven minutes, my goal is to share with you the one thing that we've found that separates the successful float centers from the ones that are less successful. But first, I'd like to start off with a seemingly random question.  Okay, so how many of you would rather be the king of the sea, the shark? All right, awesome.  Okay, less people on that one. So most of you chose the shark and there's good reason for that. It's probably because the shark is the baddest creature of the sea. It's the predator. It swims super fast and, you know, it can smell prey from over a mile away. Not many of you would like to be this ugly old anglerfish. That's probably because it's ugly. It's kind of a loner. It lives deep in the sea and not where there's a lot of other fish around there. But if I were a float center owner, if I were to open a float center today, I'd rather be much more like the anglerfish. Here's the problem with the sharks. They're always chasing their prey. They never know where the next meal is going to come from.  Here's what's so awesome about the anglerfish. Even though they're deep in the sea and they might not look very pretty, they get to eat whenever they want. When it comes to them, it takes very little effort and it works every single time. Why is the anglerfish in such a better position than the shark when it lives deep in the sea where there aren't very many fish and it's absolutely ugly? Well, it's because of one thing. And that is this little bioluminescent light bulb. It's an organ on the anglerfish called the ESCA. And how the ESCA works is it just turns it on whenever it gets hungry. Fish swim towards the light and he gets to eat. It's as simple as that. And I call the ESCA for the anglerfish, the anglerfish's food attraction system. And in order for something to be a system, you need to have the same inputs equaling the same outputs. And every single time that it turns on the light, fish swim into its mouth and it's able to eat. The shark, on the other hand, lives in a constant emotional spiral because it never knows where its next meal is coming from. This is the emotional eating cycle of a shark. All right? It gets hungry, swims around for days, weeks, or months, finds prey, eats as much as possible, gets super bloated, and then it doesn't know where its next meal is coming from because every fish in the entire ocean is swimming away from it and wants to get away from the shark. Anglerfish, on the other hand, doesn't have to worry about its next meal. You see, it gets hungry, it activates the ESCA, fish swim towards the light, and chomp, the anglerfish is able to eat and have a full stomach and go to sleep happy knowing that tomorrow it can do the exact same thing because it works every single time. So what on earth does all of this have to do with float centers? Well, I can tell you that some of the people in this room, if you own a float center, you've probably felt like a shark before. Probably felt like you're chasing people to come please try my floatation therapy center. Probably felt like maybe next month I don't really know where my next customer is going to come from. You don't really feel like you have a predictable thing that you can depend on to get new clients to come try floatation therapy. The successful float centers are not like the sharks, okay? Because it doesn't matter if you have the biggest, the greatest marketing budget, doesn't matter if you have the quietest floatation rooms, doesn't matter if you have the best team or the most amazing experience. Those things are important, but they're not as important as having a system that you can depend on to get new float clients coming to your center that works every single time that you can depend on. So let me ask the question again, would you rather be the shark never knowing where your next meal is coming from? How many of you would rather be the anglerfish now knowing that every single time you turn on the light, people will come to you and people will come to your float center? Awesome. So at Maximal Floats, we give you an ESCA. That's what we're all about. We help you by giving you our paid advertising templates that we've tested in 58 different locations, spending over $200,000 in online ads, making sure that these are the best performing ads that you can just run in your local city, literally just take them. They look like this, you just take them, you put them up into Facebook and Instagram, and you can get customers this week. You literally could turn it on today and get customers this week. And this works even if the public thinks your float tank looks like a meat freezer. This works even if you don't have a big advertising budget, because we'll teach you one of the fastest ways you can get your customers who only came in once to come back in again, so you can actually have the money to put back into advertising. This works even if you're not good on the phones, because we've recently developed a system where when people say, hey, I want to try out your float center, you can just text them back and forth and get them booked into an appointment. And this works even if you're not the best with text stuff, because every single week, we have support calls where we'll actually help you one-on-one on a screen share and make sure that everything that it takes to get your ads working profitably and all the text stuff is covered by us. And this works even if you haven't gotten online ads to work in your city. I hear this a lot in the float collective. I see like, oh, direct mail doesn't work, or online advertising doesn't work, or Facebook doesn't work. It's just not true. You just haven't tried enough things. And Alex and I and Pepper, I mean, we have a team of four who are working full-time at literally perfecting this one system, and we've been able to test it in four different continents. You don't have that same level of testing if you're just doing it in one float center. We've done all the hard work for you. So the offer that we have at the conference, I would love to just share it with you here, but I think that it's not going to be as relevant for everyone. It's really going to be perfect for people who own a float center, and they're already successful, and they want to add another way to get new clients in. Or maybe you're struggling to get new clients in, and you want your first way that you can depend on having new customers coming in on a weekly basis. Or maybe, this is a big one, you're tired of working with marketing agencies that are going to charge you between $12,000 and $20,000 a year to get you customers that may or may not ever come into your float center. And this is also perfect for you if you're planning on opening a float center, and you're going to be open for a couple of months, and you want a way to get the word out. OK, so however defending on your situation, our product might not be the best fit, and we want to make sure that it's going to work out well for you. So what we're doing at the conference, if you've already talked by our booth, you can actually come and schedule a one-on-one consultation with us. We're doing three 30-minute consultations where we're basically going to figure out what's going on inside of your float center, and if our templates and advertising system can actually work for you. We're going to be doing something that we've never done before in the past two years, and we're going to be offering it at the lowest price we've ever made it available. So even if you've already talked to us before, this is going to be an amazing opportunity because we've thought about what we wanted to do at this conference, and we decided to make our product accessible to every single person in this room, even if you feel like you don't have the money for something to invest into your business, I promise you we've made it accessible for you. So this is going to be a great opportunity for you. And of course, we're marketing guys, so we have to put in some scarcity here. In the next two days, what we've done is we have 30-minute blocks with Alex, where you can talk to him one-on-one, and there's 37 blocks. I just counted them yesterday, so make sure that you get an opportunity to grab one of those blocks, and if you do it right before lunch, then you're probably going to get a spot that's not at like 10 o'clock at night. It'll be a little bit more convenient for you. And finally, just for scheduling a consultation, what we'll do is we're going to give you a free non-salesy sales training for your float center. So all of you who are struggling to get memberships or having your team to sell memberships, this is going to be a two-hour live sales training where Alex will hop on with your team next week and actually help you get some more sales without sounding super salesy. So make sure to schedule your consultation right now before you go to lunch, so you can get that opportunity. And thank you so much for having us. I personally believe that the very best way that we can grow this industry as a whole is by using paid advertising to reach the people who would never have came into a float center unless they were exposed to it by something like paid advertising. Thanks so much for having us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Here we are again, ladies and gentlemen. I feel like every time I react to an attack on Titan episode, it's like a life event. Like everything else does not matter. I wouldn't even care if a car went through my parents' house's window and sent them flying to the next house. I gotta know, where's the rumbling? They mention in every episode, and it's the song title for the final season part 4. Why is there so many parts for the final season? I don't even know why I'm complaining. I don't care if they do the final season part 90. Keep it going, keep it going forever. The final season, the final part. And then you can do the final season, the final part 1, part 2, part 3, the final part, the final part, part 1. Like, you can just keep going.   Let's get to the video. I feel like a meteor is gonna hit this entire town right now. But then I remember I'm watching an attack on Titan, and Zeke is probably gonna body slam this entire town at any second. I wasn't that far off. You're gonna start an episode like this? You just answered questions I've had for seasons in the manner of seconds in the introduction of an episode on his command when he yells to the coordinated via- Oh my god. It's so sick, bro. Oh my god. Oh, I never wanted to see some of these ever again, especially this weirdo.   Oh, I'm saving after this video. I can't, I can't live on myself knowing that's what Levi thinks that people with beards. The drama in this scene is so tense, and they're just sitting, having a campfire. They literally went to war with each other, a season ago, and they almost murdered each other.  Is that true? Shit. Oh, no! He knew! He knew! He was like, oh, oh, I was waiting for this guy to whisper and leave eyes here. I've been waiting for this moment.  Children of the forest. I can't believe I'm on episode 72. Like, we've come a far away, guys. A long, long way. I wonder why she's nervous. Only if y'all knew.  I love how she's so buddy-buddy with Kaia now.  Bro, what's this music? I feel like I'm a horse in the middle of a desert, like, dancing. Oh, again, it's closer and closer to everyone. It's all coming full circle, bro.  I don't know. Wait a minute! In the last episode, it looks like they were having a plan, and Zeke just mentioned it. Talking about his spinal fluid, how they used that to take out people. And by the looks of the last episode, that's what they were doing. Like, they had a plan going on. They didn't directly say it, but the way the cameras were focusing on Zeke.   Is it killing Sasha? Wasn't enough? Why would you invite him?  What do you do to you? He's raising a farm with horses! What?! I thought you were joking when you said Sasha and Nicolo had a thing. That's the closest I'll get to ever dating Sasha. Nicolo, Nick, Nicholas. Of course, Sasha fell in love with the guy that cooks. Oh my god, I'm surprised she didn't fall in love with a bun. Yo, don't eat it! I'll go, no! Wait, is the spinal fluid in the food? Weren't the drinks?  Bro, everyone's sus in this show!  Is Erwin gonna resurrect?  Reiner? John, put that down! Good thing you're not at a higher rank. No, you're not. You could give it a conny.  John, put it down.  The spinal fluid is in the drinks. So the kids aren't gonna drink it. The adults are gonna drink it.  I'm sorry, like, but look at this! He's not saying that because he means that he's saying that to get on their nerves. So they don't drink it. It's like he's holding this resentment in his heart, especially for having a love. Wait, what, wait, what? Oh, I got worried for a second.  I don't know how else would she be helping. The chills that were just sent through my body were the most unholyest amount of chills I've ever felt in my life and my existence. As the two kids were going down there, I put it together in my head. I was like, wait a minute. Nikolo is from where they're from, but they're the reason why Sasha's dead, the love of his life. So now he's battling this where he was raised with who he fell in love with. Now it's coming together.  Is he gonna give them the spinal fluid? No, don't admit that. Don't say the word spineless.  Zeke's spine.  Oh, oh, wait. The fluid is on Falco now. Do you have to drink it? It's not on Gabby. The blood's in his mouth.  Okay, Falco's fine. He's not dead. Nobody dies in the show unless you see their bodies rip the shreds. And even then, I don't believe it. I don't know how the writers thought of all of this ahead. Like, like they think like a million steps ahead when they write. You see, Sasha died. Then they introduced this Nikolo character that was dating Sasha before we even knew it. But they time jump or they time they go back to the past. And everything, everything connects.  They're gonna say everything now. Wow, bro. No. He's not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it. This shows the strength of Sasha's father.    Get out of here. I'm sorry. I would not be that strong. That knife would have slit that kid's throat within a matter of seconds. What? Right there is why this show is so special. A little moment just like that. Sasha's dad asking Gabby if she's all right. Her, his daughter's killer. Asking her if she's all right. Because she's hurt. Like. I, I, I knew it. I, I knew it, baby. You're Japanese attack on Titan riders.   This motherfucker.  What are y'all drinking? Are y'all drinking Zeke's spinal fluid too? Like who thinks it is stuff? Oh, we're going to see Levi versus Z part two. Everything is unfolding now. So is he going to turn into a Titan? Falco? Gabby didn't drink it. Gabby's good.  I don't know what made y'all think and what multiverse that you could trust someone like Yelena named Yelena. I'm sorry for all my Yelenas out there. I bet you're beautiful, but I don't know, man. Looking at Yelena, I could have told y'all from a thousand miles away, from two oceans away, not to trust that bitch. Everybody is turning on everyone. It was all an ultimate plan with Zeke and Yelena.  No one's aware. If John would have drank that, I would have drank it too. I like Nikolo. Oh my God, this house is going to be haunted for life with everything that's just happened.   We're getting Gabby on the same side as Armin and Mika. Gabby's realizing what's going on here.  This is incredible. Look at Mikasa. The colossal titan is saying that. Armin's right there, bro. I didn't even know it was him when he...   He, like, was that like a threat? He walked into the room with his hand cut. Like, like, don't move to Mikasa and all, like, threatening them? Or was that something? No, bro, there's too much happening in this episode. Faka is pure erroneous. Jager is right now. We have like three wars going on right now. Three sides? Or four? There's like four? There's like six sides? Everyone has their own agenda. Didn't I tell y'all he was sus? Dude, it looks like he's better go for a three. Oh! They're finally together again. How did y'all do this? How did you watch an episode and then wait a week to watch the next one? Like, I don't understand. Like, I feel like the most privileged and spoiled person on planet Earth for being able to watch episode after episode, not having to wait.   Introducing this whole spinal fluid thing. Wow. The story just goes on and on and on. Right when you're like, we're getting back to the politics, we gotta relax. Nope, no, no, no. Now we're drinking tequila from Zeke. Meanwhile, Falco still has that spinal fluid inside of him. He's supposed to be like a warrior candidate. Oh, he's definitely turning into a Titan. I can see Gabby turning into one too. I want to see Gabby with Reiner's Titan. I cannot imagine how emotional that scene would be if Gabby gets Reiner's armor Titan. That's what I want it to be because Reiner's my favorite character and I think second would be Gabby. I love Gabby. I don't know about y'all, I love Gabby. Let me know in the comments below.  Let me know. That's the question of the day. Bro, I wish I could get sponsored by Zeke's spinal fluid. Imagine that, imagine I could like hold up his spinal fluid right here selling on my channel.  Anyways, bye.


Meet Jason the guide dog. Today he's taking a flight with Qantas. Today's been a really great day. We got to meet guide dog Jason and his handler Daniel. They're frequent flyers with us and what's great is that Jason's been trained by Guide Dogs Australia and he knows how to get to the check-in counters. Good morning, welcome to Qantas. Where are you travelling today? Jason already knows exactly what to do because of how often he flies, but even though he does, Virginia was able to help Daniel and Jason get through the security process and head on down to the lounge. We travel about once a month, mainly up north. We like warm climate. It's a perfect opportunity to call Qantas and say, hey guys, can I come with you again? Today we made sure that Jason and Daniel were able to pre-board the aircraft. Rob, our commissioner, was able to meet them there. Amelia, who was our cabin crew, was able to get them to the seat. We already had some absorbent mat down ready to go so as soon as they got on board, we were able to get them seated in their seat and make sure that everything is safe to fly. Is there anything else that I can do to make you more comfortable? We recognise that everyone has their own style of travel and we'll do whatever we can to make sure you're comfortable. But we also recognise that everyone has the right to return home safely. With Qantas, my dog Jason sits right next to me. I feel so safe travelling with Qantas.