My name is Erica Merritt, and I am a local singer and songwriter. Today, we're going to talk about proper breathing. As a singer, proper breathing is extremely important to carry out a full sound and to have the proper support you need to carry your notes, all right? Before we do that, we're going to begin with the sintering exercise I'd like to do before I sing. Anytime I sing, I like to relax my mind and my body just a little bit so that I can chase away any nervousness or anxiousness, OK? So I invite you to close your eyes, take a deep breath, let it out, good. Deep breath in, let it out. One more time, deep breath in, let it out. I would like for you to feel the bottom of your feet. Wiggle your toes just a little bit. Now, let's move to our ankles. Let's wiggle them just a little bit. Let's move to our knees. Let's continue to take breaths as we're moving the different parts of our body. Let's move to our hips, our shoulders, our necks. Let's go to our temples. If they're tight, I want you to just concentrate on relaxing them. What about the top of our heads? What does that feel like? If it tight, if it is, let's loosen it up. We're going to go to the back of our shoulders, our shoulder blades, going down to our lower back, behind our knees, and back down to our heels. Let's pretend that our feet are glued to the ground and that our head has puppet strings and they're being pulled straight up into the air. I want you to imagine, or excuse me, to feel the full length of your body and the full length of your offerings. Think about what you'd like to offer this world, your friends and your family, as far as love, as far as energy, as far as your great talent and ability. Let's breathe it in. Now, let's let it out. Good job. We are centered and ready to talk about proper breathing. It's very important to have proper breathing technique as a singer. It supports your beautiful voice and your notes and it affects your pitch and your tone. Also, when you have good breathing support, you don't have to breathe a thousand times as you're singing, right? We want to make sure that we have some good breath support. We put it in something called our diaphragm. It's a holding tank for our air, OK? So who knows where our diaphragm is? Our diaphragm is located. Can you go to your belly button area and right above your belly button area and below your ribs is your diaphragm, OK? When you take a deep breath and a proper deep breath, the air should go into your diaphragm, much like when you're putting air into a paper bag or a plastic bag. You put air into the bag and what happens? It gets bigger. The same thing as when you breathe when you're into your diaphragm. Your diaphragm and your waist, you should feel it here, should get bigger right above your waist, right? In order to do that, you have to have proper breathing technique. So you're going to stand up. You are going to make sure your legs are shoulder length apart.  And in order to get to this position, sometimes I like to put my hands behind my back and grab my hands together like this, and we come together, and that kind of positions you in the perfect position to have great posture, OK? If you don't have great posture, then your diaphragm can't, let's see, you can't accept or you can't get the air in your diaphragm like you'd want to. It's like a straw, right? If you bend the straw, you can't get the air through the straw, right? So I want to make sure that we're standing up straight and our posture is great so that we can get all the air in our diaphragm that we need, OK? All right, I'd like you to try to take a deep breath through your nose, and we're going to really try to get that air into our diaphragm. Something I like to act like I'm doing is going swimming or going underneath the water. When you go underneath the water, you want to take a deep breath, right? And instinctually, when you do that, that air goes into your diaphragm because you know that you're going to need some oxygen to be under that water, correct? So you can take a deep breath, and then you go underneath the water. So you come out of the water, right?  Shoulders down, chest up, take a deep breath through your nose. And if you put your hands on your waist like this, you should feel it expand. Act like if there's a rubber band actually around your whole waist. If you're doing it correctly, the rubber band gets bigger. And as the air expels or lets out of your body, the rubber band gets smaller, OK? So let's make our rubber band bigger. Deep breath, let it out, rubber band gets smaller. Let's act like it's a paper bag. Fill up your paper bag, let it out. The bag deflates. Good. As we are talking about singing from our diaphragm, it's a great idea to practice breathing from your diaphragm. I say it like three times a day. It gets really easy to get dizzy when we're doing this, because that's what happens when you breathe from your diaphragm. But don't worry, that's pretty normal. So if you need to sit, that's fine. I would prefer you stand. I am sitting, but if you are sitting, you want to make sure that your posture is up, straight, and proper, so that you're getting that air. When you take a deep breath, this time, I want you to see how long, how many seconds, you can expel the air. So I have a taking deep breath, and you let it out. We want to actually take our time and let it out, so that we can, let's try five seconds, OK? Deep breath through your nose, and we're going to try to let it out for five seconds. Let's go. Pretty good. All right, let's try it again. This time, I want you to make a TS sound like this.  I want you to make a TS sound as we're expelling our air, and we're going to see how many seconds we can expel that air, OK? Let's try expelling it for 10 seconds, all right?  That was 10 whole seconds. If you weren't able to do it for 10 seconds, that's quite all right. You can start at five, and work your way up to 10, and then to 15, then to 20. And before you know it, you'll be at 30 seconds, 40 seconds, and maybe all the way to a minute. But it takes practice, but I promise you, if you keep practicing, you can get better and better at this. And this will allow you to have lots of air to draw from when you're singing those beautiful notes, OK?  And this time, we're going to try to take a deep breath through our nose again. And when we let it out, we're going to go for 15 seconds, OK? All right, deep breath in, let it out. Very good, OK. How many people got to 15 seconds? If not, that's quite all right. The idea is to keep practicing so that you can get more and more time, or I would say that you can get more and more air into your diaphragm, and so that you can expel it for a longer amount of time, OK? All right, much like when you're holding a note, you take a deep breath, and you might go, uh, just like when we tried the TS exercise, I'd also like you to try the AWE, ah, exercise, OK? When you're doing, ah, you're doing the same thing, but this time, you're making a sound when you do it, OK? Let's try to take a deep breath into our diaphragm, making that rubber band expand. And as you're doing that, we're gonna see if we can hold our note for five seconds, OK? Deep breath in, let's do it. Ah, don't be scared or nervous if it seems harder to do it when you're singing a note. When you're singing a note, a lot more air comes out of your mouth than when you're going TS. So the goal is to try to control your diaphragm. Your diaphragm makes it easier to control, actually, how much air is coming out of your diaphragm, assuming out of your mouth, OK? It's like a pressure gauge, OK? So we'll take a deep breath, let it out. This time, we're gonna try to do it for 10 seconds, OK?  That if you take a deep breath into your diaphragm and you're gonna hold that, if you're expanding a rubber band, you're gonna hold that rubber band in place as long as you can. And you wanna make sure that you are, it's flattening, but it's flattening at the slowest rate possible, right? Because you wanna make sure that that air is lasting as long as possible in your diaphragm, OK? Take a deep breath, and we're gonna try to do this for a note for 10 seconds, OK? Deep breath, let it out. Ah, seconds, wow! How many people got to 10 seconds?  I time myself. I get a little timer, or I count, have someone count, or I might count in my head, and I take a deep breath and I see how many seconds I can get, right? Sometimes I get five, sometimes I get 10, but if you keep practicing, you can probably get up to 30 seconds fairly easily and fairly quickly, OK? So let's try doing that three times a day, and I promise you that if you start at five seconds in a couple days, you'll be able to do 10 seconds, and then as you keep going, you'll be able to get 30 seconds to 40 seconds in no time, OK? Now that we've learned how to breathe into our diaphragm and to get lots of air stored in there, we're gonna try a singing exercise that incorporates using your diaphragm and holding air in that capacity, in that space, to support the notes that we're gonna sing. We're gonna use the call and response method.  Now, every time that I sing something for you, I'm gonna add a little bit more, so you're gonna make sure that you have lots of air support in your diaphragm to carry out the exercise of the note, OK? Or the pattern of notes, OK?  All right, deep breath, here we go. No way, no way, no way, no way, deep breath, no way, deep breath, no way, good, take a deep breath because it's gonna get a little bit harder or more challenging, OK? Are you ready? No way, now you sing it with me. No way, time we do it. We say, no way, I'll never stop, so no, you see how we keep building upon that? Let's try it again, deep breath. Let's do it, no way. Are you able to get that with one breath? Because if you're trying, you're winning, OK? Add a little bit more with that one breath to make sure that you take it right deep through your nose. Deep through your nose, all right? And I'm gonna add a little bit more.  Deep breath through your nose, here we go, no way. Starting with just a few no waves and then we got to four whole rounds of no waves and then we ended with no way, I'll never stop singing with one breath. That's how you do it, you practice every day and the better that you get at this, the more words you'll be able to say with one breath or more words you'll be able to sing with one breath, OK? But it's very important to put that air in your diaphragm so that you can hold it there and then it can support all these beautiful notes that you're singing, OK? All right, my name is Erica Merritt and again, I wanna thank you for joining me to talk about proper breathing technique, breathing from your diaphragm.


Welcome everybody to the next talk. It's about L2 BSA that is layer 2 bitstream access for broadband services. It's a complicated issue more on the political side than on the technical one. Let's start with the person that it shows. I have grown up in East Germany. The access to computer technology was not that easy. But I managed to have the Commodore 64. During the unification change I switched from the Commodore to Microsoft to MS-DOS and Windows. But a few years later, two years later, I had switched to Linux for a project in order to provide a religious website in Germany. One of the firsts about sects and about providing information about the dangers of religion. So we need a web server and we found a possibility to do this with Linux. The next problem was to get access to the internet in these times. I was part of the network AFOW in Germany. They tried to build an internet for really ordinary people and by ordinary people. They managed to bring the internet from the universities and from some companies to the masses and allow everybody to have access to the internet on a very simple and collegial base. So that was a grassroots activity I've been proud to be part of. And I see some of the people I have met in this time in this meeting here too. That's fine. Hi everybody. Going from this enthusiasm to a commercial activity started in 1996 when I co-founded an original ISP. And in this position I was responsible for building the infrastructure of real commercial broadband ISPs in Turingia. One was sold to another company and the second one is still existing and we are doing services for them. And one of the points we had in the second ISP lifetime was that we had to provide PPP. And we had a commercial appliance for this and this commercial appliance was not sufficient anymore. And we thought about changing it to an open source solution but none of the solutions were really applicable for our needs. It was too small or too unstable and somebody told me that the Russian internet is running on NPD on a free BSD on a so-called net graph infrastructure. And I was very pleased to have contact to these people and they told me they had no problems. So I switched the ISP to free BSD and NPD. The result was that we had corner panics about every two days and it took three quarters a year to fix the bugs in the corner and NPD software and so on. And it was my start with free BSD. So broadband in Germany after, oh yeah, that's a horrible story. Let's start with the early beginnings. Germany had an early start with networking. Of course using the telephone network, so the copper lines and of course they are using everything everybody else is doing. But in other areas of the world, for instance in Japan, they already noticed that copper is not the best way to do the last mile and they insist on switching to fiber. Like many other countries are preparing in the 90s to do so. But in Germany we had a problem. We had a government which was tightly coupled with factories who produced these copper infrastructure and therefore they decided that they do not switch to fiber. And still stick to the copper area. And it was so a massive shift in the decision making that it still persists to this day. In 1995, the same political party chose to privatize the infrastructure and sold it out to a new founded company, the German Telecom or Deutsche Telecom. And in order to start such a company, they got all the infrastructure as a gift. And so they created politically a monopoly. Nobody else was able to have access to the households. And the consequence was that the competitors which want to start in this market was faced with an impossible mission. And they choose the way, the only way they can do, they choose the way to go to the curb. And the consequence was that the unbundling of the last mile was regulated so that the Deutsche Telecom was forced to give access to the last mile to the copper into the households to competitors. And a few years later, after almost all in the world has changed to high speed internet using fiber, the German internet was still very slow and expensive. So they tried to build faster internet access and the technology was called vectoring. Vectoring is technology using all the signals from a bunch of copper cables and find out which cable has which signal, which signal influences which other line and then compute which signal might become from which household. But this technology needs to have access to all the copper lines in an area at once because they are doing signal processing on this. For the technical background, you may think of DSL as, yeah, it's not using the copper line as a wire, it uses as a guide to a wireless signal. The wireless signal is guided by the wire on the surface, but it's not shielded in any case. So if the two copper lines are using the same cable, these spring from one cable to the other and the vectoring technologies make use of this arrows in transmission and recalculate which signal is coming from which household. So in the consequence that means that we get a remodernapalization of the last mile and it took a long time up to we get a regulated access to the last mile again. Now, without layer one, only a layer two access because layer one is vectoring, it has to be done by a single company in a single device. So they had to find the solution to bring the layer two bit stream out to another ISP. The consequences of this who will mess with fiber is very simple. If you make a ranking how fast internet is available in which country, you will find Germany in this area here. It's fiber to the home or fiber to the building. And if you like, you might have a look at the other countries which are better or even worse than Germany. It's hard to be worse than Germany in digitalization. Currently to this day in Europe, only one country has a worse digitalization strategy than Germany or digitalization deployment in Germany. It's Albania. Every other country in Europe do a better job than our country here. Okay, back to the solution. So we had a monopoly recreated by vectoring. As I said before, that we need to have all the copper lines in one device. In order to make a break out of this lines, we had to name the line to the household and say, we need all the bits on this line. So please bring it to an gateway in order to provide services to this household by another ISP. So we had a one-to-one mapping between the port and the gateway and the technical solutions were simple. They only put a VLAN tag on the port and transport so a multiple tagged frame to the gateway. And there you have to process it. The consequence is obvious. At first, you have only 4,000 customers per gateway. You have only 4,000 VLAN tags you can use, so you can only number 4,000 ports. The second consequence is a little bit difficult. It's the consequence that you do not have the opportunity to have a smart network distribution or aggregation network. For instance, you are not able to provide IPTV over such a layer-to-bit stream access because you have to replicate all the traffic in the central unit. So you have to send the same stream again and again to each customer which is currently watching a special stream. Usually you would use multicast and make the replication as late as possible in the network. So you can't provide IPTV in this approach. It's an interesting point because it means that the competition is not able to provide triple play. You are only able to provide double play, so internet and voice, but not TV. The next problem is that if you have a DSL line that's synchronized to a special speed, say for instance 200 megabits, but on the gateway line we have a gigabit or 10 gigabits. So we send much more traffic to the aggregation network or transport network than we can send out on the last mile. So we had a problem with packet loss and the solution for this problem is very simple. It's strictly forbidden to send more data than can be sent to the customer. How do we know how much data we can send? That's by modifying the DHCP or PPP requests from the customer. They are adding a special option and saying the current synchronized speed is the following how much megabits up and down. So you have to provide the rules and traffic shaping. If you do not do this, if you send more traffic to the aggregation network of the other provider, then the DSL line is able to deal with, you have to pay a fine. The fine is about, it's a regular price, it's about 2,000 euro per day in customer. So there's a strong motivation to implement shaping. No, there's no hardware flow control. Forget it. Even if the DSL line is shaping the synchronized speed, which is very common and maybe happen every minute, you will not get any notification about this because DHCP requests or PPP resynchronization will not happen every time. If you build such a thing like we are doing, you have to calculate a little bit and say, okay, we have one million households and two ringers. So we need 260 interconnection points if we have 4,000 households per interconnection. But luckily we do not need this because we do not get all the households in the whole country here. Of course, only a very small percent. So we have only to have access to each region where a customer we want to serve is located. It's about 50 interconnections we need to take in German telecom operated areas. The rural areas are no problem because they are operated by us. So we only have to manage the connections to about six cities. We do not have any more cities in this area. Yeah, 100% market penetration would be very simple. But that's not the case here. So we have to use this approach. The main problem is that in order to terminate such an A10 MSP or L2BSA, you have to buy an appliance. That's the same situation we started in 2008. We switched to the freeBSD and we do not want to go this way again because these appliances are much, much more expensive. They are about a million euro per device. And the only support single mode of connectivity is PPPOE. I will explain why they are doing so. And we choose to use DHCP and IPv6 and multiple VLANs. But we run into problems which are designed to prevent DHCP and such services. But we have to deal with it. What happens on the wire? If you have a customer, the customer has a payload, a PAN, a customer service tag as a CBLAN saying that's traffic for internet or for voice or for management or something like this. And then you have the source and destination IP. The packet or the frame is transported from this area. The destination is coming first and the source port and the CBLAN and payload, of course. On the DSLAM where the last mile is terminated, the L2BSA provider has to insert the second tag, an S tag, service provider tag. So all the traffic in between here, the payload and the CBLAN, is completely opaque to the transporting service provider. That's a good thing. And now let's have a look on such a packet with real numbers. We have a packet in VLAN 140 which is internet in our case. And so the customer CBA which is configured to our ISP and provides access to this network in this way. Now the customer is connected to a German telecom DSLAM. They are injecting the SVLAN 27 and hand over the packet to us. Very simple. And if we send back a packet in VLAN 27, then we reach the customer. And so we have a B-directional one-to-one mapping. A few moments later, see this, the SVLAN has changed. They changed on every DSL resumed. They may change it even on other cases. We have noticed such changes. And the idea behind this is that every new synchronization is a new session which requires a new dynamic service provider VLAN. If we still assume that the old session is existing, we send to a drop-hole. Power traffic will go out on the wrong SVLAN and that's why it will be dropped because there is no port associated to this SVLAN anymore. It will happen suddenly without any warning. If you are using PPP, there is almost no problem because this situation will sort of itself. PPP has to keep alive in the LCP frame. So if you lost the connection, it will notice and will start a complete resumed. That's why you get new information from the new PPP session and new information about DSL speed. And you can still connect the customer over the new PPP session if you have DHCP or FNASM. That's our situation. So at any time, the SVLAN might change. In many cases, even if it's in DSL resync, even the customer does not notice it simply because in DSL modem, the real router is behind the DSL modem, the article, and the DSL modem will make a resync but will not notify the router of the customer that they had changed the synchronization because the whole equipment depends on the idea that the DSL line is well defined and well recognized and this is completely changed by choosing a random number at any time. So what we do is to simplify the approach by making it more complex as usual in technology. So we have from the customer side, we have the CVLAN and the transport provider will add an SVLAN. We want to have it cheap, so we do not use a single server power. In the connection, we use the server with multiple interfaces. At the moment, we have about 15 to 20 interfaces per server. We do not need to be at very high speeds. We do not have so much customers per interconnection. In order to aggregate this, we have added an AVLAN and aggregate VLAN so we can name the interface that allows us to make the cross configuration per interface. Then the magic happens. The magic is to rotate the VLANs. So if we have the VLANs in another order, we can start with the CVLAN, which was the inner one at first and can build a network network for a server. So we have a different cross configuration for each service in a static way. Then we can decouple the interface and then as the last step, we can decouple the line. So the dynamic one is on the end, and that's easier to handle. Let's have a look. That was the approach. Traffic is coming from an interface from the L2PSA provider. We have some patch-shaping, patch-node and for the cross. The diamond nodes are VLAN nodes. Here we have traffic-shaper. So for each line, we have a traffic-shaper. We are not allowed to send more traffic to the line than the DSL is in sync. So we have to aggregate over all the VLANs, all the services we have, and we have to provide a shaping of all these things in one step. That's why we are doing this on the interface level. And then that's the aggregation here. We have more than one line. This is the rotation step. Then we break out the customer VLANs. We have, for instance, a cross session for IPTV if we could use it or for voice. Or we have the simple session for Internet. Then we have to break out the aggregation line than the SVLAN from the provider. And then we can go to a bridge, and the bridge has a VLAN on our network, and we can go to the whole IP platform we already have. So we do not need to develop anything new here. What are the problems? Red are existing nodes. It's an NGE. And that's all to inspect it for DHCP in order to set up there. I have actually all, without any problem, the green nodes, the bridge nodes, they do their work, but only in the lab. Orange is a lot of the user-specific programs and DHCP break out looking on the DHCP options setting up the appropriate parameters for traffic shaping. On the other hand, we do not know which line is coming, which SVLAN is. We have a nomad here. So we postcript again, which is setting up a new VLAN as to the bridge. So we can use the bridge for differentiating the lines by mega-presses. Each end device should have a different mega-press. So we can use the bridge and say, oh, that's like so-and-so, and then it's SVLAN and so-and-so on. Let's have a look a little bit later. In order to bring this up, we had some modifications. We had to do some modifications to FreeBSD. First, a simple box that frames didn't pass through the chip or that the magical node has to come into the corner itself for the VLAN rotation. Then the problems with the bridge node, which was very hard because the NG bridge node has an arbitrary limit of 16 links to connect to. It's a little bit low for all purposes. So we have to bring it up to unlimited links. Then the next problem is that this creates so large, a net graph message that's not able to bring it in user space. In order to stop this from growing arbitrary large, we make the bridge node to stop learning from the uplink ports so that the MAC addresses are not floating the table of the bridge node. It's the only node in the graph world which is not production-ready because it's not multithreaded. All the activities through this node is on a single core. So the whole device, the whole server was limited to about 800 megabit to 1 gigabit, one core processing for all the nodes, all the lines. For course, there are some modifications necessarily because we need coloring the traffic and add a shader to a horn order so that the green traffic, usually voice traffic in shaping curve and changes to make the graph a little bit more compact. Our problems we had was the same VLAN and different VLANs, the same Mac and different VLANs. It's possible that a customer device is operating on multiple VLANs, for instance, un-tagged at the same time with the MAC address and we have to deal with it. We have overlapping MAC addresses from different devices because several CPEs, customer boxes, increase the MAC address by one for each VLAN if you have a lot of VLANs. You have a good chance to reach the MAC space of the next device especially if you buy devices on a palette with increasing serial numbers. Then the chances are very high that you have a lot of these devices in the situation. Then we had a problem that the customer are free to use a router on their own decision so they do not have to use a pre-prepared router from us and of course they have, in many cases, very interesting differences. The CPEs last devices have to be worked and they still have to work and then you are on the way to end first. Send the device to the customer which is working or have a long discussion with the customer and saying whatever he is doing wrong or if you are going to the network I can say make it happen so that the customer is lucky. That's the common approach. We have a problem with the customer, find the solution so that the customer has come up online and do not longer complain about the service. Then we have problems with German telecom, German telecom sometimes is able to say we have a DSL sync with zero megabits per second. Zero megabits per second means that we do not have to send out any data. That means that the DHCP response will not get an IP address at all costs it's not allowed to send it out. And of course a lot of broken interfaces especially if you have untact then you are violating IEEE and so on and so forth. Real-world example, that's the net graph of a running system at the moment. One with not so much lines is a new device here. On top we have the aggregator VLAN which adds for multiple lines incoming the A VLAN then we have the rotation ASC to CAS. Now we have the service VLAN at the first place and we can go out with VLAN 140 or anything else. So for 140 we go out and make a DHCP SNIVER with BPF node and then to a socket which is not shown here. Then we go out to make the A aggregation line so we have two lines here and for these we have the dynamic links to the bridge so that every line has the SVLAN, the ALAN, the CVLAN and so on. And that's the untact case. We don't have enough VLANs to rotate then we have the processes as an incomplete one. There is nothing to do so it can be. It's nothing special but you see that you have a problem to untact and detect into one bridge. There are others which are able to do the same as you. That's the net graph node for the services. We are seeing that for the internet traffic we only make a copy for the DHCP. And for this voice traffic we have a course in order to make the right text. We have color mark text coming in and we need to go out and say which priority class it has to be in order to fulfill the specification of the interaction. Let's go a little bit more down and see the more part to our infrastructure. That's our infrastructure here where we are complete. So we have high speed internet coverage and for the voice traffic we have each line a traffic shaper node a traffic classifying traffic to be sent out with priority and without priority. The reason behind this is that there is a penalty fee for sending out too much to limit this and of course we have to do it per stream. On the other hand, in the upper case up to the interface to the German telecom or the A to BSA line we have to make the shaping for the whole traffic so we split out the V lines for each of the customers and there we currently you see the speeds here the nodes in a way that they reflect the speeds so the name of the node is really shape 116-46 so that the net cap output is automatically providing the information with the site in the car node. All other traffic which is not yet classified goes out without any shaping. Then we have the patching so we have a classification saying for instance that's priority 4 traffic then we go in and patch there this is a simple patch there the bits for the VLAN tag so that we have the right information on the line and that's going out to the German telecom and they are providing it to the correct customer. So in practice that's from yesterday we have several max and several bridges the internet or the voice bridge and we have random chosen link names which is available on A VLANs or aggregation VLANs naming the line we have the SVLAN and we have the CVLAN and that's a typical output from our monitoring system can be very long that's why the problem is the NetCraft messages are to ask for conversion so you see a lot of different VLANs we are using here 180 is for business customers they are choosing to use their own devices they have to be handled a little bit different but okay if you have such a situation here with Antec that's fine but if you have a situation like here with a tact one most CBE sending out frames on the Antec VLAN despite it's not configured for instance they are sending out a network for OAM so Ethernet message traffic about 5 to 20 per second and they are coming with the same MAC address here and confusing the system each unwanted traffic is filtered out directly on the link node from the outside is first filtered for any unwanted traffic with the BPF node it works out of the box there is nothing special here okay now it's up to you we have two minutes the output of the graph is SVG we are using SVG on our monitoring system you can tag them or you can make a label on the link so you can hover over the graph and get more information but here 99 do's usually happen on an unconfigured device on the Antec VLAN but in all other cases it depends we have devices which are configured to choose three different VLANs before they are chosen on the Antec VLAN you have nodes here why do we stick to free BSD despite harsh welcome because I do not have any other option very simple we had to throw away the other systems and we are very sure that we can manage the problems in weeks but it takes months it was unpleasant time the main solution for the old situation was that we had a lot of problems with memory leak so I tweaked free BSD 8 I tweaked the memory management that free memory buffers are not freed but going into a small cyclic buffer so they are delayed freed and it solves almost all of the problems we had so there are possibilities what you are going to do if you have the source code network topology log is not a problem at the moment because we do not change topology that often so it is already answered of course it did not by the attunement of if german telecom is going to another provider and asking stream you might come up with the situation that you are saying ok we are using the regulated providing you exactly the same interconnection point as you are providing to us and the answer from german telecom is no you never do this we cannot handle this you have to provide us fixed SVLAN for each customer if you have such a situation in the other way we did not need this we could do it with a simple Cisco router because if everything is stable you can map the VLANs and tag VLANs to the service instances you are fine with this we consider this approach but the dynamics make it a mess the other point the question about why it is not layer 3 because layer 3 overlays we are not state of the art at the time where the standardization process is so the broadband forum which is mainly responsible for the internet between 1997 to 2002 in this time they had the first drafts out so we are still using the technology from 20 years ago that is an issue with standardization if you have a standardization process you will always choose the technology 20 years ago if you lost me I will upload the video it might be better so it is simply the problem of the time of standardization we have a standardization here 20 years ago and this time layer 3 overlays was not state of the art multi-threaded bridge why simply because I didn't look no, because 3p is the 13 started later than I started with this issue but it is really an interesting point to match up the code between both bridging interfaces I think it is not necessary to have two incomplete code bases which overlap major overlapping functionality each of the implementations are incomplete in other areas because they have different purposes no, we do not use layer 2 bitstream access for ourselves but we use layer 2 bitstream access for other providers like Deutsche Telecom how many can a 3PST box handle we are using 3PST for a category of grade 2 and we are able to handle without special tweaking we are able to handle about 12 megabits 12 gigabits per second the problem you have is that you have to distribute the code over the course so you have to inspect your server very carefully you have to have a look where each interface card is connected to which PCI bus you have to make sure that which PCI bus is connected to which CPU provides additional CPUs in order to get a direct link for each PCI express this lane to the CPU you have to have a look but in the normal situation where you have a processor with about 16 or 16 cores it is enough for this task you can get a gigabit per second I don't know if we have a lab at the moment for the L2BSA connection but because we are taking only gigabit lines from the interconnection simply because there are no more customers on the line so it is sufficient I think we have 16 lines it is about 8 I think that was the peak here


My name is Mitchell. I've been here for about a year and six months. 19 years I'll be 20 by Tuesday next Tuesday. I need you here. My kids is actually different course. I came here with a plane. Because my dad has been here for about 13 years. So he actually invited me over here. So I came with a plane. I had to stop my schooling so I could come. How should I put it? Possibility of having a better life here than even when you study in Africa. So his brother has come over here. You have to bring one person and you have to get together. Like the amount to take off your family is not enough. So you have to bring only me here. Since early he told me it's not easy though. You have to face a lot of things and most of the things he said were true. It's not actually easy. When you are moving to a new place with people who have not seen you before. And the language is also different and kind of difficult I would say. But he told me a lot of things. Everything is not all bad. Before I came here I actually did not know much. But I have very lot about it. I was expecting more welcoming people. But that was not what I got. Kids of my own age. Kids of my own. They don't actually interact with you. Because you are black and you don't know how to speak the language very well. But what I understand is most of them are scared to meet you first. It's only when you meet them. They open freely to you. When I first came here I joined the football team, San Tomasso. I trained with them for about a month. So while training with them some other kids came. And they gave them the clothes and all that. I trained with them for about a month. And another guy came about just two weeks. And he gave him all of that. And I was there for about a month. And they haven't given me any of that. All those things coupled to it. And I won't like have experienced a little bit of racism also. But not for much people. And though we have to get used to it. Because that's how it is. My brother here. We work in a company. Like a factory. Sincerely I love computers. Computer engineering. Designing and stuff. You know, same place. She always misses me. And can't wait me to come home. Because of the coronavirus I would have gone this year. But I have to postpone it to next year. When she scolds you. And the next minute she will be like. I will come. Sorry. I'm sorry. That's how she is. She will always tell you the truth. Like when you do something. I will tell you this is bad. But if she scolds you. Because in Africa you have to beat a child. When she... When she beats you. She will also call you. When it's like five minutes later. She calls you back and say. Oh sorry, sorry. But don't do it next time. The memories I have when I was little. When I was little. It shows that my dad is as in. I don't know how to compare him with any other person. Because he is actually the best. He is the best. He is like someone that will sacrifice everything for his kids. Most of the things I remember when I was small was. Going to school. The stories our parents tell us when he went to school. Because it actually destroyed it. That we actually... Like they tell us before they go to school. Their work like from here to Pratilasera. Then blah blah blah they cross the river and all those stuff. But it wasn't how we saw it. Going to school when you are small. It's very very very important. It was fun for me. Because you have to learn languages. And learn how to mix with people from little age. So school was like the best memory I had when I was little. And sport. No no. Just the fact that people don't actually have sense because you are black. That's just the only thing. But far from that, nothing else. So people don't relate to you like easily. It takes time. And that time it pushes you away. Like let's say this is my friend now. He is an Italian. And he was walking in the same place. It takes time before he comes close to me. Because I don't want to be too fast. I will not go close to him. So that pushes you away from making friends with another person.


Now let's see few more set of questions. That's good. Minus 2 by x is 2t dt. 2 2 can go. Second step is not an x cube. Second step is not an x cube. Second step is x cube. Second step is x cube into x. Second step is x cube into x. So x... So let us start with basic things in terms of t. So dx by x cube is minus t dt. So minus dt is t dt. This term is t. So we know t. This term will become log t plus 2 log t. So ultimate times t square log t. Is this correct? Yeah, this is 2 log t. Please finish it off for me. Who is very big in this class today? I am related. Can you generate the sign for me? I am related. I am related. It's square letter. This is a K-curve. Which one? I am not a K-curve. I am just a K-curve. This is K-curve. I am a K-curve. I know this technique. I know this technique. I take sign to K-curve. I am not a K-curve. I am a K-curve. I am going into a So just to complete the problem. So it will be log t into t cube by 3 minus 1 by t into t cube by 3 d. So it will minus 2 log t minus t square d cube by 19. So, 1 by 9 t cube. So, your final answer is going to be minus 2 log t, t cube will be 1 plus 1 by x square to the power of 3 by d cube. So, minus d t, this term is t, this term is log t square, but approaches correct whatever you are getting. But, within the log it does not make sense, and in outside it would have a total difference, okay. If you see this term cos 2 theta, it is somehow, each of these terms have, if you do that, so 2 cos 2 theta d theta is your, so cos of 2 theta is gt by 2. So, can I say it will be half of half which is 1 fourth log, so see cos 2 minus x.


Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Don of AhmedDon.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and review video and I'll be opening the Yamaha YS109 soundbar. So the soundbar has lots of features, so I'll open up the box and I'll show you what's inside and then I'll talk about some of the features and about the audio quality and how whether it is difficult or easy to go through the setup process. So let's take a look at the box first. So the box looks like very simple, there's no fancy packaging or fancy pictures and that's how Yamaha kept the cost very low of this product. So we'll open up the box and we'll take a look at what's inside and what comes with it. Once I open the box you can see that you know there's nothing much inside except the soundbar and some cables which is right here and then there's the remote which is right here and then looks like there's instruction manual which is right here and some other cables or attachments right here. So I'll take these out one by one and then we'll look at it you know what comes with the sound box. After opening the box this is all we got, a manual, remote control, optical audio cable and a power cable. They haven't provided any HDMI cable and this is the sound box and this is the sound box and you can see that this is a very slim profile and it looks very you know cute and slim. So there's not it's not heavy very light I can lift it even with one hand and then we'll take a look on the back of the soundbar. This is Ahmed Dan. I've had a few days to try and test the Yamaha Soundbar Yamaha YS109 and I'm going to give you some insights on the sound quality and the ease of you know the remote control and other aspects. So the remote control actually is very easy to use. You can see that you know the operation is fairly simple so it has HDMI, TV, Bluetooth and Net output and actually you can connect this device to Wi-Fi and there's an option which is the clear voice right here. So what it does that you know if you want to hear the voice distinctively than other elements of music for example like you know news or a concert someone is talking or anything then pressing this button makes the voice clearer clear so that's a very good feature and the remote control is very slim and small and easy to use so there's no complaint about that so I'm just leaving it here. In terms of the music quality the sound quality is really very good especially I like the surround sound so basically it has two different types of surround sound or 3D surround and regular surround sound. So what happens that when you play surround sound then you know the sound comes not only from horizontal directions but also from varying heights so there's like you know Twitter or something inside which projects the sound upward makes it possible to hear the sound from various angles and that makes you know sound more realistic and this feature is very helpful especially when you are watching a movie. I didn't get the subwoofer for this product because I didn't want to go through the hassle of setting up the subwoofer and like you know and another piece of equipment so I'm happy with the just this piece. The problem I have with this sound bar is that you know the menu system which is right here is really tiny and it's very hard to see so even if you're closed and at night you couldn't like you know tell what menu option or what it is playing so you have to just kind of guess and that's the thing I don't like. They should have put a display or LCD display you know with the bold letters or a display screen for menu system then it would have been a much easier and the other problem I have is that because these like you know these features or these options are written so tiny that even you cannot read if you're standing so you have to kind of like you know sit and come very close to you so if you look very carefully you will not be even able to see because it's like you know too small for the camera to catch it up and that's another you know problem so this section is where they should have you know improved it but the other section the other everything else except this part actually I have nothing to complain about the sound quality is really outstanding but you have to keep in mind you know the price because this is an entry-level product and what the price and the features you're getting especially the 3d surround and DTS virtual x and the stereo sound so everything and plus alexa is included here so you can have alexa here you know giving you all the information you need from alexa as well so let's try alexa here alexa what is the weather now in toronto it's two degrees celsius with cloudy skies today you can look for dreary weather with a high of three degrees and a low of minus nine degrees so you can see that you know i gave this alexa british accent or australian accent as to you know differentiated this than other alexa have so let's try a music probably the camera audio system is not going to be able to pick up you know the richness of the music but still you know it doesn't hard to try so here's something you know i want you to listen okay so to sum it up the the quality of the sound and the quality of the product itself everything is really good there's nothing to complain about and you know the price because this is an entry-level product you're what you're paying you're getting much more than that and yamaha always makes you know good sound products and this review is not an affiliated or paid review all my reviews are non-affiliated unbiased and honest and the only complaint i have about this product is the display option which i showed you is really tiny and you know difficult to see so you're gonna kind of have to guess when you press it on the remote so that's basically it thank you for watching forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video there will be more videos coming up so i'll see you shortly


Last week we spoke about making use of an estate agent. But what if you'd like to go the route of selling or renting property yourself? Here to help us weigh up all the options is Simon Bray, the CEO of Private Property. Simon, so good to see you once again. You too. I'm so happy that we're talking about this because I would like to know, selling property yourself versus using an estate agent. What is the difference? Well, you know, we've got a unique history. As a property website, we started off just listing, you know, private sales, guys that wanted to do the whole process themselves. So we've got a long history working with people with that do-it-yourself mentality and I want to control the whole process. But we've learned over a period of time that that is only really 5% of the homeowner market in the country. Even today, after all these years, only 5% of the listings on private property are in fact for sale by the home owner themselves. And I think the reason for that is it's a far more difficult process than people think when they start. You know, there's a lot of things that are taken for granted in the role of the estate agent. And so what we've seen over time is that private properties come to represent the entire residential property market, not just, you know, private sales. I once heard the statement, marketing is easy, but selling is hard. Do you agree with that? Absolutely, absolutely. You know, platforms like ours really do make the marketing part quite easy. You know, if you list your property on our website, you're going to tap into millions of interested buyers straight away. So marketing your listing and advice around what pictures to take, floor plans, virtual tours, how to feature your listing in front of the right audience, all of that is easy to come by. But what is difficult are those parts of the process no one enjoys.  I mean, how do you react to that? A lot of people are just not equipped for those kinds of discussions and people don't want to open their homes on a Sunday and sit there for three hours and have no one come. And, you know, all of these tough parts of the process that no one really considers when they list their property. So yeah, I'd agree. Marketing, easy. Actually closing the sale is the hard part. Definitely the hard part. Okay, so let's get into the meaty stuff. What are the pros and cons of selling your property yourself? Yeah, you're putting me on the spot here. You know, if you want to do it yourself, there are obvious benefits. The one that people often think of is this idea of cost. So you're going to save on agent commission potentially. The problem is a lot of do-it-yourself list of property. You don't really know what to price the property at. And that's another key value that agents can bring. So sometimes they get that pricing wrong and maybe the cost benefit isn't as real, but certainly you could save money if you're savvy and know what you're doing. You certainly control the process a lot more. You know, it's your home. You can let people in whenever you like, whenever you're there. And then there's the knowledge about the home. So you know a lot more about the property and its history than anyone else would. So those are the pros, the cons. I mean, I've mentioned some of them already, but you've got to have the temperament to haggle. You've got to have the temperament to negotiate because people aren't there looking for a deal just like you are. And you've got to realize that it's a time intensive thing. You know, the average time on market in South Africa is between six and eight months for a property. So you can't expect it to just happen overnight. And I think people do lose patience with the property sales process when they're doing it themselves. Simon, have you ever come across a scenario where a client is trying to sell a property on their own, but then they get inundated with calls from agents who are trying to get them to give them the property to market? Yeah, absolutely. And sometimes people get irritated about that, but I see it quite differently. You know, what are you ultimately trying to do? You're ultimately trying to sell your home. So you should be open to any type of deal no matter where that deal comes from. So my advice to people selling their homes themselves is to be open to agent deals. So if an agent calls you up and says, listen, I've got a buyer. I'd love to bring them through the home, then make the home available and see if there's a deal to be done there. It's actually a great way to interact with agents. A large number of our sellers on private property that are doing it themselves end up selling through an agent. Before we go, we have to have Simon Bray's tip of the day. Well, I mean, this tip is easy. Selling yourself is perfectly possible, but realize that you need to have the time and the temperament to do it. It's not just plain sailing. Hashtag enough said. Thank you so much, Simon. Well, ultimately, it comes down to a personal choice that one that works best for you, your needs, and of course, your life. Browse www.privateproperty.co.za if you would like to see what private property has to offer.


Thanks. And away we go with my first impressions of the Salomon XA Alpine Pro. Not my full review. That'll happen after 50 miles. Or will it? That is the question. All right. Here we go, folks. Six millimeter drop. All right. So from heel to toe, we're looking at a 24 millimeter stack height in the heel, 18 in the forefoot. In my size, we're looking at 9.8 ounces or 278 grams. And in men's size 9, it bumps up to 10.6 ounces or 300 grams. So not the heaviest trail shoe out there on the marketplace, but it's definitely not in the lightweight category. Today, I took the Alpine Pro up into the Alpine. That's right. Tori's Peak here in Colorado, it's a 14,000 foot mountain, ran up to the top in an hour and 26 minutes in this shoe. And it is being, I would say, marketed and promoted as a, well, it should be since it has Alpine in the name. And yes, we're going to go with Alpine for the keyword. It's being marketed as a trail shoe for the high Alpine environments. And now what does that mean? Here in Colorado, we have a lot, it's called a scree field. So I think it's spelled S-C-R-E-E. I'll confirm that on the screen right now. But scree field, which means it's loose rock. It's kind of, it's gritty and it's very, it's loosey-goosey up there. Like you're not always on a trail. Today I was mostly on a trail. Anyway, that is what this shoe is being marketed as for your trail running endeavors. And let's talk about the upper real quick. So we've got a mesh upper here, especially through this toe box. Really nice breathability, I must say. And then you've got these TPU overlays. So you can see it there on your screen. It's this basically rubber coating to help keep out water, keep out some of the sand, like dirt, sand, grit that's out there on the trails. And there's actually quite a bit of this TPU overlay throughout the upper, almost not the entire way around, but a good portion of the upper does have that TPU overlay. And then the classic Solomon lacing system, that quick draw lacing system that Solomon is known for. That's right, you don't tie the shoes. You use this draw string right there to lace up. And at first I did not like that from Solomon, but I've learned to, I've learned to enjoy it. I'm not saying I love it, but I do it. I don't mind using that quick lace system from Solomon. And lastly on the upper, I must say Solomon, you nailed the collar, but specifically the heel counter. And there's an extra padding. I don't know if you can see it there on your screen, but there's some extra padding inside this heel counter. And it's perfect. It locks your heel into that heel cup, so you don't feel like your heel is going to slip out of the shoe in those steep environments. Amazing good work Solomon on this heel counter. And for Solomon's midsole with a chassis, and I don't understand all the technology behind it, but with a chassis built in, and I basically, it feels pretty rigid just so you know. And I felt it immediately coming out of the box up there when I was putting the shoe on. And on the run, that midsole did feel fairly stiff. And with a 24 millimeter stack height in the heel, 18 in the forefoot, that is pretty lean on the trail running spectrum just so you know. It's very easy to get a heel stack height easily above 30 millimeters, but this is only at 24. And for the outsole on the Solomon XA Alpine Pro, basically you've got a five millimeter lug depth on these lugs. They don't look, in fact, I'll have to measure them here for you, but they don't look like five millimeter to me. They look closer to three to four, but maybe they're measuring one of these slightly deeper ones here in the midfoot, but anyway. And then they also have this hard piece of rubber with a very sharp edge of rubber here, right beneath your toes, that's called the climbing zone. So when you're on a really steep section and you're up on your toes, this sharp piece, it's not sharp, but it's very well, it's pointed to a certain extent to help you basically dig into the dirt as you're going up steep sections. And it felt good, it felt fine today. And it's a very, just so you know, it's hard rubber. We're talking like no forgiveness through this outsole at all. And that tells me a lot of good durability, high build quality in this Solomon XA Alpine Pro. I foresee a lot of good, you could get many miles out of this outsole. I would, gosh, 500, 600, 700 solid trail miles with this outsole. Overall comfort was decent, not amazing through the upper. I'm going to talk about the ride in a minute, but again, that heel counter, absolutely amazing. In fact, let's just jump into it right now. Positive and negative or positive in drawback for the Solomon XA Alpine Pro, the heel counter is definitely the positive. So comfy, such a great lockdown. I love that heel counter. Great job, Solomon. For the drawback, oh boy, oh boy. Not comfortable, not a comfortable ride. Way too rigid, way too hard of a landing. I think because of that Conta Grip rubber outsole, I was not happy at all. And so I started off on a dirt road and then eventually you get onto a trail and then eventually you get up into the high Alpine country where I did most of the filming for today's video. And it was not comfortable at all down below on the dirt road or on the early sections of the trail, but then higher up, it got a little better as the dirt got a little looser and a little... So how will I use this shoe moving forward? I won't. That's right. I'm calling it. I'm not taking it to 50 miles. This is really the first Solomon that I'm not like falling in love with. You know how much I love the Solomon Speedcross 5 and then the SLAB Sense 6 and 7 SG lineup for racing. I would much rather take the Speedcross 5 up a 14,000 foot peak over the XA Alpine Pro. I could, here's how you could use this shoe in. Yes, I'll ask it right now.  I don't really hike. I just don't hike or I frankly don't have time for it. I wish I could hike more, but I don't hike.  I think it's really beneficial and smart and it takes a little bit of the pounding off your legs. This shoe would be great for hiking and then doing maybe like a mile and a half jog into a waterfall. Or you know what I was thinking? Like some places in Switzerland and the Dolomites in Italy and even here in Colorado where you can bike up to a spot and then jog into a waterfall. Basically mixing up the use for the shoe. I'm not sensing that this is a straight up running shoe. I think it's designed a little more for that speed hiking and it just was not a comfortable ride. I don't know what else to tell you. And at $160, they're not giving it away. Okay. Now durability. Boom. You are your money. Money is going to be well spent, but I would not. I'm not going to run at all anymore in the shoe. I would much rather take. Yes, hold on. I would even rather take the super cross out, which is kind of the simplified version of the speed cross lineup from Solomon. I'd rather just take the super cross out. A little more midsole action. I think it's just my legs need a little more forgiveness through that midsole. And I'm just not feeling it. So I'm done. I'm out. So no 50 miles. No full review from me for the Solomon XA Alpine Pro. All right. All right. That is it for the second video publishing today. I think I got Alpine keyword question of the day about hiking. I love you guys. And hopefully I didn't disappoint too many folks out there, but it's just I'm not feeling it. I'm just not feeling it. So, and actually, you know, like when I want to go fast, which is oftentimes in the mountains, I'll just take the S lab sense six and eventually the sense seven once I break it in a little bit after the pike's peak sense. All right. See beauty work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry.


Hi friends, I am Purva and today we will work out the following question, find the equation of the plane with intercept 3 on the y-axis and parallel to z-ox plane. Let A, B and C, B the intercepts on x-axis, y-axis and z-axis respectively. And the equation of the plane is given by x-upon A plus y-upon B plus z-upon C is equal to 1. So this is the key idea behind our question. Let us begin with the solution now. Now we are given that plane is parallel to z-ox plane. It means that it cuts no intercept on either x-axis or z-axis. Now let A, B and C, B the three intercepts on x-axis, y-axis and z-axis respectively. Then we have A is equal to 0, B is equal to 3 and C is equal to 0. Now since the plane cuts no intercept on either x-axis or z-axis, so we have A is equal to 0 and C is equal to 0. Also in the question we are given that the plane cuts intercept 3 on y-axis, so we have B is equal to 3. Now by key idea we know that the equation of the plane is given by x-upon A plus y-upon B plus z-upon C is equal to 1. We mark this as equation 1. Now putting the values of A, B and C in equation 1 we get x-upon 0 plus y-upon 3 plus z-upon 0 is equal to 1 and this implies y-upon 3 is equal to 1 or we get y is equal to 3 is the equation of the plane thus we have got our answer as y is equal to 3. Hope you have understood the solution, bye and take care.


And again, guys, remember, every trader is looking at the market exactly the same way. There is no special lens, a special binoculars that's one trader seeing everybody else. If the technology sector is weak, then everybody sees the technology sector is weak. If the technology is strong, there's no reason to fight it going momentum. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys, good morning, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access a Trader.com Weekend Update Show. Hope everybody is doing well. So let's talk about the markets this week. So if you look at the scoreboard this week, there's really nothing that you can really decipher. In other words, if you're not an active trader, if you're just a passive investor and you just looked at the final tallies for the week, plus or minus a little bit, really didn't do anything yet. The Q's, the NASDAQ 100, down a little bit, the IWM this week really didn't show anybody one way or another which way the market's going to fall. Because, again, it had a pretty good run off the bottom, reclaimed a lot of supply zones, just kind of hovering about the last reclaim. If you look at the SPY, kind of the same thing, right? It just had this big, big run and now we're kind of going sideways. But again, like everything else, like an onion, there's layers, right? There's just not an onion. There's layers to that onion that will tell you a bigger story. And the biggest catalyst this week was earnings, right? You had the big heavyweight tech earnings this week. Last week's actually started with Netflix that, you know, underwhelmed. Okay, I think that's the best way of saying it, but this week you had Apple, right? You had Apple and you had Amazon, right?  And if you look at pretty much all of them, right? Especially a lot of names in the NASDAQ 100, like, you know, like a Starbucks as well. There's a lot of names, right? There's definitely a lot of names. The one thing, and you'll see the common denominator in everything was that a lot of these companies really did well in the earnings, right?  I believe I read in revenue boost. Again, who doesn't love Amazon? Who didn't believe that their numbers were going to be good? The only question was, how's the stock going to react? And just like in Amazon, just like in Microsoft, just like in Apple and a lot of these names in the tech space, they had an initial really good move and then they sold it off. And, you know, again, you can make a case here. You could turn around and say, here's the bull case. You could turn around and say, well, these stocks had really, really big runs ahead of earnings. This is just profit taking. These are fantastic companies. They have still a fantastic growth rate and they will be OK two, three years down the line. But I don't think there's anybody who would take the other side of that argument. I agree with that 100%. You could definitely make a case of, you know, stocks had a big run up, right? And they did a fantastic job, especially when the Qs reclaimed 50-day moving average. And this, yeah, this is just maybe just a byproduct of literally, you know, literally stocks just needing a breath. And that's fine as well, right? And that's fine as well. The bear case scenario is, well, we had this big run. The earnings came out. Yeah, you can make a case. This was a sell the news type of scenario. But if the economy is recovering and the market and the Fed is still printing money and there's all these other factors holding up and there's a buffer. Well, why do you need profit taking? Right? And maybe this is just a sign that the market needs a more of a bigger than rest, right? And you can make that case as well. And you start, again, peeling over, you know, those layers of the onion. You start looking at the other names that held a big, significant portion of the key run up. And that was the semiconductors. You guys remember the semiconductors? They led the market for a long, long time. And why the semiconductors is so significant was, well, is because they are predominantly representing the components of the Nasdaq 100, the QQQs, you know, the Intel's of the world, the Amats of the world, the Vidious, so forth and so on. And if you look at the semiconductor chart, right? The SMA chart, well, this is the fourth close now, right? This is literally the fourth close on the 50-day moving average. You know, it held once, twice, three times, four times.  And that's a very significant point because if you combine taking profits in non-semiconductor names and you combine that with semiconductors potentially taking down this bottom channel here and now we pretty much reported all the big names and the earnings and you're turning around and say, well, what's left? Where is the catalyst? At least for the short term. And again, I'm always speaking devil's advocate. I don't believe in.  The market is very fluid. It switches, you know, it switches on a dime. You can go from bullish to bearish to bearish to bullish in a drop of a hat, instantaneously. And the most important part is you have to be prepared. So it would be kind of naive for me to turn around and say, well, the numbers are still great. Everything's going to be great this week. What? Right? The market spoke to you. They already told you we sold off on good news and we told you the biggest, the biggest leaders on the past run with the semiconductors are very, very close to breaking down these levels. And if you are an active trader, and again, we're just, again, we're just playing devil's advocate. We're not saying the market's going to tank. We're not saying the market's going to go higher. We just want to be prepared on both sides. So if we're taking all this information, we're trying to process this data, it'll be very naive for us to come Monday morning and say, OK, what are we buying? Right? What are we buying? Amazon got sold. Apple got sold. A Starbucks got sold. Netflix got sold. Right? All these names got sold. What are we buying on Monday? Right? Doesn't make sense. So we really need to be 100% committed to reality, right? And trade the market that we have, not the market we want. And the one thing that I will tell you is it was very, very odd. And this is, you know, we started seeing that selling after strength for two, three days. But when Amazon couldn't push through the all-time high, and you can see the all-time high here, right? If you see the Amazon all-time high chart of that 35, 53, 35, 354 level, once you saw that double top being put in, because Friday's highs are 54 and you saw the volume dry up at all-time highs, you kind of knew that this was at least a pregnant pause for the technology bull case. And we did have a pretty aggressive sell-off. And you see the reversal here on Amazon pretty aggressively into the close. And it took down a lot of stocks with it. Now, is it possible that this was just like a scenario that we have two, three days kind of taking a breather and then we start resuming, you know, that's kind of in the middle of the week? Absolutely, 100%. I would love to at least, I would love to, for at least the cues, if that's going to be the case, I would love to see the cues at least touch this bottom level here of 334. Right now, we close at 338. I would love to see what happens on a macro case of the cues somewhere around the 334. Obviously, any close below 334, then again, if you believe in respect technical analysis, you can see how much room you have down. Again, nobody saying we're going to go back down to the 50-day moving average. Again, we just want to be prepared. So it's very, very important we're conscious of levels. 334 is kind of the line in the sand in the cues. If you look at the semiconductors, the line in the sand in the semiconductors is this 241 level. So any close under 241 on the semiconductors is going to have an impact on the cues. Again, if you look at predominant ways on the cues, you have the intel of the world, a lot of the semiconductors are represented there. And the fact that we really have no catalyst going into this week for just kind of the macro case, I could definitely see kind of a back test. Now, is there going to be names that could wake up that already got hit? Absolutely. Look what happened, for example, on a name like Tesla. Tesla got sold off on earnings. And again, I don't even think the earnings were bad on Tesla. But they sold the stock. And that's fine. You had to sell off on the stock. And the stock came in from the highs in the last couple of weeks from 780 all the way to 666.  I mean, look, you can make a case. Is it a one-day reversal, just kind of a dead-cat bounce? And it's going to be kind of sold off with everything else going into this week, possible, right, possible? Or is this kind of like, OK, you know what? We're back on track. Tesla's a monster. If it reclaims the 10-day moving average, then you have a lot of room to the upside into the 726. And obviously, anything, any close over 726, starts a new cycle of potentially going back to 800 levels. So that's on the table, right? So that's definitely on the table. And again, we don't need to guess. We need to just kind of see how Tesla's going to wake up on Monday morning, have a theme going on. So if they do get rejected back in the 10-day moving average, you know it's possible to go lower. But if they start reclaiming Friday's levels, then obviously we have a next leg up. And even a name like Netflix, who was the whole fire started, right, of the whole technology earnings two Mondays ago. And they gap down. And now they're just they kind of woke back up on Fridays. Everything's getting sold off. But it's very, very hard to get excited to turn around and say, well, if Netflix is now demonstrating a strength. Well, Netflix was demonstrating weakness as the market was going up. So how can you possibly get excited about Netflix demonstrating weakness strength on a dead cat bounce situation if there's a potential for semiconductor and the cues to spill over back to the downside? So there's a level here that we're going to be watching on Monday. And if this level gets reclaimed, then yeah, maybe have a multiple day move back to the upside into the 320s level on Netflix. It's kind of a counterplay kind of like Tesla, the same thing. Or if Netflix gets rejected at the 10-day moving average, then we have a very, very specific area and then say, well, well, this was the dead cat bounce. It hit the 10-day moving average. It got rejected. Now there's a very specific level there. And if it doesn't take that out, we can go short using the days high as are out. So there's a lot of scenarios on the table here. And if you go through your charts over the weekend, you'll see there's not a lot of really great longs that stand out, right? There's some names. Facebook, for example, is it possible that you could have a day to run or kind of what I call a second day play? Absolutely, right? It's always on the table, especially early if there's strength in the market. Because again, Facebook did have a great quarter, right? They piggybacked off the whole customer acquisition click at the click space and the same thing where Google took advantage of. So it had a monster move on Thursday and it rested on Friday. So is it possible that Facebook kind of wakes up, opens lower, shakes some trees, reclaims level and starts making move back to the upside? 100%, that's on the table as well. So we have to have an open mind going into Monday's session. I think if you go through your charts, you will notice there's a lot of ugly looking charts out there, especially in the tech space. That's why when I started this broadcast, I kept on saying, what are you dying to buy on Monday? Right? If you go through your charts and you put in your work this weekend and if you're really doing your work, you'll see exactly the same thing that I'm looking at. And again, guys, remember, every trader is looking at the market exactly the same way. There is no special lens, or special binoculars that's one trader is seeing everybody else. If the technology sector is weak, then everybody sees the technology sector is weak. If the technology is strong, there's no reason to fight it, go with momentum. This week, you don't have major players reporting earnings. You do have PayPal on Wednesday. Let me just go through it really quickly. You got Pfizer on Tuesday. We'll see exactly how the vaccines will help. You have PayPal, Uber on Wednesday, and Thursday looks like kind of the bigger picture in technology. You got Roku, you got Square, and the fake me, right? You have Beyond coming out as well. So the major earnings are out of the way. And now we just have to see because of there's a lack of kind of catalyst, the least short-term catalyst, how the market reacts to kind of a non-biting situation, just kind of trading on their own merits. We'll see what happens there. So let me give you some ideas that I kind of do like for this week. First of all, Peloton, I caught a short on this couple of days ago. Peloton does not look good, right guys? It just absolutely doesn't look good. I have a Peloton in my house. I got it five years ago. Full disclosure, I think I've been on it six times in five years. Love the product. The seat, if you're a guy, is just a tad small. Again, having a prostate exam every single time I go into Peloton is not exactly the greatest thing in the world. Again, maybe some for others, but not my cup of tea. But if you look at the Peloton chart, you could tell it broke down below this 99 level, two days in a row below the five-day moving average. And this whole channel here is on deck. So if there is a significant or any type of pull in the market, you have to look at weakness. You have to look at stocks that potentially never rallied with the last move or underneath supply for multiple days. And if they start really confirming and the cues get hit, well, this is one of the names you definitely want to look at. And Intel as well, again, this is the leader of the semiconductors. They came with earnings and they were already weak into earnings. It wasn't like Intel was this monster moved into earnings, but again, you could definitely make a case that, hey, it did have a big run up. So they made sales on Intel the same way they made on Microsoft. But again, it's the same thing. If semiconductors start breaking down and watch Intel at this level, maybe it starts breaking down with it. Tesla watching, definitely watching Tesla. Maybe there's a multiple-day run on this thing. Maybe there's a multiple-day. It did reclaim the five-day moving average. It did reclaim the 10. I didn't think the earnings were bad to begin with. So maybe Tesla has its own bull cycle. Remember, Tesla doesn't need a reason to rally and sell off. That's why it's the greatest stock ever. When it goes, it goes with tremendous option flow you saw on Friday that were coming for the 740s and the 750s for this week's expiration. So they're going to get paid. Then some levels are definitely need to get reclaimed. So I'm definitely watching Tesla, but if it gets rejected off the supply, then we have a clear channel back to short. Again, we're watching for day two, maybe run on Facebook, had a big run Thursday, rested on Friday, maybe it resumed on Monday. And Zoom, I know Zoom is great and everything is wonderful with Zoom. There was actually a big, big call buyer that came in, I believe it was for the 380s and the 390 short-term expiration from Zoom, but, and again, I have to check their earnings date, but you can't really ignore this chart, right? Look how close this thing is to really breaking down. And once we establish kind of a range of trend for Monday morning, if there is any type of weakness, names like Zoom, names like Peloton, you definitely want to pay attention too. So that's it guys, that's it. We're kind of set up open-minded, anything can happen. Obviously the macro case on the Qs is still very, very strong. We're still way above the 50-day moving average, but it doesn't need to translate into this week's session. It doesn't need to translate into Monday's session. We can still have weakness and we can still take advantage of it if levels start to confirm. So guys, have a great weekend everybody. God bless. I love everybody. Thank you for all your kind words, your support and always great feedback. I wish everybody the best of love, like and everything in between. God bless and I'll see you all Monday. Take care.


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Hi, I'm Rob Randall, Chief Executive Officer of Akara. I hope that you all had an enjoyable and restful break and are looking forward to an exciting 2015. We certainly are. However, before turning our attention to 2015, I'd like to reflect on Akara's 2014 achievements. In February last year, we published Curriculum for the Arts, Health and Physical Education, Technologies, Economics and Business and Civics and Citizenship, subject to final endorsement by the Education Council, but available for use by states and territories. Later in the year, we also published Curriculum for a number of languages, including Chinese, Indonesian, French and Italian. We also made available the Work Studies Curriculum, which will support our young people in learning more about work and participating in the workforce. I'm sure you'll all agree a valuable asset for young people. You can see all of this Curriculum on the Australian Curriculum website. In February 2014, Akara also conducted research and trials in schools around the country to look at how best to bring that plan online. You can read our research reports and reports on international work by going to the Akara website. And all of this research and trialling was done in collaboration with our partners and stakeholders to ensure the best outcomes for all young Australians. The year ahead 2015 looks to be just as busy across Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting. Making decisions taken by the Education Council, Akara will work closely with the Federal Government and states and territories to enhance and refine our world-class Australian Curriculum. We will release an update of my school in March and conduct NAPLAN in May. Also in March, we will commence field trials for the National Assessment Program Science and use this research to further investigate the practicalities of delivering assessment online. In 2015 we will also work with Test Administration Authorities in each state and territory to further reduce the time it takes to provide preliminary NAPLAN results to parents and schools. We are seeking to improve on the four-week reduction that was achieved last year. I look forward to working closely with you all during 2015 and invite you to follow me on Twitter at akara.scoreCEO or visit our website akara.edu.au to subscribe to our monthly Akara newsletter. Thanks.


Let's see what's on thinking man's mind today. What is the difference between where permitted versus where required? That's another great question. Come on in and let's check it out. This is from IBC 2018 and it's very different from NFPA 101, the life safety code. Every state in the United States has adopted one version of the IBC or another, but if you do any work with healthcare or in the state of Louisiana or Georgia where NFPA 101 is also used or even in schools and government type projects, you need to be familiar with the difference between IBC and the language versus NFPA 101. Here's an example in chapter 10 on means of egress. They're telling you right here in this paragraph that panic and fire exit hardware is required on doors in group H, high hazard occupancies, and in rooms or spaces where you've got an occupant load of 50 or more in group A assembly or E educational occupancies. And it says shall not be provided with a latch or a lock other than panic hardware or fire exit hardware. It says everything you need to know in this one paragraph shall is a mandatory requirement. Compared to in NFPA 101, chapter seven is a fundamental chapter. It's called means of egress. And it will say it's kind of like a standard. It will say if you use panic hardware, then it needs to meet all of the following criteria. And then you have to go to the occupancy chapter. In this case, let's look at chapter 12 for new assembly occupancies. Here's our reference to that fundamental chapter seven. Any door in required means of egress from an area having an occupant load of 100 or more persons shall be permitted to be provided with a latch or a lock only if the latch or lock is panic hardware or fire exit hardware complying with <IP_ADDRESS> unless otherwise permitted by one of the following. And it will list the exceptions. So the nice thing about IBC it tells you right in the paragraph what occupancy types that you can use or where permitted versus something that is as required. And NFPA 101 spells it out, but then you have to look at the occupancy chapter. For more information and continuing education opportunities, please visit Osa Abloy Academy by clicking like in the link in the comments below. Please click like and subscribe to this channel. You can follow me on Twitter at art consultants and or connect with me on LinkedIn for updates. You can email me with any code questions at Catherine dot flower at Osa Abloy dot com. Thank you for joining me in the code corner today. My name is Katie Flower, and my goal is to help you achieve safe purity in the built environment.


As part of measures to leave the increase in cases of mental health in the bud, stakeholders have made a renewed call for mental health to be included into the primary school curriculum in the country. Now this was re-echoed at the year 2020 suicide research and prevention initiative of Nigeria Serpin. The conference was themed sharing experiences and it was hinting here in Lagos. Our correspondent love Oyidokun tells us more in this report. Seated, our health experts and members of the suicide research and prevention initiative, Serpin, they are here to deliberate on mental health issues and how its negative consequences can be dealt with. They argued that mental health is as important as the physical. As we are focused on the physical let's also focus on the mental and it's important to start from when they're in primary school because a lot of these problems that we see stem from some childhood adversity. There are a lot of times that some people with mental illnesses starts early in their childhood it may even start in their teens you know. So it's important that we start letting them know that it's okay for you to experience certain emotions but it doesn't mean that you have to hide those emotions. What you need to do is ask for help if you're going through certain things there's no shame in it everybody goes through it just ask for help. Serpin strongly believes that parents have limitless rules to play in the early detection of mental health and suicide tendencies in children. They also want a society to stop stigmatizing against people who suffer from mental illnesses but rather show empathy and love. The parents need to begin to equip their children from a young age so parenting has a very major role. The other thing that we see is the issue of resilience you know so parents need to be deliberate you know in bringing up children. It's also important for parents to be observant you need to be very observant you know so that at any point in time when they notice something that is untoward about their children they notice changes in behavior you know changes in their countenance changes in mood they can become more observant and if there's a need they can ask reach out. So with the diagnosis of chronic health problem you know that maybe cancer it might be HIV it might be something they feel it's overwhelming and taking over their lives and we also have a lot of students who call because of school pressure academic pressure and you know so the reality is it's um it's wide open there's so many people that are going through challenges that we make them suddenly impulsively you know take a decision a rash decision of attempting to take their lives that if they do survive they will say that it was at that point in time I just felt as if there was no hope. The program was both educative and expository as people had attempted suicide as a result of mental health issues share personal experiences. In my own case I made a conscious effort not to let it affect me by speaking up on my own issues so I'm one of those people that recover loudly I don't let my challenges to affect me as a matter of fact if I see you on the street I start talking to you about it I said do you know that I suffered from this so before you even stigmatize me I've already talked about what I was going through. Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life. It is also an integral component of health that underpins individual and collective abilities to make decisions. The suicide research and prevention initiative of Nigeria Serpim believes that suicide as a fallout of mental health can be avoided if the society embraces the sufferer. Love Uyiduku. Plus TV news.