How do you manage your time when you have so much stuff going on? I think one thing is truly, it has to be your passion. If you're working on your business and it feels like pulling teeth every single day, you can't really manage it and you wouldn't want to manage it. But if it is something that you do enjoy every single day, you would come in regardless of anyone being in the office or not, you would put in the extra hours to make sure that, oh, you have everything in line. And hence, that really gives you that internal motivation to push through. Now, to answer your question, how do I actually manage my time? I'm just giving you the prerequisite of what is needed for you to actually time manage. I think one really, really important thing is to delegate. It is impossible for you to do everything yourself. And that's why I love delegation. I love actually thinking about each project or each item as a critical task. Now, let me elaborate what critical tasks are. These are tasks that without completing, we cannot move to the next step. As an example, without me identifying the name of my logo, there is no way I can delegate the creation of the logo for my designer. And therefore I would need to create the name of my logo in order for the designer to work. That becomes a critical task for me. So my job is to identify all the critical tasks within my companies and to delegate those critical tasks and for me to actually perform these different tasks. So then that way I can actually go and delegate them to the different respective parties. How I decide what to prioritize? Like honestly, I don't think I'm the best at prioritization. I only do things based upon my, I guess, characteristics. My trait is that I like things to be efficient. I like things to go ahead of schedule. I like to be ahead. I like to always hustle. I want to be ahead. And hence, I would always think a few steps in advance to see are there any items we can do. And I'll give you an example. Right now, Jason and I were redoing our website. And while Jason is focusing on the content and hand building up the wireframe, building up the design and everything, I'm already thinking of like what can we do right now to speed up the process in order for us to have a really, really healthy amount of content out there. And that's the reason why we need to contract out some of the application and some of the content that we are producing. And so I was just telling Jason, I'm like, you know what? We need to create content right away. We already have 100 videos plus that we have recorded in the past. We need to transcribe them into blog posts and everything. And that's the reason why we've invested in having an intern to help us transcribe all the videos and all the blog posts even a month in advance before we were working on the website. So then that way, when the timing is right, which is in the next few weeks, we have a ton of content out there. And so definitely stay tuned on our website very, very soon. I think the beauty about what I do. Okay, I'll tell you a little bit more about my day to day first. First of all, I wake up at seven every single day. Not that I really want to, but actually, you know what? I do enjoy waking up a little bit earlier. And then I take care of the baby. I make sure that I help as much as I can for my wife because I feel like it's a team game, right? I can't just rely on my wife to take care of the baby. I need to make sure I play my part as well. So by eight o'clock, she's already, I fed her, change her diaper and give her to my wife. And then I come to work at eight and come to work at eight and I take care of all my emails. And then I think about the project on hand. I have two to three different businesses right now. And luckily, actually, all of them are working at different pace. And within different pace, a lot of times, you just need to make sure that you follow up with the coordination, follow up with the answers, and follow up with big chunks of items that you need to complete. And then you can send it back off to different help, different help that you have employed for them to actually execute. Let me give you an example. With us, we're redoing all our course content. And that's over 40 different PowerPoints, 40 hours worth of videos that we need to redo. And that means that we have 40 different slide decks that we need to redo as well. So we're relaunching the whole course in, I would say, November, December. So if I do not work on this right now and if I don't work in advance to create the content, work in advance to put them in order, then I cannot delegate the task to designers to help me redo the PowerPoints. And then that way, I cannot shoot the new items again. And that's the reason why it's super important for me to actually see the project a few months in advance. See where are the critical tasks, which I was sharing with you as well, in order for me to locate exactly what I need to do. And so that's the reason why I have my notebooks. I make sure that I keep a good tally of how each of the projects are moving along the pipeline. And then I always check in with Jason behind the camera to make sure that we're on the same page. And at the end of the day, if we know for a fact that we're coming towards a bottleneck or that we're going to get swamped, it is my job and my duty in order for us to go out and ask for help, to actually employ help in order for us to be more efficient, in order for us to be able to execute the task at hand. Right. And that's kind of my day with all the different delegation, making sure that I complete all the critical tasks. And really, my job is really to support my team and to make sure that they have what they need in order for them to do their job. If I don't support them, if I don't give them tasks, if I don't give them context of what needs to be done, then it's really impossible for them to carry out to create what I have for my vision. And that's the reason why that's kind of my day-to-day, is to make sure that I play as a supporting, the best cheerleader that there is for my whole team in order for them to execute. And that's pretty much what I do, is to make sure that's the case. Reply to emails, coordinations, establish relationships. I think that's a really, really important aspect of what I have to do, is to make sure that I continue to nurture different relationships that I have out there. And yeah, so by, I would say four or five is when I'm pretty much done and tapped out and then usually leave around five or six and then go home, take care of babies, see her one last time, one last hour actually before she goes to sleep at like seven or eight and then my night carries on, reading, watching TV, spending some time with my wife. I used to actually hustle a lot more and I would go all the way up until 10 p.m. and just be working every single day. But I think during this pandemic and especially because now that I have a newborn, I have definitely taken it back a little bit and really enjoying life a little bit more, spending more time with her and just really soaking up this whole journey because like building a business is not really a sprint. There's really no deadline. There's no end goal. There is only the journey to save her in. That's pretty much it. I've built multiple businesses. I've sold multiple businesses and this is something that I came to realize is that as much as you want to push forward, there is always something to do. There's always the next project, the next goal, the next strategy to execute and the next campaign and it's nice to have these little short sprints but at the end of the day, being able to take care of myself internally, making sure that all the different components of my life is taken care of, whether it be my personal relationship, my friendship, my family, my own health, my own well-being, meditating, my business, taking care of Jason, it's all part of the game. It's just everything needs to have that balance in order for you to have a fulfilling career and journey. Super, super counter-intuitive but at the same time, I truly think that this is my way of happiness. I think balance is not really for everyone. I think it's for, it really comes back down to your values. I believe for me, what makes me happy is having a balanced life is to have, once again, to take care of the people I love, myself, my relationships and my businesses and that's what makes me happy because that truly is balance for me so that's the reason why I keep my journal, I have a vision board at home that kind of just lays everything out and I look at it every day and I'm very cautious of the relationship or the people that I care about I do tend to spend a little bit more time with them and I'm very protective of my time as well. All my friends know that I'm busy but I always, always make time for them and if you're not that type of person, if you don't really enjoy having a balance, if you enjoy just hustling, it's okay, that's just you. Simple as that because no one else out there is the same but if you do enjoy balance, then definitely being aware of it, taking a good log and a good journal is super important because it always allows you to really reflect on what is reality. Something that you have in here and something that you write down is completely different and a lot of times you see there's discrepancy of what you think and what you want and what you actually do and when you actually write down what you do compared to what you think then you would see that discrepancy and from there onwards you can actually rectify the problem to change your problem, to do things and to close that gap, right? One thing is that I always make sure that hey, am I spending enough time with my wife? Am I bringing her out and for us to actually enjoy different moments and I always ask myself that question because I feel like that's relationship is always a nurturing process, a work in progress, same with anything out there, same with your business, same with everything out there. That's it? Yeah, good. Keep going to what? What questions do you have? There's only two minutes left in this card. Two minutes left in this card. Well, I hope you enjoyed this video. This is a little bit more of a behind the scenes to show you a little bit about me and my thoughts and what really goes on behind the scenes in the office. These things are unscripted and I hope you enjoyed them. I love sharing these thoughts but then the day it doesn't get as much hits doesn't get as much likes as all the other videos which is why I don't shoot them as often. But if you like it, I would love to share a lot more with you. In the beginning of my YouTube journey, actually I had a whole series on mindset but no one likes Googling it and no one is watching to do some dude talk about their life and mindset and lecturing them and which is the reason why I don't shoot as much. But Jason likes to hear them and that's the reason why we're shooting it. So if you guys do enjoy it, smash the like button so I know this is something that I truly enjoy. Or you know what? Leave me in the comment section below on what you thought about this video so that we know that we can create more of these videos for you. If there's no more questions, I'll see you guys next week.


We're back, we're live on a Friday afternoon here on Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. We're doing Think Tech Global right now with India, with Varanasi India, with Kartiki Mishra. And we're talking about, gee, we're talking about Hollywood, Bollywood. What's it all about? Hi, Kartiki. How are you? Hi, I'm fine, dude. Good. So, how's it been for you in the past month? Is life going well for you? Yes, life's going well. Exhausted for years. Okay. I suppose there have been a lot of things happening in India. You know, I read the Indian newspapers, there's so many of them. We should only have so many newspapers in this country. The newspapers in the United States and in Hawaii are declining. There are fewer and fewer all the time. In India, there are so many newspapers, so many news stories. But we're going to skip that today. What we're going to talk about is Hollywood, Bollywood. That may not be news. Maybe there are certain elements of news in there. But it's Hollywood, Bollywood today. And it's what's it all about? So, can you tell us what Bollywood is? Basically, I can describe Bollywood. Bollywood nearly as old as Bollywood. Only two years back, I would say. And definitely Bollywood is the second-largest film industry in terms of producing films. In terms of earning, I would say, in revenue versus the Hollywood. We produce nearly 1,900 films each year and Hollywood produces around 800 films each year. And basically, Hollywood movies are in English. In Indian cinema, we have multiple languages. Well, I must say, the movies are always very colorful. At least in my experience, they're very romantic. The women, I have to say, the women are really beautiful. The men are really handsome. And they're, what do you want to call it? They're soupy in their plots. And I'm remembering, for example, Slumdog Millionaire. I'm sure you've seen that. That was really a fabulous movie. Basically, Slumdog Millionaire was a movie directed by a Hollywood person. So, I can't say it's a totally Bollywood film. It can be called as a joint venture. Bollywood actress and Bollywood director working together as many of them. But Slumdog Millionaire got a lot of criticism in India just because of the reason. It showed a lot of solidarity. That's the basic reason that they didn't want that appeal in India. Though it shows the reality, but it is the partial reality of India, what it has been, and what it has been doing. Well, you know, Slumdog Millionaire, let's dwell on that for just a minute, strikes me that there's a certain amount of reality that Slumdog Millionaire is covering as a lot of these romantic movies in India. But how true are they? Are they a real test of reality? Are we getting the real story? Or is it a darker, sadder story than all the happiness that we saw in Slumdog Millionaire? Okay, I can say that not all the movies are like romantic in nature. Many of the Bollywood movies are realistic in nature. The movie standard was based on sports persons. And many movies, historical movies are also produced in India. So those movies are also realistic in nature. So I can say that movies are realistic, but it is a movie, so it should be partial reality. You can imagine that. Yeah. Well, the other thing is, you know, there are many, many movies in India. I mean, way many more movies than we, and we are producing more movies these days because the price of entry is lower because the equipment is cheaper and more people are interested and more young people coming into the field of videography. I mean, Think Tech is kind of an example of that. It's easier to make a movie. On the other hand, I think India still has us beat out by many, many fold because so many movies are being made. Am I right? Yes, yes. You're right. There are 1,300 movies, not an easy job. Each and every state of India is working in producing a movie in response to initial language. If Tamil Nadu is making a movie, 200 movies or 100 movies would be produced with Tamil. If Bollywood is making a movie or Bombay cinema is making a movie, 300 movies would be in Hindi. So it's divided. Indian cinema is divided into segments. You can't call Bollywood just as a simple word. Bollywood is only specific for Bombay industry, not for the Indian cinema. If you calculate the movies of Indian cinema, it's around 1,900 a year in the North. So how much of the Indian movie production is in English and how much is in Indian or some local dialect of India? I think English movies are far produced less in India because people do not know much of English. Basically if a person is wishing to see a movie for entertainment, he or she would go for the native dialect in which they talk. English movies are frequently less produced in India compared to other languages. Interesting. I've also seen some movies, and you see this in other ways too, depicting ordinary people living ordinary lives and is a middle class kind of thing. Sometimes it's comedy, it's situation comedy, sitcom. And what's interesting to me is that these people and their lives, their homes, their jobs, the cars they drive, the clothing they wear, the way their households are organized and the way their kids are educated and so forth, it looks just like middle class America. It looks just like America. It's incredible. Now, is this the way life has really lived or is this the producer in India trying to make a movie that will appeal to people outside of India? I can say both. First, the appeal to people from outside world, it's also agreed to appeal to people that India is not more a developing nation, it is a developed nation on a way to make itself a nation of global power and effect. And secondly, I would say that this is far from reality. India is not that much developed, only some negativities, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Galbata, these cities are developed. So you can get the image of United States in these cities. What about, we really need to talk about documentaries because documentaries at least in this country are more and more important. There are essentially news stories, a lot of them, and they educate people because frankly it's easier to watch a movie than read a paper or a book. And so we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of quality documentaries that are available to the public, either online or on broadcast television like PBS. So the question is, are people interested in documentaries in India? And are people, producers, interested in making them? And if so, what kind of documentaries do they make? Documentaries are produced in India. Many of them are there. It's difficult to say that documentaries get a mainstream in India. Documentaries have yet to achieve a lot. But people watch documentaries for educational purposes, for increasing power, because it's different from a movie, presenting reality and educating people. So I think documentary, the trait of documentary is increasing day by day. Even myself, I watch previous documentaries.  And I know that India is into education. So do documentaries play a role in your education, Karthike, do you watch them as part of your weekly schedule? What kind of documentaries do you like? I watch documentaries. Definitely I love them. And most of the sources of documentaries are from YouTube. And channels like Vice is there on YouTube. BW documentary is on YouTube, BBC documentary is on YouTube. And channels are very much informative and providing knowledge. Not only in terms of, I would say entertainment, but information at the same time. And I have seen many documentaries. I personally like to study documentaries. It's funny you should say that because, you know, think tech is on YouTube. And my life, I look at YouTube every day and a lot of people I know look at YouTube. And we learn a lot. For example, if I want to learn a program like Adobe Premiere, which we use to edit, I go on YouTube and I can see an unlimited number of movies, instructional movies on how to use Adobe Premiere. And I'm getting the idea that the YouTube that you look at is the same YouTube that I look at. And therefore, we both have access to the same content on YouTube. Is that right? Yes, that's right. What an American watch and what an Indian can watch is the same today. The only difference is in the terms of frequency. Americans can watch in terms of much more greater frequency due to the use of that documentary. But in India, people are not increasing their budget to watch documentaries because documentaries solve a lot of problems in India. Sometimes, if I have some problem I watch a documentary or watch instructional videos to solve that problem. For example, I didn't know how to make a tie. So I learned to make a tie to YouTube. For documentaries. Of course, you know, it's funny because our Executive Vice President Karamali and I went to a special meeting of YouTube producers here a couple of years ago. They were telling us, you know, if you cover fundamental things that people need in their lives like how to make a tie, how to cook a certain dish, how to sew, how to handle those household chores, you will be so popular. And it's true, they came down to this meeting and people do that and they make really fundamental type instruction movies and they get millions and millions of hits. How to make a tie, of course. Well, does this make you want to get into it? I mean, I'm so happy that we know you and part of that is you're interested in the US, you're interested in video, you're interested in joining us on a live internet experience like this. That's really fabulous and I'm happy that we connected. But does it also reflect, Carnegie, that you like to be in the movies? Is everybody dream to act in a movie? And I think if I get a film, I would act. But I don't think I'm not an actor. I'm not a screenwriter, I think. Maybe you want to be a producer. And that takes me to the next question I want to ask you. So who in India are the producers? Who are the ones who think up the movies? You've got to have choreographers and one of those song and dance movies. You have to have a lot of talent. In fact, sometimes I think that the quality of those movies in terms of the song and the dance and the way it's presented, the quality the production values in the movies they're just as good as Hollywood. I mean the real Hollywood. I mean not Bollywood Hollywood, Hollywood Hollywood. So who goes into that? Are those people who people have gone through school? Have they gone to film school? Have they worked in the industry? Have they been to Hollywood in the south in order to learn those production values? Who are they? Who's making the movies? Who's conceiving of the movies? Who's writing the scripts? Who's doing the production? If I could describe that in a sense of words I would say there are production houses in India like Hollywood. Like you have Paramount Production and Universal Production. We also do have production houses. Yes, that production is there and Chilli Productions is there. There are many studios in India which produce movies or which invest movies. Generally these production houses have actors which have earned money and are ready to re-invest that money into the movie in which they are putting money. So there are many directors or actors in India who gain revenue to acting and then they use the same money to produce any other movie. There are many movies and there are a lot of films that you will earn a lot from it. So that's a cycle I think. Production houses are something I would say depending upon the actor, how large the actor or how tired he or she is has. And I think people go to Hollywood for learning acting or direction. Okay, we're going to take a short break. Karateke Mizra, at college studying business among other things in Varanasi, India which is in the northeast part of the country. He joins us today by Zoom as he does every few weeks. Today we're talking about Hollywood, Bollywood trying to understand and get a handle on life in India, business in India, entertainment in India. We're going to take a one minute break. We're going to come back and we're going to ask him who's investing in these movies in India and how do you get to be an actor in these movies in India and who are the popular actors and how well are they paid? We'll be right back. So I hope to join me for likeable science. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I'm the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea comes on every other Monday at 11am. Please join us. I like to bring in guests that talk about all types of things that come across the sea to Hawaii. Not just law. Love, people, ideas, history. Please join us for Law Across the Sea. Aloha. Okay, we're back. We're live with Karki Mishra in Varanasi, India. We're talking about Hollywood, Bollywood and we're trying to get a handle on what goes on in the movie industry in Hollywood. So I guess the first question I want to ask just to look at the business side of this is who is investing in the Bollywood movies? So local Indians? Is it global? What's going on here is the relationship of Bollywood and Hollywood and all the movie makers around the world. Who's investing in the Indian movies? Which clearly require a substantial amount of investment these days. Basically, businessmen who are ready to invest in movies and secondly the actors to gain a lot of money from the movies they have acted in. So they try to reinvest the money into production houses. So the production houses are generally made by the actors themselves. Many of the production houses are made by actors, for example Raj Kapoor's production house. He was an actor in 1950s. He made his own production house and it is still same as our studios and production house. So there are many actors who reinvest in the movies. Yeah. Are the production houses centered in one city in Calcutta or Mumbai or they spread around the country? They spread around the country. The last production house in the world is Ramaji Film Studio in India. Interesting. So if I'm an actor and I've made it big and that certainly happens in this country too do I have a chance of being so popular that I can go into politics and run for office and be a big political figure in the country? Does that happen? Yes. It happens in India. I know Arnolish was an actor. He acted in movies like Terminator, Conan the Bar, and he went into politics. He became the governor of California. In the very same manner actors start acting and one of the two three famous people are there who started as an actor and they ended up as a politician. One very good example of me dead as it is. She was an actor. She started her career as an actor then she changed her career into politics and she became chief minister of the middle class. Okay, that works well. And these production houses the top production houses I guess pay more to the actors. How much does an actor make? Do you have any sense of that actress? How much do they make in American money for say a big film? It would be a difficult question to come or change that into dollars. But certainly I can say that depending upon the actor how famous he or she is the production houses stay there. For example, if you are casting you would pay a lot of happy amount of money to me to cast him in a movie. Who are you casting into a movie? Generally, there are kind of partialities in there between actresses and actors. Actors sometimes pay more money after. So kind of an effort to do this in Hollywood. Yeah. And I would take it that the most popular actors and actresses are in the most popular films and that the most popular films are the films that are very Indian in culture and costume the films that are romantic, glamorous the films like Slumdog Millionaire or films like that that have romantic plot lines and so forth. I would imagine that those films, call them song and dance films, romance films are the most popular in the Bollywood offering. Am I right? Yes, they are most popular in Bollywood. Currently the trend is changing. People are moving from romantic movies to realistic movies and these movies, realistic movies are earning money also. The movie, which I talked about in Bangalore. Bangalore was quite hate in India. It was about two sisters who took part in Commonwealth Games and Bone Gold. It was based on a real story. I think it earned around $144 million in overall currency. It did a very great business in China. It did a very great business in India. Bollywood movies are now changing to a global currency. In terms of certain tickets also I would say Hollywood I think pressed around 2.6 billion tickets overall in the world and Bollywood pressed around 3.6 billion tickets overall in China. I knew it, I knew it. Of course. In the global audience Bollywood is much more impactful I think. That's impressive. What's the price of a ticket? If I go to a movie theater I suppose there are many many movie theaters I suppose a lot of people go to the movie theater. What's the price of a ticket at the movie theater? Here it's oh gee it's getting pretty expensive it's $10, $12, $15 already for a first run movie. What is the cost in India to go to the movies? The cost of a movie depends upon the factors of the state in which that movie is released. Sometimes the movies are factory for example two great movies are released in the states of India factory the government does not include factors on those movies so they are much cheaper. I would say a ticket in India is around 300 movies that would be around something $10 or $20. Oh it's around the same ballpark then. So what about action movies? You know in the US it seems like to me in the movie houses and on the internet or rather on cable television you know has a lot of movies so many action movies in fact violent action movies action movies that involve you know gunshots and explosions and all kinds of violence they're very popular in fact I would say there in general seems to me more popular and more ubiquitous than movies involving romance and happy stories. Is that trend playing out the same way in India? Yes that's playing the same way in India. The violence team which Bollywood learned from Hollywood is now starting to show effects in India movies are now growing much more raw in terms of violence than in action. For example people are starting now to invest in action movies because they pay off that money I think. Yeah yeah Okay and I want to ask you one question sort of off the side it strikes me that people don't really explore this and maybe they should is that you know the dark side of every movie industry is the pornography and pornography is worldwide and pornography is a huge industry involving billions of dollars of gross revenue however they distribute those movies. Is there a pornography industry in India? No that's not as great or big as America it's not that it's not like that. Okay that's a short answer let me ask you let me ask you now whether we'll have to have another show on that yeah we'll have to you know the short answer is what about American movies I mean you have access to YouTube you have access to the internet and I'm sure there's a demand in India people in India love movies anyway that's always been the case as long as I know how popular are American movies and how accessible are they and would you prefer to watch an American movie or an Indian movie these days? I think I have no words to describe the popularity of Hollywood in India I can't describe it in words. The heights of an Indian infinity war releasing on 20th people are going crazy over that news that they would watch Avengers infinity war on the very first day first show and Hollywood selects a lot of revenue from Hollywood cinema because of the competition it is giving than to the Indian industry and TV series Game of Thrones are quite popular in India every person in college going to knows about Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad one of my friends one of my friends knows I think he has watched Game of Thrones 4 or 5 times and he knows each and every dialogue of Game of Thrones so he knows how popular Hollywood is My last area of inquiry for you Karnaki is the globalization of the whole industry it became obvious a few years ago that the Chinese were investing in a lot of American movies in fact they bought movie houses in Hawaii in the United States and so did the Japanese so you have a sort of global investment process and then you have a global production process and then you notice that the producers on a lot of these popular American movies are in fact Chinese so there's a sort of integration across fertilization of the cultures and of the storylines and the actors and so forth and the industry becomes globalized so you're just as likely to see a movie produced by an American house with American talent as you are with Chinese investment and Chinese producers and videographers and what have you and so you cannot assume that any movie that's popular will be made in only one country a really big movie is going to involve an international effort and I guess my question to you is that happening in India are these are there cross invested movies and cross produced movies in India and do you see also that this is a global trend I see it that way is a global trend and in 5 or 10 or 20 years we will see movies produced anywhere showing anywhere and popular anywhere do you see that yes I see that I have two brilliant examples to answer your question the first movie was produced in or was produced by Indian Reliance Company the name of Hollywood movie was Ghost in the Shell it was Bale Dolan Anime which was Japanese the story was from Japan the production was from India and the actors were from Hollywood so you can say that the things are now changing into global phenomena and the second movie which I have example is of China Chinese production house and Viacon 18 Indian production house invested in that movie and both Chinese and Indian actors worked in that movie so you can see that trend that things are now becoming much more global these days so that being the case let's assume that we agree that in 5, 10, 20 years the movie business is going to be global it's going to be cross culture you might as well see movie from one country one continent or another and it will be very good very interesting so where does that leave the Indian movie genre do you think the Indian movie genre has a future will it always be popular or will it be assimilated into the global process and be less popular including in India I think about industry is quite old in terms of we are 100 years old so in terms of popularity after Hollywood, Bollywood is the only thing so it will become integrated into a world connection I would say Hollywood actors working in Bollywood movies Bollywood actors working in Hollywood movies so it is becoming global trend so there would be not one particular cinema but we will say global cinema of actors and characters from all over the world working together as one film industry or film industry one last question you chose this topic and it is very interesting and important and I hope we can discuss it again in various aspects but my question to you is there a reason why you chose it are you specifically interested in this do you think this could be a career aspiration for you because a lot of people in India watch Bollywood movies and Hollywood movies and I can say the same for American people both are lovely in terms of making movies and seeing movies not only in terms of watching but as a career also there is a lot of chance that an average American person can get a job in Bollywood movies as a writer, as a dancer or as a director it could be a possibility in future we can see that in next 20-20 years and management as an student of business there is an increasing threat of movie management or business management in terms of movies so it is a lot of I would say industry profit is there about both the film industry okay great thank you Karnaki, been a great discussion a great topic I look forward so much to seeing you again in a few weeks for another look at India another examination of life in India where India is going, what it is doing and what you are doing Karanasi India Aloha as they say


Welcome everyone to our second Gluster talk kind of today. So please welcome with me, Havi. Good morning people. So I'm going to talk about the evolution of geo-replication in Gluster FS, and to start with it, I'll give a brief idea about what Gluster is so that you can understand the rest of the talk. And yeah, Gluster is a distributed file system with no single point of failure. We don't have a metadata server and that's how we achieve this no single point of failure. And it provides easy scaling out and it can run on any commodity hardware. You don't have to buy boxes to run Gluster. And it provides other basic file system features like replication, erasure coding and stuff. And the terminologies that you have to know with Gluster are bricks.   Volume is a logical entity which is going to have a collection of bricks across various servers. And then your client, that's where you write your data and that data is going to be transferred on to your bricks. And the Trusted Storage Pool. It's a collection of servers within which you can perform certain operations and manage it. So the overview would be something like this. So you have bricks in your server and these bricks together form a logical entity called a volume. And that volume is mounted on a client where you are going to consume it. So yeah, how about geo-replication? The basic requirement for geo-replication is disaster recovery. With replication your data is going to be on your site, the same data center and that's not that much reliable when it comes to natural calamity. So we go for geo-replication where you can replicate your data across different data centers. And yeah, the requirements for geo-replication are how do we get the copy of data from one cluster volume to the other place. So to do that we came up and also the other requirements were checkpoints to know until when your data is actually replicated from the master site to the slave site. And the last process is to make this copying as efficient as possible to reduce the hit on the IOs that are happening on the master volume. And how we did it is basically we have two volumes. The master volume where you are actually writing your data from the master volume, the data is copied on to your slave. So we basically created two volumes and made use of them. And the other thing is you have to record the changes that are going in on your master site. And then these recorded changes will be transferred from the master site to the slave site. And to record the changes is where we came up with something called change log. So change log is basically a translator. A translator in Gluster means something which gets a certain input and provides a certain output. So change log is going to get the data that are written on a particular volume as a recorded change. And this change is later on going to be sent for the georeplication to replicated to the other side. And it's on the brick side. I'll explain how this flow goes. And yeah, once you have the change logs, the change logs have to be synced from the master site to the slave site. And the other benefits of change log would be to create checkpoints. Like if you have 10 writes which are made and each write is into a change log, then you can say that if you have completed 5 change logs, then 5 of your writes are done. This is how we came up with the checkpoints.  So this reduces the overhead of doing the whole operation again. So as you can see, you have the master volume, which is one particular cluster volume in some trusted storage pool. And the content from the master volume will be synced across to your slave volume. This is how basically georeplication works as of today. So we have three types of crawl. So the reason for crawl is change logs get recorded. So if you see this, you will understand. So that's one brick which I have explained with the change log. So your IOS will be coming from the top and it goes until the bottom where you have your disk there which is going to store your data. So when it goes through the brick, it's going to pass through the change log. And change log is going to know that, OK, now I'm getting a write operation. So such a operation is later on then written to a flat file. And it just keeps writing the contents to a flat file based on the incoming content. So yeah, the rest I'll come back in a few minutes. So these content will be available only if the georeplication was enabled when you create the volume. But there can be cases where you already have a volume and you want to sync the contents across to another volume.  So that's the reason we have this hybrid crawl. So what this hybrid crawl does is once you enable georep on existing master volume, this crawl is going to go through your file system, create pseudo change logs. And these change logs will be later on used to sync to the slave volume. And change log crawl is incoming traffic. It records the change log and it syncs up to the slave volume. History is when you have a number of change logs recorded but georep was stopped for some reason. And now you are again started because the slave volume is back up. So all your recorded history will be synced there. And how we do this is where this diagram comes into the picture. You have the change log translator in the brick which records the changes to the flat file. And then the agent process is going to read the contents from the flat file and give it to this worker. And worker is going to read the contents from the master and write it onto the slave. And the worker and the agent are taken care by the monitor. So if one dies, the monitor spawns it again and so on. So the disadvantages with the current approaches. So we have something called a GFID to identify a particular file in Gluster. It's going to be unique and so far we have... So this GFID is used to construct the whole file system. So we are replicating the GFIDs from the master to the slave as well to construct this whole tree. And this one dependency has been giving a number of issues like you can't replicate it to a non-Gluster volume. You can have GFID conflicts between master and slave and all those problems can be there. And you can't manually copy a file from the master to the slave. Right now it has to be done to a Gluster volume through this Europe. And other than that, if you have a create-delete and a create, you have to repeat all these processes one after the other to have it in the right state. So to basically avoid these issues, we came up with something called as path-based geo-replication. And we are working on it. So what this does is it stores your parent GFID in each file's exciter. This way we have a separate tool which can read this particular exciter and then understand how the path is. Give the path to the slave volume so that the slave volume can work on the paths instead of working on the GFID. This way we have removed the GFID dependency. So the advantage is that you don't need a Gluster volume for the slave volume. You can write it to any of your other type of storage where you want to write it. And you can use additional tools to do the initial sync. You can copy files manually from the master to the slave. And you don't have to do a create-delete and create. We use R-Sync which just does it with a single create. These are the advantages of path-based geo-replication. And I have a demo just to show how to have geo-replication between two volumes in Gluster. So basically I am doing a peer crop to create the Truster storage pool I am talking about. So if you see I am having two servers and I am creating a volume between two servers called as the master volume and I am starting it. So I am starting the master volume. Now this is additional step for geo-replication which is used by geo-replication internally. This is another volume. So similar to this I would have created a slave volume on another mission so that I can do the geo-rep between these two. So the master volume is here on this Truster storage pool and the slave volume is on a different Truster storage pool which you will have to repeat the same process. And I am starting this particular volume which geo-rep uses. So after that I am mounting the master volume and this additional volume the geo-rep is going to make use of. So this is another command which you can make use instead of creating this particular volume. This command takes care of that work but as I have done this created this particular volume manually this command is failing but this is something that you can know to reduce this work. And then you can see that so this command is going to so you will need a passwordless SSH between your master and slave Gluster volume one of the nodes. So I have done that. This is going to get the keys from SSH keys from various nodes in the master volume and then send it to the slave volume so that the transfer can actually happen through SSH. So I am doing that and other configurations for geo-replication so you see that I am doing certain configurations for geo-replication and then I am starting a geo-replication session over here and then I am checking the status it initializes and at one point it actually starts to work. So now I will SSH to the slave node and show you the amount in the slave node to see what is the data available there. We haven't wrote any data so it should be empty there so you can see one minute. So on the master when I do an LS you see nothing because I haven't created any file here. Now I am SSH'ing into the slave and you can see the slave volume here which is a different volume from the master volume and I am doing an LS on the slave it is again empty. I am coming back to the master cluster and I am creating certain files here and now you can see the files in the master volume. I am going back to the slave volume and again I am doing an LS on the slave so which was empty now it has these 10 files replicated here. So setting up geo-replication should be fairly easy in Gluster. This is how you do it if you have any questions. Questions. So you said that you implemented path-based geo-replication that doesn't use the GFIDs so is it possible to use both? So it is not a done it's a work in progress thing. Right now you have the normal geo-replication which is between a Gluster volume to another Gluster volume. So path-based geo-replication is something we are still working on it's not it completed. So the whole arcing thing is new? So once we completed we will be mostly relaying on path-based geo-replication rather than supporting the old one. So currently geo-replication always has to be done to a target that's also a Gluster volume. Yes. Okay thank you. The change log translator does it have a performance impact if it's enabled and could it be used for other purposes because for example we kind of want to track all file operations kind of like an audit log something like that so can the change log translator be used for that purpose and does it have a performance impact? So the question is does the change log translator have a performance hit and can it be used for auditing as well? And yes change log will have a minimal impact and we do give you options to set the change log like you can say that I'll record a file for every 15 seconds for every 15 minutes. So you have the ability to configure the time based on your volume so that is something with which you can tune your volume and we are using change log for it another tool called Glusterfine which is going to give you the files which have been changed from certain checkpoint to another checkpoint. So again their change logs are handy so you can make use of change logs for auditing as well. So are these change logs like complete? Like can you trust that every file operation will appear in the change log? Yes change log has been so can you trust change log is the question and change log has been there in Gluster for a while now and it's pretty stable. So yeah change logs are trustworthy. What can you advise for active application? Sorry I Master Slave right? Okay Is it possible to create like two sites master? Sorry is it possible to create? I mean like for availability now it's for disaster recovery. Okay. So you are asking if it is possible to get it back the other way. Exactly.  Yeah right now once you stop your geo application session from master to slave you can enable it the other way as well. This way you can copy your data back but we don't have active-active mechanism right now. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you Hari. Thank you. So Pathway geo application has worked by Aravinda and yeah the geo application team in Red Hat comprises of us if you have any questions I have the links provided in the slides you can make use of it. Thank you.


No, life doesn't work like that.  It's a very fair life. Sir, when someone has wronged us or has abused us in some way, we either have feelings of hostility and resentment… Oh, we must file a suit. No, in a minor… in a minor sense, if they abuse us or if they wrong us, we sometimes have feelings of resentment and hostility against them and sometimes we might tend to forgive them and let it go. So, my question here is, where must we draw a line to hold the wrongdoer responsible for what he does and when should we know to forgive him and when should we know to let it go? So, this is the question. See, this is not about the other person. The choice for you is this, if you are given a choice, right now for all of you, if you are given a choice that you can either live joyfully, blissfully or miserably, or in anger, or in stress, or in resentment, what is your natural choice? You must choose, I'm going to bless you right now. What is your natural choice? Joyfully, isn't it? Because every human being is looking for highest level of pleasantness for himself or herself. You can call it joy, you can call it bliss, these are just words. Essentially, we want highest level of pleasantness for ourselves. If your body becomes pleasant, we call this health. If it becomes very pleasant, we call this pleasure. If your mind becomes pleasant, we call this peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we call this joy. If your emotions become pleasant, we call this love. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it compassion. If your very life energies become pleasant, we call this bliss. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it ecstasy. If your surroundings become pleasant, we call this success. Only to… only to make your surroundings pleasant, you need the cooperation of all these people. Because in creating an external situation, there are many forces involved. Not all of them you even know, you understand? You want to create a wonderful situation for yourself. You don't even know how many forces are working in that area. If you harness a few forces, if they cooperate, things will happen. If they don't cooperate, it won't happen. But for the pleasantness of the body, pleasantness of the mind, pleasantness of your emotion and energy, it's one hundred percent you. Yes or no? Yes. Surroundings, creating situations in the surroundings, you need cooperation from the people, otherwise it won't happen. So only for success, you need cooperation. To keep yourself pleasant, it's one hundred percent yours. So right now, you know well that you want to be pitch-full. But somebody else is doing something, what are they doing? They know what… what they know best. They're abusing you. Why are they doing it? Because that's all they know. Yes or no? That is what… that is how they know their life. That's why they're doing it.  No, life doesn't work like that.  It's a very fair life.  Very fair, isn't it so?  Is it fair? So people who are in anger, resentment, hatred, this is their thing. They are drinking poison. When I say poison, I am not saying in a moral sense, there is substantial medical evidence right now that we can show you with a blood test that five minutes before you take your blood test right now, five minutes you may remain in extreme anger and take your blood test, you will see you're chemically poisoned actually. So you're literally poisoning yourself thinking it's going to hurt them. No, it only going to hurt you. So it doesn't make sense to me, that's all.  It's up to you if you want to make a mess out of yourself.


Hi, Dr. Jared here wanted to share with you this week's Friday flop. It is here on 2t. I ended up treating this This had a deep peris lesion here with a hall crown at the time and it came back a few years later With necrotic with an acute apical abscess here. We end up doing LSTR on this. This is one of my first cases other option would be to do an extraction or go ahead and place a space maintainer and Here we are on the recall. You can see that there's been some nice healing in the bone and we maintain the tooth and here we are finally coming full perishing and Saving that space for this kid. So have a great weekend


Please join in a moment of centering silence so we can be fully present with each other this morning. And if you're not, let's get musically present by turning to the words for our in-gathering hymn which you'll find printed in your order of service. Welcome to another Sunday service here at First Unitarian Society where independent thinkers gather in a safe, nurturing, and very musical environment today as we explore issues of social, spiritual, and ethical significance and try to make a difference in this world. I'm Steve Goldberg, a very proud member of this congregation, and like many of you, I am basking in the joy of one extra hour of sleep from last night. That doesn't mean that today's service will be an extra hour long. It's going to be the regular length. And I know that makes most of you feel pretty good. If this is your first visit to First Unitarian Society, I'd like to extend a special welcome to you, guests, visitors, and newcomers. 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If you have about four hours a month, and remember you got an extra hour this month, so if you have about four hours a month to help with the nurturing of our children's social and ethical development, the children's religious education program has many kids on a waiting list. And that's a scary thought. Kids on a waiting list is worse than snakes on a plane, I think. For either a preschool class or for K-1, we'd love to get your help so that we can add another section for either or both age groups for next semester, but we can't do it without your help. The additional section would be either a Saturday or Sunday session at 11 a.m., and you get a chance to team teach so you can share the load, the workflow, and it's a great way to connect with the kids of our FUS family. If you're interested, please see Leslie Ross. You'll notice her. She's usually over in this corner of the commons after each service because she's our Director of Religious Education, and she's also excited about our second announcement because it involves art in the right place, also known as a shortage of parking spaces. The landmark building just across the parking lot features 47 artists. Every year, this is a real popular event. They're selling and displaying their art, woodwork, glass, and fiber art, pottery, and more. You can also stop at the bake sale in the commons to buy yourself a yummy treat and to sustain you for the many hours that we're sure you're going to spend at art in the right place, and guess where the proceeds go? Children's Religious Education Program, the Art Fair. It runs from 9.30 until four o'clock today. So end of the announcements. I invite you to sit back or lean forward to enjoy today's service. I know that it will touch your heart, stir your spirit, and trigger one or two new thoughts. We're glad you're here. You are brokenhearted, who woke today with the winds of despair whistling through your mind, come in. You who are brave but wounded, limping through life and hurting with every step, come in. You who are fearful, who lie with shadows hovering over your shoulders, come in. This place is sanctuary, and it is for you.  You who walk through your world with lightness and grace, who awoke this morning with strength and hope.  This place is your calling. A riverbank to channel the sweet waters of your life, the place where you are called by the world's deep need. Here we offer in love. Here we receive in gratitude. Here we make a circle from the great gifts of breath, attention, and purpose. Come in. You are welcome here. And if you rise now out of your spirit, joining together in the affirmation for our chalice lighting, it is printed in your order of service. We light our chalice with these hopes, that the other side inspires us to build bridges, that a dream inside keeps us awake to our passions, that grief opens us and makes us human, and that we risk all to heal and be healed. And before we join together in song, if you'll take a moment to turn and greet those around you, please be seated. If you arrived here today with a sorrow so heavy that you need the help of this community to carry it, or if you woke with a joy so great that it simply must be shared, now is the time. The sharing of joys and sorrows is our time in the spirit of acceptance and support to share with one another some special event or circumstance that has affected your life or the life of a loved one in recent days or weeks. This is not a time for general announcements or political opinion, as strong as those may be. As you share, please remember that our listeners are not limited to those in this room as the services are broadcast on the internet. So for the next few minutes, anyone who wishes is invited to step to the front of the auditorium, light a candle, using the microphone provided by Anne, our lay minister, briefly share with us your message. You may also come forward to wordlessly light a candle, and if you're unable to come forward for any reason, just raise your hand and Anne will bring the microphone to you. I now open the floor for the sharing of our sorrows and our joys. Hi, my name is Mary. I have a sister who three years ago lost her husband to cancer, was then diagnosed with a diffused large cell lymphoma, which she went through chemo and got over and was recently diagnosed with follicular lymphoma. So she's going to start chemo on the 16th. I woke up this morning and realized that I was feeling very stressed about what's coming up, and I thought, come here, so thank you. I light this candle in memory of Lou Crook, a long time member who died last month, and thinking about her husband, Jack. I light this candle for my friend, Paris Gomez, and her partner, Anne Powell, as they work on healing the illness that Paris currently is working to lift out of her body. I light this candle in thankfulness for the Peace and Justice Book Club, because I've read some books that have just really helped me to deal with things, and the one that I was reading recently is Healing the Heart of Democracy, and it really made me feel hopeful about where our country can go. Hi, my name is Marilyn, and we moved here from Seattle in the early, I guess, in June, and I had no idea how hard it would be to leave all of our friends. And so it's been really lonely, and I'm a public speaker, so I'm usually the person full of energy. I'm the one who brings all the joy. I'm having a hard time finding my joy right now in my community, so I'm so happy you're here, close to where we live. We are lighting a candle of joy for Baby Emmett, who joined our family at the end of September. I'm Elizabeth, and I like that candle in gratitude. I realized I've now been a member here for 20 years. I know I can't believe it. And I think of all the things that I've learned here, the leadership skills, the spiritual values, the finding God in my heart, so to speak, and also the musical training. Just everything I've learned has just been an amazing ride. So thanks to everyone. I'm Jody. We're lighting two candles today. One for my grandma and our great grandma, who is in the hospital with congestive heart failure. We're also lighting a candle for my friend Louise, who is grappling with stage 4 cancer. She had a very emotionally difficult day yesterday. Hey, I'm Steve Goldberg, and I want to share a joy. After working 48 and a half years at the same company, I've announced my retirement at the end of this year. And if you will light one last candle for this prayer. Spirit of love, help us never to forget. We are your voice, hands, eyes, ears, and heart upon this one precious earth. Help us to live in peace together and serve one another, to see the holy light in everyone. Even when those lights are especially hard to see. Help us to accept difference and learn to delight in it. Most of all, no matter how things go, help us to be compassionate today, and in all the days to come. And now as we rise in body or spirit to sing our next hymn, our children and teachers may leave for classes. Please be seated. Our reading today from Omid Safi, who is a columnist for On Being. This week we had an interesting situation related to the visit of an international guest. Unexpectedly, the situation led to a powerful mystical insight that continues to both haunt and inspire me. Our visitor came to us from Turkey, where he is one of the leading musicians. He traveled with his musical instruments, a treasury of a thousand years of sacred music in his heart, and his beloved cell phone. He loves to show off pictures of beautiful natural scenes on his phone, especially majestically colored birds, animals living together in peace and harmony, and scenes of nature's splendor. A masterful artist himself, he pauses periodically after a picture to praise the divine as the ultimate artist. There is a grace about how he relates to his technology. He always makes his human companion still feel like the most important person on earth, only welcoming us inside his own world of beauty and art. The technology somehow amplifies, rather than distracts from his inner world of beauty and sacredness, so graceful, so kind, so lovely. One small problem. Turkish cell phones, like many European models, use a different electrical outlet. My friend's phone runs not on the one 10 volt American outlets, but on the European 220. He had a charging cable, but we couldn't plug it into the wall. This was the way that he reflected on the work of the eternal and also how he keeps up with his so beloved wife back home. So with much sadness, we watched the charge on the phone going down and down. So I promised to help. I called the usual big box stores to see if they had an electrical converter. Sadly, they all said the same thing. They sell converters to help Americans travel in Europe, but not the ones for Europeans traveling in the U.S. But at long last I found a humble store. I described the problem to the person answering the phone and he confidently said that they had the desired adapter. I asked him if he could hold one for me and he said he would. I rushed right over. As promised, he was holding the item. With a mischievous smile, he said, this will do exactly what you need. I was somewhat surprised by the smile, but went ahead and paid for the item. It wasn't expensive, some seven dollars. Sure enough, it worked. I could plug the European plug into the adapter and the adapter into our electrical outlets. I tested it at the store. It worked perfectly. The phone came on and started to charge. Hallelujah! I thanked him profusely and began to leave. He still had the mischievous smile on. As I was gathering my belongings, he said, you already had the solution within you. Somehow the statement hit me like a Zen Cohen. Like the words of a sage who walks around disguising his wisdom inside ordinary everyday situations. I turned around slowly and asked him to repeat what he had said, so again he said slowly, you already had the solution within you. The world went quiet. All I could hear was this phrase, already solution, you baffled, I looked at him. He asked if he could borrow my friend's European charging cable and I handed it over. Lo and behold, he pulled off the cable from the charging unit that attached to the electrical outlet. One end of the cable attached to the phone, the other end was a normal humble USB plug. He said with a smile, you already had the solution. And then explained that while he was happy to sell me the adapter, I actually didn't need it. I could have charged that phone and any phone with a similar cable, almost anywhere. He asked if my friend traveled with a laptop. I said no. He asked if he was staying with me or in a hotel. I was puzzled by the relevance but answered truthfully that he was staying at a hotel. The living sage, disguised as a humble electrical store employee, took the cable holding it by the USB port, said, every hotel room has a TV. In the back of all these modern TVs is a USB port. You already have the solution for charging. All you have to do is plug this cable into the phone and this end into the USB port and turn on the TV. The TV will charge the phone. You already had the solution within you. Walking to my car and eventually to my Turkish friend who was so joyous I kept marveling at the beautiful truth of this statement. How often we, not our phones, but we beings of cosmic dust mingled with spirit run low. Low on energy, on breath, on spirit. How often we are dangerously close to running out of power except that we don't know how to recharge. We run here and there trying this and that, sometimes a medicine, sometimes an adventurous journey to stimulate ourselves. Do we know ourselves well enough to know that the means of recharging is already hidden within us? We are not machines. No machine can match the subtlety of the human soul. But the one analogy is that like those machines when the red battery light comes on we too need to be recharged. And the very means of recharging is already inside us. Do we know? Do we know our own selves well enough to know how to do this? Do we know our beloveds well enough to know how to do this with them? Do we realize that different people run on different methods of being charged? For some it's prayer, some meditation, some the gentle touch of a love one. For some a stroll in the woods. Can we remain humble enough to know that one method that works for one's soul may not recharge another? Each of us needs to recharge in the means that are right or best for us and that means may change from day to day. Whatever it is let us be aware of the truth that if we know how to access it the solution is already within us. It says Meeting House Chorus and James Reeb Choir. So I want to officially welcome the James Reeb Choir for exchange that Dan and Heather are doing. Reeb is with us today. Thank you. I posted the following words a few days ago which she titled the chaos of now. There have been small roving bands of fretful freaked out liberals in my neighborhood all weekend gathering in agonies of hopelessness. They're dogs who really have to go wait patiently at their feet. Then I lumber up the most tightly wired person we know and they look at me hoping I will say the exact right thing. When I am distressed as I am now I go to my groups of friends hoping someone will say the exact right thing to pull me out of the pinball game in my mind. The exact right thing she says would break the swirling trance of catastrophic thought, hit my heart's reset button and remind me that love and grace bat last. The pond inside me would settle and I would see through the water that most of my reactive terror and my held breath are the survival tools of childhood. Those tools didn't work very well when I was six nor do they work well at 62 but I always pull them out first from the battered old toolbox. Remembering this means I can now move on to what may help today a worried mercy a vulnerability and wonder. Here's the exact right thing I need to hear. The randomness and racism and brutality are what is but so are decency sacrificial love and goodness. Sometimes the scary sickening voices seem louder than truth and beauty but they aren't really. Democracy the great good thing one person one vote is the loudest voice in the land. Maybe God or goodness or good orderly direction or gift of desperation is in whom we move live and have our being but the world is a chaotic place and humanity is a chaotic place and I am a chaotic place most days. So I take the right action I get my own emotional acre in order through radical self-care serving the poor sharing my M&Ms and flirting with the very very old then the insight follows the one I share with my Sunday school kids every single week that all evidence to the contrary we are loved we stick together we share we listen Wendell Berry tweeted today love someone who doesn't deserve it I'm going to begin with my dog who accidentally ate a pound of butter and all the bagels then I'll work my way up to James Comey and then myself it's good to be afraid when it mobilizes us to fight tooth and nail for what is right when it pricks the balloon of our complacent when it gets us back on our feet a lot of us are both afraid and devoutly faithful at the exact same time but what is true and the exact right thing I need to hear is that courage is fear which has set its prayers I too have found myself in the past few weeks among those who might consider themselves gathered in agonies of hopelessness as I have seen familiar faces in the grocery store or oddly enough in the pool or at the pickup group at school I've been asked for the magic right words the words that are going to make the anxiety go away and give some semblance of hope and peace I must admit to being uncharacteristically quiet as the only words that pop into my head are this is all so broken I'm sure we each have our own story of when we realize that there are times when things do indeed fall apart when it can't be put back together it can't be fixed that there is brokenness in this world for me it was the spring of 1980 when at five years old my grandfather passed away suddenly at the age of 64 on that day and in the days shortly after I experienced my first taste of grief loss confusion the realization that part of life is learning how to live amid the brokenness I also discovered during that time in reflection looking back with grown-up eyes that there's a power to be found there as well as Ernest Hemingway once said the world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places reading or hearing recent news we can come to the conclusion that our world is indeed broken there's murder and violence hatred and terror abuse and pain recent months and days have been an expose of all that is broken our media racism misogyny and so much more we are all so damaged in this process that many of us find it hard to catch a breath we do not live in a wonderland of peace and joy we live in the challenging here and now with so much in pieces all around us I've been holding tightly to the words of Roshani Ray in this poem she wrote years ago titled unbroken there is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable there is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depth emerges strength there's a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being there's a cry deeper than all sound whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole while learning to sing brokenness is not the end of our story as much as we might want to throw our hands up as much as we might want to gather in agonies of hopelessness we must declare that all is most definitely not lost because we know it doesn't end here we are called to live our lives in the face of brokenness and pain with hearts wide open and in that openness is strength hope it's where we find compassion and courage and the ability to stay awake Joanna Macy once said do not be afraid of the anguish you feel or the anger or fear for these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings if we can feel all of this we have the capacity and the ability to stay awake during these difficult times this is a piece of our power that we have witnessed in recent months people waking up to the disconnection the dehumanization the anger the rage loss fear grief waking up and saying maybe for the first time ever how can i help what can i do how do i learn more who can i talk to work with join there's an increased awareness and an uptick of action signing petitions calling legislators marching in protests talking with those friends and family members that you may have never talked to about this before staying awake getting involved this strength this action is the byproduct of hearts that have been broken broken down and broken open now as a whole let's just say it we unitarian universalists are not that good at that spiritual tenant of detachment we are not the ones to hang on to a calm acceptance of the way things are that's not us we tend to be the ones who are committed to fixing the problems we want to make things better for our communities our children our world we proclaim that people of good will working together can change the course for the better it's one of our strengths we are not generally a humble people we are a go get a make it better fix it today kind of people yet what i have seen is a growing humility a sense that things may be so broken that we can't rush to fix them we need to sit down together and sit with the brokenness we need to listen to the pain of another share our own stories we need to be able to say those so difficult words i don't know and the only thing i do know is that we are not alone in this struggle let's admit it it may not be fine and it's terrifying we may be in for a long hall here people there may be things we can't fix with humility we turn to each other and we say i don't know i'm scared and what we find our hands willing to hold ours eyes willing to face the fear with us and in that connection comes our strength together with humility we work toward this last piece the piece that brings healing and that's the work of forgiveness let's be clear on what forgiveness is not forgiveness is not about forgiven forget it's not letting another off the hook for injuries and damage that can't be repaired forgiveness is not allowing the person who harmed you to walk away with no responsibility for their actions it doesn't mean that we put ourselves in harm's way time and again and allow abuse bad behavior harm to continue it doesn't guarantee that relationships will be repaired at times the damage is too great reconciliation may not be an option forgiveness is about our own salvation our own healing transforming our relationship with what has hurt us so that it cannot continue to hurt us without it we can live the violation over and over again living in resentment and pain with no chance of release forgiveness is freedom it is the extending of compassion it is humbling it is hard work it's work that brings healing the stanford forgiveness project claims forgiveness is the feeling of peace that emerges as you take your hurt less personally when you take responsibility for how you feel and become a hero instead of a victim in the story that you tell it means that even though you are wounded you choose to hurt and suffer less forgiveness means you become a part of the solution forgiveness is the understanding that hurt is a part of life it is for you and no one else and forgiveness is for ourselves when we too are unable to live up to our values and ideals when we hurt others with our words actions or in action when the brokenness is overwhelming and we lash out in fear or anger only when we forgive when we forgive ourselves and then others can we keep our hearts open keep hold of what we cherish find the power in the brokenness and find that place of unbroken wholeness deep inside omid safi the author of our reading today said we live in an age of bluster we have presidential candidates praised for speaking their mind instead of inquiring about what is on their mind and how much wisdom and compassion is in their heart how do we preserve sanity compassion humility and empathy it's a good question especially as we move toward tuesday and then to january and then beyond how are we going to go forward as a nation as a people no matter the outcome be indivisible with no one tossed aside already vast numbers of our people are disregarded disrespected forgotten in prison or in poverty and in the past months the fabric of our community has been torn more and more perhaps beyond repair now in the 19th century our universalist forebears named their congregations all souls all souls all human souls together no one ever forgotten this faith of ours is difficult work but a faith such as this can be healing i think of the loved ones of those killed at the immanuel ame church in charleston i hear their words when they spoke to dylan roof at his court appearance and those were not words filled with anger they were filled with loss with pain with grief and they were words that offered forgiveness wanda simons granddaughter of daniel simons said although my grandfather and the other victims died at the hands of hate this is proof everyone's plea for your soul and everyone's forgiveness this is proof that these people lived in love and their legacies will live in love so hate won't win the sister of depain middleton doctor told him that was my sister and i'd like to thank you on behalf of my family for not allowing hate to win for me i'm a work in progress but one thing that depain always told us what she taught me is that we are the family that love built we have no room for hating so we forgive hate can't win when we forgive this was not a sudden change of heart for these people this was a lifetime of work a lifetime of prayer practice practicing forgiveness and the choice to love the choice to heal a lifetime of stumbling and failing and trying again a lifetime of seeing beneath the ills of racism and violence into the soul the humanity of someone who caused so much pain seeing into that soul and believing in their hearts that the holy resides in there as well these family members who have looked so much are choosing forgiveness as the path to love a brave courageous love that leaves no one behind this love shows the true healing power healing the grief and anger healing that refuses to allow this tragic loss and a building of hate to take over their lives this is our work as well this is who we are universalists who say everyone is loved and unitarians who know that we must be the ones to do the loving we are the ones here on the ground the work of love is our work if i could go back to my five-year-old self sitting in that funeral home watching my family trying to make sense of loss i would tell her this stay awake to the preciousness of each day see the joy as well as the pain feel all the feels and know that they are keeping you awake to what truly matters i would tell her that it's okay to admit when you don't know that you can't fix everything and when you feel broken reach out to those you love to help you put the pieces together again admit when you need help and learn how to accept it with gratitude and grace and i would ask her to forgive to do that work of healing by finding the compassion the light that lives in each of us to let go for her own sake and for those she loves to create a house of love where there's no room for hate i would ask her to love for its own sake to leave no one behind to love the world in all its truth and all its sorrow its cruelty and its glory for it is in this all-encompassing love that we find our own unbreakable wholeness together and we can love ourselves and this beautiful wounded imperfect world into healing i now invite you into the giving and receiving of the morning's offering you'll see in your order of service that this outreach offering is shared with dry hooch you can find out more about their good work in the order of service also the table in the commons after service and we thank you for your generosity if you will rise now and body your spirit for our closing hymn number 100 these words are from rabbi rami Shapiro we are loved by an unending love we are embraced by arms that find us even when we are hidden from ourselves we are touched by fingers that soothe us even when we are too proud for soothing we are counseled by voices that guide us even when we are too embittered to hear we are supported by hands that uplift us even in the midst of a fall we are urged on by eyes that meet us even when we are too weak for meeting we are loved by an unending love embrace touched soothed counseled ours are the arms the fingers the voices ours are the hands the eyes the smiles we are loved by an unending love may we work to make it so blessed be and go in peace


Titanic was the world's largest passenger liner at its launch in 1911 from Belfast, Northern Ireland. More than 2,000 people were on board and the ship was fitted with such modern luxuries as electric lights. It began its maiden voyage from Southampton, England on the 10th of April, 1912, under the command of Captain Edward Smith and bound for New York in the United States. There were also two Marconi radios that transmitted messages for passengers. The radios were manned by Jack Phillips and Harold Bride. Marconi operators used the Distress Signal CQD. This was sent by Phillips after Titanic hit an iceberg on the 14th of April. However, the Distress Signal SOS had been agreed at the 1906 International Radio Telegraph Conference of ITU, after a while Bride suggested that Phillips should try that signal too. But the radio operator on the nearest ship, the Californian, had gone to bed and never heard the signals. Titanic sank in the early hours of the 15th of April, 1912. Two-thirds of those on board died, including Captain Smith and Jack Phillips. Harold Bride survived and was taken to New York, where he was greeted by Marconi himself. As well as standard emergency signals, the tragedy highlighted the importance of 24-hour operation of radios. This rule was established a few months later at ITU's 1912 International Radio Telegraph Conference, and ships were told to maintain radio silence at specific times to listen for distress calls.


So you want to bake a 3D model onto a displacement map. Not a problem. First get your 3D object and go to the wrench. And apply multi resolution. Subdivide it until you're happy and then you can do all the sculpting you want, but I'm just gonna make an amoeba. Then when you're done drag two windows. Set one to UV and the other to shader. Now on the left go to edit mode and make sure the object is UV'd. When you do this you'll see the object's true form. And it definitely looks like it's mapped out so we're good. Then go to new, name your map and set the size to 4k. Then go to shader, new, shift a, s, image and find the map you created above. Then shift a, s, bump, drag image to height and normal into normal. Go back to object mode and if you used any modifiers apply them. Then set preview to zero, go to your camera, set to cycles and experimental. Bake and check bake from multi res. And bake type from displacement. Bake, you're done. Congratulations. Now you can apply this displacement map to any other object. Hope that helps. Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video please don't forget to like, subscribe and ring that bell. Hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Programme director and managing editor of Data Fight, Adene Kealoba in an interview on PLOS Politics says there is some form of disconnect between online campaigns and the actions taken about 2023 elections. Emphasis was also made on the need for voter education and questioning certain electoral laws, particularly so. I think that if we can rethink our strategies in terms of engagement with people, in terms of engagement with citizens, in terms of how we present those conversations, in terms of how we help them to understand what is critical, perhaps we can still turn the tide because clearly there is some disconnect between all of the all of the campaigning and all of the advocacy that is happening right now and the actual actions. We need to find what that missing ingredient is. There have been conversations that this is important voter education, literally telling people this is why you must vote, this is how to vote, this is where to do the vote, these are the security issues that may happen and this is how to protect yourself. These are all theories that I think is worth pursuing for civic space actors if we're actually going to this fervor, especially on social media, we're going to see this energy translating to something tangible in 2023. Our choice in 2023 is not likely to turn things around to 300. I mean 90 degrees is a high estimation. So that is why our campaign needs to carry a more long-term focused message to say that guys get your PVC but get involved, get your PVC but join a political party, get a PVC or start a political party if you can afford it and we need to design campaigns that is not just looking like at the activities of 2023 elections but beginning to query election laws and how it is upheld. There's one reality that makes it challenging for people to join political parties, to start political parties, to be actively political and that's the money factor, the finance. Who is looking at the financing of political parties and how can we begin to mount campaigns to ensure that beyond 2023 we can actually have a system that checkmates these practices, that creates guardrails that allows for increased access and increased participation because I feel, and this is a personal opinion now, I feel that if we don't turn down the favor of 2023 might be Dukems Day, we may be, that action, that language may be counterproductive, driving fear much more than it will drive participation.