Thanks everyone for coming to our talk. I hope you know what it's about. We just found out now that we finished the slides. So we're gonna be talking about our work with the tag app delivery. So maybe put up the next slides and we can just introduce ourselves really quickly. My name is Lian, I'm a tech lead with the tag. Thomas? Oh yeah, you have just a mic. I need a microphone. My name is Thomas, I'm a co-chair of the tag app delivery. Right, I think right before we get started, just really quickly, like we're trying, like this is supposed to be something fun and more conversational, so we will probably be sitting down soon because it's been already quite a long week. But yeah, we're just, it's not gonna be super technical, it's not gonna be super serious, it's gonna be a lot of memes and a lot of just talking about things and if you have any questions, you can raise your hand and we will probably just be taking questions during the talk because again, it's not gonna be, you're probably not gonna learn a whole lot about Kubernetes in this one. So yeah. And I think you have a stand-up comedy session today, right? Yes, I have a stand-up comedy session today later in Paris, so if you like my jokes, you can come by later. Just talk to me later after this. And if you don't like my jokes, it's absolutely no problem, I won't be there. So, let's start with a very simple exercise. So some of you might know I'm a teacher also and sometimes I do some quizzes and so on. And therefore, let's start with a simple thing. And then I'll just also say that everyone who just picked up their phone and never asked what the QR code is for, you talked about it with your compliance officers and the security people. Because, you know. You are all owned. Okay, so I hope every one of you, yes, scan the code. So let's start, oh, sorry. Yes, the first thing, have you heard about tech app delivery? You were reading about it in the session description. Excellent. That's a good start, so you know everything you, can simply leave.  Okay, so I think this was what we expected, right? Like three quarters. Actually, this is more than I thought. Yeah, which is good, because that means you have the right audience for us to give this talk. Otherwise, we'd just talk to ourselves. It's been a big sense for us to be here. Absolutely. Thanks for coming anyway, so. Okay, and the next question is a more sophisticated one, so even if you don't know what the tech does, what do you think it does? I think memes. Okay, the talk is over. The question has been answered, we can go. App delivery. That's good, yes. It's very different vibes on this slide. There's dance, for some reason. Okay, I need someone to explain to me what dance. Why dance? I think this could be a topic for the next, yes. Maintain a track talk, right? What's siya, siya, siya, chiya, chiya, siya. Oh, the dance, oh, we're giving the wrong talk here. Okay, cool, but there's a lot of, obviously, app delivery, delivering apps, rapid app dev, totally accurate grouping. Okay, that's good. Push and pray, naming stuff. Software delivery, chaos delivery, security, or not, as we just learned. Tag stuff. Saufen, okay, there's some German, so yeah. Okay, so sounds pretty nice. Pretty accurate. Okay, so yes, and now I'm curious, so yes, I think I'm sharing this tag for five months, but I was always afraid to ask, what does our tag? What is a tag? I don't, you're asking the wrong person, really. So I mean, I think it really depends on the tag itself. Also, a lot of it is kind of like what the people who are in the tag are good at. With our tag, basically, we bring together the projects, so the CNCF projects, users, and vendors to talk about things, mainly standards, best practices, anything that people would be interested in. I think we have a slide for that. Yes, so instead of you being in your own room and just figuring out everything by yourself, you could join our community and you can find like-minded people to work on things. And we have a couple of working groups who work on very specific topics, like for example, Artifacts, we had the GitOps working group who just recently moved out to merge with OpenGitOps. We had an operator working group and we have the Platforms working group. I think you can go to the next slide for that. Okay, yes, so and is it always clear what we are about? Does it seem like we're clear on what we're doing? Does it seem like we're very competent? This is also voluntary, right? We're not getting paid for this, which explains why we're so well-prepared. But the scope of a tag can, usually it's set by the charter, so every tag has its own charter. It will explain what we do and what we focus on. For us, it is anything related to app delivery, so that includes building, delivering, obviously, but also deploying, but also security as it relates to the software supply chain, for example, is there anything really that has to do with getting code from your computer to not somewhere, someone else's computer possibly? So it's also about lorries. It can be if you want to, if you wish for it. Okay, so now I'm a bit more wise. Yeah, so we wanted to show you a little bit about what we were talking about in the last 12 months. So you know about the structure of it. We have meetings, that's too early. We have meetings every two weeks, like general meetings, and we talk about projects will come to us and present themselves, or we talk about very general topics. Then we have the working groups, which also meet separately from the tag. And yeah, we just wanted to tell you what are the topics that we've been discussing in the last 12 months. Now you can go. Yes, and we have our platform working group, and this is very, very, very, very active. And yes, as you see here, they are always trying to evaluate what platform engineers are doing and so on. But I was curious, I heard about evaluations, I saw something at the booth today, and can someone of you tell me what this was all about? Where the hell is Colin? Ah, here he is. Oh look, it is the platform's working group chair, Colin. Everyone please give Colin like the biggest applause. This newly, just before Pupcon, we made him chair. Yeah, so this is like, what is it? Yeah, my first thing, yeah, punish me. Oh, it's Abby, the other platform's working group chair. Ah, thanks so much for coming. She's better. But she doesn't have a voice, so in this case you have to take over. So repeat the question. I don't know, Thomas, what are you saying? Oh, can you tell us what it's all about? So the platform working group is all about what tool systems processes, people needs, all the expansive things, and how we bring those together to help app dev actually do their jobs effectively. Recently, any cool things you recently have worked on that you wanna share? We've got the platform maturity model, which continues to improve. We have a platform's white paper, which is awesome, but we have tons of artifacts, and the coolest part about the group in general is that we get people from all levels of delivery, including AI focused people, we have API focused people, we have developers, we have operators, we have product owners, all kinds of people that come in and collaborate. I think the most exciting thing is the meetings, so please come to the meetings. We do kind of morning coffee ops things. There's one tomorrow at Le Ballon. I don't know how to say that. I hope I said that correct down the street. But we've got all kinds of fun things that we're working on there. Is the breakfast free for everyone? Like, everyone is allowed to get in? Yeah. Okay, and it's 7 a.m. or something? 7.15. 7.15. That's why it's free for everyone, because no one's gonna show up. Okay, but I see you're doing great work there. It looks really fun. Both, either, yeah, just like. At least the entrance, so. Yes, well, I guess food is until it's gone. So, yeah, you better be early. So, what if you want to join the platform working group? I think they are really the most active working group. They're the most popular ones, for sure. And we always head in the tech at the delivery itself. They are pretty funny kinds of people, so I think you came from the platform's working group? Yes, me too. I was helping with the white paper. And after some time, you can also join us making jokes here, right? This is your chance to be on stage. Yes. Yes, but the platform working groups are also dealing with challenges. What does this mean about? It's a video, and the challenge is to get it to play, apparently. Oh, yeah. I remember, this was about multi-tenancy being a big issue, actually, that a lot of the platform tools that, actually, this is about the other platform tools that we were looking at. And multi-tenancy was a big issue that a lot of them were trying to tackle. Next slide, please. Oh, we can watch it again. The other thing is security. We had a lot of projects that were introducing some interesting solutions around governance and compliance and security, which is interesting because you would think that app delivery is very specific, and that's kind of what this talk is about. If you think about app delivery, you probably think about CI CD first, but there's so much more that goes into it that also touches on other tags, like security or runtime. And sometimes you were asking, because your question was like, what's the scope? Sometimes you were like, why are you here? Why are you not at runtime? But it just, there's such a big overlap, so it makes sense that they would also come to us. Okay, so yes, during all of this time, we are also talking about a lot of projects. So when projects want to join the sandbox, also want to incubate or want to graduate, they come to us and present in our tag meetings. Usually they ask for feedback from the community, but also the TOC will ask for our feedback and recommendation on the maturity of the projects, especially when they're not supposed to go to graduation, they want to know like, does it hold up or not? But this is also just a selection, like there were a lot more projects that came to us. And sometimes there is no logo, so I found none, therefore, they are not there. Yeah, so if you are working on an open source project that is, is a CNCF project, or you have submitted to Sandbox, you're welcome to present it in our meeting, collect some feedback. Maybe if people are super interested, you can even create a working group around it. Yeah, it's community work, so you just have to do it and then hope that you create enough momentum and people want to join you. Yes, so yes, we are already talking more about the maturity model. I think Colin already told us about this, right? Sorry? Colin, you already told us about the maturity model. Okay, perfect. This was unplanned. So in the last 12 months at the tag, we had lots of topics and hopefully lots of time. We re... So we created our website, right? Yeah, we had a website, I streamlined it a little bit, so it would be easier for people to actually contribute to the website. That was a bit of a pain. There are a lot of the work that I did, especially at the beginning when I joined as a tag lead, was to streamline it for people to work with us, to contribute with us, because a lot of times people hear about the tag and this was the same for me when I started. I knew one of the tag leads and I was like, I would be really interested to start working with you, but I don't know how. And what he said was, well, join the Slack channel. And that was it. And then I never spoke to him again for like three months. So it was actually quite difficult. And then I just picked stuff up that I found like, oh, you know, like if we improve the website, it could be easier for people to find a place where they can contribute. And that's how I got started. And then you saw that I've been quite active also in the platform for a group, but also doing other things.  But that doesn't scale, obviously. We can't just like walking around and just ask every single person at KubeCon like, hey, do you wanna work with us? So yeah, we try and push out information and make it easier for people to join us. But you get this blindness after some time. Like you're just very used to what you see.  So it is very, very helpful for us also if you can give us feedback on like, I really wanted to help, but I just didn't know how because I was missing this kind of information. Like, yeah, everything is really helpful here. Yeah, so we also talked about lots of working groups. So we established an artifact working group, I think, but there's nobody here from the artifact working group, right? No, okay. So they're also talking about getting things into OCI registries and so on. And so they are in the intersection between CNCF and OCI, to be honest. We also had the discussions about the second version of an operator-wide paper. So if someone would like to participate in such a topic, I would all still be interested, but it lacks kind of traction. That's where you got started, right? You started with OCI. Yes, so for me, I started writing the operator-wide paper, I think it was four years ago. And this was my first step into the tech. Yes, we also partnered shortly with the CDF regarding CDF events and how to get them in application delivery. Yes, and the things we also already discussed for the platform second group. Wait, can you hold this slide for a second? Well, I just wanna point out the language support part because that was really amazing that just the, after we got streamlined the website a bit and Abby did a lot of work to get people to contribute blog posts, and I think you could really see that there was some motion and then people started to suggest language support. So we have like, I think we have a Chinese version now, there's a Korean version, a Brazilian version, Japanese, Italian, French, and those. So if you speak any other language and you wanna translate a website, again, you're welcome. We try to make it as easy as possible. We do ask that at least one other person who speaks the language will review it because obviously we don't all speak those languages and we wanna make sure that things are fairly accurate and there's no whatever weirdness on it. But I'm really happy that that just happened. We didn't have to suggest it or push it ourselves. It was just out of the need of it that community members just stepped up and did it. For me, this was a hard time reviewing pull requests because I didn't understand them. I didn't see you review any pull requests in that time, to be honest. That's right. Yeah. So another question we are dealing with all of the time. Many of us have CI, we have GitOps, and yes, we have such things as infrastructure as code. So I think we have all we need for app delivery, right? No, I don't think so. So sometimes we forget something. And yes, that's what we are all excited about all of the time. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of the point of the whole thing is what's our scope? What are things that are very obvious with app delivery and what are things that are not super obvious with app delivery? And since we have been talking about the Titanic thing, I'm getting it now. Right on the stage, I'm getting now the reference of Titanic because the whole point is that we wanted to talk about the iceberg. Yes, this was the iceberg. Yeah, I just got it. I just got it. It was very good. So you know the idea of the iceberg is that there's stuff on top that you can see and there's a lot more down below the water line that you can't. And while we were working on stuff and we were discussing the scope of the tag, we realized there's so many things that just you wouldn't think are app delivery. And I felt like that is very important for people to know. So they stopped bothering us and like go somewhere else. But we tried to kind of like for fun and also to give a talk at KubeCon, develop this like iceberg model where we could see what are the things that you wouldn't think is app delivery but it kind of is. And I mean, I don't know, were you planning on reading all of this or should we just put it there and let people read it? No, I only copied your stuff. Okay, good. I already read it. Notice how only the topics we had this year in all of these topic areas. So we identified some kind of sections we have at the moment. So such as artifacts, then CI and delivery which is more or less the main part of the get delivery to be honest. Then we have platforms which came in the last few years and we have such things as infrastructure provision. So just a quick question. Have you been conducting platform interviews so far? Do you work in group? Sorry. Please yell, Abby. That's quite helpful in my voice. We are still collecting a lot more names of people who want to participate. There's a QR code in the tag booth but there have been a handful of interviews and it's really proving out that the frameworks looks like it's providing a lot of value already which is awesome. Yeah, this is great. One of the things that also worked very intensely on obviously was like our presence here at KubeCon what we're gonna do, how we're gonna use our time because we get half a booth for the three days. So half of the day we get one booth, not half a booth. So one of the things that the platform's working group has been doing is conducting interviews with people or preparing to conduct interviews about the usefulness of the maturity model. And we also have a bunch of lighting talks there. I guess I think we have a slide for this later. Yes, and as we said before there are many things which are under the water. Waterline, yeah. Waterline. We don't see when we are doing application delivery. They might be also important but at the beginning we never thought of them, right? Yeah, they deliver app development. Such as app development or such things as runtime reliability. So when we are talking about operating systems and so on, I think sometimes it might make sense to make them reliable. Also about such governance thing and so on. Yeah, sometimes it's also just a question of who can take the topic on. Like if something's between us and runtime, for example, it's like, well, who has the space to manage a working group right now? So it's not always like a logical decision that sometimes it's like kind of political or operational. Yes. Yes, and so we are asking ourselves is app delivery eating the world? So it seems like we are- It seems like we are- We're doing everything now. Yes, the answer is yes. We are getting a big blue monster, yes. Yeah, I mean, one of the things that we notice is that app development and app delivery are definitely moving closer together. There's all this, you know, the whole idea of DevOps bringing basically removing the wall of confusion or the wall of isolation. Bringing them closer together, making app developers care about how things are delivered and how things are running and operating. That has shifted kind of like what app delivery actually means. At least for some people, it is. Not you. We are, yes. We are also overlapping with many other topics such as architecture governance and reliability. As I said before, so. Yes, and at some point in time we saw some, we got some requests regarding working groups, regarding some projects and so on. And yes, I'm sweating still and. This is a long discussion. We had that discussion for like almost a year. I think a long time, it felt like a year. Whether app development is actually part of app delivery or not, which I mean, can I just get a show of, who thinks app development is part of app delivery? Okay, I'm not gonna say the next thing that I was gonna say. Okay. That's surprising to me. I'm sorry for those people who raised their hands. But I'm proud to announce that today we discussed and decided to build a working group for app development. The funny thing about this tag is, at the moment we don't have a charter. So we are trying to get the working group out of established by the practitioners and by the people who need the things and who knows what they are doing because initially app delivery was not established for developers. So it's better to let developers decide what they need and deciding on what they want to work for. Just quickly, can you show me your hand again when the people who thought app development is part of app delivery? Okay, so you all are also volunteering for this, right? Yes, excellent. Okay, then. Can you see this? Can the code? Yes, sorry, that was a question. The correct answer, I mean, I don't think we have a correct answer. Trust me, yes. It is very philosophical at this point. I mean, when we first discussed it, the TOC first saw it with us. They said all the tags, obviously, again, it was more of an operational and practical decision, which was that we don't wanna establish a new tag just for app development. This is part of, it's closest to what app delivery does. But then after a lot of discussions, now they're saying, well, actually, it seems like there will be much more interest and we just really can't fit it into our charter. It doesn't really align with our scope no matter how you cut it. Yes. So I hope we solved this problem in some months. But the next question, I would have now is, do you see any areas, except the ones we had on the ISPEC model or on the ISPEC model, we should focus on. And this would be the next question on our slide or session here. You are allowed to scan this QR code now. This is a safe QR code to scan. Sure. Only one way to find out. Yeah, we would definitely be interested, like what topics you are interested in. We definitely want to make the tag work for the community and especially for people who are not in the community yet because we always want more people to join and want diverse opinions and perspectives. So. Looks good. So it seems like we should focus on app delivery. Back to the roots, right? It does make sense. It does somehow make sense. And there's, there's nothing for APIs or we have to scroll down. That's 10% for APIs. Yeah, so it's definitely interesting for us to get an idea of what we should, what we could do next. I think it's interesting because the topics that we have are usually just dictated or not dictated, but it's by the projects who come to us who want to introduce themselves. And it's not often that community members suggest a topic of discussion. So this is interesting for us to see that what the actual interest of you all are in this room. And I think I have one last question. Yes, that was a question. I saw that you've published some results of questions like this and it would be kind of interesting to know what types of people they are that are asking for this. Like if there's 80% wanting this or that, then it's kind of really interesting to know what are they doing in their work because otherwise the whole, it's very, very biased. Yes, that's a good point. Go ahead. So yes, I also tried to find what topics we should deal with in the tech. I think three pieces of the KubeCon Talks beer, more memes. More memes, yeah, I'm done with that. I think we need more fun. Okay. Um. Good, with this I think this. Yeah, so if you wanna talk more to us so we have a booth as I said, it's not now because it's afternoon now but tomorrow we have the booth for two and a half more hours I think from 10 to 12 30 or something like that. So you can scan the QR code and find out a bit more about our plans here. Yeah, please join our Black Channel for sure. Join the Slack Channel of the working groups that you're interested in. If you want to, you can join the meetings as well. We're always really happy when more people join and again, we would really like some more diverse opinions especially people who maybe are not that involved with tech like with app delivery yet but would like to learn more and just wanna give kind of a little bit of feedback what they find is missing. And yes, another thing. So it always seems to be non-technical what we're doing. Sometimes there are technical things but we are always happy to see new faces in our meetings and new people joining the working group or working groups or the tech itself. As you see, sometimes it can be fun, the topics. So I liked working on the operator while people I learned a lot throughout this time. And I think this is a pretty cool possibility to learn new things even if you are not really really into a topic. So- And it's not that hard to become a tech lead or a chair at the moment because we really like need a lot of people to help out. So- Yes, you see I'm there. Yeah, exactly. You didn't do anything up until two minutes ago. So it wasn't that hard. But yeah, if you wanna get involved with the CNCF a little bit, but you don't wanna commit too much like this is a good way to just like see is there anything I can help with even if it's just like fixing a spelling error on the website, like anything really helps. Do we have one more slide? I think so. But last but not least, if you are interested in the app development working group, feel free to join them. It's your chance to get into the work of CNCF. It's even easier to become a chair there because they don't have to have a charter at the moment. We have lots of people now. So- Oh really? Yes, so- That happened in the last two hours. I think before I saw 55 people here in the room. So it will get hard to get a chair there. So last but not least, what we wanted to ask was- Sorry, who wrote Brutermus los? Sorry? Someone wrote Brutermus los. Yeah. The last thing I wanted to ask is how likely it is that you would like to join the tech. So please close the door. And yes, if you are on the right side of the diagram or diagram, that would be- Bar chart. Bar chart is. Then I think the next meeting is in Wednesday. Wednesday in two weeks, because we just had a meeting this week. There should be, yeah. At least 50 people is. Yeah. And your friends and your grandparents. Yes. And if you're on this side of the slide, I would like to know why you're not as interested.  I would really like to know after this amazing talk. Yeah. Okay. And with this, I think this was our last slide. I don't know. Yes, you know. Seems so. Good. So with this, thank you for listening to all of the funny stuff we are talking about. Thanks. Thanks for staying. Thank you.


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No, I gotcha.  You need some Corbin. I'm ready for some Instagram or Twitter Thank you for this on patreon following fish. I'm sure you're coming available for a notification squad It's so juicy Today we're doing a movie review You know what I should have done watch the movie. Yep. Oh, well, I'll wing it. What are you gonna do? I'll wing it as always. I'll say about this film.  The director should There was no piano. Okay, good We watched Street which it was a long time coming. We there's one of the really early Films who reacted to I feel like it was it was like we didn't know who Rajkumar for sure was when we hadn't we didn't know anybody was in this Yeah, and I think it was probably and it wasn't a very good trailer I remember not understanding because I don't remember it at all I don't I remember go go a gun which we watched at the same time. I think it was them in the temple and They were they were all scared. They were and they were blah But we didn't understand. I think all I remember was saying what I would typically say Let me know if this has demonic stuff because if it does I'm not interested and then when we found it It was okay. We're like, maybe we'll watch it in October when it's close to Halloween But it was last spring. I think yeah, yeah, so it's been a long coming guys. Sorry It was good we waited I think it gave us a great appreciation Well, yeah, since we've seen more of Rajkumar Rao yeah in stuff like that, but it won't read the synopsis for me I do People get scared by a lady who floats with ugly feet. Just kidding. That was my synopsis. That's true In the small town of Chanderie the men folk you don't hear that word very on and folk. Yeah, that's a I don't know, you know, I like Los Angeles. I'm just not particularly fond of the men folk. That's a fact Yeah, the men folk live in fear of an evil spirit named stream who abducts men in the night Well, I don't know why that would scare you because for a lot of men. It's a fantasy based on the urban legend of Nate Bob that went viral in Karnataka. Yes in the 1990s stream means woman It does. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Pretty sure. All right.  I believe unless I'm incorrect. That's what it means right street woman. Yeah, I believe it Anyways, I've been wrong before Like in the the song we did the other day with the promo I said yo, yo, honey sing was the movie and that's the rapper. Yes, but hey, you know what's great about that You're committed man. Well, I would like Lagana is a true story. That's a fact. I Read it on the internet anyways 100% spoiler review. Yeah, so just go watch it and come back the only time by the way We will never do a spoiler review technically. Well, we will at the end If it's a new release if it's like in theaters We'll give you the first half our opinion to not spoil it and then we're gonna talk about it for those who've seen it We can get in depth. So this is straight out the gate gonna be Rotten as old meat Initial thoughts Rick. I Almost did what I've done before RSQPT.  I do too. They say Corbin's right. Mm-hmm. I am when I like something. They love me Mm-hmm. Yes, so what are they gonna be this time? They're gonna love me. Okay good So you liked it though, I thought this was a lot of fun. Yeah, that's right. That's the word I came out of it Yeah, like that was fun so much fun now not like fun like a different ones It's a different kind of fun from the other like romantic comedies fun Because there wasn't any Bollywood numbers in this there was some absolutely and there was some songs Yeah, but not really some like big Bollywood numbers not at all. This was actually a very different genre then They do anymore anywhere anywhere. I wish they did more of them. My wife said it was like what? Good call Yeah, very very good cause I was trying it while we were watching because originally I was like it's a comedy This is more of a Horror not really a horror. It's a scary movie. Yeah That has a few jump scares. It's not really that scary No, and then it is it's not the little kids would be terrified I think it's they wanted to make a film that was kind of almost making fun of horror a little bit But not a scary movie. No, but then with some dry Humor in it. Yes, because it's not like it's not like Jelly Belly where there's Busting your gut. No laughing just more of like a little quips like the person says what do you say? I'm seventy percent hurt or like I'm only seventy percent effective right now. Yeah, I'm just completely like a straight face Yes, or the consistently Trip of the saying I know everything Yeah, and so I I like it because I couldn't think of what like a similarity because like There's some ones like there's one with the director No, Sanjali once of the Nazi one this year though. Oh, oh Take what you take of a deep his film called what we do in the shadows. It's a Dark mockumentary comedy. Yeah And so they're taking everything seriously and it's just like this And so it's not like your plans for the joke you're saying this and they're saying this all in seriousness, but you know It's ridiculous, right But that one's a little even more heightened to comedy than this But that's the closest I could have come to because like zombie lands more it has funny funny stuff Which I haven't said yeah, and so but it's you know, it's on no, and it's not like It's really not like anything else. So that's a great. That's a great example If you haven't seen ghost and mission fiction more private eyes, you're like me But they're classic all any of Don Knot's old stuff Which really carries the torch from Abed and Costello movies where Abed and Costello meet the werewolf, you know, those are the It's but yeah, I it's own thing. I really enjoyed that aspect of it. I it's a I It don't there's only a two parts where the subtitles went a little fast at the beginning with Raj Kamar's character Absolutely, just too quick to follow. Yeah, but we could talk about him. I He's a phenomenal actor We've only seen him in a few things and we're gonna we need to explore more because I don't even think we've seen his best stuff I agree, but they're all so different. Mm-hmm, which is what I love me to because if we would have saw this first I was like, that's a weird actor. I would have thought that's who you was me too I would have categorized in as the guy you cast to be in this kind of cannery nerdy Porky uh-huh and stuff. It's stuff like that. But then you see him in Newton You'd be like whoa, and then you see what he wasn't gang gangs, right? And what and so there's he's such a really good actor because this could have been played really poorly very Every role. Yes, every role could have been done This movie could have been trash The translation of this from script to screen was depended upon the direction and the cast in a way that and the way they Not a lot of films are this dependent on it and the way they played the comedy too Yes, because if they would have played to the jokes, it would have been bad No, and that's kudos to the direction because that was that was somebody Who had a very clean grasp on what this movie was supposed to be and communicated it to everybody I think from table read To wrap This was everybody was clear on what kind of a movie we're made. You're not trying to be funny here We're being serious in this moment. This is who your character is right the joke will come with the audience knowing it Exactly So it's you just have to know that as the actor and it's difficult sometimes for the actor to just give that up Because they're like, oh, I want to be funny here.  Yeah, they pulled it off here I also want to talk with the main lead. She'd actually didn't have a ton of acting to do No, no, you know where we've seen her before. Yeah, we've seen her in um Heather sorry But she did really really well. I thought her character Was really cool and I'd like to talk about it In your theories and and all that kind of stuff But I think the what what she was given she did really really well I thought everybody was well cast the two friends. Yeah, the quirky weird friends. I thought were perfectly casted and Say his name for me. Oh, I I always just referred to him as trippity But uh punk college, I believe is how you pronounce his first name. We've we've seen him a lot He is brilliant. He's always It's fantastic I was excited that I knew he was in this going in To see this new notch in his belt of his capacity with comedy I love this guy. What is it? Yeah, I want us because we've we've loved him in Newton Obviously, we we sung his praises and new and he was in gangs and in gangs I want to see like him and his at his oh, we saw him in Sacred eggs. That's not for the gums who did amazing. Yeah. Um, he's he's one of my favorite He'd be after this. I would put him Well into my top male and female Top 10 actors in india that we have seen I like Does he is he usually the the supporting character because there are actors like paul betty Like he'd be equivalent to a guy who like paul betty who always brings an amazing Exactly. It's like you want you want to roll filled with an anchor that's going to just carry But he's not usually think he does sometimes not usually the lead in the film Yeah, uh, so I'd like to know his best performance because I would like to explore him more because I think he his character was so weird and corky. Oh, man different So good and so um, could have so like every other thing in this film this character could have been um unlikable An arrogant but because he's um unaware of his arrogance. It makes him likeable His I know everything he means that He means it every time he says it, but he knows deep down. He's that's not true That's very hard to do without coming across like you're performing Or going too overkill and you become this it's just every role in this was so well directed This must have been a lot of fun to film Yeah, uh a lot of fun to a lot of the scenes especially the most the funniest parts of film was at the very end And I was laughing pretty pretty hard I loved The whole moment when he's realizing in his mind that he's gonna have to have sex with street And then when he starts taking his clothes off for she keeps yelling and he's like, okay, I'll take off more Uh, and I thought it was also quite endearing That you know the whole sub story of that maybe she's actually not bad and she's looking for her true love I love that twist of Maybe the reason she's haunting isn't because she's bad Maybe she's haunting because she's just looking for the love that she lost Do you know who she was? Who Stree was philosophically and metaphorically or like who she was like who she was in the story It was her the whole time who? No Yes, why do you think she disappeared on the bus? How was how did she stab Stree in the back with the dagger then? Can't she be in two places at once? No, why not? She's not Stree She took the the hair at the end and she she wanted to become Stree I think she's been trying to be we don't know who she is and also exciting news They're coming up the sequel and possibly a trilogy this might be Sequels definitely saw I heard I did do some research and they said it's possibly a like a trilogy But there's definitely a sequel in the works that's coming out I don't know if it comes out this year, but it's it's coming out soon. So that's exciting Um, so we will figure out like the very end what happened Okay, uh Stree in my opinion was his mother Ew Yeah, that's why he kept yelling at her when he was trying to have sex with her She kept But also And he knew it No, no, he didn't know that he did he does not know that but if you every time they are doing her head move Every time they showed His mother the the prostitute right and as and is that why Stree wouldn't have sex with her? But also that's why she found love and respect in his eyes Ah, but also the main thing I'm buying this the main thing is every time they showed his mother In his house in the picture When Stree's uh Hood got blown back. She was wearing the exact I don't know what they're called But she had something in here and then she had the exact same earrings as Stree as oh wow You were paying closer attention than I was right. That's that's the theory, right? Was this your theory? No, no, I had this I had this before but she okay, so I think she usually catches it automatically So it's not like I gave that to her. Okay, so what's the relationship between his mom and and uh, Shrata Kapoor That's that's the that's the thing because I thought that the end reveals that the whole time Stree has been a manifestation of Shrata. No, I think she wanted to be because also, you know in uh, What's his face uh trepathy, uh, huh his book? I thought She she tore out the pages she tore out the pages because she's been looking for years at the how to become Stree or get this power because I think maybe she Shree Took one of like her her love or something like that somebody she cared about maybe her father. I don't know who um, that's that's my theory is that uh, so she was trying to get revenge on Stree and so she figured out that, um Raj Kumar was the uh, was the son that's the chosen chosen now Uh And all that and so she employed him and kind of now you're making me want to watch it again. No, I like this theory Yeah, it's good stuff. I do if that's not the theory. That's what it should have been because that's way more interesting Yeah, um, and so I'm looking forward to the next one to see what they do with her character Also, I don't know if even Raj Kumar would be in it Uh, or if they would kind of just move on to different people in countering Stree and her trying to Also because they didn't kill Stree. No, she's there at the end looking at the monument they made for yeah, so her hair grew back. I guess Can a ghost hair grow back? Why not? I don't know. I think so. Do you know that? What was your theory? Yeah, you always have theories. I think what supports your theory is the fact that she won't be She doesn't abduct him and take off all his clothes. No, she won't consummate anything with him Yep So every time like he was when he was taking it off his pants.  Yeah, so any time any time you took off his clothes She's like stop. I don't want you that way. They were saying she wanted to find respect and love right and she found that in her son So she was she wasn't looking for a lover. She was looking for her son the whole time I don't know if that's what she was looking for but she found that in his eyes She reminds me of peter gabriel song in your eyes In your eye the light, the heat, your eye, I am completely, that song actually fits for screams So look this was his mother right here right Right kind of creepy looking in the picture Wait a minute. Yeah And she actually had the uh on one picture you could see her earrings. I don't know if you came here Um, did you come up with the theory? Did you find it online? No, no, I came like I told her right at the end of it. Yeah I was like I was because you I I looked at the picture and then uh You went to her thing got blown back and you could see that it was the earrings that gave it away for me No, yeah This is this is highly plausible for me. Uh liking this a lot, but yeah, I don't know Well, yes Right She can't protect anybody From the new street Yeah, so that would be the sequel scarier because there's two of them now and Also was three ever protecting The only one she protected Was her son. Yeah, because she never abducted him. Yeah, even when he was alone. Yeah But is that because he inadvertently did some of the things that Tripathi was saying you can do to avoid street? No, he never took out the shoes And she also uh, she never went in Good point.  We don't want to see your nasty feet moms Look up when the uh this sequel is coming in Um, but okay. We haven't even talked about something. What this is supposedly based on true events At least folklore. I think it's like folklore.  I freaking love what I said. Um, so it looks like it said street too hung and definitely do Do fight between makers Raj Kumar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor pair up for another film. Okay, so they're doing another film together Which I would really like to see more of her work. She's in this in this Totally believable as somebody that Raj Kumar Rao's character would become enamored with She's very pretty girl. I felt she was very relaxed and natural Um, I would really like to see a stretch for her. We've only seen her in two things. Yeah, uh, but it's my understanding. She has quite High standing in the industry in India. Yeah Um, so and definitely do a fight between the makers. I wonder what that's about Yeah, I don't know that would be disappointing because I would love a sequel because I would love some Uh answers. Yeah, I would love to see a sequel of this. Um, but so you can let us know if there's more info about that Please, uh, let us know what Raj Kumar Rao. I think honestly, I think it should be trapped You remember trapped. I do you know, it was Raj Kumar Rao. Yeah, I know I know I know that's one that people have been raving and yelling at us for him for him Yeah, absolutely to watch. Um Which I was interested in watching it anyway. Yeah, um, and her as well, obviously But yeah, obviously we loved it. Let us know what you thought.  I don't know what you think What do you think of his theory Mike? Oh, that's right. Yeah, I don't need to know. I don't need your valid No, I just want to he's not gonna look I want to know what you think


I was born with amyloid doses. It attacks an organ. I mean, there's a better phrase for it, I guess, than that. And it destroys that organ, and the organ it attacked in my body was my heart. The wait for the heart was just over three months. On October 26th, 2013, I was in my room, and I had been there for three months, as they say, about three months in. And Dr. Feller called, and she said, Mr. Clues, we found you a heart. I was told the heart usually comes with a five to 600-mile radius. But it was going on too long, and my heart was deteriorating too badly. So they got a call from Florida, a young man. I don't know who he was, and I'll always be grateful to that family. The phlebotomist.  And I am so sorry I don't remember his name, but he would draw blood, and we would talk, and he was just the nicest guy. And he started, every day, every morning, he walked past a fruit and vegetable scene. And he started picking up fruit, bringing it in to me. I, during all that time, I was blessed with people just beyond the staff taking care of me. I don't know how it would have gone at any other hospital. I know that being at the University of Maryland made it, turned it from being what could have been the worst experience of my life, to the best experience of my life, in terms of my health. I mean, I was in the hospital for six months. I don't have bad memories. And I don't have bad memories of that because of the quality of care I got, the kind of people I was surrounded with, the nursing staff who just doted on me. It was like I was one of their sons. Dr. Feller, who just made sure every aspect of it was right, was right.  I started to write the book because people kept saying to me, you're a writer, aren't you gonna write a book about that experience? And so finally I was convinced I should. I am a writer and I should write a book about an unusual experience in my own life. There's nothing funny about a heart transplant. It was not a pleasant experience in the sense that it was painful. I was in the hospital for a long time. The transplant itself caused pain. The recovery was painful. I'm a humorist and I write comedy, so the only way I could write this book was to write it funny. I guess the biggest lesson I've learned from having the heart transplant is I'm stronger than I thought I was and that I am surrounded by the best family in the world.


You and I aren't naive, right? We're well aware of how spending occurs under both parties. And a couple of years ago, of course, I was complaining about the deficits under Trump, right? It was 2019. We were looking at near-trillion-dollar deficits then under Republican control. And it was really quite remarkable that that sort of spending was taking place during a economic boom and sort of quasi-peacetime, right, where at least no new wars had recently been launched. And they were still spending that kind of money. And I wondered, right, well, what's going to happen when you actually have an economic problem? And I guess we found out, right? We're looking at three, four trillion-dollar deficits. And that's a really huge factor behind all the monetary inflation, the money creation, because you have to create money to keep interest rates low so that the Fed's debt service doesn't run out of control and you end up with some sort of sovereign debt crisis. As long as the dollar's perched atop these other currencies, you can just keep inflating it, keep your interest rates low, and that's not going to eat up then the rest of your federal budget. And all that deficit spending puts a huge amount of pressure then on the Fed to keep interest rates low. And that's a big reason, I think, that the Fed hasn't been willing to really do much of anything at all. And this is a bipartisan effort, right? This is not something that's going to be fixed because you get rid of Biden, especially on foreign policy stuff. We can expect to see just huge budgets, $900 billion budgets are coming our way for the Pentagon, even in peacetime when this whole rush of things over, we're going to be looking at trillion-dollar a year budgets for the Pentagon. That doesn't even include all of the new money, the veterans administration. I mean, that's just going to be runaway money. And then, of course, nobody's going to do anything about social security or anything like that. So that spending's just going to continue to spread like wildfire, and neither party is going to do anything to really rein it in. And the deficit spending is just going to be huge. And I think the only thing that will impose discipline on that is when interest rates really have to start going up because the dollar reaches its limit in terms of what you can print of new dollars without it outstripping global demand. But global demand continues to be strong because all the other currencies look relatively bad by comparison. So it looks like there's not going to be anything to impose any real discipline on that coming anytime soon, except maybe domestically, because the domestic population might be just so overwhelmed by six, seven, eight percent inflation rates for a long period of time that they're going to really demand that something happen. But how that manifests itself and whether they just stick a band-aid on it to make it look like they're doing something about inflation, because that's certainly been the Fed's tack so far, is just make it look like we're doing something about inflation. And maybe we can just tank the market without actually even doing anything by simply scaring investors by talking tough. And so I just don't know what's going to happen at this point.


Well, staff and students in several area school districts got a late start to their day due to the predicted weather forecast today. Bemidji School District was one of the districts that started late with all schools in the district beginning two hours later than normal in order to account for snow that was headed towards the area. Bemidji's superintendent made the decision after monitoring weather reports comes halting with nearby superintendents of other districts and a leadership team. We want students and staff members to be safe, okay? That's imperative. But we also know that we have a schedule to keep and we want kids to be in school when they can safely be in school. Superintendent has his urging district members to update their contact information. Apparently over 200 messages about the delay sent to parents bounce back because of changed or disconnected numbers. That's the easiest way for the school district to reach everybody. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


journalists obtaining and publishing sensitive information is in the public interest is essential to democracy. Mr Assange's freedom will only come from political intervention. Will the government intervene to bring Mr Assange home? I some time ago made my point that enough is enough. It is time for this matter to be brought to a conclusion. Last few days alone multiple heads of government have called for freedom for Julian Assange. This includes Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese who said that his government will continue to act in a diplomatic way. In his statement in the House of Representatives, he said he has personally raised the case of Assange who is an Australian citizen with representatives of the United States government. The statement is a significant revelation coming from Albanese. He has so far remained tight-lipped about his diplomatic efforts in the Assange case. The Prime Minister did not clarify which US official he had spoken to on the matter or how significant his government's intervention has been so far. Apart from Australia, Latin American countries are also speaking up for Assange. A delegation from WikiLeaks has been on a tour across the continent mobilizing support for Assange from various social movements and progressive governments in the region. The delegation consists of Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks Pristina Harafensen and Joseph Farrell who is a journalist and the WikiLeaks ambassador. Their first stop was Colombia where they met with the leftist President Gustavo Petro and Foreign Minister Alvaro Villabao Duran. We just finished a very successful meeting with President Petro and Foreign Minister Duran here in Colombia in Bogota where they expressed their commitment to our cause for the freedom of Julian Assange because of the acknowledgement of the implication of press freedom all around the world. So President Petro, who has been very supportive of Julian Assange in the past and his battle, is now fully committed in fighting for his freedom. Harafensen and Farrell also met with Brazilian President-elect Lula da Silva. Silva is already one of the most prominent political leaders to defend the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. After the meeting he tweeted expressing solidarity with Assange and stated may Assange be released from his unjust prison. At the time of this meeting, Brazilian parliamentarians unanimously passed resolution urging US authorities to drop the charges against Assange. Most recently, the delegation met with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Kirchner. Fernandez committed to talking to Petro, Lula and Chilean President Gabriel Boric to support the release of Assange. Amid these developments on November 28, five major international news dailies published an open letter calling for an end to the year's prosecution of Assange. The Guardian of the New York Times, Le Monde, the Spiegel and El Pais posed his plans to charge Assange under the Espionage Act, a law which they stated was designed to prosecute potential spies during World War I. This open letter was published on the 12th anniversary of the Cablegate League. The five news outlets had worked in collaboration with WikiLeaks to highlight key findings in the classified Cablegate documents. The letter states, this indictment sets a dangerous precedent and threatens to undermine America's forced amendment and the freedom of the press. Obtaining and disclosing sensitive information when necessary in the public interest is a core part of the daily work of journalists. If that work is criminalized, our public discourse and our democracies are made significantly weaker. Assange is currently facing extradition to the US to stand trial before a federal grand jury on a total of 18 charges, 17 of which are under the Espionage Act. The charges carry a total maximum prison sentence of 175 years. Assange is being held under judicial remand at the High Security Belmont Prison in the United Kingdom. There he awaits the result of an appeal against the British Home Office's decision to allow for his extradition to the United States.


My name is Shelby, and I'm a poetry teaching artist. And today, we're just gonna sit down and write together. I'm really glad that we get to do this. So our theme is going to be, like you, I love, dot, dot, dot.  And the only thing that you're gonna need to do this free writing activity is something to write with, pencil, pen, whatever you want, piece of paper or a notebook, something to write on. And in your free writing, you're just gonna get a chance to write sort of a spell for yourself, something to remind you of what you love in this world. Okay, well actually I need you to grab a couple more things for this one. Since we're writing about what we love, I want you to go find at least two random objects in your house that are things that you love. Could be anything, could be something random, you know, like your oldest stuffie, or you know, like a moon, the moon stuffed animal, something like that. It could be, you know, barrel of monkeys, that's what I think I'm gonna use, or mermaid toy, a beautiful bell that you have laying around, a very special stone, maybe even just like, you know, something you like to spray yourself with, something like that, just anything that you love. So gather around a couple of random objects and to get started, we're gonna do a warm up and I want you to just look at those objects, just notice some things about them and write a couple of words on your page just describing those objects, the color, the shape, the texture, anything like that, like that, just list it out, go for it, describe your objects. Once you've just got a couple of descriptions of those objects, now I'm gonna read you a poem that's gonna sort of be the inspiration for our free write today. This is a poem by the poet Roque Dalton and this poem is translated from Spanish and if you'd rather read it in its original form in the Spanish, there is a link available in the description to a video of someone reading it and the text version and if you'd rather do the free write in Spanish, there's gonna be a link available for those starting lines in Spanish as well. This poem is called Like You. Like you, I love, love, life, the sweet smell of things, the sky blue, the sky blue landscape of January days and my blood boils up and I laugh through eyes that have known the buds of tears. I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry like bread is for everyone and that my veins don't end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, little things, landscape and bread, the poetry of everyone.   What's the sweet smell that you love? Go for it. Courage you to try to bring in some of those description words from our warm up with the objects since those are objects that you love. Next line, I laugh like, dot, dot, dot. What do you laugh like? And it might even be cool if you picked a random word from your list and it might sound sort of unexpected and surprising.  I laugh like the softness of a teddy bear. Go for it. What comes to your brain? And let's keep writing. I believe the world. What's the first thing that comes to your mind? I believe the world is true, wild, real, kind, hard. Whatever comes to your brain. I believe that poetry is like, what do you want to compare poetry to? Maybe it's one of the objects on your table. Is for, who is it for? Is it for the bells? Is it for the fields? Is it for the fighters? Who do you think poetry is for? Write it. Keep writing. Your next line is, I live for. What do you live for or who do you live for?  Kind of repeating the start of the line for emphasis. I live for those who struggle for. Those who struggle for freedom. Those who struggle for another world. Those who struggle for joy. Those who struggle for games. Whatever it is, who do you fight alongside? Finish it off. I want you to add any last image that's in your brain. Any one more thing from one of your objects before writing the poetry of everyone so that your poem is gonna end the way that Roque Dalton's poem ended. Okay, we did it. You did it. You did it for your right. You did a form of magic. It's amazing. And I wish I was with you because I would definitely be asking you to share with me but only if you wanted to. And right now I'd suggest that you go and share this with whoever you're around or call someone on the phone. Share with them this poem that you just wrote. And in that spirit, I'd like to share my poem with you if that's okay.  Like you, I love, love, life. The sweet smell of a slightly burnt toast. I laugh like the wild flop of a mermaid I once met. I believe the world is whole, just whole. I believe poetry is like a smooth stone in my palm. Poetry is for creatures. I live for the memories of mothers. I live for those who struggle for our true names, the poetry of everyone. Thank you so much for writing with me. Again, my name is Shelby and I'm just really grateful that you're out there somewhere loving, laughing, believing, writing. It's a really brave thing to do. And I'm sending my magic to you wherever you are. Have a great day.


Ukrainian Marines inflicted heavy losses on the Russians on the left bank of the Kursan region. Ukrainian Marines have confirmed that the Defence Forces gained ground at several bridgeheads on the left bank of the Nipro River on the Kursan front. Ukrainian Marines reported this on Facebook. The Defence Forces of Ukraine conducted a series of successful operations on the left bank of the Nipro River on the Kursan front as a result of pre-planned measures to repel large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. The courage and professionalism of the Ukrainian Marines in cooperation with other units of the Defence Forces enabled them to gain ground on several bridgeheads. Ukrainian Marines said the Navy reports that the Russians suffered heavy losses in personnel and equipment during the fighting. Specifically, the enemy has lost personnel, 1,216 killed and 2,217 wounded, 24 tanks, 89 artillery systems and mortars, 135 units of various vehicles, 48 units of armored combat vehicles, including armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, 9 multiple launch rocket systems, 14 watercraft, 15 units of special equipment, 4 command posts, 29 ammunition storage points, both field and stationery, since the beginning of these operations. In addition, 135 FPV drones and five tactical UAVs were destroyed by the combined EW unit of the Marines, Ukrainian Marines said. Ukrainian Marines keep inflicting fire damage on the eastern bank of Kursan Oblast and carrying out operations aimed at destroying the Russian forces.


Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, I offer you warm greetings from the government and people of the Commonwealth of Dominica, a small majestic island state situated in the heart of the world's most wonderful region, the Caribbean. I first want to congratulate both the Secretary-General-Elect, Doreen Borgman-Martin, and her Deputy Thomas for being elected to lead the ITU for the next four years. I believe that with the combined competence, experience, and most importantly, the vision, this is what is required to drive the ITU in the right direction. I can assure you, Madam Secretary-General, that you have Dominicas on waiver and support as you seek to implement your vision that resonates so well with us. Allow me to also offer my deepest appreciation to the government and people of Romania for being such an exceptional host for this very important forum. It is indeed a pleasure to participate in this forum held in this beautiful historic city of Bucharest. This conference is of great significance, especially for small developing island states like Dominica. The long-lasting effects of the current pandemic, the constant threats of natural disasters, and the ever-changing technological landscape all amplify the need for decisive action. No longer can access to services be a hindrance to social and economic empowerment. This fundamental principle has been elevated to top priority in the formulation of our national policy in conformity with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For Excellencies, Dominica shares the view that telecommunications and ICTs are critical in accelerating growth and increasing productivity. Therefore, we are pursuing a vigorous agenda in which every single citizen will be impacted positively through the use of ICTs. Significant progress has been made towards achieving universal broadband connectivity by making strategic use of the universal service funds. This initiative provides highly subsidized broadband services, which ensures that student households have quality access and are able to afford connectivity. Importantly, we have implemented programs to enhance the digital capacity of our youth to nurture the competencies needed for the jobs of the future. Progress is being made towards transitioning to e-government, where public services will be administered online, thereby reducing the need for in-person transaction costs while increasing efficiency. Through the support of the ITU, we were able to improve our post-disaster communication mechanisms, which have enhanced our overall level of resilience, as well as strengthened our early-warning capabilities. Your Excellency, strategic partnerships are key in achieving our goals. These partnerships should aim to integrate transformative technologies in all aspects of the lives of our citizens, from the administration of public and private services, in expanding commerce, and importantly, to add value to our productive sectors. In that regard, the Government of Dominica commands the Secretary-General and the leadership of the ITU for the significant progress made over the years. As described to look past the pandemic and to overcome the many global challenges facing our economies, it is critical to maximise the role of the ITU in launching recovery and stimulating growth. Our commitment to maintain and improve the excellent record of collaboration with the ITU has been well articulated by our Prime Minister Honourable Roosevelt Scarrett, who is and continues to be a strong proponent of transformation through the use of telecommunications and ICTs. Your Excellency, Dominica affirms its commitment to the Connect 2030 Agenda, an agenda to connect the unconnected through partnership and long-term collaboration. Before I leave, I also want to seek your support for the Bahamas candidate for the position of Director of BDT. Stephen Bureau represents exactly what the ITU is, what the ITU should be, and what we all expect from the ITU. I also want to endorse the candidacy of Cuba to the ITU Council. Cuba's commitment to the sector has been nothing short of remarkable. Your kind support will be greatly appreciated. I thank you, Mr Chair.


Lesson 349 Today I let Christ's vision look upon all things for me and judge them not, but give each one a miracle of love instead. So would I liberate all things I see and give to them the freedom that I seek. For thus do I obey the law of love and give what I would find and make my own. It will be given me because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give. Father, your gifts are mine. Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give. And giving as I would receive, I learn your healing miracles belong to me. Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all. And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bust the world and heal our minds as we return to Him. Amen.


The next question is from Ali Greenway. Is counting your weekly calories just as effective as tracking your daily caloric intake? Yeah, to an extent, right?  But here's why I like weekly calories over daily calories. It mimics real life more.  Bodybuilders and competitors eat. And it's very monotonous. It's not a great relationship. It's way more neurotic that way too. Totally. You're going to keep tracking every single day. And yeah, this does allow for a little bit of spillover. And you'd have a little bit more of a high day, a little bit more of a low day. But I mean, you've got to be definitely paying attention still. It's going to add up at the end. Yeah, I like it better. I like it better. I like having high days and low days. Again, it mimics real life. I can listen to my hunger cues, my energy. I can read my body. Read my flexibility.  I like to go out to dinner with my wife. So that's a higher calorie day and whatever. If you do it like that, I think it's better both behaviorally. I also think it's better metabolically. In my experience, I get better results when it's not the same every single day. Well, our bodies and our metabolism existed before time and days and weeks, you know what I'm saying? So I mean, that's one of the things I always try and get my clients out of, like, we have. We've structured our whole lives around these schedules of Monday through Friday and that these hours in a day. None of that stuff is, we made it up.  It doesn't know by a clock how you are going to burn or not burn. So I do like the idea of paying attention over a week versus being hung up on every single day, every single meal. It's just honestly, though, the best answer to this is it's whatever works best for you. Whatever one that you will do the most consistently. So if you're somebody who will be more consistent with paying attention to these things and actually watching it, tracking it, and you do better by just adding it up at the end of the week and then evaluating how much exercise you did and saying, oh, I'm in a surplus or I'm in a deficit, then by all means do that. If you're somebody who needs to hold yourself accountable on more of a daily basis, then I understand that also. So you could technically stretch this out for a month. You can go months at a time. You know, it's funny, though, physiologically speaking, they've done studies on bodybuilders have done this forever, but now they have studies to support why bodybuilders have had this kind of experience where they compared people dieting and one group did the same calorie deficit consistently and the other group had a deficit and then would have like a week or a few days where they'd eat more and then they go back to a deficit type of deal. Kind of like bodybuilders refeed days or whatever. And they found that the people that increased the calories ever so often actually did better. They kept more muscle and burned more body fat. So physiologically speaking, there may be something there. I speak more of the behavioral aspect. I think it's superior for most people behaviorally and I think that's the most important thing to focus on anyway.


Section 3. Listed Authorities' British Sign Language Plans Subsection 1. Each listed authority, C Section 8, is, in each session of the Parliament, to prepare a plan to be known as a British Sign Language Plan, in this Act referred to as an Authority Plan. But Subsection 1 does not require an Authority to prepare an Authority Plan in a session of the Parliament, if the Authority is not a listed Authority, as at the commencement of the session. An Authority Plan is, A, to set out measures to be taken by the listed Authority in relation to the use of British Sign Language in connection with the exercise of the Authority's functions. B, to set out time scales by reference to which any such measures are to be taken. C, where the listed Authority has previously published at least one Authority Plan, to state how, when and to what extent measures to be taken by the Authority by virtue of the most recently published such Plan were taken. And D, to contain such other information, if any, as the Scottish Ministers may by order require. Subsection 4. A listed Authority in preparing an Authority Plan, A, is to try to achieve consistency between that Plan and the most recently published National Plan, and B, is to have regard, 1, to the extent to which the Authority's functions are exerciseable using British Sign Language. 2, to the potential for developing the use of British Sign Language in connection with the exercise of those functions. 3, to any representations made to the Authority in relation to using British Sign Language in that connection. 4, where the Authority has previously published at least one Authority Plan, to such comments as are contained in any performance review which relates to the most recently published such Plan. And 5, to such guidance relevant to the preparation or revision of Authority Plans as may be issued by the Scottish Ministers. Subsection 5. In preparing an Authority Plan, a listed Authority is to publish and consult on a draft of the Plan, and is to take into account any representations received by it by virtue of such consultation. Subsection 6. The persons consulted under Subsection 5 are to be those who the Authority considers are likely to be directly affected by the Authority Plan or otherwise to have an interest in that Plan and in particular are to include a, persons who use British Sign Language and b, persons who represent users of British Sign Language. Subsection 7. A listed Authority may revise its current Authority Plan at any time. Subsection 8. Subsection 4 applies in relation to the revision of an Authority Plan as that Subsection applies in relation to the preparation of such a Plan. Subsection 9. An order under Subsection 3D is subject to the negative procedure. Subsection 10. This section is subject to Section 6 and 7.


to go out and see the moon if we see it we fast the next day if we didn't see it we finish 30 days inshallah so tomorrow inshallah


This is Purnima Kanan, she is from India, and you are a physicist but you are also the more selfless person on communication. And she is going to talk about hacking for humanity. This is my first public talk and I am nervous. I just wanted to share my journey with the random acts of kindness. Actually I am a mother of three kids, my eldest one is 24. I did my MSE and I took a break for almost 12 years or so, then got back on track. I do freelance PR for a theatre group which works on sustainability for random acts of kindness. And I have been a media coordinator for a tree festival for three consecutive years. Because what basically? I do basically. And I wanted to share my journey with random acts of kindness. So my passion is going on nature trails and my interest is on bees, butterflies and trees. So on one of the butterfly trails I met Shinwai one of the Arachoke, one who is actively in Arachoke town. So she went on to become one of the global trust members of Arachoke. She participated in a hackathon, started as a participant and now she is heading the Arachoke. So I was basically interested in the issues which they touched upon. Basically hackathon is not just technical. What we do is a global community of makers and hackers who give open source solutions for social good. So this is Shinwai's this one in India. She developed this app called Bachao app which where the mobile was used to record evidence. Because without evidence you can't file a case. So this went on to be huge, I mean this had a huge usage, many users used it because of the rape case which followed it. And then now she is heading the Bachao project which provides open source solutions for gender. Basically last year we had a hackathon based on gender violence against women with the US consulate in Calcutta. We work with civic organizations because basically we feel that there are a lot of people who are working in pockets. And we provided a platform where they could come and share ideas. So a group called Durka came and shared their experience on bystander intervention. Bystander intervention is suppose you see a person, a woman being ragged or being missing. How can a bystander as an outsider go and defuse the situation in a peaceful way, in a nice way. Then we touched upon, there was an organization which worked on garbage. Till this day we didn't know that burning garbage increased the air pollution. Those were some of the learnings which we shared in that citizenry day. Then biodiversity, a civic organization talked about how to use a frog app to record or to identify frogs. So recording the biodiversity or the citizens to observe nature around them is a very important thing. So the newt is that some species is dying or some species could be discovered also. Disability, we have done some solutions on accessibility. One of the hackathons we developed a solution where a visually impaired will know which buses come into the bus stop. So this prototype was created in two days, a team of four worked on it and we accelerated this. Twitter supported this project. Urbanization, there was one community in Indranagar which opposed rapid commercialization in there. Because most of the residential buildings were being converted to commercial pubs and bars and a lot of noise in the neighborhood. So they went on to file a case and they shared the learning so that the other areas would benefit from that. So the basic idea of conducting a citizenry day was to share instead of learning from the scratch. If we share our learnings we grow faster. Air pollution, one person Mr. Tejesh, he taught us how to build an air pollution monitor from the scratch using cheap hardware. So till then otherwise we wait for data from UNICEF or we wait for data to come in from an organization. So if you monitor it by yourself you know how bad or you know the air pollution levels. So the main story of R.H.O.P. is it was started in a crisis camp in 2009 where the employees of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and World Bank came together to build solutions. Because NASA had a lot of data and they didn't know what to do. So the first outcome was during the disaster management during the Patti earthquake in 2010. And what would have taken three weeks to aggregate the Twitter feeds with the help of one solution, they could do it in a day. So we did this program with 25 children from lower class students in India. So 25 girls, what we did was we improved them, we worked with them for seven days. We taught them social media, social skills like team building and analyzing the root cause of the problem. So these girls lived in slums so with the help of open street maps they marked the issues like water, sewage, garbage and things like that. And to identify what was the root cause of the problem and to find solutions. So at the end of seven days they were able to work in a team and present their learnings on a website using Thimble. So that was something really great where Target supported us on this program. And it was a huge learning for them because they especially this age around 12 to 15 is a very impressionable age where they just go to a shell and they don't open up. So these are some of the drawings which the girls did during the program. This is about overcrowding in cities. They use a fish bowl diagram to find the root cause and at the end of seven days they were confident and it was really great to see how a program like this could ignite sparks in these girls and how confident they were to tackle you know more it is you know feeling more self confident and self reliant that they could bring a change in their own communities. So they built a water filter out of whatever was available I mean a simple water filter and yeah. So in the beginning I showed you the bee and the butterfly right. So one of the outcomes was to monitor hives you know that bees are rapidly declining and bee collapse disorder is happening right. So bee colony collapse. So this is one of the apps that has been created to monitor the hives. Otherwise the conventional method we lose about 5% of the bees. So this is a better way where we do it without minimum damage to the hives. Then we do have another I mean there are numerous apps or this one which makes life better. This is an app developed by the Belgium team which reminds the HIV and TB patients to get their appointments to get their medicines or their checkups done on time. Because as you know that medicines if they are not taken in time TB virus becomes more resilient and it might be incurable. So this is an appointment reminder. It's one of the latest hacks. So advantages of civic hacking are it creates space for innovations because people from different capacities come and hack together it makes more sense. Creativity comes out and then it engages digital citizens to get involved in government policies. Then it creates a broad network of civic hackers for social good and then in a company you find that I mean I'm not telling you won't get creative solutions. If you mix with different people from different backgrounds the creativity is faster and is cheaper. Hackacons. That's it. So we have our presence in Australia, India, South Africa, Canada, USA and UK. So we would like to have communities working in Southeast Asia as well. So if you're interested you can get in touch with me or you can send a mail to this address. That's it. Thank you. Any questions? Yes. In each of those countries do you have a team? We have teams. So what if you go to another country in Southeast Asia, what would be the expectation on the law? Expectations you have to take ownership. First what we do is we partner with an NGO. Instead of just arbitrarily calling people to come let's do a hack of government. First we work with an NGO, get a problem statement, then see which subject matter experts can solve the problem, bring them to the platform. We provide a platform for the subject matter experts and the NGOs to have a conversation and form a prototype first. And at the end of two days after the prototype is done we bring in corporates to take it for the accident. So is it funded by the corporations? Each time it's different. Suppose Microsoft is interested in accessibility. So they'll be interested. We'll tell them in advance that if this happens would you want to... So you just hope for finding the sponsors and then... You can ask the question. How much does it cost? Hackathons don't cost anything. It's only the prototype when we accelerate. That is when corporates come in. It's just zero budget to conduct hackathons. So we basically... I conducted a hackathon in Bangalore where when you was provided by somebody, a friend. Food was provided by another friend who runs a restaurant. And the venue had internet access for two days. For social good they do it for free. So once the prototype was formed we tried to connect with the sponsors and... I mean the corporates sent me. What was your email again? For people emailing you to help? Yeah. I gave you my card. Can you talk a little bit more about the ten types of hackathons in the foundation? For the body but I don't know much about them. Yeah. So that's what I said. I will give you some more time. So we can get in touch to get more details. So it's like anybody can take ownership and... You know if you have a problem to solve you can just take it up as a day. This issue I think we need to solve this issue. Is it possible to have a tech solution? Come with me. Yes? I have a question. So it's like if you want to solve issues, issues are complex and related to each other. So at least sensitizing people and... You can take a step at a time. If you can solve your air pollution issue. I am aware that it is bad day in my area as a bad day. You can do at least a little. You and your neighbors should do something about it. Participation. Maybe most of you are aware of my fact. Do you have a catwalk of all the activists that have happened so far? So that we can look at historically what... Yeah, okay. We have. We have them. And also the... I run any kind of law system as well. Exactly what is your... How do you bring people... So do you identify the problem? I think we will identify a problem. So how do you identify the problem? No, we have basically... We have not this intensity. And then what is the expectation that you will be able to solve something within a short period of time? We will try to solve. But we don't promise that it's not possible. It's not in our hands to... Which is all that we really have. Thank you for being such a nice colleague. The first question is...


From San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference, brought to you by Girls in Tech. And welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at Downtown San Francisco, Girls in Tech Catalyst. Great event, we've been coming for a couple years, about 700 professionals, mainly women, a few men, and I think they brought in a busload of kids to get inspired. Talking about their stories, and really it's a series, it's a one track conference, two days, about 20 minute talks, and really good stuff, really great content, check it out online if you didn't register this year, make sure you come next year. We're excited to have our next guest, Cube alum, really from one of the hottest companies in tech right now, she's Wendy Piper, the CIO of Nutanix, Wendy, great to see you again. Hey, nice to see you, Jeff. Absolutely, so we see you at Nutanix next all the time, but we haven't seen you at Girls in Tech, so how long have you been involved in Girls in Tech? So I've been involved since the very first meetup, more than 10 years ago, Girls in Tech was very inspiring to me, and I was here at the Catalyst Conference last year, and I'm a member of the board of Girls in Tech as well, so I'm able to give back and provide some leadership at that level. So we just had Adriana on, and she was going through some of the numbers. I mean, the growth of this organization, Psychotunutanix is off the chart, I mean, really amazing. It really is amazing, you know, in some ways our time has come. Adriana's had this big vision for a really long time, really focused on educating women, helping them to understand the potential of careers in tech and technology knowledge, and that's a global message and a message that resonates at every age level and in lots of different sectors of society, so it's just a privilege to be able to partner with her and others on the board to enable the vision, and Nutanix as well is donating, is present here at these conferences and partnering at Catalyst and Amplify and other parts of the organization. Right, because it's not only the right thing to do, it's also a good business, which has been proven time and time again. Absolutely, and it's kind of taken on this passion, mission, just excitement thing, but it is practical as well. All the studies, I'm sure so many folks have talked with you about this. There's so many studies, there's so much research that says diversity brings better decision-making, better product development, and better satisfaction in our work environments as well. The other thing that struck me talking to Adriana, and I guess I just didn't know kind of the breadth of types of activities that girls in techs put on. So we've been to Catalyst before, we've been to the pitch night, Amplify, but I didn't know she's running, there's all kinds of different types of things. Absolutely, I think the underlying passion is for education. If you think about particularly people in underserved communities, there is a real opportunity, coding and learning to code, learning to interact with computers, that's a language that transcends geographic boundaries, ethnic boundaries, age and religious boundaries, and it's something that ever since my days at Yahoo, I really felt like technology could bring the world together, and today in particular, there is so much disparity between women and men and their access to technology education and technology careers. This is more than just creating a level playing field, I think we're making our own playing field, we're not going to their playing field anymore, we're creating our own at locations like this. Right, and clearly a bunch of founders are here today, they started their own companies, but the other thing I think is interesting is culture keeps coming up time and time again in all these conversations, and Adriana's built a culture starting always from the top down with the board, it's a phenomenal board, a professional women that she's pulled together with this organization. Yeah, there are a couple of males on the board too, I want to make sure I point that out because we're a diverse board as well, but she has brought together people who are leaders in the technology space, but also folks who are passionate about building a healthy nonprofit organization, one that's global, one that can scale, and so we also look at the fundamentals and the business fundamentals as well, so we are expanding from 60 to 100 countries and from 100,000 members to 200,000 members, I mean, who would think, right? It's extraordinary, even then though, those 200,000 women are a drop in the bucket compared to the 50% of the global population who are female. Right, and then you work in Nutanix, super hot, I don't want to say startup anymore, you guys have, I'd be out, but you're living it in terms of trying to get enough good, qualified talent just to feed the one engine that is Nutanix, so it's a real command in the marketplace. Definitely that's the case. You know, we sort of struggle with the thought, you know, are there just not enough women candidates in these fields, but what we learn at conferences like this is that there are enough women candidates, but we don't necessarily recognize those women and we don't know where to find them and they may not find the sort of work that we represent to be attractive, and so we're sort of trying to change how we speak and think. Culture is a good word, but it's a revolution, it's a cultural revolution in terms of identifying talent where it sits. We spoke a lot in the last day and a half around blended careers, the bringing together of art and technology or communication and technology, and the fact is that technology just underscores everything we do nowadays. And so, you know, having people who can blend those things is a real advantage and women have this ability to take a multifaceted approach to the work that we do and the way that we live our lives. We multitask as a sport. Right, right. It's interesting too as the machines get better and as AI gets better, machine learning, the softer skills applied with the context become so much more important than necessarily just the super hardcore coding skills. You know, I have a story around that, so we've just deployed, my IT department has deployed a machine learning tool at Nutanix to replace a lot of the interactions that happen on our help desk. And we found we just couldn't scale as the company was scaling, so we've been training an AI from a company called MoveWorks and we've been training it uniquely with our voice and I think a little bit with my voice and I just had one of our employees write back to me and say not only is this thing, we call it X-Bot, not only is X-Bot solving my problems, but he said, she is pretty sassy too. And I'm like, yay, he knows it's a she, right? And she's sassy too, so yeah, that unique voice is infusing even the machine learning training that we're doing. And I think that makes for a more delightful experience for all of us. It's funny, the voice thing, because Google had their very famous, the restaurant reservation call-in demo at IO. They got kept on a little bit for what's real or not, but what made it so dramatic was the human-like elements in the conversation of the machine. With ums and ahs and ahs and pauses, which we laugh about, because when we shoot cube interviews, everybody wants to cut those parts out. And we're like, no, that's what makes people people. Right, exactly, I agree with you. And at the same time, there are things that are uniquely female stereotypes. We're more wordy, we have more things to say. We're more multi-dimensional, we can hold two thoughts at the same time. And so that's part of the richness of communication and our interaction too. But to the extent to which we can embed that in our technologies and our interactions, those are the extent to which they'll be more delightful. It's no coincidence that Siri and Cortana and all of those AIs sort of have this female persona. And I don't know if you know this, the Cortana who's the Microsoft AI, she's voiced by the same character that's Cortana in one of their video games. Oh really? And she's sort of this badass fighter gal too, so check it out. Well we know what happened to Bob, right? Right, I know poor Bob. Which ironically goes Melinda Gates' project, which I don't know if you knew that story. Oh, I did not know that though. Yeah, Melinda Gates' introduction to Bill was as a product manager for Bob, which if you don't know that story, check it out, it's old history. That's fantastic. But it's very good. All right, so before I let you go, one last thing, so you spoke and they've got these great posters all around the room with little highlights from people's conversations and yours was, I just grabbed it off the wall, it's okay to be bad. Yes. I love it, for the people that missed it, what's the message there? It's an important message, especially for women. Yeah, I think as women, we don't have a lot of role models and when I get up as a role model, I'm one of a few CIOs who's female in Silicon Valley, we give these speeches and they sort of make us like Mother Teresa, you know, first you have your mission in mind and you lean in and you do all these awesome things. Well, the fact is it is actually okay to be yourself.   I can be those things at all at the same time. And I also say it's also okay to be good, to be merciful, to be soft-spoken, to be wordy, to be studious, that combination of things. We're allowed to be our genuine selves and we don't have to be perfect to be successful and I feel like I embodied that in particular. Yes, you certainly do. What, what, I'm not perfect? You certainly do, no, that's the success.  We are fortunate we've been there since the beginning and really watching it grow. And helping us to frame the story, so thanks to theCUBE, I appreciate that. Whoa, and you're super successful and the company's successful.  So if they need someone to look up to, you're certainly a fantastic role model. Thank you so much. Well, I appreciate that. It's funny because I have never tried to be a role model and now just by accident, I have survived long enough. Yeah, but then. Here, here I am. Well, that's a whole different conversation when you just look around and like, I'm the oldest guy in the room, but that's the different thing, all right. I know, and you're actually the only guy, just saying. All right, well, Wendy, thanks for taking a few minutes and I guess we'll see you next at Nutanix, next if not sooner. I look forward to it, thanks. All right, thanks. She's Wendy, I'm Jeff, you're watching theCUBE from Women's, or Girls in Tank Catalyst 2018.