enjoy okay so welcome everyone and thanks for attending to this talk about uni but first before explaining what we units about I would like to get some feedback from you so please raise your hands those who already know or use already at the susan manager spacewalk red cat satellite or even we itself well not so many okay so let me present ourselves with me today is Pablo Suarez who is one of our Python developers and Julio Gonzalez and the release engineer for both susan manager and uni so what is a uni a uni is a software that is going to allow you to take care of all of your systems the configuration the audits for all the problems that they can have the promotion of packages and when we are talking about workloads in this case all kind of workloads it's because this will allow you to take care of the bare metal systems built on cloud or even container images by a container in containers and images for containers so you can automate the audit and the direct reporting capabilities if you want to look which images or instances are affected for any kind of cd or things like that and you can also keep standard configurations for group of systems in this case we are using salt for pretty much everything as we will show at the demos as well so some examples but we are not going to see all of them today that you could build the container images in this case for Docker you could audit the cvs and as soon as you find that any images or systems are affected with just one click you can fix all the problems you could define different stages well they usually when you are making development is that you have a development environment and test then production and you want to promote things from one environment to the other not only packages but configurations as configurations as well so you can do it and you can also schedule chains action chains for the systems say that for example you want first to install a package the line of scandal then you want to reboot and then you want to check that the system is patched you can do this with the action chains now about the name we uni it's because of that because we are using salt for almost everything and there's a lot of uni is the world's largest salt flat that you can find so the origins of for uni for those that already know about spacewalk is just this spacewalk is a free and open source project that was born yeah a little bit more than 10 years ago it's the base for red cat satellite 5 but not 6 forces a manager up to version 3.2 which is the current one but well the two main problems with spacewalk right now is that the spacewalk is on maintenance mode well they are still releases but yeah let's say that they are not adding really new features to to spacewalk so there are no no clear plans for the future so uni is a branch of a spacewalk which offers simple installation if you try to install it you will see that is just a matter of adding a repository installing a installing a pattern of packages and then run a really really easy just setup we added configuration management with salt but once again we are not using it only for configuration management we integrate with kubernetes and as I already mentioned we can take care of images for containers we changed the web why or most of the web why to react yes and we are migrating everything from python 2 to python 3 and switching the java stack so it supports the adk 11 this is for the next version so if you try the uni stable version right now still does not have this about the releasing instead of having releases that we are going to maintain for a long time we are going to do rolling releasing more or less similar to what the tumbleweed or all the distributions are doing we only have one version that it's considered as a stable and each more or less two months we are releasing a new version and this is interesting for a lot of people because we are not going to have a separate community and enterprise edition so while it is true that we uni is going to be the upstream for susie manager we will have all the features first on a uni and then susie manager will be only the yeah the enterprise version with the difference that you will have paid support at any time but other than that we will not have something that a few something like a future that is no you is no uni but it is not on susie manager so this is our current situation we started working on this more than one year ago but since a few months we already have all the code published at github we are making the development there on the archive github repository so you can see all the pull requests etc we have is the channel made in list as I mentioned already a couple of releases since October and right now we uni is still based on open susie leap 42.3 but we are changing that soon and as client systems we support centers and red hat so red hat is not really tested right now but it should work open susie and sleep but in the upcoming months as a base system for the server and the proxy where you are managing everything we will support leap 15 and we are in support for you want to as clients possibly Vivian is on the way as well we are going to rewrite all the documentation we are going to make a public continuous integration which we don't have right now are more important we will continue building the community hopefully with your help as well we are move all our issues and internal stuff to the public repository so it will be possible to see at any moment what we are doing make suggestions or even help us and now I think it is time for Pablo to show some demos okay so let's start then doing a demo let's increase a bit the phones so you can actually see better okay so this is the front end of the unit okay the UI of the unit first thing we can just log in okay so the first thing that we got when we log in inside the uni is this overview page here as you can see you have in a glance like the status of your infrastructure right you see the most critical system that you have here telling you that okay you have security patches and stuff that we will need to apply we have also some action the most recent actions and like an overview for your infrastructure the current status okay let's go then to the system page currently our infrastructure here for the demo has this system register as you can see they all are listed at salt type because they are all salt minion we are not we know we don't have here at the moment any of the all space work traditional tech we are here now dealing with minions and as you can see as well there are few different OS here in the system tab of course we can define groups of systems we can also select few systems here and schedule action to target that particular system set that you just select we have a page as we will see later for bootstrapping new systems very easy way different stuff here also visualization if you want to show your the hierarchy and the proxies and all the stuff right in a visual way and next important page to see here is the software page here these are the software channels that we have currently configured here in our uni instance so we have the channels for us before we have channels also for the open source a one we have sent those channels there so if you go to one of those you have the information about this particular channels you can see the patches in case that there are any you have all the information related to that particular channel all the package listed here information about the packages for a package you see that we have dependencies that by even the file isn't so we have the complete information of all the software provided provided by our software channels here same page about the patches not packages but the patches you have here all the patches provided by your defined channels you can see here you will see the information about this particular patch you can also you have the links to the Baxilla reports and so on and so on in case that this is between so cv you will also see the reference here then we have an image as Julia was mentioning we can build images we can set up the register yeah in the registry and so on so this has also the interface here and we have the salt these are the keys the salt minion keys that we have already accept for the minions that are inside of our cluster and we have as we will see later a remote command page and well one thing I want to mention here is that as you can see these are minions we are managing managing so far those minions from the UI but these are normal minions you can go go also to the command line and use the normal salt asterisks and then perform whatever action because those are part of the your salt cluster okay we have formula catalog this is one of the one cool feature that we have so these are so formulas I'm not sure if you are more or less aware of this concept of formula but the nice the cool thing here is that you can easily import salt formulas inside of a uni and then with some very basic meta data you are able to generate a form in the UI where you can easily feel the required settings for applying that formula we will see that later okay so let's take a look at one of the things the system that we have to register here let's say this and that's the overview page of the system we have here well it looked like this have some critical patches that need to be applied but in summary we have the system information IP the type of the system this is salt and this is also working in the full contact method with the pool method it has a salt minion service running and it's subscribed to the salt master okay here we have also hardware information what's this machine about all the hardware information and we have the software profile let's go to this so this is the all packages installed on that particular system the one of the powerful thing here is that even if I installed new packages through the UI or or remove packages or I do it via the command line via see pair or jump this list here is the actual state of the packages so if even if I run manually jam install super install once the package is installed on that system it will be report back to the unit server so we always have here the updated software profile for the system we can perform here we move packages upgrade packages install new stuff but let's go let's go to this state these are salt minion so there is a high state here rendered for the according to all the setting that we have set for this system the software channel assigned some properties states that we have configuration channels that we have assigned here all of this even the formulas you will see that this is this all is now part of this render high state of course we can schedule here to apply the high state in a particular maintenance window or as Julia was mentioned as part of a more complex action chain we can run into the test mode which is actually cool and then we have this package state where we can basically select a package and we can define a very easy state with no salt or yamal involved where we said okay we want this package as the latest version or we want this package removed so it's an easy way to define a very simple package state that they they are then the the state will be inject into the high state and once you apply it everything will be applied configuration channel what is that I have actually set for this particular system there is a web server configuration channel let's take a look this is basically well as you can see this is a very simple salt state but we can actually edit so this is the web server configuration channel we can create configuration state channels which are basically salt state we can add also additional files for for for the for applying the state and this is how it looks like one cool feature here is that we have revisions for the state so in case that you now change something here it will create another revision of course you can also roll back if your state is not working as expected okay we were in the states and let's take a look at formulas so these are the formulas that we have for salt in the formula catalog and as I told you if I for example said okay I want the locale formula for this system then it will add this locale tab here and it will render for you a form in the UI where you can fill the data I can set okay the time zone for this is not this is green bit time I save this the formula is safe and if I go now to the to the state and see the high state it's rendering now you will see that we have actually here the time zone definition there let's try to apply this high state let's see what happens this is the live demo the team is expected here so I scheduled the execution of the high state if I go to events I will see there is not an event let's go to the history and I see that the apply high state was already executed I can go there I see the output of this high state that was applied you see for example that the information the part of the high state which is coming from their configuration channels or formulas are actually highlighted in this output and all the configuration stuff that is coming from the so as you can see here we are operating we are scheduling high state applying formulas installing patches where everything is running salt and the root of every action that we made from the UI or even from the API it's all then converted into a salt called under the hood which is the one that is executed let's do one more thing here let's try to bootstrap a new system I want to include a new system on our cluster what I need to do what I need is a necessary connection and a system where I will trade this so I have one here this is SSH this is the same local hopefully it will not crash and look at this I told you that the register system that we have we're all using salt in the default contact method which is installing the solenoid service but we can actually check this box here which says that managed system completely via SSH so for this case we are registering the system in a necessary bush contact method way so it will be using solenoid service under the hood so there is no solenoid installed there and in the meanwhile okay yeah let me just quickly go over here I'm not executing this so since we are running out of time I just want to show the space this is a very powerful so since we have the software profile for all our infrastructure here we can actually make easily how deep for example for a CVE I can just search for this one and I click here and I will update our service not only service but also the images if we build images from here we can also update them and in case that there is some CVE software affected by some CVE it will show here so you will see that we have those two we have a patch for fixing the issue so we can just go here okay as you can see here our new SSH minion was registered if we click here you will see that it was registered and the contact method now is push SSH we are running out of time so we would like to give you some tiny in case that you want to ask some question so that's basically just please reach us later if you want for asking you or asking or even for doing a more concrete demo if you want so this is now community resources we have the page of the product the github repository Twitter we have a mailing list and we are all available at Unichannel so that's basically thank you


Welcome back to another video everyone. This is CoasterDaddy, and today I'm going to be taking a look at all of the standout drops in my opinion that I've experienced on roller coasters. I will list a few honorable mentions that I believe are worthy of noting, as well as doing my best to rank my 10 favorite drops from worst to best. As is the case with any list, these are extremely difficult to rank, and they can and will change over time. But as it currently stands in May of 2020, these are in my opinion the best drops of any roller coasters that I've personally experienced. Before jumping into the list, just a quick reminder, if a coaster is not on this list, it's because I most likely have not ridden it, or if I have, I just don't think it had an awesome enough drop to make the cut. Let's get to the honorable mentions. Thunderbolt at Kennywood actually has two fantastic drops. It has a 70 foot drop right out of the station, and a 90 foot drop at the end of the ride, which is actually the largest on the ride, and that's because of the way this ride is situated in the terrain. It really uses the ravine to its advantage. Vortex at King's Island is the only defunct coaster that I'm featuring in this video. And although it didn't make the list proper, Vortex actually had a very awesome and impressive 138 foot drop in my opinion. It's the first drop of the ride. It was by far my favorite part of the ride actually. I wasn't a huge fan of this ride overall. It just didn't really do a whole lot for me, but I definitely did enjoy that drop. And I felt like it was worth mentioning, at least as an honorable mention. Mystery Mine at Dollywood. Actually, the last drop on Mystery Mine is a 75 foot 95 degree drop indoors. It's very intense, and it actually spirals a little bit. So it has a good whip to it. It has some good airtime. It really just took me by surprise. This was a really good drop. Banshee at King's Island is a really intense Bolliger and Mabillard inverted coaster, and it has an amazing, really steep 150 foot first drop. And it also doesn't have the pre-drop like the older BNM inverts have. So you just go down with really good speed. Like I said, it's really steep. It's just a really fun drop. And the last of our honorable mentions just barely got edged out of the proper top 10 list. This is Skyrocket at Kennywood. In my opinion, this is a really underrated Premier Ride Skyrocket launch coaster. There is an amazing pop of ejector air over the top of the hill after you get launched.  And it's just a really good underrated, really fun ride with some really good airtime. And that first drop especially, you get insane ejector going over that top hat. It's very cool. Starting off the list proper, we have an oldie but a goodie. This is Gemini at Cedar Point. Gemini opened in 1978. And in my opinion, this is an underrated ride and also a very underrated drop. Why is this one of my favorite drops on a coaster? Well, it's 118 feet, so it's pretty good size.  And it also has an amazing head chopper, one of the best head choppers I've ever experienced on the first drop as well. No matter how many times I ride it, Gemini is always a really fun breathtaking first drop. Number nine is Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion. I've been on three RMCs to date. And although this is by far the smallest RMC that I've been on, this actually has the best drop out of all the RMCs I've experienced.  It's just really unique. A really different sensation compared to the typical straight down drop. Of course, it's very, very smooth being an RMC. For those reasons, Twisted Timbers is definitely a top tier drop in my opinion. Number eight is Voyage at Holiday World. Now I have to say it's been five years since I've been to Holiday World. I don't remember this all too well. I definitely need to get back to Holiday World and experience this again. But Voyage has a humongous 154 foot 66 degree drop, has great floater airtime, although I don't remember it the best. Otherwise it might be a little bit higher on this list. At number seven is another Gravity Group monster, Ravine Flyer II at Waldemir. This first drop has amazing floater air in the back. And it's also pretty big for a wooden coaster drop as well. Even though the lift hole is only 80 feet tall, it has a 118 foot first drop that also twists to the right. And as I said, sit in the back for the best experience on this drop. Number six is Top Thrill Dragster, actually the second biggest drop in the world. It's a super long 400 foot drop and it spirals as you're going down, which is really fun. You get good airtime. And of course it has the Intamin T bar.  I think if you could actually feel the drop more and it was just like a straight down drop that just kind of twisted back to the left, it might be a little bit better. But I really appreciate Top Thrill Dragster for its very long unique drop. And I always have a blast on this. I am glad they did decide to include the twist in the final design. At number five is another Intamin. This is Intimidator 305 at King's Dominion. Now, this is not as highly ranked as the other gigas in terms of the drops, because even though it has a 300 foot drop, it actually felt a little bit shorter than that to me. It actually to me felt more of like a very large scale hyper drop. But because it's coming in at number five on this list, it's still an extremely impressive drop 300 feet and you get really good ejector airtime on it. That is stifled a little bit because instead of the classic Intamin T bars, you do have the soft over the shoulder restraints, which are not bad by any means. They're good restraints, but they do inhibit the airtime a little bit. But the ejector airtime on the drop is still very good nonetheless. And it's my number five favorite drop at the number four spot is another really intense coaster. This is Phantoms Revenge at Kennywood. And this is actually not the first drop on the ride. Phantoms Revenge actually has a super long and intense second 228 foot drop into the ravine. It goes right under Thunderbolt and it provides a very good head chopper. And this drop is just so intense. When you get to the bottom of that drop, the G force there is just insane. This is one of the most intense drops I've experienced. And it's really incredible. Not really like anything else I've experienced either. Coming in at the number three spot is a drop that is a whole lot shorter than Phantoms Revenge, but it really packs the punch. This is Maverick at Cedar Point, an intimate blitz coaster that opened in 2007. The abrupt ejector that you get over the first hill, it just absolutely flings you out of your seat, especially if you're in the back. It's only a 100 foot drop and it's 95 degrees. So it's beyond vertical. But because of how compact it is, it just leads to this crazy, wippy, intense experience. I did consider putting this a little bit higher and it was very tough to decide where I should place it, but I do believe it deserves this awesome spot on my list. The number one and two spot were very difficult for me to decide on because they're almost interchangeable. But ultimately I did decide on Fury 325 at Kerowins, the Bolliger and Mabillard giga coaster as the number two drop that I've experienced. This first drop just feels like you're falling forever. It has great ejector airtime as you have those awesome B&M clamshell restraints that give you a lot of room. It's a 320 foot drop at 81 degrees. And like I said, it just feels like you're going and going and going. It's like it never stops. It's just such an awesome experience and it never gets old no matter how many times you ride this ride. But what is the drop that ultimately pushed Fury 325 out of the number one spot? Well, it would be the legendary giga coaster known as Millennium Force at Cedar Point. This is not my favorite giga that I've been on. Actually, it's my least favorite out of the three gigas I've experienced so far. But it's an incredible ride and that first drop is just so good. I believe you should sit in the first seat of Millennium Force to really experience the drop for what it is. You can really feel that length. It's a very long 300 foot drop at 80 degrees. It has amazing ejector air because of those classic Intamin T bar restraints once again.  But as I mentioned, I do believe the front seat is the best so you can really feel that drop and just feel the wind rushing in your face. It's such an amazing drop. And I do believe it deserves to be listed at the number one spot as far as my favorite drops go. So what do you guys think of my list? Be sure to let me know what your favorite drops you've experienced are and why you think they're the best. And don't forget to like the video if you enjoyed it. Subscribe to my channel for more content like this. Like my page Coaster Daddy on Facebook. Follow me at Coaster Daddy official on Instagram. And I will see you guys next time. This is Coaster Daddy. Bye.


Hello, lots of people have asked me, how did you make those videos? So in this first episode of Behind the Screens, I'm going to talk about basic interaction and I'll show you how I did this trick with the Chrome icon. So in most of my videos, there's some kind of interaction between the video screen and the real-life version of me and actually this isn't too hard to do. I think anyone with a camera and a screen could probably do this themselves. So I'll demonstrate how. So first of all, you need to write a script. You'll need to decide exactly what you're going to say. Then practice it a few times to get a sense of the timing. Second, film yourself doing the video portion of the script. And you need to make sure to leave enough time to respond back and forth. Okay, so I'm going to go film that part. Okay, so I like to film half of the script with a slightly different location and even sometimes a slightly different character. So I've used this hat, for example, to represent a different character. Okay, so now what I'm going to do is say half of the lines from the script. I have a question for you. How did the hipster burn his mouth? He ate the pizza before it was cool. Who's there? Little old lady who? Okay, those are old jokes. Here, I need to give you my notebook with some new jokes in it. Here you go. You're welcome. Bye for now. Okay, then the next step is just to play the video and do the interaction. So I got to get set up here. I'm going to hide this back there, stay there.  And I like to try to play the video as quickly as possible so I learn the keys, the keystrokes so that students don't see that it's a video playing. So here's the video. So hopefully I'll remember the lines. We'll see. I have a question for you. Okay. How did the hipster burn his mouth? I don't know. How? He ate the pizza before it was cool. Okay, my turn. Knock knock. Who's there? Little old lady. Little old lady who? I didn't know that you knew how to yodel. Okay, those are old jokes. Here, I need to give you my notebook with some new jokes in it. Oh great, thanks. That's it. Thank you. I appreciate it. You're welcome. Bye for now. Okay, so that went pretty well. I didn't actually practice that a whole lot of times, but I made it easy on myself by making the interaction fairly straightforward. Okay, next here are a couple of tips. First of all, you don't have to do all kinds of fancy editing. I do sometimes, but you don't have to. In this example, I just shot the video and played it back straight as is. I think more important than fancy special effects is to have an interesting idea, a story, a good script, with maybe even some kind of tension or conflict between the characters. Second, it helps if you do a lot of practice, especially if you're going to be performing the real part before a live audience. If you're recording it like I'm doing for this demo, it's much easier because I just try again if I mess up. In fact, this is take three. I will tell you, for me, that's the most stressful part of doing these pranks for my class, knowing that I only get one chance to get it right, or maybe two if I'm teaching two sections that semester. Before the April Fool's prank that I did earlier this month, I practiced it between like 30 and 40 times in the classroom before showing it to my students. I was actually there the night before from 8.30 till 12.15. One thing that helps if you're doing it live is to give the in-video character more of the harder lines to remember because you can do multiple takes to get it right. Then in the real life version, you're just sort of following the lead and responding to what's already pre-recorded. That makes it a lot easier to memorize, but still, you'll need to memorize and practice and practice and practice. Also, if you can line up the sizes and positions of things, that makes it look better. Maybe you noticed that I was looking off to the side in the video recording. I'm looking at the other person so that it makes it look like the line, the eye line, matches up. So matching eye lines is really important. And also, I tried to make the notebook about the same size on the screen as in real life, and that will depend on the size and location of the screen. And the best way to get it right is to just do some screen tests and do some rough drafts.  If you want to try something slightly more complicated and you know how to do some basic video editing, just take a screenshot of your desktop with the YouTube window open like this, then make a new layer in your editing software and put your video into that window to make it look like you're playing a video like this. I have a question for you. How did Hipster... Wait a minute, am I stuck in this small window now? I want the whole screen. You could even play the video on your phone like this. Oh great, now I'm stuck in this little tiny phone now. Another thing you can do with that video is to use it in a Zoom meeting and play it full screen for everybody. So if you want to do that, what you could do is share your screen and then make sure that the computer sound is shared also so they can hear it, then play the video and share it full screen, and then it looks like your character is there in the Zoom meeting with you. And that's actually what I did for my latest video where I pretended to Zoom bomb my class on my birthday. Same concept of what I just showed you. So basically write a script, film half of the dialogue, and then play the video. But instead of playing the video on a screen or something, you're playing it through a Zoom meeting. So take a look at that video if you want to see how that turned out. Now the tricky thing about that is getting it recorded. So doing that itself is not super hard, but then to make it so I could put it on YouTube I had, I was recording the Zoom meeting. I had Camtasia running so I could record the screen itself. I had the camera, a separate camera because I wanted a better camera, and then I was wearing a lapel mic, so that was kind of complicated, but I think it turned out well. Okay, so lastly, I promised I would show you or tell you how I did this part of the April Fools video where the chrome icon comes flying off the wall. So basically, this video is essentially the same basic idea of what I've been showing you this whole, this whole time. There's a video playing over the projector. In this case, the background is mostly black, so it's meant to look like there's the character just there on the whiteboard. But really, this is what the video looks like by itself. But then this is what it looks like when it's playing in the classroom on the whiteboard. Okay, so the paper icon is just taped to the board, the whiteboard. And then it's connected with a string.  And then I just grabbed that string and yanked it off the wall at the right time. Now that took a lot of practice actually, but it wasn't as bad as it looks because you can kind of follow the arc of the movement. You can see my hand coming, and then I just grabbed it off the whiteboard at exactly the right time. The same kind of thing I did when I grabbed the lightsaber out from behind the board. You can kind of see the lightsaber coming, then I just follow the action and make it look like a smooth action. So, but again, those type of things take practice, but makes it look fun. Okay, some final thoughts. I would love to see if you guys have some ideas. If you try this out and you post it somewhere in the comments, let me know and send me a link so I can see what you did. I'm really interested to see if anybody else tries these kinds of things. Also get out there, be creative and don't worry about it being perfect. It doesn't have to be perfect. I mean, even in this video, I meant to show this side of my little blue book because the other side has my phone number on it. Didn't mean to do that, but actually, at this point, it doesn't matter. I've given my phone number out to 5,000 students over the years and Google knows my phone number too. So actually, if you want to call me, I might answer, but yeah, it's not as bad as what I did in my hand sanitizer challenge video. Go watch the middle of that if you want to see what I did there. Anyhow, so if you have any questions, let me know. I'm curious to see what you're doing, like I said before, and this video is long enough so I'll end it here. But thanks for watching. Subscribe if you'd like to see more and I will talk to you later.


Well, there you go. Let's get more. Ashraf engineer is in Mumbai. He's vice president of content and insights for the global communications company. S M S L group. Um, Ashraf, great to have you with us on the program. Let's start with them. Let's start with this. Why is he so marketable? What does he got that is just everybody loves about him? I think just the kind of person he is. That's why everybody loves him. That's the first thing. The more important thing is such a story really is that of India itself. If you track his career, he came into the, he burst out of the scene when India began liberalizing. He has a very humble middle class upbringing and background and, you know, he just took the world by storm and he's grown as India has grown. His story really resonates with every single Indian, which is really why I think he means so much to every Indian. We were just looking at the numbers there. What some of these sports people are worth. I mean, he's, he's, he's making a lot of money. He's down on the list in terms of Tiger Woods and that. But if he's going out there with those people, I mean, in terms of global recognition, do you think? I think so. Cricket's been growing very, very big and of course India is making a huge mark on the world scene. In terms of dollar numbers, maybe he's not in the same league as Tiger Woods. But certainly in terms of recognition, in terms of, you know, appeal, I think he's up there very, very briefly. I mean, can he do it?  I think, in fact, he can do much, much better. Sachin Grandt-Rindulkar has actually passed to become bigger than what he is now. I think given his stature in the game and what he means to India and so many Indians, there are a whole host of opportunities right from positions and boards and corporations in India, as well as advisory assignments with various other sporting properties that expect to come to India, as well as, who knows, maybe Sting's advising government on sporting issues. I think it's going to... Okay, short and sweet, but we have to leave it there. Thank you very much. Ashraf Engineer joining us live from Mumbai now.


Happy Sunday, everybody! It's Robin with Creativity RV, and this is a surprise video because I know that you guys weren't expecting to see me for another couple of weeks, but I missed you. And I wanted to say I hope you all had a great holiday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, whatever you celebrate. I hope it's been great for you. And I wanted to give you guys a sneak peek of the big project that I've been working on for you. I tell you guys, I get emails every day from people that say, help, I want to hit the road, but I can't figure out how to make a living when I get on the road, or I can't pay off my debt to get on the road, or I'm on the road and I can't figure out how to stay on the road because I can't find a job. So you guys, the project that I've been working on is a book called Work from Home While You Roam, the ultimate guide to jobs that can be done anywhere. This book has been in the works for about a year, and I'll tell you it's a labor of love because when I started it, I really just started a little bit of research here and there because I wanted to help people that were asking me these questions. But what I discovered is that, of course, not everything fits everybody. I can tell you guys how I make a living on the road, but you may not want to do what I do, or you may have a different skill set than I have. And so I went out and I tried to find a resource that would give everybody out there a wide range of different ways they could make money without being dependent on a location. So that could be us, somebody who lives on the road in an RV, somebody who's retired and just wants a side hustle. It could be somebody that wants to work remotely. And the more that I looked into it, the more that I found that there was nothing like that out there. I wanted to tell you guys about it now because I know a lot of you are really hungry for this information. So if you can just hang on another 10 days, this book is going to give you everything that you need to find a job online, no matter what that means to you. If you want to escape the 9-5 or stop being stuck in traffic, or just stop that thing where you feel like a gerbil on a wheel where you're just going from work to home to work to home and you hope someday you can retire, you don't have to wait. I'm gonna give you a sneak peek of what's actually in the book. It is 600 pages of resources for you guys with over 300 resources with links so you can find a job for you.   Like one of my beta readers said, if you can't make money using this book then you can't make money. There is something in here for absolutely everybody. Not only do we have the jobs, we have the jobs sorted by interest or category or skill set. We have a huge section for Nomads. We have work for seasonal workers you probably never thought of, and I'm not just talking about camp hosting or the beat harvest, although that's in there too. We also have an exhaustive section on what you can do as a driver, including delivering RVs, or being a pilot car driver, or just being an on-the-way delivery driver, where maybe you deliver a puppy to somebody because it's on your route. Yes, you can make money that way. Listen you guys, I can now be more excited about this. I think this book is going to help everybody. Everybody that wants to be on the road, or is on the road, or just people that want to make a little extra money, or escape the job that they're in. I'm going to tell you more about it in the days to come. The next video you're going to see, I'm hoping, is a live stream from the TED Talk that I'm doing on January 18th in Austin. Of course I can't put the video on my own channel, but I'm going to give you guys a live stream either right before or right after I do it, depending on the logistics, and I'm going to give you guys a link so you can watch it if you want.  If you need to make some money either on the road or to get on the road or off the road, ten more days and you're going to have everything you need to do that. I hope you're all doing well out there and I hope to see you on the road someday soon. Until then, I hope you're all having happy travels out there and be free.


So an important idea in mathematics and in life is identity It's important to distinguish between expressions identities and equations an Expression is a valid sequence of variables constants and operators So 3x plus 7 is an expression This horrible thing is an expression Cosine is not an expression because this is not a valid sequence It says to take the cosine of something, but doesn't specify the something Five divided by is not an expression because it's not a valid sequence It says divide five by something, but doesn't identify the something But if we do write something there, it does become an expression In this particular case because we're dividing by zero and we're not allowed to do that this expression is meaningless But it's still an expression An equation is a statement claiming the equality of two expressions. So some equations might be And finally an identity is an equation that is always true regardless of the value of the variables So if I were to take x plus 7 and square it I always get x squared plus 14x plus 49 and if I were to take x plus 2 It's always the same as 2 plus x The wonderful thing about identities identities are wonderful things is that their equations we can use in any problem a Related notion of some importance is this idea of a paradox a paradox is an equation That is never true regardless of the value of the variables. So x plus 2 equals 5 plus x is never true Square root 3x plus 8 equals negative 5 is never true because square root always indicates a non-negative number and C-can theta equals zero also a paradox because there is no value for which this is true The wonderful thing about identities identities are wonderful things, but there is more than one of them the good news is most of them are Unimportant and in fact, there's only a couple that are really important and most of them center around what's called the Pythagorean identity So here's a quick recap of trigonometry on the unit circle So remember if theta is nanglin standard position It's terminal side will intersect the unit circle at a point where the y-coordinate is sign The x-coordinate is cosine and the tangent is y over x So suppose we have a unit circle centered at the origin the equation of the circle is x squared plus y squared equals 1 since x equals cosine theta and y equals sine theta and Equals means replaceable we can replace and get what's known as the Pythagorean identity For any angle theta sine squared theta plus cosine squared theta equals 1 And it's worth keeping in mind that because this is always true Regardless of the angle theta this is an identity and remember an identity is an equation You can always use in any problem For example, suppose sine of theta is 3 fifths and theta is a second quadrant angle. Let's find the cosine of theta So we'll start by drawing a unit circle centered at the origin with an angle theta in the second quadrant Since we can always use an identity in any problem We know that sine squared theta plus cosine squared theta must equal 1 We know the value of sine of theta. It's given to us So it can substitute in and solve for cosine And we have two possible values of cosine theta plus or minus four fifths Now remember that the cosine of theta is going to be our x-coordinate and Since we do a picture we see that the x-coordinate of our point must be negative And so since theta is an angle in the second quadrant cosine of theta must be negative And that means the cosine of theta must be negative four fifths Now you really only need sine squared theta plus cosine squared theta equals 1 but It is helpful to have some other identities and the other identity that's really important comes from our observation that the Tangent of theta is the sine of theta divided by the cosine of theta Since an identity is an equation we can use in any problem We can start with sine squared theta plus cosine squared theta equals 1 if we divide through by cosine squared theta Our first term can be rewritten as sine theta over cosine theta squared The second term is just one and the third term can be rewritten as 1 over cosine theta squared And here's where knowing those definitions is useful tangent of theta is sine theta over cosine theta So we can replace one of our cosine theta is the same as secant theta so we can replace and We get another identity also known as a Pythagorean identity For any angle theta tangent squared theta plus 1 is equal to secant squared theta So suppose tangent theta equals 12 over 5 and theta is an angle of the third quadrant find the values of sine and cosine Since we solved every other problem in trigonometry by drawing a picture we should Draw a picture We'll draw a unit circle centered at the origin with angle theta in the third quadrant Third quadrant Now remember the sine and cosine of the angle are going to be the y and the x coordinates and Since the angle is in the third quadrant We have x less than zero and y less than zero and since x is Cosine of theta and y is the sine of theta it follows that cosine of theta must be less than zero and sine of theta must be less than zero From our Pythagorean identity sine squared theta plus cosine squared theta equals 1 or Tangent squared theta plus 1 equals secant squared theta Since we know the tangent of theta is 12 fifths we can substitute solve for secant theta and Since we're looking for sine and cosine we found neither of them Remember that by definition secant theta is one of her cosine theta So since secant theta is one of her cosine theta then cosine theta is one of her secant theta And so that means that cosine of theta is plus or minus five-thirteenths But there can be only one cosine of theta must be either five-thirteenths or negative five-thirteenths So which one is it fortunately? We've drawn a picture Remember the x-coordinate corresponds to the cosine of the angle and since theta is an angle of the third quadrant x must be negative so cosine of theta must be negative five-thirteenths To find sine of theta we can do a number of different things But probably the easiest is to use our relationship tangent theta equals sine theta over cosine theta So sine theta is equal to tangent theta times cosine theta And we know the value of tangent theta and the value of cosine theta so we can calculate the value of sine theta


Hello, and welcome to the session. This is Professor Farhad. In this session, we would look at an example for the cost allocation using the step method. I already in the prior session, I cover the direct method, and this lecture can be found on my farhadlectures.com as well as other lectures such as intro to cost allocation. But in this section, I will focus on the step method. And to be consistent, I'm gonna be using the same example that I used in the prior session, which is for the direct method. So we are dealing with a home life insurance company that have two service department, S1 and S2. S1 is the actuarial department, S2 is the premium department, and we have two production department, P1 and P2. P1 is the advertising department, P2 is the sales department. The distribution of each department effort and percentages to other department are shown below. So for example, the actuarial department contribute 80% of the premium, 10% of the advertising, and 10% of the sales. The premium department contribute 20% of the actuarial, 20% of advertising, and 60% of the sales. This is how they are allocated. Let's take a look at the dollar amount. We have $80,000 in the actuarial department. This is coming from here. In the premium, we have $15,000. In the advertising, we have $60,000. And in the sales department, we have right now $40,000 in basically, in a sense, overhead direct operating cost. So how are we gonna allocate now the $80,000 from actuarial? And we always start with the largest or the service department that provide the most. And obviously the actuarial department that provide $80,000 more than the premium. So we're gonna go only one way. So basically what's gonna happen, the service department now in this step method, it's gonna allocate some money to the service department too, then it's gonna allocate some money to the P1 and some money to P2. How are we gonna figure out how much are they going to allocate to each department? Well, here are the percentages. This is at up to 100%, 80 plus 10 plus 10 is 100%. So let me do this step-by-step. 80%, plus 10, plus 10 equal to 100. So the premium department will get 80 divided by 100, which is 80%. And the other department, 10 over 100 or 10%. So let's go ahead and allocate first the actuarial overhead. So 80,000 times 80%, 64,000. So from the 80,000, we're gonna allocate 64,000 to the service department, service department too. And the remainder, 10% of 80,000 is 8,000. We're gonna allocate 8,000 and 8,000. And if you add them up 64, plus 8, plus 80 equal to 80,000, we allocated the 80,000. Now, the second step is we're gonna allocate S2, which is, let me do this in a different color. We're gonna allocate S2, which is now S2 has 15 plus 64, that's 0, 0, 0, 9, 79,000. Now we're gonna allocate 79,000 from S2 to P1 and P2. So simply put, we don't go backward in the step-up method. We don't go backward and allocate anything from S2 to S1, although we are providing S1 with 20%. So simply put that 20%, we don't use simply put. So how are we gonna allocate to the other two departments? Again, the ratio is 20 plus 60 equal to 80. So we're gonna allocate 20 divided by 80, which is again 25%. 25% goes to production, one to advertising. And 60 divided by 80 is 75% goes to P2, which is sales. So now what we have to do is take 79,000 times 25%, and that's equal to 19,750, 19,750. Then we're gonna take 79,000 times 75%, or the remainder of that, which is 59,250. 59,250, and if we add them up, they should add up to 79,000. It means we allocated everything. Now we are done. Now what we do is we add up how much was allocated to P1, 68, 78, 750, 87, 750. And for production too is 40, 48, 9,250. That's 107, 250. And this is how we allocated the service department using the step method, the step method. The last method that we were gonna be using is the reciprocal model. Basically where S1 provide services to S2, S2 provide service to S1, then they provide the allocation to the production department. If you have any questions, any comments, by all means email me. And if you've taken my class, see me in class. If you're studying for your CPA or your CMA exam, as always, study hard. It's good.