So you think Desi Banks will work? Desi Banks is doing, he said that you say it'll act in lightly. You taking comedy lightly. You said that. I said you're careful who you say is a comedian. You did say that. No, you can't just give up. So what would you call them? Give them a name. They just get on the internet. We on Boss Talk 101, 101. Yeah. Don't get surprised over all of this. All I'm saying, when I interviewed Alex Thomas, Alex Thomas said the same thing. Yeah. He said five minutes is not the same as doing a whole set. These guys, some of them are doing sets. Some of them are doing Netflix specials. Can I ask you a question? If I built the refrigerator, is it good? Because I did it. We don't know. We don't think it's going to work. It ain't going to work. Oh, you don't know. Because you don't know how to do it right. Because I don't know how to do it right. That's like a TI when you say that. The only reason TI is successful is because he was a musician first. But if TI was just trying to get on stage, he'd be way behind it. TI took his attributes from rapping and his words from rapping. He might rap up there is what you just said. No, no, what I'm saying is he has a, he knows how to, he knows how to get and to build stuff. Yeah. He knows how to build a personality, a star, a story. He knows, he's been acting. I've never seen him in a movie. I was like, man, I think it sucked. He's good. Who else then came out that just blew up, you know?  Blow up them is a nut. That's it. It's a nut. You think Desi Banks blew up? Desi Banks is doing, he said that you say it'll act in lightly. You taking that, you taking comedy lightly. You said that. I said, you're careful who you say is a comedian. You did say that. No, no, you can't just give. So what would you call them? Give them a name. They just niggas on the internet. What? Well, you call internet people.  Here we go. That's the answer. That's the answer. You just call my guy. I keep talking to him. Rob Bosa. Rob Bosa. And I've been looking at this guy, he's. Ralph, yeah, Ralph. He's dope, right? How'd you know him? You're not as demographic. No, I was at the, I actually interviewed Black Run and Black Run. Black Run said he was the, he was second. He said that Ralph was first. Now he said he was the first out of Dallas. That's how I end up. I said, OK. It's all like Brandon Hurd, but I'm low key the highest decorated black comedian from Dallas. And I used to say the highest decorated comedian from Dallas. But here lately, my man Ralph Barbosa. OK. Been tanned up. And he's here in Dallas? He's an old Cliff native. And he shot out to my essay. Harry having a baby at a young age. I feel like I'm a new employee who just got put to train and even newer employees. That's also just as old Cliff as we are. You know what I'm saying? And wait a minute. Let me tell you the story. That night, I ended up at the restaurant with Ralph's girlfriend, Lord Greenville. That night, I posted that. And I was like, she was like, yeah, my boyfriend, Ralph. So the next day, they started talking to me. I was like, get him on my show because I just posted him today. I just found out who he is. That's how that happened. You know why? Because he's good. He cuts through the motherfucking influencers. Influencers. He's good. He was doing all the little service. Black Rob is good. And you can tell. He was opening for me. Smashing. He said, he's funny. Yeah, he's crazy with it. Make sure I tell him, call him. He's like, I'm busy, Faze. Hey!   No, he's ready to two-faced, Faze, huh? He's the black two-faced. That's our culture.   Man, but he came from the trenches. I remember him being at this small place, long time ago, and he was in this studio and it wasn't all that nobody else. You were in that too. And then he's like, you forgot about me. You want to even bring me on the show? I'm like, nigga, I don't know you. I don't know this show. Sidney, what's my brother's name? Oh, Ali Sidney. Ali Sidney. Ali Sidney. Shout out to Danny. That's where they go in this, that's the culture. Yeah, motherfucker. He's been doing a lot. I've always been a bad, yeah. Yeah, he's been doing. He was on a roll with Bill Gollumny. He made it for me at the end, he snipped off. And he had all these comics and places and all that. Faze, I can't even come through. I was like, nah, bro, like, I, you know. But it, working. But the working. Working. Now put the working. You know, Coachy Kevin? Ali Sidney. Country Wayne, man. Country Joe, whatever it is. Ali Sidney. All these people you've mentioned are true comedians. Put the work in. You can hear when he's speaking, man. You go get the boots. They get in the makeshift, get in the boots. Makeshift in the boots, makeshift in the boots. Makeshift in the boots? Makeshift in the boots, makeshift in the boots. That is gonna be an iconic story that came from a real comedian. He's a bad mother. I got a question to you. Yeah, I'm gonna turn it down. Going back to relationships. Right. Yeah, we put to get you a woman today. Going back to relationships.  Would you ever, cause I see where Sharon Osburn and Ozzie Osburn, you already know your relationship. Oh, he knows them, believe me. Right? And she would tell him, cause you know, he was always on the road and you know, fans, girls, all of that. She would tell him, well, when you going out here dealing with all of these groupies, just make sure you wear a condom and don't get no names and don't get no addresses. Is that cool for you?  She's there for the long run.  He's just doing something. He just really being a superstar. Like no matter what happened with Charles, you know she got too bad. Yeah, for damn sure. She said there'd be cameras. With me, everywhere we go. No, she did it. I know, I saw it. I said, yeah, she do it. She do it. She took it over. Put over the thing, put over the thing. Then she got the hot shells over here. She working, man. So Sharon came up in the era where she said, okay, do you want to be separated or do you want to share?   All them girls that he fucked, he don't remember not one of them. But guess who's there right now? Guess who's living in Beverly Hills right now? That's old school. Guess who's out of family right now? That's Grandma Neal. That's Grandma Neal. There you go. That's Grandma Neal. I'll see you when he comes out. That's Grandma Neal. That's Grandma Neal. Oh, he's she crazy. Nah, that's Grandma Neal. But do you think those type of women still exist in the younger generation nowadays? Younger, you seen him twerking, man. It's nice showing you how they were. The world is not trying to do nothing with us, man. Tiktok, no, Tiktok, man. No, they not, they not built for that. They built for nothing. There's nothing you can do a 25 year old, because they're brave. You can't even see that because remember, you have a daughter that's gonna get older. But my daughter's under my guidance. And some of these young girls out here are under some, under the guidance of the older. No, I don't think so. Not from what you see. I don't think so. Not from what he sees. I don't think so. That's the experience, right? I don't think so. Lack of guidance. It's like, yeah, yeah. Father's not in the homes. Not in the homes. Thank you. And they're not carrying it, it's logically they're not doing. And I was getting kind of into it because I was like, okay. But she tells me she has to go to Atlanta to network. And I was like, network what? Well, I'm an influencer.  What do you mean you're an influencer? What do you mean? But in their mind, they think they're influencer something. This girl got 3,000 followers. But they think because fame is a. Fame is a monster. Fame is a monster. It could be whatever, what you want. But if you believe it, you would 3,000 followers. If you think you the shit, right? She says she's doing a calendar. I said, you know, people don't really use calendar. That's just the beginning of porn.  Can you send by the motorcycle with your tits out like that? Great, it's gonna be great for the calendar.  They cut that part and keep the picture.


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Yeah, where you think positive, I think there was even Norma Vincent Peele's The Power of Positive Thinking and so on and so forth. Just as a basic stepping stone idea, when people are just starting to get into spirituality, you know, when you talk about the positive, it's it is people's inroads into peace of mind, when they talk about positive thinking, they're talking about peace of mind and joy and love and happiness, you know, live each day in a positive attitude, a positive note. So it has a general connotation. There was a movie called What the Bleep Do We Know, a quantum physics movie and they had a former theologian on there, Michael Leblitz, who's one of my Facebook friends and basically he said most of the time though, when people get into positive thinking, it's just like a smear, he called it, over a lot of negativity. So oftentimes when people talk about positive thinking, they talk about affirmations and so forth and the deeper you go into spirituality, when you go much deeper, you start to realize that that to use mantras or positive sayings or positive affirmations without getting down underneath at what's going on in consciousness is a bit like, like putting sweet icing on a cake of mud. You know, if we want to use kind of a graphic analogy so that if you just tasted the top of the cake, it could be quite tasty and sweet.  So I was actually in Sandy's house in the bathroom where I was staying and basically there was a little handwritten note on the window about you know, your task is not to seek for love but to find and remove all the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence. Everything that you've built against love has to be exposed and released. And in that sense you can say that any authentic spiritual path that takes you inward toward the light is more a journey through the darkness to the light. Or what a lot of times in Eastern teachings and spirituality, they'll call it negation. You basically, instead of affirming all is one, God is love, I am the light and so on and so forth, it's more of exposing everything that you've built against that state of awareness, which is natural. So it's not like you have to do anything to bring the light in. The light's already in there. It's already who you are. The light is lit. It's the veils of false beliefs that have been drawn over the light that are blocking the light from awareness. So in one sense, even in the East, they have this saying called neti neti, not this, not that. It's very much emptying the mind of everything that's believed to be real. And the Buddha called that going into the void. Jesus has a lot of teachings along the same lines, probably the most prominent one is in lesson 189 of the workbook, where he says simply do this, be still, lay aside all thoughts of what you are, what God is. You know, he's basically saying empty your mind. It sounds very Buddhist when you start reading that paragraph. Hold on to nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past is taught. One thought before of anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with holy empty hands unto your God. It's a beautiful passage of just emptying your mind of all the false concepts and beliefs that are there. And I remember the first time I read that paragraph, I just felt this deep, my heart chords were just going very strong, like this is really the essence of the teaching. That's really, you might say, the essence of Buddhism and the essence of the Course in Miracles really come together in that sense of emptying the mind. And then you start to see where as Buddhism would, you know, advocate a lot of meditation. Of course the miracles really brings in that aspect of relationship, the mirroring that goes on. And so in that context, we could say that this emptying can be accelerated through relationship, which is a little bit different than traditional pathways, which basically say, you know, go off to the mountain, go in the cave, pull away as many distractions as you can so that you can face the distractions in your mind, these thoughts that are called by many different names and different traditions.  And people say, what do you mean a dry drunk? You're not drinking. And they said, I still have the stinking thinking. You know, it's all authentic spiritual paths eventually work down to the thoughts and the beliefs and away from the behaviors, because behavior is really just effects. And as difficult as behavioral change can seem to be in this world, it seems to be even more difficult to to change your thinking and to literally take on a whole new thought system. So swinging back to your original question about the power of positive thinking and what my views are on that, it's very much that as you go much, much, much deeper, you realize that the ego set up a dualistic world, a dualistic thought system, and a thought system of opposites to cover over the truth of being, the truth of pure oneness. So in that sense, the positive and the negative, the opposites of the world, were set up as a trick. And so oftentimes when people just kind of skim the surface of spirituality and they try to put on a happy face and try to, okay, I'm going to think positively, it may seem to work and may have some general benefits from that effort, but then they usually face like a wall of something that they really weren't prepared for. This like dark unconscious guilt that's under the surface of this positive and the negative. And in that sense, I advocate, as you go much deeper, as you really have to empty your mind of the positive and the negative, in that sense. All of the compliments and the criticisms are actually both part of a defense mechanism against the pure truth that's underneath it.


Hello, friends and colleagues of the Canada Museums of Science and Technology. My name is Gary Polonsky and I'm speaking today about our annual report. I'm going to read the first three paragraphs from my chair's remarks from the report verbatim and then I would encourage you to read the other six paragraphs by accessing the report online. From early stone tools to super colliders, science and technology have always reflected the human kind's desire to innovate overcome limitations and answer big questions. Throughout history and even prehistory we have sought to improve crop yields and fight pests. We have sought to soar into the skies higher and faster. We have sought cures for diseases. We have also studied the what, how and why of everyday life. With the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation we celebrate innovation. At our three museums we look at the science and technology behind agriculture and food, aviation and space as well as the scientific principles and technologies that make the world go round. To accomplish all of this we work through five corporate priorities, an outstanding collection, education and exhibitions, outreach, sustainability and profitability and a renewed and innovative infrastructure and I repeat the rest is online. Folks besides reading the annual report I ask you particularly to visit our museums, agriculture and food, aviation and space and science and technology which in November will be opening a brand new museum and I hope that you will fall in love with a quarter of a billion dollar commitment that you will have helped to invest. An amazing fantastic team of Canadians is working around the clock so that project will meet its four declared aims which are on time, on budget, to rave reviews and of national import. The intent is for our museums to be a major showcase, a major source of inspiration for all Canadians in the cause of innovation which we all know is going to frame our world for our lives and well beyond. It will be possible for your kids to set up their kitchen table and access our collection through apps as part of their homework assignment or just because they're curious and it's just part of the wonderful new world that is before all of us. So I'm going to close by thanking everyone, the Prime Minister and Minister Jolie, our heritage partners, our corporate partners, members, volunteers, our remarkable colleagues and all of Canada because it truly takes a country to build a national museum let alone three of them.


How managers build trust in teams matters being able to build trust quickly is more than just a skill Building trust starts with your approach to the team what you believe in and how you display this with your team as much as what you say and do If you don't have the trust of your team, you don't have a team You will struggle to lead people who don't trust you You'll struggle to maintain or improve team performance and you will struggle to do your job as a manager Trust must be earned and building trust does take work and personal commitment I'm not sharing tips tricks or techniques I am sharing trust building principles that will work with all teams and consistently over years You can tell your team exactly what you're doing and get the same result trust being built Today, we're going to go through these five principles for how managers build trust in teams And as we go through I'll be giving you practical tips to implement so you can improve your trust building today and onwards My name is Jess Coles and if you're new here in Hans dot training shares people management expertise Resources and courses so you can manage your team with integrity and fairness and get outstanding results I've included links to additional videos and resources in the description below as well as a video timestamps So do take a look at these And if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe The first principle for how managers build trust in teams is practice what you ask for I've seen managers ask for the team to be honest and realistic and then when answering questions two minutes later Provides a corporate tagline what they've been told to say that they clearly don't believe in If winning team trust is what you want You must practice what you ask for if you'll want your team to tell you the truth then tell them the truth If for example, if you have been told to tell the team a specific message Which you don't really believe in then say to your team that you've been told to say a certain message Which is xxx and that is all you're allowed to say This conveys the message needed balance with being honest with the team and keeping your bosses happy Every action decision and behavior you undertake communicates what you believe in to your team and those around you Ensure the actions and decisions that you take and the behavior you display matches what you believe in This is managing with authenticity, which in my view is absolutely critical to building trust What you believe in and demonstrate consistently is what your team will trust Another example to be trusted as a manager. You must trust your team in Micro-management checking up on people every hour not taking what they say is the truth Are all actions that don't extend trust from you to your team? If you are not practicing trust, how will you be trusted in return? When building team trust think carefully about your decisions and actions before you take them Ask am I making this decision or taking this action for the good of the team If you consistently make decisions and take actions that help the team that move team members or the whole team towards team targets Then you will build trust If you make decisions or take actions to help yourself to advance your career or to protect yourself Rather than help the team your team will know or find out and trust will be damaged or destroyed If you have no trust you have no team So practice what you ask for do your best to live the rules that you set for your team lead by example and do what you're asking The second principle for how managers build trust in teams is tell it's how it is. I Really like to know where I stand if I'm doing a rubbish job I want to know so I can change what I'm doing if I'm doing really well Then I want to know why I'm doing well so I can do more of it in the right context If you're not prepared to share what you think and believe in then how will your team trust you of course you have to share What you think diplomatically you need to be empathetic you need to be considerate be all those and still be true to yourself When a team member is not doing well tell them how they can improve in private and make the time to help them improve Be specific and be helpful and tell it's how it is When creating trust at work, you should also be aware of when you mess up You admit your mistakes honestly admit you have doubts about what you've been asked to do by others Explain the true extent of the challenge being faced by the team or by you There is a balance between sharing errors and mistakes and looking incompetent or displaying too much weakness Keep on the right side of this line and you'll build a lot of trust of your team by showing some of your weaknesses Tell it how it is when the situation is positive shout about it from the rooftops When the situation is negative be careful how you communicate the message while still telling it how it is Being open and honest while being true to yourself creates a lot of trust The third principle for how managers build trust in teams is build personal connections Trusting someone to do a task is quite different from trusting the other person to look after us as a person For example, I thought my worst boss was great at many of the tasks he needed to do in his job And I trusted in how well he would do them. I didn't trust him to help me to look out for me in the slightest Same to people to very different levels of trust In my view to be a good manager or leader building trust on a personal level is way more important than building trust in your professional skills or Technical competence. Yes, the latter counts and are important Consistently demonstrating that you care about your team members that you keep their interest in mind in making decisions That you go out of your way to help them or have their back Even if it costs you personally is key in how managers build trust in teams So get your mindset and approach to your team really clear in your own mind and make sure it's focused on helping team members and the team overall Then work to help and support team members show your willingness to protect them from the politics your unreasonable demands, etc Show you want to help them move their careers forward at a pace that suits them Work to consistently demonstrate that you are working for the interests of the team and when aligned the interests of the individual in your team Build personal collections with your team and show them that they can trust you to look after their interests The fourth principle for how to managers build trust in teams is to champion transparency and openness Work with your team to narrow down what tasks activities and projects Make a difference to the team's results and how the team is going to reach and beat targets Then you can align the team's roles and responsibilities clearly with how the team is going to meet and beat team targets Work to educate the team in what matters to the team's performance and how each person can contribute to that performance When every team member understands the what and the why then work on creating open and transparent Measurement of progress towards team targets There are several reasons for creating measurement Firstly numbers are clear cut unlike opinions. Everyone will know how they are doing Secondly you tap into peer pressure. No one likes letting team members down or not pulling their weight Third you and the rest of the team can spot problems quickly and step in to help equally quickly Creating transparency and the openness in a team is a big step towards building trust Everyone is looking at the same information and making judgments and decisions based on the same information The team can see that the data is telling them the same thing you are The more consistent the picture the more trust you build and the quicker you build it The fifth principle for how managers build trust in teams is to listen and act on what your team provides As a manager listening to your team and acting on what they tell you is priceless They are closer to the action than you are likely to be They'll be the first to spot problems and probably be able to create good solutions or at least input into creating good solutions Listening to what they tell you and acting on the issues or suggestions provided is a great way of building team trust You are taking team members seriously. You are showing you value their ideas opinions and solutions by acting on them Picture this scenario a team member has a problem comes over and tells you about it You ask questions to understand more about the problem and check on the data to make sure you're being told the complete picture Then you work to get the problem solved permanently Think about the messages that you are sending the messages will include Yeah, first of your problems are important to me and I will work to solve them with you or for you Secondly, I trust you to bring me the issues that you struggle to solve and that they are impacting you Third your issues and ideas matter. So I will listen to you and consider what you tell me Fourth, I want you and the team to do well Fifth, I want you to bring me more issues so we can solve them and sixth. I respect you as a person Now you get the idea. There is a lot of trust being built in this simple scenario You're looking out for them. You are helping them. You are doing what most people would think is the right thing Listening and acting on what the team tells you is a great display of your trust on your part of the team members And they will trust you more for taking sensible fair action as a result Listening is a more important management skill than giving great speeches by far in my opinion listen to your team In summary, there is a lot that goes into how leaders build trust and teams Gaining trust at work is more about what you believe in the actions and decisions you take and the behavior you display than about what you say Be true to your beliefs while also balancing what you need to do in your job as a manager Being authentic to yourself is a key part of building team trust Pay a lot of attention to your actions decisions and behaviors Each is communicating what you believe and think to your team The five principles we have been through to get your team to trust you are Firstly practice what you ask for Secondly, tell it how it is third build personal connections fourth Champion transparency and openness and fifth listen and act on what your team provides If you have any questions on how managers build trust and teams Please leave them in the comment section below and I'll get back to you Thanks very much for watching and I look forward to speaking to you again soon


Okay. Hello, everybody. My name is John Stanford. I'm with Selenia. We're a product and services company in the OpenStack space. And today we're going to go through some high-level and low-level details of gathering and managing logs and kind of some mining of log data.  It's a very long history of logging. I grew up in Wisconsin. When I was a kid, we'd see stuff like this all the time. There's an equivalent to this in the computing domain, the first bug ever captured in a system log of some activity. But like many things, logging has evolved. This is actually more like what I saw when I was a kid in Wisconsin. And this is more like what we see today in systems and logging. So there's a good range of technologies available to you to both aggregate and process logs. And that's a giant step forward from the days of jumping around from system to system, trying to find what caused an event and doing the mental correlation of events to get to the bottom of problems that were occurring in your environment. So we all know that complexity is king in the cloud. There's a lot of moving pieces and up and down the stack and sideways and up and down the hardware stack. We've got all kinds of different things generating metrics and events and a lot of stuff to keep track of for an operation staff running a production scale cloud. So this is the basic end to end flow that I'm going to talk about today. And so the TLDR is if you don't want to see a bunch of detail and code, this is what I'm going to talk about. So shipping events via RSS log to LogStash and pushing them into Elasticsearch. The high level is we need to do a few things in the various configuration files associated with OpenStack. We need to do a little bit of modification in the RSS log. And from there we get into LogStash flow of events through their inputs, filters and outputs. And then we'll talk a little bit about querying that data in Elasticsearch. Before we get too far into this, you know, let's talk a little bit about how logs are structured and the standards that might apply. In most of the OpenStack projects, there's a close affinity to the RFC 5424 you believe the comments in the configuration file by Juno. The current format will be sort of deprecated and they'll be going towards a purely RFC 5424 standard. And we'll talk about what that is in a second. An alternate that I threw up there just for fun is kind of the NCSA Apache Common Log format. That's something you'll tend to see in Apache logs and other web server logs. It keeps track of, you know, URL calls or calls into the front end of the web server. As I said, project adoption varies today, but it seems like things are heading in the right direction. There's a few variants that I'll touch on as we go through here. But nothing that can't really be worked around if you're using this sort of chain of processing where you can, you know, patternize these events and recognize the differences. However, I mean, when you have these patterns and a deviation from a standard, it makes it really hard to know for sure that you're capturing all the relevant data. There's always a possibility that something has slipped through the cracks, didn't get caught by your filters, and didn't get put into the right bucket of information. So, you know, until some event occurs where you're actually looking through logs again to find, you know, find some specific cause of an event, you may not notice that something's slipping through the cracks. So, you know, we try very hard to find all those things and patternize them, but I think there's a real good play in there for some anomaly detection in logs and how you're processing and all that good stuff, which opens up a whole new can of worms, which I hope to focus a lot on this year as we go forward. And then finally, you know, time stamps have been the bane of my existence for the last six months, at least, and probably the last, you know, 25 years of my career. The... Okay, so let's get into a bit about what an OpenStack message looked like today. Most of the projects use a format that looks kind of like this. You have a date stamp. You'll notice that the date stamp doesn't have a time zone. That's not great. You have a process ID that generated. You have a log level. The log levels, you know, have a fairly standard implementation, although there's some audit levels in there that aren't part of the syslog spec. I think that's okay. I mean, we know what they're for, and if you process them correctly and they're used consistently, you know, everything should be fine. The program that generated the log, that's really helpful. And in this case, an empty ID. Sometimes you'll see instance IDs in Nova. You'll see request IDs in other projects. And then the message itself, which is sometimes the most important part. So in this case, I truncated it, but it was, you know, we connected a MQP Yahoo. I can send messages from a compute node to a controller. So some things we want to do to be able to centralize the processing of these log messages is to go into the Nova config or, you know, sorry, Neutron config or any config relative to the OpenStack projects that support this flag and turn on syslog, use syslog equal to true. Set it to true. What happens then is they'll defer logging to syslog, and if you don't do anything else, you'll end up with a log on your local system that follows the rules that are set up in your rsyslog.conf most likely. In fact, everything I'll talk about is based on rsyslog on CentOS 6.5 here. And the message you'll get is roughly this gray part down in the bottom. If you turn on shipping to a remote system, you'll end up with these three bullets up above that are generated by rsyslog that tell you that the Bracket 132 is really the log level and facility that it was shipped with. The date, you'll notice, is even worse than the one generated by OpenStack and the host name that generated the log event. So now we're going to move into some other things that might help us that I've been exploring. I was really excited to see in Icehouse this flag, use syslog RFC format, equals true. And the thing that really caught my eye was that it's going to add the app name before the message. I had no luck getting that to work, but it could be me, it could be something in my environment. I'm going to continue to try it and I'll chase it back into the code base if I can't figure out something locally that's causing it not to work. The goal is nice because as we'll see in a coming up slide, the app name would be really helpful for us to categorize these things so that I can tell not just by the host name or the program name where things are coming from but by actually an app name that's included in the message itself. So what I found was that when I tried to turn this on a Nova compute node, the Nova compute service wouldn't start as long as use syslog was true as well. And when I turned use syslog equal to false, then the message that went into the log file looked exactly like the message that went into the log file with this flag set to false. So again, it could be me, but I'll keep experimenting with that and we'll see if we can chase it down. So now we'll get into a little bit about how we set up our syslog to ship things. The date that we had in the previous message was very minimalist and if you go dig into the documentation on our syslog, you'll find that there are a couple templates that come with our syslog that are really helpful to make that a little more robust. So the action file default template and action forward default template control the format of the messages that go into files when you're putting them locally or that get baked into the message that gets shipped over the wire if you're sending them over a TCP or UDP connection or forwarding them to another server. And what we get out of that is a really high resolution date stamp that's in a very commonly understood format. And that'll make things a lot easier when we get down the chain so we don't have to really patternize this date stamp as year, month, day, hour, minute, second, dot, dot, dot. We should be able to just say ISO format, date, and run with it there. And we get the host name as we did before. So you'll notice that there's a bit of redundancy so I theorize that this is due to the origination of the way OpenStack logging has come to be. And I think that over time, if OpenStack decides to move towards using our syslog as the main logging mechanism and I'm not sure if that's going to happen or not we could reduce some of that redundancy by recognizing that our syslog is going to inject some fields into the message that we don't have to capture as extra work. Reduce the code base, simplify everything, make everybody happy. So that's setting up the... These are global settings in your rsslog.conf file. Rsslog typically allows you to specify a sub-configuration file. In fact, it reads everything in conf.d directory by default. So rsslog.dconf.d And so what we've done in our project is to use that to define shipping. And if you recall back to a few slides where we talked about getting the component or the app name in here, this is where I'm doing it. And so I'll get into why this isn't such a great thing, but it works for now. But let's first walk through what's going on here. We're saying that we want to forward logs over TCP protocol on port 5514 for everything to my server in my lab. And the local zero through local six are... I'm mapping upstream to a particular service in OpenStack. There's some benefits in here that are fairly obvious if you know what you're looking for. One is if my upstream server is down, this will queue up to a gigabyte of logs locally, and then when it detects that the server's back up, it will start shipping those logs. I'm not really clear on what happens to the timestamp in that case, so I'm going to make sure that I take care of it upstream and I'll take it from the message itself, which should have the timestamp from when it's generated. It might be that it's okay and gets rewritten here. Just haven't had time to explore that. So anyway, this configuration will get you shipping logs to a central system where you can really start to process them with LogStash. And with LogStash, there's a pattern of input processors, filters, and output processors. Can we get a sense of how many people have played around with LogStash or anything? Oh, good, quite a few folks. So this shouldn't be too strange to a lot of you. For those of you that this is new to, I'll do my best to walk through it. We can certainly talk afterwards and go through some things in more detail for clarification if you want to. The input's very simple. This maps to taking in messages on TCP port 5514, and I'm setting the type of events coming in on that stream to syslog so that later when I filter them, I know what kind of message it is, and I can process it accordingly. For a sake of seeing the end goal, I'm showing you that the output, before I get to the filters, the output is pushing to Elasticsearch. In this case, it's running locally on port 9200. And because of the more recent versions of Elasticsearch and LogStash trying to keep in sync, they recommend that you use the HTTP protocol rather than going natively with the Elasticsearch plugin. So that will get you whatever the result of your filtration is into Elasticsearch, which then makes it really nice, and we'll see that a little later to process that into something meaningful and useful. So the next big piece of LogStash is the patterns. I'm not really big on patterns. I wish that technology was advanced enough that I could just say, hey, here's a big test domain of log data. You tell me what the patterns are, but we're not quite there yet. If anybody's really interested in that project, let me know and we'll maybe kick something off. In any case, what we've got here is easier to read from the bottom up. So what I want to do is characterize an OpenStack syslog line, and I do that by a bunch of parameterized fields that map to different patterns in the text. There are trace messages as well as regular messages, and the trace messages tend to span multiple lines, and so there's a lot of work to get all these messages characterized. But the net effect is that if I match this pattern, I'm pretty confident that this message came from an OpenStack source. So we'll get into the filters now. So this is the internals of one of my filters that processes an OpenStack message into a way that I want to store it in Elasticsearch. So first thing I'm doing is checking to make sure that the type of this message came from the syslog source. It could have come from another input I have in the domain and would just immediately fail out and maybe not get processed if I didn't handle that accordingly. Or that we're really dealing with a source that I think has a good chance of matching this pattern. And so I'm also referencing the patterns directory where I've stored my patterns in a file, and I'm telling it that I want to match an OpenStack syslog line, which we just saw on the previous slide. And when I do that, I'm going to set my timestamp, a received at timestamp, for when I got this thing. And I'm also going to add a field, keeping the whole message intact. I use that a lot for debugging. I'm not sure if it has value beyond that, but the number of times I've had to go back and go, is this really doing what I think it is? Oh, I wish I had that message field that had everything before it got processed. I tend to leave it in there as long as space isn't a huge constraint. So once I get that, and if I don't end up with a parse failure in my list of tags, then I'll move on to continue filtering. If I end up with a parse failure, I'll do some cleanup. I may pass it on to something else that takes another shot at it for a different type of syslog message. It may just be something coming from another application or a piece of hardware or some other place where I want to process it a little differently. So I can clean out the grok parse failure tag and submit it back through the filter chain or down to a further filter. But in this case, let's assume that we got a good parse through here, and we now have a syslog message with those things. So let's include that priority, which is the little bracketed 132 we saw in the previous message. There are some capabilities built into log stash to do that natively. You just kind of tell it what the labels are that match to the different log levels, and then it'll go back and tell you if it creates a couple fields that tell you what the log level and the facility are. So out of that, I get a nice human readable version of that 132 meant. The next piece that I'm going to do is to process the date, and I'm going to take that from my messages timestamp because I really want to know when the event occurred, not necessarily when it arrived at the our syslog log stash front door. And here I've given the old way of doing that before I started playing with the new templates in syslog. In this case I'm parsing out what I know the format to be for an open stack log message and I'm removing my timestamp field because this puts it into a log stash generated field. And the side effect, the negative part of all this is that I have to be pretty confident that my whole lab environment is in UTC time zone. And it is most of the time, but somebody builds a new system and forgets and then you sort of have a skew of data that's going to make it really hard to correlate events. So getting that time zone into the timestamp is obviously critical. So moving on, the next thing we want to do is handle that syslog facility that was generated by the syslog PRI. And in this case what I'm going to do is map that to the particular components that I'm capturing in my lab from open stack based on what facility generated that log message. And so if you have looked at the syslog specification you're going to find that there are only seven, eight local log levels or local facilities. And so obviously this doesn't scale which is why I was really excited about that updated format and a little disappointed when I couldn't get it to work right off the bat. And it's also very important to me to get working because I have other projects that I want to incorporate into this pattern. So for now it's okay. Later I'll have to come up with something else. The net effect of this is if it doesn't match one of those syslog facilities I really don't know what it is with respect to open stack. I'm going to tag it as an unknown component. Otherwise I'm going to tag the component as the one that it matched. And so the next thing I do is just sort of clean up and mutate a bunch of the fields. I want to rename message to message and I want to rename syslog host to host because it's a little more parsable and readable for people who may be looking through the elastic search or doing queries, writing queries, getting rid of some fields that were just transient in my world assuming we got to this point in the filter and adding some tags to kind of give myself a sense of how this flowed through my filter chain. So at the end of this I'll know that it completed processing it was an open stack syslog and it matched filter 34. It may go on to do other things. I may pass it to another filter still which I'll go through in a second but the net is this is what I get in elastic search. I get a message that I'm really happy with and it's a broad category of messages but it's distilled from a sea of messages that could have contained everything in the whole set of messages generated including open stack. So a step in the right direction. So the next thing we'll do is take this and go okay now we know we have an open stack message can I make some sense out of it? There are some things that come through messages that kind of fit the profile of a metric and in this case it's an API call against Nova and what I might want to do then is start building some data to build a chart or a view of what the performance of the API is over time. So this pattern parses out a message and it assumes that you've already you're known as an open stack syslog message and then we can parse this a little further down into whether it was a get put post delete you know what its URI was dot dot dot effectively matching the event that gets logged in the API log for Nova. And our filtration assuming we've passed the original filter 34 is really straightforward right all I want to do is clean up a bunch of stuff that's not relevant to building this chart and I mean I could optionally leave it there I'm going to tag it as a metric because sometimes I want to search through elastic search for just metrics and I'm going to tell it which filter it passed and now I've got something very specific to work with right I've got a syslog message that we know is a metric that we know is related to an API called a Nova it came from an IP address it has a URI and I could work with that. So what do I do next right next I want to start querying for these things and making some sense out of you know out of them so in this case we've got an elastic search query that gets you back the open stack logs that were put in via our first pass through filter 34 so we're saying that a query must match a time range it must be a type of open stack log and we're going to also aggregate these events into a date histogram so that I can build a nice chart of how many occurred out at each time slice so in this case the time slice is 5,448 seconds we'll see why it's that in a second but the net is and I want to generate an event for a slice that had no events in it which is the min doc count equals zero and I call that event by log level I'm going to slice it that way so that I can filter on those things in a little bit the Nova API stats query is a little more complex what I'm doing here is matching everything I'm again looking for a time range and I'm looking for component Nova actually can submit the query against the specify the document type on the query call so I don't have it in here I didn't need it in the other one if I built the construct constructed the search properly in code properly differently in code in this case the assumption is that you're querying only the API stats again we're going to aggregate here we're doing it based on date first so I'm going to first get all the events that occurred in a time slice and then I'm going to do a sub aggregation on each of those things and break them down into whether calls were successful 200 to 299, 300 to 399 failed at 400 to 499 or 500 so that I can get a good sense of the failure rate of my APIs and finally I'm going to gather some extended statistics on these things so I can do min, max, average and variance and all this kind of stuff that you might want to incorporate into your chart so that brings me to a topic that has been near and dear to my heart for the time since I joined Selenia we introduced this week a product called Goldstone I've put the definition of Goldstone or the origin of the term in here because everybody asks what it is and the purpose of Goldstone is to bring some of this data to light let you see these things and build up an operator's perspective of an open stack cloud so you can download that from our website register this week it should be available next week and start playing around with it it's a free download at this point and some of the things you'll see are the result of all the stuff we just walked through so this is the log filtration query you can see the different log levels represented in there I didn't show you the part of the query because I was trying to conserve space that allows me to do the filtering on the log level but fundamentally if you click on one of those little boxes up in the legend it'll filter out that type of log event it will also rerun a query back on the Elasticsearch to refilter the table and so you can get a good view of things and since that query was time-ranged if you click on one of those data points in the chart you'll range into that data point with a little margin on each side and go closer into the data to navigate closer to a potential problem in the environment like that big red spike that represents a bunch of errors that occurred one day the other type of thing that we're doing is the metric report so the API report that we were doing the API query that we were building is the top left chart and so that's the NOVA API response time in my lab because it's really spiky because the tasks that generate some of the data are on my laptop and sometimes I take the lab down for various reasons so anyway it's not always available it's not a production facility so there are some other metrics that NOVA presents in logs that are really nice to pull out the spawn rate over here so I can see how often VMs are spawning in my environment and how successful that is and resource consumption across the different CPU memory and storage resources those things are generated out of logs when you spawn a new VM so you can scrape that out and build an assessment over the time slice and average it out or max it out depending on how you want to see things so that's a little bit about what Project Goldstone is doing and again you can download that from www.cellinia.com in the very short future so that's it for me my name is John Stanford I'm the VP of Development at Cellinia I'm happy to talk with folks but before you go I'd like to do something for my wife who's been patiently waiting for me to come home could you all wave and say hi Yaila thank you very much and if there are any questions I can take a few questions now I believe see how we're doing on time yeah okay, thank you thanks for your presentation is really good for your configuration files on your LogStacks do you do all your inputs save like in one configuration file for the LogStash configuration no actually what I have is a series of files in the LogStash configuration folder and they process, you know they set up a lot like etsyinit.d so I have a 01 input filter and a 34, sorry input and a 34 filter and 37 filter and on and on and on down to outputs in the 60s and 70s that kind of thing how is the Cellinia the tool which you showed the logging, displaying tool different from Kibana so from my perspective Kibana will give you a great deal of functionality in a limited set of visualizations so some of the things that I want to visualize and provide in a product go beyond that visualization capability and so rather than trying to do some things in Kibana and some things over here I just chose to put them all into our product and write our own visualization library so that I can extend to do what I want to do Thank you You didn't think of extending Kibana for that instead of writing a product? I did not think of extending Kibana for that I actually thought about it and I thought if Elasticsearch wants to extend Kibana for that they should As you increase the amount of filters in your LogStash configuration did you notice any severe degradation and message throughput? Can you speak up? I'm sorry I'm having a hard time with the number of filters in your LogStash configuration Did you notice any severe degradation?  Performance impact of... More LogStash filters More filters within LogStash I haven't seen it yet I suspect that I'll reach some point where the filters get complicated enough that I'll want to find maybe a client side solution to processing out some of these filters distribute the load a little bit and have it centralized or expand my layer of LogStash processors to account for the load What numbers did you see when your transactions per second how many nodes in your cluster? Most of this stuff has been running in my lab and I've been seeing somewhere around 10,000 messages a second and that's easily enough for my lab purposes Can you share some of the reasoning behind choosing LogSysLog type forwarding instead of LogStash forward or Lumberjack? Yeah, well one and probably most importantly is I wanted to minimize the footprint on the client side and the facility is already there and it does buffering and caching for that stuff it's a well tried and tested tool and again most importantly I didn't have to put another piece of software on the client side Sorry, I was bit late you mentioned that we can try it you have already released the code we can try it if you want to Can you share the slide or the link where you get it? Sorry, can we get this microphone turned up a little bit I'm just having a difficult time hearing out of it So I can speak loudly So I was bit late, sorry Did you mention that we can try it? Yes, so Can you share the link where we can get? Yes Let me quick see if I can do this Somewhere under there will be a Goldstone I don't know the exact URL path is it slash Goldstone? Right, registration today we'll notify you when it's available we just need to go back home and package it after the conference and make it available for folks What we plan to do is ship it as a VM so you can just drop it in your management tier minimal configuration set up some credentials for API access and set up your clients to ship logs back and that should be all you really need to do Is there any plan of alerting mechanism to be incorporated in this one? For alerting? Yes That's a longer term plan for Goldstone so this is a 1.0 release for us and we really wanted to get just the basic data capture and some reporting in place but the longer term will be to do some analysis and handling of known types of events and things like that So, future release Couple of questions The first one is if your OpenStack is a multi-node cluster does your tool aggregate all of them and provide one dashboard or is it per node basis? One more time, sorry So if you have a multi-node cluster multi-node cluster does your tool aggregate all the logs into one and provide one dashboard? Yeah, that's the goal So you set up every node in your OpenStack cloud so the controller, the compute nodes, the volume nodes and all that stuff and they all get shipped back to the central location The VM that we're shipping with 1.0 it's a VM, right? It's not a scaled-out solution for a giant production cloud but the technology itself the technology that we've chosen should scale for that if built, built a little differently which is something we'll be working on in the future So another question is does it help you with the root cause analysis if something goes wrong if you have like 10 node and you try to create one VM and you don't know where the scheduler scheduled that one and it errors out and instead of going through 10 node logs to find out where exactly that VM was spawned and what the reason is So we don't have any automated navigation to a root cause right now but if you go to the log chart you can quickly see a spike of events and drill in there and that's going to bring those events into the table as you drill further and further down to sub-second if you need to so then you can quickly see what hosts are participating and right now it's really just the OpenStack layer so it's not going to tell you a lot about networks and things like that Can I ask one more question? So what is the licensing for the tool the one that you have? Licensing is proprietary for now but it's free to use so that's the way we've chosen to do 1.0 2.0 will re-evaluate and see if it's something we want to open source Thank you The previous session I was in I was talking about a tool called Elastic Recheck which is part of OpenStack I was wondering, do you see there seems to be a lot of overlap about them? I don't Are they focusing on OpenStack specifically? OpenStack build and finding random occurrences that are very statistically low occurring but occur often enough Interesting, I'm not familiar with it but I would like to know more about it in a second we can just write down the URL Okay, I'm going to wrap it up to let the next person get the stage if there is such a thing I didn't look at the schedule but thank you all so much for your time Enjoy the rest of your summit


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Hello everybody and welcome back here to the channel. I'm your rabbit We're here on a set of Corsa on Hapagera And we're going to be taking this 370 z out for a little zero handbrake drifting So make sure you guys follow me and also should be knowledge found scripture box below. Let's get to it So we're gonna go full sense here without the handbrake We're not gonna use this we're gonna be using clutch kicks and weight transfers like I said, so let's go full-send here Give a hand away from the handbrake lever Definitely something that I am Trying to not utilize as much especially with competition drifting trying not to use it when it's not required or needed Look let's kick in We got this So Hapagera definitely a fun track to drive it on beam Beam physics are a little weird for me. I think of cars would slide or rotate as much as I really want it to So that's why handbrake was utilized a lot In the beam and G Video here on Hapagera, but this 370 Is definitely super dialed and very nice with weight transfer Little clutch will stab in the clutch there little clutch kicks to keep the car sideways Take your in the grass there or not. Oh, oh Well tap save it Right there would have been a way to utilize the handbrake to get the car to rotate So I didn't wreck the car with that tail tap And now Hapagera here does not let me go any further. So I'm just gonna flip back around I'm gonna cut that grass a little bit And head back on the downhill could be a little bit more difficult With speed, but it's manageable The left foot brake action going on We are running 60 brake pressure with 60 so that I can really left foot brake Keep the wheels in spin My wheel speed going This could be kind of a tricky turn Not really That would have been a turn that utilizing handbrake could have actually been very useful. Don't lose it Apparently we're through the wall of Hapagera We're back at the main entrance. So not utilizing handbrake is one thing that a lot of people Think is a bad thing sometimes but using it in Moderation or when you need it to get the car to rotate like I was in BMG I couldn't get the car to rotate how I wanted it to so that's why I kind of was using a handbrake so much in that video But this just with a car that's tuned quite well. You don't really need it We're doing some third, of course, you know, we got We got to turn on those type S lights Get the aspect of this from outside perspective Let's kick left foot brake I just use the weight transfer there. We'll have to break to keep the angle Lost grip in the front, but we're okay. I had the same thing on that turn in First person view kind of running this as wide as possible to you You can almost with the way these turns flow You could almost probably do No hands on this because the car would oscillate back and forth Can't see where we're going. Can we treason the way? The car would oscillate back and forth so you can't probably do this without actually using hands I've seen some people do it No hands and drifting. Oh Kill this clutch though. I could not see where it was could not see the angle first of third person in this aspect But you know, we got to run it in first and third for everybody I Said I think I was running this track better in first person obviously We've been doing a lot of training for ESEA in the near future With ESEA around the corner gonna get a lot of practice in with a new car, which I will be revealing it very shortly Once I make sure it's fully tax. Oh, that did not work Like that that would have been a time to utilize handbrake Hmm We show all my mess ups including good drifts bad drifts Everything on this channel. Nothing is nothing's hidden from you guys Especially when I lock up the brakes I don't think I'm gonna be able to go any further down this way. We're gonna try. Oh, that didn't work the car bumps. I Clutch kicked incorrectly there. I don't like these bumps Bumps are a little weird But just you know for sake of trying to drift this course without handbrake I know a lot of people were being in the comments by using handbrake and I do take Criticism very very well actually constructed criticism now I did I do I suggest that I used the handbrake a little bit too much in that video? Probably like I said, I could not get the car to drive how I really wanted to still trying to get the beam and G physics and everything How I really want them So this this car is a car that I know a little bit better And a lot more see we're gonna use it. Oh, we're gonna hit the wall We're gonna handbrake into that turn. We actually just went fully send into the wall in to space So we're gonna run this run utilizing handbrake in certain aspects of course We're gonna try go at a much higher rate of speed and that's what handbrake does Actually help when you're at a higher rate of speed to get the car obviously to kick sideways I'm in third see we probably could have used handbrake there to extend a little bit because I'm blogging the car in third year Just a quick grab of that just to get the car to rotate a little bit more Watch higher rate of speed much more higher angle obviously in this course See right there wall tap You don't have to handbrake to keep the car in angle so we don't actually crash It's definitely a big thing right there the car didn't want to rotate because of weird uphill So there's times obviously that I may use it a little more than I need to but it's Definitely something that I do not use much in competition unless I'm in chase So if you guys like this video, you guys want to see more videos like this here on the channel Make sure you guys follow me on all social media on the description box below And as always like thank you guys for coming back and watching. I'm evil rabbit. See you guys on the track


In this video, I want to present another example of a vector space, but this time I wanted to look, I want to use vectors that are a little bit less standard than you're used to. Many of us have seen these physical vectors which are represented by arrows, either in a mathematics class or in a physics class, a science class before, so we might be used to that. That actually might be sort of our native language when it comes to vectors. And the types of column vectors we've seen before, in the previous video that is, also we might have seen those in other contexts as well, because when one deals with the physical geometric vectors we saw before, they often connect to them some type of algebraic vectors, quantitative vector, they might be called, because it turns out doing algebra with the physical vectors, like the parallelogram rule is very, very difficult. It can involve trigometry, what have you, but then doing algebra with the more numerical algebraic vectors is a lot easier, adding vectors as a cinch when it comes to that column vector approach. And so a lot of us have seen those as well, but vectors can take on a lot of different forms than just column vectors and arrows. Vectors, again, are essentially anything that we can add and scale according to the axioms of the vector space, right? And so we will see that vectors, a collection of matrices can become a vector space. Functions, real-valued functions can become a vector space. This is actually a very important observation for calculus that functions themselves can be viewed as vectors. Sequences, infinite sequences of numbers can be treated like vectors. Now, in this example you see on the screen here, I'm gonna show us that linear equations within variables can be treated as vectors. So let's take as our potential vector space v, the set of all linear equations within variables. So we'll call those variables x1, x2, x3 up to xn. And the coefficients of these linear equations will be scalars coming from the field f. And so I claim that this set of n variable linear equations forms a vector space. Well, to show it to vector space, I gotta first tell you what does addition of equations mean? And we're kinda used to that, right? A typical element of this set v would be things of the following form, c1, x1 plus c2, x2 plus c3, x3. All the way up to cn, xn. That's the left-hand side of the equation where x1, x2, xn, these are all variables. c1, c2, up to cn, these are scalars that come from the field f. They're the coefficients of the equation. And then the right-hand side is likewise an equation. We can call this one b1. It comes, it also belongs to the field f. All right, then take a second such equation like d1, x1 plus d2, x2 all the way up to d and xn. This equals b2. This is another example of a linear equation. Its coefficients will again come from the field, right? Because these coefficients come from a field, you can add inside of a field so we can add the coefficients together. When one tries to add together two equations, what you do is you add like terms, right? c1 plus d, c1x plus d1x will become c1 plus d1x1. And you'll do that for the c2x2, d2x2. You add together the coefficients, add together like terms, cn, xn, dn, xn will add together to be cn plus dn, xn. And then the right-hand side as these are just scalars as well, b and b2, they'll add together to be b1, b2. So we can add together equations. And in fact, when you first learned about how to solve linear systems of linear equations, maybe like in a college algebra class or something similar to that, that's the strategy of like elimination really use this idea of you add together equations, hopefully in such a way that maybe one of the variables canceled out, thus is eliminated. But you use this principle of adding together equations. It's very natural to add an equation together. What about scaling equations? Well, what does it mean to scale an equation? Well, if you have an equation c1, x1, plus all the way up to c and xn equals b1, if you want to scale that by the number, say, a, well, what you're gonna do is you're gonna times the left-hand side and the right-hand side by this number a, on the left-hand side distribute it through, in which case you're gonna get ac1, x1, you're gonna get ac2x2 all the way up to ac and xn and the right-hand side's ab1. So we can times both sides of the equation by a, the equation will still be balanced. It still is an equation. It's a different equation right now. This equation would be equivalent to the previous equation, but it is a different equation. And that's an equation that belongs to our set, right? So this is a linear equation, thus it belongs to v. These are definitions of equation addition and scalar multiplication of an equation. And these together will form a vector space, the vector space of linear equations. You can show that this equation addition is commutative, it's associative. There's a zero equation, zero equals zero, that if you add, doesn't change the equation, right? You could have the inverse equation times everything by negative one. A scalar addition will distribute over equation addition. If you times an equation by one, you get the same equation again, right? And so those axioms of vector space are satisfied by these definitions here. Now, why in the world would we want to add together or scale equations? Well, kind of like I mentioned earlier, this is a technique we use to solve systems of linear equations because of the following observation. If you take an equation like this one right here and you scale it by any non-zero scalar, it doesn't change the solution set. It doesn't change the solution set whatsoever. And therefore, scalar multiples of equations will have the same solution sets. It's also true that when you add together, if you add together two equations with the common solution, then their sum will have that same solution as well because of the left-hand side equals b1 and the right, for the first equation, for the second equation, it equals b2 when you plug in the x values here. Then when you add the left-hand sides of these two equations, you'll still get b1 plus b2 when you plug in the right value of x. And so the sum of two linear equations will have the same, if they have a common solution, it'll have the same solution as it did before. And so what that means for us here is that if we have, say, m many equations, e1, e2 up to em, these are linear equations inside of v here, if they have a common solution x, which x would be a vector living inside of fn, remember fn is the set of column vectors within entries, if x is a common solution to these equations over here, then x will also be a solution to any linear combination of these equations right here. And so this starts to show why we want to take linear combinations of equations because this is how techniques like the elimination method give us solutions to systems of linear equations. We can do this because the set of linear equations themselves is a vector space.


The Florida National Guards, 53rd Brigade Support Battalion, conducts Army Warrior Task Training with Albanian cadets. What we're doing is we're doing some Mach-E-IB lanes, working on some basic soldier skills, and we're kind of co-training with the Albanian Army, as well as American forces, and some NATO operations. Izara Smiler, an Albanian cadet, says that they went through different stations, earning new Army tasks. We started by some stationery. We have to go through it and learn different stuff we need in military. It was a real pleasure. We learned new things. We developed what we learned during this time, and our interaction was very good. Toward the end of the day, American and Albanian soldiers were seen trading their flags with one another. From the 107th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, this is Sergeant Jacob Charena.


Hey guys, it's Tilly and today I am doing another top 10 video. What, what? So it is going to be my top 10 signed books. So I have this stack in front of me that's like balancing and on the verge of falling half the time. So if you hear a lot of crashes, probably just these books falling. So I'm going to get started and go from number 10. So we're living in Australia and most importantly, like the most isolated part of Australia, which is Western Australia, there's not many authors that come here. So a lot of my signed books are books that I have bought pre-signed or ordered signed because these authors don't love Perth. Okay, so in 10th place, I have The Fault Now Stars by John Green. And the reason that this book is pretty much on my list is because it is the first signed book that I ever got. I bought it from the bookstore pre-signed and it was kind of like super exciting because I just read it and it was like around the hype of The Fault Now Stars. So to me, I was just like going crazy in my book World Mind, just like, oh my God, it's John Green, John Green touched this book. And yeah, I just, yeah, it was important to me because it just started this need to buy signed books. Next up is another set of books that I bought signed. And mostly because Alison from Read Around the Rose, it was like, you have to read these books plus the sign. So of course I bought them without even thinking twice. And I was a little put off by the covers of these books, which is Disruption and Corruption by Jessica Shrivington or Shervington. One of those is going to be right. But then I read these books and they are so amazing and there is not that many people that I know who read them. These are amazing dystopia duology, featuring this really kick-ass female character who is basically on a plot of revenge after her dad was killed by this big company. And so she decides the way to get through this company is by using the owner's son to get through to him. I think that makes sense, I'm not sure. But it is so amazing and if you guys are going to take any recommendations out of the stack of books, it is this one, you have to read it. And they've just brought out new covers too, so jump on it. Next place, we have a local Perth author who I didn't interview with, which I will leave a link below. She is so wonderful and like she left this amazing personalized message to me. And that is Meg Caddy, who is the author of Where. This is a fantasy that you guys will really enjoy featuring Werewolves. Basically, Werewolves are really calm and passive in this book until their home is threatened and they are put on the run and it was so good. So good.  Thanks for all the book love and for the interview. I hope to read yours one day and I just really love Meg Caddy so much. Next one is presents that I got from my cousin who is Harley Reads on Tumblr. Basically, he likes to spoil me sometimes for Christmas and get me like limited edition signed books. But my favorite out of that so far is The Maze Runner by James Dashner and the Scorch Trials. I am very excitedly waiting for the Death QR because it's going to be so pretty to just match these beautiful editions. Yes, these are first just signed by James Dashner. There's no personalized messages, there's just his signature but these books are so beautiful that they just have to be one of my favorites.  And I just really love them. So much. So once again, this is another dystopia trilogy with a prequel as well. If you guys haven't read it, if you guys haven't read them, you're pretty much missing out. But if you haven't read them, watch the movies, they're equally good. Like the second one scared me so much at some points but I love them and Dylan O'Brien's in them. I know my babies. This next one is an author that I would like love to meet with all my heart and just take my huge bag of books and just plunk them down and say, sign these, Wally, please, the person's messages and love me as a human being. And that would be Rick Rodin. And my book that I have signed is The Blood of Olympus, which once again my cousin bought for me for Christmas, which I was super happy about because everyone loves Rick Rodin. Maybe not everyone, but a lot of people love Rick Rodin. And if you don't love Rick Rodin, you at least have to love one of the characters in his books because he just does them so well and you just want to protect them all for the rest of your lives. Fifth Plains, we have Frankie by Siobhan Pleuser. This is an Australian author who came over for a book event not so long ago at Boffins. And basically, like, I've met her twice now. And she is an absolute sweetheart and her book is amazing. So it features a random girl called Frankie, who is quite a problematic protagonist, but kind of love her anyway. And she ends up finding out that she has a long-lost brother, a lot half-brother, but she really wants to get to know humans. So she ends up meeting him, but once she does, he goes missing. So Frankie is trying to find her long-lost brother, run them to what happens to be quite attractive boy who is helping her on this journey. And I was so struck by the plot twist at the end of this book, but I still love it so much. And so Siobhan Pleuser wrote, Dear Tilly, insert awesome unique thing about how wonderful and amazing and talented you are with a little smiley face. And I just, I just, I treasure this book so much. And Siobhan Pleuser, she's so perfect. So we have one of my all-time favorite cover art editions that is signed, which is like only a handful that I have, but it is by Maggie Stavotta and it is for thinner, which is the fourth book in the series. So when I bought this edition, it came with a signed dust jacket with her own original artwork on it. And this is it. I just want to point out, like this is probably one of the most beautiful things that I have ever owned in my entire life. And I absolutely treasure this. It's so beautiful and unique and I just love it so much. Now we're getting excited because it's the top three and I have like some really amazing books that are in this top three section that is well signed. But in third place, we have the wonderful Wilka Starkas who signed my first third and the sidekicks. And the funny thing is, is that I actually had both of these pre-signed before I met Will, who came to Perth for the Buffins event with Siobhan Plozer. And I pretty much gave my books and said, you've already signed them but just make them a little bit more awesome. So he did, he did. So in the first third, he did a quote of my mom who told him that Tilly needs to clean her room, please. Always love that. He also did a portrait of me with my curly hair, which isn't curls, well, naturally curly. And then said, great to see you again, Tilly. Thank you for all your support, Will. And Will is an absolute sweetheart. You guys just love him. Okay, you will love him. And also the sidekicks, which is his new book, he wrote, Dear Tilly, made more awesome in June. And then he said to go see page 143 where there is a typo in his book, and he pointed it out. I love him for that. This book means so much to me. The sidekicks, it is about three friends who all share the same best friend and when their best friend passes away, they have to learn to cope and deal with that together, even though they're all struggling. And it's just so good and heart-wrenching and amazing. And I really want you guys to read it because it's so great. If you do, let me know how you like it because it's so good. Oh my god. Okay, so in second place, this book, all these books mean so much to me. But like this one just owns my heart. And that is my first edition, the first copy I ever bought of the book Thief by Marcus Susak. So I read this book and I was completely captured by it. And then I found out that the author was going to Perth to promote the movie. And so I was like, okay, I got to see an early screening of the movie and I got to get my book signed and I got to buy a special edition hardcover that was only available at the signings. And so I was pretty excited. So he wrote, dear Thily, thank you and then his signature. But I did get all my other Marcus Susak book signed too. So it's like little messages and all of them. But this one is by far my favorite. And if you guys haven't read the book Thief, it is my favorite book if you haven't noticed from these videos. And I highly recommend it. And if you don't want to read it, watch the movie. But in saying that, if you don't read it, that's totally okay. It's still perfect. And lastly, in first place. So these books are not only like amazing but it's not actually because I was wearing a shirt that had like for watching. And I hope you guys all have a lovely day and I shall see you guys soon. Bye.


As soon as we die, it's the first time we're going to experience life without our senses, our physical senses. We're going to, I mean, imagine not being able to see anything or hear anything instantly. Like if we just went deaf and blind like right now, boom, we'd be terrified. The closest we could probably imagine to this is if we were, if we were put into a very dark room. If our senses were all becoming very unreliable, we don't know what we're doing. We basically don't know who we are. And on top of that, there are these dark, fearful, terrifying things which are trying to seize us and doing their very best to confuse us.


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy, my name's David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Elmsley Count project from Liam Montcher and Big Blind Media. What is the Elmsley Count? Basically it's a way of counting five cards as four or something similar to that. It was originally invented by Alex Elmsley and this is Liam Montcher's attempt to teach you as much as he can about this move. You want to see what the trailer looks like, this is it. This is not a quick throwaway blast through a move, it's an entire arsenal on counting techniques. Liam Montcher will teach you an absolutely bomb-proof Elmsley Count. Then there's seven incredible variations and a heap of other counts. And once you have that nailed, you can move on to an entire disk of killer material, including tricks from the likes of John Bannon, David Solomon, Peter Cain and George McBride. Disk one will take you through every aspect of this incredible slide. You're going to learn how to make your Elmsley Count completely invisible. You're going to learn how to take sticky, old, warped, damaged cards, cards that somebody might just hand you and still make your Elmsley Count look perfect. You're going to learn how to take two or three cards, count them and make them look like four. How to take a packet of five, six or seven cards and how to make that look like four. You'll also learn how to hide card faces, hide backs, anything, any combination that you need. We're going to show you how to do it and that's just the start. Then we're going to teach you some powerful variations like the Underground Elmsley, the Vertical Elmsley and the Split Elmsley and also the OPEC Count and the Snap Count. On top of that, we'll also teach you how to do the SIVA Count, the Spirit Count and the Jordan Count and John Bannon's absolutely awesome discrepancy city display and bullet party display. Oh, and we're going to teach you how to do multiple lists from small packets too. The Elmsley Count project, the ultimate course of false count magic. Get it? Alright, so that was Liam Moncher. This DVD was produced by the great people down at Big Blind Media. Alright, so a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box?  You're going to get one whole DVD that's completely devoted to the Elmsley Count, teaching you a couple of different variations on the Elmsley Count, teaching you how to practice. Great, great resource. And then the second DVD is full of magic. So wow, what a great resource. So I think within card magic there are several moves, several counts, cuts, displays that would be considered essential like building blocks. These are the things you need to learn. I remember when I first learned the Elmsley Count, I found it in a little paper pamphlet booklet. So in a nutshell, the Elmsley Count is one of the cornerstones of card magic. It's one of the basic utensils you will need to perform some of the greatest card magic tricks of all time. And I would argue that if you learn this move, learn to do it well, you'll be able to do just a wide variety of some of the classic magic tricks. So this collection, this DVD that Liam has made, this is a resource that is going to help you make your Elmsley Count look natural, bulletproof, flawless. I mean, the very first time I watched this DVD all the way through, he quickly showed me that I was doing my Elmsley Count incorrectly, even though I had been doing it for years. He showed me a better way to do it and the way he showed me to do it felt more natural to me and looked cleaner to me. So just a one time through instantly improved my technique. And so I would argue that this is a great resource for beginners and for intermediate and advanced people. Anybody that, you know, this is something that has always eluded them or something that you're doing but you would like to improve. I think this is a masterful technique and what Liam has made is just a great, great, great resource. All right, so on the very first DVD, you're going to learn Elmsley Count, obviously, and a couple of different variations on that. He's going to teach you how to practice. He's going to teach you how it should look and give you kind of a couple of pointers and some corrections about how some magicians do it incorrectly. You're also going to learn a couple of different moves that are very similar to the Elmsley Count. So you're going to learn the Jordan Count, the Spirit Count, the Discrepancy Count, the Silver Count, and the Bullet Party Display. The second disc is full of magic. You're going to have eight different magic tricks, eight different card tricks that all utilize the Elmsley Count or variations of. You're going to get tricks from Alex Elmsley himself and, of course, Liam Montcher. But you're also going to see some of the tricks from Bannon at McBride, Vernon and Kane. All right, so what's the overall quality and production value? Hey, this was done by Big Blind Media. They always make great instructional DVDs. They always have really good and very clear menus. HD cameras, good locations, good sets, good sounds, great lighting and always very attractive assistance. Is it well taught? Hey, if you know Liam Montcher, he's well known throughout the magic industry as being one of the most refreshingly creative card magicians. He's workable. He's practical. Liam Montcher is just a fantastic guy to go to for things like card control, self-working magic, making complicated things easy, clear instruction. He is a great, great resource for all magicians, regardless of skill level. I can't recommend this enough. All right, so is it worth your money? Is it worth your money? It's $35.  You can't go wrong. Like I always say, when you spend your money on information and when you spend your money on improving your skill, that is money well spent. I highly recommend this DVD. Or what I suggest is that you just save your money, just save your pennies on Montcher's Essential Card Magic Toolbox from Big Blind Media. This is eight magic DVDs for $100. So if you actually do the math and you add up how much it would cost you if you had to buy all these DVDs individually, you would save yourself $140 by purchasing this. So even if you have one or two of these DVDs already, it's still a good investment to go out and purchase this. This is what I highly recommend. All right, so who would like this? Card magicians, beginner magicians, intermediate magicians, advanced magicians. Card magicians of all skill levels I think will benefit from this great DVD. And a super big thank you to Lee Montcher and Big Blind Media for providing this resource so that we can review it for you. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can find it at your favorite Big Blind Media retailer. Thanks. Bye.