One way you can tell you're not just intellectualizing is that when you start to really give yourself permission to allow this darkness to arise, well, it's emotional. It's intensely emotional. You can see at that point why intellectualization was used as a defense to not feel, because it's so intense. And then, the more that you go into it, it's very much like in Buddhism where they talk about a lot about emptiness in Buddhism, empty the contents of consciousness, empty your mind.   It's like you go, huh, no charge with that. It used to really bother me to hear that word or to hear, to see those sights or those sounds. You know, you start to feel a real softening and emptiness. And all of the Buddha talked about going into the void. He was really talking about just emptying the mind of everything.  That takes a lot of trust, too. I mean, the only reason why we fill our mind with all these things is we really believed it was helpful. I mean, for example, let's just say one discipline, education. The reason why we go through this endless amounts of education is because we actually think we're getting more intelligent, more skilled, better prepared and we're becoming more fulfilled through increased education. And of course, I went through kindergarten and then first grade through sixth grade school, then I went through junior high high school. I couldn't stop there. I had to go for ten years of university downtown of high school. Talk about an addiction that's absurd. I always tell people, why didn't it for you? Now, let me tell you, go the other way. Go to the empty realms because what happens is you may feel more intelligent but you don't necessarily feel more peaceful because the ego has latched onto that intelligence and it's identified with that intelligence and it likes being knowing more, knowing more than the next person. It's really caught up into that. And what I found is the way that you can tell when you're really stepping back is this sense of stillness and peace and defenselessness. Jesus says in the Course, whenever you feel the need to become defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. So anytime I would feel just a little bit defensive, I would start to drop in, trace it in a little bit and go, oh, I'm still identified with it. And it could be with anything. It could be with the Course of Miracles. You could be out and you're at a cafe and you've got your horsebook open, some friends are there and somebody comes along and looks at it and starts knocking the Course of Miracles.  What's this crazy? This is crazy. It says the world's an illusion. This is crazy. You feel a little defensiveness arising. Jesus said you just identify yourself with an illusion, even with the Course book. I remember one time I was going to the Course group for years and I went to this one group at a New Age shop.  So I said, can I see your Course book? I said, sure. She turned and she walked right out of the door and just disappeared. It didn't even hesitate. She just took the book and she walked right out of the door. And I just continued talking to whoever I was talking to and she was out for maybe five, ten minutes probably walking around the parking lot or whatever. Then she came back and she walked in. She came and she put it back into my hands and she said, just testing. It's just that we start to realize that nothing happens by accident. The Spirit just wants us to be the living spirit, the living experience of that and to not be identified with any concepts. To raise them all up, to empty our mind of all of them and in that sense as you do that the world seems a little more and more surreal and it's more and more like you're watching something. Just like when you're watching a television show or a movie there's like an awareness that it's really just a TV show or just a movie. It starts to be more and more predominantly that feeling that same kind of watching feeling. You do feel mentally very passive whereas if you get really back with the Spirit the body can still seem to be done through but you're no longer identified with the doer and that's where the strain comes in is identifying with the doer thinking you are that which is doing something good or bad. There's a heaviness so you feel more done through and you feel more like you're watching and there's a sense of peace there with it. I mean I've had experiences I would train my mind over many years and then there was somebody on internet interaction I had with them and they said I want to come up to Sandusky, Ohio and I want you to meet my friends and my children and we'll go to amusement park and I remember going up there and we went on all these roller coaster rides this kind that I would never have gone on as a child and it was like nothing my stomach wasn't flipping around then we went into this thing where it was kind of like one of those omnimax kind of those big huge screens and it goes all around you 360 degrees and everything and I walked in there and they had all these bars like rows and rows of bars those seats right there they were supposed to I don't know what the bars are for but they started showing this thing you film of going off a cliff and being on the back end of a fire engine in San Francisco that's going around in Pennsylvania and people started falling over and grabbing all the bars like they were just hanging the floor wasn't moving nothing was moving probably as they filmed it it would have looked really funny there was a bunch of people hanging on the bars running into each other branding all over the shore and I was just standing there and I was like this must be the mind training because I wasn't interpreting what was the body's eyes were seeing I was standing there very still I wasn't even holding onto the bar people were bumping into me knocking into me and everything and I was just standing there and then at the end of the show a lot of people were all in the floor and I was like they brought the lights on and I just walked right out and the people couldn't even walk they were so busy they couldn't even get off the floor they were just grabbing around but you see that's what the course is teaching us lesson number two I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me clearly it's just a movie but the mind was interpreting motion and it was interpreting all kinds of things it wasn't just a bunch of shadows on the wall or surrounding it was interpreted as actual situations and lots and lots of motion talk about getting motion sickness these people were on the floor and I noticed it transfers like when I've been in planes and on boats and one time I was on a ferry in the Pacific Northwest in the United States and I was up at the front of the ship like Leonardo and Kate it was right up to the very front and I was up there with a friend in my Beverly and we were right up at the front and they were looking out watching the water and we didn't realize it but behind us was one of those gigantic fog horns you know and they just let go with this BOOM kind of sounder egg and literally she jumped like two feet off the ground and I just noticed that I didn't even move and I was like huh it must be the mic training because loud sounds unexpected loud sounds but the world would call startling loud sounds don't make us jump but everything that we feel and everything we react to is all coming from inside our consciousness and as we find that still point inside our consciousness and we rest in that then that's how you can tell the world it's like you're watching the world not in an intellectual way but these little kind of occurrences show you that's what I thought about that's interesting in the past I would have too but it just wasn't there so it's those experiences that show us that they just keep showing us and showing us we're getting a little more detached so we can work with this


Good morning and I would like to welcome everyone to this. The 10th meeting of the Standards Procedures and Public Appointments Committee in 2021. For members who are on Blue Jeins, could you please remember to put an R in the chat function for the request to speak, and before we move to the agenda item one I would like to invite our new member Eleanor Wid��am to declare any relevant interests. Eleanor can you confirm if you have any relevant interests to declare. I thank you very much, convener, and just for the record, I would refer everyone to my register of interests, which states that I am a sitting councillor in the theatre. Excellent, and I welcome you to the committee, Eleanor. Eleanor is joining us today to replace Paul MacLennan MSP, and I would like to place on record my thanks for the work that Paul did with this committee and with the consent of the committee, I would like to write to Paul to thank him for his work. Are we in agreement with that? I'm grateful. Apologies have today been received from Edward Mountain, and so I welcome Sue Webber, who has joined us today as his substitute. I would also like to invite Sue Webber to declare any relevant interests. Sue, can you confirm if you have any relevant interests to declare? Thank you, convener. I, too, am a sitting councillor, but with the City of Edinburgh, and that is on my register of interests. I'm grateful for that, and welcome to the committee today. Our first item is to hear from two cross-party groups. The first group that we will consider today is a proposed CPG on gardening and horticulture. I would like to welcome Rachel Hamilton, who joins us, who will be the convener of the proposed group if it's agreed to. Rachel, welcome to this morning. Would you like to outline the purposes of the CPG for us? Thank you very much, convener. The aim of the group is to promote and facilitate an understanding between representatives of the world of gardening and horticulture with members of the Scottish Parliament, and given the sector an important independent voice for the first time. We know the relationship that people have with the environment is strong, and to witness the devastation to rest tree species caused by storm arwin has caused much distress, and just demonstrates how important plants, nature and green spaces are to us human beings. I believe that it's also important to recognise the value to the Scottish economy. The Scottish garden retail sector has a total impact on GDP to £277 million annually and supports 6,700 jobs. The need to grasp the opportunity that Covid has thrown at us and strengthen the link between growing and eating is also vital, and green spaces can have a positive effect on mental wellbeing and health. COP26 has amplified the need for green spaces like never before, with the importance of resilient supply chains, particularly in the horticultural industry. The Good Food Nation Bill is coming before this Parliament, and many individuals are concerned about food and healthy living. According to a national representative UGov survey commissioned by the Horticultural Trades Association in 2019, 31 per cent of British adults with a garden, approximately 14 million people, grew their own fruit and vegetables. My final point is that it leads me on to the importance of climate change, and the gardening and horticultural sector is essential in fulfilling the Scottish Government's environment plan and the wider ambitions around climate change. I think that it's important that we bring stakeholders around the table to discuss that. We've attracted members to the CPG from the National Trust for Scotland, to green space, to Scottish allotments and garden society, to Scotland's garden scheme. I understand that we have many cross-party groups at the moment in the Parliament, but I believe that it's important that we represent this very important sector. I urge the committee to support me whether you agree that roses or inoculus are better or pansies or petunias are your preference. Thank you very much, Rachel, for that. Indeed, you have cross-party support here from within the chamber groups, but there is also quite a substantial list of external individuals and organisations that are interested. I think that I'm right in saying that there is certainly a significant number on there that don't appear on any other CPG or have a voice at the table within this place. I'm just going to invite the committee if anyone else has any questions relating to this. We all seem content. I thank you for attending today. The committee will consider the CPG as item 2 and the clerks will be in touch in the near future, but thank you for attending this morning. There will now be a short suspension while we change witnesses. Good morning, Gillian, who has just joined us today. You come with a proposed CPG on stroke, and you would be the proposed convener. Would you like to explain to the committee the purposes and intentions of the CPG? The purpose of the cross-party group on stroke is to provide oversight, encouragement and support for the implementation of a progressive stroke service in all health boards, based on the recommendations in a new stroke action plan that will be coming next year. Increase political awareness of the scale and impact of stroke and the benefits that implementation of a progressive stroke service will make. Increase political awareness that stroke is a national clinical priority and help to ensure that stroke is treated as a clinical priority in health boards. Stroke is the third commonest cause of death in Scotland. Additionally, it's often a very disabling event for people who do survive their stroke, and it accounts for about 7 per cent of the health spend. The ethos of the committee will be to focus all CPG meetings on current stroke improvement work, and the CPG will be part of forming the conditions in which those stroke improvements can take place. It will contribute to and support the opportunity for significant change promised by the programme for government 2019-2020 commitments and the subsequent good work to date. Although there are no external members currently other than the secretariat listed for the group, we will invite a range of other organisations to join shortly and will update Parliament once we've done so. This will include other third sector charities, regulatory bodies, other health and social care organisations. Individuals will also be invited to join, including clinicians and those with lived experience of stroke, and names will also be provided to Parliament as soon as possible to update the webpage. We're aware that the group has previously existed alongside the cross-party group on heart disease, but as the Government treats those two conditions separately with their own action plan, we now believe that it's best to separate them out into two CPGs so that both conditions can receive the attention that they require. We're appropriate to work with the proposed cross-party group on heart disease, but as this group in particular aims to scrutinise the upcoming stroke improvement work, we don't envisage there being a huge amount of crossover. It was nice for you to point out with regard to external groups and individuals who would be interested in it because the paperwork just contains the stroke association who will provide the secretariat. Given one of the purposes, and I say very important purposes, to draw conclusions and to define recommendations based on people with experience, that outreach is crucial. Can I ask you whether or not you see any conflict between what previously had been a single-view CPG between heart and stroke and the proposed separation of that with this CPG? No, I think that it's recognised by both of proposed CPGs that there is very specific work that needs to go on in each of those areas and that you could spend years discussing the work that is needed in both of those spheres with those conditions, so I think that's why the decision has been taken in this session that they should have their own dedicated CPG. Oh, sorry, Bob, did you have any questions? Thank you for attending this morning, Gillian. The decision will be taken in agenda item 2 with regard to the CPG, and the clerks will notify you in the near future. Agender item 2, ladies and gentlemen, is to consider whether to accord recognition to the proposed cross-party groups on gardening and horticulture and the second one we heard from on stroke. Are there any comments from any of the community members on it, or are we content to afford recognition? We are content to afford recognition to both the cross-party group on gardening and horticulture and stroke. I will now close the public part of this meeting and the committee will move into private.


We were in need of a Earth Day project, kind of pitched the idea, what if we built bat houses? Bats are very important for the health of our overall environment. They eat a lot of insects. It turned out really well. It kind of pulled a lot of different people from the community around into the project that didn't necessarily have any contact with each other otherwise. It's good to see everybody come together and do something for the environment.


So a few of you have been asking me about what I do at night time and what I do in the morning So I'm just gonna go through my nightly routine right now. I'm wearing my swanis blue blocking glasses I do this to put them on about an hour an hour and a half before I go to sleep. Here's why this overhead light disrupts your sleep We live in this artificial light world. You can see in my living room here. I've got some low lights here But I've also got like the the the overhead light and all this stuff is blocking your circadian rhythm and your circadian rhythm is your internal body clock and Your internal body clock wants to know when it's night time and when it's daytime But unfortunately because we're living in this artificial light our body thinks that it's daytime all the time because you think about it There's the light if you're not wearing blue blocking glasses, and you're just you know living in the light It's triggering your brain into going okay It's daytime, but the reality is is that it's nighttime look It's nighttime outside. It's time to go to sleep so in order to trick your body or trick your circadian rhythm into Thinking that it's nighttime you need to block the blue light and the blue light is what comes out of the screen that you're Watching me on right now if you're watching me on your computer screen, and it's nighttime You should be wearing blue blocking glasses like these. These are mine swanis There's an app called flux where you can put that on your on your computer screen download it onto your laptop And it'll it'll it'll take out a lot of the brightness level That your screen emits if you're watching TV at nighttime. It's emitting blue lights if you're looking at your computer your cell phone It's emitting blue light. I mean it's always emitting blue light, but at nighttime you don't want that blue light You need to block it so I created this these pair of swanis their mine Called swanic by swanis you can go to if you text 4 4 2 2 2 that's the number of blue blockers I'll send you details on that and if you want some sleep tips in general if you text the word sleep tips That's one word to the number 4 4 2 2 2 then I'll send you a PDF book on seven ways to sleep better So my brother Tristan and I Tristan swanic Created these glasses because we were having problems sleeping I read up about them my friend told me about you know blocking blue light.  It's now what time my watch is busted at the moment. Hang on What time is it? It's 9 24 p.m. On a Sunday. So what I am doing is Jim Rohn The motivational coach always says prepare for tomorrow today. So on my board over here I wrote down what I've got to do in the morning. So let me just flip this over here If you got any if you got any comments that you want to make right now, just leave a comment right now I can see the comments You've got any questions But this is what I did for tomorrow. I write down my Monday admin So it's right in front of me and I've got got to pay a couple people This is my one thing like you always focus on one thing that you got to achieve in the day that no matter What you get through that and then I've got some invoicing I've got to do so tomorrow morning is all about admin and the one thing is This thing To do with my 30-day no alcohol challenge. So I've got that circle That's my one thing and then all these other little things are little side things I got to do What else do So I get my gym bag ready. This is my gym bag because when I wake up in the morning going to Go to the gym. So I've prepared that So I've got my water bottle in here. Okay ready to go and I've got my So anyway, I've got my getting my gym bag ready before I go before I go to sleep at night And then in the morning, I always put my gym clothes at the end of my bed So when I wake up tomorrow morning from bed and I get out, that's what I'll see So I'll put them on and just the simple act of putting that on first thing in the morning is enough for me to you know 95% chance I'll actually go to the gym versus When I don't leave the clothes out, I might wake up and go, oh, should I go to the gym? Should I not and then I got a fumble around trying to find it. It's a real bit of pain, right? So The visual cue of leaving that Gym bag all those clothes rather out Makes you more likely to actually Put the clothes on and go to the gym And studies have shown that people who exercise in the morning tend to have stick to a long-term exercise regime more so than people who Do exercise at night time So if you can try to do exercise in the morning because that will really Ensure that you stick to it and make it a habit and when you stick to that habit then Obviously, you're gonna get a lot of long-term health out of that. So there you go. There's my nightly routine I'm not sure if this is inverted like where's you seeing this. Oh, no, it's not so yeah If you want to follow me on social media, um, I'm on it. There's a lot seems like a lot here, right? But I'm doing a lot of stuff on snapchat. I'm a James swanik. Obviously. I'm on Instagram YouTube periscope interest Facebook James swanik show podcast and on Twitter Snapchat is what I'm really doing most of it the moment. So if you're on snapchat, follow me Because I'm doing a lot of stuff on how I live an alcohol-free life there and do a lot of health things I'm interviewing a lot of health experts I'll be doing a tie Lopez conference on Wednesday and Thursday this week that I'm flying to San Francisco To watch the Super Bowl my big Denver Broncos fan So I'm looking forward to watching the Broncos take on the Panthers in San Francisco I'm not sure I'm actually gonna go to the game because tickets are like $3,500 and I don't know if I really want to spend $3,500 on a game damn game ticket Seems a little bit excessive to me But anyway, if you want to follow me you're doing that follow me on snapchat and thanks for watching Hope you enjoyed this and I'll catch you on the next one. See y'all


Welcome to the channel. This is reliable Rudy today. We're going to talk about the US indexes and Also touch base a little bit on Bitcoin and that crypto aspect and how I think that they correlate together But first I'm not a licensed financial advisor. Everything in this video contains only my opinion and is for entertainment purposes only So I had someone asked me the other day. Why are you making all these videos on the Apple? And why and why is all of it saying that we could be potentially coming down to a 96-dollar gap? You know and I answered him with you know, everyone knows Apple majority of people have Apple products Apple is actually a solid Fundamentally are a solid financially sound company and was a good example for my reliable Rudy process But the last kicker was Apple is also in all of our major US indexes So in this case scenario right here, you can see the Dow Jones companies Apple is three point three three percent of the Dow Jones the 13th large holding now looking at the SMP It is the top holding in the S&P 500 at seven point two nine percent Now lastly looking at the NASDAQ it is the top holding in the NASDAQ at thirteen point one three percent So if I'm coming to Correlating evidence through my entire process that you know, I'm more attractive at the price of Apple in that 90 to 120 dollar range. What does that mean for these indexes? I do not know just because the price of Apple falls I do not know how that's going to correspond with these indexes, but it is definitely something to monitor in my opinion So Going to these charts I have these three major US indexes all on a chart and also bitcoins chart And we're going to look through each one of them now starting with the NASDAQ We are on a month chart now the first thing I see is this big W pattern I'm going to draw this out and say that it is possible This does not mean that this is going to happen, but I do see a left leg An extension building our neckline our right bottom, and we do get an extended right leg now With any type of look like this the first thing that comes to my mind is we got a back test the neckline Now that would bring our NASDAQ down to $2,800 do I think that the NASDAQ is going to come down to $2,800. I do not I'm not the ultimate bear of the US market But if it happened I would not be surprised cuz I'm sitting here looking at it and saying hey That's the best the back test of the neckline. It's possible. There has been crazier things that have happened But that being said we're going to take those lines off right now And we're going to do one last thing we're going to take our fifth tool from the top of the move to the bottom of The move and see what our full extension is on our NASDAQ now you can see We fight to get over top of our all-time high price, but ultimately we do push it now You see congestion at our first extension now on a month chart. It's hard to see this congestion at this second extension So I'm going to switch this to a day chart real quick and we're going to see how he acted with that now You can see when we act with that second extension. Oh, man That's hard to find that but this is our second extension line right here. We get rejected initially We get rejected again now. We're fighting now. Look at how we hold we hold right here We're fighting to push through this extension ultimately. We do push through this extension and Where do we end up going? We go to our very next extension point now look at this double top that we put right here Now as I mentioned as you're getting closer to this full extension If you put any type of look like this near a full extension watch out Just watch out because it is hard to get investors to buy into this right here Simple supply and demand more people buy than sell the price is gonna go up more people sell them by price is gonna go down Are more people wanting to buy or sell right here? Well, I mean we have the answer the NASDAQ fell 35% over to the lows of that 35% Now I'm not going to go too much more into that but you guys understand the point that I'm trying to get across Hopefully if you don't make sure you leave something in the comments and let me know but we're going to move on to the Dow Jones So I don't see that example like I see on the NASDAQ with a big W pattern But we are going to take this housing market drop in 2007 and 2008 We're going to take a fifth tool top of the move to the bottom of the move and see what type of extensions We're getting here So top of the move bottom of the move now you'd see same scenario right around that first extension and We are fighting to get through the second extension and We ultimately set that same type of structure on the NASDAQ that we do with the Dow Jones right here near our full extension So if I go to a day chart and look at this You can see look at this double top pattern that we put in right here. Boom lower high We fail to push that high again. We fail to push that high We're consistently setting lower highs right here Is that a coincidence that we're getting all of this price action near a full extension? We'll go back to a month chart real quick before we move on. Is there room for a final exhaustive push? I don't know. I don't have a crystal ball But it is definitely something that we could have monitored when we were up here at this price and the Dow Jones I didn't look at that but we're going to look at the percent drop that the Dow Jones fell Nineteen point two percent. Okay. Is that justified of a full extension? I don't know But it is definitely something to monitor Going forward now The last of the US indexes is the S&P 500 now same thing with the Dow I don't really see a nice W pattern back test that neckline opportunity here, but We're gonna do the same thing. We're gonna take that housing market crash and 07 08 And we're gonna take fib tool top of the move bottom the move and we're gonna see what our extension is on the S&P So I can see same thing Look at that Look at how hard we fight to get through this first extension right here And then when we finally do push it we just back test it real quick and then we're off to the races Same scenario getting rejected off of our second extension and we actually do have a significant sell-off right here This was our COVID crash in 20 in 2020 But ultimately we get we do get our full extension here now if you are holding on to the S&P near Over top of the full extension, you know, I clap I applaud you Is very bold strategy. I I would not recommend that Now our sell-off that we've had in the S&P Roughly 25% 24 and a half percent now is that is this the the is that a Justified fall for a fully extended stock, you know, I don't know like I said, I indexes move a little bit differently now I'm not the ultimate bear, but When all three of these US indexes Corresponded like this. I was sitting there telling myself. Hey, you know, there's gonna be some there could be some crazy times Coming ahead of us and what has transpired over the course of 2022 a lot of crazy shit has been going on Let's just put it that way So lastly before we wrap this video up, I know it we're getting a little bit long But I think it's really good information. We're going to go over Bitcoin real quick. I can see I already have drawn up a Left leg. This was the 2017 fall. We're on a day chart not a month chart We get our neckline built we get our second bottom and we get an extended right leg Now with any extended right leg, it is possible that we come in back test the neckline Okay, so what is this? We're going to take our our fall right here top of the move bottom of the move We're going to get rid of this these Our nice W pattern back test the neckline Real quick and we're going to take top of the move bottom of the move and we're going to look at this extensions so first and foremost Look at where we we see rejection at the all-time high price, but we shoot right through that We shoot right through our first extension. Look at how we back test the top of that extension Now we don't really get too much rejection off our second extension either but we do get a hard sell-off off of this next extension and Where do we hold support right on top of our first extension? And we do get another exhaustive push for that full extension. Now look at this double top that comes in right here Any type of structure looking like this at a full extension is no bueno. This is not a good look and Sure enough. I was up here saying the US indexes are all overextended Bitcoin's overextended it is possible that we see Bitcoin come back test the neckline at 13,000 and everyone was sitting there calling me crazy Like I get didn't matter if you were a holder or the ultimate bear of Bitcoin Those people were sitting there saying ah 13,000 on Bitcoin.  That's never happening and sure enough We got to an all-time low price. Let's get rid of this Not an all-time low price, but our low price in this fall in Bitcoin came down to 17.7 $7,000 That's pretty damn close to my neckline now Is it possible that we come down trade down at that neckline? It is possible and I think I will be a buyer That is not telling you guys to buy into crypto at that neckline But if Bitcoin gets down to that neckline, I am going to be a trader or a buyer of crypto currencies It is not going to be a large position But I am definitely going to do a little bit of buying at that time for sure Now let's actually go into this drop because this is no slouch but drop compared the index is Bitcoin's price fell 74% so we're going to dive in a little bit more into this drop Now I can see we have a one two three four five wave structure followed by an ABC a One two three four five wave structure followed by an ABC Then we have let's see. Let's mark this out. We have a one two crack of support three four Five wave structure with the fifth wave being the same length as my first wave roughly Now we're going now we're getting the same thing So what I'm going to identify on my chart is this previous low if there is any type of rejection off of this previous low Right here. It is going to be very alarming That is going to be very alarming to me But we can see on the short term we do have a nice little uptrend building But is this uptrend going to get shut down at our previous low? You can see we're trading inside of this channel is this channel going to trade get rejected for one final leg down To the back test for a neckline. I do not know I don't have a crystal ball For all I know this could be the bottom for Bitcoin for all I know we drop even lower than the neckline at 13,000 I do not know but it is definitely something that I am monitoring and And you know it is crazy that the US indexes and Bitcoin all kind of reached that same extension at the same exact time And you know, I think it's really good stuff now inside all of these five wave structures It is possible that we have a initial one Two three Four now the fourth wave is back testing the bottom of wave one So this in this scenario, this is actually me saying a it's potential that we actually push over top of this previous low But and then we end up getting rejected right here now from my wave four We know that there's gonna be a wave five that comes in now What is the percent fall from top the move bottom of the move right here? Let's go find out This is roughly a 52% fall. So we're gonna take a potential top of wave four and we're going to Map out a 50% fall. Okay, 63% fall right here puts me down to the neckline. Now if I were to take that same fall 53% that puts me at pretty solid support right here as well. So definitely something to monitor there with Bitcoin If you guys enjoyed this video and want to see more videos like this, you know, I'm all for it I love using the Fib tool and these extensions to kind of See how the price action works in the supply and demand of the consumer goes hand-in-hand with it So I hope you guys enjoy this video and we will see you on the next one


All right, so we're in the lab. We're going to do a couple experiments together Okay, the first one that I'd like to have you participate with me is the first one that I show my students And it involves this white chemical. It's called potassium chloride We're gonna put a little bit of it in this test tube, and then I'm gonna melt it And I've already talked to you about what your role is your role is to handle everyone's favorite You ready for me, I'm ready Okay, so what did I just do to the candy there was a rapid oxidation and reduction So basically he's converted that candy corn pretty much into carbon


Hello there, it's Sandy Allknock and I'm going to color some soft rainbow daffodils. I bet you didn't know they came in rainbow colors. So I'm going to make them in rainbow colors even if they don't. Gina K has two daffodil stamps out right now. One is an Easter set and it has a sentiment that I'm going to be using for a sympathy card. But you can also get the other one and do the same technique with it. They're drawn in similar ways, just different groupings. This one has one grouping, the other one has multiple groupings of daffodils. And I've used Gina's Ivory Ink. I stamped them on some black card stock and then I'm just using very simply a blending stump, a really tiny one, to add some more ink to it. So this is more of the Ivory Ink and I'm just kind of spreading it around. The ink on the paper is still wet. I didn't sit and wait for it to dry. So some of the ink is moving because it's still wet on the paper. And I'm just going to try to give some highlights to each one of the flower petals and giving it lots of color at the top, like more thick, I guess you can call it, thick ink. And I'm going to be adding some powdered pencil to this once I'm done. What that means is this has to remain wet long enough to do that. Because if you wait too long, if you let it completely dry, then you won't be able to do the powder pencil on top. Now it's going to look pretty anyway just with the Ivory Ink, but I would recommend definitely trying to do it quicker. If you don't think you're going to finish all of it and get it all done in time, then you can powdered pencil one flower at a time and do that portion. I'll do it all at once so you get to see the whole thing happen. I'm just going to run around the entire thing with the blending stump, applying the ink. These blending stumps, you can sharpen. There's a sharpener that's got this little sandpaper thing, but when you're trying to make a really sharp point for something like this, those blending stumps don't really cut it. At least not in my book, trying to get a really sharp almost pencil point for this doesn't really work. I take a pair of really sharp detail scissors and just snip off some so that I kind of carve it back into a pointed shape because some of these petals are really small and the little tiny areas on them need to be kind of tidied up. Once it's all sharp, I can go back to finishing up the flowers. Now I'm going to be able to add more to it and put more ink on it later, but for right now I'm trying to just get enough color that I can do the flowers here pretty quickly before all this ink starts to dry. Fortunately, pigment ink is going to stay wet fairly long. So now for the powdered pigment, I'm using a tea strainer. This normally has a big pink handle on it, but I just took it out so I could hold it over the area that I want to use the powder and apply it to the card. I'm using a little bit of yellow, a little bit of a pink, and a little bit of blue, and I'm scribbling on that graded surface. It's grading the pencil a little bit and giving me super tiny shavings. So it's basically powder just randomly across the flowers, not really worrying about trying to place them in any way. Although if you have a different kind of image, you might be able to do something like that. If you have one giant flower, you might be able to put a darker red in a shaded area and a more pink color in a brighter area and get a little shading. I wasn't really worried about shading because the ink has already done that. The places where I put thicker ink is the highlights. So that's going to take more color. It's going to be brighter compared to the darker areas that remained with less ink. So once I applied the three different colors to it, I started very, very lightly. Don't do this very hard because you don't want to move the ink any further. Just very lightly dusting all of that color onto the flowers themselves so that it sticks on the ink itself. That's the goal is to try to get it to do that. If you need to, you can add more pencil to it as long as that ink is still kind of wet and then dust off the surface. You can do that with another very light dusting from say a tissue or a cotton ball. I did it with my dusting brush and then I used a green pencil to add a little bit of color. Just a tiny touch to the leaves and going over the ink for the leaves. So it starts to push them back and lets the flowers kind of pop forward. Once all that was done, I decided I was going to add more of the ivory ink to it. So I added some pollen because, you know, it's pollen season in my life. So I thought that would add a little delicacy to it as well. So just added almost bubbles and dots, just a little bit of dust from the fairies all over the place including on top of some of the leaves so it looks like it's surrounding the daffodils on all sides. And then I decided that I would add more of the light color onto the highlights because this is now going as a second layer on top of this color and the color combined with time passage means the color underneath has dried up a little bit. So when I put more strokes of the ivory ink down, it starts to really brighten them. So now I'm getting more dimension because I can go just for those highlighted areas and add some extra light color on the tips. This is ivory ink, but you could also probably do this with other light pigment inks. You can do it with white or other light colors. So you can try this out with whatever you have or get the ivory pad. The ivory just seemed like it was going to be softer rather than using a white for these because daffodils aren't always white. I guess there's some white daffodils, but I wanted to have some really super soft colors for this because it was going to be a sympathy card. I unfortunately need one right now and I think this is going to be a beautiful one for the person that I'm sending it to. So I know I should make a stash of these, so I don't have to make one when I'm sad. However, there you go. We have plans to do these things and have a stash ahead of time, don't we? But we don't always actually accomplish it. So there is my beautiful card. I stamped the sentiment just very simply in the top area using the same ink and pop the whole black panel on a black card and then put a beautiful clean white insert on the inside to write my message. So there's my card for today. I hope you enjoyed this. Maybe learn something. Maybe you'll even try one of these kinds of cards yourself. Be sure to tag me on social media and let me know if you do. I'd love to see what you're creating. All right, I will see you guys later. Take care. Bye bye.


Today we're going to explore Septemia Severus and the Severan Dynasty, the last great dynasty of Imperial Rome, and their impact on the city. One of the most incredible, dynamic evolutionary dynasties in the history of Rome is the Severans. And we have finally the African Emperor in charge of the Empire. He has a harrowing beginning to his reign. He has to fight wars all over the Empire, ultimately very successful, ultimately even conquering the Parthen Empire and leaves behind not one heir, but two. Catechella and Gaeta. It doesn't go so well for Gaeta, of course. And then you have the dynasty perpetuated all the way to 235 with Alexander Severus. So it is a very, say there's a dynamic cast of characters in this dynasty. And I thought, who better to talk to you about this dynasty, these individuals, their achievements, their failings, than Dr. Simon Elliott, archaeologist and author. And in fact, coming out really soon is his latest book on the Severan Dynasty, on Septemia Severus. So you're going to want to check that out. But for Ancient Rome Live, we're pleased to be able to talk with him about this period of Roman history. Where else? Ancient Rome, starting off with in front of the Arch of Septemia Severus. My name is Dr. Simon Elliott, FSA. I'm a broadcaster, historian and archaeologist. And it's my absolute pleasure to be here with Ancient Rome Live in the former Roman and one of my favourite places in the entire world. Today, I'm going to talk about Septemia Severus, the great warrior emperor. I'm AD 145 to AD 211, born in Leptis Magna in April in the blazing heat of a late spring in North Africa, in the richest town of Roman North Africa, one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, dies in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in February 211 in York, Ibarachum. But he came to Rome four times. So he was here in AD 193 when he became the emperor at the point of a sword. Entering the Curia Senate House, which is in front of me now at the point of a sword, literally, and forced the senators to accept him as the emperor. And then he went to campaign against his opponents in the Near East. And then he came back to Rome on the way to campaign against Claudius Albanus, a usurper in AD 197. And then he went back to campaigning in the Easter Gain.  And then he came back to Rome again briefly in 202 after visiting Egypt. He was only here six months, went to North Africa on this triumphal parade through North Africa, visiting all the key sites there, ultimately going to Lectius Magna, his hometown, which he had not been to for nearly 30 years, and he rebuilt the whole thing. So today, Lectius Magna, as you see it, is the town that Severus built when he went on his visit. And then he came back to Rome again in 203 and was here from 203 to 208 when he went to Britain, campaigning 209 and 210 to try and conquer the far north of Scotland. Almost succeeded, but died in York in 211. So that's the story of Septimius Severus. When we look at the entire Severan dynasty, we have to remember the women as real protagonists, starting with Julia Domna. She was the second wife at Septimius Severus. She was from Syria and she brought with her a lot of prestige and her great intelligence, guided her sons, Caracalla and Gaeta. She's not the only one in the Severan dynasty. And when we delve into the history of the successive emperors and no one ever stands out as much as Septimius Severus, we see that the women are behind the throne, oftentimes the most important power. And they didn't just signal the importance of that extensive network of family members of the Severans, but also they were present. They were builders in Rome. Right behind me is the Temple of Vesta. Now the Temple of Vesta you can see here was rebuilt in the Severan period. The original Temple burnt down in the fire in 1.9.1, a great fire in which a lot of the buildings in the Forum were destroyed in the reign of Commodus. But when Septimius Severus became the emperor in 1.9.3, his wife, Julia Domna, his second wife, the mother of Caracalla and Gaeta, she championed the Temple of Vesta and she, Julia Domna, effectively had it rebuilt. So the building you see today is actually the building which was rebuilt on the orders of Julia Domna, the wife of Septimius Severus. I'm standing here in front of the site of the Temple of Iliogabulus and Iliogabulus was one of the Severan dynasties. So we'll start with the beginning in 1.9.3 with Septimius Severus. He's the emperor through to <IP_ADDRESS> when he dies in York. He's replaced briefly with a diarchy of Caracalla and Gaeta and then Caracalla by the end of 2.11 has either murdered or had murdered Gaeta. So then we have Caracalla. Caracalla is the emperor through to 2.17 when he's assassinated himself while having a comfort break on the eastern frontier and he's replaced by the Praetorian Prefect, Macrinus, who's only briefly the emperor and then we go back to the Severan dynasties again. So we have Iliogabulus and then finally Alexander Severus. Alexander Severus himself is assassinated on the Rhine frontier fighting the Germans by one of his own generals, Maximus Thrax. And that brings to the end of the Severan dynasty. Here we have the famous painted tondo today in Berlin chose the imperial family, the first of the Severan dynasty, Syrian Julia Domna. Septemia Severus, the first African emperor and their sons. There's Caracalla on the right and the defaced portrait of Gaeta. This truly was a hyper competitive family. One of the great and told stories about Rome is the Severan period and the Severan rebuilding program. So when Severus became the emperor in 1903, from that time he visited Rome four times before leaving in 208 and then he died in York in 211. But if you look at the Forum Romanum or if you look at the Palatine Imperial Palace, much of the structures you see today are still Severan, not just the arch of Septemia Severus, the magnificent, my favorite arch in the Forum Romanum. You go on the Palatine Hill, the buildings behind us are called the Severan building. So this is part of the Severan Imperial Palace, which he reconstructed. Severus was a huge fan of standing on the viewing platform, which he built more or less with the viewing platform is today to look at activities in the Circus Maximus, which is that way.  Septozodium was an empham, this grand facade with cascading gardens and water at waterfalls, which Severus built on the front of the Imperial Palace, which was the entrance to the Severan Palace. And even the Temple of Vesta was rebuilt by Julian Donner. So much of Rome that you see today, ancient Rome, is Severan in period. So, Darius, where are we now? We are standing in this beautifully recently opened park, an archaeological park on the Kylian Hill. And it also houses the brand new former Urbis Museum, which is a great way to talk about the Severans, because the former Urbis plan, that marble plan that we have today preserved in the museum is actually dating to the time of the Severans. And this park right here has a lot of ancient Rome here, a lot of statues and reliefs and so forth. And actually right over here, you've got the part of a temple or shrine, which is to the goddess Fortuna Mulievres. So we actually have Fortuna of the Wives, dedicated by Augustus and Livia, but then you have a secondary inscription dedicated by Septemius Severus and Julian Donner. So wherever you look in Rome today, you're going to find the Severans. I've got to tell you, Darius, I think the story of the Severans in Rome is actually the untold story of classical Rome. Ancient Rome, because I reckon about a third of it is actually Severan in date, in some way, shape or form. Most of it being to the time of Septemius Severus, who became the Emperor in 193, died in 211, and his wife, Julian Donner, the mother and father of Caracalla and Gita, of course. So you have, I mean, because I'm saying we've been brainwashed, but we have, you know, the Augustan poets, we have Augustus, we have Julius Caesar, moving forward, you've got the Flavians, you've got the Spajians. There's the Colosseum right down there, but that Colosseum was repaired by the Severans after the famous fire in 217. Absolutely right. And indeed, actually, where we're standing here, you've got the Battle of Caracalla over here, which would have been the Battle of Septemius Severus, by the way. Absolutely. In fact, the construction started under Septemius Severus, and of course, Caracalla being Caracalla after Severus' death and having killed Gita in some way, shape or form, then renamed the Battle of Caracalla. Right. Personally, I still think this should be called the Battle of Septemius Severus, but I would say that as the author of a forthcoming biography of Septemius Severus. But even standing here, we could probably see in the Severan period on the hill behind us. Yeah. On the Palatine. On the temple of, you know, Gabulus, Severan emperor. You can see the Septus Odium, which is the façade. Yeah, right over there. Right over there. Exactly. And that's going to be greeting everyone. The idea was it's going to be greeting the Africans coming into Rome. Who run the show. Yeah, they're coming into the show. They're coming into Rome. And what do they see? They see that grand façade at the Septus Odium that celebrates the emperor. So that's a great encapsulation of this point here on the Kylian Hill to connect to so many different Severan projects. There you go. And one of the things that most people don't realize, Darius, is with the Severans, they effectively reset the whole Roman Empire along sort of North African lines. A lot of the administrators, a lot of the commanders of legions, they became North Africans. Some people call it a hostile takeover, actually. I mean, if you were Italian, you'd be very upset because you're the ones that had a good run and now you're out and income of the provinces incomes basically the wealthiest part of the empire, North Africa. And now they're in charge. The interesting thing as well is we call it North Africa today because it's North Africa. For the Romans, it's Africa. But it's part of the Mediterranean Roman Empire. So for the Romans, Africans coming here, Italians going there, it's absolutely normal. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. But it is a shocking jolt to suddenly find your empire being administrated largely by people from Africa, not from Rome. And it was a change that was ushered in and nothing was ever going to be the same. And then you're going to miss the Severans when you have that next period, that period of crisis. One of the things that I picked up in my own research from my book, actually, is Severus was for me one of the greatest Roman emperors. I think he was the most powerful because he had 33 legions. More legions than anybody else after he created the legio one, two and three pathica for his eastern campaigns. But it's very clear when you do a deep dive, he's also very avaricious. So one of the things he's doing is making sure that it's not only lining the imperial fiscous when he's popping off senator after senator after senator, executing them often without trial if they oppose him in any way, shape or form. But he's appropriating their wealth. It's not just going into his own fiscous. It's going also into his own purse. So he's the Roman emperor that all sets this standard to make sure that the imperial family are also not only the imperial family, not only the first people in the Roman Empire, but also individually incredibly rich. Our thanks again to Simon Elliott for all of his books, including his new one on Septimius Severus. Check the links in the description below. And we'll have more conversations on the Severans and separate videos. And of course, we want you to join us in Rome as well. Check out our courses, hromelive.org, slash courses. And we'll see you in Rome. This video was brought to you through a grant from the CAAS Martiantonio Award.


Hi, imam Giuseppe and today I'm going to talk about two new reference systems for power factor or corrector converters. The first solution I'll describe is the STDES vienerect, based on a 15 kW vienerectifier, and the second STDES PFC bider is based on a 15 kW bi direction rectifier, both of our based on our silicon carbide power devices and digital microcontrollers. STDES has long experience on technology innovation and consolidated system expertise in power conversion and energy management. We offer an extensive range of product, including high efficiency power devices based on silicon carbide, analog ICs, digital controller and MCU dedicated for digital power conversion. We believe it is important to put ourself in the customer shows and create system that they really need, so we are engaged in creating a comprehensive range of reference design, hardware and software evolution tools. Let's focus now on this new reference design and their main features. So, here is a quick overview. The STDES vienerect is a mixed signal controlled 3 phase converter based on a TN type 2 rectifier topology to target high efficiency with a reduced bill of material. The power converters are low unidirectional power flow with power factor correction operations in 3 phase maids, providing a regulated DC output voltage. This can be the front end block of any industrial high power applications, like DC charging station and electrical drives. It can also be used for automotive applications for high power and board chargers. Now, you can see here the power board as we implemented with red sensing and driver circuit and a control board for the digital IC with preloaded control firmware. High-high voltage auxiliary power supply is provided of the power board high-med 2 power or the low voltage circuit. So, let's focus a little more. The power board, which has been designed for 15kW output power with 400d input AC voltage. It includes C power MOSFET and SICK diode. The MOSFETs are driven by galvanically isolated gate driver ST gap to S. The low switching losses combined with a stable on resistance of the SICK power MOSFETs are low high switching frequency and high efficiency with a beneficial impact on the overall performance of the system. The control board is based on ST and G388K, which combines the high performance digital PWM peripherals, namely state machine event driver, with external analog parts for the high speed current control loop. The control algorithm is based on a mixed signal architecture. The current loop is implemented by means of analog control circuit, while the output voltage regulation is provided by a digital loop, taking into account the different dynamic of the two loops. We are very satisfied with the result we have achieved in the lab, where, with respect to efficiency, we have 98 plus % and power factor NTHD, 0.99, and below 5 % respectively. Now, moving to the STS-PFC bider, which is a purely digital controlled 3-phase converter based on a 3-level T-type topology. This topology allows bi-directional power flow with CVC or the CSC operations. In a SCDC operations it provides power factor control functionality with a related DC output voltage, while in the CSC operations is able to reverse the DC energy into the grid or to supply an AC load. It is well suited for charging station and onboard charger for B2G applications. So, looking a bit closer at the STS-PFC bider, reference design, it consists of a power board implementing the power topology with related sensing and the driver in circuit and a control board for the 32 microcontroller with preloaded control firmware. A high voltage auxiliary power supply is provided to power of the low voltage circuit. The power board is also equipped with the input relays for grid connection in case of DC-SC applications. So, let's go into more details on the component of each of this board. The power board has been designed for 15 kW output to power, with 400 AC input voltage. It includes 650V and 1200V sik power MOSFETs. The MOSFETs are driven by galvanica-isolated grid driver STF2S. The low switching losses combined with a stable on-resistance of the sik power MOSFETs allow a switching frequency and high efficiency with a beneficial impact on the overall performance of the system. The control board is based on STM32G4MCU with high performance digital PWM peripherals, namely a resolution timer, and additional functional block for digital power conversion such as Cordic for trigonometric functions. This reference design is able to provide the bi-directional energy flow. In a CDC operation, the control algorithm based on a DQ axis reference frame performs input current control with power factor control using the coupling emitted in the inner loop and the DC output voltage in the outer loop. Reversing the energy flow from DC to AC, the outer loop is modified in order to control the output power transferred to AC network, the grid or any AC load. Check out the STSvNRect and STSPFC bi-dire web page on ST.com. You can find all design related documentation, schematic, bill of material, layout and firmware source code under software license agreement. This board has been developed to accelerate your project with sik devices, reducing the same time and shortening the time to market.


Hi everybody, welcome back to London. I'm Dave Vellante and you're watching theCUBE. We go out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise and we've been following AWS generally in the public sector specifically for a number of years now. We've seen the ascendancy of an expansion of public sector. We've covered the career of Teresa Carlson and we're here in London ahead of AWS Summit London. There's a pre-day here. There's a number of public sector companies. There's a focus on healthcare. Kiran James is here. He's the founder of wonderful.org. Wonderful.org is a fundraising vehicle. It's really set up a platform essentially for self-service. Kiran, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Hello. So tell me about wonderful, why you started this organization. Wonderful was kicked off when I got to my 50th birthday essentially as a way to give back. I've been involved in the tech sector for many years and we were sitting on quite a lot of infrastructure. We thought we had some spec capacity as well and we thought what we can do with a resource, human and physical, in terms of giving something back to charities. So one of the things that looked like a great opportunities was to set up a completely fee-free fundraising platform and essentially that's what we kicked off with a brief of concept in 2016. So fee-free meaning I can come in, I can set up my own fundraising vehicle so all the money goes to the recipients. 100% we have no charges whatsoever to charities, to donors, to fundraisers and essentially all the card processing fees as well are covered and through the generosity of AWS and it's NPO program, we've been able to also cover things like hosting as well which has been phenomenal for us because it really does enable us to give every single penny to charity. So how do you fund your staff? The staff currently and our model going forward if it's one that we continue to support, if we can continue to support is through Secumbent. So we've seconded our technical resource from my day job, which is essentially running a telecoms business and those guys are incredibly generous with their time so evenings and weekends have been devoted to setting up and maintaining the platform. We've called in favours from people that have networked with over the years. So again, when we moved beyond proof of concept into the current website now and the current build we were able to get that done with some cost but albeit a fraction of what we would have paid commercially and essentially as we move forward we want the whole concept of wonderful.org to become something much bigger than just the organisation. It's kind of a vehicle for commercial organisations to do good. So lots of in kind contributions, lots of your time obviously. So when did you start the organisation? 2016 and essentially we went through what I describe as a proof of concept. We set three broad milestones. One was the first 100 charities on board, first 100,000 pounds of revenue or charity not really revenue but charity donations through the website and we launched our first wonderful week where we brought some sports celebrities including Phil Neville, now the manager of the England women's football team.  Once we passed through those three milestones it was then a case of saying, okay, we've achieved all of these. Now let's push the button and actually do this properly in inverted commas and that's when we kind of looked at hosting the thing properly, looked at the commercial build and so on. So those milestones are really kind of the proof of the concept but they're pretty substantial milestones and you hit them pretty fast. We did hit them fast but again to give you some context on that the first 100,000 through the website probably took us, I would guess, between 12 and 14 months. In the last 28 days we've processed about quarter of a million pounds through the website so the growth has been phenomenal and the appetite from the charities is enormous. What's particularly interesting about our sector is that whilst a lot of the events that take place like the London marathon and so on are very predictable we know exactly the date and time that people are going to be donating. Clearly you'll get events that are completely unpredictable. We've got to be able to respond and be available for donors to give when those kinds of things happen. Okay, so this leads me to the conversation about your infrastructure and obviously the cloud. When you started the organization you had sort of your own on-premises infrastructure, correct? So take us through sort of what that looked like and your decision to move to the cloud. Expensive, disjointed, very complex. So we were running essentially a kind of full stack on a number of servers that were hosted independently. Co-location was expensive, maintenance was expensive. Even things like getting to site were expensive and if there were rare occasions when you do have to do that in a hurry it can be quite time consuming particularly as I say given our profile where these guys are really doing it for love not money. So it became apparent to us, I think learning from some scenarios that we've seen in the real world with other platforms as well when even the predictable events had still created some concerns for some of the charities in terms of availability. So we took a long hard look at what we had and said, are we scalable? Are we fully available? Probably not. We need to look at this in some detail now. So that was when we kind of completely re-architected the website and looked at AWS. So it was not only a matter of like say scaling up for high demand and unpredictability but you had a sort of a fragile infrastructure. We did. And essentially equivalent of volunteers trying to keep it together. Exactly. So that's not a good formula for high availability. No, absolutely not. So how does that change with the cloud? With the cloud I think what we've got now is we've got a really good view of everything. We've got a view of the whole of our infrastructure kind of in one place. So it gives our operations director a lot more peace of mind because you can see all of the resources at his disposal. I think in terms of security, it's far, far better for us as well because we can manage access to various components available US depending on who needs access. So our web developers are currently remote. They're not formally part of the organization. So we can restrict access to things that we don't want to have access and so on and give them full access where it's required. So I think that's been a lot of peace of mind for the operations director and just having that confidence in clearly a brand that's got a huge reputation and people feel immensely confident about seeing. So for us being able to put the AWS badge on the website to reinforce to our users, to our donors that were kind of here, were solid, were stable, were not going anywhere is really, really important. Anyway, you said up front AWS has some skin in the game. They're providing some services and some contributions. So that's got to be pretty substantial for you guys. Massive, absolutely massive. Meaning all honesty, it's second only to card processing which is a significant cost of doing our business and one which is paid for by our other corporate sponsors. It's our second biggest cost without a doubt or would be if it were a cost, but mercifully AWS has kind of come to the rescue and we're able to do what we're doing now.  How does that work? Well, essentially our biggest corporate sponsor, our main partner at the moment is the cooperative bank and they have underwritten all of our card processing fees for the duration of that partnership. The big kind of caveat with that is that we don't know what they will be and whilst we can provide some forecast based on empirical evidence, worst case scenario, there's another tragedy. People reach for their wallets and give and suddenly that can go through the roof in the course of a couple of weeks. So the difficulty in bringing corporate sponsors on for us is just that kind of unpredictability of the sector that we're operating in but they've been tremendous. That's amazing, right? Because like I say, that's a big chunk of your cost along with your infrastructure but I'm fascinated by this organization and just want to congratulate you on the mission and actually getting it off the ground because when we give to a charity, we always ask, okay, well, what are the administrative costs behind this? You go to the website and you look it up and sometimes you just don't feel comfortable and so what you've done is you've essentially just eliminated that overhead. Completely. And where do you see this going? I mean, you've got what, 1,500 registered charities now? Yes, yeah, we're up to 1,500. Again, we've had a couple of fairly major events we were endorsed by the money-saving expert at number one but kind of how could they not put us at number one? It would have been very odd if they hadn't given that we're the only completely fee-free platform. That clearly creates the demand and I think that endorsement was a huge catalyst to the growth more recently. We've seen other things, BT My Donates actually pulled out of the sector which has caused a lot of charities to migrate to our platform as well. In terms of where we see it going, we will need to continue to raise money from corporate sponsors to support it but there's a real kind of step game in that. We have to manage that growth to meet their expectations as best we can but equally new corporate sponsors coming on board will want to see that we've got enough eyeballs to make it worth that while getting behind the organization. So it's that constant kind of game of trying to bring on the next round of funding and getting people through. How global do you see this getting? How today and in the future? Conceptually, there's no reason at all why this shouldn't be a global phenomenon but we're now very concentrated on the UK just because of our resource and we do get requests all of the time for international charities, for international fundraisers and so on but we've got to be realistic about what we can support. But going back to the point that I made earlier, it really isn't about wonderful.org, it's about just corporations, fundraisers, charities, donors, we see all of the last three being wonderful all of the time by the nature of what they do. We're just trying to get more corporations to be as wonderful as sounds terribly sycophantic but AWS has been in supporting what we're doing. It's that kind of that sense of what we're trying to achieve here that goes beyond one organization. Well, and the cloud allows you to scale potentially to the extent that you can get the resource. There's no reason you can't go global. No. I'm going to check it out and see even for a little local charity, can I participate? Absolutely. What does that involve? Do you have to have some kind of minimum threshold or no, anybody can? Anybody, you need to be a registered UK charity with one of the UK registrars. Beyond that, we go through a little bit due diligence with the charities so we will need to see some documentation. So there's a little manual stepping on board in charities but for all the right reasons we want to be diligent about the people using the platform to give the fundraisers the confidence that they're donating to a charity. So we don't do any peer to peer fundraising. It is literally you will register as a charity and the fundraisers can support your charity often led by the fundraisers rather than the charities. Interestingly, so the fundraisers will be saying to the charities why are you not on this platform which gives you everything and you're already on this platform which doesn't. So there's quite a lot of pressure now coming from the fundraisers to pull the charities in. So there's a lot of word of mouth, a lot of peer to peer. Absolutely. Right, you don't really have the funding and the budget to go market. Not at all, absolutely not. Well, hopefully this will help. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate your time. All right, thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Vellante, you're watching theCUBE. We'll be back right after this short break from AWS HQ in London. Right back.