The fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty hi-oh silver, the long ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Toto, the daring and resourceful mass writer of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States, nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The moon ranger rides again. He owned the last chance mine but lived in Badger City 30 miles away. On the first of the month he went as usual to the bank, grew a large sum in paper money and took it to his home. While a man from the mine stood watching, Billy made up the payroll and put the money into a leather sack. Well, there you are, Pete. Oh, sir. Just sign this receipt for the cash. Well, I'll sign it, but dad read it. Mr. Really, I don't like signing for so much money. If someone robbed the stage, I'd be responsible. It would take me a mighty long time to pay back $10,000 out of my salary. Oh, nonsense, Pete. I couldn't hold you responsible for the loss. All the same, I worry from the time I sign these things until I turn the cash over to the foreman. It's just a precaution, that's all, Pete. Just good business practice. You sure take plenty of precautions, Mr. Really. Well, you better hurry, Pete, it's time for the stage to leave. A few miles west of Badger City, the trail had been cut through a dense forest. Crees and underbrush grew close to both sides of the road. When the stagecoach reached that point, a tall thin man leaped into view and fired a warning shot. Pull up there! Ranging those horses or I'll blast you from the seat! Hold, hold there! Hold, hold, hold!  Don't shoot, don't shoot, mister. Throw out that payroll money. All right, all right, hold your fire.  Here's the cash. I'll get going and make it faster. I'll let you have it. Here it is! Here it is! A few minutes after the highway man had ridden away, the lone ranger and topple came out of the woods on the opposite side of the trail and drew their horses to a halt. Who's over who? Gunfire. Come from near here, Kimosabi. Hado, these tracks were fresh. The stage passed since the rain stopped. We're not here, stage. We were too far away. We barely heard the gunfire. Maybe gunfire means stage held up. We'll be right along the trail and see if there's any break in this trail of the horses. Come on, sir. In less than a hundred yards, the masked man saw where the stagecoach horses had been brought to a halt. Who's over who? Easy, sir. We'll look around, Hado. The boot marks of a man who had stepped from the shelter of the trees were clearly visible in the moist dirt. A moment later, the lone ranger and topple found where the highway man had waited. There they found a knife that had probably been used to cut eye holes in a bandana. The bits of cloth that had been cut out lay on the ground. Here. Here initials a knife. H.D. Hado, they might mean Henry Dorgan. Ah. Him run cafe in Badger City. He's run cafes in many places. And this knife prove him hold up stage. Not necessarily. But take more than a knife to convict that man. He's very smart. We take knife to sheriff in Badger City? I don't know the sheriff, Hado. But I do know Andrew Larkin. We call on him. Ah, him lawyer. Yes. He'll make the most of this evidence. First we'll try to follow the tracks to the woods and see where the robber went. It was after dark when the lone ranger and tonto reached the home of Andrew Larkin. Larkin was a fine-looking man who lived with his son and daughter. He examined the knife and the bits of cloth from the bandana. The report of the robbery came in some time ago. Jeb Velie's payroll was stolen, approximately $10,000. Who reported it? Velie's messenger. He borrowed a horse from a ranch and rode back. The sheriff went out and brought in word that he had found the tracks of three men. Only one man committed the robbery. The other tracks were made by Tonto and me. The sheriff tried to follow the tracks through the woods, but he very quickly lost them. Tonto and I followed them until dark. They led in a roundabout way toward Badger City. Yes, these initials on the knife, HD. You have a newcomer in Badger City. His name is Henry Dorgan. I hope Larkin, you can prove he committed the robbery. Why? Because in several towns, he's so liquor to Indians. There's never been punished for it. He's too smart. He's been punished for it here? He has. Yes, I got evidence against him. He paid a fine. He should be jailed for life. Well, I'll talk to the sheriff. If Dorgan committed the robbery, we'll do our best to convict him. You may be sure of that. Good. Will he and Tonto be nearby? No, Larkin. We're on our way to call on a friend, a Padre. I'm sorry. I'd like my son to meet you both. Is he here? No. He and his sister are visiting in Mudflats until next week. Perhaps we'll meet the next time. I do hope so. Randy is a good boy. We left our horses in the rear of the house. We'll go out that way. That evening, under cover of darkness, Hank Dorgan buried the boots that would have fitted the footprints on the trail and the bandana that covered his face. When the sheriff called at the cafe, he admitted that the knife was his and said it had been lost for several weeks. A holed-up man must have found his share and left it at the scene to though the blame on me. I suppose you have an alibi for the time of the robbery? I was home taken and napped the same as every afternoon. Old Windy, my housekeeper, will swear to that. So that's your story, eh? That's right, Sheriff. But I'll be on the lookout. If any of that Mark Money turns up in my cafe, I'll let you know. Eh, what do you know about Mark Money? Villy told me about it. He said every one of the stolen bills had a little red circle in the corner. So he asked me to watch for it.  Yeah. I wish Villy tended his gold mine and let me handle the robberies. The robbery went unsolved. It was about one year later when the lawyer Andrew Larkin died after a lingering illness. Two days following the funeral, his son Randy met John Morley, owner of the stage line for dinner in Dorgon's cafe. Eh, I'm sorry, Randy, that you fight it necessary to give up your plans to study law. Oh, I don't mind, Mr. Morley. My dad was a mighty fine lawyer, but he never got rich. Oh, just a minute, Randy. What is it, Dorgon? You want me to put these two dinners on your bill, Mr. Morley? Yes, of course. And speaking of bills, there's a matter of $20. I know what you're getting at, Dorgon.  Well, I don't believe it. I don't think he ever came into this cafe to buy anything from you. All right, then, let it go. I can afford to lose the money. I don't intend to let it go. I brought the $20 for you. Here, take it. I don't want to hear any more about dad owning you money. I never expected to collect that debt. You know, one of these days, I might do a little paying back on my own hook. And not with cash.  Oh, he hated my dad. Now, the dad's gone. He probably hates my sister kitten me. Dorgon will never forget that your father took him to court and pressed a case that resulted in a $1,000 fine. Are you sure you can afford that $20, Randy? Oh, yes, sir. I brought it on purpose to pay that pull-cash. You said you had to go to work. Did your father leave anything? He left the house to my sister and me and a little cash in a tin box. He used up most of his ready cash during the last few months when he was sick. Any debts? Well, he left the names of two people he owed money to in St. Louis. With his cash and what I'd earned working part-time for you, I managed to pay up everything. The money to St. Louis this morning. How are you fixed now? Well, I'll have to get a job within a couple of weeks or a kitten eye are likely to go hungry. I sure would like to drive one of your stagecoaches. I can handle it, Mr. Morley. I know I can. Well, I have no doubt you can drive a six-in-hand, Randy. Oh, you've seen me. On a regular run, there is more than just driving the horses. Driver must be a man who can be trusted with large sums of money. Well, you can trust me. Well, I don't question your honesty, lad. I need men who are fast with a gun. You know, we sometimes carry a great deal of cash. Remember the Vili rubber? I'd have shot it out with that crook. I can handle a gun. Well, you were a few years older. Well, I'll think it over, Randy. Oh, thanks, Mr. Morley. Yeah, what is it, Dorgan? You just gave me a $20 bill. Well? Is this the bill? Well, I guess so. It looks like it. Seems to be torn the same way. This is the bill you gave me. There's no doubt of it. Yeah, what about it? Last year, the law's been waiting for one of these bills to turn up. What do you mean? I mean, this is part of Jeb Vili's stolen payroll money. It can't be. No. Well, see for yourself. You hear, you take a look, Mr. Morley. I reckon you were told to watch for paper money with a small red circle in one corner. Yes, yes, I was. You're looking at it. I didn't see that mark when I had the bill. No one had noticed it if they weren't looking for it. How much more cash do you have, Larkin? I'm not accusing you. Maybe it was stolen by the man who gave it to you. Where'd you get it? I got it from the... I don't remember. Oh, so you don't remember. I suppose you get so many $20 bills, you can't remember where they come from. No, I just can't remember when... Listen, if you didn't steal the payroll money, you'll tell where you got this cash. Unless you're trying to protect the thief. No, I... I see here, Dorgan. I'm not even sure that's the same bill I gave you. You admit it as much. It's torn the same way. Randy, you'd better tell where you got that money. No, I... I can't. Then you are shielding someone. No, I'm not. I'm not shielding anyone. I just don't remember. That's all I don't remember. I'll turn this over to the sheriff and tell him where I got it. I reckon he'll be wanting to ask you some questions. All right, let him. Let him ask all the questions he wants to. I can't tell the sheriff anymore and I've told you. And if the sheriff wants me, he knows where to find me. I'll be at home. Word that one of the stolen bills had finally appeared spread fast through Badger City. Some people thought that Randy Larkin was the thief. Others thought he was shielding the thief because he was steadfast in his refusal to tell where he had gotten the $20 bill. The Lone Ranger and Tonto had camped in the vicinity. In town for supplies, the Indian heard the talk and reported to the masked man. The Lone Ranger nodded and replied, I'm sorry to hear that Larkin is dead. Ah, him good man. And that Dorgan is till at large. Ah, him make most bad talk against young Randy. Him say maybe Randy steal money. Then him say maybe father of Randy steal it. Has Randy been arrested? No, but Sheriff talked plenty to him. Try to make him tell where cash come from. Tonto a year ago, I thought Dorgan was the thief. I still think so. Ah, him no good. We didn't know the money had a red mark so it might be identified. Dorgan no about mark. He had the cash, he knew he couldn't spend it. He may have decided to wait for the chance to use it to hurt the son of his enemy. There must be some way to prove that Dorgan is a thief. We must find that way. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger adventure. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Let's continue. The Lone Ranger was determined to find some way to prove that Hank Dorgan had robbed a stagecoach and remove all suspicion from young Randy Larkin. Randy and his sister were at home soon after darkness gathered. The Sheriff sat facing the two. Randy, I want to let you know that I don't suspect you of stealing Villy's payroll money. Of course Randy didn't do it, Sheriff. He was with me in mudflats at the time of the robbery. You're an honest young lady. The people in town figure you might fib to shield your brother. Others figure your brother is shielding the man who did steal the cash. Sheriff, I've told you a dozen times. I have nothing to say. I've asked you a dozen times, Randy. Where did you get that $20 bill? Randy, why don't you tell him? I'm not talking.  That's all I can say. Morley's willing to give you a job on the stage line. But he won't do it with everyone in town suspecting you of being a thief or shielding a thief. I know it, Sheriff. And I'm much sorry. I'd like to have that job. You've given me your final word, Anne. Yes. All right then, I may as well be going. I'm sorry your brother is so stubborn, Miss Kiff. Sheriff, whatever Randy does is all right with me. I'll say this. You Larkins are the most loyal family I ever knew. I'll bid you good night. Good night, Sheriff. Good night. Randy, you'll never get a job in Badger City. Well, that being the case, Kithy, there's only one thing for us to do. What? We'll try to sell this house and move. Randy, look. That mask, maybe. Please don't be frightened. Who are you? How'd you get in this house? The back door was open, Randy. I took the liberty of walking in because your father was a good friend of mine. But who are you? You're masked. Several years ago, Randy, I gave your father a bullet. But just like this one was made of silver. What? The silver bullet. Randy, there was one in Dad's tin box. Oh, yes. Your father knew that this mask was not the sign of a crook. What? You're the Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger? Then your father spoke of me? Oh, yes, he did. I've, uh, heard of your trouble in connection with the $20 bill. I guess everyone this side of the Mississippi's heard about it by this time. I came for further information and, Randy, make up your mind of this. I plan to get what I came for. I want straight answers to a few questions. What? Well, what are they? I heard that you identified the $20 bill when Dorgan showed it to you. Well, I guess I did. The bill he showed me was torn just like the one I gave him. Did you see the red mark on it? Before I gave it to him? I didn't notice it there. It was mighty small. Are you sure you saw it later? Oh, yes. He showed it to me. Dorgan might have torn another bill, so it would look like the one you gave him. I thought of that. But what's the use of hoping anyone would believe a story like that? Well, why are you asking these questions? Do you have red ink in the house? I guess so. Yes, there's some on Dad's desk, right over there. Here, Andy, is a $20 bill.  But why? Sakes are live, Randy. Do what the Lone Ranger says. If there was ever a time when we needed a friend, this is it. And according to Dad, he's a friend. Meanwhile, the sheriff walked slowly toward his office. The lawman liked Randy and his sister, Kit, and he had known their father well. In his heart, he couldn't believe that young Larkin had committed a crime, but the evidence against the boy was strong. Hey, sir! Yes, what? Oh, it's you, Dorgan. Yeah. Have you talked to young Larkin? I just came from their house. I talked to both Randy and Kit. I suppose he's still lying. Randy's innocent until he's proved guilty. Remember that.  What good of it, do you? He'd just go on committing other crimes until he'd finally end up in the gallows. I tell you, Sheriff, Randy should be stopped now. I'm not asking your opinion. There's plenty of folks in town who feel as I do, Sheriff, and they'll see that you do your duty. Is what are you getting at? You'll have to take action whether you want to or not.  All right, Sheriff, but I'm warning you. If you let Larkin escape punishment, it'll cost you your job. Well-satisfied with himself, Dorgan returned to his cafe. The room was crowded with townsmen who were discussing Randy Larkin and the Veely robbery. Dorgan mingled with the customers and took part in their discussions. Dorgan is mighty lucky you happened to notice the marking on the bill Randy gave him. Well, gents, there's some folks call me over at Cauchy. But ever since the sheriff told me to be on the lookout for that cash, I've made it a point to examine every bill.  I don't like to take credit. And I feel mighty bad about it, too, after I realized that it made things look bad for Randy. I say he's shielding some work. Well, he won't get away with it, gents. We'll see to it that he pays for his job. Meanwhile, the long ranger had hurried to the camp near town where Tahoe waited. See, young fellow, he must be... Yes, Tahoe, and I have what I wanted. A marked bill. Now I want to borrow some of your clothing. Oh, you'll fix up like Indian. Yes. Get some buckskin from your saddlebag while I darken my complexion. Working by light from the campfire, the lone ranger removed his mask and used stain made from the bark of trees to darken his skin. Then while he changed into some of Tahoe's clothing, he outlined his plan. And while I'm calling on Hank Dorgan at the cafe, I want you to speak to John Morley. I'm sure that when he hears the plan, he'll get the sheriff to help us at the showdown. It was after midnight. There were only a few people left in Dorgan's cafe when the lone ranger entered, looking like a stalwart Indian. You, Hank Dorgan. That's my name. Me here plenty talk about you. It looks like you didn't hear about the rules of this cafe. Now, bamboo... No, me not go. Me talk business.  I don't do business with Indians. There's a law against it. Law never bother you in Grantville. Indian, I said clear out. Me got plenty money. I said I wasn't interested. Yeah, me show you. The lone ranger grew from his pocket what appeared to be a thick roll of paper money. Dorgan saw a $20 bill on the top, and he stared more closely. His sharp eyes perceived a small red circle in one corner. He found it hard to maintain his composure. Well, that's a lot of cash, Redskin. Me tell you, me got plenty money. Where, uh, where'd you get it? We do business first. Then you ask questions. I'd be willing to bet you stole it. Oh, what that matter, huh? Put the cash away, Indian. Don't let anyone around here see you with that much money. This is not all of money. Now, we do business, huh? Listen, I don't mind where you got the money. Even if you stole it, it's all right with me. But I'm just curious. I didn't know anyone in these parts carried that much cash. No one carried this money? Then you must have broke into someone's house, is that it? Oh, me not breaking.  Too much talk with me here on business. Listen, Indian, I can't do business here. I'll meet you somewhere else. Where you meet? There's a big rock east of town. It's right near the stage trail. You know what I mean? Oh, me know. I'll meet you there. Oh, how soon you meet? Yeah, let's make it. One hour from now. Oh, that good. I mean, look for you. You not being late. You'll be seeing me, Indian. You sure will be seeing me. Well, Baldi, I'm leaving for the night. All right, boss. What the red skinned one? It's none of your business. No offense, boss. I just wanted that was all. I'll see you tomorrow.  Dorgan left the cafe and hurried to his home at the edge of town. An old man who lived with him and attended to the chores was dozing on a sofa in the living room. He was roused by the sudden slamming of the door. What? What the Sam? When did you get up? Yeah, sure thing, boss. I'm up. What's wrong? Is the place fire? Do you leave this house while I was at the cafe? No, sir. He told me to never leave it while you were away. I wouldn't go get your orders. Are you sleeping? Well, not deep. Not only those little. No harm in that, is there? You slept with the door unlocked. Boss, I sure wish you'd tell me what the Tarnation's wrong. I'll show you what's wrong. Here, give me a hand with this trunk. Sure thing. Grab a hold of it and tip it upside down. All those extra clothes will spill out. That's what I want. Do as I say. And if the cash is gone, we're going out to kill an Indian. All right, then. Here goes. In the darkness behind Dorgan's house, the Lone Ranger used a bandana to wipe away the stain from his hands and face. Then he pulled off the buckskin shirt and placed it in a saddle bag. It took but a moment to pull on his own shirt and down the gun belt and hat that had been hanging from his saddle.  Meanwhile, Dorgan had pulled up a false button in the trunk. If you're worried about that cash, boss, it's all there. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I see it is. It makes me near sick to die when I think of all that money that we can't spend. I wonder if he could... I thought that Indian had it. Boss, you feeling all right? Okay, what the... The window. Hold it, follow me. Mask. Boss, he's holding the gun. I'm in, Sheriff. Now, what does this mean? It means you're through, Dorgan. Boss, come on. Get him up, Dorgan.  Dorgan turned from the masked man at the window and saw the sheriff followed by Morley, Jeb Veely, and Randy Larkin. He was gripped by panic when he realized that the contents of the trunk would convict him of the stagecoach robbery. Look at the cash in that trunk here. Let me look at it. May I see your matures, Veely? I'm sure of it. I'll know as soon as I see cut with the bills. It is mine, boss. They got you.  You swore to a false alibi for Dorgan. It was a trick I was framed. That Indian showed me a bill. Dorgan, tell us all about it. I won't be taken alive. You'll have to shoot it out. Oh, my arm! My arm is busted.  You should have known better than to go for a gun while that masked man was at the window. Listen, let me talk. He framed me. He did it. That masked man put the cash in my trunk. I'll act to the jury. Meanwhile, give me that good arm. I'll decorate it with these handcuffs. Easy, easy. Wendy, give me your arm. I'll hook you to the man you lied to help. That read it, boss. I knew our luck had turned sour. As soon as I heard we couldn't spend that cash. Randy, have you got anything to tell the sheriff? Yes, I have. Sheriff, I didn't want to defy the law, but I didn't know what else to do. The $20 bill I gave Dorgan came from my dad's cash box. I didn't know whether it was marked or not. I thought Dorgan might have switched it, but there was no way to prove it. Randy, I'm satisfied that Dorgan carried some of that marked money just waiting to frame you. And you wouldn't talk because you figured folks would think your dad had stolen that money. I didn't want anyone to think that. Dad wasn't alive to defend himself or tell his side of it. Randy, you wanted a job with me. Well, you may have it. All I ask is that you be half as loyal to me as you've been to your father. Golly, golly, thanks, Mr. Morley. Son, you should never have had a minute's doubt about your dad. If he hadn't been every inch a good man, he wouldn't have had a friend like the Lone Ranger. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated, created by George W. Trendle, produced by Trendle Campbell Enterprises, and directed by Fred Flower Day. Tonight's drama was written by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beemer.


Live from Atlanta, Georgia, it's theCUBE. Covering AnsibleFest 2019, brought to you by Red Hat. Welcome back. This is theCUBE's live coverage of AnsibleFest 2019. Two days of wall-to-wall coverage. I'm Stu Newman, and my co-host for the week is John Furrier, and happy to welcome back to the program one of our CUBE alumni, Tim Kramer, Vice President of Engineering for Management and Automation in Red Hat. Stan, thanks so much for joining us. Absolutely, it's a pleasure. All right, so Tim, it's been about four years since the acquisition, some of the undercurrents here is Red Hat didn't mess things up. As a matter of fact, the community's growing quite a bit. The ecosystem is definitely robust. Networking and security expanding really the footprint of Ansible. So, give us a little bit of the engineering side as to big announcement, Red Hat Ansible Automation platform, how long, you hear customers always talking about, oh, I took a thousand hours and brought it down to minutes of my time. Well, I think there were probably a lot of engineering hours on your team's side to get this rolling. Yeah, sure. With the Red Hat acquisition, the first thing that really happened when we came in was they wanted to make sure that we kept the community and that culture moving forward the way it was. We had a really good start at it, but it needed a lot of growth and obviously that worked out pretty well. Red Hat immediately invested pretty heavily in Ansible and in the ecosystem and really helped us kind of pop it out, right? Because that was one thing that Red Hat's really, really good at, that Ansible needed a little bit of help with. So, we saw the community just take off, we had the right kind of investment on the engineering side so that we could build up the processes and then also build the core engine really well and invest on the tower side to make that all work. The other thing that happened sort of as a byproduct was we started getting Ansible integrated into a bunch of the other Red Hat products and we started out with some of the other management products, right? And I think one of the most interesting integrations that we did was on the insight side. So, insights are artificial intelligence automation and what it does is it goes out and it works with RHEL especially, but it goes and does daily dumps of a bunch of information about your RHEL system, does a bunch of analysis on that and then tries to find problems or issues and then proactively tell you about them. What we did then is instead of just sending you an article telling you how to fix the problem, we thought, why don't we combine that with Ansible and then just ship you a playbook and fix the thing automatically and then we took those two concepts, brought those together, put it with tower and with satellite and then started just the complete cycle that would allow you to do self-healing software. So now we can just by daily dumps of things figure out what kind of problems you're having, issues, CVEs, performance problems, other things, match that in our database, figure out what our support organization has figured out in the past and proactively give you a playbook and fix it on one stop. What's the impact of customers on that feature? What's the impact of those guys? Well, so if you're managing a really large fleet of machines, one of the things you want to do is you want to make sure that you're staying up to date, maybe you have compliance issues, you're worried about CVEs that are coming in, or perhaps you just want to make sure that you got the latest in grade, you're tuned well, whatever it is. If you're managing that number of machines, you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to resolve those issues manually. Even if you could use Ansible to do the automation, you got to know that you have the problem to begin with. So it really connects the two sides. So it's like automating your support experience. And so what does self-healing mean in that context? Means it heals the... Yeah, so here's an example. I can give you an example. So an example would be, there happens to be a CVE that's recently come out. You want to scan your 20,000 machines and you want to figure out if that CVE is hitting you. So insights would upload the information about your system. We'd know that that CVE had not been applied, that you needed to do it. It would automatically generate a playbook that would then patch your system. That would come down into satellite. Satellite would then, let's say, go out and patch those systems for you. Or you could do it with tower as well. No human involvement. No human necessary, yeah. But a lot of people don't like to just let automation take over. So you still get the, I really want to do this button that you can push. But it makes it a lot faster. So then you can, you know. And the alternative is to just manually manage it. Yeah. Take it in. Yeah, in the, I guess pre-ansible days, what you would do is, even if you had insights, that was still a big win because you get the support organization's knowledge that's being automatically given, a report given to you. But you'd get a knowledge-based article that would tell you how to go about fixing the problem. And so you'd take that and manually do it yourself. Now we just generate that playbook and everything happens right away. So Tim, over the last four years or so, we've seen some massive changes in the IT landscapes. When we could go to Red Hat Summit, containerization had a huge impact. Multi-cloud, now we understand how rail fits in all of these environments. The people that are managing environments, most of what they're managing isn't something that they could go touch. So how's that impacting the Ansible marketplace? Well, I think the biggest thing is that because there are so many various systems that you need to be able to manage, the fact that we have the ecosystem available within the Ansible community has just, that has been the biggest part. There's, I shouldn't say there's no way, but it would take an incredible amount of investment if we were going to take the 3,000 modules we had and write those all ourselves and try to maintain those all ourselves. The community coming in and the ISVs who are the experts in those areas are actually building up all of this content and this gives then the users and customers of Ansible that capability of managing across all of those various kinds of ecosystems and hardware and VMs and containers and everything. Yeah, help explain how collections are going to change that relationship of the ecosystem especially I look at the cloud providers. You can't keep up with the deluge of announcements and new solutions that they're pushing out and therefore it would have been tough for Ansible to kind of maintain that on their own. Yeah, yeah, no that's great. So really what, the way collections came about was that we had a tension between the core platform which was changing as rapidly as the modules were and we had a desire from our customers and users that the core platform was pretty solid. We didn't have to keep modifying that as quickly as we were, but the module and the content developers they wanted things coming out faster. So this was a way for us to basically give some relief in that area where we are slowing down the core engine releases and we're speeding up then and we're allowing the people that would own the collections to get those changes and capabilities out much more quickly. What are some of the priorities on the roadmap that you have on engineering? Obviously given the feedback from the community you got customers and community and now you got an ecosystem developing at F5, you got NetApp, you got Cisco, you got IBM, a variety of other vendors are all here and growing, kind of a new stakeholder not a new stakeholder but still a glue layer and integration layer is going to attract partners. Right. What's the roadmap, what's your focus? Yeah, so our focus is really just now expanding that ecosystem, providing that value, giving more advanced analytics back into Ansible. So we really have to grow out now the automation hub itself and the analytics. And when you hear people say glue layer, integration layer, feels like a control plane, nice security network as Stu mentioned or areas that have been plugging in nicely and growing on the security side. What does that mean to you when you hear integration layer as the head engineer? You got to build that, what does that mean? Well, what it really means is having an extremely well-defined set of APIs that are really stable that you can integrate into. And that really is a big part of our focus and then making it very performant. And the feedback from the partners is I want to control it, you want to control it, where's the win, what's the trade-offs with partners? Because people tend to get pretty dogmatic, well, I'm going to own my data. And the problem in say security is is that a lot of these tools aren't sharing data quickly enough, real time is important, so glue layer is pretty important. Yeah, so I would say with the glue layer we don't really have much conflict as with any partners or any of the other users, really. So because it is pretty solid, I would say at this point. And we have such a great decoupling of the module development and roles, other content that's on Galaxy from the core engine itself, right? So for us, it means that we have to allow the experts that understand those modules the capability of being able to manage, deliver those things on their own cadence that makes sense, as long as it continues to work well with the core engine. So that's really what our focus is. And the APIs are critical, make sure they're rock solid, didn't get tested properly. Yeah, and don't change and shift on you so that if you're on older versions that ends up messing you up. I talk about the show, this show is really kind of a chill show, we love the show, it's kind of one of our wheelhouse shows in terms of community, we love going because you can get down and dirty and talk about tech, do deep dives, hallway conversations are very cool. What are some of the things you're seeing? What's the show focus this year? What should people know about the Ansible Fest this year? Why is it so important? Well, to me, Ansible Fest is honestly my favorite event. I've been doing these for years. The first one was in New York City in 2015. That was my first one. I think we only had about 150, 200 people at that. It's a pretty small show. It's just been rapidly growing ever since. And the thing I've always loved about Ansible Fest is the community of people that are here. It really is a user community and they are in love with Ansible. They love what it can do for them and they just want to learn more. I also have a lot of customer meetings while I'm here and from a customer standpoint, usually the kind of feedback we get is how can I get more Ansible usage within my organization? They'll have a pocket of it that has come up and they're really excited about it and they want to expand that to other groups. So instead of maybe other conferences where you're getting a lot of concerns and people want to yell at you, it's more of a love fest, really. I love it. Tim, can you comment on the dynamics of an engineering organization working on a product that is open source and what that project means? Because we heard some feedback from the contributor summit, a lot of engagement, really good attendance from a real diverse ecosystem. So give us your commentary on that. Yeah, I mean, to be perfectly honest, right? One of the things that we are really trying to focus on is enabling the community to do more with less help from us, right? So one of the things that's really important is you have to make sure that as a user, you know what the rules are so that you can get your contributions in as quickly and easily without any questions or concerns as possible. So we've spent a lot of time on making sure that contributions can be as easily accepted as possible. And a lot of that really, honestly, is more process than it is anything technical. You have to know what testing levels are required in and what kind of stability do I need in my modules and what kind of support am I expected to give on that?  Give us what you can. Nice thing about an open source project is people know when things are coming. So platforms announced, it's going to be GA, come November, what directionally should we be looking for by the time we come to AnsibleFest 2020? AnsibleFest 2020, what I would hope to see is that we're going to have much better advanced analytics about how your organization is using Ansible internally and even being able to compare that against other organizations and other companies that are also running. So you can see how you're doing against, let's say your peers in the industry. That's a big one. The other one, of course, is we really want to get more engagement with our partners and others that want to provide collections of content that you can trust. All right, any nuggets from customer discussions either something that might not have gotten talked about on the main stage or just general feedback that you'd share? I think that one of the things that we hear a lot is really around the scale and what we're seeing customers do is scale Ansible out to very large levels, right? So I would say some of the number one requests we have are around making sure that we can scale well, having sort of high availability solutions. I think those are the main things that we get. All right, well, Tim Kramer, thank you so much for all the updates. I look forward to seeing some of those enhancements that you talk about as the platform continues to mature. Be back with lots more coverage here from Ansible Fest 2019 for John Furrier. I'm Stu Miniman. Thank you for always for watching theCUBE.


Right, right to go. Okay, good morning, everyone. My name is Professor Mark Howden. I'm the director of the ANU Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions. It's an absolute pleasure to have you all here this morning for this event with the her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Daniel. And they're just about to arrive, so if you could all be upstanding for the arrival. If you could be seated. And we have to start with some introductory remarks by our famous Vice Chancellor, Brian Schmidt, who is well known to the Swedish Royal Family through, amongst other things, the award of his Nobel Prize, Brian. Good morning, everyone. And on behalf of the Australian National University, I am delighted to welcome you all to this morning's panel discussion. As is Australian custom, I begin by acknowledging and celebrating the first Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and I pay my respects to elders past and present. The Ngunnawal Nambri people have been here for more than 20,000 years, using Cambri where we meet today as their meeting place. Your Royal Highness, it gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to Australia's National University. I also extend my welcome to other members of the Swedish government, along with staff, students from our campus, and of course, Prince Daniel, welcome as well. I first met her Royal Highness in 2011 when I received the Nobel Prize. I remember walking down the stairs together, being deeply intimidated by the ceremony proceedings and the strobing flashes that were trying to get a picture, not of me, but of her Royal Highness. A&U, as Australia's only national university, has a unique role. We are a research intensive campus which provides a world-class education for our students who come from over 100 nations. Our remit here as the National University is to undertake research that benefits all Australians and undeniably, climate change is one of the most pressing challenges to humanity's existence. For many years, A&U has been recognized globally for our leading work in climate and energy research, including areas of policy, economics, social psychology, governance, and underlying technologies. Now there have been long-standing links between A&U and Sweden. In last fortnight, as everyone here will know, the founding director of the A&U Climate Institute, Professor Will Steffen passed away. He was a fierce advocate of climate change action and also shared a connection to Sweden which is very deep with Stockholm University and the Volvo Prize Foundation. He will be missed. And I would also say he is probably irreplaceable. In 2021, we launched the A&U Institute for Climate, Energy, and Disaster Solutions, of which Professor Mark Houdin, who is moderating today's panel, is the director. The institute brings together over 570 researchers from across the university to find solutions across disciplines. And today's panel will focus on electrification. The data is clear. Although electrification has reduced national greenhouse gas emissions by about 7% to date, this is well below its potential. We need to increase electrification exponentially to meet the Paris Agreement targets and we need to do it quickly, ethically, and economically. Here in Australia, we have tremendous opportunity to cut greenhouse gas emissions through electrification with renewable energy. Whilst currently at an early stage electrification is accelerating rapidly and is expected by 2030, over 80% of Australia's power will be renewable. You'll be glad to know that the room that you're in is entirely renewable, as is the entire ACT. That green electricity will increasingly power Australia's transport and industrial systems and our homes. We have initiatives like the A&U Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program, which Associate Professor Marni Shah, who joins our panel, will be able to discuss further. We also have academics looking at how we can generate green steel. This is a specialty of Sweden. And importantly, we have academics researching critical raw materials and how we can both explore for and extract these, meeting the growing global demand again in a carbon neutral way. Now I'm gonna hand back to Mark Houdin in a moment, but before I do, I do wanna thank and acknowledge the work across A&U and the Swedish Embassy to bring this event together. It is a great example of the intersection of academia, government, and international diplomacy and people working together to address climate change, and we need more of it. Thank you all, and Mark, back to you. Thank you Vice Chancellor. And we have some words, I think, from the Crown Princess, is that right? Vice Chancellor, noble laureates, Excellencies, Minister, Assistant Secretary, members of the university faculty, students, ladies, and gentlemen. I would like to start by acknowledging the Ngunnaval people, the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet today. I pay my respect to their elders, past, present, and emerging. My husband and I are delighted to be visiting Australia and to be here with you today. We have received a very warm welcome and have already had the chance to see a little glimpse of your country's breathtaking beauty. Yesterday, we visited Namaji National Park and were absolutely blown away by the pristine bushland and the sweeping grasslands and the mountains. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, not least to us coming from a wintry Sweden. During our visit here, during our visit, we were, of course, reminded of the absolutely terrible images of the bushfires from 2020. I remember well that the fires were a topic of discussion with our children around the dinner table in Stockholm and I believe in many other countries around the globe as well. In fact, these bushfires were an eye-opener for many people that climate change is real. Hearing the stories from the local fire brigade yesterday in the National Park was truly moving and at the same time shocking. In the 2020 fire, 80% of the National Park was burnt. The bushfires, the bushfire was totally changed the landscape in many ways and threatened native animals and including threatened species and ecological communities. Ladies and gentlemen, loss of biodiversity is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. Extinction of animals, plants and other organisms threaten life support systems on which we depend like food, fresh air and clean water. Climate change affects the planet itself as well as us who live there, humans and animals alike. More recently, we have seen the terrible floods in New Zealand and Pakistan and simultaneously droughts in large parts of eastern Africa. Glaciers are melting and small island states fear that rising sea level will eliminate their existence. Climate change is real and it impacts us all here and now. So here and now is a good place and time for a deliberation about things that can be done to mitigate the situation. Vice Chancellor, I thank you and the Australian National University for hosting this seminar on electrification and energy security. The Australian National University is widely known for its cutting edge research also in the fields of climate change and energy. And I know that Australia, I know Australia to be a country with great potential for green transformation, not least within the field of energy. I am very happy to see representatives from both government and industry. The nexus between science, policy and industry is key. Energy and electricity make up the foundation of any modern society. Ensuring access to clean, constant and affordable energy is one of the most important tasks at hand. Success in the green transition in the energy sector is a priority for policy makers across the globe. To counter climate change and mitigate its consequences, we need to address the ways in which we construct our energy systems. We need to ensure that our energy infrastructure is fit for the world of today and tomorrow. We need to optimize use of the resources we have. That way we can strengthen our response, that way we can also increase the security and resilience of our societies. We are at a junction that requires us to find solutions for transforming the way we produce and consume energy. I am proud to say that we have a large number of Swedish companies and research institutes working toward this end. They are at the forefront, leading the way in developing clean and competitive energy solutions. I also know that their interest is great in collaborating with Australian partners and contribute to Australia's energy projects. I hope that today's seminar can be a stepping stone towards enhancing this collaboration. I am certain that the exchange between our countries, between our governments, our research institutions, people to people and business to business will benefit the competitiveness of both our countries and the world at large. We are facing that global challenge together and we will master them through collaboration. I look forward to listening to today's discussions. Thank you. Thank you very much, Your Royal Highness, for those words. And it just illustrates, I think, the strength of the bonds and the commonality of the pathways which our two countries are going down and the need to work together to solve these global challenges. So how are we going to run this next session? We've got timelines here, so what we're going to have is a fairly brief panel session. So I'm going to introduce the panel members in a second, followed by a Q&A after some prepared questions. So just to introduce the panel members, initially, Johan, that's Johan for Shell, is the Swedish Minister for International Development, Corporation and Foreign Trade, if you can come up and grab a seat. Next we have Martin Merrick, who's the President and CEO of Volvo Australia, welcome. Then we have Associate Professor Marnie Shaw, who's from the ANU School of Engineering and she's the research lead at the ANU's Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program. Welcome, Marnie. And we also have Matt Ryan, who's the Assistant Secretary of the Transport Branch at the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water. Welcome, Matt. So you can see that sitting up here, we've actually got a really interesting array of people coming from government, from industry, from research. And that's both governments from Australia and Sweden. And so hopefully we can have a lively panel discussion here. So the first question goes to Minister for Shell. In what way can Swedish industry and innovation contribute to the global energy transition? Well, thank you for that question and thank you for the possibility to be here today. I think there are numerous possibilities. I believe both Sweden and Australia to be very like-minded countries when it comes to these questions. We have been in Sweden for many years, been like at the forefront of the green transition. I think there also, I know that there is a growing discussion also here in Australia and we of course very much welcome that. Sweden and Australia have been trading with each other for almost 200 years and I'm very pleased to say that today we have many Swedish companies. Especially in the green transition, of course. We have Skania, we have Volvo, we have Ericsson, Epiroc, and many of them are focusing mainly on, or they're focusing on the green transition. So I think there are great possibilities here, not only for Swedish companies coming to Australia and investing here, but the great thing with international trade is that it also goes the other way around. There is also an interest for many Australian companies doing the green transition in Sweden and helping us. So there is a great potential here and we are from the European Union's perspective also putting a lot of focus for having finally that free trade agreement, which could also be a cornerstone here when it comes to enabling the green transition. Thank you, Minister, and I think there's some really great suggestions there perhaps to follow up from people at ANU. So Martin, so what does Volvo see the trajectory to e-vehicles and what role does Volvo play on this? Noting that you actually have an example just on campus, just outside this building of where you're going. Absolutely, like Minister for Shell, delighted to be here. As you can hear, it's not an Aussie accent, it's a Scottish accent, so we have a Scosé with a Swedish company here in Australia. By 2030, Volvo Group, we see that all the trucks, buses, construction equipment, what we sell globally will be about 35% electric. If we take Volvo trucks specifically, by 2030, 50% of what we sell globally will be electric. And of course, we are committed to the Paris Agreement. Our targets have been ratified by the SBTI, which means that by 2040, all our solutions will be fossil free. That will be battery electric vehicles, also fuel cell electric vehicles and internal combustion engine, particularly in Australia, will run in biofuels, biogas, and maybe even hydrogen, and internal combustion engine. Of course, as discussed, collaboration, we can't decarbonise the sector on our own, so we believe that partnership is a new leadership, so globally we have some really key partnerships. We were a founding member of the First Movers Coalition. We have partnerships with our competitors in Europe. We have Tratton Group in Daimler, where we're working together to accelerate the electric infrastructure for recharging, so we anticipate 1700 plus charging points to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. And here in Australia, we've been building trucks here for 50 years. We celebrated our anniversary last year in Waco, and we intend to build battery electric vehicles here within the next three to four years. Currently, our full Volvo truck range is battery electric vehicle. We have medium duty here. Delighted to say that in December, we announced the world's largest order for Volvo medium duty electric vehicles here in Australia. Heavy duty on the other hand, unfortunately, we can't bring them to Australia right now because of legislation, so I urge academia, government, industry to collaborate, to accelerate legislation change, and we can then accelerate the adoption rate of battery electric vehicles. So we are on the journey, and we have the products here today, and very excited about the transition to a greener future. Thanks, Martin. It's really encouraging to hear the involvement of Volvo. Australia, as you probably know, is well behind other countries in terms of EV adoption, but we are accelerating their adoption, and the ACT is leading that. And so I think as of last year, I think it was 20% of vehicles sold in the ACT were electric vehicles, which was more than twice the national average, so we're a hotspot for EV adoption here in the ACT. Marnie, can you tell us a little bit about what your battery grid integration program is doing in terms of vehicle integration into the grid, and particularly the pilot program you've got with the ACT government? Sure, thanks, Mark. Good morning, everyone. So in our program, we are really focused on developing the technology that we need to support electrification of the grid. And what's important to think about is that we have to be mindful that the relationship between the energy system and people is changing. We're moving to a system that's much more decentralized and with people at the centre. So that means the technology looks a bit different if you didn't have people in the picture. So how do we do that in our program? So we have engineers, we have computer scientists working very closely together with social scientists right here at the INU, in our engineering school. So I see some students in the audience and encourage you to think about a career in engineering or social science because we need lots of you to help us work on this problem. So the vehicle-degrid program that you mentioned, Mark, is a really good example of that. Vehicle-degrid is a new technology which allows us to use EVs to inject power into the grid for the rare times when we need that grid support. So for things like providing frequency support for the grid, providing backup power, I heard of a really nice example the other day in the city of Newcastle where we have fire trucks that are electrified that can go out to disaster situations like bushfire or flooding and provide that backup power for those communities. So things like that, that's what vehicle-degrid is used for. The trial here at the INU, which is a partnership with ACT government, has 51 Nissan LEAF electric vehicles and it's an Australian first and trialing this technology, looking at the kit in the lab, testing it out, also trying to understand what the people side of this technology, what do people want, what do people expect of this technology. So that's really important. We're trying to understand the benefits, the barriers and so on. So it's important work that needs to be done. It has challenges. Even in countries that have very high penetration of EV, vehicle-degrid rates are still quite low. So we need to address what are the issues, develop the market opportunities and so on to make this really a viable technology. Thanks, Mark. Thanks, Martin. And I think your point that we need engineers who also understand social science and vice versa is actually really important and that's one of the areas where I think we do need to be considering. How do we actually have a workforce which is appropriately skilled for the jobs of the future? So Matt, Australia has significant challenges ahead in terms of accelerating electrification to meet the ambitious goals of the new government. That's a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050. So transport is about 17% of our emissions profile is actually a big contributor to that, our emissions and we need to deal with that. So what do you think we can learn from Sweden in terms of that? Thanks, Mark. And just quickly, apologies from the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Minister Bohen. He would have loved to have been here today and the Assistant Minister as well, Parliament sitting at the moment. So there's quite a bit going on but there is a silver lining, you've got me instead. So hopefully that's not too bad. I'll use a few stats so hopefully that won't throw you off. So transport emissions in Australia, about 100 million tonnes CO2 equivalent. Our latest projections for 2035 that we did at the end of last year had it moving up to number one place. So taking over some of the other sectors in terms of the projection. So it's a big part of our economy transport and it's something that needs to be looked at very closely in front of government's mind at the moment. We recently went consulting about what we needed to do in Australia. When you compare us to Sweden, we're well behind in terms of rates of uptake. When we talked to stakeholders in Australia but overseas as well, we had many people from overseas lending information from their experiences, including Sweden, about how we could drive the demand, how we could decrease the supply and how we can get the infrastructure we need. Because this is a different world. It's a new way of going about transport. A couple of the things that popped to my mind is certainly our uptake rates very low. So it's around 3% of new car sales, electric vehicles. So 3% when you look at Sweden, they're nearing 50%. So quite a way to go. So looking at some of the systems they used over there, the incentives and you'll see some of the incentives that are coming out from state and territory governments at the moment around rebates, stent duty concessions, registration free for a couple of years, I think they have here in Canberra, to drive the uptake. So incentives, Sweden certainly, use those other countries has and you can see Australia starting to do that. And that's really important because there is a premium at the moment for battery electric vehicles, particularly at that entry level where most people want to encourage to take them up when they're making a choice to buy a new car. So that's really important. Probably the only other thing that's really important to touch on is the infrastructure. Australia is not quite ready. You'll hear there's lots of charging stations being rolled out, but a few numbers again. We've got I think around about 5,000 public charging points in Australia at the moment, lots of plans to roll out a lot more. To give you an idea, I think Sweden's somewhere around 16,000 to 17,000 charging points. So the infrastructure to keep up with the uptake is just as important. And we can learn from Sweden. They've got some remote and regional areas. They've got some really cold places. We've got some really hot places. Charging infrastructure obviously in those areas will not all be the same. So learning from others like Sweden and what they've done there would be very valuable for Australia and is valuable for Australia. Thanks, Matt. Just moving back to Minister Forsshell. So what we've seen over the last year is our energy security both in the EU and globally is not as secure as we thought. And so we need to I think reconfigure some of our ideas in relation to this. So what do you, have you got any insights in terms of the role of international trade and international collaboration to enhance energy security? Thank you very much. And that is actually a question that we are trying to deal with in Europe. And as you are aware of, Russia's unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine has put focus on these questions. And being very honest here, I think at least some countries in Europe have a very difficult situation right now. And they are facing a dependency on Russia when it comes to imports of gas and fossil fuels. And that is of course problematic. Some of the countries in the European Union have ended up facing all these dependencies and it really underlines the importance of having free trade flows, making sure that you can trade freely with partners and not with countries that you don't want to become dependent off. Germany is one example and there are also other countries in European Union right now having a very difficult time. And at the same time, you will also have this energy crisis and high inflation and being dependent on Russia. So this is very problematic and we are trying to deal with this from many different aspects. Of course, we will need to invest even more when it comes to the green transition, solar, wind, power. We are also looking at next generation of nuclear. At the same time, having more of open trade is of great importance to us. I believe the whole Indo-Pacific region here is high on our agenda, not only Sweden's agenda, but the whole of European Union. And I think that also goes the other way around. I mean, I hope that having this free trade agreement between Australia and European Union would also enable Australia to trade more freely with a huge market. I mean, 27 different countries in the whole of Europe is a huge possibility for many Australian countries and also providing Australia with a possibility of not becoming dependent on countries that don't share the same fundamental values when it comes to democracy and freedom of speech, et cetera. So I believe, to summarize, in today's world, trade is not only about figures in economic growth and job. It is also about security. And that is what we are facing in Europe right now and this is also our focus for the future. We will try to merge these two things into one and find synergies. Thanks very much for that. And I think it does highlight that when you look at Europe, it's not just what's going on with Ukraine, but the super hot summer actually resulted in, for example, in France shutting down half of its nuclear power fleet. And so you can get multiplying things coming out of these interactions between these big drivers. I'm just moving back to Martin. So just thinking about the sort of Australian context and the needs of the Australian consumers and the Australian environment and taking into account what Matt said, big differences between Sweden and Australia, same temperature. What might be some of the particular considerations you're taking into account in how you roll out your vehicle fleet sales here? I would say that, first and foremost, we need sustainability leaders. We spoke about partnership and collaboration. And I have to say that ACT, yes, they are real sustainability leaders when it comes to state government. And we have a partnership there that you may be aware of. So that's important that sustainability leaders come together. Legislation needs to change. We have medium duty battery electric vehicles here today. I'm also a member of the Truck Industry Council of Australia, so all the other OEMs feel the same way. So if we get legislation changed, we can accelerate the uptake of heavy duty battery electric vehicles. So if we take Melbourne up to Brisbane, roughly 80% of the freight task is performed in those routes. So we can see that's a key area for us to accelerate the transition. Then of course we spoke about the infrastructure. We spoke about what we've seen in Europe, what we've seen in Sweden and the rest of Europe. We really need to collaborate here in Australia to accelerate that. Business industry is not waiting. The demand is very high for heavy duty trucks and customers have their own solutions where they can actually charge the vehicles at base, then they work for the day to come back again. But of course where we have interstate and longer distances, that becomes a challenge. So really the technology is there. We need academia, government, industry to collaborate, to accelerate the transition, get legislation changed and it will happen. Thanks very much Martin. And I think that is a really important point. How do you actually accelerate the transition and that's about people as well as about the technology and policy? And that I think brings us to the last question here, which is to Marnie, which is, how do you best incorporate social and psychological considerations into the enhancing the energy transition? Yeah, thanks Mike. So as I mentioned, I think it's crucial that technologists work together with social scientists and most importantly, we need to go out and ask people what they want, what do you want from the energy transition? What do you want when you have an electric vehicle? Do you wanna use it to support the grid? How do you wanna use your household battery? Would you rather have a neighborhood battery instead of a household battery? I think people are at the center of the energy transition in Australia and we need to understand what you want. Thanks Marnie for that. So that just opens up the opportunity for questions from the audience. We have some microphones or a microphone, I think over there. So if anyone wants to ask questions of the panel, you're free. So I think you have to go up to the mic, is that the thing? So you gotta move to the mic, not the other way around. If you can introduce yourself first. Yeah, sorry, Adam Shirley. I work at ABC Canberra here locally. I originally did environmental science way back when I was a student, so I've always had an interest in these sorts of matters. Thank you all for the presentation and welcome to our visitors. It's great to have you in our little old town. I think for all of you, particularly to you Minister Fossil, but I'm interested in the whole panel's views. In Australia I think we know that a want for a transition and an acceleration of it is in part dependent on what the fossil fuel companies do or don't want to do. These countries we know has in recent times been founded on big profits from fossil fuel miners and companies and that's a fact, like it or don't. I'm interested, Minister, from your perspective on what degree of strong arming is required to take the whip hand, as some see it, out of the fossil fuel companies ride, if you will. And there's been a bit about legislation to change legislation to fundamentally change the incentives for 100% electrification because that politically, as well as practically, has been, I think, an issue that has fallen governments in recent times here. So I'd love to know your views on that and whether that realistically will happen any time soon. Thank you, that's a difficult question. I will make my best not to comment on domestic politics here in Australia, but I can give you the Swedish perspective because I think what has happened in Sweden over the last couple of years, talking about the green transition, is that there has been a fundamental change in the discussion. If I had been here 10 or 15 years ago, I would say the green transition was back then something that we needed to do. It was a must. We didn't really want to, but we had to because of all the climate change, et cetera. Looking at Sweden today, and when I talk to the largest Swedish enterprises and private investors, they will tell me that the green transition today, there are numerous opportunities here. It's something that we don't only have to do, it's something that we want to do because we can make money of it. There are so many possibilities for economic growth, foreign trade, investments, creating economic growth, creating jobs, basically. And I believe that is just underlined the dramatic shift that is taking place here. I can give you one example. 10 years ago in the northern parts of Sweden, it's freezing cold all the time, but not in summer, then you will have like billions of mosquitoes. I love this part of the counter I must say, even if it doesn't sound like that, but looking at facts, 10 years ago, people would be leaving the northern parts of Sweden because there were no jobs. Today there is an industrial revolution going on in the northern parts of Sweden and has to do with batteries. There are numerous different companies located that are producing world-class batteries, which are needed for the transportation sector, et cetera. Today's problem in the northern parts of Sweden is another one. How can we attract all the amount of people that we need to come here and work? So 10 years ago, people were leaving and now we are trying to, okay, we need to build more houses. We need to invest in new schools, new hospitals. We need to attract people from all over the world, just to give you an example and an understanding of the revolution that is taking place here and how the green transition in Sweden has moved from becoming something that we had to do into being really an area where we have so many opportunities for not only doing good, but also in doing a great business out of it. I hope you understand what I mean. And I think that is the right perspective also for many other countries, just like Australia. We need to see all the great possibilities that lies ahead of us here. Thank you. Thanks, minister. Matt, did you want to? Certainly won't take the political element of that, but I probably could talk about the current government's approach and some of the things that they're looking to do. I think probably most importantly, and just picking up on the ministers, talking about regional and remote areas, the government announced a $1.9 billion pairing the Regions Fund, which is to assist some of these regional areas that have an investment in the technology that has been very, very good for Australia in terms of the economy. So transition and take up the opportunities that might exist with new clean energy and new industries, but also to be able to carbonise as well. So there is a recognition of there needs to be some money to help with that. The second thing I think, and it's happening and sort of very topical at the moment is the safeguard mechanism in Australia, which captures just over 200 of the largest emitters in Australia and working with them to reduce their emissions over time to sort of help with the transition to be able to make sure that our targets to 2035 and 2050 are available. So that's currently being consulted on. That's part of the solution. It's making sure that everyone has an opportunity to feed into that process, but also to sort of, it sends a signal that serious, the government's serious about that. There's nothing that needs to be done. And probably the last thing, which I think is important is when you look at a lot of them countries, sorry, companies, a lot of them have net zero 2050 targets already, nearly all of them. So they're already doing a lot of work in that space to be able to develop products or change processes or do things in their business that are much better for the climate. Thanks Matt. Comment Mark. On this note from an industry perspective in business, sustainable business must be profitable and profitable business must be sustainable. I've met with some fuel companies who are really keen to collaborate for electric vehicle charging. I would say that the biggest barrier right now is legislation. There's a strong demand from business. There's a real desire to be more sustainable and towards fossil free. Of course, some companies have got a bigger challenge than others, but there's a real desire there to accelerate the journey. Thanks very much Matt for that. I'm sorry, Martin. So next question, if we can keep both the questions and the responses down because we've got quite a queue of people. But next question. Thank you all for your presentation. My name's Neil Bibby. I'm the editor of the age Pacific Fire and Disaster Magazine and an ex fire chief. Martin, in your presentation, I counted four times you said there's legislation changes required. What are these barriers to entry that is stopping heavy vehicles coming into Australia? That's a very good question that I've asked many times. Coming from Europe where we have 27 countries can work in legislation and execute on that quite efficiently. Of course, Australia has the federal, state and local governments that everyone has a view on axle weights and vehicle widths is a key issue here. So if we get those axle weights increased on the front axle along the same lines as what Europe has today, not any greater and the width which Europe has today, then we can accelerate the transition very quickly. And that's the fundamental barrier at the moment, you see? As the barrier. Okay, yep. Okay, it's a call for standardisation, it sounds like, which makes a lot of sense from a point of view. And maybe just to follow up, during our consultation, that came through to lay out and clear some of the settings for Australia, which a lot of people tell you they're there for good reason. We need to work through them to be able to sort of adjust them, axles and widths of cars, which notwithstanding those changes, we've also heard from people interested in this, is infrastructure again. So certainly the vehicles are getting in here but rolling out the infrastructure, a lot of investment through arena in trialling some of these technologies back-to-base technologies, whether it's a battery in Sydney or they've done hydrogen down in Melbourne, there's still some more work to be done to be able to enable when those vehicles do come into the infrastructure. Thanks Matt, we've got about 10 minutes more for questions. So next question. Hi, I'm Janelino from Diplomates for Climate Action. Now, I have a question for Matt and probably Martin on Matt, when you talked about electric vehicle take-up, you were talking about ways of driving demand. It seems to me that there is a plenty of demand out there in the Australian community. The problem is supply. So I'm asking you and probably the head of Volvo to tell us, I mean, you've partly answered the question on heavy vehicles, but on sort of light, personal, normal people vehicles, what do you need to increase supply into the Australian market? I'm happy to start with that one. So again, consultation, pretty much unanimously, all stakeholders said some form of fuel efficiency standard for Australia was the best way to tackle supply. So that's something we've heard through consultation. That's something that doesn't exist in Australia at the moment. So that is something that we've heard loud and clear. Beyond that, we are seeing more and more vehicles coming on into Australia. Australia's, how would you describe? I suppose every country's a little bit different, the terrain, sometimes we're the same, sometimes we're different, but we love four-wheel drives. We love Utes. We love those types of cars. They're coming, EVs. The first Utes are being sold. There's Australia startups that are converting existing utilities into electric vehicles. We have heavy, rigid truck development battery down in Melbourne, I can think of. So we're starting to adopt the supply in those areas, but certainly loud and clear through our consultation with everyone who's the single biggest driver, particularly in that light vehicle, would be a fuel efficiency standard. And some of the things they quote to us when we talk to them was about in the first world, there's just Russia and ourselves who don't have a fuel efficiency standard. Even New Zealand does, so, jeez. And you know how we like to beat New Zealand? Only fairly though, no underarms. I think we've discussed heavy duty truck as a driver of a Volvo electric vehicle. It's a hybrid vehicle, and of course, the charging infrastructure is the main issue there. So I drive more often in the petrol engine than I would like to, so I can only charge at home and then charge at the office. So more charging stations than Australia would certainly accelerate private car electric vehicles. Thanks, Martin. Next question. Francis Clark, farmer from New South Wales. I'm about to take delivery of a Nissan Leaf in the next two or three weeks. But I find first of all, the Australian standard does not allow vehicle to grid at this stage, although South Australia appears to have found a way around it. So I'd like to know when the Australian standard is likely to change. And also a question to New South Wales, which I've already forwarded to Matt Keane, the minister, as to when he is going to permit vehicle to grid being allowed in New South Wales. I could probably talk to that. The Commonwealth in partnership with states and territories is actually working on a pathway for the harmonisation of connections of vehicle to grid. They're due to report back to energy ministers in the middle of the year on the plans for doing that. Thanks, Matt. I guess it does raise a question. Martin, is vehicle to grid on Volvo's radar? Absolutely. Any technology that can support the adoption rate is certainly on the radar, but Marnie knows more about that than I do. Thank you. Okay, next question. Good morning, everyone. My name is Ankit. I'm in year 12 from Narrabanda College. So my question is that electrification in the development towards EV has been estimated to cost about 500,000 jobs in the EU alone and replace about 225 jobs. So when carrying in a net lost about 275,000 jobs. And this is according to the industry trade group, Klepper. So my question is to you, do you think that the education system and a focus on upscaling is required and this has to be designed and catered towards the future of the world needs? I'll try. Of course, when we move from the horse and carriage to the motor vehicle, there was a huge disruption and created new jobs while killing off many industries. We can see much the same here. Actually Volvo in Sweden, we have our engine factory in Hoda and we've just announced a new battery plant there because as internal combustion engines maybe dropped down to battery electric vehicles come up, how do we create jobs? And we can see that and the minister for sale mentioned the opportunity in Australia for battery production. Volvo announced the very first heavy vehicle, heavy truck made of fossil free steel, a partnership with SSAB in Sweden. We have lots of green hydrogen, lots of iron ore in Australia. So I think there's many opportunities in Australia to create new industry in manufacturing, perhaps less exporting. And I think you should come to study engineering at the IEU. If I can just add to that, I think, I mean, I gave a very positive perspective and I truly believe that there are great opportunities from the whole green transition. But of course there are also challenges and you're pointed one, we need to adopt when it comes to the educational system. For example, we are trying to do that is not easy. You can't really command people, take that education instead of that one. So it need to be based on what people really want to do. But at least our perspective from Sweden is that when you try to explain the possibilities that lie ahead of you. And I mentioned before the northern parts of Sweden and the whole green industrial revolution that is taking place now. There are people, they react to that and they also believe when they see the opportunities that come for themselves. Another challenge I want to mention here is that talking about the electrification of the transportation system, it also requires much more electricity. And it's not only about transportation, it's also about the green steel, for example. In Sweden now, according to the last service here, we are talking about 100% increase in the need for electricity over the coming 20 years. So that is a great challenge as what we're trying to do now or the situation that we're facing is that we need to double the production of electricity without relying on fossil fuels. Because at the same time, we have another goal of having no fossil fuels at all, 2040. So of course that's a great, very important question. And we are, as I said, we are trying to focus now more on solar wind but also hydro. And in combination with that, also the next generation of nuclear for having like a base in the energy system. And Sweden and Australia also share another challenge there. We're also very large countries when it comes to size. So we need to build a grid that works for everyone in the whole of our respective countries. And probably the only thing that skills definitely on the mind of the government. They've announced in the last budget, I think new energy skills funding and new energy partnerships funding. And certainly the Powering the Regents Fund, I talked about the 1.9 billion, it recognises workforce and workforce development as an important part of that transition. And beyond that, I've been down to the manufacturer of some of these battery vehicles down in Melbourne and they showed me the engine and they say, if you're a diesel mechanic, you'd be all dirty and you'd be covered in heaps of oil and all that. He said, there's less moving parts, you're plugging the computer and it's much easier and you can do 10 a day instead of one. Why wouldn't you like a job like that? It's much easier. And certainly that where my children would relate to that because when they can sit in a computer and plug it in and not necessarily have to get their hands dirty, that's the new world. Thanks for bringing it down to earth, Matt. So just one last quick question. I'm Beck, I'm a year 11 student from Narrabanda College. And so whilst we continuously hear that companies are aiming towards net zero by 2050, we never really hear about how they plan to reach that goal. And so I guess for us, how can we hold these companies accountable for that goal whilst not knowing how they plan to get there? Thanks Beck, who's picking that one up? I seem to be speaking quite often here. It's a very good point actually that, you know, when I was studying, you know, the bottom line was that the measure, we predicted that it'll be triple bottom lines in the future. So we now see that companies are measured not just in profitability, but of course their environmental credentials and sustainability. All I can only speak on behalf of Volvo, we've set a clear plan. As I've said, our targets have been ratified by the science-based targets initiative. We're investing more than ever before in order to achieve those targets. So it's for all to see that it's publicly announced. In Australia, for example, that is part of this, all our facilities, our factory and all our facilities consume 100% green energy. So as well as the vehicles that we produce in use, of course, CO2 is produced, but the whole production system in the supply chain, we work and we get clear targets for that. So I feel many more companies maybe make the commitment, but I agree with you, perhaps we need to publicly produce the targets and how we're meeting those targets. Yes, I'll try to be brief, even though it's difficult for a politician, but I'll do my best to say that I think it's important here to build partnerships with companies because the truth is that the green transition is impossible without cooperating with them. The need for us is to make sure that we have a legislation that has a long-term focus that is stable, that gives the right conditions, and that is also very ambitious. I think from a European perspective, we also have the challenge of making sure that we have like the same kind of legislation in all countries. So you will not have an end up with a situation where one company can't compete with another company in another country that is located very nearby. So legislation must really lead the way here, but at the same time, make sure to build partnerships with private companies, and my opinion is that at least most of them, I would say, they are interested in this and want to do good because they understand that if they do this right, they can make money out of it. Thanks, and money quickly. Thank you very much for the question. That's a really important question to ask. Trust and accountability are real issues at the moment. In Australia, we have really low levels of trust in the energy industry. In fact, only one in five Australians believe the energy industry is acting in their interests. So it's an issue. It's something that we have to focus on in the future. Thanks, Marnie. It's a really important point there. And I was going to just respond as well. The issues that you've raised in terms of accountability are crucial, particularly for the younger generation. And so thank you for that question. So Australia's regulators are now right onto this, you know, addressing greenwashing. We see the issues about integrity in our carbon credits system being raised, including by people from ANU, Professor Andrew McIntosh. Significant issues there yet to be resolved, in my view. We see this propagating right through business and now starting to have adoption of the task force for climate-related financial disclosure and also the task force for nature-related financial disclosure and the bringing in sustainability accounting standards, which I think will tighten up those issues that you raise and give less leeway for manipulating the system and greenwashing. So I think these are some of the things which will be particularly important over the next decades as we actually start to really bite into this transition that we're seeing because this is a huge transition. This is one of the biggest transitions humanity will go through. So just to wrap up, we've had, I think, a really great event here. We've heard some really constructive comments from the Crown Princess. We've heard the role that ANU can play in terms of this international transition that we're going through from the Vice-Chancellor. We've heard some really interesting perspectives from both governments, from industry, and from researchers here today, fleshing out some of the detail of what this might mean for individuals, for countries, and for the globe. And so I want to have everyone if they can thank the panel. And in particular, I'd like to thank Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel for attending here today and gracing us with your presence. So if everyone can stay seated whilst the Royal Party departs and then we'll have the next row departing along with everyone else, so thank you again.


What's up guys and welcome to trendy update hapa SPM buzz. Now into the trending news today in Ikwamba, celebrated Nairobi Half-Life actor and radio jambos voiceover artist Wilfred Maina Olwenya has passed on. On Monday the 14th of July at around 7pm, the news of Maina's death was broken on social media by friends, colleagues and lots of celebrities that knew Maina and worked with him. Now news reaching our desk from a source close to the family, Zinasema that the family said the famous actor collapsed and was confirmed dead on arrival in hospital at around 10am on 4th July that is on Monday. Maina was born in January 18, 1988 and he is going to be remembered for his role that he played in so many Kenyan films. Among them is MTV Sugar and also the famous Nairobi Half-Life produced in 2012. Ka muna eza kumbuka e film Nairobi Half-Life? Ta kumbuka Maina did an outstanding job at his role and by Alikwana Eltoa Oti. The character he played was portraying a reckless yet a very courageous leader, Wagang, yani a ring leader. Now the Kenyan film industry has lost a great mind as it was seen from so many posts that celebrities put up on social media yesterday night when they had the news of his passing on. I'm going to go through some of the tributes that most of the celebrities had to say about Maina. The radio personality Maina Kagemi said we will miss you here at Radio Africa among the very best voices in East Africa great actor, superb talent recalling your outstanding role in the movie Nairobi Half-Life what a game changer you are, big boss. Hastring's entertainment also said olwenya your final cutting call, resting piece talent. Not forgetting celebrated actress Katrin Kamau looked really saddened by his death and he said you've been on my mind since we started filming with Tosh Gitonga who I believe is a director in film and she said reminiscing what great talent you are, Maina, why? my heart is so freaking heavy go well brought taw nana badai King Kaka as well had something to say he said fly my friend goodbye my friend damn greatness Maina Olwenya Phil director Pia Hakubaki Nyuma to celebrate Maina Kasema one brilliant thespian Maina Olwenya rest in peace Manase as well the actor said resting piece Olwenya one of the best actors to ever do it from Kenya a wonderful performer a load on to the wisdom you shared with me indeed people had a lot to say about the demise of my of Olwenya and now as for now investigations into the circumstances around his passing away are ongoing and the family has called for calm and privacy at this time and more information is going to be relayed to us we at Spm Bars would like to pass our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Maina we will fred Olwenya may we so rest keep it trendy updates on the Spm Bars Spm Bars


Simple present tense What is present tense? Present tense is a way to use verbs to describe what is happening now. What is simple present tense? Simple present is when we show tense using just one verb, run, sleep. Other forms of present tense include present progressing, is running, and present perfect, has slept. We'll cover those forms in a later course. Pronoun refresher Before you can use present tense, you need to know the pronoun cases. Let's go over them. Singular One First person singular I Second person singular You Third person singular He She It Plural More than one First person plural We Second person plural You Third person plural They Verb refresher A verb is an action word. Run Walk Sleep Eat Singular simple present tense You'll need to change or conjugate a verb to make it fit the tense. Pay special attention to the ending of the verbs. Here are some examples in the singular.  Here are some examples.


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Polymer 2017 in the books done and clapped with Why don't we recap a little bit like what do we do over the last 48 hours? We announced polymer 3 big announcement there in p.m. support and yes x modules and thus closing the longest running issue And get a polymer history. Yes. Yes. There was render tron for SEO and robot battles and Little shimel We have some code labs and they were always filled with people. Yes, very cool people at the code labs Very cool people in the ask polymer lounge. We also had some partners come YouTube team came there was Electronic arts talking about building web components at scale. There was Netflix. There was simple CMS There was Ionic talking about stencils. Yes, we had me. We had you Met some cool people at the after party on the inside Copenhagen is a pretty cool town. I like it here We saw some bikes. We saw the harbor We had hot dogs Yeah, dude the food in Denmark is pretty delish All-in-all polymer 2017. I feel like this was pretty great summit