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Imam al-Hajjah Hospital consists of 10 departments which provide all the necessary medical treatments for the residents of Karbala and the millions of programs that arrive here. Some of the major departments are, number one, the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. This department will provide services on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases affecting the patient population. The second department is the Department of Athermology. This department will be responsible for diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases in both adults and children and it will be equipped with the latest international, recognized and advanced medical instruments and technologies that help in early diagnosis of eye diseases and provide suitable treatments. The third department is the Internal Medicine Department which deals with diagnosis, treatment and prevention of wide spectrum of general diseases to complex illnesses. The fourth department is the Pharmacy which will be staffed with pharmacists, pharmacy techs and others who will monitor both inpatient and outpatient systems. These four departments are only four out of ten departments of the hospital which provide all the necessary medical treatments for all of its patients. From the inception of this project, the founders vision and those who are in charge were to have a hospital that is basically categorically different from the rest of the hospitals in two ways. Number one, in providing the quality of care that we intend to provide to our patients. We don't deny that public hospitals do a great role here in this country and they are for free, free of charge. But unfortunately, many of the patients who come to the hospitals receive medical attention. When they leave, they leave with a collateral damage, with different kind of sicknesses. The reason is that because those hospitals, the public hospitals are not in compliance with the international rules and regulations. The hygiene system is not very well implemented. The administering drugs and taking the right procedures to administer, for example, a surgery or a minor surgery is not well kept in the process. There are deviations. What we have intended in this hospital, inshallah, up on the opening, we will be adhering to those rules that are made internationally and supervised internationally. So when we compete, we will compete based on the quality of healthcare that we will provide to the patients. So the patient when he leaves or she leaves, she doesn't have to take so many antibiotics with them and doesn't have to come and visit the doctor so often. The treatment will be very precise, efficient and clean. So once they receive this, they leave, inshallah, healed for good. One of the core values of the project of Imam al-Hudja, alaihi salam, hospital is that to elevate the public awareness of the healthcare issues. Today, the focus in the international medicine is not to do complicated surgeries, basically call it intervention, surgical intervention.  And instead of leaving him to suffer until he gets to a critical position that you have to administer a complicated surgery. Now the focus of the international medicines is that focus on a preventive medicine. Take a very small, simple procedure in advance in order to secure his life later on. This is what we will be doing. How does this work when we elevate the public awareness of the health related issues? For example, how they combat contagious diseases by simple procedures? How they wash their hands? How they use the soap, for example, when they use the bathroom or when they eat? How they should eat? How they should keep themselves clean from very simple diseases? That would save them in advance. Or keeping their diets, knowing what to eat and what not to eat. What kind of food they should avoid? What kind of food they should emphasize on? That will help them in the future. Those will be done when you raise the level of the awareness of the public. When you have workshops, for example, seminars, or you go door to door and talk to the neighborhoods on a one-to-one face. This kind of methodology, inshallah, will be provided at the hospital project upon commission. I can touch upon a few of them. Number one, the at-risk population that will receive medical attention, inshallah, we will have a very compassionate and caring medical care that we will provide. Many hospitals and many doctors focus on the illness itself. They want to eliminate the sickness, irregard of whom they are talking to. They don't look at the person's face. They only care about the medicine. Therefore, when you visit a doctor, you see he prescribes five or six medical treatments and medications. The reason is that he's not looking at the whole status of the patient. Whether he just hears the symptoms and based on hearing these symptoms, he's just writing medication, basically shooting in the dark, hoping that one of those shots will hit the illness and cure him. The way of approaching this will be completely different in our hospital, inshallah. We will be dealing with the patients themselves. Number one, you need to know the patient's history. You need to build an archive for the patient. You need to know what kind of diet habits he does, what kind of a problem his family have, medical problems. For example, his father or his mother or somebody in the household have caught cancer before or not. So you need to construct an image or a blueprint of this patient before you look into the symptoms of the problem, of the sickness. Building an archive of every single patient is essential in combating the illnesses of the person. Therefore, one of our core values is that we will deal with the patients themselves, but with the illness itself. So this is number one. Second, inshallah, when we provide this medical treatment, definitely the hospital is not for a profit, it's a charity hospital. Therefore, our cost to the patient will be very symbolic, something that he can afford without having the burden of leaving his family and country and going somewhere else to receive the same treatment. Second, inshallah, we will be strictly compliant with the very stringent international laws and regulations and inshallah, we will be accredited and endorsed and certified by international organizations, health organizations that can recognize the practice that has been done on the premise of the hospital. And going back again to lowering the cost on the patients. When you look at the health budget in Iraq, it's a multi-billion dollar. In 2011, the health budget was $2.5 billion. In 2015, probably it's almost $3 billion. When you look at the province of Karbala, who receives millions of pilgrims throughout the year, you will see it is ranking number 14 in the country. Only $135 million per year is allocated to the province of Karbala. Definitely with this much money, the government cannot advance the medical care, cannot advance the health sector in this country. There is always suffering on the population as well as the visitors who will come and visit the province and the holy city of Karbala. Therefore, inshallah, we will do a program which is all based on non-profit methods and charitable methods. Inshallah, those who do not have, who cannot afford, they will receive sponsors to receive their medical treatment. So these are basically the core values that the hospital, inshallah, will be keeping in mind when we open the hospital. At Imam al-Hudjah Hospital in Karbala, Iraq, specifically we are in a room giving to us to be as a lab, a lab to test the hospital network that we designed from scratch. I designed it, my background in electrical and electronic engineering as well as I have a master's degree from George Washington University, 1990 in computer science. I got to know, say, Jafar and other people and then I've been recruited. So all what you see here, it's our design, I designed the network. The hospital infrastructure or the network, it's in two parts. One is hardware, that's what you see here, all working, all being tested. And the second one is the software. So thank God we order the equipment that you see and we fix them ourselves and we test them. What you see right now is not all to the data center. Every floor will have one or two of these cabinets behind me. For example, this is floor four. We have all what they call drop points. The drop point is where we're going to have connection. All being numbered, all being named and so on. So that if we have any problem, we will immediately know where we're going. That's four, five, seven, six and seven. So we have seven floors plus the ground. That's eight floors. That's eight floors. So we did all that. That is going to go upstairs and then we'll have in the data center these two cabinets, one main cabinet and the second one as a backup. Then you have all the switches, the controllers and so on. This is the hardware. And again, my background is, as I said, I have a master's degree in computer science. So we know what we are doing. The second portion of it is the software. What we call HIMS stands for Hospital Information Management Systems.  That's where everything being connected. Doctors could pull patient's record. Nurses could see patient's record. As well as, of course, you have your management and pharmacy and so on and your staff, you can monitor. But our target is the patient, since it's the hospital. The information will be very confidential, meaning if a doctor, he or she wrote something for this specific patient, nobody will alter that. You can add to it. You can add anything you want. But you cannot delete what you wrote, even a second.  But when you hit submit, it's gone. So from this point, confidentiality is very important to us. This is information, you know, I mean, we're talking about lives, we're talking about people. So we have to have it secure. Why we did this? We did this for a lot of reasons. One, again, as I told you, the security of the record. The second one is what we call telemedicine. What telemedicine? It's two parts. It's telecommunication and information management or information technology mixed together. So what we're going to have by mixing these two together. The communication we do need, for what? For example, I've been admitted to this hospital and I have whatever after the doctor diagnosis and suppose I want to travel to any country, meaning to America, to Europe, to Iran, to Lebanon, name it. The hospital will be able to send all my information, all my records, the history. If I have illness before, images, MRI, CT scan, name it. They could send it without nobody else so that other physicians could see and diagnose. That's the beauty. So really, we don't have any more distance between us. Telemedicine is very important. The telemedicine is in two parts, the telecommunication as well as the information technology of which the HIMS become under the information technology, meaning we could have the patient's record, we could have his illness back history from temperature to name it, to surgery, anything. That information could be shared with other physicians. We could send it anywhere in the world as long as we have the net and as long as they could access the net. That's one. Second thing, which is very important, we have some physicians all over the world. For example, in America, and we have some cases, and we need some consultation, we need some more advice. We could show them that. We could send them the report. We could send them how we did the surgery and so on so that they could feel us with valuable information. That I believe never happened here, especially in Iraq. I believe this is the first time something unique been designed and done in this manner. That of course going to save us a lot of money and time. Money, there is no paper. I'm hoping, and this is my goal, to have a paperless hospital. Your record will be displayed. Your information could be sent to you and so on. So that's what we achieve. In that, we're going to save a lot of money. No films, no extra films, and so on. All is going to be digitalized. One, second is the time. Time is very important. Time is money. So we're not going to spend time writing this report, dealing with paper, dealing with that. No. The doctor here or she could write the diagnosis, send it. Send where? Could be to the lab, to the MRI, anywhere. That's it. It's done. We'll come downstairs to our server, our storage area for safekeeping. And again, as I mentioned that, because it's very important, I have to mention nobody. Nobody will change it, nobody. And that's our goal, and that's, Alhamdulillah, I believe we did about 80, 85% of this structure. And I just came from Dubai, tried to negotiate with companies in this field in HIMS, and hopefully we're going to have a company to come and provide to us the HIMS, inshallah.


Good afternoon, Forty Autie podcast. Welcome back to another episode season two again. Yes. I don't know how long I'm going to keep saying season two, but I am absolutely thrilled and excited to be back podcasting. So today we have a very interesting interview. We're going to be talking about self advocacy, of course. Yes. Today I have my very lovely guest, Mr Autistic Callum from Instagram and Callum is a big face on Instagram. You've got quite a lot of followers racking up nowadays, aren't you? Thank you. How, how are you doing today? I'm good. Thank you. So glad that it's the weekend.


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Algeria's ruling party, the National Liberation Front, FLN, has won the legislative election held on Saturday amid a historically high abstention rate and a political crisis. It's victory surprised many observers who had the reading of the party due to its links with former president of the Lazisbu Teflika. The FLN led with 105 of the 407 seats followed by an independent candidate with 78 seats. Commission President Mohamed Chawfi told Newsman, the country's main Islamist party, the movement of society for peace MSP, which had claimed victory in the polls, came set with 64 seats. The FLN's share of seats has recorded a significant decline compared to the last elections. It lost more than 50 seats and controls a quarter of the elected members of the new assembly. The Rasenblad National Demokratik R&D was which the FLN has traditionally aligned itself, won 57 seats, representing 14%. The commission said 5.6 million voters out of more than 24 million voters took part in the exercise.


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Merci à tous d'être ici pour cette annonce qui va aider à créer plus de logements plus rapidement ici à Brampton. People across the country are struggling with the rising costs of housing. And in Brampton, you're feeling it acutely. This is a community that is only getting bigger. In fact, Brampton is one of the fastest growing municipalities in Canada. You need more housing to keep up with the demand, and you need it to be built faster and built in convenient connected places. Well, that's what our housing accelerator is all about. And why I'm so excited to be announcing that we have reached an agreement with the city of Brampton. Today, we're announcing that Brampton is the next city to receive significant funding from our housing accelerator. We estimate that this will mean more than 24,000 new homes over the next decade, with 3,100 fast-tracked to be built in the next three years alone. As part of this plan, we'll see houses built near transit stations, like the nearby GO station, near main streets and downtown, places that are convenient, places where people want to live, places where people can have the very best quality of life. Sean will be able to share more details with us in a moment, but I know he works hard to conclude other communities like this one. It's the fifth community we have with a big city since we launched the fund to accelerate housing construction, and I know he will have others, a little everywhere, throughout the country. So the cost of living is putting a lot of pressure on the middle class and people working hard to join it, which is why we've been making sure to deliver real relief. We're delivering support for families by bringing the cost of daycare down, with it on track to reach $10 a day. And today, eligible families will receive their monthly Canada Child Benefit Payments. This is hundreds of dollars tax month that makes a huge difference in the lives of millions of Canadians. This important support increased just in July to keep up with inflation, which means this year, a family could receive almost up to almost $7,500 a year tax-free. We delivered the grocery rebate, and we're working to bring relief at the checkout counter through both legislation and our conversations that are holding big grocers to account. We're tackling junk fees and taking action to reduce banking fees. We've eliminated interest in pre-Canadians, students, and teachers, and the benefits that families receive each month increase to keep up with inflation. We know that the cost of housing is one of the biggest stresses each month. And after decades of inaction by previous governments, our government has been getting to work investing in affordable housing and programs to help people through the national housing strategy, which helped build that project two years ago, the tax-free first homes savings account, and more. We need more housing, more collaboration with great partners across orders of government, more investment from private nonprofit partners, and of course, more shovels in the ground. We need to work together to build homes so people can build their lives, families, and futures they want. We've faced big challenges as a country before, and we're ready to tackle them now. That's exactly what today is all about. We work with partners from all over the country to ensure that the promise of Canada holds. This promise to improve the quality of life of each generation. Canada is the best country in the world. Let's keep working to make it even better. Thank you very much, my friends.


Well, it starts with the broad context of climate change. So there's a definite need for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. Clean energy is one of the principal mechanisms in order to do that, principally in power, but also clean energy spans this breadth, including biofuels as well as biomass going into it. And then some people's definition also includes energy efficiency as well, which is the efficient use of energy. All of that puts a basis forward for development, i.e. the provision of energy for GDP growth and economic prosperity, and doing that in a low carbon way. Maybe more importantly, you can do it in a way that's climate resilient if it's well designed. So you include the adaptation components of climate in the development of the clean energy future. Interestingly, over the last few years, in fact, nearly the last decade, clean energy, in particular clean electricity, has captured nearly 50% of the global market in new power generation. It's a fact that few people know. It's about $300 billion a year in new investment, and it's projected to grow even further from there. It's really a four-part, what I call legs to the table. So typically, you'd think of three parts of the stool. You did economics, policy, and innovation. I throw another one in there, which is not so much technical innovation, but it's business model innovation. So I see four elements. You have to have the enabling policy environment so that attracts entrepreneurs and attracts investors. You then have to have the technical solutions, which is not just technology, but it's technology along with software, along with financing capability, et cetera. You then have to bring the financing to bear. And then the business model piece actually is where we've seen a lot of innovation in the last particularly five years, where you've got young entrepreneurs who are internet savvy, who are putting IT-enabled payment systems in place, or control systems, or operating systems so that they can monitor how well the technology is doing and providing services to people. All of that package comes together and creates this ecosystem for success. The most creative models are in developing countries. Here, you see the breadth of everything from an innovative solar home system, which 20 years ago used to be 50-watt panel with an incandescent bulb and maybe a repurposed auto battery to today maybe a five or a 10-watt system. So it's very small with lithium ion batteries, an internet-enabled charging and control device, because then you can pay over your cell phone, and then LED lights and maybe a USB charging outlet for your cell phone and other things like that. So it's the whole system and the solution, the provision of modern energy services, which really is what people care about. They care about lighting. They care about their communications. They actually care about clean water, et cetera, which all also come with power. All of that is evolving as the technology evolves and the financing makes it more affordable. Well, energy, while it was not explicit in the MDGs, was and is absolutely necessary for the achievement of any of them. And so we see kind of from a different picture that energy is really unenabler or the enabler of much of the development goals, if not all of the development goals, and to do it clean and climate resilient is actually critical going forward. So it's kind of a natural marriage of the technology innovation and the finance and understanding what's happening on, I'll call it on the sector-specific part of what we do in clean energy and the broader mission of wider in terms of understanding the economics for development.


My name is Peter Vickery. I'm running for Town Council in District 2 and I would be very grateful for your vote on Election Day. As you can probably tell, I'm not from around here originally. I was born and raised in Swansea, South Wales. I'm an immigrant, a naturalized citizen and very proud to be an American. I'm an attorney with a master's degree in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and I'm a former member of the Governor's Council, the elected body that approves or rejects the Governor's choice of judges and a former member of the State Ballant Law Commission, the body that adjudicates election disputes and I've served on Amherst Town Meeting and the Board of Directors of the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce. Amherst has been home since 1999. It's where my wife Meg and I chose to raise our three children. We moved to Amherst in part because it's a wonderful place to build a family. Our three children have all attended the public schools and I'm dedicated to ensuring that Amherst's public schools remain first rate for all children. To that end, I served on the Amherst Regional High School Council, not to be confused with the school committee and I supported the proposal to build a new school on the Wildwood Elementary School site as did a clear majority of the people who voted in the 2017 referendum. I'm also in favour of the plan to renovate and expand the Jones Library and against the decision to increase the hours we have to pay for metered parking in the downtown. For details of where I stand on these and other issues, please go to my website, votevickery.com Over the years, serving on town meeting on the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and on the High School Council, I've learned how critically important economic vitality is for the ongoing success of our public schools and vice versa. Our excellent public schools are essential to the local economy. For Amherst businesses to attract and retain talent, they need to be able to show prospective employees that ours is a community that's committed to strengthening public education and the social fabric. And that, maintaining our excellent schools, producing a built environment to be proud of, conserving open space and safeguarding our social services, all that depends on economic vitality. The town's annual budget is about 90 million dollars. We have almost 500 full-time equivalent benefited employees and we're responsible for paying retiree pensions and other post-employment benefits. That's a lot of money. And most of that money comes from the residential property tax. To share that tax responsibility more equitably, we need more small, locally owned businesses and more homes, homes that people on average incomes can afford. Amherst needs more jobs and more homes. So our new town council will need somebody who will promote policies that will help create new private sector jobs, who will oppose policies that undermine local businesses, and who is not worried about appearing insufficiently progressive. That's what I've done on town meeting and that's what I would like to continue doing on your behalf on Amherst town council. Plus, as an attorney, I have some experience advocating for others and helping resolve contentious issues, sometimes amicably. I believe that government can and should make life better for people, particularly the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. After all, as the Massachusetts Declaration of Right states, government is instituted for the common good. For the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people, and not for the profit, honour or private interest of any one man, family or class of men. I think that sums it up pretty well. So I'm committed to making our new town council transparent, responsive and accountable. That's why I've adopted tighter campaign contribution standards than the law requires. So no contributions from developers and no contributions from the unions that represent town employees. Just to be clear, I've absolutely nothing against developers or our wonderful public employees. They all help make Amherst a great place to live. But when it comes to bargaining and budget decisions, you should not have to wonder which side of the table your councillors are on. I'm on your side. It's on election day. Please vote Vickery. Thank you for watching and listening.


Okay, very good evening to you. It is Sunday the 16th of January and as per usual I'm going to take a look at the major news over the weekend and the major things to look out for in markets coming up this week Don't forget first things first. It is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the US So US markets closed for Monday and also really quiet calendar In fact in terms of major economic data coming out of the States But we do see a bit of a pickup in earning season about 38 S&P 500 companies coming out few more big banks for the other names as well Which I'll look at in a moment including companies like Netflix as well, which are quite closely followed but let's get straight to it and talk about some of the weekend news first and Overall, it has been really quiet Probably likely to the fact of what I've just mentioned with the holiday in the States But not a great deal going on so just quickly two stories to be aware of one in Oil markets Libya's oil production has picked up This comes after a blockade of its Western fields ended and ports in the east of now Reopened output is said to now be back to around 1.2 million bowels per day Which was about normal in terms of the level of operation before the latest round of closures hit the North African nations or facilities late last year so that in itself we had seen a bit of a Supply impact in the lights of Kazakhstan Libya But those things started to normalize now a little bit and will continue to keep an eye on oil after a Continuous multi-week run that we've been seeing of late Then the other stocks news of of interest I don't think this is particularly meaningful for the stock in itself But certainly for this web 3.0 and a metaverse conversation There was a report on CNBC talking about Walmart is preparing its own cryptocurrency collection of Non-fungible tokens as according to Pattern trademark filings that have shown that they're looking and have the intention to sell virtual goods such as electronics Decor toys sporting goods personal care products these types of things So just need to be aware of and I thought quite an interesting story But look before I begin and talk about the week ahead One thing is if you're a student and you have not yet taken part in one of our finance Accelerator events in 2021 well, we've got one of the first ones to land this year on Wednesday the 19th Doesn't matter if you don't start to study econ It doesn't matter if you've never done any trading or anything like that before if you're keen about about global markets You want to work in finance industry, but you don't have any experience You want to fill some of these roles out like sales trader market maker Hedge fund trading these types of roles then check it out This is your chance to get some hands-on practical experience and accumulate some data on your own performance to hopefully tell you Again where you could apply to in future with greater success So I'll drop the link on the video and while we're here Don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel and really appreciate it Otherwise look let's talk about the week ahead and overnight So going into Monday morning We're going to see the release of the latest Chinese metrics and these are going to be actually quite interesting And the reason for that is we get GDP overnight Now really two major things here or three major ones actually the impact of the real estate downturn in the fourth quarter We've also got Beijing's hard line approach This zero tolerance approach to kovat Lockdowns which they've been inactioning of course pretty much since the beginning of the pandemic But we have seen case numbers there particularly high of late in this quarter's reading And then also we've had electricity shortages as well So as you can see here China's growth pattern has been slowing throughout 2021 and we are expecting that to happen Again the median forecast is for a 3.3 percent print overnight This also does come out alongside things like industrial production retail sales So the full suite of economic updates coming out of china in the overnight session Otherwise just flipping over to the calendar You'll see here it commences on Tuesday because monday is super quiet on the docket and just focusing on the uk With this you've got uk jobs day to tuesday uk cpi wednesday And then you've got uk retail sales coming out on friday now a couple of things to be aware of here for one The labor statistics on tuesday will likely continue to show a tight employment market Intention very much so it's going to be on the wage components in particular That is the basis a lot of the rationale for why The bank of england have and are expected to be continuing to hike rates in the near term And then on wednesday a further uptick in inflation is expected to 5.2 percent That's according to the medium outcome of those polled by uh bloomberg Which would match the previous High for the current century. So yes inflation is super high Directionally we are expected that to continue to be the case Like what we saw in the us with that uptick from 6.8 to 7 percent just a week or so ago But despite the inflation Metric being statistically very high Actually, it's probably going to go as i'm saying even higher in the future And in fact most analysts are of the opinion the inflation in uk is unlikely to peak until april Where analysts are expecting a roughly 50 increase in the household energy price cap So that coming in shouldn't be a shock But it's going to make those numbers look super high when that time comes around and that's because of wholesale prices for energy being So high that's going to be compensated in then to all of us paying more of course for our energy bills And then on friday, you've got retail sales expected to fall Did have a pretty bumper november and a lot of that was Appeared to be stronger than usual black friday trading periods So when we tend to see a front running purchase in demand in that fashion it tends to then Decelerate afterward and also of course we saw the outbreak of omicron yet to be seen how much of an impact that had certainly probably people's Reluctancy to go out and hospitality and things like that probably slightly less so Then what we saw in the past a year prior and so forth But nonetheless we're expecting that to decline when that comes out on friday The other thing of course in the uk is politics Probably you can't get away from it the weekend because of all the trouble That's been coming at the door of number 10 and boris johnson. So sue gray the senior civil servant May release her reports a little bit tentative around what specifically the timing will be about those whitehall parties Which we saw emerge and was really in the forefront of mainstream media last week The report is expected to be highly critical of downing street staff And we'll set out in detail an apparent culture of drinking and covid rule breaking boris johnson's likely to just cut a couple of low hanging fruit aids to try and take accountability for that Having had him made the apology last week She's not expected in that report to blame p.m. Johnson directly for this. So for the moment I would say he lives to fight another day as far as this week is concerned And if you want more kind of thoughts and insights as towards what I think about that more long term Then check out the amplify me market maker podcast where pierz and I talked about this length in friday's latest episode Otherwise moving on and going to take a quick look at japan the bank of japan have their rate meeting coming up this week And they may consider signs of price Precious in their meeting on tuesday analysts morgan stanley have said that they now guessed that the boj's existing outlook Which judges the risk to prices are quote skewed to the downside Maybe revise to suggest that risks Instead of downside are now balanced and so a bit of an upgrade in that front inflation figures for december in japan will follow Later this week and we're also going to get latest trade numbers coming out of the country as well And as you can see on this chart right here japanese producer price index Being the highest that it's been in multiple decades. And so Yes, the rates not quite as dramatic on the cpi front is what we're seeing elsewhere globally But nonetheless are following in the same direction. So although the distance is very far away from the sort of policy Juncture where the fed are at or the bank of england haven't already pulled the trigger the boj Certainly will be moving slightly towards that direction as well And then in europe you get the ecb minutes So here she is christine the guard the president of course of the central bank The minutes about the december deliberations will be coming out on thursday The bank Much like in the case of the bank of japan probably not quite so much so but is Quite a different place from where the boe and the fed are at this point in time Nonetheless eurozone inflation hit a record High of five percent in december prompting some governing members to warn that if prices keep rising faster Then it's two percent target for longer than expected. It would require a more dramatic shift in policy So really you're looking for a bit more of a detailed account of their conversations when those minutes come out towards the back end of this week australia Monthly consumer confidence data is released on wednesday likely to be hit by the raging corona virus that we've seen Domestically there while december labor market data out the day after on Thursday is unlikely to capture the full impact of the worsening outbreaks or something to consider and might well diminish the impact of that specific data point and then at the end of the week, of course, we do see The earnings come out and so As I said u.s. Canada is pretty quiet The ninesie is going to look exactly like this which is deserted because markets are closed on monday Calendar is extremely quiet. We've got some regional manufacturing some housing data really coming out of the u.s But none of that is going to really move the needle on fed thinking in terms of their policy And don't forget federal reserve members are now in their blackout period ahead of their meeting Which will take place on the 25th and 26th of this month of january We do have the earnings reports Earning season starts to pick up a little bit at pace It's really next week when they really does ramp up But following on the coattails are some of the banks like jp morgan Which had a pretty disappointing outlook and declined around six percent on friday black rock others We now start to see people like goldman sacks morgan stanley bank of america They're all coming out on tuesday and wednesday pre market 38 s and p companies in total including four dowel components Other highlights include companies like netflix after market on thursday As well as some transportation names as well hitting the tape So that is it so feel free to check out the full notes for this briefing on my twitter handle below As i said appreciate it if you could like and don't forget to subscribe to the channel really helps build out our community And yeah, have a great week ahead. 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Yeah, good morning everyone. This talk is going to be about how to prove knowledge of small secrets. This is joint work with Ivan Damgo and Kaspalas and Michael Nielsen from August University. It's a very, very short reminder about what is your knowledge proofs. You all know that just to recap, so we all know what we're talking about, we have a relation R and we have a prover P1, a verifier P2. There's a statement V, both the prover and the verifier are aware of. And the prover wants to convince the verifier of the truth of a statement V, using an interactive protocol Pi. And therefore it has a witness W and they exchange messages and the whole protocol has to have the following three properties. First of all, we want that whenever the prover actually has correct witness for the relation, that the verifier will accept. Second, if the prover starts this protocol with something which is not the correct witness for the relation, then the verifier is not supposed to accept. And zero knowledge, meaning that you can simulate the proper protocol transcript only having the relation and the statement. So being able to generate a simple from the distribution that is close to protocol transcripts without having the witness efficiently. Why would you like to prove that a secret is short? First of all, very often when we use zero knowledge proofs in interactive protocols, we use them as a building block, for example, to show that we have knowledge of, let's say, the preimage of a cypher text. So we know a plain text and we know some randomness, and they encrypt to a certain cypher text. Then for special encryption schemes, we may have to prove an additional thing, which is not just that we know a plain text and that we know some randomness, but that both of them fulfill certain criteria of shortness. So for example, if you think about lattice-based cryptosystems, your encryption procedure will always include something like sample from a Gaussian distribution or from some simple randomness from some small interval or so. And you will actually have to prove in zero knowledge in an interactive protocol that this is fulfilled. Why so if you think about it, when you decrypt in lattice-based cryptosystems, you mostly get these, let's say, noisy plain text, right? You get both your message plus some randomness on top, which if you do a modular reduction, it goes away. But then the problem is if your noise here gets too large, then depending on the message, this may wrap around or not. And this in an adversary, an interactive protocol could use to figure out which messages, for example, another party encrypted, and depending on if a protocol aborts or not, and this we want to avoid. And therefore, it's very crucial to have these zero knowledge proofs, for example, in this situation. More in general, in our work, we define homomorphic one-way functions over the integers as the main building block we're talking about. So what is a homomorphic one-way function? Over the integers, we're short IV one-way function. So soon we have an abelian group G, and we map from the integers or vector of integers into this abelian group G. Then such a map is called a homomorphic one-way function. Over the integers, first of all, if it is a one-way function. So we assume that evaluating the function can be done in polynomial time. But if I give you an element from this abelian group G, and you want to find a pre-image, then it is very hard to find one, assuming that it's supposed to be short. This is where the shortness comes into play. And third one, criterion is the homomorphic property, meaning that the map into the abelian group G is supposed to carry over some of the additive structure into the abelian group. As an example, in addition to lattice-based cryptosystems, one could consider GGA chashing as the prime example of what is such a homomorphic one-way function. So you sample, in GGA chashing, what you do is, you sample a random matrix M, which is very wide on one side, and then compressing on the other side. And then you define F to be the application of this map to a binary vector. And so what you throw in is, or what you input in this function is a binary vector that is rather long, let's say R. And what you get out is a lot shorter vector, but which is from the elements, from ZQ and not just binary elements. And it is known since 1996 that this finding short pre-image is for this GGH hash function reduces to known lattice problems which we think are hard. Other examples for homomorphic one-way functions would be, for example, the Swift hash function, as I said, string LWE encryption, or, for example, integer commitments. So the title of this talk is how to prove that something is short. The first idea coming to one's mind may be, let's use sigma protocols. Just to remind you what sigma protocols are, you sample an auxiliary value S that is supposed to be short. That's what the prover does. He applies the one-way function, sends it over to the verifier and the verifier decides. He flips a bit and says, well, either show me that this value here was good, so send it to me if E is 0 or if E is 1, send me the sum of the two values, S and X, where X is the element you want to prove shortness of. So it's typical sigma protocol. In addition to what we know, we have normal sigma protocols here since this is smaller than B and our X is supposed to be smaller than B, the sum of the two must be smaller than 2B. It will turn out that what we can verify in the end and how far this is away from the original bound is actually very crucial. And we call this the soundness slack in our work. And as you know, sigma protocol, if you do it this way only gives you soundness one half, basically, because you only have one bit challenge, right? So if you want to have security to do against the cheating prover with probability two to minus K, then you have to repeat this thing K times. So you have to generate K of these auxiliary values which we call the overhead.  So can we also make the overhead small? Then we would be definitely done. But then I probably wouldn't stand here. Turns out it's not that easy. First of all, let's take this here from a larger interval. Like, what could possibly go wrong? Correctness would still be, the whole thing would still be correct. But if you want to prove that you can extract a witness using a special soundness property, then you would normally do this by taking two accepting transcripts with the same auxiliary value and subtracting the equations from each other which are supposed to hold. But then it's quite immediate that you have to divide by the difference of the challenges over the integers. But if E is zero or one, then the difference is one or minus one, right? You can always divide by that. But if you choose E from a larger interval, you may have to divide by two, three, five, which over the integers is not always possible or in the worst case by zero. So, but don't worry, not all hope is lost. They were most straightforward idea would now be what can we, if we can't go for one ciphertext and make it better or one pre-image and make it better, can we prove knowledge of a lot of them at the same time while making the overhead quite small? And if you do, if you just do the naive repetition of sigma protocols, you get K overhead where K is the statistical security parameter whereas the soundness lag is very small. In some work by Kramer and Damgold in 2009, they showed that basically the complete opposite also holds, that you can have a soundness lag that is exponentially far away from what you actually wanted to prove, but on the other hand, that the overhead is very, very small. In the speeds and PC protocol, there was some additional, let's say trade-off between these two things where they achieved polynomial soundness lag and logarithmic overhead using some techniques due to Nielsen and Olandi. And in this work, we show that by having slightly super polynomial soundness lag, we can actually go down to constant overhead again. The reason why we care about this is this overhead means additional messages we have to send in an MPC protocol if we use zero knowledge proofs and the less we send, the better for MPC in the real world. So how do we get down to constant overhead? So the first step of a protocol, let's say we have N values of which we want to prove knowledge of. So let's say we have XI from X1 to XN and what we do in the first step is we sample T auxiliary values for a T which is supposed to be defined later. So what we do is, first of all, a traditional cut and choose where the prover chooses a lot of auxiliary values since applies to function F, sends them over to the verifier, the verifier chooses a subset and the prover opens that subset to him. So the prover looks at all of these open choices that he made and if they're all like short and if they actually all exist, then in the next step, the prover will send him for the remaining values sums of the secret that he wants to prove knowledge of and the auxiliary value. So what do we intuitively achieve by doing this? For using the cut and choose, what we get is that most of the auxiliary values that were not opened are also short and do also exist. Now if we send sums with all the secrets that we have, what is actually true is that most of the values you want to prove knowledge of do exist and are short. So basically we do cut and choose on random values but at the same time achieve a cut and choose effect on what we actually want to prove knowledge of. So we start out by n values you want to prove knowledge of and doing this, we get down to K that are still to be proven where K is the statistical security parameter. And what we show in our work is that if you set this T to be three times n, so linear in the number of values you want to prove knowledge of, then everything is fine. In normal cut and choose you would set T to be two n but we have to do some rejection sampling in order to keep the cells like small and we cope for the rejections by having this T to be a little bit larger. And in addition we show that you do not in the work in speeds two, they need to assume random oracles in order to be able to extract and we get around this using some interesting techniques. So now that we're done with this not that we're done from n to K, unproven images, pre-images, let's get from K to zero. So how do we do that? The idea is to basically do the same as we did before with the cut and choose but instead of going for each value individually we let the verifier sample sums, random sums of these pre-images and let the prover prove knowledge of these. And for this proof we then use the same cut and choose as before again. So why do we hope that this works? Or what is the intuition behind that? The intuition is to, let's look at this from a balls and bins perspective. Let's say the verifier says the approver put these values into the first bin, these values into the second bin and these values into the third bin. And then prove me knowledge of the sum of all of these values, right? Then the verifier is gonna be happy if let's say these red ones are the ones we weren't able to explain yet then if there's only one of these unexplained or bad pre-images in the bucket then we're happy and if there's zero or two or three then we're not that happy. The reason for the happiness of the verifier can be found in the linearity of, or in the homomorphic property of the one-way function. So assume we already have an X4 and we have an X9 to explain certain values and now we're left to, in the soundless proof we're left with extracting an X3. And the prover was actually able to convince us that the sum of these values is short. Then since we already know that the other two values in the equation are short we can just like subtract them from the, since the proof of that the sum is short is also sound we can just extract the pre-image there, subtract the X4, X9 and there we go we have a pre-image for that is, that goes to the same value as X3 and it's also short. So that's the most fundamental insight. So now we just have to, for a, in an actual proof now we just have to figure out how often does this event happen so we know how often the verifier has to generate sums. In our work we're able to, so what we do is we establish a certain invariant which is that if you, if you for a certain set of bins and bad elements and if you play this game a few number of times we show that with probability exponential small and the number of bad pre-images you would be able, so this event will occur often enough. To be able to extract for a, to be able to extract. So this holds for certain choices of B and T. So, but unfortunately this goes, the probability goes actually down in the number of bad pre-images. So if we have, let's say in one round if we have extracted half of them then the next round with only probability two to the minus k over two, we can extract the rest. So we actually have to play this game now two times, right? We moreover then show that actually if we start with k sums the first time in the first round and we extract let's say half of the pre-images then the second time we actually only need to have k half of these sums or buckets in every such instance. We now have two instances to do, but the number of buckets goes by in half, you play the game twice, so it cancels out actually the number of sums you play per round is constant. In addition, as you now see if we go in half in the first round and we go in half in the second round again, we have to play this game a number of times. So this is already like the overall protocol. In the first step, as I said, you do the cut and choose and open the sum of the auxiliary value and the secret you wanna prove knowledge of. And in the second step you do a cut and choose again, but this time instead of the actual elements you would use these random sums as chosen as explained before. So what about the overhead? If you have, let's say, a constant number of sums, which is, let's say, linear in k in every round that you play and you play a number of rounds, all in all you will have k times log k sums, you have to prove knowledge of, so we have to choose n to be bigger than k times log k to get overhead that is constant. Additionally, the cut and choose is actually imperfect. From the first step we had that k, from the n values, k are still remaining unexplained. This will also happen to us again if we do the cut and choose in the second step, but we showed that this doesn't, the chance that this is actually matters is very, very small, so we kind of get away. The caveat is if we actually try to prove a bound on the soundless leg, then in our work, at least, we were only able to achieve something that is slightly super polynomial in the security parameter. But I mean you can always, let's say, go for, let's say if you want to prove security parameter 40, you can just apply or prove twice for security parameter 20 and, you know, fine. Question is, of course, are we done yet? First of all, our analysis comes with large hidden constants. I mean it's super polynomial and the number of auxiliary values is constant, but it's a big constant. So if you want to apply this in practice, definitely like to get these hidden constants smaller. Moreover, we have this quasi polynomial soundness leg and getting this down to something as polynomial or linear would definitely be desirable. And also it would be nice to see whether this actually works and how it performs in practice. And after we published our work on E-print, there was some subsequent work by Kramer and Dambod who showed that actually you can do this whole thing with a linear soundness leg, but they need this N to be bigger than K squared where in our case it was K times log K. So first of all, there are techniques for getting there are like a little more involved than our somewhat simplistic Vincent Balz game. So it's definitely also interesting to see, to look at our dare work and how it evolves. So if you compare everything on the graph, this is how the current state of the art looks like. You have zicking protocols at one end of the whole game. You have Kramer-Dambod on the other end. The speed is to prove here and we were able to get somewhere close to here. And of course, long-term goal is to get both the soundness leg and the overhead to be as small as possible. And with those words, I'd like to thank you for your attention and I'm open for questions.


In prior presentations, we've looked at what the balance sheet is. We've looked at tools for formatting the balance sheet, which also can be used formatting other reports. And we've looked at how we can start with a balance sheet and then adjust it to make other reports related to it, comparative reports, comparing different periods, having vertical and horizontal analysis type reports.


Software patents. So who is worried about software patents? Okay, who is not worried about software patents? Because the non-programmers can leave the room. I read, yes, that Microsoft had to pay 1.5 billion dollars for some patents on some maths, apparently, which is very interesting. In America, software patents have been a fact of life since about 1985. Small, first of all, and then Now, I think one million pending patents of which a large number have something to do with software. In Europe, it's still quite complex. So I want to explain today for the software developers here how software patents could affect you, how they exist legally, and what we as an association are doing about them. If you don't know who I am, I'm Peter Hinchins. I'm the president of the FFI. I We're an association in Europe and a bit further abroad that have been working against software patents and for open standards and for copyright for about seven years. We were founded in 1999 in Munich, and now we're in about 20 countries, a thousand members, and what we do is we try to help our politicians gently to define laws which work better for our industry, which is programmer software. I'm a free software developer. I've been writing software since I was about 17 actually, but that's a long time ago. I'm free software since 1991-92. What Europe has been doing basically is trying to imitate America, and I like the story of the the guy jumping off the very tall building and he's falling down, falling down. He's saying so far so good, so far so good, so far so good, and this is Europe with software patents. We have in each country fairly healthy approach to patents. When the European Patent Convention was built in the 70s, national parliaments decided quite carefully that software arts, maths were not inventions to be patented. These were creative works well covered by copyright. And this was what the European Patent Convention defined, and the national each country in Europe has is still this point of view. There was a case in the UK for example a few months ago where the High Court said look this is software, it can't be patented. It's still an enshrined notion. But the EPO, which is this patent office outside the EU, has been since 85 systematically changing the rules to allow patents on software. And it's a delicate process. It's taken them about 15 years and with five steps each time changing one thing, they come to the point where now if you take a program and go to Munich and say I want to patent this program, they'll give you a patent. And it's also business methods. It's on ways of selling drugs. It's on ways of doing things. And the EPO still thinks, you know, we should be like America, you know, Europe is, is like the poor cousin of the rich Americans and we should be like America. It's their dream, one million pending patents. The problem in America is that the system has gone completely crazy. It's falling apart. And the American economy isn't doing so well either. Europe is actually growing faster than the States and people are seriously starting to wonder whether the patent system isn't really one of the big problems in America.  Okay, it's a fair bet. They're a software company, but when they pay $1.5 billion because they've been selling some MP3 software and distributing it, I find that offensive. I don't care who they are. I find that a company like Lucent, who don't make any MP3 products, didn't invent it, didn't develop it, are really charging some of the tax for using mats. The effects of patenting, over patenting are, they're insidious. They stop people from doing things. It's not just in software. It's in health, for example, research into malaria, which is a disease that affects something like a hundred million people. And it's a really bad disease. The research into malaria is stopped, slowed down, blocked because some companies own patents on some of the malaria parasites. So if you research, you're actually violating a patent. You're using information, which is not public anymore. This is little by little turning what was, and what we expect to be, public, common goods. What we know, what we build, what we invent as a community, as a world, into private property in the name of profits. And the argument, it's a simple argument, it's a very childish argument, is that the market is always right and profits are always good. And anything you can sell and buy is a good thing. It makes money for someone. But this is it's very 1990s, you know, it's old. The example I give my wife is it's good to be able to own a house. That's nice. It means that you can be owner of your house.  But it would be really silly to sell off the streets. And some forms of property can be private, but some have to be shared. Otherwise, they, you know, the market we live in falls apart. Okay. So in Europe, you have a few large companies, mostly Microsoft, SAP, Siemens, Nokia, Philips, who have been pushing very aggressively over the last years for software patents and basically trying to find any avenue they can to get what they see as a, you know, an essential tool for business and what everyone else sees as a insanity. In 2005, the FFII fought and finished a very long battle. It began in about 2000 where there was an attempt to get a new directive through the parliament, which would have once and for all legalized software patents. This was a very a very divisive fight. It split the IT industry in two. You had a very visible, you know, fragmentation. Some companies really wanting software patents and some companies really against them. I think everyone, every individual programmer, every free software developer very clearly understood the dangers. We got a lot of support from politicians and we basically stopped the EPOs and I'd say big software plans in Europe at that point. So, of course, you know, this is not a simple game and with 15 years of developing software patents in Europe, there are many other ways of doing it. The current attempt, the current strategy, is to basically bypass the European Union, bypass parliament and build a new patent court, which would be outside Europe. So, in Europe, if you're the EPO, if you're a pro software patent specialist, usually people who buy and sell software patents in general, then if you look at the current situation, there's two big problems. One is these national courts, which don't like software patents and never have like them. The second is the European Parliament, which is proven that it's able to stand up to, you know, bullying and actually say, no, go away. So the big plan and the big danger right now is this new proposal, which would bypass the European Parliament and would bypass national courts. It's called the EPLA, you may have heard of it, the European Patent Litigation Agreement. And what this means, it's an agreement which would be signed by a number of countries, and it would basically say, when you have a patent lawsuit, you don't go to national court anymore. You go to this new court, which is very powerful and you can sue anyone in Europe for any amount of money for doing anything. It's lovely. It's a dream. What it would mean if the EPLA gets signed is that all the software patents which are sitting in the EPO, are kind of in a state of limbo. They've been granted, they've been examined, they've been not opposed, they've been paid for, they're valid in courts, they're valid at the global level, world patents, but they're not valid in Belgium, in France, in Germany, in the UK. They might be if you go to court and you really fight for them, but they're in limbo. And there are something like, I don't know, 100,000 of these patents. If the EPLA gets signed by, let's say, you know, a core group of European member countries, suddenly all of these patents become valid in those countries, and valid as in court. So it's a lovely setup. Of course it's not that simple. I mean, there are people who really despise the EPLA and find this an offensive thing. It's very anti-European for one thing. Now, I'm a European, I'm half Scottish, half Belgian, I live in Brussels. I kind of like that year of Europe because we Scots, we always felt like an oppressed minority. And when we're in Europe, there are so many oppressed minorities, we feel like a big happy family. So, you know, we've seen bad governments in the past. I think what's happening in Brussels isn't perfect, but I think it has a chance of being something quite good.  I think it could be fun. But, you know, it's actually going to be another 20, 30 years of chaos. And out of this will emerge a functioning parliament, a functioning, you know, two houses, a functioning legal system. And every step on the way is part of that. Now, something like EPLA is outside that. It's anti-European. It says, the European system doesn't work. We don't like the parliament. We don't like making laws by proper discussion and proper debate. We want to make our own laws completely outside any democratic process. And no, that's a bad thing. There's no way of fixing it. There's no way of getting it, you know, under control anymore.  And they listen. MEPs have to, at some point, answer to their voters. And I think this is the cure for many bad laws is to get them into the public debate, get them into the, you know, the political arena where they can be discussed and looked at. So, our goal as FFII, my goal as president of this association, is to bring the discussion of patents into the public arena. It's been done very much under the table. I think, like many, many laws get passed or many legal changes get made by avoiding discussion.  But patents aren't just some accessory thing. They're absolutely essential to our modern economy. Why, for example, can I, in Kenya, do a payment on my mobile phone, do a money transfer mobile phone, and why not in Europe? I mean, you know, Europe invented the GSM standard, so why can't we make it evolve? The reason is patents. It's so heavily patented. But there's almost no progress anymore. Just the licenses to get involved, like 110% of the cost. So, patents are actually affecting us in every single domain. And the question of how we fix the patent system has to be done, has to be answered by all of us, not by some experts in the room somewhere. So, we're launching three. We are, the process of launching or have launched three separate initiatives. This EPLA thing, which has been floated for the last couple of years, is basically causing a lot of confusion, anxiety. The German presidency is pushing it very hard. The French have their own proposal, and the Germans are saying, well, the French are not very important. We can lead them to have their election. And then when they're finished, we'll come back with our EPLA proposal, and SAP and Siemens are lobbying very hard. And the whole thing has got very stuck. The commission doesn't like EPLA. There's one thing called community patent, which is sitting there quietly. So, we have a couple of years, one year, two years to, you know, take some initiative. The first thing that we have done is set up a series of conferences, which we call the European Patent Conference. We had one in Munich last year, one in Brussels this year. We have one more in Brussels in May. And the goal is to get all of these, all the patent expert community, who are not all in favor of software patents. They are actually clever and understand that a system which lives for a long time has to be balanced and has to work and can't just take everything, has to give back as well. And to bring these people into an event, into a group where they can speak together, exchange information and come up with better ideas. So, these events will be taking place all year. And we're running them with a number of interesting partners. We had, last time we had on the same stage Greenpeace talking about patents on life and IBM explaining why patents and software were bad for open standards. So, it's interesting to see how large, even the largest patent holder, software patent holder, IBM can actually stand up publicly and say, look, there's a problem here. We depend on open standards and software patents make it impossible to make new open standards. So, what do we do? We're basically stuck. The first initiative we've done is start a new industry association. So, we noticed one thing which is FFII is mostly individuals, mostly where activists, where mostly software developers, people who have understood the problem, but there was never a real place for companies to get involved. And how many people here are involved in running a small company? Okay, so, like me, I run a small company because as a professional developer, it's fun to have a little business. If you want to find out, for example, as a small company, how you can get involved in the patent debate, how you can help or how you can get information, or even in the software domain, who represents you in Brussels? There's nobody. We have national associations here and there. There's no European associations. We've started one. It's a small market association, ESOMA. So, all of you, entrepreneurs can join us and ESOMA will basically help finance what FFII is doing, help us to lobby, organize events. The third thing that we are doing is, let me show you this. We're making posters. You can try to find these. I'll put a few boxes of these around the building and you can try and find them. Okay. You probably can't see this at the back. This is the campaign for ethical patents. Now, what is this? This is a popular demand for a patent system which actually works. Now, many people may think that the only good patent is a dead patent. We don't want any patents at all. But that's an argument which doesn't work. There are good reasons for a patent system. They're not very nice, but they're there. Basically, without patents, companies will not publish anything. Too many secrets and secrets are bad for collaborative research. So, the basic concept of a patent is you publish and you get a small monopoly. The problem is when the monopoly is 20 years long and vast. You know, I own MP3. That just doesn't work anymore. So, this campaign is designed to ask the question who does the patent system today discriminate against? Why is it bad for open standards, for free software, for small businesses, even for poor people? Why are medicines too expensive? And what do we need to do to fix that? There's a website, Ethipat, the campaign for ethical patents. Basically, we want a million signatures, 10 million, hey, a billion signatures. I don't mind, but they've got to be real signatures. And then we will push for a new patent directive in Europe, which will actually define once and for all how the patent system should work, how long a patent should last for, what can be patented, how much it costs, how it happens. So, the whole thing, which is now being defined by experts, I say experts. Because what they're very good at is defining systems which make them money and make their friends money. Not defining systems which help the common good. And ultimately, every law that we accept has to be a law which is good for all of us. Laws which are unjust and which are good for a few people and better for everybody else are unethical. I'll finish there and I'll take questions. Thank you very much. If I have 15 minutes every week to dedicate to the findings of the patent, what should I do within 15 minutes? That's a very good question. It's not enough 15 minutes. 15 minutes a day might be good. If you want to help right now, just from the buzzer of course then, go to the Ethic Pact site, try to understand the message and try to get some people to understand the message and spread it around. That's the first one. If you want to help with the patent fight, it is a complicated subject. Patents are the delicacies of good in the back and hard to understand. You have to read about it, research. Get involved. You have lots of email lists, lots of wikis, lots of places to get involved. The best thing to do at FYI is to find a local group, National Charter, who is in charge, contact them and say okay, when can I come and meet you? Maybe next month. Maybe try to keep in touch once in a couple of months. See what things are happening and discuss by email. That's the simplest. If you have too much money, make a donation. We're all volunteers. Money helps. For the rest, keep your ears up, keep involved, keep what's going on. The new organization that try to create to post the patent, who is that associated with it? Is it associated with the World Trade Organization? Where has it been created and what can be done about it? This new entity which is planned, called the European Patent Litigation Unit, that's the agreement. We created an entity called the European Patent Judiciary, which would basically run under the EPO. The European Patent Organization runs the European Patent Office. The European Patent Judiciary would appoint the judges, would basically define the law and also choose people who would then decide the law. For a fixed period of time, it's a completely corrupt concept. Basically, you define the law, you choose your judges, and you say if you only connect the law the way I want it, I fire you. This absolutely isn't my problem. Can we already join ESOMA? Yes. The website is esoma.org. There's a contact form. We launched this in January, so January 24, I think it was live, 15th February. It's a Belgian non-profit, so as they are physically in Belgium. And we are opening the doors today. This is the first public announcement of ESOMA, in fact. So you're basically fighting bandits. Well, when you want to justify your work, you have to have some examples. Some companies, some patents. What do you show? Like real examples. Real enemies. This is one of the problems. These 100,000 software patents sitting at the EPO are all abstract. They're all sitting there. No one quite knows what's happening to them. So all we have are the... It's like a wave, we have just the front of the wave. We definitely see in America the effect of software patents. We see the fact, for example, that software patents make it almost impossible to define new standards safely. So, for example, I'm working on a new standard called AMQP, which is a new standard for messaging middleware. It's for microphone communication between systems. We've been working on this for about three years. It's a large effort involving banks, software companies, Cisco, big companies. We cannot publish this without a risk that somebody has patented something in there. We don't know. So it's not the tangible direct damage. I mean, there are good cases. You definitely have cases like Blackberry, paying $600 million for seven patents. The American system is insane. People will tell you, well, the European system isn't that bad yet, which is true. So the European problem is still fairly abstract. So what we're mostly confronted by is an intellectual exercise. It's looking at what we have in America, looking at what's really in place in Europe, and then saying, okay, this is where we're going to be. Now, I've been involved in a very small number of ethnic issues in Europe, and they aren't real. Most of them don't come to court. In fact, it's very rare. The vast majority don't ever even go to litigation. They simply let us arrive, lawyers open the door, and companies say, what is this? What do you mean I'm infringing your patent? And then they say that they pay. This is a big problem. It's the information on the use of patents between companies for extortion. It's undocumented. There's no data on this. We don't know how many patents are used in Europe. We don't know how much effect they're having right now. So all we can do is extrapolate. And this is one of the difficulties of getting this debate. It really requires some paranoia and some idea that we're in a progression. And what's happening in five minutes time is important, but little's happening today. How much time do we have, sir? Five minutes. I just want to say to you that the patents really have problems for companies. I am working in a plastic injection molding machine fabric and we were attacked by a concurrent. He said, it is illegal. I have patented that we use ethernet in a plastic machinery as a protection of most. Okay, so we have to defend. Finally, it was declared as non-relevant, but you have to fear and you don't know whether you can sell in one year or two years the same machines. Thank you. So if you do have concrete cases, please let us know about it. We do lack data. As you say, it's about fear and it's about risk.  If you go into a new market and you know that somebody has a patent which hasn't even been defended, but that they're willing to bring out their lawyers, how much risk can you afford to take? And this is also a big difference between Europe and America. In America, risk is a part of life. And people actually, they positively seek risk in some cases. If you go to a venture capitalist and you say, you know, it's a very risky project and if you're more money, not less. But in Europe, you go to a capitalist and say, have you seen a project? They say, forget it, we don't like risk. So in the European context, any extra risk is very bad for small companies and very, you know, okay, for the larger ones. And this is part of the psychological game. When there are patents in an area, it scares off competition. It lets companies use bluff, which is, of course, not the basis for a market. There are 100,000 patents you are talking about. Are they publicly visible? Is there a database that they can query to see if my project potentially includes some of these patents? Hmm, good question. So we do have a website called Dallas which has been working to try to document, you know, which are the patents which are software patents. But it's a big problem with software patents. I mean, people don't say, I have patented a table. I'll take Eric Josephson's example here. They say, you know, a table with four legs. They say, I've patented a horizontal surface with a number of extrusions per choreo. That's an angle which may vary from 10 to 110 degrees, perpendicular to the surface, which may serve from anything from feet to coffee to plants. They have a patent on how a table can be made and how it can be sold. And this is a description, a legal document which is almost impossible to understand. So in fact, you don't know what's patented until you're sued, until someone says, this, in fact, is patented. I saw an example where somebody who had invented, I don't know, something very something like a remote control has now seen someone for electronic music distribution saying this is the same thing. And if you look at the patent description, it could plausibly overlap. So a good patent lawyer, a person who makes your patent for you, will make a software patent as any patent, in fact, as broad and as vague and as fuzzy as possible. And there's no pressure on the claimant to make quality patents on rapid progress. So for us, the conclusion right now is these software patents may not become legal instruments. They must be kept out of the market, period. When it's a better system, we could possibly allow some kind of a claim on some aspects of the work. So, very, very, very well controlled. Okay, that's all for now. I'll be around for a little while, so if you have questions, come with me afterwards. Thank you very much.


Hi, my name is Jesper and I'm part of the ST TouchDFX team. In this video I'll show you how to use the import-export custom container feature introduced in TouchDFX 4.20. For this I have created a project and I have created a custom container here, containing a button, a text area and a box progress widget. I've made an interaction where when I push the button I will execute some code that will set the value of this or increment the value of this by one. A custom container is a reusable element in your application so now I can go to this screen one I have here and I can add a couple of instances of this, center them and compile. I have an application here, I can press here, see that I update this one with this and I'll update this one. So a very simple custom container in this case. We can also see that in the text panel here I have made a custom container typography, set it to some values here. I have made a text and two languages, one reading this and one reading this and we see that we have this text used in the custom container. So let's say that I want to reuse this custom container in one of my other projects or I want to share it with a colleague or I want to share it online somehow. I now have the option of exporting this custom container. The way I do that is simply by selecting the custom container here and pressing export like this. The designer will generate the project and make a description here on how the custom container is being exported. That is which elements from the project is included in this export. So we have files, that's the files that are used by this custom container. We have images, the images used, the text that will be the resources that are used, the text resources, the typographies, the fonts and which languages to export. The designer gives a qualified guess on what elements you want to include but if you want to include others, let's say like a file you can go and add this, add a new one by changing this line. Anyway, let's not do that in this example. So let's continue. We are ready to export. We can change the name if we want to but for this let's just go with custom container one. Press export and the custom container is being exported and we see here that we now have a custom container one TPKG file which is the custom container exported. So we have done what we wanted. So now we can try to import this into another project. If I go to the lobby, just create a new project here. Open up a new instance. So if we set a background like this, we see we do not have any custom containers naturally in this newly created project but let's change that by importing the custom container we just made. But before we do that I would like to just add a new language to our project so that we can see the language mapping that we are able to do when importing a custom container. Okay, so we are ready to import. Edit import custom container. Now we need to select a package to import over here. You see that we have the custom container one in the folder which is the project we made before here and press open. So what we see here is a bit interesting actually. So we have a list here of the components that's being imported, the one that we specified just before and here we see we have a conflict. So a resource ID one, a text. I just made that when I created the new language. I made a dummy text entry. So what the designer is telling us here is that it's a no-go to import this, it has a conflict and if we were to proceed then we would overwrite something potentially harming our application. So what we need to do is to change this. So one way or the way of changing it from this application is to make sure that we do not have a resource ID one text. You could say that the fault here is the guy who exported the custom container. He used a very common name for his resources. So he should have called it something that referred to this custom container. You could say. Anyway, let's quickly go and change it. I'll go to the text here and call it something else instead. And now import again. So we see the conflict has gone away. One final thing to do before importing is to look at the language mapping. So remember we had two languages in this application, so German and English and in the exported custom container we had German and Danish. So now we can select what mapping we want to do. So in this case there was a match here and the designer chooses to use this as a default and in this case it's okay. German, well it doesn't match English or Danish so I can choose just to go with whatever the English but I could say none so it will not have any values. Okay, so I'm ready to import. So that's it. I now have a custom container just as we exported it. I can use it again and make an application of this. So that's it. I've exported and imported a custom container ready to be reused in my new project. So I hope you find this new feature interesting and that you'll be sharing a lot of custom containers with yourself, your colleagues or people you don't know on the internet. Thank you for listening. Bye.