This is the LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recorded by Gesine. The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Chapters 36-39. There was a garden out in the suburbs, a small leafy corner with a few green tables under the orange trees. An old cat slept all day on the stone step in the sun, and an old Mela Tress slept her idle hours away in her chair at the open window till someone happened to knock on one of the green tables. She had milk and cream cheese to sell, and bread and butter. There was no one who could make such excellent coffee or fry a chicken so golden-brown as she. The place was too modest to attract the attention of people of fashion, and so quiet as to have escaped the notice of those in search of pleasure and dissipation. Edna had discovered it accidentally one day when the high-bored gate stood ajar. She caught sight of a little green table, blotched with a checkered sunlight that filtered through the quivering leaves overhead. Within she had found the slumbering Mela Tress, the drowsy cat, and the glass of milk which reminded her of the milk she had tasted in Iberville. She often stopped here during her perambulations, sometimes taking a book with her, and sitting an hour or two under the trees when she found the place deserted. Once or twice she took a quiet dinner here alone, having instructed Celestine beforehand to prepare no dinner at home. It was the last place in the city where she would have expected to meet any one she knew. Still she was not astonished when, as she was partaking of a modest dinner late in the afternoon, looking into an open book stroking the cat which had made friends with her. She was not greatly astonished to see Robert come in at the tall garden gate. "'I am destined to see you only by accident,' she said, shoving the cat off the chair beside her. He was surprised, ill at ease, almost embarrassed at meeting her thus so unexpectedly. "'Do you come here often?' he asked. "'I almost live here,' she said. "'I used to drop in very often for a cup of Quartitius' good coffee.' "'This is the first time since I came back. She'll bring you a plate, and you will share my dinner. There's always enough for two, even three.' Edna had intended to be indifferent, and as reserved as he when she met him. She had reached the determination by a laborious train of reasoning, incident to one of her despondent moods. But her resolve melted when she saw him before designing providence had led him into her path. "'Why have he kept away from me, Robert?' she asked, closing the book that lay open upon the table. "'Why are you so personal, Mrs. Pontelier?  He exclaimed with sudden warmth. "'I suppose there's no use telling you I've been very busy, or that I've been sick, or that I've been to see you and not found you at home. "'Please let me off with any of these excuses. You are the embodiment of selfishness,' she said. "'You save yourself something I don't know what. But there is some selfish motive, and in sparing yourself you never consider for a moment what I think, or how I feel you neglect and indifference. I suppose this is what you would call unwomenly. But I have got into a habit of expressing self. It doesn't matter to me, and you may think me unwomenly if you like. "'No, I only think you cruel,' as I said the other day. "'Maybe not intentionally cruel, but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing, as if you would have me bear a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intentional power of healing it. I'm spoiling your dinner, Robert. Never mind what I say. You haven't eaten a morsel. I only came in for a cup of coffee.' His sensitive face was all disfigured with excitement. "'Isn't this a delightful place?' she remarked. "'I am so glad it has never actually been discovered. It is so quiet, so sweet here.' "'Do you notice there is scarcely a sound to be heard? It's so out of the way, and a good walk from the car. "'However, I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk. They miss so much. So many rare glimpses of life, and we women learn so little of life on the whole.' "'Katish's coffee is always hot. I don't know how she manages it, here in the open air. Celestine's coffee gets cold bringing it from the kitchen to the dining-room.' "'Sweet lumps! How can you drink it so sweet?' "'Take some of the cress with your chop. It's so biting and crisp. Then there's the advantage of being able to smoke with your coffee hut here. Now, in the city, aren't you going to smoke?' "'After a while,' he said, laying a cigar on the table. "'Who gave it to you?' she laughed. "'I bought it. I suppose I'm getting reckless. I bought a whole box.' She was determined not to be personal again and make him uncomfortable. The cat made friends with him and climbed into his lap when he smoked his cigar. He stroked her silky fur and talked a little about her. He looked at Edna's book, which she had read, and he told her the end to save her the trouble of wading through it, he said. Again he accompanied her back to her home, and it was after dusk when they reached the little pigeon-house. She did not ask him to remain, which he was grateful for, as it permitted him to stay without the discomfort of blundering through an excuse which he had no intention of considering. He helped her to light the lamp. Then she went into her room to take off her hat and to bathe her face and hands. When she came back, Robert was not examining the pictures and magazines as before. He sat off in the shadow, leaning his head back on the chair as if in a reverie. Edna lingered a moment beside the table, arranging the books there. Then she went across the room to where he sat.  Robert, she said, are you asleep? No. He answered, looking up at her.  Then she moved away from him. He followed and took her in his arms, just holding her close to him.  The action was full of love and tenderness. He sought her lips again. Then he drew her down upon the sofa beside him and held her hand in both of his. Now you know, he said, now you know what I've been fighting against since last summer at Grand Isle.  Why have you been fighting against it? She asked. Her face glowed with soft lights. Why? Because you were not free. You were Lyon's Pontelier's wife. I couldn't help loving you if you were ten times his wife, but so long as I went away from you and kept away, I could help telling you so. She put her free hand up to his shoulder and then against his cheek, rubbing it softly. He kissed her again. His face was warm and flushed. There in Mexico I was thinking of you all the time and longing for you. But not writing to me, she interrupted. Something put into my head that you cared for me and I lost my senses.  Your wife? Religion, loyalty, everything would give way if only you cared. Then you must have forgotten that I was Lyon's Pontelier's wife. Oh, I was demented, dreaming of wild, impossible things, recalling men who had set their wives free. We have heard of such things. Yes, we have heard of such things. I came back full of vague, mad intentions and when I got here, when you got here you never came near me. She was still caressing his cheek.  She took his face between her hands and looked into it as if she would never withdraw her eyes more. She kissed him on the forehead, the eyes, the cheeks and the lips. You have been a very, very foolish boy wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontelier setting me free. I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelier's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, here, Robert, take her and be happy if she is yours, I should laugh at you both.  What do you mean? he asked. There was a knock at the door.  Yes, yes, said Edna, rising. I promised. Tell her yes, to wait for me. I'll go back with her. Let me walk over with you, offered Robert. No, she said. I will go with the servant. She went into her room to put on her hat, and when she came in again, she sat once more upon the sofa beside him. He had not stirred. She put her arms about his neck. Goodbye, my sweet Robert. Tell me goodbye. He kissed her with a degree of passion which had not before entered into his caress and strained her to him. I love you.   Oh, you have made me so unhappy with your indifference. Oh, I have suffered, suffered. Now you are here, we shall love each other, my Robert. We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence. I must go to my friend, but you will wait for me? No matter how late, you will wait for me, Robert? Don't go, don't go. Oh, Edna, stay with me. He pleaded, Why should you go? Stay with me, stay with me. I shall come back as soon as I can. I shall find you here. She buried her face in his neck and said goodbye again. Her seductive voice together with his great love for her had enthralled his senses, had deprived him of every impulse but the longing to hold her and keep her. CHAPTER 37 Edna looked in at the drugstore. Monsieur Ratignolle was putting up a mixture himself, very carefully, dropping a red liquid into a tiny glass. He was grateful to Edna for having come. Her presence would be a comfort to his wife. Madame Ratignolle's sister, who had always been with her at such trying times, had not been able to come up from the plantation and Adèle had been inconsolable until M. Pontellier so kindly promised to come to her. The nurse had been with them at night for the past week as she lived a great distance away and Dr. Mondely had been coming and going all the afternoon. They were then looking for him any moment. Edna hastened upstairs by a private stairway that led from the rear of the store to the apartments above. The children were all sleeping in a back room. Madame Ratignolle was in the salon with her she had strayed in her suffering and patience. She sat on the sofa, clad in an ample white pineoir, holding a handkerchief tight in her hand with a nervous clutch. Her face was drawn and pinched, her sweet blue eyes haggard and unnatural. All her beautiful hair had been drawn back and plaited. It lay in a long braid on the sofa pillow, coiled like a golden serpent. The nurse, a comfortable looking grief woman in white apron and cap, was urging her to return to the bedroom. There is no use, there is no use. She said at once to Edna, we must get rid of Mondely. He is getting too old and careless. He said he would be here at half past seven. Now it must be eight. See what time it is, Josephine. The woman was possessed of a cheerful nature and refused to take any situation too seriously, especially in a situation with which she was so familiar. She urged Madame to have courage and patience, but Madame only set her teeth hard into her underlip and Edna saw the sweat gather and beads on her white forehead. After a moment or two she uttered a profound sigh and wiped her face with a handkerchief rolled in a ball. She appeared exhausted. The nurse gave her a fresh handkerchief, sprinkled with cologne water. This is too much, she cried. Mondely ought to be killed. Where is Alphonse? Is it possible I am to be abandoned like this, neglected by everyone? Neglected indeed, exclaimed the nurse. Wasn't she there? And here was Mrs. Pointerier, leaving no doubt a pleasant evening at home to her, and wasn't Monsieur Ratignolle coming this very instant through the hall? And Josephine was quite sure she had heard Dr. Mondely's coupe. Yes, there it was, down at the door. Adèle consented to go back to her room. She sat on the edge of a little low couch next to her bed. Dr. Mondely paid no attention to Madame Ratignolle's upbradings. He was accustomed to them at such times and was too well convinced of her loyalty to doubt it. He was glad to see Edna and wanted her to go with him into the salon and entertain him. But Madame Ratignolle would not consent that Edna should leave her for an instant. Between agonizing moments she chatted a little and said it took her mind off her sufferings. Edna began to feel uneasy. She was seized with a vague dread. Her own experiences seemed far away, unreal and only half remembered. She recalled faintly an ecstasy of pain, the heavy odor of chloroform, a stupor which had deadened sensation and an awakening to find a little new life to which she had given being, added to the great unnumbered multitude of souls that come and go. She began to wish she had not come. Her presence was not necessary. She might have invented a pretext for staying away. She might even invent a pretext now for going. But Edna did not go. With an inward agony, with a flaming, outspoken revolt against the bays of nature she witnessed the scene of torture.  Adele, pressing her cheek, whispered in an exhausted voice, Think of the children, Edna. Oh, think of the children. Remember them. Chapter 38 Edna still felt dazed when she got outside in the open air. The doctor's coop had returned for him and stood before the pot-coucher. She did not wish to enter the coop and told Dr. Mondley she would walk. She was not afraid and would go alone. He directed his carriage to meet him at Mrs. Pontelliers and he started to walk home with her. Up, away up, over the narrow street between the tall houses the stars were blazing. The air was mild and caressing but cool with the breath of spring and the night. They walked slowly. The doctor with a heavy, measured tread and his hands behind him. Edna in an absent-minded way as she had walked one night at Grand Isle as if her thoughts had gone ahead of her and she was striving to overtake them. You shouldn't have been there, Mrs. Pontelliers," he said. That was no place for you. Adèle is full of whims at such times. There were a dozen women she might have had with her, unimpressionable women. I felt that it was cruel, cruel. You shouldn't have gone. Oh, well," she answered indifferently. I didn't know that it matters, after all. One has to think of the children some time or other. The sooner the better. When is Lyons coming back? Quite soon. Sometime in March. Are you going abroad? Perhaps. No, I am not going. I am not going to be forced into doing things. I don't want to go abroad. I want to be let alone. Nobody has any right. Except children, perhaps. And even then it seems to me, or it did seem, she felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency of her thoughts and stopped abruptly. The trouble is, sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of nature, a decoy to secure mothers for the race. At nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost. Yes, she said. The years that are gone seem like dreams, if one might go on sleeping and dreaming. But to wake up and find... Oh, well, perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life. It seems to me, my dear child, said the doctor at parting, holding her hand. You seem to me to be in trouble. I am not going to ask for your confidence. I will only say that if ever you feel moved to give it to me, perhaps I might help you. I know I would understand. And I tell you there are not many who would. Not many, my dear. Some way I don't feel moved to speak of things that trouble me. Don't think I am ungrateful or that I don't appreciate your sympathy. There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others. But no matter. Still, I shouldn't want to trample upon the little lives. Oh, I don't know what I'm saying, doctor. Good night.  Yes, I will blame you if you don't come and see me soon. We will talk of things you never have dreamt of talking about before. It will do us both good. I don't want you to blame yourself, whatever comes. Good night, my child. She let herself in at the gate. But instead of entering, she sat upon the step of the porch. The night was quiet and soothing. All the tearing emotion of the last few hours seemed to fall away from her like a somber, uncomfortable garment which she had but to loosen to be rid of. She went back to that hour before Adele had sent for her and her senses kindled afresh in thinking of Robert's words, the pressure of his arms and the feeling of his lips upon her own. She could picture at that moment no greater bliss on earth than possession of the beloved one. His expression of love had already given him to her in part. When she thought that he was there at hand waiting for her, she grew numb with the intoxication of expectancy. It was so late. He would be asleep, perhaps. She would awaken him with a kiss. She hoped he would be asleep that she might arouse him with her caresses. Still to remember Adele's voice whispering, think of the children, think of them. She meant to think of them. That determination had driven into her soul like a death wound. But not tonight. Tomorrow would be time to think of everything. Robert was not waiting for her in the little parlor. He was nowhere at hand. The house was empty. But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamp-light. I love you. Goodbye. Because I love you. Edna grew faint when she read the words. She went and sat on the sofa. Then she stretched herself out there, never uttering a sound. She did not sleep. She did not go to bed. The lamp sputtered and went out. She was still awake in the morning when Celestine unlocked the kitchen door and came in to light the fire. Chapter 39 Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries. Marie-Kita sat nearby, dangling her legs, watching him work and handing him nails from the toolbox. The sun was beating down upon them. The girl had covered her head with her apron folded into a square pad. They had been talking for an hour or more. She was never tired of hearing Victor describe the dinner at Mrs. Pontelier's. He exaggerated every detail, making it appear a veritable Le Cullien feast. The flowers were in tubs, he said. The champagne was quaffed from huge golden goblets. Venus rising from the phone could have presented no more entrancing a spectacle than Mrs. Pontelier, blazing with beauty and diamonds at the head of the board, while the other women were all of them youthful hoories, possessed of incomparable charms. She got it into her head that Victor was in love with Mrs. Pontelier and he gave her evasive answers, framed so as to confirm her belief. She grew sullen and cried a little, threatening to go off and leave him to his fine ladies. There were a dozen men crazy about her at the Chinière and since it was the fashion to be in love with married people, why, she could run away any time she liked to New Orleans with Selena's husband.  This assurance was very consoling to Marie-Kita. She dried her eyes and grew cheerful at the prospect. They were still talking of the dinner and the illumines of city life when Mrs. Pontelier herself slipped around the corner of the house.  But it was really she in flesh and blood, looking tired and a little travelled stained. I walked up from the wharf, she said, and heard the hammering. I suppose it was you mending the porch. It's a good thing. I was always tripping over those loose planks last summer. Hadryrian deserted everything looks. It took Victor some little time to comprehend that she had come in Boudlis Lager, that she had come alone and for no purpose but to rest. There's nothing fixed up yet, you see. I'll give you my room, it's the only place. Any corner will do, she assured him. And if you can stand Philo-Mail's cooking, he went on, though I might try to get her mother while you are here. Do you think she would come? Turning to Marie-Kita. Marie-Kita thought that perhaps Philo-Mail's mother might come for a few days, at money enough. Beholding Mrs. Pontelier to make her appearance, the girl had at once suspected the lovers rendez-vous. But Victor's astonishment was so genuine and Mrs. Pontelier's indifference so apparent that the disturbing notion did not lodge long in her brain. She contemplated with the greatest interest this woman who gave the most sumptuous dinners in America and who had all the men in your leans at her feet. What time will you have dinner? asked Edna. I'm very hungry, but don't get anything extra. I'll have it ready in little or no time, he said, bustling and packing away his tools. You may go to my room to brush up and rest yourself. Marie-Kita will show you. Thank you, said Edna. But, you know, I have a notion to go down to the beach and take a good wash and even a little swim before dinner. The water is too cold, they both exclaimed. Don't think of it. Well, I might go down and try, dip my toes in. Why, it seems to me the sun is hot enough to have warmed the very depths of the ocean. Could you give me a couple of towels? I'd better go right away, so as to be back in time. It would be a little too chilly if I waited till this afternoon. Marie-Kita ran over to Victor's room and returned with some towels, which she gave to Edna. I hope you have fish for dinner, said Edna, as she started to turn away, but don't do anything extra if you haven't. Run and find Philo-Mode's mother, Victor instructed the girl. I'll go to the kitchen and see what I can do. Put Jiminy. Women have no consideration. She might have sent me word. Edna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot. She was not dwelling upon any particular train of thought. She had done all the thinking which was necessary after Robert went away, when she lay awake upon the sofa till morning. She had said over and over to herself, Today it is our day. Tomorrow it will be someone else. It makes no difference to me. It doesn't matter about Léonce Pontollier, but Raoul and Etienne. She understood now clearly what she had meant long ago when she said to Adieu Ratignolle that she would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice herself for her children. Despondency had come upon her there in the wakeful night and had never lifted. There was not one thing in the world that she desired. There was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert. And she even realized that the day would come when he too and the thought of him would melt out of her existence, leaving her alone. The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her, who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul's slavery for the rest of her days. But she knew a way to elude them. She was not thinking of these things when she walked down to the beach. The water of the gulf stretched out before her, gleaming with the million lights of the sun. The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water. Edna had found her old bathing suit still hanging faded upon its accustomed peg. She put it on, leaving her clothing in the bathhouse. But when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her and the waves that invited her. It was strange and awful, it seemed, to stand naked under the sky. How delicious! She felt like some newborn creature, opening its eyes to a familiar world that it had never known. The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet and coiled like serpents about her ankles. She walked out. The water was chill, but she walked on. The water was deep, but she lifted her white body and reached out with a long sweeping stroke. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. She went on and on. She remembered the night she swam far out and recalled the terror that seized her at the fear of being unable to regain the shore. She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the bluegrass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no beginning, at no end. Her arms and legs were growing tired. She thought of Lyons and the children.  But they need not have thought that they could possess her body and soul. Hamard Moselle Reis would have loved, perhaps sneered if she knew. And you call yourself an artist. What pretensions, madame? The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies. Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. Goodbye, because I love you. He did not know. He did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Dr. Mondley would have understood if she had seen him. But it was too late. The shore was far behind her and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance and the old terror flamed up for an instant, and sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the port. There was the hum of bees and the musky odour of pinks filled the air. End of chapters 36 to 39 and End of the Awakening by Kate Chopin. Recorded by Gesine Invaletta, May 2006.


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So this week we are actually going into a little bit more of the advanced functions of Microsoft Excel One of the things we have to think about with these functions is every single one of them is expecting a parameter now let's take for example the EVG educational video game company one of the things that we want to see is Is this the person's birth month now if we cheat and we scroll all the way Over here You can see that we've actually got birthdays this month We're actually just cheating and saying oh if their birthdays in September. So We got to remember that ad one So we do that by looking at the birth year, but first things first birthday month One of the things you notice is as I finish typing out that Excel luckily sort of understands that I'm gonna be going through a The same kind of formatting process. So it just went ahead and applied it to there So now we have to go in and we have to put in that kind of question is this month or Were they born this month? So, you know, we're going to buy a machine cake or something like that. We can see for example, you know low for example Yeah, we would Say yes for her, but forbs on the other hand, we would not because again low birthday month nine Forbes 12 So how do we do that? Well, we're revisiting the idea of what is known as the if statement the if statement If you click on the enter a function, it'll be the first thing that hopefully pops up if not Going down and selecting Logical will sort of reduce everything down to sort of the logical formulas case in point if Now again How an if statement works is it breaks down into three sections the logical test the value if it's true In the value if it's false. So our logical test. We're saying Does their birthday? Begin with a nine basically one of the ways we can do that is through a new function called month Now as soon as I put in month At birth date What I'm saying is all of a sudden pull out the date of Whatever's being typed pull out the month that's being kind of addressed in that that time that daytime and then let's see if it equals dollar sign 80 dollar sign One if that's true if this is true if they are born in September Present a yes However, if they are not what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna cheat and I'm gonna go ahead and just put in two quotes here That way again, I don't see anything and as soon as I hit okay You see all of a sudden, you know low birthday sped Spadaluda him Johnson Johnson these are all of those names are now being established


every time you've tried to be creative and it's slipped through your fingers. I'm sure you feel that frustration. You go, why? I'm surrounded by all these inspirational things. And yet I can't be creative. I'm not feeling it. How is it that the other people around you can seem to just turn on creativity at a whim and you find it's so hard to grasp that thing that when more that you reach for it, the more it seems to slip through your fingers. How amazing would it be to be confident in being creative? To not actually have to worry for, not to be afraid to be a battle, but a dance. I'm gonna show you a simple technique that is gonna allow you to tap into that confidence and to be able to switch on that creativity at a whim. How's it, how's it? Have you ever heard the expression that a confused mind says no? So that's when there are so many choices being confronted and being pondered by your brain that eventually just short-circuits and it's like, oh, I can't do this anymore. I've just, I had enough, boom, and it closes down. That's what's happening with your mind when you are trying to force creativity through your photography, that you are thinking about so many things and your mind's going in so many different directions that it's just, you don't know where to start. Eventually it just becomes a muddle in the mess. At photography's heart, it is really, it's sight. It was born in the laboratory and we can harness that to our benefit by thinking about photography as a science, that there are certain elements that we put together. And I found this formula that I'm gonna share with you today extremely helpful for me whenever I've been stuck for creativity, when I feel that I'm just going all over the place and I don't really know how to get back on track because I can take a step back, think about this formula, think about where in this formula I'm going wrong and then get back on board. And this is what I'm gonna share with you today. This simple three-step formula that is going to help you be creative on demand to overcome that frustration that sometimes you feel when you are trying to force creativity and it just doesn't seem to want to be coming. The first element in this formula is surprisingly gear. And a lot of people are going, why Alex is talking about gear? But that is the thing, that is a constant. We know what it does. Everybody who's ever taken a photograph has used a camera of some description, photography was born in the laboratory. And so it's great that we have these things that do the same result irrespective of where we are, what we're doing, what the weather conditions are doing. You know, a 35 millimeter lens will always look at the world like a 35 millimeter lens will, just as much as a 200 millimeter lens will look at the world in a slightly different way. And my lens will see the world exactly the same way as yours does. So when we understand how these are used, how they see the world, how they work, then we have a constant in our formula. So we don't need to really worry about that too much. Obviously we can pick and choose that constant. But this is the whole point that you need to know your gear. You need to understand its limitations, what it's capable of, you know, and how it ties into the other two crucial aspects of this formula. The second part of the formula is technique. This is where obviously how you decide to use the piece of gear that you've chosen, you know, how to approach it. So are you going to use long shutter speeds? Are you going to use slow shutter speeds? Are you going to think about black and white? Are you going to use a process where you decide what I'm going to do this later on in Photoshop? And if so, what choices do you need to make? So this is a very crucial aspect of being creative is that you are now starting to take that gear that you have chosen to use and you are going to then use it in a certain way. So this is the technique.  So it makes it a lot easier. So you can start focusing on the real nugget of gold within all of this, which of course is the third aspect to your creative vision. So the third aspect, of course, it's vision. Yes, it's how you see the world. This is not a constant. This is the arbitrary thing where I think people start to get a little bit lost and kind of go, well, I don't have any vision. And the thing is that you do have a vision.  It is as simple as that. He says, tripping over some of his words, but it is really that simple. It's you see something that inspires you and you go, oh, I'd like to express it this way. And that is where the problem comes in. The whole thing sort of falls apart because without this formula, then you don't really know where to start. So how do you apply this in your photographic endeavors? Well, the very first thing you want to do is focus on vision. When you get to a scene, when you'll see something, oh, I quite like to photograph that, take a moment to not rip out your camera and go, oh, I'm going to set it to F, one point, whatever, because wide aperture stuff is all of the norm with the rage or what have you. Just take a moment and think about how you picture the scene. What is the photograph that you want to make? And so Adam's in his three books, The Print the Negative and the Camera, talked about this, it's called like visualization, sort of thinking about how the finished images is probably going to look.  If it's a person, spend some time talking to them. If it's a landscape, just take a moment to be in the landscape. When you take time to divorce yourself from the camera and the technique, you're giving yourself time to think about that one thing, that one element which is your vision, rather than clouding your ideas with how you're going to do the thing, how you're going to translate that vision into a photograph. It's once you have that vision that you can then approach the gear. You say, okay, well, fine, if this is what I want to say in my photograph, this is how I want the scene to look. What are my gear choices? What are my lens choices? How am I going to use the equipment at my disposal to bring what I see up here into life? How am I going to capture it? So the second part, once you've now got this vision, is to think about the gear. What lens choices? What equipment is going to be best suited for you to express your vision in a certain way? So this is when you focus purely on your gear. This doesn't really take too much because especially if you know about the limitations, as I said, about your equipment. So once you've made those decisions about the equipment, you can then start thinking about the technique. How are you going to use that equipment? How are you going to use composition? How are you going to use shutter speeds and apertures? And these are all the technique things. Once you've, you're not trying to think about the whole thing as a whole.  Can you see how this is all building up? It's not destroying your creativity. It is unleashing it. It's making you more confident in the process because you know where to start.  I'm so, so that's amazing. How did you see that? Because you're approaching it sensibly. You're approaching it in a systematic fashion that makes sense. And obviously, as you get better at this, as you become more confident in this process and more adept at it, then the process goes quicker. A lot of it becomes automatic. The gear part of this will become so inconsequential as you get better at this that it happens almost naturally like a synapse firing in your brain. And that's why you see some other people who seem to be able to just turn on this creativity on a whim. In this formula, there were two constants. So that there's gear and there's technique. Those are things that you can learn fairly easily to produce results that look the same time and time again. But what about vision? How do you improve your vision? How do you take something that is completely intangible and unique to you and polish it and hone it? I put together a video which I'm going to link to you over here which will talk to you about how to find those secret photographs that seem to be just dripping out of every other photographer's camera. Thanks for watching. I'll see you again later.


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possibility of attending this session. I'm in charge of the one man who is in charge of the archaeological service of lower Saxony, but I changed sites because I spent five years of my life working for an UNESCO geographic site and my idea was we have a management plan for the archaeological heritage sites and that is very elaborated and of course we are Germans we have a very elaborated management plan for all natural sites but we are Germans that means people don't speak to each other because there are two ministries responsible and you know your worst enemy is sitting on the other side of the road or the street so lower Saxony man's we have about 124,000 archaeological find spots we know about 24,000 who are visible and accessible we have about 40 and 7,000 square kilometers square kilometers about almost 8 million inhabitants that means there are a lot of people who can possibly visit one of those spots we have about 80 archaeologists in public administration heritage service responsible for the whole country that means we have areas where it is easy to get or where it is difficult to get and we have about 15 or 20 companies who know how to deal with an archaeological excavation or can help us that means we are outnumbered we are not enough people and we do must see that we have about 100 1400 castles and about almost 40 Royal Manors in our country that is just one of the 16 so-called Bundesländer in Germany so I'm just responsible for this area you see we have a great difference between high mountains in the south and the coast of the North Sea in the north that means we have areas with sandy soils and good and stone areas we have an administration that is there's somebody who's responsible for the archaeological site somebody is responsible for the man for the monuments that means for the standing upstanding we have somebody who are responsible for the jurisdiction and we have monuments that are owned by private persons by the state some of them are owned by the churches that means by the Catholic or by the Protestant Church and some other monuments are owned by communities by so-called Stiftungen that means people putting together their money to be more to have a more financial power and we have a lot of people who are interested and all these come from various sides and sorry and if you are looking at the country you see we have an area with almost no possibility of building a manner of stone and we have just one third of our country there you can build a house or a church or a castle out of stone that means if you look in the north you can see a castle that is from high nobility but it's completely built by water and earthquakes in that there will be never ever an accessible situation it is just an archaeological monument and we have in the south we have one of the highest castles we have the so-called Rosa Hotspot that is a castle just lying here on the top of that hill that is completely built within in stone and this is an emperor's castle and we must secure that people can visit both both our places they want to visit and need explanation to place like that or that was one of my excavations have done and also we do have places we have already in good touristic impact on like this castle here where there's a rope you can get up there roads to and mountain your way so that is quite easy so we have a quite difference of tasks how to explain a place and we have a quite different quite quite different task how to protect these signs and how to monitor them how to check if they if there's any issue that is changing the system running on that place and that is my responsibility so we had we took ma in the in the former times that being the monitoring was done by area photography and the monitoring was done by generating special plants very very skillfully our institution used the contact to two universities so we are sourced the task of getting the good measurement of the places and that is really done for almost now 80 or 90 years but the status was we are content on having good plants every 20 every 30 years things changed when the service who is responsible for the public management of areas and the public measurement of roads and all the discussions about the ground in lower Saxony when this is their logo when they decided decided to do error photography and a LiDAR scan and I asked them if we can get the LiDAR scans and the on the answer was of course no because we paid for that it's our system we are running it and then they came back after few months and wanted more information about archaeological sites and I told them okay we can do that you get the information about the archaeological sites but that will cost you do have to pay as much as I have to pay if I want to get the LiDAR scan that is really a clear system and then they went back and came back inside okay we can do it without any money transfer that was I wanted to get to that means now we get the LiDAR scan and we get the model that is done of the surface but we also get the model that is done with all the forests and all places where it's no vote and we get the information about the use of those areas we never ever got this before but now we have a very very political influential partner with a lot of money because the ground is ground is the most ground administration is the most influential branch except the financial ministry and so we got the possibility to have an archaeological inventory and looking on an incomplete information of the ground delivered by another institution for us and we started and now I will see show you a one or two examples that is a royal manor that was used in the 10th century you see almost about 20 hectares it is an has an inner valley and two and outer valleys we did a complete geophysical survey and we can show now that there are a lot of hundreds of sunken hearts of walls and of ditches and we can show that the area was completely in a pre-urban status it was all the 20 hectares were completely used as an early medieval city we have the geophysics we have the area photography we have of course the measurement and we used items of the geopark and the items of natural conversation we transferred the whole area into a natural protected area not an archaeological site it would be political impossible to do that but using it as a heritage site or as a natural conversation place that was possible I got the political support for doing that so we build up against the wall and took out of the ditches and he allowed two people to take their sheep there because sheep are talking down to the moon and they the surface so it is kept and it is close people coming there always have something nice to look at and that's me and if you look at these places we have spots of special archaeological interest and I refused to do an excavation there I was accepted to do that but we put more earth stones and some smaller trees on that to protect the archaeological site within the whole area that means we generate a new landscape and this new landscape is run by the by or is protected by natural laws and it is protecting the archaeological site of almost 20 hectares so and if you are we now we can explain the situation for example by the lighter scan this is the area you see here on this photograph and we use the lighter scans I mean take the data from the lighter scans by flights within wavy that is an unmanned aerial vehicle and we put two cameras down on these on the back of these are on the of these UAV we take normal photographs and that is a system that is always done in the forest in Germany but we also use an infrared camera that means in the same during the same flight and that is a cost if you if you take an airplane that costs thousands of euros but you using a new a B is about 100 or 200 euros and my time standing out spending out there but in getting we in doing the same flight we get in view an actual area photograph and we get an infrared photo and in comparing them that was done in November and in comparing them we see we get an impression if the vegetation is in a good condition or not that means and by this we get a second impact if the archaeological monument is in a good condition that means by using the same flight the same time the same people this personnel and the same UAV we get two photographs showing us the archaeological and the natural situation of the object and if you have these photographs you can compare them to the lighter scan and for example you see that when we made all the natural objects in 2015 and we did the UAV flight in 2016 there already has been some erosion and some changing of the landscape so I know in two or three years we do have to check the situation but the costs for doing that are less than 150 euros per year so another oil manor Koenigstader that is well known both places are well known out of historical sources you see the situation we just have two area photographs from 1991 showing this situation and this situation you see this house is this this is the inner Bailey and the outer Bailey was never photographed in another or in a better part than this so we took the lighter scan as a new inventory and on looking to this lighter scan you see it is true the inner Bailey was destroyed by a place or by a manufacturer who want to who wanted to gain stones for building new houses and you see it is almost devastated just left all the wall and the ditch of the inner Bailey and the royal manor but the outer Bailey was never never ever photographed before you see somebody was allowed to build this bomb that is used for for pecs and he never got the permission but he already has done it so we can't remove it because it is there it is protected by exist by its existence and we made an UAV showing the situation right now after the crop was harvested and you see the the spurs of the machine and you also see this way here you see this dark part here and you see this and in combining it with the lighter and the UAV photograph you see also that the ditch is here and here's a second ditch that means for the distant not so distant future we're talking about this area we're talking about this area but you see in the lighter we have this one so we do have to extend the archaeological site and now we see there the monitoring that was done between 1991 2001 was not sufficient enough we do have to change gears now the last place I want to show is one of the most famous monasteries we have in southern lower Saxony Viking Reed it is an sister to Yeltsin monastery they owned almost 30% of the whole mining areas in the Harz Mountains they had been up to 400 monks and they were so wealthy and the system was running a bit too strong so that being destroyed by a peasants river revolt in 1525 and since that the this is a ruin the rest of the of the monastery was used as a school so it survived we do have this old plan from 1667 that is kept in our archives but this plan keeps us the situation from 1667 and it was updated in about 19 and 1 since then never ever body somebody updated the plan of the buildings and the condition of the buildings so you see that is yet desperate desperately need for an UAV flight to get a photograph and to check which of the buildings though is still existing and in which conditions are their rules do we have to repair or check for something like that and if you look at the client at the monastery we have several castles nearby one is the most famous that was founded by the Emperor Heinrich I know by a hundredth of four that is the Saxon Stein we have it is in a very bad condition it isn't one of them high-ranked castles we ever have in lower Saxony you see the difficulties of excess you see that during the due to the climatic change the odd trees fell down and young trees grow up so we the site is not accessible anymore but in using the lighthouse can we get a good impression this side is this place this round tower is that so we do have that is a modern railway road and here you see on this place because of you do have or have a new possibility to check the situation without a high cost and without the difficulties or avoiding the difficulties of accessing such place you see that is one of my famous pictures I really like that is done by the Belgian painter René Magret he's very very famous in this picture is called the unanswered question I mean you open the door but you get no solution you get a new unanswered question thank you for attending and your patience


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering AWS re-invent 2017, presented by AWS, Intel, and our ecosystem of partners. Hello everyone, welcome back. Live here is theCUBE's exclusive coverage here in Las Vegas, 45,000 people attending Amazon web services, AWS re-invent 2017. I'm John Furrier, Lisa Mart, our next guest is Miles Kingston. He's the general manager of the smart home group at Intel Corporation. Miles, great to have you. Thank you so much for having me here. Really happy to be here. Welcome to the CUBE Alumni Club. First time on, all the benefits you get is being an alumni, it's to come back again. Oh, can't wait, I'll be here next year for sure. Certainly you're running a new business for Intel. I'd like to get some details on that because smart home, we were at the Samsung developer conference we saw, smart fridge, smart living room. So you're starting to see this become a reality. I mean, for the CES, I've been every 10 years, it's the smart living room. So finally with cloud and all the computing power, it's arrived, or has it? I believe we're almost there. I think the technology has finally advanced enough and there's so much data available now that you have this combination of this technology that can analyze all of this data and truly start doing some of the artificial intelligence that will help you make your home smarter. And we've certainly seen the growth of Siri with Apple, Alexa for the home with Amazon, just really go crazy. In fact, during the industry day, yesterday, you saw that the repeat session most attended by developers was Alexa. So Alexa's got the minds and it's captured the imagination of the developers.  Can you just kind of take a minute to explain and set the table on that? Yeah, and I agree, the voice capability in the home, it's absolutely foundational. I think I saw a recent statistic that by 2022, 55% of US households are expected to have a smart speaker type device in the home. So man, it's a massive percentage. So I think if you look in the industry, connected home and smart home, they're often used synonymously. We personally look at it as an evolution. And so what I mean by that is today, we think the home is extremely connected. If I talk about my house and I'm a total geek about this stuff, I've got 60 devices connected to an access point. I've got another 60 devices connected to an IoT hub. My home does not feel very smart. It's crazy connected.  It's not yet smart. What we're really focused on at Intel is accelerating that transition for your home to truly become a smart home and not just a connected home. And software is key part of it. And there's seeing developers attack this area very nicely at the same time, the surface area with these smart homes for security issues, hackers. Because Wi-Fi is, you can run a process on them. These are computers. So how does security fit into all of this? Yeah, security is huge. And so at Intel we're focused on four technology pillars which we'll get through during this discussion. One of the first ones is connectivity. And we actually have technology that goes into Wi-Fi access points, the actual silicon. It's optimized for many clients to be in the home. And also we've partnered with companies like McAfee on a security platform software that will sit on top of that. They will actually manage all of the connected devices in your home as that extra layer of security. So we fundamentally agree that the security is paramount. One of the things that I saw on the website that says Intel is taking a radically different approach based on proactive research into ways to increase smart home adoption. What makes Intel's approach radically different? Yeah, so I'm glad you asked that. We spent years going into thousands of consumers homes in kind of North America, Western Europe, China, et cetera to truly understand some of the pain points they were experiencing. From that we basically gave all this information to our architects and we really synthesized it into what areas we need to advance technology to enable some of these richer use cases. So we're really working on those foundational building blocks. And so those four ones I mentioned earlier, connectivity, that one is paramount. If you want to add 35 to 100 devices in your home you better make sure they're all connected all the time and that you've got good bandwidth between them. The second technology was voice. And it's not just voice in one place in your home, it's voice throughout your home. You don't want to have to run to the kitchen to turn your bedroom lights on. And then vision, making sure your home has the ability to see more. Could be cameras, could be motion sensors, could be vision sensors. And then the last one is this local intelligence, this artificial intelligence. So the unique approach that Intel is taking is across all of our assets in the data center in our artificial intelligence organization and our new technology organization, our IoT organization, our client computing group. We're taking all of these assets and investing in those four pillars and kind of really delivering unique solutions. And there's actually a couple of them that have been on display this week so far. Talk about deep lens. That's certainly an awesome keynote point. And the device that AMD introduced is essentially a wireless device. That's basically a machine learning and AI in it. And that is awesome because it's also an IoT device. It's got so much versatility to it. What's behind that? Can you give some color to deep lens? What does it mean for people? So really excited about that when we partnered with Amazon and AWS on that for quite some time. So just a reminder to everybody that is the first deep learning enabled wireless camera. And what we've helped do in that is it's got an Intel Atom processor inside that actually runs the vision processing workload. We also contributed a deep learning toolkit, kind of a software middleware layer. And we've also got the Intel Compute Library for deep neural networks. So basically a lot of preconfigured algorithms that developers can use. The bigger thing though is when I talked about those four technology pillars, the vision pillar as well as the artificial intelligence pillar, this is a proof point of exactly that. Running an instance of the AWS service on a local device in the home to do this computer vision. When will that device be available? And what's the price point? Can we get our hands on one? And how are people going to be getting this? Yeah, so what was announced during the keynote today is that there are actually some deep learning workshops today here at ReInvent where they're actually being given away. And then as soon as the announcement was made during the keynote today they're actually available for pre-order on amazon.com right now. I'm not actually sure on the shipping date on Amazon but anybody can go check it. Jeff Frick, go get one of those quickly order it and put my credit card down. Well that's super exciting and now where's the impact on that? Cause it seems like it could be great IoT device. It seems like it could be a fun consumer device. What do you guys see the use cases for these developing? So the reason I'm excited about this one is I fundamentally believe that vision is going to enable some richer use cases. The only way we're going to get those though is if you get these brilliant developers getting their hands on the hardware with somebody like Amazon who's made all of the machine learning in the cloud and all of the pieces easier it's now going to make it very easy for thousands ideally hundreds of thousands of developers to start working on this so they can enable these new use cases. The pace of innovation that AWS has set is it's palpable here, we hear it, we feel it. This is a relatively new business unit for Intel. You announced this one about a year ago at re-invent 2016. Correct. Are you trying to match the accelerated pace of innovation that an AWS has? And what do you see going on in the next 12 months? Where do you think will be 12 months from now? Yeah so I think we're definitely trying to be a fantastic technology partner for Amazon. One of the things we have done since last re-invent is we announced we were going to do some reference designs and developer kits to help get Alexa everywhere. So during this trade show actually we are holding, I can't remember the exact number but many workshops where we are providing the participants with a speech enabling a developer toolkit. And basically what this is, is it's got an Intel platform with Intel's dual DSP on it, a microwave and it's paired with a Raspberry Pi. And so basically this will allow anybody who already makes a product, it'll allow them to easily integrate Alexa into that product with Intel inside, which is perfect for us. So obviously it's super exciting, we love the cloud, I'm kind of a fan boy the cloud because being a developer in my old days but the resources that you get out of the cloud are amazing. But now when you start looking at these devices like deep lens, the possibilities are limitless. So it's really interesting. So the question I have for you is, we had Tom Siebel on earlier, pioneer invented the CRM category, he's now the CEO of C3 IoT. And I asked him, why are you doing the startup?  He goes, I'm a computer guy, I love doing this. He's an entrepreneur at heart. But he said something interesting, he said that the two waves that he surfings, I call them like a big time surfer, he's hanging ten on the waves, is IoT and AI. This is an opportunity for you guys to reimagine the smart home. How important is the IoT trend and the AI trend for really doing it right with smart home and the connected, whatever we're calling it, there's an opportunity there. How are you guys viewing that vision? What progress points do you have identified at Intel to kind of check? Yeah, completely agree. I think for me, AI really is the key turning point here, because even just talking about connected versus smart, I mean, the thing that makes it smart is the ability to learn and think for itself. And the reason we have focused on those technology pillars is we believe that by adding voice everywhere in the home and the listening capability, as well as adding the vision capability, you're going to enable all of this rich new data, which you have to have some of these AI tools to make any sense of. And when you get to video, you absolutely have to have some amount of it locally so that either for bandwidth reasons, for latency reasons, for privacy reasons, like some of the examples that we're giving in the keynote today, you just want to keep that stuff locally. And having policy and running on it, I mean, you know, access points are interesting. They give you connectivity, but these are computers, so if someone gets malware on the home, they could run a full threaded process on these machines. So sometimes you might not want that, sometimes you want to be able to control that. Yes, yeah, absolutely. We really believe that the wireless access point in the home is one of the greatest areas where you can add additional security in the home and protect all of the devices. So you mentioned, like I think 120 different devices in your home that are connected. How far away do you think your home is from being, from going from connected to smart? Right. What's that timeline like? You know what, I think honestly, I think a lot of the hardware is already there and the examples I will give is, and I'm not just saying this because I'm here, but I actually do have 15 echoes in my house because I do want to be able to control all of the infrastructure everywhere in the home. I do believe that in the future, those devices will be listening for anomalies, like glass breaking, a dog barking, a baby crying. And I believe the hardware that we have today is very capable of doing that. Similarly, I think a lot of the cameras today are trained to whenever they see motion to do certain things and to start recording. I think that use case is going to evolve over time as well. So I truly believe that we are probably two years away from really seeing with some of the existing infrastructure truly being able to enable some smarter home use cases. There's a renaissance going on. The creativity is going to be amazing. I'm looking at a tweet that Bert Latimore from our team made. There's on our last interview with the Washington County sheriff, customer of Amazon, pays $6 a month for the, getting all the mug shots. He goes, I'm going to use deep lens for things like recognizing scars and tattoos because now they have to take pictures when someone comes in, that's a criminal. But now with deep lens, they can program it to look for tattoos. Yeah, absolutely. And if you see things like the Ring doorbell today, they have that neighborhood application of it so you can actually kind of share within your local neighborhood. If somebody had a package stolen, they can post a picture of that person. And even just security cameras. In my house, it feels like Fort Knox sometimes. I've got so many security cameras. It used to be every time there was a windstorm, I got 25 alerts on my phone because a branch was blowing. Now I have security cameras that actually can do facial recognition and say your son is home, your daughter is home, your wife is home. So all the house is going to have a little sign that says protected by Alexa and Intel and deep lens. Yeah, don't you dare. Exactly. Don't even walk in there. No sneaking out for the kids. Yes, exactly, yeah. All right, so real quick to end the segment, quickly summarize and share. What is the Intel relationship with Amazon web services? Talk about the partnership. It's a great relationship. We've been partnering with Amazon for over a decade, starting with AWS. Over the last couple of years, we've started working closely with them on their first party products. So many of you have seen the Echo Show and the Echo Look that has Intel inside. It also has a real sense camera in the look. We've now enabled the speech enabling developer kit, which is meant to help get Alexa everywhere running on Intel. We've now done deep lens, which is a great example of local artificial intelligence partnered with all the work we've done with them in the cloud. So it really is. I mean, I would say the partnership expands all the way from the very edge device in the home all the way to the cloud. Miles, thanks for coming. Miles Kingston with Intel, general manager of the smart home group, new business unit at Intel, really reimagining the future for people's lives. And again, this great case where technology can actually help people rather than making it more complicated, which we all know if we have access points and kids gaming, it can be a problem. It's theCUBE, live here in Las Vegas. 45,000 people here at Amazon re-invent. Five years ago, our first show, only 7,000. Now what amazing growth. Thanks so much for coming on, Lisa, Martin and John Furrier here reporting from theCUBE. More coverage after this short break.


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Welcome to part 4, let's let's continue with our clicker game. On this video I'm going to show you how to add a different value for each auto clicker, so instead of only adding one to the main as we had it before we're going to be adding different ones and also increasing the prices to each auto clicker. Let's go ahead and start modifying this auto clicker node. Here we had this grid which is it was okay at the time but since we want to add more information now we're gonna have to swap it. So let's go ahead right click on it and change type. I want it to be a control node this would make it more flexible for me to be editing right now. Okay now that we have it as a control node I can move the elements around freely and first thing I'm going to do is to create the new label for the new feature that we're adding. So let's add a label which is going to be the units per second. Okay so this is going to tell us how many units will this upgrade add to your count per second and if you remember here I had the price and the number in the same label which made it very complicated in the script here to update because I had to create a new variable to store like this part of the string and then convert the price add it together set the text I think this could be improved so how do you improve it? I think the easiest way would be to create a new child node which is going to be an horizontal box container and inside that container we can have the value like the text that you want and another label which is going to be the value in this case is going to be one so we only generate one unit per second. Now I can target this node instead of targeting both words and values at the same time. Let's go ahead and on the script create the new variable which is going to be the units per second. Let's export it so we can edit it from the inspector and it's going to be an integer the default value is one that's how many units we're going to be adding to the count if we have this upgrade per second to do that on the timer timeout which is the event that we use to add the values to the main one we need to multiply how many units per seconds we have with the amount that way if we have two of these auto clickers that generate five units per seconds we do five per two equals how much you want to add let's see the units per second around here let's just connect disconnect this amount and in operations math multiply we will multiply how many of these upgrades we have by how many clicks per second they generate so now we can add it to the main count of the program and that should be it let's save it and now another thing we want to edit is on the process tab the same way we here modify the price depending on how many we have let's modify this number so if we set a different unit per second we want to see it was like it on the button let's see what do we need we need the units per second and now we select the value null and we drag the text remember it's an int and a string so we need to convert it string we scroll down here string int so this will convert it it will get a string now we set it here and we continue the program which came here did all this and then it continues here okay let's save it again and now let's go to the main view now everything is a little bit on top of each other so let's add some breathing room okay okay let's add a little bit more so it's clear where each line is okay okay let's set the units per second now we can modify it from here so the first one is gonna be adding you one but the second one is gonna be adding five per second the third one is gonna be adding 10 this one is gonna be adding 50 and this one is gonna be adding 100 the prices are all wrong okay but they are just placeholders then we can do the math and calculate a proper progression let's try it out let's see units per second one five ten okay this seems to be working let's see let's buy the first upgrade this should be generating five instead of one yes it is working so now we have a lot of value okay we can buy this one is generating 10 yes so we have two it's 20 okay okay now let's make the price incremental let's go to the script and i'm going to create a new variable which is going to be the increment and this variable is going to be an integer which will start by two i'm going to multiply the value the current value by this increment so every time that you buy a new upgrade the next one will cost the double let's see on button pressed here's where we buy we check if the price is the correct one and then we add a new amount we update the text and everything now after all this is done i know that i already bought a new upgrade so i'm going to update the price let's see let's control grab the price here and let's multiply some values first of all the amount i want to have i want to know how many we have already second of all is the increment and the third one is going to be the price so to multiply these three values let's create here with operator math multiply first we multiply these two so we know how many times we need to apply increment and then let's add another one which with the result of this increment and the price is going to multiply the price for the last step and update it that way whenever we are buying new upgrades the price is always more expensive let's see let's try it out first upgrade is five let's get to five add a new one the second upgrade is 10 and i cannot buy it you should be disabled until i get to 10 now that is 10 i can buy it okay yeah this seems to be working that way you are forced to always be upgrading the price okay i think we have everything we need for this video and one last thing i wanted to cover i've been working a little bit on the idea of the autoclicker you know everyone has a theme the theme i chose is a necromancer so i made just a very ugly image here that you can see which is a necromancer on a tower i want to have a book here that every time that you click it it goes up and you get more zombies or just skeletons or whatever and the upgrades there so i know you cannot handle how amazing this image is but i asked my brother which is a very very good artist to draw some images and he will be making these prides and i'm gonna be using this theme to finish up this clicker game um so yeah so you get a better picture the layout is gonna be something like this this button is gonna be here here i'm gonna be having that and hopefully with better graphics this will look much prettier um yeah now use it like this is how the game will look like so that's it for today but the next video is going to be me translating the code to regular scripting uh fixing a few bugs that we have here on the number and hopefully adding the sprites that andre will make for this game thank you very much to my patreons and everyone that helped me with this video if you have any questions please leave a comment down below leave a like subscribe and all those things and see you in the next one bye


All right. Good morning afternoon evening, whatever time it is when you get around to watching this I'm pretty excited to be participating for the first time in Defcon I really wish obviously I could be there in person. It would be far easier To present this if I was able to see people face-to-face and you would see you know my passion and excitement I'm sure you might not hear it in my voice but this is a project that I have been working on for About the beginning of the year Maybe even into last year and that is Dragon OS vocal Like I said, my name is Aaron. It's Defcon 2020 safe mode So we'll go down through here or got some just a few slides and then we'll go right into just kind of showing you what Dragon OS is Background on it. I You know personally was working on some tools right prior to COVID-19 to try to aid in teaching software to find radios SDRs so you know, I had kind of that going for me and then Couple projects way back 2008 9 or so I Built everything that was AWD mesh Some of you may be familiar with open mesh back then I wouldn't add the own one piece So I was kind of on my own using some open source and the router station Everyone probably had one at one point or another and built Open mesh with a few other people there sold the stuff all over the world Dual radio mesh equipment so and then about that same time I was pretty active in the zone minder forms for some reason or another and I just noticed that people have a lot of problems with Compiling things and building zone minder From source. So I thought well, why not use remaster cyst and help people out and get it all pre-built and working so Kind of take those two things And it got me thinking about doing another distribution and then of course COVID-19 hit Really big and you know a lot of people stuck at home. So I thought well, why not Take my little project take it to the next level get it out there you know to the public so people could install have something fairly new in terms of software free and Get into software to find radios while they were stuck at home put that you know out to the public a lot of people were interested in it RTLsdr.com and Hackaday did you know a few articles here? I just copied and pasted one article that you can see that was dated back March 24 2020 talks a little bit about the project. So You know if you look online, you'll find a lot more articles, but the progress I've made I started with Debian Buster Just called it Dragon OS 10 That was Actually Debian is probably my favorite had a lot of tools in there. You can find that on a source forage I just got to a point where I wanted to be able to support disk encryption and UEFI. So I moved on to Lubuntu 18.04 Called that Dragon OS LTS that was the bulk of my time was spent making that I think I've made the most videos on that and I guess I should point out too. I tried to keep all distributions even though, you know I went from Debian to Lubuntu. I tried to keep as As close as possible I could with the tools and applications that were installed So, you know for the most part any of the videos, you know, I label Should apply to any of the builds. Hopefully well anyways, so now I'm on to Lubuntu 20.04 and I just called that Dragon OS focal. So Yeah, the goal I spend I don't even know how many hours all these You know countless amount of hours Pre-installing anything I could possibly find that would be of interest up to people that are into software to find radios That could be from repositories Deb packages, you know soar so on and so forth and I try to combine it all and spend and Just be meticulous about everything working together. So, you know From remastering it to installing it to testing the whole installation to checking every possible software to find radio I can with it or at least that I own or have been donated, you know, I have B205 here USRP radio RTL SDR Blade RF some SDR play equipment the SDR play people were extremely helpful and Sending some me some equipment out. That's been really awesome ubertooth from Hackers warehouse, they were really nice and some equipment out And then as I kind of go through I'll point out I'll say thanks to a lot of people that have helped just with input and kind of behind the scenes discussion on what Software is out there and what to include All right, so let's get out of the slides here and you know, I try to do everything Within DragonOS which is running right now my latest build which is I was going to put out in conjunction with this I just kept it still a beta build DragonOS focal Public beta 3 That's what's running this right now. I have to admit I was not familiar with OBS and making videos like this so Hopefully it comes out. Okay, so we'll get down off the slides here. This is DragonOS I know it doesn't look like much you're just looking at the desktop here, but this is running live from a USB stick I've made it as easy as I can you can see there's a little icon in the desktop. I've actually already ran through the installer But I will show how easy it is to get it to install you'll just come through here Answer a few questions, I'll just uncheck this for now just so that it's not hanging here And you all are staring at this screen while it's loading So yeah, okay, so It's it's not gonna I'm not gonna make this video over again, but just trust me I've I've already ran through the installer and it finished normally you would reboot That's why you see that air pop up there anyways I'll just let that run in the background that was kind of kind of to show you how easy it is to install I Guess lessons lesson learn don't run it twice within the same as it's running live But it's kind of hard with I have everything set up to make this video. So anyways One of the big things I'll just go right down the list. I wanted to demonstrate here So you can get an understanding of like why is this any different than any other distribution?  I just tried to make this distribution all about software to find radios So base Lubuntu system with everything installed on top of it One I'll point right out at the front. I've actually got it running here sig digger That I've put in here built from source find this program really great. The developer has been super awesome I know he was trying to help me out to have a TV decoder, I guess you'd say With sync and everything ready for this But I think you all will see that here in the near real near future So keep an eye on that but what I'll show you is a sig digger running using the B2 of 5 mini that I have here and if you happen to have so I have a 5 gigahertz antenna on it I've got a 5 gigahertz FPV Cam sitting here So if you open up your sample rate and your bandwidth You should be able to do what I'm doing here Which is We'll look at this in the spectrum. I've got my my window open as far as I can hear I've got a Inspection tab open here, and then I've got an FSK Inspector so that's another thing when I make these videos. I try to go through and get people interested in What these different acronyms? FSK Means and you know, I don't I don't explain everything But I hope I generate enough interest where people will go out and do some more research So I've opened up the FSK inspector here, and you'll see where I've paused before The the video so you know, you know what's coming here Let's just open this up the whole way here. Let's close out of this. We'll open another Inspector you would bump up your bits per tone and start the clock recovery. I Come up here. I left click and drag and open this aperture up here release uncheck fit the window and click record and come down to about the See 550 or so and you should see where I Left off here, and this is live. This is capturing this live. I had hoped to Literally just record the whole whole video like this but not You know in such a way that I give everyone a seizure or something so That's I felt that that was Really unique very powerful a signal analysis tool and that just shows you that's literally out of the box It's running live. You don't have to use a b205. I've actually did this with a hack RF So yeah, you know as long as you can get in the 5 gigahertz range you should be you should be fine I'm sure I could probably do it with the some of the blade RS that go up that far. This is a blade RF Micro 8 x a4 I think it is So Yeah, that just shows you that's really not the primary feature of this or of that window that symbol stream window It just happens to to be able to do that. So I'm sure if you pause you'll You'll see me and Yeah, so let's see. Anyways, I'm gonna close out of this I'm gonna change out a couple things here. What I want to show is we'll open up a few terminal windows here I'll do this as quick as I can here. This is just to show you something else that is on here and running out of the box I grab a few cellular antennas here and I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with SRS LTE I had a big interest in getting LTE and GSM actually As well running out of the box. I know there's a lot of interest in that Obviously You got to have Shielding and stuff when you're transmitting any of this. So I just recommend Be careful when you're doing any of what I'm showing here, but Let me see SRS So this just shows you how fast we can get up and running We'd want to start our core networking our EPC here See we can bring that online We would do our EMB for this I found that It will use the edis by default but these two commands starting out the core network and then starting up your EMB and That failure you see there That's soapy For SDR play What I have done is when you run the installer That's nothing.  So everything just kind of works out of the box. I know I keep saying that So these two commands here. I'd have to You know, of course this happens right when I do the presentation but With those two there you can be up and broadcasting your bt at or well your base station basically if you had a second laptop and Another edis or blade RF, which I have demonstrated in some of the YouTube videos. You can use a virtual Handset through that radio to connect So yeah, that's that's how easy that is that's all you know pre-configured and working You can do the same in my latest build With GSM now, so I'm sure a lot of you are probably familiar with Osmo-com here. I've got the HL HLR the BTS the BSC and the transmitting all all in here, so you should be able to Get a GSM base station up and working pretty quick if you have a Edis so if we start up our BSC we start up our and if I start up my might be a C and So now you see how we've got our base station Online I know There's an error here, but There we go, so you can you can this Is actually something I'll address in the next build, but that's actually a pretty common thing and explained on you That is how to get around Set in the threat priority, so there's three things Right out of the box a weighted the code five gigahertz video the LTE network GSM network Something else that I do is I Keep everything that I install from source or not a Packaged installation I keep it all here in the actual Build when you finish installing it so that you have all of the source that you need to make any changes or uninstall anything that You may want to you may want to remove Let's see. I'll show another example here. So the new radio 3.8 is in here if we take a look at Let's just take a look at GR RDS You'll see right there. You got a DSB Deck 2 and I've checked all of this GSM In new radio 3.8 works perfectly fine with the mz. Catcher script You got the radium there I'm not super familiar with satellites, but I've included that GR tempest I checked that and actually got that working with some SDR play equipment and was able to view a monitor without having to use the tempest SDR, which I know a lot of people use so If you want to get into The new radio which I recommend and take a look at One of the examples here real easy one and Again, I really feel like a benefit of this distribution is you can run it live if you don't want to install it there may be some things that May have some issues running live, but for the most part works pretty well. This is Good new radio. I'm sure a lot of people are familiar with this Out of the box you got your RDS on there We've got your game settings. I Have tried to go or I have went through every application you can possibly Think of on here SDR trunk Airband Retrogram Everything I have spent a lot of time Making this this work. So I know I said that I Think some people here. I'm trying to think what else can I open up and show before we or before I close this out? Just run down the list here. You see under Internet you got GQR X SDR angel. I just recently built SDR angel with Soapy support so now I Can't I can't not Show SDR play equipment in this video considering how much Help that they have given So this is a RSP1 alpha and SDR angel here. So now Now we can use our SDR play equipment Actually You know what since we're running live, I'm gonna fix this real quick See there's always something Because I haven't Because I haven't installed and rebooted my script didn't take place. So I just When you're running live, you would have to actually install the API So now we should be able to come back here Open up our SDR angel now Thinkers crossed we have our RSP1 alpha you can add a Well anything you can do DMR DSD the modulators DATV all sorts of Options here oops It doesn't that get awkward when you're doing something live and then it doesn't work like you expect Okay Throw me off there a second so That's SDR play Equipment in SDR angel now. So you gotta Obviously adjust the game correctly there. So that's SDR angel Same thing if you come down a list here. We've got Cubic SDR a cubic SDR with SDR play support Q-spectrum analyzer really good to use with the hacker F if you want to do some Replay capture and replay attacks. You got universal universal radio hacker that also Yeah, actually I should have put SDR play support next to there which I believe I believe it Actually that does not have SDR play support yet. They're still That's still being worked on Let's see. What else we've got Spike which is The gentleman by the name of Rick who suggested I do this video Is a big fan of the That equipment that program Let's see what else and then really anything else that's sitting in the That is not installed with a nice easy to click Gooey you can run from here And you can kind of get an idea there so Sparrow Wi-Fi matter of fact I Know a lot of people are familiar with kismet. I suggest taking a look at sparrow Wi-Fi To they've got some nice integration there with the hacker F and ubertooth I don't actually have my hacker F right now But what you can do with sparrow Wi-Fi is overlay the 2.4 gigahertz in 5 gigahertz a spectrum Over top of your wireless nick card that would run up in the top here And of course do something similar to kismet, but really not do the full pack of capture and you know Getting the clients and stuff. You'd see the you'd see the access points and so not to Give away, you know all my access points here I'll just kind of show you the spectrum analysis or analyzer with the ubertooth. It's plugged in here So thank you to hacker warehouse for that to let me check that so I think I think that's enough kind of programs I hit on a lot of the big stuff and I would encourage Anyone to take a look at the YouTube page that I have here so I would say I would encourage anyone to That wants to know more take a look at my YouTube page here seem to executor You can come down through all the Videos that I've put on here. I Think there's about maybe 60 or so Over all sorts of various different topics From showing the installation to doing capture replay using the Kerberos SDR for direction finding proof of concept on smart cell phone jamming Signal analysis spy server Everything you could think of I've tried to I've tried to cover here and educate so All right, I think that about wraps it up if you Need to find the project you can just Google Dragon OS You can do focal if you want. That's the latest You'll come find it on source forage You got your files and you'll get your latest there. So Yeah, I appreciate everyone Kind of listening up to this point and just want to say, you know, thank you to Developer of you know, SIG digger the SDR play equipment hackers warehouse on a blank right now, but there's been so many All by everyone on YouTube that has provided suggestions or emailed me kind of behind the scenes. I appreciate it I hope that this has been helpful during COVID-19. I know a lot of people Have been stuck at home. So I just wanted to try and do what I could to help others. So all right. Thanks