As a continent, we are unique. We are three large democracies committed to freedom, human rights, equality, and creating real opportunity for everyone. We share deep ties as friends and trading partners. Over the last 30 years, the economies of Mexico, the United States, and Canada have become closely linked to Alenna. This agreement has made our economies grow, it has created millions of good jobs, and free trade between our borders has attracted on our continent investors from all over the world. Free trade through NAFTA has helped make our economies among the most competitive in the world. It makes sense why. Combined, we are home to half a billion people. We have an extraordinarily strong innovation ecosystem. Our combined GDP is larger than that of the European Union, and as leaders. We are all dedicated to driving economic growth that supports the middle class and those working hard to join it. These are all foundations of a strong and resilient continental economy. People remember what happened just a few years ago, when the certainty of this partnership was in question. Investors, businesses, workers, and citizens all worried about what would happen. When free trade is at risk, that isn't good for competition in the global market. Thankfully, the belief in free and fair trade won the day. We renegotiated and we got an even better deal. To put it simply, we are and always will be stronger together. The world today is facing a lot of uncertainty, with the rise in authoritarian leaders causing global instability and the high cost of living, putting stress on families at home. It's important that we come together, as leaders and as friends, to look at ways to make our economies more resilient. Today we discussed how we can build reliable value chains on this continent for everything from critical minerals to electric vehicles to semiconductors. This is good for workers, good for consumers, and good for communities across our countries. COVID-19 has shown us all the importance of supply chains and economic resilience, and all the importance of preparing for the future of the pandemic and trying to prevent it. Today, we spoke about ways to improve our cooperation in the field of health to be ready to intervene. We can boost our economic resilience even further through our work to build a clean economy. Things like clean energy, including hydrogen, manufacturing zero-emission vehicles, and encouraging more people to adopt them. This is an enormous opportunity for workers and for business. We all have to take part in climate action. The government and the private sector must work together to reach 2030's goals. These goals are not only about reducing pollution to reach the targets of Paris, but also about our commitment to preserve 30% of our land and oceans from 2030. Recently, at COP15 in Montreal, Canada has gathered countries from all over the world, and we have been able to conclude a historic score to protect nature. The health of the environment is essential to the health of the economy. Canada is pleased to have our Mexican and American friends committed so strongly to protecting clean air, clean water, and a brighter future. Canada is also pleased to see all three countries take steps towards building a more diverse, equal, and inclusive society, a society where there is opportunity for everyone, where women and girls are politically and economically empowered, including indigenous women and girls, where the benefits of growth are felt by workers and families across the economy. By doing this, we create a more stable, prosperous, and equal future. And we build economies that work for all North Americans. We made progress on a lot of different things today. There's a lot going on in the world right now, and as North American leaders, we recognize the roles our countries play in being a source of stability and security, not just in the region, but around the world. This summit has been productive, and has allowed us to reiterate our common vision and the vigor of our partnership. I know we'll make much progress in the coming year, and I look forward to hosting you both in Canada for the next North American Leaders Summit. Thank you, thank you, thank you.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with 2021 Prestige Football Hanger Box number 15. Three dice rolls happening here. First one, we're going to give away five spots within the Hanger Box itself. Second dice roll will be the break, and then the final dice roll will be given away those six immaculate spots. Top three will get into the bears, etc. Random number block randomizer, next three will be in the Jaguars one. Let's give away those five spots. Thanks everybody for getting your spots straight up. First dice roll, top five after two snake eyes, one and two. So after two, Dominic, Steven, Jonah, Jose, Matthew, congrats. Extra spots going your way.  Still in the break, still have a shot at the immaculate spots. It's just that these five have just slightly better odds on their side. Alright, now let's do the break itself. Second dice roll, let's roll it, randomize it, names and teams. Three and a two, five times. One, two, three, four and five. Fred down to Adam, after five. Three and a two, five times for the teams. One, two, three, four and fifth and final time. Just go to jasphyscasebreaks.com, the link should be in the video description, or I'll drop the link after I finish this little box here. Alright, here's the first half of the list right here, and there's the second half of the list right over here. Sorry to interrupt, do you? You don't have a mosaic, no huddle, case break plus or anything like that. A mosaic, no huddle, no, I do not. Okay, just wanted to make sure. There's only one case in there, so I just want to take it from you. Thank you. No, I don't. Alright, let's alphabetize by team. Good luck, everybody. Let's print and rip. Yeah, my Niners friends feel the same way, David. So flip back over here, big thanks to everybody for getting in. The third and final dice roll will be for those giveaway spots. And we've got a Trevor Lawrence rookie card. Not bad, that'll go to Adam and the Jags. Oh, and a Mack Jones in there too. And a Jalen Walde, had a nice season. Got the NFC championship game on in the background. Niners up 10-7, and they have the ball to start the second half. That's for Miami. It's going to go to Jonah, and the Mack Jones goes to Eric. Alright, now, let's see who's going to win those number block spots. So let's gather all the names here, from Sean down to Adam and everybody in between. Third and final dice roll, top six. We'll get into those random number blocks that you see on jaspyscasebreaks.com. Let's roll it, randomize it one and three, four times. One, two, three, and fourth and final time. Good luck, everybody, top six after four. Very close, Jeremy. Not quite though, but the top six happy times for you. Jose, Sean Matic, and Adam, you're in that Jaguars number block. Matthew, Adam, and Matthew again in that other number block. There you go, congrats. And we'll put, we'll put Mosaic, or sorry, Prestige 15 next to your name, so you know where you won those spots. So Matthew, Adam, Matthew in the Chicago Bears, random number block. Adam, Sean, Jose in that Jacksonville Jaguars one. Thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hi, everybody. Andrea here. So when you're looking for a new dentist, what are some things you should consider? And I'm going to give you a little behind the scenes of how a dental office really works and what we feel as dental professionals you need to consider when looking for a dentist. So I moved to a different province and when I was looking for a dentist, I was just simply looking for one that was close to me. I personally love a dental office in the mall because then after I have my dental appointment or before I can run errands, either do some shopping, hopefully there's a grocery store nearby. So I kind of hit two birds with one stone. I like convenience. That is the main thing for me. But then what are some things that I was also looking for when I went to that dental office?  Do you like your staff? Is your staff good there? Do you have a high turnover? Because you also don't want to go to a dental office if they hire new people all the time because then that kind of says the office isn't run very well. And what does that mean for patients? That means you might be kept waiting. You might have to wait all the time. That means they might not offer direct billing. So you might have to pay for your dental treatment upfront and then the insurance will pay you back, but it might take a couple days. So maybe you don't have the cash on hand to do that. That's another point. Ask if your dentist does direct billing. That is something that you can call and ask for. But as an example, you can't call and say, is your staff any good? Do you have a high turnover rate? I don't want to go somewhere where you don't treat your staff well because then I'm never going to see the same person. So, you know, things you can ask and things you can't ask. Do they want to take x-rays on you every two seconds? That might not be something that you want. Ultimately, you want a dentist that is there for you. That's conservative that wants to give you the best treatment, but also who doesn't care what your insurance covers in a bad way. Meaning if they look through your insurance coverage and they go, oh, they're covered for x-rays every year. I'm going to maximize that. Or they're covered for teeth cleanings every three months. I'm going to maximize that. They might not need a teeth cleaning every three months, but I'm going to make sure they get one so I utilize that insurance. Not that it's about the money or it isn't about the money, but do you really want a dentist or a dental hygienist that thinks like that? Probably not. So, for me, when I was looking for a dentist, it was about convenience. I wanted one that was convenient. But why I stay with that particular office is because the staff has been there for 10, 20 years. He must be a good dentist. He or she, I think there's a couple of them in the practice, but they must be doing well when they have the same staff for 10, 20 years. So, I do really like that. I can't clean my own teeth. So, when I go, I like seeing the same hygienist because she knows me and she just knows your history.  And I liked that office because they weren't pushy. I did tell them, I know I'm a new patient, but I don't want x-rays. I just had them done. I can have them sent over to you. They weren't pushy. They didn't say to me, well, you have to this and that, this and that. No. I love a dental office that is not pushy. When you go to a new dental office, though, expect they're going to want a new patient exam because you're their new patient. It's going to cost you $1 to $300 depending on what they charge, but check if it's covered by insurance first. If it's not, maybe wait six months because in six months it might be covered. Money is important to everybody. You don't want to pay for something. If you just left it for six months, then you wouldn't have to pay for it, right? So, things to think about. I'm a mobile dental hygienist, so I can clean teeth and patients' homes, but I do still tell patients you need to go to a dentist as well to get a dental checkup and x-rays if I recommend them. So, I give them kind of tips or words of advice on what to look for when they're looking for a dental office.  Ask them if they offer direct billing. You'll kind of get a feel for the office maybe after the first couple of appointments. Do they push x-rays?  The nice thing is, me being a dental hygienist, I tell my patients, don't pay for anything. Don't sign up for anything. If you're not sure, ask me first. Did the dentist tell you you need a crown, but you've never heard of that before? Well, just call me. Ask me. Not saying that I'm right and they're wrong, but I might be able to offer you a reason why I know you don't need a crown, and this is why. Or, yes, you do. The dentist is right. It's nice to get a second opinion. So, me and your dentist are going to work together if you see a mobile dental hygienist, and I happen to be your dental hygienist. But, what might be important to me in a dental office might not be important to you. I mention convenience. That's the most important thing to me. So, even if I didn't love the dental office, maybe if they were pushy, I'm only going to see them for x-rays, maybe once every couple years. If I need them, if I need any restorative work, I'm only going to see them once every couple years, if that. Hopefully not. I haven't had a cavity. Oh my God, since I was a teenager. So, who you want to see is your dental hygienist. That's the person you're going to see every six months, if not more. I'm a mobile dental hygienist, so I go to my patients' homes to clean their teeth, so they don't even have to worry about the dentist very often. But if you're seeing your dental hygienist in the dental office, then it's really the dental hygienist. You want to make sure you get a good feel for, a good personality. But if you see the dental hygienist in the dental office, you're going to see the dentist for dental checks. So, the office is more important to you if you go every so often versus me where I just see the dentist. Well, I go often because I can't clean my own teeth, so I do need a good dental hygienist because I can't clean my own teeth. But it really depends on what works for you and what you need. But just remember, I would say what patients tell me, those are the most important too.  They don't want a dental office where they have to pay up front because they just simply can't afford it. When I see my patients, I offer direct billing. They also don't want to feel like their staff is being replaced every three months. They're always seeing somebody new. I would say those are the most important from what patients tell me. So, I hope this helps you guys. Let me know if any questions and I'll see you in the next one.


So, good morning, good afternoon, everybody. There is obviously some people remote, so that's why I'm saying that. I'm Elwabai, and welcome to the LF Energy Embedded Submits. I will be UMC today, so that's why I'm here. And I hope we're going to have a lot of interesting talks in the energy transition and about EV charging and how we manage substations and so on. I want, of course, to thank all the committee of the LF Energy Submits, LF Embedded Submits. And, well, I think we're going to start first with Aurelia Watare from RT. And I invite you to join me now. Thank you. So, welcome. Hello. So as I already said, I'm Elwabai from South Africa, and Aurelia Watare from RT. And today we're going to present you how we ensure requirements on the CPAS project, LF Energy project, and especially how we test and do continuous integration in your project. Hello, everybody. So first, just a few words about RT. So RT is the French TSO. It means that our job is to bring the power from generation up to our clients. And we are opated in France. Some words about Saba Felineux. So we are a French and Canadian company. And we are doing business since almost 25 years now. And we are actually expert in open source technologies. And we are doing engineering product in different areas, like medical, robotics, avionics, energy, obviously. We are a member of the LF Energy as a general member. And we are a member of the Yocto project. And we are also, of course, a member of the Linux Foundation. So actually, we met Aurelia and me each other in the ELC in Lyon in 2019. And Aurelia had a project with RT to use virtualization for substations. And we actually really work on that in some other areas like avionics. And we start with a group of concept together. And we made more and more work. And at the end, we actually share that to the C-PASS project of the LF Energy. So let me give you a bit of context. Why we are doing this. As you all know, renewable energy sources, so when generation or solar generation are growing. And as a TSO, our goal is to integrate those new sources into the network. And to facilitate that, we do that through our substations. However, the substations were not made for that. They were more made to integrate nuclear or big generation sources. So they are made to be built for stability and longevity. And with renewable energy sources, we need more and more flexibility. So we need to think about new solutions that can help us to integrate those production more easily. And that's where virtualization arrive. Basically, the old system, in the old system, the hardware and the software are bind together. So it's not very flexible. And like it was done in the telecom sector, we wanted to split, both to have on one side the hardware and on the other side the applications. So we want to mix traditional common system and control with the new use case that we have. And for that, we need virtualization. However, it's not any kind of virtualization. It's virtualization for real-time critical applications. So we need to ensure that the application that will be hosted on CPAS can run in the good condition. So for me, it's an OT convergence project because we want to benefit from what was learned from the IT world. But at the same time, we need to ensure that we keep to have the good performance for the OT application that are critical for the system. So what is CPAS? CPAS, it's an integration project. We do not reinvent the wheel. Basically, we will integrate what already exists, like KVM, OpenVswitch, Ceph, real-time Linux, Pacemaker. And since we need, as I said, there are critical applications, they cannot be stopped. CPAS allows you to build a cluster for high availability. So CPAS is made to run virtual machines that host those critical applications. One question that you could have is, why do we use a virtual machine? Why not container, for example? Because there is a transition. And today, the different vendors will provide you with their own applications.  And they can use different versions of kernel. So using a container to this approach was not very, for the first step, was not very good way to ensure the performance and stability. So what do we need to build a CPAS virtualization? We talk about that. Real-time performance, high availability, of course, time synchronization, because the data that we have for this application are a stream of time stamping data. So we need to be sure that the time is broadcast everywhere. Of course, good network performance. And since there are critical installation cybersecurity. So in the end, with CPAS, you have a Linux distribution, the older configuration tools to make it the way you want. And the most important thing for our sector, the test. Basically, CPAS is about testing, testing, testing to be sure that you can install this kind of new device into your substation or your other. Thank you. So as Aurélien already explained, CPAS is about Linux distributions. And actually, we have two of them, with some pros and some cons. So the first version we made of CPAS was based on Yocto. We are doing Yocto, I'm doing personally Yocto since years, of course, and it was very suitable because it allows you to create your own Linux distributions. And regarding all the performances, cybersecurity, we need to address. It was definitely a good choice to make sure that we can customize everything in the way we want to and achieve the performance you want to have. So because you can have the ability to customize every piece of software, and something that is quite important, and regarding the regulations, it provides some clear information about software bill of materials or SPDX. But the drawback of Yocto, it's of course that it's not easy to play with. You are creating and compiling everything from scratch. That's the reason also we made a version of Debian, which is more, I would say, following IT philosophy, where you are not compiling anything, you are just using pre-compiled packages. And actually we managed to have similar performance results with Debian that we have with Yocto, with pre-compiled packages. So the philosophy there is more to use Infra as a code. And we actually maintain both versions, and we have some customers that are more using Debian and some others that are more using Yocto. But we can speak about that later. So as I already said, I think it's quite important to focus a bit about what is a Linux distribution first. So in any case, to me, a Linux distribution is a set of packages split in user space and kernel space. And actually for each package, you are doing the same in Debian, in Yocto, whatever. You are actually fetching the source code because you are compiling that. You are doing the patches. So it's up to the maintainer, for instance, in Debian to do that. Or we can do that also in Yocto.  So it gives you at the end some artifacts like binaries, libraries or configuration. And the sum of that is just your Linux distributions. So the philosophy, it's a bit different. On Yocto, everything can be modified. And on Debian, it's delegated to the maintainer. And for cybersecurity customizations, you have some steps that could be actually done by yourself and some that you cannot interact with because it's up to the maintainer to do that. So we're getting the architecture itself of C pass. As explained, we are targeting critical applications with virtual machines. And actually we have a cluster mode in C pass. The goal of that is to actually ensure that we can run virtual machines even if you've got a defect, for instance, of the hypervisor. So just imagine one hypervisor is shutting down. Electricity failure, it can happen also. And you could actually make sure that the VM could be run on the other side on the other hypervisor. So to do that, we've got a cluster architecture and we actually, not reinventing the wheel, we are using open source technologies. We used Corosink and Pacemaker and Corum that are actually technologies developed by Red Hat and Suze. And that kind of set a heartbeat between machines so that you can know that someone is shutting down and now you can move some applications on the other hypervisor. So to do that, you also need an observer which ensure that you've got a Corum in your cluster. For the virtualization itself, we are using the de facto virtualization technologies in Linux which are KVM and QMU. And because we need to match real-time capabilities, we are using real-time Linux, of course. We are also using Ceph that is developed by Red Hat as well. And Ceph allows you to provide remote networks to work data storage. So this is really efficient for us because it allows us to think the data between hypervisor so that if a VM is shutting down from hypervisor one, you can actually restart that in hypervisor two with exactly the same data context. So once we've got the Linux distributions, we need to configure that. And actually in both Ceph's flavors, we are using a lot in CBER. So as I explained before, in the Yocto project, we can actually do some steps by yourself. So that's the reason why most of the cybersecurity hardening is done at the build time. And on Debian, we are using pre-compiled packages. So we are doing the cybersecurity hardening with Uncivil on the runtime. We have a complex network to configure. So that's why we are using Uncivil to do the network and the cluster configurations at runtime to, for instance, to create substations and to make all the connections between the hypervisor and for both flavors we are using Uncivil. So short word about Uncivil, maybe you don't know that. It's also a technology developed by Red Hat. I'm not sponsored by Red Hat, but they are just doing some good open source software. And it's a very simple SSH-based technology that allows to remote configure a server, a VM, whatever. And it's also very efficient because you can repeat the actions and make sure that you applied all the configurations correctly during the, in production. So something Aurelia mentioned a lot, sorry. For us as a critical application, it's very important to use an efficient testing process. And as an open source project, of course we need to provide this technology to the community so that we ensure that everything coming inside the project actually fulfill all the critical requirements we've got. A bit inside of CPAS. So we are actually an early application project since April 2023. So it gives you a set of requirements, especially on the testing itself. We have the OpenSSF Best Practice Silver batch that is also pushing a lot on testing. We have about 20 repositories and around 2,000 commits. And we've got 700 tests. So what do we test? We've got actually different categories of tests. We are doing system level testing. We want to ensure that the overall system is working well. We are using a lot of tests regarding security because we are running critical applications. And we need of course to ensure that we can run applications dealing with electricity protocol to keep it short and ensure that we are matching the latency required. So we've got application testing. What we can test? I think it's something also important depending on the distributions we're dealing with. On Yocto actually because we are doing everything by yourself with the Yocto project, we are compiling everything from source. We can actually interact with older steps. We can check that we can fetch, patch, configure, build, install any packages. And of course we can check the artifacts. On Debian it's a bit different. We are using pre-compiled packages. So most of the build process is done by Debian itself and it's up to the Debian maintainer to check that he's able to build each package correctly. What we can actually test, it's the configuration itself because most of the time we can actually override it. And we can also check that the binary and the libraries we've got for each package are just there and compiled. But we cannot modify that. So let's speak a bit about the testing implementation. Thank you very much. So as Elois said, there are several parts that need to be tested. The first is the wall platform. And then what is interesting for us at the end is the integration of the full system. So we need to be sure that the platform is safe and then when we put all the application together on it, it's working well and it's stable. So to do the first pass, we use an open source framework called Koukinia, it is a firmware validation framework. And that allows us to launch tests. It's time there is a pull request. And we'll go in detail into that later. And of course we have regular tools like SonarCube and Ansible Lean for Ansible. So let's take a look at the CI workflow. So as we say before, there are two parts in the test. The first one is the platform and then the application and the integration. This CI is about mostly the platform. So basically it's time there is a pull request on GitHub. What we have, we have a laboratory. In this laboratory, we have real high hardware. And each time there is a pull request, we will redeploy the Linux distribution on the cluster. And once it's redeployed, we will use Ansible to redo the whole configuration. So each time there is a pull request, we flash the machine and we start from scratch. And then we will deploy and launch all the tests. So as Elwa said before, there are today around 700 tests. So the coverage is not perfect. The ISD, each time there is a new use case, we add it to this bank of tests and the system gets more and more reliable. And so at the end, we will generate a test report and this report is accessible on the GitHub. And so the whole cycle takes around 20 minutes. So just to give you a short view on the test report, so it's the idea is to have it human readable and it's split into two different parts. So you will find the test regarding the high availability test regarding security and test regarding the network and so on. Elwa, speak about... So let's speak about cybersecurity test. Again, it's important to understand that. Regarding cybersecurity, there is some steps we can interact with for hardening and some that you cannot change. Thon Yocto, you've got the whole build steps and for instance, if you have a CVE, common variable exposure, quite often you need to apply a patch. So those patch in Yocto could be actually applied and you have a way to get all the CVE in your distributions and to make sure that you can apply upstream patches. You can do configurations. So sometimes you can change, for instance, the way you are compiling a package to reduce the amount of features, but also to add some computation hardenings. You can build, you can install and at the end you can make sure that you have your configurations on. On Debian, it's up to the maintainer to provide that to do the build process and of course is doing that for generic purpose. So it will make a default version of this package with a default hardening policy and so on. That actually could not be exactly what you expect and it's a discussion. And you can only as a user interact with the configurations to make sure that the configuration you are using follow your cybersecurity policy. There is a big discussion right now of the regulations from US and also in Europe regarding software build of materials, supply chain for security and so on. It's an open question. I think that this model could differently achieve this policy. Some people tend to say that with Yocto, for instance, because you are doing everything from source code, you can precisely check Sbom and generate hard Sbom document. While in Debian you are dedicating that to the maintainers and I think there is an open question with the Debian community how we can get in Sbom information and make sure that it's reliable. Actually, we just made a talk with my colleague, Matt Trudypre, for OSS submit in Milbao in September and he was accepted two days ago. So we're gonna talk about that in Milbao. Regarding the cybersecurity, you may know that depending on your country, you have different national cybersecurity office and because it's a critical infrastructure RTE, but all the others are very linked to those agency. So in France, the name is ANSI and actually this French cybersecurity office is designing a Linux recommendation document that lists a strong list of requirements we need to follow. And you have also similar document in US, in Czech Republic, I guess. So what we designed and the goal of course of C-PASS is to be an international project. We do have generic C-PASS test ID and we are doing compliance metrics so that we can ensure that for instance, the requirements 11 of the ANSI is actually implemented because this test, this test and this test are passed. So it's something that we can definitely by design provide for other countries and we think that it's very important also to streamline this process in the CI so that we ensure all the time that cybersecurity requirements are fulfilled. Let's talk about the application test. Okay, so we speak about the test for the platform and at the end what we need is to integrate application and to be sure that those applications can run well. And so in this case, I will just focus on the energy sector, it could be different on the sector. What we use in the energy sector is the IC61-850 standard. Basically it's the standard that describe the data model that to exchange data between your application and also the protocol that you will use. And so to be sure that our platform is safe to host this kind of application, we need to validate at least two things. The first one is the cyclic test to ensure that the critical application that basically our protection that protect the network that the cycle is respected. So for that we use a cyclic test. And one of the most important thing is to also be sure that the network performance are good and the latency are good. Because to give you an idea, the application will exchange data and basically they will get a set of new data each 200 microseconds roughly. And we cannot lose packets and the latency cannot be bigger than I would say 500 microseconds because if it's more the data is not relevant anymore. So today the test that we have is that we deploy a VM. We have a packet sender in our VM tools and this packet sender will send packet to the VM and then we can check that the stream is okay to make it simple. And we also have a cyclic test inside the VM. And what we achieve is to, we are confident now that the performance side are enough for this kind of application. And then once we ensure that what we did, we implement real applications that were provided by our vendors that normally sell hardware and software together. They were kind and they provide us with the virtual machine. So what we call virtual ID, basically ID is an intelligent electronic device. It's the device that we used to have in the substation and they provide us with a virtualized version of that. We put that on the CPAP cluster and we have in our laboratory that actually we want to open to other that want to make test. We have what we call hardware in the loop. So basically we have big simulator that can simulate the network and then you see the picture with the tree and basically we can simulate a fault. For example, in this case, it's a tree that will touch the line and then we have to stop the power. And for the virtual ID, it will be like it is in a real environment, in real time. So just to give you an idea, the hardware in the loop cycle is around 10 microsecond. So on the right you see what we did, we generated a fault. And at the top you see the trip of the protection. So we validate that when there is a fault, the virtual ID behave well. So it means it detects the fault, it trips and the tripping time is good. So to go to production with protection, basically what you need to do is instead of playing just one type of fault, you need to play a dozen or type of faults. And then you will run that continuously during a couple of months and see whether there is any jitter, you drop anything. So what's next? The first thing is moving to production. So right now, actually, we deploy C-Pass in one of our substations. And so it will go in production by October. But today we decided, because it's a critical system, to host in C-Pass everything but the protection. So the protection are still a physical device, but all the automation, gateway, everything that is critical but can have not as critical as the protection are inside C-Pass. The second point is as a TSO, our goal is to push the market, but it's not to provide virtualized platform. So that's why we are discussing with third party that will build a support offer on top of this open source project because that's what as a client or as a vendor, that's what we need. The third part is the enhancing factory acceptance test. So like I said, to bring this technology, everybody is working on those technology, but you need to have confidence for critical application. So our goal is to, we have a laboratory and it's to work on making a kind of certification and to discuss with people to have all the tests that give you confidence that you can install that for critical application. And so to that, of course, it's a use case more and more testing and so on. Yeah, thank you. So last point that it's quite important to me, it's, as I already explained, the regulation and this S-Bomb supply chain support. There is definitely, it's one of the hot topic right now and I'm sure that you already hear about that. So the way we want to have it is to, we are an open source project, so we want to follow the rules. So we want to make sure that we are using the right technologies and interacting with the right standard to provide S-Bomb and supply chain support. So thank you. So there is some, this was a kind of short introduction of C-PASS. Actually, you're gonna have a more technical and practical demonstration this afternoon at two o'clock with Florent from RT and Mathieu, my colleague from Sao Paulo, Linux. You have also, and was not mentioned there, another talk at the end of the day by Angéron and Mathieu regarding how we implement actually cyber security tests in both Debian and Yocto. It's quite interesting to see what we can do, what we cannot do. So C-PASS is an open source project. We've got governance. We actually, and it's quite important to mention, it's not only RT and Sao Paulo, Linux. We've got a lot of people in the project involved. We've got GE. We've got Schneider also coming. We've got Allender, that is here. And it's good, that's the power of open source. It's to have people around. So we've got a website where you have the description of the project. We've got the wiki, of course, we've got the GitHub and that's where all the power is and in the code and in the issues and in the discussion you can have. We are quite also responding on the Slack channel. So feel free to come, don't be shy. And what is interesting to me is that the C-PASS project is an application projects for the energy and we see that it's quite important but it's also definitely an IT project with a lot of actually technologies in Linux, in networking, in real time and so on. So it's quite interesting to work on that. That's all, we have time for question now. So don't be shy, thank you. Any question? I'm just curious about how you perform the tests and if you have many HIL rigs, how you have set it up, is it one or do you use lava or something? I know lava, obviously, we're not using lava. We are actually doing the, it depends. On Debian we are using LVM to roll back on the systems and on the Octo we are using SW update to provide and to roll back to the previous versions. And then we are most of the test orchestrations is done by Unseable. So we are just triggering Unseable Kukinya to get the test and we are getting the artifacts and then we are using GitHub to display all the test results. Is it clear? Thank you. Thank you for the nice talk. I have one question. It exists also at 6.15 model for the infrastructure itself. So normally you can also model the riddles which is the infrastructure. Is this also scheduled or not? You're talking about the application or the? No, the integration platform. So if I run more virtual servers infrastructure also in the 6150, you can also have a 6150 model for the server or for the switch, for example, yes. Okay, so yeah, okay, I understand. I would say it depends why. Because for example, I didn't think about that but internally we have a big project for a new digital substation and of course the question was about what do you modelized in 61850? And we found that regarding the IT part, we maintain it to the minimum because we prefer to use existing technology like SNMP or to have two different pipelines and to not reinvent the wheel. Because what we were doing is okay, I'm going to modelize that in 61850. Oh, but it already exists in IT. So it's always, you have to provide the operator with the right information without reinventing the wheel. So it's a trade up. I think we have time for our last question. So please, okay, that's good, we are on time though. Thank you everybody. So I'm the MC as well, so I will move to my new job. So the next talk, it's at 9.50 and it will be Kai from the company Pionix that will discuss open hardware and software for EV Charger, a very exciting talk. And we have short time for a break but then we will welcome Kai. Thank you.


Very early in the first period lining up for the face off Olivier looks over at Chen says want to go Chen says yeah, okay Sure, why not? I got nothing better to do. They drop gloves right away Square up and we're off now I don't know if Olivier who I've been told is a rookie knows that Shen's a lefty, but that's kind of interesting He quickly gets to right punches in then goes kind of like a blocking method kind of just putting the elbow out I think you realize don't know this guy's lefty gets two nice shots in there Just still hitting and then they're gonna. Oh, he goes to the left hand there And here comes a big one that knocks the helmet off kind of pops it off And then Shen gets a left to the face. He goes puppet shot here. He goes over the head there He goes body shot. I think there meanwhile Olivier is just blocking a little puppet shot And then they both miss but great HD footage and then he goes over the head So we got two over the heads. They're equal on over the heads now. They're just grappling and eventually Shen's gonna Oh, there's a little right. There's a little underneath and eventually Shen's gonna drop down to a knee and According to the poll people say Olivier won and now we got all the way on the right We got stick Reverse stick reversed blade out blade down and out blade down and out over here I don't know who number 59 is but he's going blade in and down Which I think is minimal effort Olivier skating off. He's proud of himself a little scrap feeling good Shen's got a little turkey stamp blood pattern on his forehead going He's gonna head straight to the locker room get that looked at it looks cool But you're probably not happy about it. Meanwhile, Olivier is getting dapped up by his teammate. Good job, man Turkey stamped that dude


My name is Milan Jordan, and I'm Director of the Hope Crew. And Hope Crew is an acronym that stands for Hands-On Preservation Experience. The National Trust created this initiative to give people experience in the preservation trades because there was an extreme shortage in preservation trade-skilled labor. When Hope Crew partners with architecture programs, we're really looking to create more preservation-minded future architects. So this was never a model where we were looking to create new trades, people who were going to go directly into the field of preservation trades. We just wanted architects who understood history and preservation better. Our HBCU Digital Documentation Fellowships are powered by the Action Fund and act as an extension of the work to sustain HBCUs into the future. The first year of the Digital Documentation Fellowship was a partnership with three HBCUs, Prairie View A&M University, Tuskegee University, and Florida A&M University. I'm Latavia Latham. I'm a grad student at Prairie View A&M University studying architecture. The reason I chose the Whitechapel Cemetery because going to Prairie View, we kind of don't know really much about the cemetery that's on campus. And I feel that since this fall project is going to bring more students from Prairie View, this will give them a better understanding about what is actually going on in the cemetery and the history of the cemetery. Being from Chicago, I kind of just seen a lot of the tall buildings and the different designs within the building. So that kind of just made me be more interested within architecture. Then I took an architecture class in high school and that kind of just confirmed my interest in it and then I'm here now. I'm kicking off talking a little bit about the trust and some of the initiatives we have that benefit HBCUs. But the larger purpose of the orientation is to help contextualize the project that Latavia conceived of and that you guys will be working on in the next three months or so. So you'll hear about her project, fabrication, black burial grounds, and her crew in the National Trust as well too. I'm just going to give you a brief description of the Whitechapel Cemetery that's located on our campus. Through all to the tradition, Hermes and the side land as a burial site for the enslaved from both Alta Vista and the Liano Plantation all by his cousin. In 1876, the Texas governor arranged a division to establish an agriculture school with the budget of $20,000. My project that I'm doing for the cemetery is Cemetery signage. It's going to include a site plan and also it's going to include some history about the cemetery on it and we also are planning on doing a website to give students more information about the cemetery and also some mapping details and things I just did over the summer with Hope Crew. Latavia's project narrows in on possibly one of the oldest sites on campus which is the cemetery and the unmarked burial ground area. Latavia developed a project scope that would include 12 cohorts from the School of Architecture. Those students will work in teams of two to design park-like signage that demarcates the sacredness of the site or helps bring memorial to the site in some way. So what's going on today is that we are here at the Wyatt Chapel Cemetery that is adjacent to the Prairie Views campus. This is a known cemetery for descendants of the Alta Vista Plantation as well as Prairie View A&M in its early conception. We're taking a site visit today just to get the students familiar with the space that we'll be working in and representing and the signage that we'll be creating. With this project, I get to actually see my project come to life especially once we get approval to make it permanent on the cemetery. I feel like there will be a great opportunity for not only me but for also the students that's on campus. Working with Latavia was really special. You really saw her blossom and bloom in the time that we were together. She was very timid and quiet and said that she didn't like to network or speak to people in the beginning. She didn't see herself as a leader to the growth that we saw throughout this fellowship. At the end, she was taking command. She was leading people. She was making her opinions known and she really brought this project full circle. There's been some previous research done but all of the documentation and archives here have really been in dusty boxes and everything has been passed down through word of mouth. And so there could potentially be up to a thousand people buried in this area. It's a beautiful area along the creek but there are only a few headstones that remain and over the years, even in recent years, those have been broken. The fabrication process that we're embarking on will consist of a five-part workshop where I take the students through conception to full-scale prototyping. Part of what I'll teach them is designing in three-dimension in the actual Fusion 360 software which is one of the top CNC kind of all-around manufacturing softwares that's the industry standard. We wanted to do something that was very sensitive to the site. We really didn't want to do something that was going to make it stand out too much but then again it is a historic burial ground. The place where I want to locate my proposed signage will be towards the front of the entryway. There's two entryways but I want to do it down this road because this is like the main street that everyone drives. I want to put it towards the right. Lutavia was the perfect person for this fellowship. She had asked the question that a lot of my students ask in studio which is how do we design something contemporary that appeals to our aesthetic but also respect the past and the history of the architecture of the past that's important. Working with Hope Crew has actually brought a lot of light to me because I wasn't really fascinated in working with preservation or with like burial grounds or like cemeteries and I feel like this is actually important because we always was taught in class about different things the slaves went through and I just feel like being here and kind of just make me feel kind of what I've been learning all my life. My name is Gabrielle Payne. I am a recent graduate from Prairie View A&M University and I study digital media arts. The process of our fellowship we had to first do our historical research paper which was my favorite part. Not necessarily the writing of the paper but the research is really great and then we did have to come up with our scope of work and our budgeting process as well just so like hey so we do put this plan into action. How are we going to do that? For the branding book I do believe I put the start date and look at the calendar. I said September 12th. Okay great. And then you shared it. I just didn't remember. Thank you for sharing this. Okay. Yes and I would say the cemetery cleanup would be I did believe I'd say October. Olivewood Cemetery is the first incorporated cemetery for African-Americans in the Houston area. Her project has led to some beautiful research and work with the site owners the friends or the descendants of Olivewood and their work will create a logo a color scheme representative of the site for them. Well I believe this experience provided the students with another opportunity to see how the design work they do can affect different organizations and have an impact on their community. And I always tell them it's wonderful when you design something and you actually walk around town and you see it.  Or you see it on a flyer or a poster. It just makes you feel like the work you do is valued and it means something. So for today we will be having an official meeting with Miss Margo here and Miss Jasmine today. They are the work for the descendants of Olivewood. So Miss Margo is one of the founders of the descendants of Olivewood a non-profit organization and she owns the cemetery along with Mr. Charles Cook. He's not in right now but Miss Margo he'll be our talking representative and we'll be talking about the project I've developed for y'all which will be a branding book for the cemetery. It does not have to be so they found Olivewood in the condition of it was really covered in vegetation, trees, tall grass, weeds, all that and what they have since the early 2000s till now is they cleaned up a lot of it and they haven't had help from the government or anything like that they've been just doing it by themselves for a very long time. An opportunity like this to work with a historic site I think it gives students a good lesson in history a good lesson to see where we've come from what our people did to survive how they honored not only to live in but how they honored the dead came to this area and built a life that has kind of sustained them until now. When I first stepped on the grounds of Olivewood it was really overwhelming due to the fact that these people here I didn't even know that they were here you know and this is like a historical black cemetery I was like wow like a little part of me wishes that I was born back then so I can get to know them because most of the people there are like teachers, lawyers, doctors some of them are Freemasons some of them really built Houston and I would love to like get to know each and every single one of them and bring their story like to the light. We knew Gabby was a superstar from the beginning we're truly honored and humbled that she attributes her current job role and her current career growth to having been a part of this fellowship I'm about to start my meeting for the Olivewood branding book the final presentation with the students I'm quite nervous but I think it'll go well we'll do see how this goes. Thank you guys so much as Ms. Jasmine had said earlier this is, yeah this is hard it's hard to decide which one this is what keeps Olivewood alive it takes your living community and all of their investments whether it's time, whether it's labor, whether it's creativity it all helps to you know keep the memory of the people that are buried there alive and it helps us protect them as people when everybody comes out after they visited our website that's the first thing they're looking for is that angel so I think the one with the angel would be the one. But I think for me if it was up to me I think Alexis would end up taking it it was just the marriage of like all of these things that kind of came through. I enjoy working on this project especially working with Gabby because all the work that she has produced throughout last year which really amazed me and going into Olivewood and actually visiting the cemetery was very very helpful in creating the brand book and her being open to everyone's ideas and designs was very helpful. All righty it looks like Miss Alexis is our winner of the branding book congratulations. We're getting older but you guys are our future and so you'll be around to tell the stories we have to keep them with Olivewood on their minds so thank you so much. Thank you yes so that concludes our final presentation today for Olivewood thank you so much and y'all have a nice one. That was a good meeting that was a great meeting just finished it I love every part of it seeing everybody's work and seeing you know how happy and made the people Olivewood be was really nice I think we went really well and I know everyone's excited about you know having the opportunity to do this for Olivewood do something that's important to us a site that they didn't even know was there I thought it was really really great. The digital documentation fellowship seems to have touched each one of the fellows in a very different way we've seen them grow, evolve get professional training find new avenues of interest and really see themselves in the movement many of our fellows are interested in exploring advanced degrees, master's degrees in architecture and preservation now as well too entrepreneurship, they got a taste of what it was like to lead teams and to work independently and they really see that as a part of their future and path now as well. You know the fellows have worked so hard to design projects that are benefiting their community and I'm hoping that that continues after we leave we've given them the tools and allow them to make those connections locally with people doing preservation and we're hoping not only can we assist in that continuing but that they will personally continue the work after we leave. Working with Hope Crew actually makes me feel like I'm wanted honestly and with Hope Crew working with different HBCUs to try to get them to look more into historic preservation I feel like it's a great opportunity during this fellowship it also gave me a different perspective of what architecture is about it's not just about like buildings more you can instead of designing new buildings you can help the existing buildings or even land that's there. This fellowship made a nice lead way into doing black studies for UT Austin because they saw that and they saw my portfolio from my digital media arts program and they're like why we want you on board we don't see or know the historical black sites that have been forgotten I want to bring those lights and information.


Believe this as possible is to believe you can do it. This can only be the voice of the ego. Truth can only be recognized and need only be recognized. Inspiration is of the spirit and certainty is of God according to his laws. Both ever come from the same source since inspiration comes from the voice for God and certainly comes from the laws of God. Healing does not come directly from God who knows his creations as perfectly whole. Yet healing is to love God because it proceeds from his voice and from his laws. It is their result in a state of mind which does not know him. The state is unknown to him and therefore does not exist. But those who sleep are stupefied or better unaware. Because they are unaware they do not know. The Holy Spirit must work through you to teach you he is in you. This is an intermediate step toward the knowledge that you are in God because you are part of him. The miracles which the Holy Spirit inspires can have no order of difficulty because every part of creation is of one order. This is God's will and yours. The laws of God establishes this and the Holy Spirit reminds you of it. When you heal you are remembering the laws of God and forgetting the laws of the ego. We said before that forgetting is merely a way of remembering better. It is therefore not the opposite of remembering when it is properly perceived. Perceived improperly it induces a perception of conflict. With something else, as all incorrect perception does, properly perceived it can be used as a way out of conflict as all proper perception can. All abilities then should be given over to the Holy Spirit who knows him how to use them properly. He can use them only for healing because he knows you only as whole. By healing you learn of wholeness and by learning of wholeness you learn to remember God. You have forgotten him but the Holy Spirit still knows that your forgetting must be translated into a way of remembering and not perceived as a separate ability which opposes an opposite. That is a way in which the ego tries to use all abilities and since its goal is always to make you believe that you are in opposition. The ego's goal is as unified as the Holy Spirit's and it is because of this that their goals can never be reconciled in any way or to any extent. The ego always seeks to divide and separate. The Holy Spirit always seeks to unify and heal. As you heal you are healed because the Holy Spirit sees no order of healing. Healing is the way to undo the belief in differences being the only way of perceiving the sonship without this belief. This perception is therefore in accord with the laws of God even in the state of mind which is out of chord with his. The strength of right perception is so great that it brings the mind into a chord with his because it yields to his poor which is in all of you. To oppose the pull of all the will of God is not an ability but a real delusion. The ego believes that it has this ability and can offer it to you as a gift. You do not want it. It is not a gift. It is nothing at all.  When you do not use it you do not know you have it. By not knowing this you do not know what you are. Healing then is a way of approaching knowledge by thinking in accordance with the laws of God and recognizing their universality. Without this recognition you have made the laws themselves meaningless to you. Yet the laws are not meaningless since all meaning is contained by them and in them. Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven because that is where the laws of God operate truly and they can operate only truly since they are the laws of truth. But seek this only because you can find nothing else. There is nothing else. God is all in all in a very literal sense. All being is in him who is all being. You are therefore in him since your being is his. Healing is a way of forgetting the sense of danger, the ego he's induced in you by not recognizing its existence in your brothers. This strengthens the Holy Spirit in both of you because it is a refusal to acknowledge fear. Love needs only this invitation. It comes freely to all the sonship being what the sonship is. By your awakening to it you are merely forgetting what you are not. This enables you to remember what you are. Healing and the changelessness of mind. The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities. It is therefore a means for developing potentials which is quite a part from what the potential is used for. That is a decision. The effects of the ego's decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no elaboration here but the Holy Spirit's decision to use the body only for communication has such a direct connection with healing that it does need clarification. The unhealed healer obviously does not understand his own vocation. Only minds communicate since the ego cannot obliterate the impulse to communicate because it also the impulse to create. The ego can only teach you that the body can both communicate and create and therefore does not need the mind. The ego does try to teach you that the body can act like the mind and is therefore self-sufficient. Yet we have learned that behavior is not the level for either teaching or learning. This must be so since you can act in accordance with what you do not believe. To do this however will weaken you as teachers and learners because as has been repeatedly emphasized, you teach what you do believe. An inconsistent lesson will be poorly taught and poorly learned. If you teach both sickness and healing you are both a poor teacher and a poor learner. Healing is the one ability which everyone can develop and must develop if he is to be healed. Healing is the Holy Spirit's form of communication and the only one he knows. He recognizes no other because he does not accept the ego's confusion of mind and body. Minds can communicate but they cannot hurt. The body in the service of the ego can hurt other bodies but this cannot occur unless the body has already been confused with the mind. This fact too can be used either for healing or for magic but you must remember that magic is always a belief that healing is harmful. This is its totally insane premise and so it proceeds accordingly. Healing only strengthens. Magic always tries to weaken. Healing perceives nothing in the healer that everyone else does not share with him. Magic always sees something special in the healer which he believes he can offer as a gift to someone who does not have it. He may believe that the gift comes from God to him but it is quite evident that he does not understand God if he thinks he has something that others lack. You might well ask then why some healing can result from this kind of thinking and there is a reason for this. However misguided the magical healer may be he is also trying to help. He is conflicted and unstable but at times he is offering something to the sonship and the only thing the sonship can accept is healing. When the so-called healing works then the impulse to help and to be helped have coincided. This is coincidental because the healer may not be experiencing himself as truly helpful at the time but the belief that he is in the mind of another helps him. The Holy Spirit does not work by chance and healing that is of him always works. Unless the healer always heals by him the results will vary. Yet healing itself is consistent since only consistency is conflict free and only the conflict free are whole. By accepting exceptions and acknowledging that he can sometimes heal and sometimes not the healer is obviously accepting inconsistency. He is therefore in conflict and teaching conflict. Can anything of God not be for all and for all ways? Love is incapable of any exceptions. Only if there is fear does the idea of exceptions seem to be meaningful. Exceptions are fearful because they are made by fear. The fearful healer is a contradiction in terms and is therefore a concept which only a conflicted mind could possibly perceive as meaningful. Fear does not gladden, healing does. Fear always makes exceptions, healing never does. Fear produces dissociation because it induces separation. Healing always produces harmony because it proceeds from integration. Healing is predictable because it can be counted on. Everything that is of God can be counted on because everything of God is wholly real. Healing can be counted on because it is inspired by his voice and is an accord with his laws. Yet if healing is consistent, it cannot be inconsistently understood. Understanding means consistent because God means consistent. Since that is his meaning, it is also yours.  God cannot be out of accord with himself and you cannot be out of accord with him. You cannot separate yourself from your Creator who created you by sharing his being with you. The unhealed healer wants gratitude from his brothers but he is not grateful to them. This is because he thinks he is giving something to them and is not receiving something equally desirable in return. His teaching is limited because he is learning so little. His healing lesson is limited by his own ingratitude which is a lesson in sickness. Learning is constant and so vital in its power for change that a son of God can recognize his power in one instant and change the world in the next. That is because by changing his mind, he has changed the most powerful device that was ever created for change. This in no way contradicts the changelessness of mind as God created it, but you think that you have changed it as long as you learn through the ego. This does place you in a position of needing to learn a lesson which seems contradictory. You must learn to change your mind about your mind. Only by this can you learn that it is changeless. When you heal, that is exactly what you are learning. You are recognizing the changeless mind in your brother by realizing that he could not have changed his mind. That is how you perceive the Holy Spirit in him. It is only the Holy Spirit in him that never changes his mind. He himself must think he can or he would not perceive himself as sick. He therefore does not know what his self is. If you see only the changeless in him, you have not really changed him at all. By changing your mind about his for him, you help him undo the change his ego thinks it has made in him. As you can hear two voices so you can see in two ways. One way shows you an image or better an idol which you may worship out of fear but which you will never love. The other shows you only truth which you will love because you will understand it. Understanding is appreciation because what you understand you can identify with and by making it part of you, you have accepted it with love. That is how God himself created you in understanding, in appreciation and in love. The ego is totally unable to understand this because it does not understand what it makes. It does not appreciate and does not love it. It incorporates to take away. It literally believes that every time it deprives someone of something it has increased. We have spoken often of the increase of the kingdom by your creations which can only be created as you were. The whole glory and perfect joy that is the kingdom lies in you to give. Do you not want to give it? You cannot forget the father because I am with you and I cannot forget him. To forget me is to forget yourself and him who created you. Our brothers are forgetful. That is why they need your remembrance of me and him who created me. Through this remembrance you can change their minds about themselves as I can change yours. Your minds are so powerful a light that you can look into theirs and enlighten them as I can enlighten yours. I do not want to share my body and communion because that is to share nothing. Yet I do want to share my mind with you because we are of one mind and that mind is ours. See only this mind everywhere because only this is everywhere and in everything. It is everything because it encompasses all things within itself. Blessed are you who perceive only this because you perceive only what is true. Come therefore unto me and learn of the truth in you. The mind we share is shared by all our brothers and as we see them truly they will be healed. Let your mind shine with mine upon their minds and by our gratitude to them make them aware of the light in them. This light will shine back upon you and on the whole sonship because this is your proper gift to God. He will accept it and give it to the sonship because it is acceptable to him and therefore to his sons. This is the true communion of the Spirit who sees the altar of God in everyone and by bringing it to your appreciation calls upon you to love God and his creations. You can appreciate the sonship only as one. This is part of the law of creation and therefore governs all thought from vigilance to peace. Only you can love the sonship only as one. You can perceive it as fragmented. It is impossible, however, for you to see something in part of it that you will not attribute to all of it. That is why attack is never discreet and why attack must be relinquished entirely. If it is not relinquished entirely it is not relinquished at all. Fear and love are equally reciprocal. They make or create depending on whether the ego or the Holy Spirit begets or inspires them but they will return to the mind of the thinker and they will affect his total perception. That includes his perception of God, of his creations and of his own. He will not appreciate any of them if he regards them fearfully. He will appreciate all of them if he regards them with love. The mind that accepts attack cannot love. That is because it believes that it can destroy love and therefore does not understand what love is. If it does not understand what love is it cannot perceive itself as loving. This loses the awareness of being, induces feelings of unreality and results in utter confusion. Your own thinking has done this because of its power but your own thinking can also save you from this because its power is not of your making. Your ability to direct your thinking as you will is part of its power. If you do not believe you can do this you have denied the power of your thought and thus rendered it powerless in your belief. The ingeniousness of the ego to preserve itself is enormous but it stems from the power of the mind which the ego denies. This means that the ego attacks what is preserving it and this must be a source of extreme anxiety. That is why the ego never knows what it is doing. It is perfectly logical but clearly insane. The ego draws upon the one source which is totally inimical to its existence for its existence. Fearful of perceiving the power of this source it is forced to depreciate it. This threatens its own existence, a state which it finds intolerable. Remaining logically but still insane the ego resolves this completely insane dilemma in a completely insane way. It does not perceive its existence as threatened by projecting the threat onto you and perceiving your being as non-existent. This ensures its continuance if you side with it by guaranteeing that you will not know your own safety. The ego cannot afford to know anything. Knowledge is total and the ego does not believe in totality. This unbelief is its origin and while the ego does not love you it is faithful to its own antecedents begetting as it was begotten. Mind always reproduces as it was produced. Produced by fear the ego reproduces fear. This is its allegiance and this allegiance makes it treacherous to love because you are love. Love is your power which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything which this power gives you because it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants a ego. Its own maker then does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision which the ego could possibly encounter if the mind which made it knew itself and if it recognized any part of the sonship it would know itself. The ego therefore opposes all appreciation all recognition all same perception and all knowledge. It perceives their threat as total because it senses the fact that all commitments the mind makes are total. Force then to detach itself from you who are mind it is willing to attach itself to anything else but there is nothing else. It does not follow that the mind cannot make illusions but it does follow that if it makes illusions it will believe in them because that is how it made them. The Holy Spirit undoes illusions without attacking them merely because he cannot perceive them at all. They therefore do not exist for him. He resolves the apparent conflict which they engender by perceiving conflict as meaningless. We said before that the Holy Spirit perceives the conflict exactly as it is and it is meaningless. The Holy Spirit does not want you to understand conflict he wants you to realize that because conflict is meaningless it cannot be understood. We have already said that understanding brings appreciation, appreciation brings love. Nothing else can be understood because nothing else is real and therefore nothing else has meaning. If you will keep in mind what the Holy Spirit offers you you cannot be vigilant for anything but God in his kingdom. The only reason you find this difficult is because you think there is something else. Belief does not require vigilance unless it is conflicted. If it is there are conflicting components within it which have engendered a state of war and vigilance therefore has become essential. Vigilance has no place at all in peace. It is necessary against beliefs which are not true and would never have been called upon by the Holy Spirit if you had not believed the untrue. You cannot deny that when you believe something you have made it true for you. When you believe what God does not know your thought seems to contradict his and this makes it appear as if you are attacking him. We have repeatedly emphasized that ego does believe it can attack God and tries to persuade you that you have done this. If the mind cannot attack the ego proceeds perfectly logically to the position that you cannot be mind. By not seeing you as your eye can see itself as it wants to be. Aware of its weakness the ego wants your allegiance but not as you really are. The ego therefore wants to engage your mind in its own delusional system because otherwise the light of your understanding would dispel it. The ego wants no part of truth because the truth is that the ego is not true. If truth is total the untrue cannot exist. Commitment to either must be total since they cannot coexist in your minds without splitting them. If they cannot coexist in peace and if you want peace you must give up the idea of conflict entirely and for all time. While you believe that two totally contradictory thoughts share truth your need for vigilance is apparent. Your minds are dividing their allegiance between two kingdoms and you are totally committed to neither. Your identification with the kingdom is totally beyond question except by you when you are thinking insanely. What you are is not established by your perception and is not influenced by it at all. All perceived problems in the identification at any level are not problems of fact. They are problems of understanding since they mean that you believe what you can understand is up to you to decide. The ego believes is totally being fully committed to it. It is not true. The ego therefore is totally committed to untruth perceiving in total contradiction to the Holy Spirit and to the knowledge of God. You can be perceived with meaning only by the Holy Spirit because your being is the knowledge of God. Any belief that you accept which is apart from this will obscure God's voice in you and will therefore obscure God to you unless you perceive his creations truly cannot know the Creator since God's creations are not separate. The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power. This limitless power is God's gift to you because it is what you are. If you disassociate your mind from it you are perceiving the most powerful force in the universe if it were weak because you do not believe you are part of it. Perceive without your part in it God's creation is perceived as weak and those who see themselves as weak can do attack. The attack must be blind however because there is nothing to attack. Therefore they make up images, perceive them as unworthy and attack them for their unworthiness. That is all the world of the ego is. Nothing. It has no meaning. It does not exist. Do not try to understand it because if you do you are believing that it can be understood and is therefore capable of being appreciated and loved. That will justify it and it cannot be justified. You cannot make the meaningless meaningful. These can only be an insane attempt. Allowing insanity to enter your minds means that you have not judged sanity as wholly desirable. If you want something else you will make something else because it is something else it will attack your thought system and divide your allegiance. You cannot create in this divided state and you must be vigilant against this divided state because only peace can be extended. Your divided minds are blocking the extension of the kingdom and its extension is your joy. If you do not extend the kingdom you are not thinking with your creator and creating as he created. In this depressing state the Holy Spirit reminds you gently that you are sad because you're not fulfilling your function as co-creators with God and therefore depriving yourselves of joy. This is not God's will but yours. If your will is out of accord with God's you are willing without meaning yet because God's will is unchangeable no real conflict of will is possible. This is the Holy Spirit's perfectly consistent teaching. Creation not separation is your will because it is God's and nothing that opposes this means anything at all. Being a perfect accomplishment the sonship can only accomplish perfectly extending the joy in which it was created and identifying itself with both its creator and its creations knowing they are one.