The official part maybe we can make it a bit more fun than usual. I mean so this is a general assembly We're supposed to have all the ups members sitting here. We have lots of ups members We just had how many did we vote in now like eight maybe Yes, so a big welcome to all the new ups members So now we have 212 members Right, so meeting business, okay So we need to have a meeting chair person the secretary and two checkers of the minutes Okay, checker the secretary someone who takes notes and it's responsible later on for making sure that everything is signed We also have this this list here everyone who is here from the EPS and wants to vote needs to sign myself Do we have everything we have a do we have a chairperson the chairperson it basically Manages the meeting so Alexander's going to that Secretary Sorry Yes, it's in the blog post A secretary who's going to take notes a native speaker Okay, Alex is our secretary to check us of the minutes Check us of the minutes basically have to take whatever the secretary produces and then verify that it's actually correct I matches what we've done here. Okay We need one more So we have we have to We have to checkers The secretary needs to know your name. So I don't know who this person is and And Maybe you can give him your name as well So So Alexander first task we have need a motion Establishing the timeliness of the call To the meeting So You need to the secretary needs to take a note on that Maybe someone wants to abstain maybe because they weren't reading email for two weeks or something so No And poor a joke so Okay, and your report by the board So what we're gonna do is we're gonna give you a short overview of the timeline the timeline that we actually around this year And also talk about the organization a bit and what we would like to do going forward So the timeline this for this event was that in July 2017 we had the election of the current board From August to November we ran the RFP We did that in two rounds So we had a first round where we send out the documents to all the different venues Then we collected all the feedback Then we selected out of those of the feedback that we got we selected the number of Candidates that got on the shortlist and then for the shortlist we then specifically created a new set of questions Based on what they had answered in their Responses so that we get more details and then we had the second round and The way it works is that you send out the documents you set a time frame in the document They have it as a strict deck line. They have to submit the their bits within those deadlines And then you you have a list of proposals and then you can select whatever Based on your criteria that you choose which venue then you want to go for so that worked really well and That did not I produce any problems except I had a bit of problem doing the RFP Because I was on the business trip at that time. So it was a bit difficult, but maybe next year we can time that a bit better January until June 2018 we had this big issue with the UK VAT So just to give you a quick round of what we did we in January we started to ask our Swedish accountants Whether we have to register in the UK how it works the Swedish accountants turn out didn't have a clue so We went to we went to the they literally told us that we don't we have to pay Swedish VAT Which is completely wrong because the EU Regulations say that we have to pay VAT where the conference has helped and so we then started to find an Accountant in the UK and we contacted a few people. It didn't really work out that well Then we asked Picon UK our friends there what? They would recommend and they recommended their They recommended their accountant and in the end it turned out that we we actually we chose them As our accountant and then they started Think in March it was they started the registration process for the UK VAT which involved basically sending in all our details me personal details from the board members from the directors to The accountants so that they could put all this information into the application for the VAT so that was a big hassle for us Because we had to send in like supporting documents like an electricity bills and and birth certificates and all kinds of stuff so We did that it took a while to get all the documents together And then we put in the application and then the application was supposed to Be finished in maybe two weeks or so they told us And then in the end it turned out to be two months. So we had to wait really long We we did not in the end. We did not really wait for the VAT ID We just started ticket sales and then had this the issue with the invoices as you probably remember So we couldn't issue invoices because we did not have the VAT ID to actually issue the invoices and We then created the invoices afterwards And I think everyone was happy with that so that was a bit special this year in February We launched a preview website We always set up a website to basically show people where the location is and doesn't have it has all the information That we have up to date, but it doesn't have any functionality with it So and then in April we launched the real website where you can sign up and In May we then started the ticket sales. We did the Finite We did the CFP the talk voting the session list. So basically the whole conference was organized in May From the let's say the program side of things and a ticket sales side of things The schedule itself then took a bit longer to to arrange and so we published that in July really late next year We should be faster But as you can see we still managed I mean we did not have enough a lot of time to do all these things It was very intense in the last few months But I think the the conference works works well and they're not too many issues So these are some charts for the ticket sales To give you an idea so this year we had something special We turned from a five-day conference setup which has the trainings basically integrated into the conference into a setup where we have two days for trainings workshops and then three days for conferences and then two days for sprints This change is still It's still kind of ongoing because not all people all attendees have really understood and all Sponsors have understood how it works. So we need to basically communicate this a little better next year Maybe also work on the website a bit and how we how we just how we Make this visible to two people so that they don't get questions But as you can see here So the this line here the the first one there that is 2016 so in 2016 we started really early the numbers. I don't know if you can read that. It's like minus 150 about these are the number of days before the conference starts In What's the green one? 2017 we started like around 95 days or so before the conference with the sales and In 2018 we started. What is it? It's like maybe 55 Days before the conference are really late What's interesting though is that we always reach the same numbers regardless of when we start it's just the The curve itself looks a bit different, but in the end we meet the same numbers. So I Think this is an interesting result because it basically says that people are going to show up anyway so regardless of Yes, it's and this is an interesting result because it basically says that if you give people more time They use more time right if you give them less time they use less time so Then maybe next year we can start one month before the conference Assumption No, but Right, but but look I mean we in the last years we haven't grown run. So I think we're going to grow next year. So We I mean we tried for a couple of years to actually grow but I think the numbers that we have here are Really nice numbers. So it's it's a it's a nice conference. It's it's not too big. It's not too small. It's It's we have a very very diverse set of Talks of attendees of people attending from different countries. It's I think It's it's a really nice combination that we have So I think we should stay at this level. I think we should not Like like a company you have a steady growth path To always have more attendees So what did we do different from from last year? We removed a lot of inactive workgroup members and we were very strict with the members that we still have in the group We don't have an on-site team anymore In the sense that we actually do rely on on the on-site team in last year in Rimini We thought we had an on-site team which turn out eventually that we only had a single person helping us Actually, no is to it was Francesca was helping us as well. So But but that was basically it and so we decided that for next year, this is not going to be in for this year as well This is not going to be essential for us And we did some refactoring of the website. Arto has spent a lot of time on working on that So thank you for that Right this list you already saw this is like these are the most active team members 20 people in not in total But this is still too small because for some people it was really hard So we need to distribute work a better than what we did this year Yes, and I already talked about the selection process. So we're gonna do our piece again We also when we do the RFPs, of course when we get to the second round We have to be careful not to basically compete with the local conferences in those countries. So we once we have Basically reduce the list and we have to go out to the local Communities and then talk to them To see how the timing fits so that we don't step on anyone's toes because that's not what we want. Yeah, I Don't know why I have yet another slide about this, but there you go. So What did we do for the Euro Python domains we have for the existing ones we didn't do much we registered a few more So we have quite a few Euro Python domains now I don't know whether we actually cover all the different All the different countries in Europe, but we do cover quite a few Trademark and logo we have a new logo as you know It's again designed by symmetrical the designer that we have for the basically most of our stuff And for the first time as I already mentioned we are billing both the sponsors and the attendees so this basically also created this issue with the With a ticket sales Because the sponsors are invoiced by the Swedish organization and for the attendees We have to go to the local to the country and then have the registration there and then we have to build them Basically using the UK not entity, but the UK VAT number So what I want to do going forward help conferences with brands We actually started this already, but we haven't really published this yet so this is one thing that we still need to do and Going forward once we are more basically accustomed to this whole grant processing Then we were also going to issue grants to Python projects and user groups So we want to use the money that we make in these conferences and then give it to the community So these are the conferences that we have funded in the last term So Picon DE we funded twice actually if we gave them a grant for 2018 In the last few weeks We funded Picon Italia for 2k and jungle con Europe also for 2k and we gave our discount coupons to Python user groups so Not a big discount because we cannot afford big discounts But it was 10% and it was like any user group could just apply for it and get it We also had this the Python organizer lunch today And we invited a couple of people to that organizer lunch and they got free tickets as well And we plan to to grow this a bit more because we want to have more contacts with the organizers in Europe I think it's very useful to exchange experience and then get get to know each other and also learn how we can help Also learn from them of course because it's very likely that they do things Maybe they have some smart ideas that we we don't come up with and then we can we can see how maybe we can Use those ideas for your Python We can also help with like the Europe as an organization Show them how how they can maybe improve things Of course the scale is a bit different usually but anyway, I think some things they are the same So I think it's gonna work out And of course talking to people and getting in touch with people is always nice. So networking is something that's very important. So next is the Treasurer report And as can say a few words about that if you want to come up here, you have to stand here because otherwise that on the video All right, so Yeah Nothing really revolutionary. We have currently we have 418,000 euros in the bank, but that will drop because we'll have built bills to pay after the conference And we have most of a Most of our assets in the Swedish bank account there is someone in PayPal and some with the credit card processor Oh, yes, we should tell about the issue with PayPal The reason that the we have some money that is more or less stuck in the PayPal account because in order to Get it out of the PayPal account We have to convert it to Swedish crawlers at PayPal's rate Which is really high and then once we then since most of our bills are in euros, we would have to change it back into euros So it's basically stuck there And we'll try to use it as much as possible Payings first off directly with PayPal So it's the fun Yes Just my job was Has the the auditor of the bank account and the statements and in fact, I didn't find any problem with the with the banks and with the invoicing incoming and how it going invoice, sorry, sorry And I think that will be great for the next year because we will have a lot of money for a very bigger event for the next year Just that Thank you So as you can see here, there are two positions still open. So for EP 2016, which is two years ago from In in Bilbao, we still have to get the final payment And similar for Python, Italia for last year last year the Python, Italia paid back the 40k loan that we gave them last year to basically pay the initial bills because last year They had to pay for example the venue we did not pay it directly and This is still in the works. So of course for them, it's always It's it's a lot of we're getting all the bills and all the counting together and so on and then ACPySS is currently being Audited by the by the tax authorities, right? Right, okay Yes Yes, we can finalize this I think in the next few weeks and then maybe we can have the payment There's not going to be an issue with the payment itself. It's just that we have to basically sign off the Yes, perfect And and it's similar for Python, Italia. So we just have to finalize the numbers Do you we do have the numbers in the budget, right? So we can show them Maybe I should jump to that slide so that you see how much we expect Here and it is it in here? Okay, so it's useless right No, it's not use it's useless for this particular question, so Let's see we are Here I think go to discharge so Alexander No more Twitter now, no Working on the closing session And we can't actually go to this to discharge the board without having finalized the counts and A formal report from the author That is not done Yeah, but but he just gave a report, right Yeah We the ender sent around the the all the the documents to the mailing list So that we have right and maybe you can send a quick email and then we have the written report report as well I Can you just send an email now quickly Then we have for that requirement No email because we sent the documents by email as well. Maybe you can just reply to it and say okay. This is all good And then we should be fine I think anyway the vote to discharge basically means that you say that the board members are no longer personally Liable for what happened last in the last term. So that's the the intent of this vote of discharge. I Actually never understood why this has to be done. It's some legal process because if you don't vote for discharge, I don't think anything happens because suspicion that board members maybe had like a side business running on like making money misuse of the board Listen, we're saying that we're not going to sue you. Yes. Yes But but if this vote would not happen would it have any effect, I mean you could still not sue us, right? Okay Okay, okay, Sue us all We don't have any lawyers we don't do this lawyer stuff Someone No, I know what you're what you're getting at normally for example the PSF in the bylaws has extra classes for this particular case so for example in the PSF the bylaws say that the PSF is going to pay for lawyers to defend the board members against such cases where members then try to to sue those board members, so Essentially the PSF pays for the lawyers Right, we don't have that. We don't have that in the EPS. I don't know how Swedish law works. Maybe it has provisions for that Okay So yes Excellent done. What do you mean just to the board? Need to have the members as well. No, no, the members have to know, right? Not all the members of Europe I think the of the EPS Yeah, maybe we should just move on to the next step or we can vote in the new Board members, but can we do that before we discharge the old one? Okay, we can good. Well, first of all, I'd like to thank all the board members that have stepped down for their excellent work They did last year So the ones that you don't see on this list are Alexander Alex Who else do you a Christian did not reapply Jill did not reapply Daria did Did I forget anyone? No, so give them a big hand I hope they still stay around in the rock groups though. So if they leave then we have a big issue Good so these are the candidates How should we do this? I mean, I think most are here except for Daria and Mario. I sent around the The nomination text for all of them. So Daria has been on the board for quite a while Mario wants to join he's he has been working on support a lot this year and especially on site last year and he would like to contribute to the Board as well For the others, I think it would be good if you could just come up here. Maybe say two words or so So let's see. Let's start with Martin Hello, my name is Martin I'm I do Python every day Yeah, I have a big problem. No, just joking I'm teaching Python at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts North Swiss Northwestern Switzerland and as I said, I do three semesters in the bachelor program and I also have a course in the master's program. I Organize the Geo-Python conference. It's now a yearly conference. I started it in 2016 and Today I just announced it will be happen again in 2019 and Also, I want to help in the Europe Python board I have time because Python is really my profession So I can spend at least 100 to maybe 150 hours a year in the board Well, I'm Arthur. I joined the web board group last year and the support group later on and I did a lot of factoring on the web board group and I'm planning to do more of that and sort of Try to improve like the workflows of water work group through our sort of a become software Whether that's help desk or the or the main website code or the other services that we're running And yet that's sort of the plan for the for the next year Okay, and us you want to say something so I was the treasurer for this year and I'd be happy to continue as treasurer I have some ideas for maybe Getting a bit better at it. Yeah Next is me I've been doing this for quite a while I can continue another year so There you go Valeria is next. Hi everyone. I'm Valeria. So I first Met I learned about every bite and I think three years ago when I met Alexander and some local Germany Different usually I use I am I would say I mean I've used Python many I'm an astrophysicist. So I've been using it in my field and also parallel with some healthcare project that I worked on for for a while And then also in the first year in Bilbao, I I came as a Speaker and then I met all the organizers. I wanted to volunteer. I'm actually like to organize. I mean a conferences So I joined the organization mainly two years ago for the communication working group and the beat the program and And then this year I tried to look at what was the activities Ongoing in other working groups. So I think that was too much. In fact, I should it just Parallelized too much the my attention so I rather actually focus on Yeah, one or two but I it gave me a better idea of what's going on in other working groups and Yeah, this year either you wanted to see apply for the board also to see what happens from from this other side The organization Thanks. Okay, Marius not here. I will mention him Sylvia Hi, I'm as he's at me and today's is a different day. So no, yeah for me and I work in the sponsor work group and enjoyed working with this guy lot and so There's why I'm here. I love the community and I got to help and that's it. So I already did before so, okay, maybe you have a photo of Mario somewhere She joined the board. She was maybe taking care of the financial aid Unfortunately, she could not make it I think because of visa issues actually because she's Ukrainian He's working in France, but Yeah, so So this is the text that she sent in She's the same text as last year, but I just modified the numbers So she's been doing a lot of work on the financial aid group and also on the on the board and Mario is down here So there you go. I can read this Mario has been helping a lot with your path in recent years Mostly working on supporting attendees through the help desk on site to make sure that set up in Tehran run smoothly And more recently also on the sponsors were approved And he's not gonna be here, but he would still feel honored to be voted into the board So Who is against Maybe we were joking before this before that Who is it Board Just like So just to check who is abstains who's against Next on the list is Just to check who abstains nobody who's against Next is Anders Who abstains So Okay, so sorry, I did yeah, let's make one bigger Next on the list you probably heard of it's a market rate. So who's in favor of market rates who abstains Who's against No, no, it was 20 and what Okay And finally Sylvia who states Okay, so then welcome all the new newly voted and staying members on the board with a big applause the next on the list is voting for a chair, so Who wants to apply for being the chair of your pattern society? Maybe Mark Andre Maybe somebody else. Okay, so Mark Andre applied for maybe becoming the chair for For another successful year Um Who abstains We also need to vote last year we changed The Vice chair so in case for example Mark Andre is like super busy or it has to go We have to have some unforeseen event we to tell that The EPS can all basically run its business. We need a chair.  Thank you. So So next is election of one auditor and one replacement so essentially the work that Stefan did I don't who did we have as replacement by the way Mario? Okay So do you want to volunteer again? Yes, yes, excellent and one replacement we need replacement is basically perfect Who's in favor Sorry Okay, the next This is this is something we might want to remove from the agenda Going forward, but we cannot do it this time We have to do it next year because so far we have always voted against this and it just keeps us From doing a bit more important things at the general election General Assembly Because nominations for the board members can be entered by anyone This election not a comment the nomination committee is not really needed, right? They can propose people to be on the board But a few EPS members could just get together and propose without having this committee anyway, so For the board you mean if they're not enough candidates, then you you've go out and find people, right? Okay Pre-selection yes Yes, okay Oh Resigned yes You're working on your backup solution there, yeah No Unfortunately the same boss Something happens to the mess The auditor can all work and cobalt in case of crisis for an extra meeting So do we I think we can just vote on not having the election So that's who's in favor of who's listening carefully Who's in favor of having the election of a common nomination committee now who abstains? Against Okay Yes, yes, I was just trying to find whether we have anything on what Valeria was asking but I don't see it right now I think we do but You can definitely step down, but I'm not sure whether the board could for example decide on a replacement. I Think that we have to call something extra, right? Okay Good. So no, we have the no first a budget presentation And just maybe you can because you made this maybe you can say something Yeah, I should not be here so that gets recorded the the first column is is the what we ended up with in last year and As you see we started giving out grants, but only to be two thousand these numbers are in in thousands of euros by the way So last year we had a surplus of a hundred twenty four thousand euros from from coming in from the various conferences in previous years because I think I think Bill I think it was two years of Bilbao that came in to the site last year. That's why it's such a high number The next column is so is sort of the first half of this year and but the conference surplus is a guess for the entire year just to give you an idea of of what What sort of numbers we're expecting And then the budget for for 2019 is we Hope to give out grants of about 40,000 20,000 euros We're thinking about Hiring a secretary to to deal sort of with with ongoing Issues, maybe you want to say something more about that mark Yes, because what we found is that we It's a good way to to use the money would be to basically help the volunteers Not have to write so many emails and that keep so much track of all the things that need to be done and Especially for example for for sponsor communication. This is very intense And a paid help there would really do make a big difference for everyone and would reduce the strain a lot on people And so we're thinking of her hiring someone Probably not hiring probably just contracting someone to do some some work for us Less work during the year, but then a lot of work before the conference so that we can address this issue a bit better And as you can see we also want to do more grants so we have set up the budget to to 20k per year. So We once we actually publish that we're doing these grants I think we're going to get more applications and then it's going to be quickly used up So I think we're doing pretty well with the just say something about the grants. Yes. There is actually because of the to stay a Non-profit in the public interest that it that's it's called we have to give out a large amount of the of the money We make we are approximately 80% of our profit. We have to give out To or use for the for the purpose. So we really need to get the grants up so that we don't accumulate profits Yes, yes, but it makes profit But if if we let's say we end up with a profit of like 200k at the end of the year then As you assume there's a tax office in Sweden is going to come to us and say, okay, you're you're not actually using your money, right? So Yeah You have some there is this complicated thing with like a rolling average something right so Yeah, we have to figure that out. I mean now that we're actually making money. This is actually a good problem to have So what's next we have to vote on the membership fees the board always recommends keeping them at zero Who abstains Okay, then we have a proposition from the board I Already explained a bit on the on the mailing list about the motivation for this proposition. So the proposition is to Make it possible for pison core developers to basically Come to your pison and get free entry for life so the the reason why we're doing this is that Well, first of all the core developers are in in our view They they're not getting enough back from for the work that they do they because There there isn't much recognition for them. Many people don't even know them The list that we have that the not we the PSF has or actually the core developers Developers themselves have on the website on the in the development guide is not complete So This is a very poor situation Especially because they also want to attract more Python core developers they want to make sure that the the language gets continues to be developed and now that we Don't step down as BDFL is going to be even more complicated to do development because someone of course has to decide on How the development should actually work and this is currently being discussed among the committers of how this should work going forward and We think that it's it's a good idea to give something back to the Python core developers In terms of cost for us. It's not going to be a hola. Maybe a few thousand euros a year And we would like to see more Python core development Actually happening at your Python. So we want to see more Python core developers come to your Python do presentations Maybe do a sprints. Maybe I don't know have a summit here a language summit we had two language summits in Italy when it was in Florence and We think that this is a great way to show some recognition for them and make them Well feel recognized and we we want to call this the guido widow van Rosen core developer grant Simply because Guido just basically stepped down as BDFL. I Asked Guido. He was fine. He found it an excellent idea and So we have his permission as well for this Right Yeah questions About this is lifetime free entry if for whatever reason someone is no longer recognized as a Whatever reason I have slight concerns that they would still retain the benefit Well as there we have this escape clause Details are to be defined by the board so if any of these issues occur We cannot put all the details into such an emotion here, right? If any of these details occur and there's something to decide of course the board has the power to decide on these things But the intent is to give them this for life, right? Oh, I think it's just a free ticket. I mean, it's not just free lunch We don't fly them in first business first class beta hotels. It's just a free ticket Person at some point it's like Commits something which is They against the code of conduct. So you wouldn't want to support that for something the case if you write already in there with the word But then we can we can work on details, but we cannot remove the I think if we exclude somebody from the conference with code of conduct as has I mean we could make Yes, of course, I mean the Basically the idea here what we're stating here in the motion is just the idea behind it, right? And then the details have to be defined by the board So things like these can of course be decided by the board and they can even be decided at heart So it doesn't have to be something that you have to have upfront before it happens You can just say okay. We're not going to do this for you this year The other thing is that the Python core development status Is a Is something that the basically the core developers decide among themselves So if they decide that someone should not be half the status anymore Then of course they would not participate in this in this grant program I Yes Well, no, I mean the the the status you have for life I mean once you're core developer you stay core developer forever even if you don't have commit rights anymore It's it's the status right so it's something that you earn because becoming a core developer is just a lot of work and It's something that people actually have to To strive to to get it's not something you get automatically It's not something that you get by just doing lots of simple stuff. It's you actually have to commit to something No, I wouldn't restrict that I mean, let's say someone someone has contributed, I don't know 10,000 hours to to Python code development and then he stops doing it like Martin from Lewis for example Yeah, he he is he is one of the most proficient Core developers that we have in Python, but he's not doing anything anymore because he is focused on other things now So that I think it would be very unfair to make it Basically just based on active core development. You mean that we remove Just It's your last person code but it was free entry to your presence in recognition to the okay lifetime is the detail but Okay, so I removed the lifetime now So we now have the PS establishes a new Guida from Russian core developer grant which allows path and code developers free entry to your private conferences and recognition For the efforts in creating and supporting the foundation on which our path community is built The details have to be defined by the EPS board and of course the EPS board can say this is a lifetime thing again So that's fine, right good. Excellent. So let's vote Oh The police vote I should have removed here Who received it I think we can move to the discharge of the Yeah, let me just get the This one Okay We can discharge ourselves Yeah Yeah, any questions no then we can officially close the meeting


T-F-N-N. Headline, news update. Good afternoon everybody, I'm Tommy O'Brien, comedy alive from T-F-N-N headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. 2 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, two hours left to go in the trading day and we got markets trading in negative territory. Dow Jones, negative 150 points, trading at 25,526. We had been down as more than 300 points at one point in the Dow, so clawing back some of those losses. S&P, negative by 16, trading at 27,55. And the NASDAQ, negative by 63 points, trading at 74,42. Quite a day for notes and bonds. Higher price, lower yield, 10-year note, up 14 ticks, trading at 122,19, 30-year bond up, 27 ticks, almost a full point, trading at 145,23. And dollar index up 600 ticks, trading at 97,400. Let's start it off. We'll jump over to the futures markets with two hours left to go in the trading day. We'll start it off with the S&P. So earlier this morning, trading at 27,75. S&Ps trade down to about 27,41. And from there we're up a bit, currently trading 27,54. NASDAQ 100, trading at 7,051. Highs, 8,45 this morning of 71,20. So you're still a solid 70 points below where we were trading at just this morning and we reached a low of 7,025 earlier in the day. Dow 30, 25,511. Lows for the session, 25,340. So a solid 160 Dow points above that level. Crude oil with a little bit of volatility was up there almost at $57 pre-market, currently trading at 56,67. Gold contract, 1286,47 on that April contract. And natural gas with some volatility. 1030 this morning, there's your bar. We get the EIA numbers pretty much in line with what they were looking for. You saw natural gas trade all the way down though to 282.25, basically right back to where we were coming into those EIA numbers. And what else we have happening? This afternoon Costco coming out with their earnings for 15 Eastern time, quite a juggernaut. This fiscal year they're looking to take in $152 billion in revenue. They're looking for $7.72. Earnings per share, quite a number. The quarter that they're gonna be talking about, they're gonna be looking for $35.7, excuse me, $35.7 billion in revenue, in 90 days. Quite a company in Costco. And they're gonna be looking for a buck 69 in earnings per share. We'll see. Stay tuned, Dave White coming up right now with a power trading hour live from two till three o'clock. Tom O'Brien live from three till five. Stay tuned folks, have a great Thursday.


The climate religion under the United Nations will be calling on the United States of America to reduce gas emissions by minimizing your eating and meat consumption. Now you might not think this is prophetic but let me share a little bit of this article. United Nations is preparing to call on Americans to reduce meat consumption as part of the broader effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This recommendation is of course based on their view of supporting climate change. So how should Christians think about this? This article goes on to read that the climate change that they talk about is actually, and you can know this, climate change is actually an anti-God religion that believes that man can save himself and that he must save the planet. They have given the creation domination over man instead of recognizing man's God-given role of dominion over creation. I'm going to give you three things for a verse that completely destroys the argument of climate change because they say if we don't do something by X that it's all going to fold up and it'll be over with we're gonna you know never be able to do it and the world will succumb to disaster. Well here's three scriptures to give you to combat it. Number one God gave dominion over the earth to man and God said in Genesis 1 26 let us make a man and make man in our image after our likeness and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Secondly after the flood God changed our diet so we were given permission to eat meat. Genesis 3 and 9 and 3 every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you even as the green herb have I given you all things. Here's the third after the flood God made a promise that clearly shows man cannot destroy the planet. How is that? Genesis 822 while the earth remaineth seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter and day and night shall not cease. Now they got on their high horse in the 70s and said if we don't do something by the 90s that the earth is gonna implode and we're all gonna burn up. And guess what? We're still here. Then they said if you don't get your computers fixed by Y2K that you're all gonna disintegrate. Guess what? We rolled over and we're still here. I want to say to you that this is an anti-God to drive God out of the position and the only reason why they think this way is because they don't consider God first. But I want to tell you how prophetic. This is the reason why I want to put this on prophecy file briefing because here's the prophetic word that concerns it and if you want to just flip over there I'll let you do that very quickly to 1st Timothy chapter 4 and you can read it for yourself. 1st Timothy chapter number 4. The Bible reads this way in verse number 1 because you say well pastor that has nothing to do with me you know I don't believe in the climate change or I do believe in the climate change whatever that it may be well I can tell you based upon us being in this chapel tonight the climate has changed outside and in Northwest Florida it's going to be at the freezing mark later on tonight. So the climate will change and then it will change again by tomorrow and if because we live in Northwest Florida it will be 75 degrees and it will be a marvelous day. But why is this happening? Because Romans chapter number one says that they are going to there would come a time in the last days prior to the coming of the Lord that they would embrace the worship of creation over the Creator. But even more than that I want you to look prophetically in 1st Timothy chapter 4 verse number 1 where the Bible reads now the Spirit speak of the expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lies in hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron watch number three verse three forbidding to Mary and commanding to abstain from meets which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth and there you have it my friends. We are living in prophetic times where now marriage is is being undermined especially between husband and wife. All right. But now the forbidding to eat meat so we can make sure we preserve the planet. This is foolishness. It is an anti Christ spirit and ladies and gentlemen if you don't know your Bible and base your life out of the Bible you're going to find yourself warped and deceived in your thinking elevating creation over the Creator himself.


The architectural design program has a long tradition in the south, of course, in Colombia. But I would say also that it's been highly influential in the overall context of architecture. It's here where some of the most, I would say celebrated kind of immersions in the digital culture were pioneer for architecture. It's here where many, many people develop the most important part of their innovations in architecture. It's here where many people basically build up the position that then allowed them to have a very strong voice in architecture. And for me, being kind of part of this legacy, it's quite important. And to share this every year with a hundred new people, it's quite exciting. But I say it's kind of shared with a hundred new people because we keep being connected to those that in the past were part of the AD and sort of a community that keeps feeding each other. Like we basically keep discussing and that's a fundamental part of what we do. What is that that we understand by advanced? Advanced is not really this idea that there's a linear progression. We're not talking of kind of, what is that that makes other possibilities in architectures obsolete? That's not really what we do. Advanced is the really the idea that there's fundamental challenges that are shaping our times and that we understand that are part of architecture. Architecture is already part of this. We want to make the best of the power of architecture to introduce more diversity, to introduce more possibilities to expand the spectrum of what is possible and to introduce forms of fairness and justice into the built environment in societies at large. So when we think of climate crisis, when we think of racial inequalities, when we think of the tensions across borders, when we think of the exploitation, over exploitation of bodies, natures, landscapes, climate through technology, through design, we're basically thinking that that's an arena where we want our voice to be important and where design can make huge changes. That is the notion of advancement that we understand is a constant reinvention of the agency of architecture to intervene reality, to be part of reality, expanding the spectrum of what is possible and rendering it more fair, more exciting, inequity in forms of dissidents with hegemonic powers that make daily life more inclusive. And this is kind of what we do all the time and we do it through specific ecosystems of questions and developments, ideas, projects, theories, concepts, techniques, methodologies that allowed us to base in references that allowed us to understand ways for environmental engagement. These are lines of work that we keep discussing for Angel, Maria Christine, Joel, Ali, this is not new. We basically been from basically a year ago probably been exploring the possibility for architecture to promote enhanced forms of environmental engagement to bring technologies accountable to explore the possibility to rearticulate the societal not to think architecture of something that is a new that starts with the tabula rasa but rather as a kind of ecosystem of strategies that allow to change the way societal relationships are unfolded in daily life to also reconsider material cyclabilities to move away from this culture of extraction that we inherited from modernity to one we understand that materiality could be cycle and that there's nothing or no such a thing as waste or resource but rather processes and cycles in which basically materials are transformed and that architecture is really about the entire cycle and how to operate in all the phases of those evolutions. Also in a crucial aspect of the AD it's the line of work that tries to question anthropotentition and the exceptionality of the human to advance forms of interspecies justice forms of base for humans to relate to others based on equity but also for humans to understand that our bodies are not seeped up autonomous self-contained but rather interdependent with others interdependent with animals with plants with oxygens with gas with many things that basically need to be taken care of and are also caring for us but also the urbanities that could regulate that could provide inclusivity and fairness in the online offline urbanities or the way identities are constructed managed challenged racial issues the way bodies are racialized, genderized the traditions of queerness and trans the way that that is not really only about people and bodies but that constitutes societies and environments and ecosystems if we take them seriously all these are basically lines of words the geopolitics in the making the way that the world is organized through borders, through transactions through demarcations, through jurisdictions and the way that that is being challenged the way that that could be innovated, reinvented, responded in the way as well that that could be we can be dissident to that through architecture and we can really respond to those situations that need to be transformed and challenged but as you see basically these eight lines of work are basically a structure to explore contemporary thinking, contemporary theory, contemporary action contemporary basically lines to challenge hegemonies and the kind of subtle knowledge what the AD stands for is basically to make it possible that in a short period of time everyone joining the program can really go through the most important readings that are shaping contemporary thinking that everyone gets familiar to them and that basically can operate through them and as you see they are broad enough so each of you can find your own path some of you will be more interested on interspecies relationships and you will grow on there on that and you will gain a voice as a fundamental thinker and designer operating there others will be basically growing in a different area but what we want to build up is a class that has a conversation that allows us basically to operate in the leading edge in the boundaries of the new architecture to come and not just as passive let's say observers but as fundamental actors in the questioning in the pulsing in the extension of those boundaries this is all to say we believe that architecture is very relevant in the making of the new world that is kind of growing in the cracks of the old ones and we want to make sure that everyone coming to the program has the capacity the possibilities, the strength, the empowerment to operate here with a very relevant voice understanding what is that that has been done and how that can be taken further challenge or responded basically what we think and this is something that initially could be challenging but once you're in the program this is basically what we all share is the idea that when we look at buildings and when we look at the built environment there's criticality embedded here there's particular specific forms of political tension and political action that is enacted through buildings and through the built environment and that is precisely this embedded criticality not something that is added not something that is just a discourse but really something that is embedded in the way windows are dimensioned in the way things are installed in what happens to glass when it is removed from a building and taken to the dump all those questions are precisely the ones that we use to explore how architecture is political and what is the way that through architecture we can change the world and connect ourselves to the reinvention of the everyday life. How we do this basically we are very careful in how this is curated through the semesters for your class basically you will start the summer and I'm saying this because for the previous class the summer was kind of a long discussion but we started in the fall. So that's very unique because it means that for the first time there will be an overlapping between the graduating class and the incoming class which I think will be kind of unique and a great moment for you guys and for the school. In the summer you will have advanced architectural design studios that we call entangled studios because they are very, very much designed. So you will have 18 choices and each of them exploring a way for architecture to reinvent contemporary or to operate in contemporary tensions and they basically are understanding architecture as entangled with the making of reality. This will come together with trans-colorities with this is the moment in which the entire class comes together. I'll tell you more about this to discuss the way architecture operates transition across scales and we will have arguments something that you will share also with the graduating class. Basically we invite some of the most important thinkers both from the context of architecture from other disciplines. We read what they written, we see their work and we prepare a conversation with them that you guys basically have and in which you participate and you are the ones making the questions. So we really get into the details of how they're thinking and their ideas are operating and how we can basically relate or respond to them. It's a kind of a very rapid way to get a voice by discussing with others. I mean, the list of people that we have brought historically it's an amazingly diverse from Oscar award filmmakers like Laura Poitras to important architectural thinkers like Keller Easterlin and I could go on and on and on and probably everyone that you have in mind it's been there. Then it will follow by the fall semester, advanced studio history and theory elective and visual and technology electives. And then this spring semester with advanced studio G-SAP elective and G-SAP visual technology electives. I refer to this later on, but basically there's a huge pool and this is something quite exciting the moment also. I mean, the fall the summer for me it's the most important moment in the program because it's basically in two months and a half you basically get immersed in this huge ecosystem of possibilities and it's quite fast. The process of getting to know basically quite a lot about the contemporary context of architectural innovation but then the fall is actually quite amazing as well because it's the moment that you get infiltrated into the entire school possibilities. If we go to the details of some of these the advanced design studios is a culture that it's quite unique of the school. The school is progressively moving into much more in person but the studios have been open throughout the fall and spring with very low density and what's the way they were called like cycles like rotations basically but the studio is a fundamental part of our education and basically it implies that the question of design but design as something that is critical is essential to what we do. And design for us it's very open and it very much depends on you to define what you mean to certain extent by design but definitely not something to be avoided. It's the kind of the making, the experimentation the possibility of reinvention of taking risk of presenting new possibilities reinventing a piece of daily life in the way that you think could be critical. And when we do this it's very public and very collective it's something that basically happens with objects in front of others as something that happens live basically and that Odyssey is not like the idea of kind of something you do in the dark and then you show one day but rather something that is collectively produced and conferences with others there's not a run or write everything is kind of material for discussion and there's no certainties. And it's also your moment to bring together many different forms of experimentation and representation and the school basically provides the possibility of doing this but then once you present it and that's your time of course it happens in front of a community that have fun with all inventions that keep celebrating invention and it's something that we all enjoy but also love to discuss and to see what's the kind of hidden options what are the aspects of it that we can see from a different perspective. So basically we advance together and we problematize what we do all the time. You don't have to be right you just have to be doing things and keeping discussing and kind of making your work more complex through questions and through the interaction with others. This is kind of what we believe in at the AD. And this is something that also bring us in conversation with others. This summer we will have sympositions in which basically all studios will expand into conversation with scientists, activists. We are every week we had for in during the fall and the spring this technical assemblies in which basically we had people coming to talk about microbes and how that affected architecture or I remember in now for instance an amazing conversation about the economy of social housing and how important it was how the property was defined legally to ensure the maintenance of buildings. So scientists of all different disciplines for instance we had an amazing conversation of a bunch of people that have been putting together kind of a network that connected all the computers in Ivy League universities across the country. So it could be used at night for activist projects that would use the computational capacity of all these universities at the time that they were not using it. So basically we are constantly engaging with scientists, experts, activists people from other disciplines to basically have a conversation of what is technology? What is science? What is knowledge? If we see it from an architectural point of view and we mobilize it as part of our discussions. Transclerities arenas of design is a fundamental part of what we do and it's what to certain extent brings the class together for the first time. And this is something that Angel, Maria Christine, Joel, Ali will tell you more probably but basically we explore I think last year we explore more than 200 buildings and projects that go beyond the notion of what a building is. But basically we try to see what it means what do we mean by ecology for instance which is something that is not simple. Architecture is producing huge knowledge about what do we mean when we say ecology or what do we mean when we say body or what do we mean when we say technology and basically we see a huge amount of architectural projects and we discuss what are the ideas that they have behind and what is the way that they are materializing it. And this is not something that is close you will be asked to produce your own reading of many of these buildings to work on new buildings to be added to our list but basically we won't understand what is the way that the design of buildings constructs the possibility for architecture to intervene in societies, environments, ecosystems political frames and to change them to introduce changing them. Arguments is something that I already mentioned it's also a crucial part of what we do. We basically invite the most important people that is discussing architecture now and we have conversations, discussions with them for my phantasma you see here Jack Halberst and the trans theorist Laura Poitras. We basically invite Ruja Benjamin that we hope to have basically what we try to see it's what is the leading edge of the discourse and criticality and research applied to architecture at this right moment now and we bring these people directly to discuss with us their ideas and to confront them with our own ideas this is a great resource for the program and it basically allows you to directly gain the confidence to discuss one to one with the leading voices in architecture and criticality and these are always very exciting moments for the program this year it will be amazing because it will be bringing together also the graduating class you guys that are here in a discussion that I think will be quite amazing quite unique. We have the time also to do that we expand lunch, we bring lunch normally this year we'll see how we do it but it will be exciting and then we get to the fall and to the spring and what is quite exciting is basically both studios and electives give you access to a broad number of people and what I would describe as probably the big part of the most important people operating in architecture now very diverse. I mean, I could talk for hours about each of the people that you see here and the way that they are part of the school and what they contribute to is people probably that you're very familiar with they come at different moments they do you have the possibility of interacting with them taking, I mean, basically the studios are taking through lottery and you have options you present your options you can see the studios the different studios also in the reviews not only the ones that you take and then but also visual and technology courses are quite important. I always kind of insist on the great potential of working in close proximity with people like Laura Kurga and Lola Ben-Alon they offer visual and technology courses they are the sequence directors for that and that is something that you can take through your electives as well but basically G-SAP is very well known both for the innovation in representation and that's something that you will be invited to dig in and also in the huge engagement on materiality on the reinvention of materiality and that's something that we keep doing and you will be doing. Hopefully, I think if everything goes well we will go back to in-person progressively a big part of what we'll do is also traveling not as visitors but engaging with people where we go this is a trip for instance we did to Iceland with CRC and a fan studio, the director we didn't go as tourists here we were working with more than 15 different scientists as we were there visiting them, discussing with them basically we consider these kind of reciprocal relationship that we established with the locations we're working with and kind of an opportunity to basically understand that the world we do need to be situated and basically also we will be offering summer studio TAs to your class and for the coming students for the current students we're offering associate positions in the fall but this is something that is part of the basically a larger engagement of the program with basically bridging the next steps offering the possibility for those that are not from the US to gain a professional experience afterwards something that is in New York or in the US something that is very much facilitated by the career development team with Lee and Karen that you've already met and the team talked about their work they're quite amazing they will be very busy in the summer also working with the graduating class but when we talk about the next steps for the AD class I'm excited to say that this is really diverse and that it's of course many of you want to work in big ambitious offices others want to work in more independent groups or smaller teams or kind of creative small teams in New York others want to be part of public agencies others want to engage on activism and advocacy work basically the school facilitates a kind of a custom basically a possibility of kind of bridging the next step the professional step


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Well hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm Jonathan Asley of JonathanAsley.com and I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today. Our topic, the six surprising factors that makes a man attracted to you. Really quickly, before we get in, if this content resonates with you and you're interested in a little bit of a personal touch, meaning you'd like to have your some questions answered, check out the link below to schedule a one-on-one call with me to see if coaching is right for you. Okay let's talk about those six, or should we do six factors, surprising factors that make a man attracted to you. You know what's interesting, when I came up with this topic I was thinking about a recent podcast that I did on my podcast and if you're not familiar, I have a podcast called the What Would Love Do podcast and you can check it out on Apple and Google and all those cases just typing what would love do in Jonathan Asley and I recorded an audio regarding the words I love you and it seemed to me that you know the words I love you are so powerful and yet so oftentimes misused and yet when we're really attracted to someone, when we're really feeling that sense of I love you, that's the relationship we want to commit to, that's the relationship we want to go the distance if it's coming from a genuine heart-centered mature place. Let me repeat that, a genuine heart-centered mature place. Sadly so many people say the words I love you from an immature place either coming from a place of fear or coming from a place of their ego but I want to go a little bit deeper because I really do believe this is so powerful for understanding attraction so in that podcast and what I'm going to share with you today I'm going to give you the cliff note version of it is the six things that I think is is what I love you represents and I'm going to relate it to this video in a second so what when I say I love you to someone and my hope is that with my next partner it's coming from that authentic sincere mature place and I say I love you to them it's going to mean the following I'm here you matter we are important I've got your back I'm not going anywhere and I only want you let me say that I'm here you matter we are important I've got your back I'm not going anywhere I only want you and I'm going to explain it a little bit deeper because whether you're a man or woman watching this video this relates to both people in relationship so this is what we we deep if we want to feel deep love then I'm going to dive into this so let's go with number one I'm here what that means is I'm present I'm present I'm present to this relationship I'm present to this experience I'm not reliving the past and stuck in some past relationship and I'm not focused on the future and so much where's it going where's it going where's it going I'm here present in the relationship because when a person is present that's incredibly attractive okay I'm here okay number two you matter this is telling someone this is saying to someone that you actually matter to me you're important to me that you're someone that I value in my life and so when when someone is feeling that from a genuine heart centered mature place that you actually matter to another person that is incredibly attractive for those people who are emotional grown-ups and you've heard me talk about a lot of people who are not emotional grown-ups but to that emotional grown-up that is a hugely attractive trait and we're going to talk about that in a lot more videos than certainly my past videos okay the third one we matter oh my god this is so powerful this is coming from the consciousness that a relationship is a separate entity a relationship is a separate entity and what I mean to say is is treating the relationship is something important because there's a you there's a me and then there's a we oh I'll do that as a heart shape as a we and that we is a separate entity so that's coming that's why I said maturity is so important here because when we come at it from a mature conscious place and we say that the we is important that is highly attractive that is highly attractive okay the I've got your back oh my gosh it says we're part of a team I'm here in it with you I'm gonna you know when you need me I'm there when I'm when I when I need you I want you to be there because when we can trust that our partner is there for us that is the kind of attraction that keeps us rooted in a relationship and we know that our partner is there for us and ladies I know most of my channel is watched by women but I'm making this non-gender related but I'm going to say I understand your frustration in this particular area it's incredibly frustrating to choose men who don't treat you like they've got your back they don't treat the relationship as a separate entity they don't treat you as important and these people aren't conscious and present because as I go into the deeper I'm not going anywhere when I'm really leaning into this this please pay this surprising factor is that I'm rooted in this relationship I'm not going anywhere I'm rooted in this relationship and I want to explore the all the depths of this relationship the good the bad and the ugly I'm rooted in this relationship and that is highly attractive when you know you're with a partner that is rooted in the relationship I know it's frustrating because it doesn't feel that way and as I said before I'm differentiating between those emotionally mature people and those emotionally immature people and whether man or woman sadly we are riddled with emotional immaturity it's one of the reasons why I'm a big proponent of reading the books I recommend worse and and certainly start with my book what the heck is self-love anyway what the heck is self-love anyway this is a an opportunity to gain insight into who you are on the inside so you can be fully prepared for this juicy delicious relationship and there's so many more books I mean I got my whole stack right here what's another one okay all right and our last one the sixth one or should we do sixth one can't decide um and now I just forgot I'm here you matter we're important I've got your back I'm not going anywhere and I only want you god I went brain dead for a second I only want you what that really says is I'm passionate about this relationship I'm passionate about you and this is the romance piece this is the romance piece I only want to covet you I want to be romantic in this relationship I want to be intimate in this relationship I want to be intimate both on a physical level and an emotional level intimate on a physical and emotional level in fact many of you have heard me say and maybe you haven't is I believe romance should be reserved for when you're in a relationship and not as a precursor to getting into a relationship because when someone is going to make the investment of romance it should be because you actually genuinely love this person and romance is incredibly attractive and romance is a two-way street or a two-way two-way street it's mutual it's equal it's not one-sided it's not the masculine doing it or the feminine doing it is both of you investing into the romance of the relationship because that really says I only want you and that's highly highly attractive in a relationship wow I covered a lot I even went brain dead there for a second all right I'd like to hear your thoughts on this video please post a comment below if this resonated with you if you have something to add something to say please share what you've got I want to hear about it also uh if you're new to my youtube channel hit the subscribe button where it's at and there's also going to be another button if you want to get some of my free products and links check out the links below as well and I'm going to wrap up this video as I always do giving you a big gigantic Jonathan bear hug if I have your consent oh thank you mm wishing you a wonderful day thanks so much bye bye now


Thank you very much. It's hard to follow a robot dog, but thank you so much, Pamela, for underlying exactly why connectivity is so important. Let's take a quick look at Panama. This is a picture of the world through the lens of connectivity. Giga is an initiative that's UNICEF and ITU in partnership trying to connect every school in the world, which means trying to connect every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. We don't have a robot dog, but I will ask you to take out your phone during our presentation, hit that QR code, or go to projectconnect.world and find a country that you want to explore. Each of the dots on this map is a school. The red dots are schools with no connectivity at all. That's a part of the country, in this case, Panama, where kids are excluded from a digital future. And it's not a small part at all. The green schools are schools that have connectivity. In those schools, you can see activities happening. You can see kids getting ready for the jobs of the future, and you can see them building the digital skills that they'll need to survive in the world to come. Giga's been around for about three years, and in these three years, we've helped to connect more than 7,000 schools, about 3 million young people to the internet. We'll do another 25,000 schools this year, and we're helping to reduce the prices of connectivity by almost 50% in many of the countries that we work in. The call to action is very simple, and the minister and I will ask you again at the end to join us, but help us find every school in the world. We don't know how many there are or where they are, and help us get them connected to the internet. This is all important work when it happens at a global level, but I'd like to also take the chance to dive into some of the work that's been happening in Sierra Leone, one of our lead countries in Giga, and ask the minister to share her perspectives on the work of Giga over the last several years. Thank you, Chris. So in Sierra Leone, working with ITU and UNICEF, we have been able to map the spatial location of all schools in the country. And we have been able to layer that with connectivity data, which kind of tells us the potential for connectivity. And when we did this, what this told us was, whilst 80% of the 11,200 schools we have in Sierra Leone were within 3G and 4G coverage, we only had 205, which were actually connected to the internet. Working with UNICEF and ITU, we have been able to increase and make good progress in increasing connectivity for schools, whilst also exploring different avenues for funding. And I'm happy to share that through our joint efforts, we were able to, the government of Sierra Leone, was able to secure $5 million from the Islamic Development Bank, which we estimate will connect to further 1,000 schools. In Sierra Leone, it is our vision that Giga connected schools will not just be able to provide better access to education for our young students, but it is our vision that they would also serve as a hub for communities, especially in rural areas which previously had limited or no access to internet connection. With the estimated impact on human capital development, youth and employment, as well as access to financing, it is estimated that there would be an increase in impact on our GDP of as much as 14%, thereby accelerating our progress towards achieving 2030 development goals. We are delighted that our young people and our entrepreneurs would be able to access the world of opportunities available online, and Chris actually has an exciting news to share with all of you. I have half of it, and then you'll, I guess I have the other half. So this is a picture of the new Giga Technology Center in Barcelona. We're very proud to be hosted by both the government of Switzerland and the governments of Spain, Catalonia and Barcelona. In the technology center, this is a picture from last week. We have about 20 nerds working on building open source solutions to answer that question of how do you find schools, how do you make sure they're connected, and how do you share that knowledge with the rest of the world. Giga is active in 29 countries now, with countries like Sierra Leone leading on developing the software, the connectivity, and the protocols to allow schools to come online and serve as the center for the community. And the Giga Center in Barcelona is now open for business. We're excited to bring government partners together to let them share what they're doing in their countries, and we help to facilitate those interactions. So this was last week, but, Minister, maybe you can talk about what will happen for the next year. I'm happy to share that our partnership with the Sierra Leone's partnership with Giga will continue, and that Sierra Leone will send its first five young developers to the Giga Technology Center by early next year. They will be working on open source connectivity projects with the Giga team, covering applications on mapping, data science, and blockchain-based accounting platforms. They'll be at the center for several months to gain valuable skills which they'll co-create with technology solutions that are useful in our context. The world is getting smaller, and we are delighted to grow our collaboration with Giga, even for them. Thank you. We are as well. Thank you all. Come and join us. Help connect everyone.


Welcome to Street Smart Samurai. I'm Dana Abbott and I will be your guide throughout this video series on Kenjutsu, how to wield a Japanese sword. When sparring and fighting, the need for a simple, practical, and effective stance is a very important factor.  With that understood, if you practice anything fancy at this time of your training, you will become an easy target. It's that simple. Let's begin in a natural body position. Standing up straight, heels together, toes pointing off at an angle, the sword, and your hands at your side. From here, let's begin the transition into the first stance. I will give it a count of four. One, two, three, four, and a count of two. One, two, and also with a count of one. One. Let's see it on a side view, the count of four. One, two, three, four, and a count of two. One, two, and a count of one. One. Let's take a closer look at this hand and foot positioning. Your right hand is forward, as with your right foot. Your feet are positioned in the same manner as riding a skateboard, surfboard, or snowboard. Your back is straight, and your feet are evenly balanced. Next, I'm going to flip and rotate this sword forward into a center stance, also known as a chudan no kamai. Let's take a closer look at this hand transition and break it down to a count of three. One, remove your hand from the sword, put it at your side. Two, rotate and flip the sword forward. Three, grasp the handle with your left hand. Let's bring this back and do it for a count of one. One. On the side, let's do this for another count of three. One, move your hand, put it on the side. Two, flip the sword forward. Three, grasp the handle. And a count of one. One. Let's review these transitions for your first stance. We'll start with numbers, count of seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Let's speed it up for a count of four. One, two, three, four. Let's speed this up more for a count of two. One, two, and then finally a count of one. One. I'd like you to practice these transitions into your stance over and over until your muscle memory sets in. The faster and smoother you can bring the sword out in front of you, the easier it will be to set up for your next technique. After you have become accustomed to all the transitions in your first stance, I want you to take it over to your other side. Because if you can do the exact same thing in a mirrored position, you will become a very proficient fighter.


Hi, I'm Jonathan Miller and this is Diamond Systems and I'm here to show you today our latest products that we're showing here at Embedded World 2020. This current product here is our latest product for the NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem. NVIDIA Jetson is a new generation of high-performance GPU, very low-cost, very small size and perfect for embedded applications for AI at the edge and all things like that. The Floyd board here is a carrier board for the Nano and the brand new XAVIER NX module. So the Nano has 128 CUDA cores and the XAVIER NX has 384 cores. These are excellent products for high-performance, low-cost AI at the edge applications. This is a very interesting product because it has these front panel connectors which makes it very easy to put it inside of an enclosure like this system over here. This is the same Nano Floyd carrier board inside of a box that's ready for deployment. So it's high-performance and it's great for AI, stuff like that. It's high-performance, low-cost, small size, lightweight. It has all kinds of camera interfaces. This is the product designed specifically for camera-centric applications. We have two POE camera ports here. We have USB 3.0 that can be used for camera and we also have three MIPI CSI quad-lane camera interfaces for integrated cameras inside of the enclosure. We have all kinds of different... That's a lot of cameras. That's a lot. It's like a self-driving car. Is that many cameras? Yes. It would have typically six cameras. This can handle one of those six-camera 360-degree sensors. What are the other applications? Who's going to take one of these and where are they going to put this? What are these going to be used in applications where people have high-computer requirements? Specifically, it will be for things like camera interfaces, primarily. I think the number one application for a video adjacent is really anything that's image-abased. There's also some machine learning and things like autonomous vehicle navigation and things like that. But typically you will see it where they have to do a lot of real-time parallel processing, which means basically image processing, image recognition, things like that. What's the format of this? This is a custom format created by Vidya, but it's very similar to an SOD memory module. It's about 15 by 70 millimeters approximately. I don't remember the exact number. But the nice thing about this product is that they now have two products with two different levels of performance that have the exact same form factor. So this product is scalable. So you can start out with a lower-end nano and you can upgrade to the higher performance Xavier and X if you need a higher application performance. So you get performance scalability. That's a really nice feature to have in an embedded product. So is this the most advanced, the most powerful you've done so far? The most powerful product is another one. We have two other products for the higher end Xavier module. So if you'd like, I can show you the other Xavier carry boards. Yeah. Okay. I want to come over to here. And this is the remainder of our Vidya product line. So Vidya has also a TX2 module and a Xavier module. This product here is called Elton, as in Elton John. This product is our top-of-the-line rugged high-performance Vidya Jetson carry board. So this is a larger board. This is the Xavier module here. This is the 3D print of the Xavier module to show you what it's like. And then we have a heat spreader here to pull the heat out. This can provide up to 30 tera-ops, 30 times 10 to the 12 operations per second, which is pretty impressive performance compared to anything in the x86 world. This has also a very unique feature, which is PCIe 104 expandability. This gives you PCIe by one and by eight, as well as PCI bus expansion. So if you need additional IO, there's a huge universe of embedded PCIe 104 IO modules from all kinds of companies all around the world that you can plug on to here to get additional functionality. You can get 10 gig ethernet, you can get additional graphics, things like that. So what kind of markets are asking for these? Again, it's everything that is... This could be used for autonomous vehicles because of the higher performance. This could be used for any kind of data manipulation, data processing, image capture, facial recognition, things like that. Are there autonomous devices in farming? Stuff like this? Absolutely. In fact, at the last trade show we went to, right across from our booth, was a demonstration by a company using a product like this for a strawberry picking. So what happens is it has six sides at the same time, so three rows on both sides of the row. It is searching for a strawberry, identifying the strawberry, checking if it's ripe, and then picking it. And all that's being controlled by an AI engine, controlled by Xavier modules. Are you in robots or in drones? We are in a lot of drone applications, we're also in a lot of submarine applications. We have some customers using our products for robot arms to, for example, prevent collision of multiple arms working simultaneously. Another application. So yes, we have all kinds of... And there's a lot of other new boards. Is this other new... Sure, come around. Let me launch this one. Let me show you a brand new concept here. Same concept here. This is also a COM carrier. Well, in this case, this is COM Express. So now we're back to the X86 world. This is our newest product called Gemini. Gemini is a really super product, and I'll tell you why. Because it combines the incredibly successful COM Express with the incredibly successful PC104 for IO expansion. So you get amazing benefits. What you get is performance scalability, because you can buy all different kinds of COMs from different vendors to put on here. You get a long life cycle, because if the COM goes obsolete, you can buy another one to replace it. So you design a product around Gemini, the product will last forever, because it will never go obsolete. And you get to choose performance and price and power consumption that you want for your product. So what kind of boards go in there? Well, like we have Whiskey Lake, which is our basic one, the eighth generation Core i7. You can put BayTrail, Apollo Lake, you can put Ryzen for AMD, almost anything. There's probably 25 companies here selling COM Express modules that you can see. They'll all work on this board. On the top side, we have PCIe104 again, just like you saw on the Elton board. Here we have, again, we have PCIe by one and by 16, and PCIe104 expandability, as well as MiniCard and M.2. So you have this huge range of IO expansion that you combine with the COM Express, so it's super flexible. Because do you have customers using devices, your devices for very long time? So you want to be a future pro? We have showing customers a lot that have long life programs. The number one concern that we have for customers in this market today is the longevity of the product that is like a single board computer. Everybody we talk to, we walk in there and they say, we have a problem. Our single board computer vendor made our product obsolete, looking for a replacement. This conversation happens over and over again. It's the number one concern of people in the embedded market today. So anything you can do to provide longevity in your product line is a win for you and for the customer. How old are your oldest devices? Our oldest current product is from 1998. And it's still out there? Absolutely. We have customers using the designs in our computer boards from the early 2000s that are now looking for solutions. So I'll show you our next product that is designed for that. This here is called Athena 4. Why is it 4? Because there was Athena 1, 2, and 3. And actually, let me show you Athena 1, 2, and 3. They're right here. So here we have, this is the original Athena 1 board right here. It was developed in 2004 using a via Eaton processor. Here is the next generation. And when this chip went obsolete, we switched to the Via Mark and provided increased performance, a few additional IO features, but notice that the layout is almost exactly the same. Same features, same price, everything is the same, but upgraded performance. Then when this chip went obsolete, we went to an Intel Tunnel Creek CPU here. This is Athena 3. Again, same connectors, same features, everything is the same. A little bit of upgraded performance, things like that, more memory. But what we did was we allowed our customers to migrate to newer technology and keep their products alive. Finally, the Tunnel Creek processor went obsolete. So we said, enough is enough, let's switch to a ComExpress module. So now we use ComExpress type 10. And again, we have the same form factor, the same features, everything is the same, same price, same power consumption, but we have dramatic increase in performance and we have basically much longer life cycle. So as you say, the ComExpress is a whole bunch of different solutions. Yes. This is a Baytrail module, but you can later on this year we will have a Whiskey Lake Core i7 8th generation module on top of year 2. We have Core i7 in PC104, who can offer that? This is all x86 solution. This is all x86 based, yes. And you've done a lot of x86 stuff for a long time. Yes, since the beginning of the company, it's all been x86 based, right, until we branched out to a little bit of ARM computing and now into the Jetson. Alright. And so what other things are you talking about here, the embedded world? Well, we also are selling embedded systems based around PC104 and Jetson. So we have several different enclosure systems. This is called our mini box PC, so you can put ARM and x86 ports inside of here. This is basically the work mounts on top here and then we have cables to the front panel. So it's a pretty standard box PC type of project. This right here is a rugged box called Saber. Here we have a Core i7 single board computer inside of a rugged box, no connectors. This is all IP67 rugged, no standard 810 shock and vibration. This is perfect for vehicle applications, scalable with PC104 expansion. This is the same thing but a smaller size. And then this is a product that we developed also about 20 years ago. This is called Pandora and this system is also a PC104 board that can go inside here and then all the IO comes to the front panel. Alright. In fact, there's an Athena board inside this box right here and these connectors are bringing out the IO from the Athena board as well as some additional IO mounts inside it. So chip makers like Intel and Nvidia are very happy to partner with you to do all kinds of stuff. We're a pretty small customer compared to some of the larger vendors but sure. I mean they're all here because they recognize the value of the embedded market. Actually, Nvidia is just down the street from us so we have a regular relationship with them, we meet them all the time and they help us with connecting us with customers and holding the ecosystem. Creating a new specialized product. Yes, they're very interested of course in becoming a dominant player in the GPU embedded GPU market and so they're working very hard to build the ecosystem of companies like us, camera makers and so on, software vendors who will provide this whole infrastructure ecosystem to help penetrate the market, to create leadership for Nvidia. And right over there, you're showing some other stuff here during the show. Why don't you come out of here? This is a very interesting demo. Okay, so we wanted to show the capabilities of Nvidia Jessen. What we have here is our Stevie carrier board. This is the real Xavier module here. This is the real 30 Terra Ops, 30 Y Xavier module from Nvidia, 512 cores running Linux. And so this is our Stevie carrier which is a very small, compact, low-cost carrier for commercial applications. What we have here is a program for style transfer. Okay, so what happens is you can take a picture of yourself, you can select a piece of artwork and then in just a few seconds it will combine, it will apply this as a style to your picture and give you the output. So here are some examples. Would you like to try? Yeah. Okay, so let's try it. Can I wear my light head?  I take a look at the camera right here, smile. Okay, we'll take a picture. Three, two, one, there you go. Okay, excellent photograph, look at that. So I like it. Now, you get to pick a piece of art. Oh. I would recommend probably, that's a good one. Okay, so now it's processing and there you are. Oh, whoa. Cool. And then we can get your info here so that we can add you to our mailing list and we can print out a picture and give it to you. I'm definitely going to fill this out just after the video. Yeah, and you can do it over and over again because we can try and change styles so you can do another one. So you can try like this one here and it only takes a few seconds. So there you go. All right. See, and the thing is that this would take 100 times as long on an X86 board. And this is just a very busy embedded world, right? This has been a great show for us, yeah. The fact that other people, other companies didn't show up means there was more traffic for us. So we ended up getting a lot of attention. Best embedded world ever for you? I think so, absolutely. All right. And a lot of stuff in the future, right? A lot of things are happening. Innovation is now accelerating, really. I mean, things are really growing so fast, it's hard to keep up. So we're moving in many different directions. We're doing single board computers, ethernet switches, NVIDIA, IO, rugged systems. So there's just so many different directions to move in. It's like a kid in the candy store. There's so much great technology, so many great opportunities here.