Okay in this step we're going to take this grass this beautiful little meadow that we created in the last step and we're going to spend a bit of time making it a little better than it does. So let's get straight into that so if you are following this series through hopefully you've still got your foliage tool open and what I want to do is click on this here and that will then allow us to get to the settings for the grass that we've already put down and some of these things we can still change. So one of the things that I want to change, where are we, is cast shadow. I don't want this grass to cast any shadow all, it's really expensive to have grass casting shadows. So you'll see that completely changes the look of it and when we build lighting later all those horrible smudges on the landscape will disappear as well. I don't want it to cast any shadow. I also want to turn on call something called engine scalability which will enable the density scaling. So we turn that on and what that will do is that when we change the quality settings of the editor later we can actually reduce the amount of grass meshes that are being created so if your computer sucks like mine does you can reduce the amount of grass that's being drawn but you can then that allows the same project to open on a better PC and have all the grass put back. So obviously that scalability thing's really useful. Okay so we've got that the next thing that I want to change is the culling distance so let's have a look at that. So you've got this cull distance here and what I want to do is kind of get a feel for so let me just play first I'm just gonna look kind of somewhere in the distance that should do it. I want to get a feel for how far this culling is gonna go and then I'm just gonna click and drag on this minimum slider here and you see when I start doing it all the grass has gone. I'm gonna click and drag to the right and you can see now that the distance is increasing and it will draw the grass further back. So I want it to be in quite far but I don't necessarily want it to draw everything so I've just now switched over to this max because I want to bring it back down. About there I think so just to get a feel for how far that's drawing now you see so it's culling it about there which is quite nice. Right so that's pretty cool I'm happy with that and I think that's everything I want to change in the actual foliage setting. So what I'll do now is I'll just come back in so I can see my grass a little bit better and I'm just gonna change the settings on the material instance just to make sure that I'm happy with all that. So I'm just gonna go back into place mode to turn that that tool off I don't want that anymore. Go into materials I want my grass material instance which is probably still open somewhere maybe not there it is grass instance. Tear that away because I want to be able to see everything as I'm doing it. Do you know what I need to get that off that of the screen there we are. Okay so what I'm gonna do now is open the tint and I want to as much as I can get these meshes to match up with the colour of the grass that I've got so I want to add more green into it I think that's too much. That's a pretty close match so it's not gonna match with absolutely everything you can actually kind of at the back it doesn't match up quite as well but I'm happier with that. So I'm gonna leave that. Okay so the next thing I'm going to do is just have a little experiment with the specular so let's see what happens if I open that to 2. Nothing really let's drop that down to 0. Okay so that is an effect let's try 0.5. Okay I kind of like that what about 0.7. Yeah I'm gonna leave that about that and the subsurface strength let's just try that up to 5. Yep I prefer that what about 6. I prefer that 2. Okay I'm gonna leave that where it is then so now I'm a lot happier with this grass I think that looks a lot better. So I should save that material instance and I'm just gonna close that for now. Okay so now we've got all that done the last thing to do is just test it have a little run around see how we feel about it see if we love it I feel like I might love it so let's have a look so a click on play and let's have a little run. So yeah you can see that the colour changes a little bit when the light hits it which I kind of like the culling isn't overly noticeable although we can see it popping in there which I might need to just play around with a little bit I'm not massively happy about that but overall pretty happy with that grass that's pretty nice so keep in mind that we've made this look nice for now but we're gonna start changing all the lighting later and all that tint and whatever might not make sense anymore so you've got to be willing to go back in and make tweaks all the time to get this exactly how you want it but for now I think that we'll call it on the grass I'm happy enough with that so in the next step we'll move on to something else to fill up the scene we're gonna bring in our pine trees so that'll be exciting I think I'll see you in the next video for that thanks for watching if you really want to take your learning further than I can cover in this series then I highly recommend checking out pluralsight they have loads of really detailed video courses covering game art and game development using Unreal Engine 4 when I learned how to use Unreal a couple of years ago this is where I went and I look in regularly to take a new course and improve my skills I recommend checking out the introduction to Unreal Engine 4 course by Joshua Kinney this is really good and offers a good overview of what you can do in Unreal you can get a free 10-day trial by using my link in the video description and you get full access to all of their courses for that time at the end of your 10 days you can either subscribe for more or cancel totally up to you it's got to be worth a free trial though right I'd like to say a massive thank you to my patrons your support helps me to keep making videos like this one and I really appreciate each and every one of you it really blows my mind that people will support my channel and my work by pledging their money through Patreon so again thank you all so so much if you aren't already a patron and you'd like to offer your support then please go to patreon.com forward slash Shane Whittington


The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP in Ogul's state Olufemi Ajadi, is vowed to drag the Independent National Electrical Commission, INET, to court over a mission of the party's name on the ballot papers. He spoke after he cast his vote at Ophada in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. Ajadi expressed concern that only the party's local was on the ballot paper as the name was conspicuously missing. Meanwhile, a chieftain of the party in Ogul's state, Otsumbah Shegun Shoumi, has commanded the ongoing governorship in House of Assembly elections. Speaking with newsmen after casting his vote in a Biokuta Shoumi acts, the Independent National Electrical Commission, INET, and other officials in charge of collation and transmission of results electronically to do their part in order to achieve a free and fair election. Presenting now, we cannot know the outcome of the previous until after the election process comes to an end. As you can see, we cannot see security everywhere. Look at what we are facing in the country. Even in my own polling booths, where I'm casting votes, look at our APC gather hoodlums to attack me at my polling units. I'm so disappointed in this country. I'm so disappointed about the leaders that we have. I don't understand that people cannot just move around freely to the extent they are dragging down with my security. Couldn't imagine. No, no, no, no, no. This is not an election. From the ballot paper, I can see the name of my party there and MPP. After written to the INEC, submitted to the INEC, I acknowledge it that we submitted this letter for amendment to make sure that they correct everything before the upcoming election. And today is the election. We can't find the name. Only logo. I don't know what is going on in the country. The truth of the matter is that most elections have been done at the polling unit. People have their expectations on how well it was conducted. Again, I'm saying that it has been well, at least from what I can see. Bevers has worked, accreditation has worked. Meaning now we've done our part. Let those who are responsible for it.


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Good morning and welcome back. It's been, I believe, two weeks already since we did not have a class, but we had the midterm exam. I did not have time to read your exam papers, but I hope to have time today in the afternoon during my flight to the Hague via Munich. So I usually read exam papers during my flights in order to, you know, use time more efficiently. And people sitting right next to me are amazed with the grades that I'm giving. Well, some of them say, well, 90. So, hi. Well, I say, he or she deserved. So, you don't have to be afraid if you did not have a good exam. Some of you sent a couple of messages saying that your exam performance was below your expectations. Actually, I don't think I asked anything unexpected. But if there's anything, I mean, if your performance was below the level that you expected, well, I think you should revise the method that you're studying for this course. But we will have another exam, the final exam. There will be op-ed and the simulation as well as your attendance, class participation. So there's nothing to press the panic button. I'll tell you if you have to press the panic button. So I believe there are two or three students who missed the exam. Are they here? Not even today? Okay, fine. That's, I was going to announce, yes, you're one of them. All right, somebody has to warn you that professor is speaking about something that interests you, right? So give your full attention to what I'm saying here, all right? But not to miss other things. I believe this attendance paper is being circulated. Please mark your names and signatures. All right, I think I will have to wait another while for announcing the date of the exam, the makeup exam. Because I have to have everybody here, all three of you. And also I have to consult this with my assistant because she's going to give you the exam and I don't know much about her schedule. And most probably it will be sometime in the later afternoon, like 4.30 or something, or maybe 3.30, depending on your schedule. And the exam will be something that you will have to study for that exam, right? So just don't take things easy. Second announcement, as you know, time is approaching for due dates, deadlines, like op-eds. You must have something like about a month to go. A month is much more than necessary for writing an op-ed. As I said, for those who know what he or she is going to write, even a couple of days is more than necessary.  And if you are not clear about what an op-ed is and how it should look like, please don't come to me again because I explained this many times in my office during this progress report times as well as on some individual discussions, on one-on-one discussions, as well as I spent at least an hour, a full hour on the op-ed thing. And just go to the video.billcant.edu-tr and find a podcast, one of the podcast recordings at the beginning of the semester, the second, the third or whatever. I don't remember exactly one. And watch that video, all right? So you have there everything you need about the op-eds. But as a final note about the op-ed, it is something that has to be analytical, that it's something that you argue something, defend an idea, a position, and of course you substantiate your position, your argument with some facts, figures. That might be available. It's not something that threw from the top of your head, but something that not at all also either it's anything like, well, that part says this or the other part says that. I don't want this kind of just mere descriptive discussion. I want you to have an opinion, a position with something, and also substantiate it or sort of support it, force it with some other arguments, facts, figures, thoughts, views, whatever. All right? Just think about it. With respect to simulation, I believe you had your meetings scheduled, at least with the embassies, and don't forget, as I said, at least several times. Embassy meetings are not actually the only thing. I mean, you have to carry out extensive research about the formal positions of the countries that you are going to represent. So therefore, you have to consult with as many people as possible, and also consult with just many sources that you can find on the Internet or other places, all right? Just think about these things, because we are going now toward the end of the semester. We have passed already the half way, and we're going towards the termination of the semester in about a month from today. You still have the screen. Of course, I will advance several screens, several slides. We're not going to take from the beginning, but I just want to say something just to see the whole picture here, Iran's ambitions and emerging crisis. We talked about the background. We sort of set out the puzzle. What is the issue which creates problem among nations? What is the problematic issue? And we were studying the position of the actors in the puzzle. Well, as you will remember, this actually is something that comes from November 2006. It's not an updated version. I actually did not update this on purpose, because in some places, I mean, as we go, as we advance, you will see some differences between the past positions of some countries, especially European Union and partially Russia, and back in the 2006 and 2007, these years, and also today, and this is something that can tell us that there might be further changes in their position. So in foreign policy, nothing is static. Foreign policy is a dynamic process, and the task of the foreign policy makers is to watch this screen, look at this screen at all times, and to read our screen, and take positions, and if necessary, change positions with the emerging sort of risks as well as chances or opportunities that may arise. So therefore, we will see here rather clearly that especially there has been a significant change in the position of the European Union. So we'll advance with this, and if there's anything that you cannot remember or you want to refresh your minds with respect to the past slides, just as I will go rather quickly, please raise your hand and ask questions about these slides and about this information. So we talked about the past or the history of Iran's nuclear ambitions starting from the Shah period as early as the 50s and 60s, but more so after the OPEC crisis when Iran actually confronted with large sums of money. Then, of course, we stated the puzzle. Why is it that some of the activities which Iran claims to be totally legal and legitimate are found to be illegitimate or illegal or as part of sort of something that violates Iran's treaty obligations according to some other party. We stated here the reasons why. Maybe we can just refresh minds starting from here. As we know now very well that because Iran is a state party to the MPT, the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, which was signed in 1968 and entered into force in 1970, and it was signed and ratified by Iran in 1968 and 1969. So Iran is a state party to the treaty, the MPT, and Iran is a state party. A state party means a state which is signed and ratified. Just to remind you and just to refresh your minds, governments or whatever administrations may exist in countries because there are 200 countries, states, nations in the world, and they may have different administrative structures. And usually international treaties, conventions, documents are signed by the governments, and assigning a document is an indication of the intention to comply with the terms of the treaty or convention, whatever it is, whatever the document might be. And it has to be ratified by the upper house. In some countries, this upper house is a senate. In some other countries, the upper house is a parliament. In some others, there might be a council of, I don't know, wise men or something, or the emperor or the monarch. I don't know. So therefore, when a state actually signs as well as ratifies a treaty, then it becomes a state party. State party means it is now bound by the terms of the treaty. Just by signing a treaty, a country does not become bound or is not obliged to comply with the terms of the treaty. After ratification, this is an obligation for the state. And this obligation remains as long as the state is in the treaty or is a part of the convention or whatever. And in the case of the MPT, you might remember from our past discussions, since 1970, in five-year intervals and so on, the MPT was reviewed. And in 1995, there was a review and extension conference. Therefore, the conference after 1990 review conference, it was reviewed and also extended. And the extension was indefinite and unconditional. So actually, that means there is no condition attached to the extension of the MPT. And because its extension was indefinite, so there is no deadline or there is no expiration date for the MPT. So as long as we can foresee actually into the future, the MPT will remain with us unless there is something unusual that happens and all of a sudden a number of countries deposit their desire or express their desire to withdraw from the treaty because there is such a possibility under some extreme conditions and if a country decides that staying in the treaty is something that runs counter to its vital interest by making an early notification for some time, then that country may withdraw from the treaty. For instance, North Korea was late to come or become a state party. And then after some developments, it was forced, in a sense, by Russia and China to first sign and ratify the treaty. Ratification came a little bit late. But during the second Gulf crisis, I mean 2002, North Korea withdrew from the MPT. Now it is outside of the MPT. And therefore whatever North Korea is doing these days cannot be found guilty just within the context of the MPT because they are not at all and any more bound by the MPT. Any country can do that. But of course, now one of the issues that are being discussed in the international security community is whether we should make it difficult for countries to withdraw from the treaty. Whether it should be easy or straightforward for countries to withdraw from the treaty because by withdrawal, I mean you just get rid of all your obligations. I mean one might ask, of course, as the first question that comes to one's mind, what is wrong with that? I mean if a country doesn't want to stay in a treaty, it is sovereign right to withdraw from the treaty, fine. But by becoming a member of the treaty, you entertain certain privileges. You acquire some rights. You get some capabilities. Then you advance your level thanks to being in the treaty. And then by exploiting these privileges actually to the extent possible, then one day you say, well, you know what, I'm off with the treaty. I don't want to stay anymore. Now I'm withdrawing. So there is this fear of developing what is called breakout capabilities. A breakout capability is such a capability that gives one a country the ability, the capability to develop nuclear weapons or come closer to developing nuclear weapons after having sort of, in a sense, abused, of course, the rights by staying within the MPT. So therefore this is an issue which has to be also kept in mind. I mean this is not that simple. You can just say, well, that country was, or use its sovereign rights to sign the treaty, right to fight the treaty. Now it is using the same right to withdraw from the treaty. It is not that simple. And therefore if a country declares its intention to withdraw from the treaty, every other country or all other countries will be concerned about what is the reason for this country to withdraw from the treaty. Did this country develop breakout capabilities? And is it going to develop nuclear weapons soon? Which is not, of course, something desired by the rest of the international community. Anyway, so going back to this point, Iran signed, ratified the treaty during the Shah period. And of course after about 10 years later, there was a revolution, the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Things have changed. The entire sort of ideology has changed. State structure to a great extent has changed. And of course the regime has changed. And the foreign policy priorities have been affected from this. I cannot say entirely changed, but because there are other factors that affect countries foreign policy and what I see, I mean personal, this is my personal comment, you may agree or disagree or some other people might agree or disagree. But what I see is pretty much this continuation of the previous policy of becoming a nuclear power. So what was the ambition back in the Shah period to become a nuclear power, a nuclear capable state? Actually something that continues in the Islamic regime. So with respect to the clerical sort of administration or the Mullah regime. So therefore Iran is a state party to the MPT. And according to the MPT, it sort of provided that Iran never diverged its capabilities from peaceful to mean to purposes. It can develop indigenously by itself or by way of transfers or by way of sort of bilateral, multilateral agreements with other countries. It may import capabilities, transfer, nuclear technology from other countries. So long as they all remain under sort of peaceful purposes. So this is the essence of the question because according to the United States, Western powers, most of the rest of the world actually Iran's desires actually according to group of countries, Iran's desire is not a peaceful one. And there are certain indications according to these people's view that Iran's intentions actually not clear. And most probably has military intentions or just has the intention to divert peaceful applications, peaceful capabilities to military capabilities. So and one indication of this actually is not reporting the construction of a very significant facility, which is enrichment facility which was built since 1984 until 2002 by the Chinese actually helped to a great extent. And during these 18 years Iran did not report this facility to the IAEA, which is something that it had to do. I mean there is no explanation for this. And this is an indication of its sort of unclear intentions, let's say at the least. So this is the crux of the matter. It's part of the puzzle, let's say. And there are countries, I mean there are different countries who have different views with respect to Iran's capabilities. From the US perspective, actually Iran's capability, I mean, United States sees Iran's nuclear capabilities no matter how developed they are or whether they have built a nuclear weapon or not. Well, to our knowledge there is no sign of nuclear weapons built by Iran. Of course we cannot know the entire truth, but I mean I think we would have known by now if Iran had developed already. But most likely Iran does not have nuclear weapons capability for the time being. But the United States sees Iran's capability as a threat and wants Iran to permanently halt uranium enrichment. Because just remember, nuclear weapons need either highly enriched uranium, HEU or plutonium. And I'm not going to go into technical details again. And for HEU you have to have enrichment facilities. You have to enrich the percentage of 235 isotope, uranium 235 isotope from its 0.7% proportion in the natural uranium to 90 plus percentage. So therefore you need enrichment capabilities and Iran as I just mentioned in Natanz area has built a large enrichment facility. Which has the capability or capacity to install 55,000 centrifuges. I mean centrifuges are used just one of the techniques to enrich uranium. There are other techniques but Iran has seemingly adopted this technology. And with 55,000 centrifuges you can enrich up to 3.5% for one power reactor per year. So for Bush air for instance which is not very large but a large power reactor which has just started operation this autumn. Scheduled for August I believe there were some technical difficulties. And since September early October they have started generating electricity at small amounts. And with 55,000 centrifuges you can use this facility and run this facility for one year in order to supply enough low energy uranium for one power reactor. Amelia? Well let me just talk about this briefly because we covered this issue a little bit extensively. The IAEA I mean once a state becomes a member of the MPT not only by signing as I said by becoming state party I mean after ratification. That state party must conclude with the IAEA an agreement based on the safeguards agreement. What is called safeguards agreement. Based on model protocol which is also in the language of the international atomic energy agencies information circular 153. This is a tiny blue book. There are some 116 or 114 paragraphs articles. And it is a model protocol which is applied to almost every country every non nuclear weapons state and any non nuclear weapons state. Once signed and ratified a treaty within six months must sit with the IAEA and discuss the terms of the safeguards agreement as to how inspections will be carried out in that particular country. And this there is this model protocol according to which this safeguard agreement is decided or just signed. So this is something that comes from 1977 to one and back in 1970 because of the conjunctural developments because of the position of Japan and Germany which I discuss here again extensively. But because they did not want to be negatively affected from the intrusive or from the frequent inspections because during the inspections you have to shut down the reactor. And during these days I mean you cannot run or generate electricity you cannot run the reactor or what you cannot do whatever you want to do. And if a country has a number of reactors and if that country's reactors are being inspected frequently and and if you bear in mind that a nuclear reactor normally operates less than 200 days a year. And if there are 1015 or so maybe 20 days just passed with these inspections of course they this is it creates some sort of a commercial disadvantage. So Japan and Germany which had a number large number of reactors and large power reactors in which inspections would last longer than other sort of reactors or other facilities. So they put some restrictions or actually they created an environment whereby in 1971 the model protocol did not come out as a very powerful document. So according to model protocol of the safeguards agreement assume this is a country assume there are these nuclear facilities. The IAEA can go only to the declared nuclear facility if a country has declared all these facilities but not this one. The IAEA even if it knows that there is another facility here cannot go to that sort of facility according to model protocol. Well hopefully after the 1990s there were some developments the Iraq war, South African revelations about its nuclear capabilities that they built. The 7th was underway et cetera et cetera there is now additional protocol which was developed during the second half of the 1990s and open to signature in 1998. And it is enforced for some 60 or 70 countries because it is not obligatory. So the states that are members of the NPT have to they must sign a safeguards agreement according to model protocol but the additional protocol is not something that they must sign or ratify. It is optional additional protocol which is a more powerful document. Now Iran's nuclear facilities are being inspected according to the 1970s protocol and the IAEA goes to facilities that are declared by the Iranian authorities. And since Iran did not declare the Natanz facility from 1984 to 2002 under revelations by an opposition group in Washington then this facility which was in Natanz area was not inspected. And the IAEA did not know anything about it. Now it has been inspected in limited fashion because once in 2002 August this opposition group provided all the information to the international community. And similarly the IAEA Director General Mohammed Al-Baradeh gave an ultimatum to the Iranian authorities and asked from Iran to sign the additional protocol by 31st of October 2003. Yes Iran did sign the additional protocol but did not ratify the protocol. And since Iran did not ratify the protocol the IAEA still conducts to the extent possible inspections in Iran Iranian facilities according to the 1970s protocol or the insert 153. Well once this country signs the NPT and ratifies the NPT it becomes a state party to the NPT. And if this is the case it is obligatory for the state to sign the additional model protocol. This is an obligation. Then you can ask the same question not as what is the motivation for signing the safeguards agreement but what is the motivation to sign the NPT? Well that's a whole different issue. And in 1969, 1968, 1969 when the NPT was open to signature of course many states were given this deal. Remember this bonus question, bargain? What was the answer? What was your answer to the bonus question? Sorry, let me put it in this way. Put it in any way you like. If countries state their clear intentions about not getting the NPT, they will get a rich Iranian from... Well not only a rich Iranian. Yes, sure. But the bargaining essence is the non-nuclear weapon states. If you want to join the NPT they don't have to give up. They have the same purposes. There is only one condition they get the other nuclear power. Alright, other answers?  What was your answer? You don't remember? Ennis, remember your answer? Well, you seem to be a little bit confused. Actually it's very simple. For giving up the option to build new weapons, you are given this chance to acquire peaceful nuclear technology. So the nuclear weapon states say this. Look, now we have nuclear weapons. We cannot put the genie back in the bottle. We cannot disinvent nuclear weapons. We have invented these weapons. Now we have these weapons. Sorry for you guys. Well, they don't say this way.  But they say now that we have nuclear weapons we will do our best to disarm ourselves in the foreseeable future and we will start with goodwill negotiations as to how to do it. But in the meantime, if you promise not to acquire nuclear weapons or not to sort of have the intention to develop nuclear weapons we will give you peaceful nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. So that was the bargain. So therefore, why should I state? If nuclear weapons are so important for prestige, for security, for this or that because nuclear weapons are found to be significant or important because instead of standing large armies, thousands of tanks, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, maintenance, all this administrative cost and everything I mean if you have a couple of nuclear weapons you might think you might become untouchable just look at the position of North Korea for instance and my students as well as other people in the conference has always asked that this preferential treatment of the West towards North Korea and Iran and my answer is that North Korea is not a threat to Israel and that's why Iran is thought to be a threat to Israel when looked at the issue from the US perspective, from the European perspective and of course from the Israeli perspective and therefore Iran is put on the radar screen. So some countries think or believe having nuclear weapons is a privilege is a matter of prestige, is a matter of deterrence, is a matter of power so if this is the case, why would a state forgo the option, give up the option of developing the weapons once and for all? Well, from my personal perspective I hate nuclear weapons and therefore I'm a man of disarmament and I explain this on many occasions here I'm against nuclear weapons, I'm against proliferation, et cetera, et cetera why would a state do that? If nuclear weapons are associated with prestige, power, deterrence, economic or efficiency, anything because there is this bargain countries especially big in the 1970s, 68, 70, 72, 75, 80s I mean, nuclear technology was a state of the art technology not all states could have access to the technology so therefore they thought if we become a state party to the MPT we will get nuclear technology transferred to us from other countries which have nuclear capabilities, nuclear technology and since in our position we do not need nuclear weapons if they think so or we cannot even develop nuclear weapons or some others might have been more intelligent quote-unquote some states might have thought well let's enter, let's become a state party to the MPT let's entertain the privileges, let's acquire technology let's develop some indigenous capabilities ourselves let's develop a cadre of scientists, scholars, technicians, experts and then when the day comes we can develop breakout capabilities and we can walk out of the MPT so other many states may have had different motivations, different reasons but what is important here is once a state becomes a member of the MPT that is signed and ratifies the MPT according to the terms of the MPT it has to sign a safeguards agreement with the IAEA within a certain period of time and this safeguards agreement must be according to the model protocol of 1970 which was a weak document or weaker document than compared to the more current document which is an additional protocol but as I said Iran is a state party to the MPT and the safeguards agreement is signed according to the 1970 the weak model protocol according to which only the facilities that are declared by Iran can be inspected and according to this safeguards agreement there are certain periods and again there are some loopholes and shortcomings in the procedures Iran signed an additional protocol after the revelations about the Natanz facility in August 2002 but it has not yet and most possibly will not do so in the foreseeable future as ratified the addition protocol and therefore addition protocol is not enforced for Iran so therefore it is not possible to have a clear picture of Iran's nuclear capabilities inspections in Iran are conducted by the IAEA to the extent that are allowed by the former weaker older document there is a period as I will talk about in the next hour probably and in the coming days there is a period from late 2003 early 2005 Iran acted as if it was a member of the addition protocol or it had ratified as if it had ratified the addition protocol and opened most of its facilities to IAEA inspections still the west was not satisfied because the west fear of the presence of existence of some hidden facilities and there were some indications of this as again we will talk about later on therefore from the west's perspective or from the perspective of those who are concerned about what Iran's capabilities are it is not possible to say what exactly the situation is no one can say Iran's capabilities are at this level or that level because we don't know we know to the extent the IAEA was allowed to enter some facilities and visit some of the facilities and some specific places within these facilities they cannot go everywhere they cannot take samples from water I don't know air soil whatever so there are certain differences in perspective Iran says I'm not doing anything wrong and my capabilities are fully peaceful I have no such intentions and therefore all these allegations are baseless unfounded and are just you know you know conspiracy of Israel which itself is not in the MPT well that's also another fact that we will have to talk about because MPT is signed and ratified by almost all of the countries except for Iran sorry Israel Pakistan India and now North Korea as a withdrawal has withdrawn from the MPT and now it's a non-member so they are not bound by the terms of the MPT Israel India and Pakistan as well as North Korea are not bound by the obligations or by the terms of the MPT so this does not mean that they can do whatever they like well in theory yes maybe but everything international law is not everything it's most actually important but of course there are certain limitations as well Israel has very little relations with the IAEA because nuclear weapons states have voluntary agreements with the IAEA for their non-matry facilities because nuclear weapons states have a number of nuclear reactors or nuclear facilities not all of which are you know used for major purposes there are approximately 100 actually 104 103 nuclear reactors in the United States and some of them are used for major purposes I mean to produce enough plutonium in the waste to be extracted later on and so therefore because countries like Germany which had a number of some 35 or so nuclear reactors I might be mistaken in terms of numbers Japan 53 54 maybe 55 nuclear reactors and other countries which had nuclear reactors and which had to accept all these inspections and bring these inspections as I said the nuclear reactor must be stopped must be shut down for a while or at least some parts must be shut down now there are technologies which you do not have to shut down during the inspections etc. but they said look this is to our commercial disadvantage and therefore nuclear weapons states which have nuclear reactors and which are used fully for peaceful purposes have voluntarily agreed even though it was not necessitated by the MPT have voluntarily agreed with the IAEA to open their facilities for inspections from time to time but these are not to kind of inspections that you expect from a non-nuclear weapons state because the purpose of inspections remember this the purpose of IAEA inspections is to detect on a timely fashion I mean timely detection of diversion of significant quantity of fissile material from peaceful to major applications so at the cracks of the inspections the purpose is to detect if there is anything that is wrong I mean diversion from peaceful to metri something against the bargain the bargain was give up to metri ambition I'll give you nuclear technology that's it so if you take this technology and use it for a while for peaceful purposes and then decide to divert from peaceful to metri the IAEA's task is to detect this diversion but on a timely fashion not after some time has passed so we'll continue with this after the break


Looking for an easy dinner recipe? You can get on the table in, say, 15-20 minutes? Well, I've got one for you today. We're making oven-baked chicken caprese. So it has all of the ingredients that you think of when you think of caprese, right? We've got, well, the chicken and then we have some fresh mozzarella and some fresh, actually, I have homegrown tomatoes and some fresh basil. Now, I'm going to be marinating my chicken in some vinegar and oil dressing to really kind of just give it some really nice flavor and it's delicious. So I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after this. We're going to start off by making our dressing first because we have to marinate our chicken for at least a half an hour. You want those flavors to, you know, get in there. So I'm using avocado oil here and I'm going to do a third of a cup and I'm just placing it into a mason jar. That way I can just shake it up. I've also put it in a blender. That works too. I'm using some apple cider vinegar here. We're going to put a little bit of garlic powder. I'm going to put a pinch of salt, several cracks of black pepper and about a teaspoon or so, maybe a little less. We'll do a teaspoon of some raw honey and we'll put the lid on here and give it the old shake-a-roo. All right, so now that we've got our dressing made, let's talk about the chicken. I've got basically a one chicken breast here that was already cut for me on bottom, thin sliced at the store. And so they're about a quarter of an inch, maybe a little bit thicker, maybe a third of an inch thick and that helps it cook up quicker. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to place these two halves into my baking dish and we're going to pour the marinade over the top and I'm not going to use all of it. You know, we can save this for just regular dressing if you want to. Pour it in there just enough to cover it and let it marinate for, like I said, at least a half hour. So like I said, I'm going to marinate this for 30 minutes. If you're going to go longer than 30 minutes to marinate it, which you can, you can go a couple hours if you want. Go ahead and put it in the fridge, cover it up first and then put it in there because that would be too long to leave it sit out. But just a half an hour, my chicken's still cold and it's just coming up to temperature. So that's what you want to do there. So I got my oven preheated to 500 degrees Fahrenheit and when that's ready, we'll show you the next step. For the other ingredients that I have, I have the whole milk, fresh mozzarella. I can only get the small balls. Let me show you. Sometimes you can get the really large ones and it makes it easier to cut slices.  They're like little marbles. So I'm going to slice those into thirds and that's what I'm going to be placing on top of the chicken. Now, I also have some fresh out of the garden basil here and I've got some fresh tomatoes. Look at those. They're beautiful and they're sweet. I got them from my neighbor actually on that. So I'm going to salt the chicken. So I'm going to just sprinkle that over the top.  And now I'm just going to cut the little mozzarella balls.  So now I'm just going to place the little mozzarella slices right on top of the chicken breasts. Get them nice and close together. Now for the tomatoes, I'm just going to cut a nice, you know, probably quarter inch thick slices. These tomatoes are fantastic. They're so sweet. Wow. So now it's going to go in the oven. I'm not putting the basil on until it comes out of the oven. I want that basil to stay fresh. And just, it makes a big difference if you just put it on right as you serve it. So like I said, this is going to go in the oven and I'm going to put it in there. I'm going to set the timer for about 13 minutes. It's going to cook somewhere between 12 and 15. You don't want to overcook it or that turkey breast will dry out. So we're going to, you know, air on the side of caution and go on the earlier side. While our chicken is cooking real quick in the oven there, we got time, just enough time to do our chef joke. All right, here we go. What do you get if a chicken lays an egg on top of a barn? An egg roll. While our chicken is cooking in the oven for 13 minutes, we have time to go over just two more ingredients that we need to add. One is the basil, which we talked about and we're putting that at the end so that it's nice and fresh. And the other item, we need a balsamic glaze. So you can buy that at the store already. It's nice and thick. You don't want to use a regular balsamic vinegar because that would just be too runny. You want a nice thick syrupy glaze. So you can buy it at the store or I have a video for you and I'll leave a link for it in the description of this video. And you can check that out and make it. It's really simple and it doesn't take very long at all. So I pulled the chicken out at about 13 and a half minutes. Very quick, like I said. Check it with your instant read thermometer. That way you get a good reading on that. You don't want to overcook it. And now we're going to do the basil. And with the basil, I just stacked the leaves. You want to cut this at the last minute and put it on top because the basil will just oxidize and turn black and that doesn't look very appetizing. So do that at the very last moment. So I just rolled the leaves up and then just slice them and they come out into nice little ribbons. You can cut it just a little bit more in the other direction. Just a couple of them just to break it up and now that's ready. I have my balsamic glaze over here already. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull this out and set it on a plate so you can see it. A little bit of my tomato fell off but that's okay. We can put it back on. Super easy dish. I love this. Now you can see my balsamic glaze is quite thick and you can see it's nice and syrupy. So I'm just going to pour it over the top here and just drizzle it across.  Got a lot of good flavors going on here and you can do as much as you like and then finish it off with the basil which is just so good. Gives it a little color, gives it that freshness. What's not to like on that? This chicken is so delicious. It's got a lot of flavors going on. There's some sweet, there's some tangy and it just really reminds you of caprese. If you'd like to see another one pan type chicken dinner that is very quick and delicious then you got to try my one pan chicken with vegetables. I'm going to leave a link right here. Click that and it'll take you to it and you can see another sheet pan type recipe that cooks up the same as this last one did in like 15 minutes. It is delicious and healthy and quick. So click that and thank you so much for watching. I do appreciate it. 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Well, hello, hello, and welcome back to my channel. Today is actually a very highly requested video in my last Aaron Condren Hall. I'll leave the link down below for you guys if you want to watch it. I have had several requests to walk through the academic planner. I actually got this for a friend's daughter of mine that I'm gonna actually be giving away on Monday, which this video is gonna go up after that, so anyways. So yeah, this is for Olivia, obviously, and I've had many requests to walk through it and look at it page by page and to be completely honest, I haven't even walked through this because I wasn't planning on using it for myself, but a lot of people wanted a view from up above to see if, you know, they would want to possibly purchase it for themselves or just your curiosity. So I got the pattern, I think this is called the bloom pattern or in bloom or something, and then the color I got for Olivia was the hot pink because that's her favorite color, and I customized it in lower case letters with just the name Olivia. She didn't say she wanted these, I just picked out something for her. When you get the academic planner, you get these Aaron Condren dots. I will open these up so you guys can see them. I think you can buy these separately as well. Oh well, this is like a really long little thing here. But they come with the academic planner because I believe with the academic planners, you can start them any time. So you've got January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. And I believe these color schemes go with the colorful version of the Aaron Condren life planner or some version of that. So yeah, and then it's just got like little asterisk dots and stuff too. So yeah, kind of cute. Alright, so I'll put those off to the side. So let's walk through page by page. I'm going to kind of score this a little bit. Oh, that's cool that it has, you know, the color on this side as well. Oh, so this is a six month academic planner. Oh, I didn't know that. That's interesting. Okay, well, I'll have to get her another one too. So the first page says Aaron Condren six month academic planner, your name, school, and year. Next page is, you know, your first month of whatever you want. So if your school starts in August or in September or whatever it is, you know, you can put in your little dots right here, which is great. And then over to the side, there's like a little sidebar, which is kind of awesome. And then you've got a little box right here. You could put in like a little quote or a sticker or something. I don't know, maybe like a goal. And then on the left hand side, once we turn the page is projects and exams and then projects and exams and then description, details, class, instructor, deadline, important dates, and then finished. So you can kind of like keep track of things, I guess throughout the month, which is kind of cool. And there's six of those on a page. Oh, this is neat. All right. And then so the page after that is essentially like the week of and then it's got Monday through Friday in full form and then Saturday and Sunday in smaller form. So you can kind of keep track of your assignments when they're due, things like that. That's kind of neat. And then you just essentially write it in the date. So you don't, there's not a ton of need for extra stickers and things like that, which is kind of nice. All right. So then there should be, all right, so there's five pages of, whoa, there's a whole bunch of pages of the week of. So there's one, two, three, four, five. All right. So there's five pages in the week of. That's cool. All right. And then you just go to the next month and it should be the same thing. So yeah, so projects and exams and then one, two, three, four and five weeks of the week of obviously not every single week. You'll use, you know, five weeks, but it's nice to have it there. And then the next month. So yeah, there's six months of these. Let's just kind of walk through until the months are over with and see what's in the back of the planner. Because, you know, I like to skip ahead, you guys. That is really nice that during the week you can kind of like, you know, write down the class, the assignment. If there's a due date and then like check off when you've done it or turned it in or maybe on Monday there's an assignment. And then Friday it's due and then you can put it there. I mean, that's kind of cool. Or like, if you know, Saturday, Sunday, you're going to be working on something kind of neat. All right. So starting in the back after the six months, there's some lined pages. So let's see. All right. So I'm counting a total of 19 pages, not front and back, but just total pages, which is very, very nice. So you could put in like notes or if you've got, you know, projects, you can just put down like brainstorming sessions or things like that, which is kind of nice. And I like that they're all lined as well. That's pretty cool. And then here is all of the stickers that you get. So you have exam midterm and then some blanks and then test, quiz and blanks. And then you've got read, paper due and some blank ones, study group, study and blank ones and then some no class, vacation and blank. And let's see. Is there another page? No, there is no other page. And then at the very, very end is just the same print. And then you've got like the same print again as is when the front. And these are just like the regular bound notebooks. They're not the hard bound. They're like very flexible. They almost feel like soft to me. It feels really different. But yeah, I really like this. And I think Olivia hopefully will like this. And if she needs another planner after the six months, that's okay. I can get her one. But yeah, I didn't realize it was only for six months. But still, I think this is kind of a cool option and to keep, you know, students organized or even teachers or people that work in the academic space and things. It's always nice to, you know, try to keep people organized. You know what I mean? And I love these stickers in the back. I think those are super cool. And they really go with the colors that are associated, you know, on the little asterisks at the top of the pages, which I think is really, really nice and fun. But anyway, that is the quick look into the Aaron Condon Academic Planner. I just purchased this. So this is the brand, the spanking new one. I don't know if they've updated it recently because I've literally never seen one before. But I know a lot of you guys have been asking for this, so I wanted to post a quick little video for you guys. If you guys are interested from anything in AaronCondon.com, I will leave my link down below. If you sign up using my link and you've never purchased anything from Aaron Condon before, you'll sign up, you'll get a couple of emails, and one of the emails will actually be $10 off of a $10 purchase.   So I appreciate everybody that's used it in the past. Thank you guys so much. If you don't use it, that's okay too. I just like sharing, and it's just kind of like a little side bonus of sharing my thoughts and opinions on the internet. So anyway, I'm going to get this all back together for Olivia, and I'm actually going to see her tomorrow because today is Sunday that I'm filming this, but you guys are going to see this on a Wednesday. But I will see her tomorrow and give her this as well as a couple of other things. And I'm sure she will be very, very excited about this. We talked about this last time. I saw her, which was a couple of weeks back, and she was pretty pumped to get her grubby little hands on this. So anyway, that is going to do it for me. Thank you guys so much for watching. I really, really appreciate it. If you have any other questions for me, feel free to post them below and I will get back to you. If you like these kinds of videos, make sure to give it a good old thumbs up. Let's me know that you like these videos and I can keep creating different types of in-depth looks, things from Erin Condren. If that's even words, I don't know. But anyway, feel free to also subscribe if you haven't already. Just hit that little red button. You can hit the little bell too. That'll give you notifications every time I post, but I do post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9 a.m. Central Standard Time for you guys. But anyway, I'm going to get going. Thank you guys so much for hanging out today and I will see you guys in the next video. Bye, guys.


I've got a really cool event for you. Guys, we're going to do something pretty magical here, and we have a special surprise for you. We've got something pretty special for you. It's a little bit time sensitive, so I apologize for interrupting. You've seen some really compelling demos here. They were slick. They were robust. This is going to be nothing like that. This can go wrong in about 500 different ways. So tell me now, who wants to see a demo of Glass? So we've been really excited to test it for a few months. The unit I actually really want to show you, I lent to a friend, and he's going to be here momentarily. My friend's JT. He does a lot of skiing, base jumping, wing-suting, all sorts of crazy things. And he's actually pretty close by. He's just about a mile overhead right now with his buddies. They have a few Glass units. If you guys can maybe afford to wait that couple of minutes. Maybe they'll bring them down. We're about to get into a hangout here with JT. Hey, JT, JT, can you hear me? Hello, hello. We might have a few technical issues. Can you hear me? Yeah, yeah. Hey, we're just down here in Moscone. I got a few thousand people here. I was hoping to maybe get that unit I lent you down here. And I thought maybe you guys could show us a fun time on the way down. Yeah, you can hear me down there. I've been listening to your speech through the hangout. It's pretty cool. Cool, cool. I see you and friends are pretty close by there. Any chance we can get a little view out the window? Yeah, it's beautiful up here. We have a view on Moscone a minute ago. All right, this is the hangout from Glass. I think we're going to get that device pretty quickly, actually. All right, I see the roof of Moscone there. So if you guys can be safe but get it down here in a hurry for us, we'd love to watch that. Okay, yeah, you'll have to stand by. We've got our ring suits, so we've got a pretty good range. It's kind of interesting. People have watched us fly many times before, but I don't think that the world's ever tagged along live for a ride. I mean, nobody really knows the outcome of this jump. We're feeling really confident about it. How are you feeling, Pete? Well, we're all ready for you. What do you guys think? Should they go for it? All right, let's do it. Not in position yet. How do you do it? About one minute or two, okay? Maybe you've got to entertain the crowd a little. That looks like the view down. It looks like a long way down. Yeah, you can turn it sideways. Oh, yeah, there's a ballpark. Yeah, Moscone Center. I got a visual on, yeah. So this is one of the things, as we've been experimenting with Glass, just the ability to really share. And we've posted some pictures, but as we start to experiment, being able to share what you're seeing live is really amazing. And we don't know what's going to happen here. These guys are all really good. They're trained and have great contents, but this is a demo. All right, doors open, doors open. All right, happy flight. Yeah, nice and close in there. Thanks. They've got to get the right place so they can hit the roof. I'm going to take a few pictures to record this with posterity. You can see Moscone right below there. Live hangout through Google Glass. Four skydivers. And they're under canopy, shoots are open. Okay, where's Vic? Hey look, this is a hangout on air. It's a little bit tricky landing on a building, as you might imagine. I don't know if you've ever tried this kind of thing before. But you can see all their perspectives now. They're going to have to line up one after another to get down to the roof here. It's a little bit of... It's a pretty big roof actually, which is great for their landing. And you can see there's a little yellow arrow that they're aiming for. You know, it's pretty exciting. Hopefully they land it. And they're coming in. First one's coming in. Okay, so the roof is a little bit big there, so it would take a while to run down the length of it. So we got actually a few bikers up there for this eventuality. We got them wearing glass too. And there's our little package. Let's see if we can get it here in a hurry. All right, here we go. First person to do a glass. Here are the bikers. There's only one good way down the side of a building. I've been up there before. Don't try this at home, kids. These are trained professionals. All right, now we've got to get down there. All right, are they going? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Close call. Sorry about that. So this is pretty wild. I've never seen that perspective. Before. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to this. All right, we've got a couple more bikes. It's a little bit of a long way. I apologize.  Here are seats, folks. Don't get into the aisles. Please keep the aisles clear. Here they come up. Pretty amazing. Thank you guys so much. All right, we got the... I just wanted to... Some of our athletes were performance. Just wanted to give them another big round of applause. We've got the repellers in the back. And thanks a little while. And we got this... Let's see. And the skydivers should be chasing close behind them. Thank you guys so much. That was amazing. All right, thanks, guys. Now, maybe... Maybe we should... All right, well, come on up, guys. You're already here. Come on up. Take a bow. These are the repellers. All the bikers you saw up there. And there's the skydiving crew coming down the aisle. Hey, JT. That was amazing. All right. Hey, thank you guys. We were worried about you. That was awesome. All right, thank you all so much. Now, maybe we should tell you a little bit about glass. All right, guys, have fun. You can meet them. They'll be out and around if you want to chat with them. Thank you so much. Now, here's what... No, no, this is the wrong one. We're gonna have to... I think we have to do it again. All right, we'll find the time. Actually, you might find the time. If you want to see behind the scenes, maybe catch some of that activity through Hangout. Tune in tomorrow. But now, I just want to tell you a bit about how we made that happen and why we're so excited about glass. And tell you that, I have Babak and Isabel. Please welcome them back. Good morning. So, what can I say? Awesome. I wanted to take a minute and tell you what was the device and the practical demonstration that we just saw. The devices that we used were Google Glass prototypes and quite similar, actually, to what I'm wearing at the moment. This device includes... which, by the way, is not that you see behind me. Slightly different. Has a display so I can see visual information right now, images, video. It has a camera to capture picture and video also. A pretty powerful processor to process information and a lot of memory to store information. In order to interact with this device, we have a touchpad on the side. We also have a little button here, so I'd like to take a picture of you right now, which I just did. We have microphones so we can collect audio information. We also have a small speaker so I can receive audio information. The device also has a number of sensors. So we have gyroscopes, accelerometers and compass. So it's aware of its location with respect to my body and is also aware of its location in the broader physical world. And lastly, and very importantly, it has multiple radios for data communication. To give you a bit about the history of our group, we started about two and a half years ago to incorporate this much technology into a very small form factor. And the picture that you see behind me, is a good friend of mine, one of the pioneers of wearable computing and one of our team members. This is Thad Starner. We had to hack things together. We were sort of a hacky informal group to get the technology and people's bodies that make it wearable and test out our test of ideas. So we started from this point two and a half years ago and through a lot of hard work by our team and experimentation we made progress and reduced the form factor to what you see here. Now, I would like to invite our lead designer, Isabel, to talk about some of the design philosophy that has gone into this device. Thank you.  And one clear example of this is that we decided to actually position the display above your eye. And Glass as a whole is designed to be close to your senses but not blocking them. This picture shows so clearly how we don't want technology to get in the way. The baby looks into the mom's eyes, they connect and while doing that she can capture this beautiful moment without any distractions. And whether it's with family or friends we want to empower people to use technology naturally. Like in this moment of celebration. So we wanted to pack all this amazing technology into this product to let you do amazing things with it. But that's also a slight conflict to that if this is not ridiculously light it doesn't belong on your face. And we didn't only want to make it physically light but also visually light. We don't want to compete too much with user's own individuality. So no superfluous detailing and we really tried to reduce it to its core essence. And one of the results of this is that our latest prototype weighs less on your nose than many sunglasses. So when it really dawned on me that we were on to something was when I started seeing people in our team posting pictures on Google plus while running with it. And if it's not super comfortable and super sturdy how would you be able to show if you're served like this? This is Max on our team he wanted to brag a little bit. But sometimes it's just you want to do less conventional sports like jumping into ball pits. We want class to work for many people in many situations. And realizing that we needed to create a scalable design. We decided to put all the components off to one side creating an asymmetrical design but that's balanced. And what this allows us to do is to design different form factors for the frames. And this is something we're experimenting a lot with and here you can see Mike, Lisa and Maddie wearing their favorite styles. So we have this incredibly powerful platform lots of capability integrated into a very small form factor wearable. And you might be wondering what is the impetus for our team to embark on this journey to build this system and what are the uses that we envision for this what's the reason for people actually to put this on their head. Broadly speaking we have two broad regions of aspiration. The first one has to do with communicating through images and the second one with very rapid access to information. If you think about actually how we connect to people today we might have a conversation or we may call them. So there's an audio way of connecting to others. We may send them an SMS, we may send them an email we may send them a letter. So we use letters of alphabet or writing to convey our emotions to other people of how we feel at that very moment even point in time. And we believe actually communication with images and access to devices that empower people to communicate truly revolutionary and may actually enable people to connect in new and potentially better ways. Now wearing a glass has a certain unique aspects to it. For example, when you have a companion camera that's always with you you can catch fleeting moments in your life and sometimes would be always lost. It's an example of a group member walking on the beach. I'm sure many of you in the audience like myself or parents and many many times you've asked and wished that oh I wish I had a camera with me right now to capture this unique moment with my family. When you have glass you can actually capture those moments and have those memories forever recorded for you. This is pretty important actually to enable such thing. Another unique aspect of glass is that this is genuinely the first person point of view through your eyes as you see the world. This is one of our team members finishing a race and you can see actually how it felt at that very moment going through a very long run. Or you might have a moment of respite and this is how the world looked to you enjoying a few seconds of break through your busy day. And going back to the team of family you can actually record how your life looked like with your loved ones through the first person point of view. Quite important I think and it could be very very powerful. And honestly there are some moments that you may not want to record forever but sometimes it happens so this is this is where this thing right here is one of our team members and just practicing forward so these things can also happen. So you've seen all these unique moments that our team members have captured just using the device for a couple of months. So all these footage is from our team using glass which is pretty incredible. But what really excites me about this is not only the unique perspective from your point of view but how easy and seamless it is to share. And I think this encouraged people to do new things with it. I mean we just pictured we just saw how it is to jump out of a plane and you can experience these moments where you feel like you're there and you don't actually even need a glass device to do that. So here is for example learning new things this is going through step by step how to create very tasty dumplings and I think there's something really powerful about this and sometimes it's all about feeling like you're there. This stream of pictures showed up and I was sitting at my desk a little bit bored and this comes up and I had this withdrawal reaction that I got so much anxiety all of a sudden I could totally relate to Steven sitting in this chair and this picture continuously showed up in real time and I was also able to write little comments and say dude it's all going to be okay. And sometimes it's not about grand things. Sometimes it's only about communicating an emotion in a situation and this is Mike walking on the street in New York and looking for some empathy from his friends in California. So the second main aspiration that we have for Glass is to enable people to access information very quickly. Nowadays if you have a question if you're looking for answers to your questions you may do a variety of things you may seek a friend and ask him what is the answer to my question you may go to the library and go through books but more likely than not you will reach to your pocket take out the cell phone, unlock it and do a search and you get some amazing results back actually we saw some incredible technology just now demonstrated by Android. And what we aspire to do is to make that even much, much faster and someday you will like to make this so fast that you don't feel that you have a question you have to go seek the knowledge somewhere bring it back and analyze it you will like it to be so fast that you feel you know it that fast and that they may not be today that they may not be tomorrow but at least that's our aspiration and we would like to be able to empower people to access information very very quickly and in practice basically they feel more knowledgeable about certain topics now there are different types of information that you might have in front of you so for example you could be in a place you would like to have information about this place without disconnecting from your physical environment you might also want to know how to navigate to the next place there is a lot of interesting information actually in this scene or you may be biking and you want to know how fast you are going obviously you don't want to disengage from the physical world you want to go to the competing world and come back you want to remain engaged with the physical world in a very unhindered way and still get the information that you would like to have another thing that may come up is that you may face an entirely new and unexpected situation this is a picture from a friend of mine Shia Yu is a team member and he was sent to the market by his wife to do some shopping and you just are baffled at what you are seeing and you would like to have information about that very moment in front of you without disengaging from the physical world so we are very excited about this possibility and I am particularly excited to present this to you because the crowd here, the people who are watching are some of the smartest people developers in the world and I think you would actually hopefully help us to figure out what kind of information we should bring here and put in front of people's eyes the possibilities are just so we shared a little bit about our perspective on glass and from our team and pictures and videos and also some of the incredible things you can do but what really sums it up for me is this video this is baby June, our family is in France so for us it's really important to show them how she's growing how she's changing with babies it's really hard to grab the right moments a smile just lasts for a few seconds and that's all when you use a big camera she gets really focused on the camera you know, she smiles at faces, not at devices every day we try to go out for a little walk June really loves being in this troller everything is new for her so we really like to take funny pictures of her I think she enjoyed it Hey, salut Bonjour, comment, how are you? Nice to see you guys we have these little American glasses that she likes to wear it's kind of amazing for us French to have this little American girl at home alright, thank you guys very much and I'm so jazzed that that actually worked the whole bit, the airship everything and this presentation I wasn't really expecting it to but I wanted to tell you there are well, you've seen a whole bunch of stuff I'm really personally really excited about glass in my day to day usage I've had moments with family like that and there are all kinds of


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