Anyone from the audience want to add more of their stories and learnings, we'd be happy to hear that. I have a funny one, why don't you go ahead and share your mind after that. So mine was like, it's a B2B app, that means like you're sitting in Bangalore, most of the customers are sitting in the east coast or west coast of US. So it just becomes very normal that whenever you add a new feature you need to add a database migration, that is like you were using Python Django at that time, that means like we had Django migration. So the idea was like first you had the migration to the table with all null values, so application does not know any of these things that is there is new column, so your API works as smooth and there are no, I think breaks in the product, but this was an assumption everybody was working, but what happened is one time we had to make a migration and it is like after an India time there was no customer, but unfortunately what happened is somebody, some programmer or some organization or programmer figured out a way we have an API and he figured out there's an API key and he has done a scheduled job, I think like midday 2am or to upload some details. As a result what happened like we were running the migration, suddenly the migration script stuck because there were a lot of table logs. We were figuring out where is this table logs coming and we figured out there is one particular client connection is hanging through and we cannot abort the transaction because we did not have what is a rollback plan because for us like migration would normally go through in 2 to 3 minutes so we don't have to worry, but this person was like uploading like say like almost like a lot of media files it was going on for 10-15 minutes and the DB state was like stuck and we can see like it became like one kind of an outage issue because new updates were not going through and a lot of 500 errors were happening and we have to kill the connection and reset the migration and that is how we fixed that. It was not something really good but that we learned very hard. Swannan do you want to go? Okay cool yeah. So the reason why this story is very funny is because I caused it and the reason I learned a bunch of things from this is because we were smart enough to design the database in a way that it did not do lasting damage and so two lessons to learn from this story. So context in my previous company we had this concept of seller scores where there was an app and there's a whole bunch of things but okay let me give you quick context on what the app was. The app was used by real estate agents and they would have different actions about the contacts that they've uploaded. You can think of it like a tinder for real estate agents where they would do left right swipe on their contacts based on a score and this score was like a likelihood of this contact buying the house in the next one year and we had routine deployments. We would constantly refine the algorithm that would generate the score. We had data scientists working around the clock improving our model and on one, I think it was in July or something, we realized that the last time we did the algorithm deploy something was not quite correct and the scores were not right. All the scores created after a particular date they were incorrect and so a lot of realtors were getting incorrect matches or they were getting irrelevant results and so we figured okay you know what this is a generated data let's just wipe it and we'll regenerate the scores for September and there was a lot of like there was a lot of debugging and last minute panic debugging that went on before we settled on this because we realized that this is what is happening but when we figured out that this was the problem I said okay fine you know it's pretty straightforward we'll let a batch up to delete all the scores from September then we'll turn the ETL job and it'll regenerate the scores in the meantime the data scientists folks they fix the algorithm they'll fix the algorithm and all within a couple of hours it should be okay. The ETL pipeline was part based and it used to take about an hour or two to run and things were looking okay and so I went I wrote up the query and we run and I ran it and suddenly we realized every single score from the database had vanished and we were getting 10 times more complaints and I couldn't figure out like what like what is going on we had double checked everything the query was okay everything seemed okay but we couldn't figure out why the data was missing and then and again this was this was nighttime India like 2am or something for me and my pair my manager on the other side it was daytime for him and both of us had double checked and we couldn't figure out what the problem was and it turns out it it was a copy I was copying queries written from Vim and pasting on a Rails console and pasting them and executing them or in a pcc console and the query that read something like delete from seller scores where they'd get it and food the the where they get it and food it was never copied and only delete from seller scores was copied and without a where clause a delete query just delete everything uh when we realized it it turned out that in in the copy page there was like a new line character which is not considered like the same line and then the where part was stated like a different line and so console uh waits for a new line character to execute your statement right and so the moment it saw the new line character it just ended up executing the query and we ended up wiping the table uh and so the lesson learned was this that never copy paste always have stored procedures or the tasks or or predefined tasks to change data and the reason we did not do lasting damage on a or we did not have to resort to backups is because the schema was very nicely designed uh and everything all the data that we lost or supposedly lost was completely generative data that we could have there was no transactional data and uh uh that that was that was like sometimes you make mistakes but if your schema design if your data design is robust then you can limit the damage of uh your mistakes like for example if you have transactional data then you have to handle that differently or if you have irrecoverable data then you handle that differently versus if you have generated data then you handle that differently and then so that's it that's the lesson thanks swanand anyone else nablu or prathamesh is your prathamesh you have a sequel war story uh not really a war story but like mostly uh we have a lot of time series data and uh we have to manage the um like we have to manage the age of the data very diligently otherwise the data is sort of keeps increasing a lot and uh yeah i mean we don't i don't have any war story access as of now just that you have to be very diligent about the queries indexes so that uh like the model or the schema that you're designed for uh actually take us for all the excuses so how often do you delete the data or do you just archive the data uh so we have a rolling mechanism uh any data that is uh beyond last 28 days uh that automatically so we use a we use timescale db for our time series database extension and anything beyond uh the 28 days it just gets rolled over and gets automatically deleted uh for any fresh data uh we use different tables for archived data as well as fresh data so uh that is one strategy that has helped us in terms of uh showing the most recent data and then showing last seven days data 14 days data last month's data uh the queries for month's data are a bit slower compared to uh the fresh data but the expectation of the users also in that case is that the data will come a bit slowly because it's a uh like it's a month's data or two weeks data so that is manageable and then using timescale db uh basically because of the compression algorithm that timescale db has uh like managing the uh queries is very easy another advantage is that you can use it with any normal post griscule table as well you don't have to have everything as a hyper table or um the the general timescale db nomenclature that is there you can actually make joins between a normal post griscule table as well as a timescale db table so that works out pretty well uh the disadvantage there is that because it's a hyper table uh you cannot really change it once it is set in stone it is set in stone you have to drop the table and recreate it uh if you want to change any schema um but we have done that two three times so uh that is no longer a problem like we have basically dropped the use table and then recreated it again um from the backup or restore mechanism but uh the main advantage there is that basically you can just write the queries in raw SQL pure SQL uh there is no different syntax or language that you have to learn it is just post griscule syntax and um you can just make it work with any framework or any other library that you use for your web development thanks for the miss anyone else want to share any of their stories uh yeah i have one so this is less of a war story and this is i don't know how to categorize it it just didn't go well for us um so what happened is by the time i joined my organization we had already a migration from mongo to post gris underway and so like why the migration was started and how it would go was not really planned and we were so what we decided was we would move uh some of the regions to mongo and some of the regions to post gris and we ended up with our app running both on mongo and post gris at the same time and and then then at one point we just realized we couldn't continue doing this so we just decided that we'll carry out the whole migration and the migration did not go smoothly and we lost a customer after that everything was put on hold we were planning on maybe rolling back everything back to mongo and we stopped all development at that point all future development and then we probably spent two months figuring out the migration and the migration went through completely after two months we moved completely to post gris so yeah so my war story would be please plan out your stuff else you'd be caught in our situation


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G'day, how are you going? Welcome back to my channel Boot Lossophy, but for those of you who haven't been here before, my name is Tech. But first, let me acknowledge the To's of Wajik Country where I live and work. Today, I'm looking over the Thursday Boot Company, Mokto Wajso Boot that they call the Diplomat. This is the Diplomat from Thursday Boot Company in uppers that they call Black Matte, which is in the rugged and resilient range of leathers. It's in the familiar Mokto Wajso Workboot style, so you get the stitched high wall moccasin style toe box, you get the cream wage sole, it's six inches tall, but there are some small stylistic changes to make this look different from your Redwing 875 Moktoes and your Thurrogut Classic 6 inch Moktoes. The sidewalls of the Vap are a little sleeker and lower than a standard workboot Moktoe, and that alone makes it look more of a casual boot than a standard workboot. In its construction, of course, it feels more like a casual boot as well, and I'll go into more of that later. The Moktoe name is a truncation of moccasin toe, as in the moccasin shoes made by First Nations Americans. A real moccasin construction actually has one piece of leather that wraps under the foot and then a top vamp is sewn on in the toe area that reaches out and hence causing that moccasin stitch. In workboot construction, there obviously isn't a piece of leather that wraps from underneath. Instead the vamp and the toe box area is created by using a piece of leather that forms the wall of the vamp and then the toe box and an apron piece sewn on top to the edge of the sidewall forming the moccasin stitch. Then the variations with where it's actually a Mok, M-O-C-K Moktoe. Like in this case there actually is only one piece of leather that forms the vamp, the apron and the toe box, but it's gathered and puckered at the apron edge to form the Mok stitch and look like it's pieces of leather sewn together. This is a Mok Moktoe. The Thurragut classic Moktoe boot is a Mok Moktoe. The Olden Indies even more of a Mok Moktoe in that the stitching at the edge of the apron is purely for looks only and doesn't even pucker up the leather to pretend to be two pieces. Redwing on the other hand, their 875s are real Moktoe stitched pieces of leather. To be honest not that there's any real advantage that I can see, only possibly that you're able to form the walls a bit taller and straighter and thus make it a little roomier for working in. But then with the right shoe last, for example Grant Stone's brass boot, you should be able to shape your boots like that anyway. Now normally chunky Moktoe boots don't look like anything other than work boots. So you normally say that they're very casual and you usually wear them with jeans and t-shirts or work shirts or flannels and rugged outdoorsy gear. These however in Thursday's style and flair have been sleek and slimmed so they look more like casual sneakers than work boots. Particularly in this black mat with the cream wage sole and the nickel eyelets they pass for minimalist sneakers. So I think you can wear them with a whole range of casual gear from the rugged casual style jeans, five pocket pants, t-shirts, hoodies and outdoor layers to some smart casual like what you might wear out on dressy date nights. Dark pants, chinos, button down shirts and bombers or a Harrington jacket maybe. Now I'm not 100% convinced you can wear them in business casual, at least not my definition of business casual, see video flagged above, which to me is one notch below a suit meaning dress pants, a crisp button up and a blazer. I have tried, it's okay, but I'm never sure it works. Now before we look at how these boots are made I'll just explore a little bit of the bootmaker's history. Firstly I've done a video on Thursday and all the boots that I own and you can click on the link above. By the way if you do click on any links above in the video you don't automatically get taken away from this video to the tagged one. All you do is you open a list of tagged videos in the description below that you can watch after you've watched this one so you don't actually miss anything. Anyway Thursday very quickly Thursday boot company started in 2014 when two MBA students Connor Wilson and Nolan Walsh set out to make a versatile combination service and dress boot at a good quality but also at a price that they could afford. Starting with a Kickstarter campaign their most well-known boot is the Thursday captain. Their main line of boots are made in Mexico where a lot of good quality boots are being made for small and some very large brand names but they also have a number of models made in the US. Most of their boots sell for 199 US dollars and even their US made boots even those with Halloween leather uppers don't sell for more than the mid 200s. At the time of recording they have not raised their prices since they started. It's an MBA thing you know people say they use cheap materials and cheap construction methods but as you'll see when I dive into construction it is pretty gold standard not the best materials maybe not the most sturdy construction because you get what you pay for but it is pretty gold standard. They keep prices down not by skimping but by using negotiated long-term partnerships ordering in the numbers and global economics. As I say it's an MBA thing because they keep margins low but volumes up and they invest in customer facing activity. High engagement through social media and customer service response even when the quality fails the large majority of social media reports is that their customer service comes through. MBAs know that one dissatisfied customer is going to damage 100 good reviews so they work hard at it. So let's get into construction. Let me start at the bottom and I'll work my way up. Right at the bottom the outsole is a wedge sole made by Vibram. Vibram is an Italian company started by Vitali Bramani Vibram in the 1930s when he invented the rubber commando lugged sole as an improvement on climbers boots. Since then Vibram has expanded beyond Italy and has a license factory in the US as well as also being made in Brazil, China and the Czech Republic. They make a huge variety of outsole with a lot of them specifically aimed at safety, the military, fire and rescue and industrial use. This is their famous model 4014 Christie wedge sole made from a blown rubber compound. They are characteristically comfortable from the outset and they will soften over time and provide even more traction as they soften. This compound version is more durable than the full rubber versions used in the Redwing 875 which can wear out to give that rocking look from front to back. Wedge soles are supposed to be more comfortable because they sit flat on the ground and support your arches. Without a heel they're not great for climbing ladders but they're great for people who work on steel or concrete because they don't get caught and trip you up. As a work boot outsole it's also good for not tracking dirt and gravel from outside to newly constructed polished hardwood floors or whatever. The Christie wedge sole is securely glued on to a three or four mil thick leather midsole which is in turn good year welter to the uppers. Good year welting is the gold standard for fixing the uppers to the sole. The uppers are turned inwards and on the inside of the boot they're sewn to the insole and to the inside edge of this thin strip of leather called the welt. On the outside the outside edge of the welt is sewn through into the midsole with a hefty thread and the top of the welt is dyed black so that at first glance you think this is a stitch down construction boot where the uppers are flared out and stitched down. Because of the two stitches the good year welted boot is more water resistant if the stitch went through from inside to the outside without the welt forming a barrier. They're also re-solable a good cobbler can peel off the rubber outsole and just glue on another one all of the need to they can unpick the stitches and replace the midsole as well. Because the welt goes all the way around the edge of the boot it's called a 360 degree good year welt and also because the welt is about two to three millimeters itself going all the way around the boot that creates like a cavity or a well in the middle of this boot. In this boot that cavity is filled with cork. A steel shank is placed inside the cork layer. The shank is a piece of steel that sits between the heel and the ball of the foot providing more arch support and stability. If you go to Rose Anvil's channel where he cuts a pair of these in half you'll also see that under your archers Thursday builds up the arch area for better support and you can really feel it when you put these on. The idea behind the leather midsole and cork footbed is that it will compress with time and wear to better fit your feet. Then above that comes the controversy. Inside the boot is a leather covered poron insole. Poron is an open cell urethane foam that's used in athletic and running shoes to soften impact. It's very comfortable and it's anti-microbial so it will lessen food odor. In fact it's used in the Hubble Space Telescope as a shock absorbing seal. So great material, what's the controversy? Boot traditionalists think that anything artificial is bad news. They have poron, foam, leatherboard, even thermoplastic stiffness. They think everything should be leather and cork. Well in my opinion that's how things were made and I admit my white MP boots for example made that way are incredibly tough and sturdy and super comfortable ones worn and broken in. But all that leather and more leather and even leather shanks those boots cost over 600 US dollars. In the traditionalist's opinions the poron will collapse over time and then that softness will have worn away without the leather insole working with the cork filler and leather midsole to shape to your foot. This is not my only boot. To tell the truth I wear this regularly but not frequently so it would take a while before the poron flattens. It would have taken a while for my feet to shape any leather cork leather combination anyway. And take a look at poron running shoes. I run every day. I have no idea how many kilometers I do in my running shoes but I can tell you there are a lot and I can tell you it's probably your experience too that poron is still pretty good by the time the outsole wears out in your running shoes right? The economist J.M. Keynes once considered a theory of money supply which had economic effects in the long run. He said it didn't really matter because in the long run we're all dead. That's my take about how eventually the poron might feel bad. For now they are comfy as you put them on and I'm happy with that. Okay lesson in macroeconomics over let's move on up to the uppers. Inside the uppers are fully lined with a soft glove leather. Now I don't know what glove leather is but it does feel like my soft leather glove so I'm assuming it's either lamb or goat skin something like that. Outside this makeup is in the leather from Thursday's partner tannery in Mexico using American bovine leather. It's in the rugged resilient line which is made up of leathers that are sometimes a wax newbuck type of leather and sometimes in this smooth grain leather. Looking at it I'm pretty sure it's top grain leather where the full grain hide is corrected on top to remove scars and marks and then oil and wax to make the ruggedness in the rugged and resilient range. In the case of this black mat I think it's also waxed on the outside to make it a little smoother. This is not matte black like some of the other boots if this were a war paint finish I'd be calling it low sheen rather than matte. It's about two mils thick and combined with the leather lining it totals to about three or four mils thick overall which is about average for casual boots. It feels very soft and supple and on foot is very comfortable. Unlike my rugged and resilient burnt copper leather on my Thursday vanguards this leather feels like it will stretch when you break them in. There is some slight reinforcement in the heel and the toes I'm guessing is elastic. The heel counter is internal covered up by an internal pocket and the lining inside and stitched in place through to the outside with a neat double stitch. There's a single piece backstay strip up the middle. Stiffing everywhere else is single with some double stitching where it matters like at the edge of the quarters. The mock mock toe stitch does not sew two pieces of leather together as I said earlier it just puckers the leather at the edge of the apron into a fake seam. It is I believe hand stitched because the stitch density is longer and hand stitching is usually the only way you can pucker that leather in that way. The tongue is also lined but it's not gusseted but even so I've not had any slip. The hardware is all nickel plated and looks good against the black. There are five eyelets and two speed hooks at the top which I find a good combination for unhooking the laces and just pulling the lacing facings apart. The hardware is washed back so it doesn't tear into your tongues and they look pretty solid to me. The speed hooks don't bend under any kind of pressure that I put them to. I can't complain about any issues on these nothing's chipped off the soles or the edging no loose threads that I've had to burn off all the stitching looks regular and nicely lined up.  The outsole particularly the heels have worn better than my red wing 875 I don't know what that's with all in all I'm very happy with them. Thursday recommends special care for the rugged and resilient line which involves brushing off loose dirt cleaning them with a leather spray cleaner and then wiping them down with a microfiber cloth. They do not recommend applying any conditioners. Trenton and Heath on their channel have done a couple of videos on caring for Thursday's rugged and resilient line which basically follows Thursday's recommendations but also includes using suede spray conditioners like those from Saphir or a Tarago product. I have some links to those products in the description below. This black matte feels a bit different from the look of the other black matte leathers that they have on their other boots. They look and feel smoother. Guilty admission. I have conditioned these with big four and to tell the truth they haven't changed the texture or the look at all so no harm done on these. Where you have Thursday boots where the rugged and resilient leathers feel like a bit more newbucky you know like Timberland yellow boots don't use liquid conditioners. If you want to you can clean the edges of these cream wage soles but to me that's more trouble than it's worth. If you do want to clean it any combination of magic eraser or just liquid soap a brush and scraping it with a spoon would do a reasonable job. As for sizing I'm true to size as measured on a US brannock device at eight and a half in D width. In UK and Australian sizing that's equal to seven and a half in average width. However as 90% of boot makers especially in the US make their boots and call their size numbers a half size smaller I don't know why so much easier they name the sizes the same as brannock. I usually wear US 8D in boots. Thursday don't offer these in white sizes so their size eight feet fits my D width. So my advice is to go a half size down from your brannock if you have D width feet but I guess if you have wide feet you may have to go to your brannock size. Actually on their website they have a pretty cool find my size function where you nominate your sneaker size any known good year well to boot size and whether you wear white widths and then it gives you a recommendation. If in any doubt though reach out to their customer service I have always found their advice to be pretty spot on. In these at their size eight they fit me well. They are sleek and slim so they are snug. If you like lots of room in your toes I'd size up by a half. Getting the size right means there really isn't much of a breaking. These were comfortable immediately. The sole didn't need much of a break in to get rid of that initial heel slit. The leather midsole was kind and the Christy wedge isn't that thick so the sole started bending when my foot wanted to bend quite quickly. Overall comfort wise oh these are light enough to feel like sneakers. In fact I wear them when I would normally wear sneakers and as I mentioned already with the cuff of your jeans down in a good length break you look like you're wearing minimalist black sneakers when you wear these. I'd be happy wearing them all day. These cost you has $199 on their website. They are Goodyear weltered. The leathers from a good tannery that gets a gong from the leather working group for environmental practices and chemical waste management. They are comfortable and reasonably well made. So for all of that $199 is a pretty good price for a well constructed boot like this. What other Goodyear weltered boot made reasonably well could you get for under $200. I do want to make this clear though value is relative. You do get what you pay for when you buy a Thursday boot you are not getting a Pacific Northwest overbuilt quality boot or an RM Williams elegant boot or a Wolverine or even smaller batch quality boots like Parkhurst or Grant Stone but then you pay less or even way less depending on the brand. It's like complaining that your Hyundai isn't as well built as your neighbor's Mercedes. No it ain't but you didn't pay what he paid and a Hyundai in and of itself is a really good car. It's just not a Mercedes. Don't compare them mate it's totally fruitless. I'll leave a link in the description below to your website. You can have a look for yourself. So overall I think it's a pretty good buy for that price. Okay it's not made in America but I'm not American so that's not truly important to me. I own amazingly well made boots that are made in Vietnam and India, Indonesia, Mexico, Japan you name it or in China. Okay I don't own Flame Pandas although I hear they are amazing handmade boots but I do own Grant Stone. Okay yeah that's an American company making their boots in China but nevertheless all of those examples show that geography is no indication of quality. But the vision of the owner setting a target, the process control, established QC inspections, personal responsibility are. They are versatile and comfortable and have no faults that I can see. What else could you ask for? So there you go. Anyway we've come to that time when you need to explore your conscience and ask yourself why you haven't subscribed yet. Go on click on like and subscribe so that you get notified when I put out more boot reviews, discussions about brands and the philosophy or boot philosophy of why certain brands stay true to their vision and values and do certain things their way. In the meantime take care and I'll see you again soon.


Hello, everyone. Today with me, the winners of the Visis Project Prizes 2013 that were awarded at the Visis Forum 2013. And today with me is the Deputy Minister of Telecommunications from Mexico, Ignacio Peralta, as well coordinator for the Information Society, Monica Aspe, and as well Rima Cuprita, Director of IFO. And the first question will go to his Excellency. What is the biggest achievement of the project's Mujer Migrante, and what is the next steps for this project? Well, this project, I believe that the biggest achievement is to link several organizations related with immigrant flaws in Mexico. Not only official organizations, but NGOs as well, that they really, really care about the human rights that these people, not only Mexicans, but Latin American people, has the right to be treated equally in very conditions. So I believe that for the moment, while we build most numbers and statistics, the biggest achievement is to link these organizations. Thank you very much. The next question will go to Monica. Monica, you are the winner as well of the category C6, Enabling Environment. And then my question will be about the Project Lab Digital. Could you please elaborate more on this Project Lab Digital, and how does it contribute to the enabling environment? Yes, well, part of enabling environment is building the capabilities we need in society for ICT. And in the Latin American case, in 2015, our skills gap for trained professionals in ICT will be 35% between the skills professionals we need and the ones we have available. So Club Digital aims at training young people in ICT skills, not formally in school, but informally so they can learn many different things through this platform and be also useful in the new economy. Thank you very much, Monica. And the next question will go to Rima. Could you please elaborate more on your project as the winner of the category C4. What is the target group of this project and what are the innovative techniques that you use in this project? C4 category is capacity building. And public libraries are open to all members of the community. And if you have ICT-enabled libraries and if you have skilled librarians, you can reach millions of people. And public libraries that we worked with and we supported worked with communities that are remote farmer communities. For example, we have an interesting example where public library was taking laptops to farmers, remote farmers in Undis Mountains to teach them ICT skills, connect them to online social media where Chilean farmers are connected and also to discover that there are online markets that they can start selling the products online. And they were amazed. They had no idea that there is a social media network of Chilean farmers and that the Ministry of Agriculture has so much information available for them. And all of a sudden all this new world opened to them. So it's just farmers, there's areas of agriculture, areas of health that public libraries were developing innovative services. Economic development, the services that public libraries were working with unemployed members of their communities. They were educational services that were developed and of course in all of them public libraries were reaching out to vulnerable and disadvantaged members of the community. So we wanted with this project to show that public libraries can really fill the gap when there is in the society not everybody has a computer, not everybody has a skills to use the computer, not everybody has a smartphone and not everybody knows what's out there. And now my question will be to all of you, what does it mean for you to win the prize and we will start from the Deputy Minister of Telecommunications from Mexico. Well it's a great satisfaction that at the end of the day what you're looking for I mean for a purpose in terms of help, in terms of applied technology, in terms to spread the information that you can use technology to provide information to the people for certain purposes. You're meeting your commitments, you're meeting your objectives and it's very satisfactory. Thank you and Monika would you like to add? Well it's very exciting because it proves that we're doing good work, that we have good projects in the emerging economies and specifically in Mexico it's exciting both for Mujer Migrante and for Club Digital that we can really help these social groups through ICTs empowering people with the abilities and the access that they need. Thank you very much, thank you Monika. Lima? Yesterday when my friends and colleagues were looking at the photos that we're taking when we received the awards they were commenting that they looked very happy. So it's true I'm very very happy and very honored to receive such an award which is important recognition for public libraries as partners in development. It's also important for us as a staff, we have as an NGO, we have a small staff comparing with the 60 countries that we work with so it's very, it's an extra motivation and of course it is important for our projects, for libraries, for public libraries they can show the impact and now it's visible globally. Thank you very much, thank you very much to all of you to be with me here today. Thank you.


A National Malaria Elimination Programme report has revealed that about 10 persons reportedly die of malaria. Everyone are in Nigeria. While Commander-in-Chief World Malaria Day, the Adamawa State's Ministry of Health says 90,000 malaria-related deaths are recorded annually in Nigeria. The Commissioner of Health, Abdulahi Issa, represented by a permanent secretary, warned that malaria remains a major public health burden globally with most cases reported in Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria remains a major public health burden globally with most incidents reported in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, the National Malaria Elimination Programme revealed that over 90,000 malaria-related deaths are recorded in Nigeria every year. Nigeria accounts for about a quarter of global burden of malaria, with 9 to 10 persons dying of malaria or malaria-related causes every hour. The prevalence of malaria is declining as shown in national surveys from 27% in 2015 to 23% in 2018, for Adamawa is 21%.


Actually, Crawford never reached out. If Eminem weren't gonna show up, then they would come out the outside. Let's get to come outside. They was. Yeah. Wow. Damn. You woulda let that happen?  Damn, that woulda been crazy. But that was, and I thought, They're all for you. Yeah, yeah, but I had to talk.  Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. They'd say who are you? Who are youedia, 1% of the population, or it would have been at the city. Maybe, freezing it. Yeah, it's like, we on boss talk who are you. It's like, I'm the one saying, they off to do it. Everyone on the floor clean, right in front of the couple of restored to the city. So they don't get a job, they just don't get a job for JRT. for you. But you would have felt like you betrayed the city. Huh? Yeah. Because you on the opposing side that's what he's looking at. Yeah, you would have been looking great out here. You think you would have been upset, they would have been upset with you now, right now. Bobby's gonna walk out with me.  I need more three boys and I'm, I'm more three. I'm team more three. I don't care about nothing that's going on in life. I don't know, I'm team more three. You would have let Grover walk out to that. Anything that made me cry, I can't get over. No, that's real. That's real. No, I did it, bro. No. That's hard what you just said. It touched you. It hit you right. That's real, so I'm team more three. You got to put more three.  My nigga boy's gonna come out on the out of tour. You know what I'm saying? What? That's what I was pushing for. So you and Bobby, y'all, y'all talked about it?  Why? He was. Why he turned it down? You talking about the stuff he did. You talking about the situation. He told me like a man, right? I ain't think I was like that. Now you explain it. I'm just glad y'all talk, man.  I know you just messing with him, but just the way it all was coming out, like people think sometimes they make you out to be the bad guy, man. I'm telling you. I talked to everybody. A lot of people think he evil. He don't want to do good by people. Why they say that? Because it's just some of the way that you... That you always have an ulterior motive when you're dealing with people. I know because at the end of the day, listen, listen, listen.  I don't need nothing. My partner was lower than me. I'm lower than my partner. He gone. So everything goes. Second nature. Yeah.  I get it. I get it. You know what I'm saying?  I got a question. So you went to Roland Laud the other day? No. Because I saw you in a picture with Bun B somewhere. You went down to Trio Burger. I wasn't trying to do so. What you doing at Trio Burger? How was it? Yeah, cool. You like the burger? How do you rate the burger compared to any other burger? He better not rate it wrong. You know why I rate the bun getting the money over there. I ate a vegan burger. But still, how is it? No, like seven, eight. Seven, eight. That was good. Pretty good. Yeah, I now. Now. No, it wasn't good. It was good, but I know some places over there. Old Cliff that we used to eat back in the day, or some home and pop burgers.  They still open today? No. So it must not be that good. Bun B can promote.  He everywhere. I went in there just to listen to the Pimpsley albums and Pimpsley albums. Come on, jump in there. I'm going to wait to get down there. With 24L, that's all they plan. UGK. Boys kicking back. Laying in the shade. I done got that burger and got me a double-cumpo, that big pony drinking there. Sit there and lick that bun. Sit that bun, yeah. I thought I was from Houston for a minute. Bumpy thought he was from Houston. Bumpy shot a whole video on that song. That was hard. I loved it. I shot 45 up to Houston. Yeah, it was like I was living from rapping and dealing.  I love that they taking pictures from them people. I loved it, man. So I walked around the area. We had a big old Houston face back down there. It was just the atmosphere. Was it jam packed? Yeah. Yeah. Now bun came out there. That's what he was doing when he seen the pictures outside. He did. Then he told me we went across the street to the shoe store. And I was in there. Now listen. Let me be real. I don't make niggas around the world. Rappers, right? Yeah.  Because I ain't do that with three. I've been meeting them old niggas I ain't ever met. Okay. Bumpy like that. And it's so exciting. Yeah. But it's so exciting to me. Kiki. Kiki told me. Right. All them samples you be hearing. That's me. That's right. I have to be here to the day like that. You ain't learn. Yeah. I uh uh uh uh. You didn't know that I chunk up the do's for the something. Yeah. I chunk up the do's for the something to know. Boys talking down the do's. I didn't know that. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah. That uh uh uh uh. Knocking do that. Yeah. Knocking do that. Yeah. Yeah. It's a Sin Sideways boy, he said, right, that's him, that's Kiki. I like it. So then I thought to power out by the hour to power out, give me the rundown, you know, they didn't accept us because we weren't as you, as you see, you know, we was a rapper. I mean, switch house. So you know, and then, you know, my first, my first, my number one freestyle album in that time. I mean, they're not free style, but in that time. A millionaire in power. Colour changing clip. Colour changing clip. I think a millionaire in power. Why do you say that? Because they both do it good. But if they could, would it continue? They did good anyway. But still though, man. Destiny had to happen, man. But we need to hear one more colour changing. Click out. I'd love to see that. But but community. I don't even. I know. I know. I know. I talked to him. We was in Vegas at Dress Club. Remember I was up there with him. Man, we, we, we reminiscing. Talk for a long time. That big swangles and bulging 20 inches. Big swangles and bulging 20 inches. Sitting low. We ball 24. Yeah, that was so hard. I remember when that album came out. I got it in that trailer village. You got it. Trailer village. You know. Gonna miss the song too. Oh, the village. That was going in. You know what I'm saying? I talked to my wife. So, you know, you know, when I go down there to that Houston, it's like, man, it's exciting to me. Very exciting. Because I'm talking about. I was young, young. I had to be like sixth, fifth, seventh grade. Listen to they freestyle. Yeah.


It's a butter. I just took a final like really great role models to have and I'm also gonna take one of my sister's graduation pictures I'm done with my finals. It's our chapter I'm reusing what the heck. We're all your ears. Are you alright with it? Damn it. I like actually trashed mine, and then I was like hey, it's not even Christmas Yeah, I should probably not Fancy costumes That's that good good. There's the ramen I wanted yesterday. I know I wanted it so bad in there out Squad posted it up after Oh I'm excited to go home and get my boo who ordered To come to Atlanta to visit me. Yeah Yeah Peace out first night probably I'm gonna combine this with tomorrow. See you tomorrow happy vlog mistake for I think it is I'm on my way to a final right now And shouldn't be that hard so See I'm currently in the audio booth. This final is just like an announcing and performing Final so basically she just gave us like scripts. We just edited them and now we're recording them and tracking them So it's exciting, but frustrating when you mess up and have to start all over again. Hi, I'm Sonali Prevue coming to you from beautiful Winter Park, Florida I Cut me some slack. I mean not that I have like any crazy finals, but I'm just not doing anything Vlog-worthy. I'm literally sitting in my room like studying or like doing nothing But I'm going to the movies from my friend right now. We're gonna go see daddy's home, too No Come to this one. It's a butter Hey guys, it is We're actually 10 days apart, so we're both I just took a final it wasn't awful Like I think he definitely made this test a lot easier than his other ones and I was this close to not taking it All my friends were just like take it, you know, it won't hurt you So I was like, okay fine now I just want to get like a lot of errands done today and I'm trying to put that out into the world So it actually gets done today. So I have to go to textbook solutions. I need to paint my nails I feel like it's been too long and then I need to study for my last exam on Thursday So it's currently Tuesday I just have to like pack up everything and I want to actually start right now because I feel like The closer it gets to like Friday, I'm just not gonna want to do it Also, every time I go home for a winter break, I always end up overpacking And I just like don't know what I need. So I'm gonna tell myself That like my major rule is if I haven't touched it in a month it's not coming home with me because There's like so many like just like knick-knacks like sometimes I'll bring home like video equipment that I like Literally don't even touch here. So like why would I touch back home? I don't know. So I painted my nails I actually did gel on them I don't really love the color. It's just kind of like a fall Wintery purple. I thought I'd switch it up because I always do nude colors I'm trying to fight off my napping habit that I have gained like over these last couple of days slash like two weeks I don't know. I just like nap a lot and I feel like that's not really like me and I always have stuff to do So napping is just not being productive So I noticed that I've been like sitting in my bed a lot more than usual So I'm going to go do errands because this is the exact time I try to take a nap is like two slash three like right before dinner meal plan and I have not been able to go to sleep as like fast as I usually do So I'm gonna do the on-campus things first Which is Amazon and the mail center My campus has like the Amazon store and it is literally the coolest thing in the world If you get a package sent there you can literally get it that day Like if I ordered something right now, I could probably pick it up like at 9 p.m. Tonight.  It is so cool And third of all you can get free returns on any like Amazon shipped things So since I'm returning an Amazon book It is free to return which is really nice And I don't have to go through the trouble of printing out the label Which I used to have to do or even having to like buy a parcel It does seem really busy on the street though. So I'm not really sure if I can find parking. Let's see Wonder if I can park right here. I don't know what a service vehicle. Oh, yay parking. There's like Amazon parking Perfect the easiest thing I've ever had to do all I had to give her was my Amazon email and then she just took the book from me.  Next stop is the mail center I feel like I'm here like almost every day But I ordered like a camera strap for my camera just because when I don't have my tripod on I don't know what to hold my camera by Like I feel like I just need like a little more security Update they didn't have my package, but I think one of my other sisters got Mine probably earlier today or something or I think yesterday But I did get some of my other sisters mail just because I was already there So I'm gonna put that in the mail room like after all my errands are done I just have to go to textbook solutions and return these books So I touched this book like maybe once this one maybe twice this one zero times I don't even know why I buy these books for my classes. There's like no reason to It definitely made me feel a lot more energized just to get out of the house and My like strap thing was actually in the Katie meal center like in the house So I didn't even have to go to the center, but it's okay So it is Bogo at Seuss High today, and we have to dress like ninjas to get Bogo Just threw on a bandana. Hopefully it works. Hey guys happy December 6. I am currently packing up my whole room I'm actually gonna go back to Georgia on Friday. It is currently Wednesday right now, but tomorrow I have a final so just kind of want to like get a lot of stuff done today because I have like pretty much the full day Then I'm not doing anything other than studying and I'm also gonna take one of my sister's graduation pictures So that's gonna be fun, and I hope to take you guys along for that So you guys probably remember when I came here. I bought like these little ziploc cubes I'm using them again, and they're still sturdy as ever. I really really love them They're like 20 bucks each which yeah, it's kind of expensive for like one of these But they're so useful, especially if you're a college student that has like move in move out move in move out I think they're really helpful. So these are all my pants. So I have like running shorts leggings skirts Jeans anything of that sort and then in this one I have my underwear my bras my sock then for everything in my closet I'm actually gonna go get some trash bags like really really hefty sturdy ones So I can put all my clothes in there, and it will be really easy to just like Rehang them in my closet back home. So this is currently my room. It's a little bit insane Kind of taking over Charlotte side my bad, but I'll clean it up before she gets here.  So I got my hit squad shirt I'll show you guys later. It's actually so soft So I'm pumped so I was just in there talking to Jenny and Carly about what they're doing over what a break But Jenny was actually the one that reshot to me about Collaborating with UCF in the first place and Carly's been there ever since like the first video They're such great people because they're so supportive and I don't know They're just like really great role models to have because their jobs are freaking pretty cool Like doing the social media for UCF like that's really awesome So whenever I see them it makes my day so much better because they're just really cool So this is the t-shirt I got it just says hit squad with president hit on it He's retiring this year, which is really sad because he's been here for like a really long time So this is what it looks like afterwards And then you can just rip it off and then hang it in your closet. This is like the best life hack I've ever learned How's your finals? I've only had one. I just want to have nothing to do I just want to binge watch everything but actually I have so much stuff to do even when I have nothing to do Like edit videos and work on me I'll get me some me time, but I'm pretty much done packing. It was too easy So like I'm kind of scared that I'm like forgetting a lot, but I haven't touched my like toiletries yet So I'll just do that, but I'm gonna take senior pictures in like 30 minutes So probably just do that like tomorrow. Isn't that cute? That's so cute. We're gonna take pictures of her We're gonna try see how this works out. Okay Does that match my feed? No, I don't know I don't get it. What should I do? Yeah, it's really awkward because it's like the bottom. Why are you so dark in here? I'm like this. Yeah, everything. Wait, pull that push that like that way No, like Like and take it yeah and pull it yeah No, what? Oh my god. How fresh is it cute? I love it. Okay good. So my client is here and we're ready to take pics Say bye Laura I'm here with Harley and we're gonna go to the boardwalk first So I know a lot of you asked about my camera. I have the Canon 70D with the 24 to 70 millimeter one 2.8. The sun looks so pretty right now We're in the student union. We're gonna take some pictures by the seal Got a cap and gown I think I'm like in the middle and then come up a little bit more good This is a new mural Student union mural from Pulse If you guys are taking grad pics, there's like this meter parking over here by the student union It's a lifesaver So we came back to the capital to house to take some pictures in front of like the arch It's gonna be kind of like interesting with like the Christmas lights and stuff We'll make it work My little December grad. This is probably not the most flattering angle of me She has a casual outfit to wear so we're gonna go to the stadium and go to The night statue and we're gonna try to get on the stadium. We'll see about that. I'm not really sure I know last year I was taking grad pics and it was such a hassle to get in the Stadium like I literally had to find like this like maze. They're turning out so good I told her to come at like 330 and we ended up getting there at like 350 or something I was like perfect timing for the sunset I just get really happy when I provide people with like really cute insta pics because Lara liked hers and Lars turned out really good She literally took like one picture and it was like perfect and I was like, okay how and why can't I do that like? So annoying, but she's like the cutest so So we're here at the stadium We're gonna try to get in You don't know what to do without her So I was at meal plan and I was like, you know what would be nice going out of my exam and being like it's winter break But I couldn't because you're gonna take her other final after it and it's online And I was like, I'm just gonna take it now. So I ran back to my room But it's not like a crazy heart exam. We're gonna take our last final I got literally a 16.5 blah blah blah blah So that is literally my final exam grade like that's so funny how many like points there are and I ended the class with a hundred She's gonna go take her mass-com law and I'm taking my broadcast media regulations And it's funny because like I took that class but this class that I'm taking is literally the same exact freaking class again There's like more in depth but after that I'm just gonna go to the gym like straight there So I don't have any excuses. I'm done with my finals It is officially winter break and I'm gonna go to the gym. It's so ugly out today. It's like lightly misting Probably getting my camera wet. So I'm gonna put it away now I'm gonna quickly run into the Amazon store to pick up a package and Then I'm gonna get my eyebrows done and then I'm just gonna get some snacks for the Car ride back to Georgia for tomorrow. I can't believe I'm making the trek, but it's happening So I gotta get prepared Rose done this one looks so thin. I'm literally gonna cry when I get home and look in a mirror But I got coffee for tomorrow for tomorrow's drive, then I got apples so I need to cut those up and Get those ready for tomorrow because I know at 5 a.m. I'm not gonna want to do that.  I have to get in bed like super early and hopefully my body will think It's a lot later than it is so it will feel sleepy But like I was really contemplating taking like Zquel or something like that But I feel like it would knock me out and not wake me up at 5 a.m. So I decided not to but I will see you guys tomorrow. Bye guys


It's Wednesday afternoon and we know what time that is, Hawaii, the state of clean energy time. I'm your host, Mitch Yuan, and our sponsor is the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum and the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. So I'm really pleased to have, all the way from Canada, Carlos Nunes. He's the president and co-founder of Aurora Industrial Machines. And the topic of our conversation today is doing more with less. So we're gonna talk all about the Aurora Electric Motor, which is really, really breakthrough technology. So Carlos, welcome to the show and tell us all about electric motors at the top level first. Why are they so important? Well, I think really the electric motors are sort of the unsung hero of industry and commercial space. They consume a huge amount of energy and I really think that a lot of people, when they look at a map of the planet from space and they see the entire globe lit up at night, their immediate first thought is that lighting probably would represent the largest consumer of energy on the planet. And it does actually represent a large percentage, but it's actually much smaller than most people would actually realize. It's actually only 19%. And in fact, actually 49% of the world's electric power that's currently being generated once it's actually transformed and distributed goes into electric motors. So they represent a massive load on the grid and there really hasn't been a significant improvement in technology with electric motors and there's a real need, especially in today's world to look at our energy production, but also at the same time look at our energy consumption because energy is a two-sided coin. If we're only focusing on production, which isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing to look for renewable sources. We also really need to also look at consumption and see what we can do with the electrical load and the grid and how we can help balance the grid with efficient use of energy. I think you have a couple of slides that kind of illustrate the amount of energy that's used by various market segments. We have that first second slide, slide two up. So what's this telling us, Carlos? So if we took a step back in time into 2008, at that time, the International Energy Agency committed a study on electric motor driven systems globally and this really shows the aggregate of what the energy consumption was and we were in the order of 20,000 terawatt hours of energy being generated. So that's 20 petawatts of energy. So every single electron on the planet, that's what was being generated in 2008. And if you look at the bottom, you can actually see the distribution on where the energy was sourced. And you can see in that time period, about 85% of the world's power was generated from fossil fuels. So we are making strides in the future and currently and then into the future to switch from fossil fuels to renewables, which is great. But the thing that needs to be understood is that the demand curve for energy is so strong that we really need to double down on our renewables and that needs to happen today. We need to really, if we're doing a certain amount of solar, we need to really double that effort to really meet up with the demand. Cause if we go to the next slide, you can see what the projected low is going to increase to by 2035. So we remember that it was about 19 petawatts of energy. By 2035, it's estimated that it'll be north of 35 petawatts. So that's almost a doubling of energy demand on the grid. So we really need to focus on production, but consumption needs to be a new focus and we need to learn where the load is going and really try to make as many improvements as possible to the load. So let's look at the next slide cause I think that tells us where it goes. There you go. Yeah, so here is a real good distribution of where the energy is actually going. So again, to my first comment, 19% goes into lighting. Approximately 19% goes into heating. And then with the data centers that are around the world, there's an example there of a Google data center. About 10% of the world's energy is actually starting to go into data centers and that's actually growing as well. So even with all of those, electric motors exceed all of those. So there's a massive opportunity. It's literally the elephant in the room that no one realizes is there that we need to focus on because it's a massive draw. Yeah, when you told me that when I first met, I was just like totally astounded. Like whoever heard of industrial motors being like what? 46 or more percent of all the energy in the world is really boring electrical motors? Yes, that's true. And it's really in, and it's not surprising because that's not what your mind initially goes to but that actually is almost 50%, almost half of the world's power is just going into electric motors. And it's really concerning because the size of the grid, the grid is the largest machine on the planet and its tentacles stretch out to the edge of the map. It's the biggest machine we've ever invented and yet the way we distribute power and the way we use the power can improve exponentially if we deploy the right technologies in the right places. So let's look at the next slide which kind of illustrates that. Yeah, so we break it down into different sizes of motors but you can see there that motors represent a large slice of the pie in terms of the way that energy is distributed and that there are different sizes of motors around the world. There are about 2.3 billion electric motors on the planet. Let's look at the next slide because that shows it. Yeah, there we go. Okay, so 2.3 billion electric motors on the planet, 2 billion of them are actually below one horsepower and about 300 million roughly are above one horsepower but the lion's share of the energy is in the industrial motors above one horsepower. From one horsepower all the way up to 300 horsepower. That's where the lion's share of the energy is consumed in energy. It's about 64% of industrial consumption is from motors itself. But if you look at that grid a little bit in more detail you can see that when you look at that 19 Padawatts you can see that there's quite a bit lost actually in transformation. So even in the grid we lose quite a bit of energy. So from that 19 Padawatts, only 15 is actually usable. And then you can actually see that the electric motors makes up the lion's share of that usable that's actually left. So in electric motors most of that energy goes into pumps, compressors, fans, you name it and they are ubiquitous and they are everywhere and they give them a lot of energy. So when I walk around now having met you and been fascinated by the number of motors all I see everywhere I look now are electric motors. It's funny when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change. Let's look at the next slide. So again, yes, the breakdown by sector. So industry represents about 64% and then commercial and residential around the remaining portions of the pie. But that's why we focused on industry in the beginning and we're going to continue to focus on industry to really help that sector. But we're also open to looking at commercial opportunities as well. Yeah, so your next slide talks a little bit about what do people really care about? So what do they care about? So when we looked at electric motors we really thought, you know, let's focus on durability because when you look at an electric motor most people think, well, the most important thing is the efficiency. I want the motor to be as efficient as possible or actually even prior to that the procurement we want the most affordable motor we can purchase but the most affordable motor you purchase is not necessarily the most affordable to operate. So a really good example I like to give is that a 200 horsepower industrial motor today costs $10,000 to purchase. But in the course of 20 years of operation that motor will consume $1.4 million in electrical power. And you think that's a big number, which it is. But in those same 20 years the breakdown cycles that occur and this is from an ABB study that same motor in breakdown costs would be $1.6 million. So suddenly a $10,000 purchase which seems like a lot of money at first becomes a $3 million liability. So we looked at those and really decided let's focus on the reliability piece first. And a really close second to that is the efficiency. Let's make sure this machine is as efficient as possible. So we really designed an electric motor that it has many similarities to an aircraft where we built in all redundancies to make the machine as fault tolerant as possible so it can withstand a failure and continue to operate. And that's really important in industry because if the motor is in a very specific part of a plant and you have to shut that part of the plant down that's significant cost and revenue to that particular operator. So we wanted to make sure that operators could plan their replacements and still have the operability of the machine. But then if there is a failure down the road that they could swap it up if necessary and they can make that a part of their maintenance program. So you have an interesting background Carlos because you come out of the aerospace business. So tell us a little bit about, you know how you developed this thinking about durability and backup systems, the backup systems. Yeah, I was actually 29 years in the aviation industry. My claim to fame is that I rewired Bill Gates' helicopter in 1994 from scratch. It was a belt-tool, six million ranger. Yeah, he wanted every system you can think of. Bill wanted a helicopter look like a porcupine when it was done. It had more antenna sticking out of it than you can imagine. But yeah, I've seen every fault that you can imagine on an aircraft and I've seen how systems are designed. Boeing 787s, Boeing 777s, airbuses as well. Even the Embraer 190, I've seen a lot of different manufacturers in the way that they approach design and the way that they approach system alt-tolerance. And everybody comes at it from different sort of way of thinking, but at the end of the day it's really about you have to allow for gradual soft failures that allow for the system to continue to operate. Just like if you're flying on an aircraft, on an Airbus A320, there are seven layers of cascading faults that have to occur prior to being able for the pilot to be what's called direct law. So you want to build a system, if you're gonna build a system that's a really great model to follow so that you know that when you design something it can have what's called planned endurance rather than planned obsolescence because we've done planned obsolescence and it's time to now start building things that last. And if we're gonna get out of the problems that we're having today with products being built to end up in a landfill, we really need to start thinking in a systems design perspective and building systems that can endure. Well, that's part of your corporate philosophy, is it not? Absolutely. You design the whole product life of your motor. Absolutely, yeah. We really focused on what I like to call, well, it's a cradle to cradle process where we want to be able to use products as what are called technical nutrients in the technical nutrient cycle. So if you have a product that's being replaced, that particular product's technical nutrients, the aluminum, the steel, the copper can be completely recycled or what's called upcycled back into new material. Some of the bobbins in our machine are actually recycled ocean plastic. So we make sure. Yeah, that was fascinating. Yeah, so we take the waste product and we convert it into a product that's actually perfectly usable. We simply add some carbon fiber into the mix of that plastic and we make sure that our suppliers are aware that we use all the kinds of products that we want to incorporate in our design. Right, so roll the drums. Next slide. Out of all this philosophy in design comes. Introducing the matrix machine. And it's an adaptive electric machine capable of motoring torque and are generating power. So in the same machine, we have the capability of generating power and through a variable speed load or variable speed prime mover, but we can also of course provide motoring torque to pretty much any application. And we wanted to make a machine that was very versatile and adaptable, easily fitted into various applications. And we also wanted it to be able to accept any form of power either AC or DC. So let's go to the next slide and we can drill in a little bit more of the core feature. But one of the things that struck me is that this motor quote generator could also be used in wind turbines, which I have an personal interest in. Yes, and this is actually where it became very interesting because we first approached this from the motor component. And then we realized quickly that we could also generate power with the same architecture. And it's literally the flip of a switch. The matrix generator and the matrix motor are the identical machine. And it's as simple as either throwing a switch or changing a logic state from a zero to a one and it becomes a generator. So it has the capability of doing both. But why do you call it the matrix? The reason the matrix word came about was because we use what are called elements. So within the design core, we have, sorry, within the design core, we have active elements and they create a matrix. So this design could actually form a linear drive. So imagine if we had a series of coils and we have a series of rotor elements, they could actually be used on a linear train. But they create an array because we actually have three separate phases that are all working within an array. And the word matrix simply is a mathematical term for a grid. And in essence, that's what we've created is a mathematical grid of elements that all interpolate together and work in a tangential configuration or an axial configuration. So this machine has some very unique properties that don't exist in other machines. Okay, so without giving away all the secret sauce, I mean, you talked about how you actually achieve being able to use like up to up or more than 40% less energy. We're not talking about the efficiency of the motor. We're just talking about the fact that you don't even need to use that much power to start with, correct? Correct. So when we talk about the energy efficiency of the machine, we really make it simple. It's electrical power consumption versus another machine. The exact same load, the exact same speed, we can achieve much better electrical load and we have immense gains from in comparison to existing machines. Yes. Okay, so why don't you go through some of the highlights that we've got highlighted here in this particular slide. Let's look at this, the core feature slide. There you go. Next one, previous one, I think. Yeah, I'm just having a look at it now because it's really small on my screen. So yeah, a couple of them that I think would be really great to highlight is the versatility, the reliability. Those are really key features. Active kinetic recovery and magnetic recovery. We definitely employ a secret sauce within the design that enables that net efficiency. But the one piece that we haven't talked about is dual motion. That's one piece of the machine that is actually quite interesting. It's the world's first US patented motor that has dual motion capability. So not only will it move in this direction but it can translate for and after within the same machine. So what does that give you? So like, so what? Okay, so in a wind turbine, for example, you have the capability of having, normally you'll have a generator, a transmission and you'll have separate actuators on each one of the blades that control the pitch. So imagine being able to simplify a wind turbine from those five components down to one. So with the matrix generator, not only would you be able to translate the generational power through the prime mover but you can actually translate the rotor for and after to control the pitch of the blades. And because we do not require a specific speed to generate the 60 cycles, we control that electronically. Our active front end produces the 60 cycle output that's required. So the generator can simplify wind turbine design significantly but it also has applications in robotics. It has applications in some that we haven't even considered yet. But it's very unique in that sense that we have this new capability that didn't exist before. Okay, so let's look at the next slide. And so we'll just kind of review some of the problems that your machine solves. Yeah, so one of the key elements there is the restrictive torque and speed control. The standard AC induction motors receive a percentage of efficiency based on a specific speed. They have a torque curve and they're rated for that torque curve and they're rated for that specific speed. 1800 RPM is a standard industrial speed for motors and their efficiencies are tested in the lab at that particular speed. The benefit of the matrix is that we can maintain high efficiency throughout its operating range. So our torque curve is not as defined as a standard AC induction motor, it's much flatter. So as a good example is the Site-C dam. There were engineers that I talked to up there that were talking about how the motors on the conveyors would drop in load. The load would, the efficiency of the motor would drop from 90% down to 30% as soon as they were outside of their torque curve. The speed was outside of the torque curve and the load was outside of the torque curve. So the efficiency dropped significantly. So with the matrix that wouldn't occur, we would maintain high efficiency even if there was a change in torque and if there was a change in speed, it will maintain that independent of speed and independent of torque. We can control either at the same time. Okay. So let's look at the next slide because then we bring out the, you mentioned it earlier in our talk about the cost of ownership, which is astounding. So this is more of a breakdown I think of where those savings come from. Maybe we can talk to the slide. Yeah, absolutely. So to remind the audience, the cost to purchase the machine in this example was $10,000 to purchase the energy costs over 20 years, 1.4 million. The cost of not running the machine in terms of downtime cost is 1.6 million. So with the matrix and the, in its, you know, the onset is always to make the machine as efficient as possible, but more so as reliable as possible. So our downtime costs, we're projecting, we're gonna drop that down to zero because of the ability for the machine to continue to operate, even though it could sustain a failure but continue to operate. So there won't be any downtime costs. And then the energy efficiency that 40% that you talked about, when we calculate that and bring those two together, we estimate that over 20 years we can reduce the cost of ownership by 66%. Wow. Significant savings to the operator. Yeah, exactly. So let's talk about the business side or the product development side. Where are you in your product development? Is this all nice pictures or do you actually have some real hardware? We have some real hardware. We've built several machines. We're up to about a couple dozen now. We were actually, we've done some deployment tests. We've done some testing in the field. We're actually, we just won the BC FAST pilot program and we're working with partners in industry right now and actually developing machines for our industry partners to test the machines and verify the previous case studies. So we're actually doing much longer term case studies. The first test that we did was up at Carbon Engineering and we ran the machine there for off and on for about a month and we were able to get some good data from that. Now we're doing more of a longer term 90 day test and we're gonna recording the data and capturing that information for later tests. So what size of machine are we talking about right now? So these are 15 horsepower industrial machines. We targeted that as our first sort of foray into this market. We did a global market analysis and decided that that would be a good starting point because there's a huge number in that sort of size range. It's a good starting point in terms of size as well. But of course the matrix can go from 15 to 30 to 60 to 90 horsepower and even larger. We talked to people about the design of the machine could actually go from 10 kilowatts to a megawatts. There's really no restriction in terms of the architecture of the design. It can scale. So I have a question about that. So scaling up sometimes takes a lot of engineering a lot of time. It's not necessarily that simple, but maybe it is with yours. But can you like put two or three machines on the same shaft and get a higher torque out of it? Is that something that you can do? Or is that sound logical? Like if I wanted 30 or 40 horsepower, but you've got a 10 horsepower, 15 horsepower unit, can I gang two or three of them together and achieve a higher level of horsepower? I wouldn't recommend it. I think the best thing to do is to right size for the design. So if you have a specific load and you need 30 kilowatts let's say 30 horsepower, we can definitely design the machine to meet that particular load. And it's just a matter, in terms of the core design of the machine, all we're doing is just increasing the core size and the core diameter to meet that load. And then the power electronics have to be upgraded to obviously to handle that higher current draw. Okay, so you've had significant funding or in support from the Canadian government. You wanna talk a little bit about that? Yeah, we worked with the National Research Council early on and we were successful in getting some support from the NRC, which was fantastic. And we've continued to have that relationship with the NRC over many years. So why don't you talk, I'll just interrupt quickly because this is an American audience. So why don't you talk a little bit about what the NRC is? I mean, I know about them because I'm Canadian and they have a huge positive reputation but just talk a little bit about what they do. So the NRC is the Canadian National Research Council. They have several arms across the country and one of the key programs that they have is IRAP and it stands for Industrial Research Assistance Program. So they identify TRL level one or two technologies that need research and development funding to really bring the technology from its infancy up to and including pre-commercialization just as the machine is nearing its need to go into the field and have testing, then they guide the process to really assist small to medium enterprises to take their initial idea into an actual prototype and then you meet the milestones and you go through the program and there's a huge amount of learning that we've done over the years and I can't say enough good things about the NRC. There are fantastic support for Canadian companies. So I heard about you through the Canadian Navy. So talk about the Navy. The Navy's been great actually and we've had some great conversations and a lot of interest. So we've actually had members of the Navy at our laboratory and had them witness the machines firsthand and they have the RCN, the Royal Canadian Navy has basically said that they're very interested in testing our technology and being able to validate it. So we're working with them right now to try and demonstrate that this technology can be used in many different applications from propulsion all the way to water movement, you name it, there's a lot of applications that the Navy could use. So we've got about a minute or so left to go. So I want to talk a little bit about your business development. Like are you looking for funding and what's the deal? Or if somebody's looking at this show and they say, wow, like I did, this is great stuff and I want to be part of it. How can they do that? Is that something you're looking for or are you all set? We are in a good position. We're starting to get a lot of interest and it's great to start to see customers, potential customers coming to us and asking for orders and they're looking to test the machine. Are we open to investment? I'm always open to having people contact us interested in Navy at a later stage. For the time being, we're good but who knows what tomorrow will bring. Okay, so one last shot. What have I not covered that you would like to tell the audience? I just think that the audience needs to know that there are avenues and ways to getting to that energy resilient future that we're all looking for in terms of being able to make good use of the energy that we're producing. And I really feel that if we look at the complete picture of the energy load, we can make better use of the energy that we have and be able to distribute it equally to everyone. That way there shouldn't be a point in time in the future where there's an energy deficit for anyone. And be able to solve this problem and be able to distribute energy equally. Oh, let's have the last slide up which has your contact information. So there you go. That's how we can contact Carlos up there in Canada where it's getting colder. And we also have his website. We have his telephone number and we have his email address. So Carlos, thank you so much for sharing your technology with us. This is really breakthrough stuff. I haven't seen anything like this. I'm in the field. So well done. I love your philosophy. I love how you're using like waste plastic in the ocean. God, we have a lot of that already. And I love your company philosophy that if anybody goes to the website, they can see it and you're actually living it. So it's really good. So thank you so much, Mitch. Really appreciate the time. So we've been talking to Carlos Nunes from Aurora Industrial Machines and we're saying aloha now and we'll see you next Wednesday.