Going on everyone Sam here with late sports cards for 22 pretty flawless football hobby 2 box full case break number 14 Pick your team style read off a list for names on our teams got Aaron M with the Titans Alexi Colton Rams Carlos F with the Broncos Chuck D Saints Colton s Vikings Dina B with the Browns Ravens and Panthers and Seahawks you Jean L. Dolphins Ziki alum with the Steelers Felix and with the Falcons and Packers Thank you guys for selling us out John K. Texans Jonathan J bears Josh L. Chargers mark D. Chiefs and And commanders that is Matthew M with the Cardinals bangles and Patriots Nick E has the Eagles Robert B. Cowboys Ron C Jets that is Rory C with the Bills Scott E Lyons Shawn M. Niners Sergio a giant Steven M. Bucks and Raiders and Tim D with the Jags Good luck here. Everybody. Let's do it. Appreciate you all there is just 12 to go on the next break everybody here is your link 12 to go that is PYT style 12 to go Here we go. Let's do it. Good luck everybody. 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It's an empty case as you can see chill Who is the first one it was? Don't remember off top my head now. Oh Tyler. That's right. Hi law as a Patriots Patriots Chiefs Chiefs and a Isaac Bruce as a ram 49ers 49ers Okay, I'm gonna start off with the tie law again. It's the Patriots and the Chiefs one of 15 whatever teams on top after Ten dice rolls we'll get that card Gonna go up one Two three four five six seven eight nine and ten go into the Chiefs and Then the Isaac Bruce again that is gonna be number eight of 15 between the Rams and the Niners Rams 49ers Will the dice whatever teams on top after? nine dice rolls we'll get that one one two three four five six seven eight and nine go to the Rams going to the Rams All right quick recap jerseys we had Christian McCaffrey Mleek Willis Christian Watson and Alec Pierce For your autos you had Isaac Bruce tie law AJ Dylan Darrell Green Deon Sanders to Marcus where Ricky Williams Ray Lewis Jonathan Taylor Nice hit in there a lot of awesome. That's there It's what I love about this stuff is all the bets dude big that guy All right, we had the Charles Woodson to 20 We had the Travis Kelsey to 10 We had a Jason Kelsey to seven that's kind of cool. We got the Kelsey brothers. I didn't realize that We had a Kenny Pickett to 10 George Pickens 5 of 20 RPA a Bresaul 7 of 10 for the Jets and Then Brock Purdy 2 of 20 for the Niners. I'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the bill coming up next is number 15 I believe yes


Today is the 30th of November, Monday, the first day of the 21st Conference of Parties here in Paris. It's called the High Level Day. We had a series of speeches by heads of state and heads of government, including President Obama. These are still going on. I just saw the Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister Modi speaking. And at the same time we've had a number of high-level events going on. I participated in two of them. One of them is the announcement of a new initiative. It's called the Resilience Initiative by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that brings together the Climate Change Agenda together with the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda and the Disaster Risk Reduction Agenda, which are the three major outcomes of global processes taking place in 2015. Starting with Sendai in March on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals in New York in September, and now hopefully a Climate Change Agreement in Paris within a matter of two more weeks. And then the second major event I participated in was a high-level meeting of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, which is a forum that I have been working with for a number of years since it was formed in 2009 by President Nasheed of the Maldives. The current chair is President Benino Akinio of the Philippines, and he chaired a high-level session. It just ended where they adopted the Manila Paris Declaration of the Climate Vulnerable Forum and inducted a set of new members. They now are 43 members of this forum. And the main advocacy asked that they have here in Paris, which we hope will be picked up by the media, is arguing for a new global long-term temperature goal of one and a half degrees in place of the old one, which was two degrees. And the argument is that there is a big difference in terms of the number of people who are going to be affected, probably in the order of a hundred million people, who will be badly affected by a two-degree temperature rise, even though that might protect many people. It won't protect everyone. And so the forum is arguing very strongly for the long-term temperature goal to be one and a half degrees instead of two degrees. And we have a hand signal to demonstrate this, which is the following. Right hand, one finger up as a one, you make the other fingers into a zero, and the left hand is a five. So 1.5 to survive.


Okay, so the talk, which really is a discussion, so I'm just going to be talking for a few minutes. And hopefully we'll all be talking after this, like the previous session. So the talk is, what is your question? Okay, and I'll cover what that is later. The subtitle is Cargo, Cult, Innovation, and the Indigenous Spark. That's just a hook, really. So if you ask me what that is later on, I'll answer that. So about me, so my name is Thomas Tan. So I've been a software engineer, a product manager, and I've worked in large and small companies, and so I'm trying to say what I'm going to do next as a career move. But that's not related to, that's just about me. So thanks for voting for this talk, and it's really a half-baked talk. So before we get started, that's in the spirit of BLARCAM. So can everyone look at the person next to you and just ask a question, any question about anything in any way you like. Just do that. Come on, come on, this is about asking questions. Any, just one question about anything. Are you chatting or are you asking questions? Okay, how many people ask one question? How many people ask two questions? At least two questions. At least, so some people didn't ask questions. But anyway, the point of this is so that you feel a bit embarrassed, a bit afraid, because it's like you're asking questions, most of the time we make assertions, and we say either this, this, this or that. If I were to listen to you giving a talk, I'd be judging in some way as well. But I'm trying to change that. And the reason is, okay, why am I talking about this? Why am I interested in this? So recently I overheard, I was attending a panel, and the executives were saying a lot of interesting things. But one of the things that they were saying was that Singaporeans are not as good at asking questions. In the offices, during work, they'll be told to do something or so and so forth. There will be no questions. And then you might get issues. I think that's where they're coming from. And I also overheard, actually over read, is the country manager of a major tech company in Singapore recently said that she couldn't find people who could solve problems, think critically, or are being able to communicate. And I think of all this as connected to asking questions. Communication, critical thinking. It's in the pipeline to innovation. So as a problem solver, I'm thinking, I want to solve this problem. Because the first time I heard this was eight years ago. So I've been in the tech community for the last eight years. And I've been attending lots of talks, you know, tech people, investors, mentors from overseas, they come. And I keep hearing this, you know, if you don't ask enough questions, why is that? So I decided to think about how can we change that? Right? What can we do? So the idea that I had is something called a question quotient. It's kind of like IQ, intelligence quotient. Or EQ, empathy, emotional quotient. So what if there was a question quotient? So what is your question quotient? Right? So think about that. So that's one way of looking at it. And then there will be questions. This is where it gets fuzzy. So it's a metric or a score. And once we have that, you can measure it and you can improve it. You can track it, right? And the question is how do you assess it? So that's where I want to find out what are your ideas? How does one assess question quotient? So the end point, where is the end point? The end point could be that in the future, if I were to hire somebody, I can ask the person, what's your question quotient? Instead of, it could even be like in the job ad, I would see something like today, I would see something like 15 years of management required, four years of programming so and so, three years of HR recruiting, 20 years of asking questions. Something like that, yeah? So how do you measure that? That doesn't really make sense. What kind of answers make sense to that question? Or even simplistically, you can have, in the interview, say, today you do a technical test, right? Or you could have a question quotient test. It could be as easy as I'll take today's newspaper, an article like this, I'll give you a few minutes to read. Come up with 10 intelligent questions about that. In any aspect, no matter how deep, look between the lines, what are they saying? Is that an agenda, blah, blah, blah, right? Come up with 10 questions in a span of, say, five minutes. So that could be one way, right? Or it could be like an IQ way, where there's a standard test. You just go through that. Some of them are trick questions. It could be multiple choice. And to take this to its, what I can imagine, given the two days of thinking, so it's perhaps individuals and even organizations have question quotients. So if you want to work for a company that is innovative, today there is no innovative score. And it's a fuzzy concept anyway. Many companies can be innovative, but they won't survive two years, right? And it doesn't tell you what kind of company it is. So a company can have a question quotient. And if the company is scoring 187, it's better than one that's scoring 150. Because you know that when you go there, they encourage you to ask questions, right? They won't slam you down. It's very safe. You know, they encourage questions and innovation. So then it's a better place to work for and work at. It helps to grow. They grow. The bosses all the way down are like that. So maybe Google is like that because their mission statement is about, you know, you bring the questions, we give you the answers or something like that, right? That's what they say. And then, you know, the glass door, LinkedIn and all of that, right? You can rate companies. They interview process. What do they like? How many stars? So maybe you can rate companies question quotient. So anyone, anywhere that you've worked at, when you leave or when you're still there, you can say, you know, this place is really good. You know, I'll give you the X score, right? And then, you know, a lot of people want to work for these companies instead of somewhere where they don't want to. But maybe there are also jobs that you don't want too many questions. So that could be bad, right? In the military, you don't want many questions.  You know, when you say, go, you don't want too many questions, right? So it doesn't work that way. But at a high level, maybe you do, right? In the military. So, and also there are different words of thinking about this. So let's start small. What does the QQ score, the question quotient score, mean at the primary school level? So you have to start somewhere, right? So by primary six, what would you expect a child to be able to ask? You know, because frequently, because I've got a niece and nephew and I, I see that, you know, now they are late teens, 16 years old. They don't ask any questions. They talk. They make assumptions. You know, and I get this pointed because only when you ask questions you're actually absorbing, right? And you can't, you can tell them something or give them advice when they don't ask for it. They just won't listen to it, right? But if they start asking, then they might absorb something. So the key is to get them to ask questions again to that habit. So what does it mean for a QQ score at the primary school level, the secondary school level, or even higher? Let's start with a number of questions asked. I mean, that's the easiest. Quantity. Yes. Although I've seen that breakdown in very, very bad ways in the higher learning environment. Can you give an example of a very bad way? What does that mean? I will not name names, but I have heard of a class that was that kind of like based part of your class participation score on how you ask questions. And it turned out that people were asking unintelligent questions to put it very mildly. Could it be that because they haven't asked 10,000 questions before they reached that point, right? No, not true. But rather they were asking questions for the sake of asking questions which I believe was against the spirit of why such a rule or... Was it a negative? Overall, from what I heard from, because this is a second-hand story, from the person I heard it, who I've heard it from, he didn't say that it didn't quite work out very well. It was slightly disrupted for the class. Yeah, I would say, let me get back to... So questions and innovation is connected. In many countries, they talk about innovation as the idea stage, and then you produce, right? But I think before that, there are actually three stages. You have the critical thinking stage, the questioning stage, and the communication stage. So you have to be able to talk a lot. Even rubbish. Then you start asking a lot of questions. Rubbish questions, right? Eventually you get good, right? It's like one of the Nobel Prize winners said, he was asked, how do you get good ideas? I get good ideas by having lots of ideas. So how do you get good questions? There's only one way to get good questions. He asks a lot of questions, right? And... I think it's more than just asking questions. There's also a lot of answers and questions here. So if you're a kid, and you ask a whole bunch of questions, but you'll say whatever your categories are, are unable to ask you questions, or you just dismiss the questions, then it's also discouraging to ask questions. Yes, it is. But you shouldn't stop, I think. Because why should you stop? So you can only get better. In my mind, given anyone who is at least average intelligence, not everyone in this room, right? A task to repeat over and over again, they will get good. They will. This notion of having 10,000 hours of practice and all that, it's a bit of a... What people often miss out is the part where it has to be deliberate practice with feedback and all that. So I think going back to this point, if the question is just without any thought or effort to improve them, it may not work out even though there will be lots of practice. I agree. I agree, yes. You have to... But I think once it becomes... Once there's a question epidemic, then maybe there will be some solution. Because right now there isn't a question epidemic. In fact, there's a desert in Singapore, I would say, a desert of questions. So right now that's... Not asking questions at all is probably worse than a type of question. Yeah, you're right. I think right now we're at the other end of the spectrum. We need to be... Maybe we should take extreme measures so that we can get somewhere on the average in the long term. I feel like at the QQ score, I guess wherever you have a metric, then you have to focus on it and look at, like, the measure and so on. One thing I struggle with is that I think Singapore and our local, so we've seen it just come back this year, like this year. So I can't see it quite the same way. I think Singapore is very, like, indigenous in nature. So you have to take something that's very complex, like human being, kind of like, use it to a bunch of scores.  But then you also must create a space of that performance. And so, you know, we kind of start optimizing for this. We have no coalition histories coming into game in the system. I'm not, like, massively keen on yet another score for people to acknowledge. But sometimes I think we are looking at an engineering process kind of throat. Should solve a people-culture kind of problem.  You know, the best questions, like, that I see, you know, I get marked in, like, the school. It's like, you know, nice, a technical, well-formed question that you can all point to. Yeah, yeah, that's a real profession. But sometimes just, like, you know, I don't understand what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, I agree when I thought about this score. It's like, you know, you can gain the system and all of that. But what would be the, I think for this QQ score, the effect and the result is different from the other sort of assessments because it builds something that is inside you. If I were to give you a newspaper article and within five minutes I'll see the comment with 10 intelligent questions and I have assessed 50 people, I will know, you know, whether you can't gain the system because if you can answer correctly given a real-time test, like, it means that you are able to ask questions in good questions. You can't gain it. This is like asking you to do math. If you ask me to do math, I can't gain it. I can memorize the questions and if the right questions come out, I will do it and I can get perfect score, right? But if problem-solving was, I can't do it, you know, so... But then again, right, let's say you have the newspaper article and then you ask people to ask questions but then you need to come out with like a rubrics of what exactly is intelligent questions. But intelligent questions to everyone is subjective. Yes. Like, whatever I ask might be intelligent to myself, but I may not be intelligent to you. That is the beauty of it. You see? You can't gain it. Exactly. See, if we think like that, we will end up in a situation you describe. But I don't think you can gain this system. When it comes to questions, there's something about it that you just can't gain. And it's like success, when they say about success, you don't know what it is but when you see someone that's successful, you know that person is successful. You can't fake it, right? So a person who can ask intelligent questions, but you can't fake it for a long time with everybody, I think. Or maybe you can, yeah? You might be successful maybe materially or you have to be successful materially but you might be seriously in debt. No, the kind of success that I'm talking about is that you can't gain it. You know, you would, I don't think you can. You know, you're talking about like real, authentic successful people and fake ones. You're talking about fake ones. Success can be fate. Can I just pick up what argument that we made? So I think what, again, may not be so helpful is to go around the definition that's open for what the definition of a good question is. Maybe it's more a case of us just being able to live with the reality that there are many equally valid notions of a good question and equally valid notions of success and just allowing a better amount of choice that's a good question that's also a good question that is successful that's also successful and you know, not go around that's all I think that's a great idea to start because I know eventually it will evolve into standards and that is where we want to be. Eventually everything evolve into kind of standards. You have different companies asking for different skills and they have different hiring criteria. Eventually you have a different hiring criteria. So it is, it is a way of measuring. It shouldn't be the only way of measuring. Right? So that's what I'm thinking and just like you made something a very important point which is it's not about asking questions it's about being able to look stupid. Yeah. Okay.  How do you, you can't. You have to track them.  Yeah. That's one way but let's say you have this score, right?  You know what I mean? So it's kind of like let me see communication question critical thinking ideas So this is this is what I think of the innovation pipeline. There are business innovation pipelines but they all talk about this the funnel. You have a kind of ideas you screen them and you process them eventually you get one winning innovation. Right? But they start here so my my vision is that there are actually three cultural things that Silicon Valley has you know some places in the world have Israel has we don't have this is what I call the cargo cult innovation culture Yeah? You don't have this you're not going to have this now then you can say why China can make it work a billion people you throw a rock someone has an idea enough ideas enough innovations right? So to have ideas and develop last questions you need to do critical thinking to have that you need to be able last questions right? You need to be able not accept the status quo or accept just whatever I say you question me right? Then you get 10 more ideas out of that and then once to have that you need to be able to communicate right?  That's just something here you're guaranteeing that that guy has done enough of this and maybe be generally enough of this and then you get to that point so that's that's kind of what I mean so the indigenous spark is what Singaporeans need to have to have this right? So that's kind of like this is not really the focus of the questions but that's that's where I my thinking went as well and I had to cut it out so that's not to make it too confusing Oh I just have something to share One of the way to to increase the No no no it's okay We need to film you It's purposely I don't want to put myself that's the thing Okay Sorry for everyone else One of the ways to increase the quality of questions and increase the quality of answers just so they know sometimes for our century for lifetimes we may ask good questions but we may not able to get good answers all the answers in our lifetime but the good questions we can increase one of the way that ancient Chinese do especially the emperors and the prince right? They study history so what happens is that they take the history context of that one it's not like the Singapore study history when they ask so at certain incidents they will ask the teachers will ask the prince or the future king close the book ask at this point of time what will you do then after that then open up the book and the teacher will ask decisions making and discuss the students point of view and what actually happens in the pros and cons and over that period of time when the kings when the prince or the students they become decision makers they apply that and they ask questions and then they pass it on for them so these are the so called the top secrets of the Chinese ways of learning from history to ask good questions So is the history book like a model answer in a way or is that a scenario or a loose scenario it's like an MBA that kind of scenario that they say but because history you cannot apply directly you are being forced to adapt and then to change see this is being done at the MBA level like you say or higher education level but by the time we get there we have lost you know by the time we get there and you ask someone have you asked 20 years a group of questions they say no right so you can't really you have to ask 20 years more questions but the guys who have done that when they walk in the room you know when they walk in the room you know that they have been asking questions all their lives communicating all their lives you can see the spark right and that's what I think it's an opinion it may not be true but that's my observation I like the idea where you come out with a communication then you link it to the questions because sometimes I feel that it's not about the quality of the question but the quality of the communication that raise the questions that's what we call the quality questions yes and I feel that it might not be just because you ask a good question then you are a certain smuggler somewhere but all the communication that makes no sense see that's the point you see you can't say well I haven't come up with a communication quotient maybe you can right but once you start measuring this you're in a way measuring that right because it's a funnel you know 3000 to 1 maybe 3 million to 1 innovation maybe that's how it works how it has worked in Silicon Valley so what else is there any other questions to say something about good questions and stupid or dumb questions I think there's some talk about it one thing I observe is sometimes that some really really good questions appear to be dumb at first when people start laughing about what stupid question is but then when you think about it a bit more you realize that might be something good but then you know the five why you keep asking why why why why do you say that why do you eventually get to the root and it becomes really good and another point is if we only ask questions where we know the answers to we can't create anything to be innovative and creative is you have to ask questions that you don't know the answers to sometimes you don't even know that there's a question like Tim Brown from EDEO the creative agency said before all of this the question to ask is right when you ask the right question everything falls into place it becomes easy to solve when you ask the wrong question you have to keep going back to the right questions and it's iterative you know it has to be just want to add on to our good question a lot of it stems from being in an environment or even a room where people are very diagnosed I'm not sure how diagnosed we are here but I guess what I observe is my observation is you know people form different backgrounds different educational training different ways of life very different families different ethnicities religions all these things if you're able to get that kind of view together the quality that is harder to manage but the quality of questions are much better and I think one thing that hurts us as a country is that we are too quick to stratify and cluster people who are similar together so systematically we are in this environment where we are strong and much people who have this like us and therefore it goes on to say it makes sense that questions all come out in a certain flavour because that's all we are exposed to yes I agree and it's hard you talk about cultural and it has to be a safe place a safe place to ask questions right such that you know which is where if an organisation has a QQ score and it's a high one you know that it's a safe place maybe companies and eventually countries countries can have a QQ score you know for instance I know that in the UK I could talk about anything and I did I talked about anything and I did and it was really good it can ask a lot of questions and maybe Singapore has to can improve in that area and having something like this it could be a small first step start thinking about it start to push the you know the boundary so in terms of society and how to change it that's kind of too big I don't think I can fix that or anyone can it's like the discussion just now in the previous session about global warming there are only so many things that you can do because it's so high level you know you can't really help it so I'm trying to start something small and maybe a score when the score gets pervasive who knows you know so there are pros and cons but I think we can swing with the other way so just a point to add so we're talking about communication and what you can talk about if you look at the education system this is from someone who is talking who is doing a lot of talks in Singapore and before he went to speak at a school he was told by the teachers that there are certain topics he can't speak about he was like you can't talk about politics you can't talk about money you can't talk about religion and you can't talk about sex and this kept saying so what are the other interesting topics like this is in school or this is this like university or like I don't know exactly but it was like an education institute in Singapore which this guy just brought in and he wanted to like to talk about something interesting but he can't talk about it so there are times when the constraints I mean it kind of gets complicated because these are the kind of things which are almost interesting to talk about you know they're emotional topics they're something which I would say act straight or kind of bring out the arguments and you're a different point of view like like what this this person say here diversity right yeah safe place to ask questions and the more diverse the more dangerous but you get better ideas better results coming out of that that's my experience personally as well but the you're right but I have a personal opinion on that which is you know once you make someone think in the box they will always think in the box the rest of their lives the first thing they will think about is the box and that is the worst thing you can have but being where we are is the way it is right so so I don't know what to do about that so but this is just one small step you know having the score and then the score I think you know pushes both ways as far as I can see so that's what is any other questions the more the merrier what is your journey like to kind of comment this like was there a certain thing which sparked you into the journey oh yeah like I said in the beginning I was attending a panel and you know the executives were saying Singaporeans Singaporeans don't ask enough questions and that could be a problem and this was last month and there were other articles and over the last eight years this has been you know happening I've observed over heard things like that so it's a problem I want to solve the problem problem solvers so I just that was covered yeah but with this score you know it guarantees that you have look stupid enough times to get a high score so that's you know I mean I was like half prepared for this talk if I look stupid fine right so but if I didn't find as well so you know so okay thanks very much for the discussion


Hi everyone. My name is Gab. I work at Atlanta Legal Aid with Kristen. And what I'm going to show you is how to use a quick start kit that includes a PowerPoint and an MP3 file to make your own video. And so this is the Legal Aid Attorneys Guide to Medicare Savings Programs. And you can see there's an example video that I've posted that shows what the video looks like when it's completed and put together. So after you've downloaded the customizable PowerPoint template and MP3 audio file, you can start customizing for your own organization. So I have already downloaded the PowerPoint template. So here it is. The customizable templates have been created so that they are generic, except in places where there are red brackets. So what you do is you come in here, customize this with your information. And you'll see here that everything here is generic about Medicare Savings Programs until you get down to which agency administers Medicare Savings Programs. And in the audio, it will say that Medicare Savings Programs are administered by state-specific Medicaid or social services agencies. So while that audio is on the screen, you'll be showing what your specific state's agency is. So in Georgia, it's DFACS. And then there are only a couple more places in this template where things are specific. Again, here I would replace this red bracketed text with DFACS, or impersonate the DFACS office. Lastly, you'll customize with your organization a TIG grant, perhaps if you're being funded by a TIG grant, and then the folks who worked on producing the video. So what you'll do after you customize all of these slides is you will save these as pictures. And I forgot to mention there are step-by-step instructions for what I'm doing right now available in the help guides. So I'll save these as pictures. You'll see it's created a folder here on my desktop where these pictures are located. So now we're through with the PowerPoint portion. I have opened a project in iMovie and created a new project. The how-to guide includes an older version of iMovie. I'm using a more updated version of iMovie, but things are basically the same in these two versions. So the first thing that you'll do is add your customized slides to the project. So I'm selecting all of them here. I'm just going to drag them down below into iMovie. And then they seem to be very tiny. The next thing I'll do, as you can see here as I'm scrolling over these, there's kind of a Ken Burns effect where it's zooming in. And the best way to present these slides is to have a view where it's just fit in the screen. So see I've highlighted all of the photos. I'm going to click on the style here for cropping and select fit. And that'll apply to all of them. So now you'll see if I'm scrolling over these, they're all fit in the screen. I'm not moving around. I like to add transitions between my slides, and the easiest way to do that in this instance is to go to settings right here and click automatic content. So what that will do is that we'll insert a cross-dissolve transition in between all of the slides. You can kind of see what that looks like here as I'm scrolling over these. We don't need a cross-dissolve at the very beginning, so I'll delete that. You'll be asked if you want to turn off automatic titles and transitions. You'll say yes. And you can change the length of the transition between slides by double-clicking it. We'll say half a second for each of these transitions. And then by clicking apply to all, you've got all your transitions, the length that you want them. The next thing that you need to do is change the duration of all of the slides before you add the MP3 file. The reason you want to do that is because when you add the MP3 file, regardless of the length of the recording, it will cut off wherever your image is cut off. And so to compensate for that, we want to be extra generous and change the timing on all of these to about 30 seconds.  Go to clip information here and set the duration for 30 seconds. So now you can see that all of these slides now are set at 30 seconds. So this is the point where you're going to add your MP3 file that you've downloaded. You'll just drag it here into iMovie and align it with the start. And the next thing that you'll need to do, you can see on the MP3 file that there are distinct sections of audio. And there's enough space between each of these sections where you can see where a slide is supposed to end. So what you'll do in order to align all of these slides with the corresponding audio is simply select the slide, click and drag it, and align it with the beginning and end of that specific audio. And of course you'll want to test this for each slide to make sure everything is aligned the way you want it. But eventually you will have your slides synced up with your audio. I personally go to the end here. I personally like to end my videos with a fade to black transition. So I'll highlight that, go up to transitions. Instead of using the cross dissolve, I'll drag down a fade to black. I'll delete the cross dissolve first, rather. Drag down a fade to black and you can see that once that video is over, it's going to fade to black. Now if I had adjusted all of these slides to correspond with the audio, the audio and the slides would be ending at the same time. So once you've gone through and aligned all of the audio with the slides, you're finished. It's really as simple as that for putting the PowerPoint slide and the audio together. So in order to create this into a video, you will go to file, click over share, and save it to a file. So I'll name my Medicare savings programs. It'll ask me where I want to save it. I'll save it to the desktop. You can see up here that my video is going to be processing here. I can also point out back here on share law video that if you would prefer to re-record the transcript yourself so that you can specifically talk about your agency's social service agency or your state social service agency rather, you can download the transcript. You'll have everything available there and you can record the MP3 yourself and then add that in. Does anyone have any questions at this point about putting a PowerPoint and an MP3 player together in iMovie? So how long does that syncing up of the slides to the audio take? How long do you think you could go from downloading all of this content to actually having a video to review? Once you get a little bit more familiar with the process and you don't need to refer to the instructions as much, I'd say you could get from download to video in as little as 15 minutes, maybe 20 if you want to make sure that everything syncs up perfectly. So it really is a very quick process. It's largely a visual process, just making sure that everything lines up and then testing it out and tweaking it to your specifications. And you can see here that my video is complete. We'll go to the desktop. Now I have an MP4 file and there you go. There's the audio and the title card. And the video and the audio is syncing up. Any other questions? Which version of iMovie are you using? This is version 10.1.2. So this is the new version that just recently came out? I downloaded this about a month ago. I don't believe there's another update, but there may be. I honestly haven't checked. Okay, thank you.


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Hello, I'm Ron Duker with Pyramid Air. Today we're going to talk about the 10-point Vengeant 440 and what comes in the package as well as stick around to see the cock-de-cock feature. So first thing first, what comes in the box? Overall very limited assembly required but there is some that needs to be done. The first thing is the bow itself. Secondly you're going to end up with your foot stirrup. Underneath you'll have a bracket for your quiver and you will also be receiving your quiver with six premium arrows which I'll tell you all about in a couple seconds. From an optics standpoint you get the Evo X Marksman 2 by 8 by 36 Marksman scope. This is a illuminated reticle as well as 10 point has these great little bubble levels which gets you into true archery and true accuracy in my mind as well as you get a cocking handle that nests inside of the stock and you get your own case. When you purchase a 10 point a couple of things it's a top-end brand there's a couple of things that go along with that. One, you're going to get a packet including in that is a welcome to the family. These are manufactured in the United States these are USA made. There's a reason for that there's a reason for the price point. There are benefits with this as well. It has a lifetime warranty. I've seen bows 20 years old that if you have something go with the limbs 10 point honors that warranty they find a way to get you back in the woods. So you also get inside of this the welcome to the family packet is hand signed so the actual person that inspected it and packaged it is got a hand signature on it. So you know personally exactly who touched your bow and who packaged it. Also have the owner's manual. This package comes with pretty much everything you need including its own custom-made case. Very simple case to utilize open it up you can put the crossbow in put your quiver with six arrows in scope already on it and zip it up. Also with the case you have two pockets for accessories on the front.  On the back it comes with two adjustable shoulder straps that you can position in a close position or with just a quick simple change you can position in a wider position if you prefer. This bow is shooting a blistering 440 feet per second which is 166 foot pounds of energy. All that compacted in an 11 inch axle to axle uncocked and this goes all the way down to 5.8 inches which is somewhere in that range which we'll show you in a little bit. Overall length from stirrup all the way to the back is around 37 inches. From top to bottom it's approximately 11 inches. For a forward draw crossbow this makes quite a compact package.  You'll see that is perfectly fine because with the built-in cocking decocking mechanism you don't have much of a trouble cocking this crossbow at all. It's got a 14 inch power stroke but however long it is you've got a mechanical aid here on the back of the crossbow that's going to take care of that for you no matter how far you have to pull it. How do they get the speed and consistency out of this crossbow? The vector quad cam system is something we need to talk a little bit about. This quad cab system the reason why it's so good is what it does is it actually levels out your cams on every single shot. Again repeatability repeatability repeatability consistency gets you that accurate shot. We'll get to the optic the optic goes out to 100 yards this crossbow is actually capable of doing that. Wouldn't recommend it out to beyond 40 yards with any hunting situation however it has the capability and the optic to go to 100. So one of the pieces that I want to identify here is that quad cam system has the string actually above the rail. This is something unique that you will see that this means better better string life. It also means consistency because you don't have friction constantly rubbing against your rail. The trigger box trigger is again premium you're going to hear premium a lot with this crossbow. This is a dual stage trigger and it's only 3.5 pounds pull. This is one of the better triggers that you're going to find anywhere on a crossbow. Moving to the scope like I mentioned before it's got an Evo X marksman 2 to 8 36 millimeter optic. It is an illuminated reticle red or green you can choose by selecting up or down as well as the intensity. It's got a windage and elevation adjustments that are clicks that you can just make on the fly if needed as well as on the back it's got a dial both from magnification as well as for feet per second on your crossbow so you can always know that if you want to line up that speed with the marks on the inside of the crossbow you can know exactly how fast your crossbow is going or if you're more of a traditionalist you can go in and do your specific magnification. The bubble level is separate but comes in the package and what that does is that enables you to have a quick reference visually when you go to make a shot to make sure that you're not canting your bow one way or another and have an off shot. Under the trigger box we have inside of it an arrow retention brush actually and the reason for that is that you get whisper quiet arrows being shot and you don't have any vibration if you were to have any metal there you don't have any vibration coming back onto the shooter when they fire. There is a lever that's it's on both sides that you flip this forward and it actually releases the trigger box assembly which then goes all the way down and clicks onto your string and this will be part of how we cock and de-cock the crossbow.  It's very well labeled on here as to which way to go de-cock is going to be counter clockwise and clockwise is going to cock your crossbow. Nested in the handle is a handle in order to do all of the work. Couple of features with the handle itself it does extend out so that if you need more leverage you can get that by just simply extending the handle or closing the handle down. At the very end important to note they were very wise and again this is a US based company quarter 20 so if you happen to be out in the field and you happen to have a quarter 20 that will go in here.  I only have two fingers on this and I'm cocking this entire crossbow at 440 feet per second.  I can go backwards if I need to reset something I can continue to go forward as I go.  One of the things to note is how super small your profile is with this crossbow. You actually can see my shoulder to shoulder better than you can see the axle to axle. And heaven forbid you have a hunt and you're not successful don't get to take a shot that time you don't need to carry around a bag with this. You can just or shoot an arrow into the ground saves ton of money on bolts. All you have to do put those two turns back in and you'll feel the crossbow when it's ready to de-cock because you'll see this lever right here which I'm activating with my thumb on the left side. You'll see that loosen. As soon as that loosens you know you can hold that forward just a little bit to clear the trigger box assembly and you just back it off. It's simple it says de-cock this way keep following again if you happen to stop because you have something else going on this crossbow is not going to get away from you when you're de-cocking it as well. And there you have it. That's simple. One quick thing about the 10 point accu-slides anytime you see this trigger box assembly once you're de-cocked most people are just going to leave it like that and it's designed to be stored and keep it locked onto your string. If you do for some reason want to take that off let me go through that real quick. If you put your trigger into the fire position you can turn the bow upside down and you'll see on the handle is this metal rod that slides out. You take the rod put it into find the little hole on the bottom here which I'm doing blindly. There we go. Flip it in and it will release the trigger mechanism. You hear that click once you hear the click.  Quiver assembly is a quick detach. You can mount it in several different positions and you can cant it a little bit to the right or left depending on where you feel comfortable. Six arrow quiver inside of the arrow. Arrows are very important. You get six arrows with this and these arrows are point zero zero one straightness which is pretty much as good as you can get as well as important to note that these are match grade. What that means is all six of these arrows have been personally hand selected for you to be no more than plus or minus one grain of each other in total weight. So you have very consistent accuracy no matter which arrow you happen to pull out that day and shoot. And most importantly one thing I forgot it comes with a hat. As far as value goes I can't see how much you can do any better than this with all premium components made in the USA, comes with its own case, match grade arrows plus or minus one grain, illuminated optic. There's a lot of things and features on this crossbow to love. I'm Ron Duker with Pyramid Air. Don't forget to like comment and subscribe. Thank you for checking out the 10 point Vengeant 440 with me. I'll see you next time.


Kai, let's talk about interfaces in TypeScript, first let's make a new file, let's save it as interfaces.ts, interfaces in TypeScript are a way of representing complex types for any object, also we could say that interfaces define a set of properties, methods and events, but they do not provide their implementation, so in interfaces we don't have implementation, so inside one interface you can have properties, methods, events and you don't need to provide their implementation. Okay, also we could say that interfaces are some kind of types that contain a list of members, let's say that we will have member 1, member 2 and so on. Okay, let's make an interface that represents object that have for example username and password field, so we're going to make interface user and we will provide its list of members, for example let's make first member username, that username will be string type and let's make for example password which will also be a string, a lot of programmers also like when they're working with an interface to use in front of its name letter I, capital letter I which will suggest to other programmers that this name represents an interface, so it will be easier to work and maintain your code, also we could also say that we can have an interface in TypeScript, but after compilation to JavaScript interface will not exist anymore, so interfaces are defined just in TypeScript and we don't have them in JavaScript. Okay, that's all for now about interfaces in TypeScript, see you in the next video, bye bye.


Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for waiting. We are delighted to have you all here. We are now ready to resume our seminar program for this NAC Breakout Speaking Track. We would like to invite Mr. Shinji Abe, Product Architect, IT Platform Division NAC, and Mr. Masahiko Takahashi, Principal Research Engineer, Green Platform Research Lab Latrice NAC, Mr. Kohei Kaigai, Lead of the PGSTOM Project NAC, to talk about OpenStack as a Research Disaggregated Platform Controller. Mr. Abe, Mr. Takahashi, and Mr. Kaigai, please. Thank you, Kami, for our session today. And two guides will explain about OpenStack as a Resource Disaggregated Platform Controller. This shows the agenda. First of all, I will explain the expertise of our architecture. The system we were talking about is based on the expertise of technology that was developed by NVC to build the Resource Disaggregated System. And the next topic is Orchestrating Resource Disaggregated Architecture with Express Eater by OpenStack. Takahashi-san will explain one actual implementation of Resource Controller. And finally, Kaigai-san will explain one usage, PGSTOM. Express Eater over our architecture. I'm Shinjabe. I'm in charge of development of Express Eater system in IT Platinum Division. I said the word Express Eater many times. Actually, simply said, Express Eater is PCA Express switch over Ethernet. Express Eater can extend PCA Express beyond the confines of a computer chassis via Ethernet. Most important thing is transparency. So you can see the server and Express Eater NIC. NIC has an Express Eater engine. This engine converts the PCA Express packet to Ethernet packet. And the other side, IU expansion unit with PCA Express card. This unit has also Express Eater engine. This engine converts the Ethernet packet to PCA Express TLP. So we can place the IU device in the remote side. This is the best concept. And this shows comparison between the actual PCA Express switch and Express Eater system. AppStream port in PCA Express is equivalent to Internet Express Eater engine for CPU side. So this engine is shown as PCA Express bridge. Downstream port is equivalent to Express Eater engine in IU side. So actually, PCA Express switch has an internal PCA bus to route the packet. So instead of this, in Express Eater, we use Ethernet switch to route the packet. So even if there are a large number of Ethernet switch between CPU and IU, this addition is not different. So Express Eater is one example of implementation of PCA Express switch. So Express Eater is fully compatible with PCA Express spec. This shows how to configure the system. So Express Eater can support multiple hosts and many number of IU devices. So for example, this shows four hosts and 10 IU devices. So to connect the host and IU device, Express Eater manager software assigns a grouping ID to each host and IU device. So in this case, device A is two, B is one, and C is three. So as a result, four systems are configured. And this ID can be set from 1,000 to 4,000, and the ID is used as VLAN tag to isolate the network among host. This shows the Express Eater IU distributed system. So mainly, this system is used for cloud system in data center. So recently, some customer want to use GPGPU or acceleration of FPGA to accelerate analytic processing. So actually it is difficult to prepare this kind of system for server vendor because some customer want to use only one GPGPU and another customer want to use three or four GPGPU with some NVME. So for data center vendor, it is difficult to prepare the various server. So one solution is to prepare the almighty server that have four GPU and four FPGA with some NVME. But that kind of system is very efficiency is very low because most GPGPU and FPGA is not used. So for that kind of problem, so Express Eater can be solved because all IU devices are isolated from computer node. So we can assign GPGPU and FPGA NVME to a CPU in accordance with customer's requirement. So this is a solution for data center. And two controls system configuration. So we will release Express Eater Management Library and SDK. So this library has three kinds of API. Sheepra, Java API and REST API. So REST API is used for OpenStack controller. So we've already shipped Express Eater product. This is an actual system in Osaka University. There are 64 servers and 70 IU devices including a large number of GPGPUs. We've already deployed. And this was a product line. We've already shipped 1G and 10GNIC client and the expansion line box. And also now we are developing a 4DG version. So actually each NIC has two ports. Totally, this can support the 8G, Gbps. So it can support the BI8 PCI Express Gen3. And also now we are developing an expansion unit having four PCI Express slot. We will ship them early next year. Hi, my name is Masaiko Takashi. I'm going to talk about the actual implementation for OpenStack controller for Express Eater. I'll skip this one. Actually, as I said, Express Eater can realize resource desegregation. And resource means a computer node and devices such as remote PCI Express devices. And we think resource desegregation architecture in the cloud achieves high availability and cost efficiency. And this is not only a NIC but also an interlock scale architecture and C micro server have the same architecture concept. So to control the resource desegregation architecture by OpenStack, which module is suitable, what do you think? I think maybe the bare metal machine controller, yes, which is ironic. So this picture shows the actual resource desegregation architecture under OpenStack. In the bottom of the picture, there is a resource pool connected by Express Eater. And through the Express Eater manager, Ironic sends and receives a command to control the Express Eater. And Ironic shows the actual bare metal machine, same as original Ironic, but its machine spec is different. I mean, it's not a constant because if the resource are attached or detached, the machine spec is changed. So the original Ironic has a class of chassis, node, and port. And in Ironic, we added the fabricator which contains device and device pool classes. And Express Eater driver is a driver for a fabricator. And EESV is installed into the node classes and EEO is related to device classes. And fabricator can control the connectivity between EESV and EEO. So our current implementation is based on Rice House, but we are now porting to Kilo and Liberty. And fabricator is a kind of abstraction layer. And we have developed Express Eater driver because we have an Express Eater, but we think interlocking architecture and C micro server driver can be implemented as the same manner. So these are the additional Ironic client commands. Most of the commands are related to device pool and device classes. And some commands are related to node because node needs to be attached to the devices. So this is an example of an Ironic client. The first one is a device pool list. In this environment, there is one device pool using Express Eater driver and connected to Express Eater manager with IP addresses. In this environment, Express Eater manager is executed in local host. The second one is a device list. In this environment, there is four devices. Two of them are network interface card and the rest are GPUs. So when you see a detail of the device, So these are the additional APIs commands we made. So this is an example of an Ironic client. In this environment, there is one device pool using Express Eater driver and connected to the Express Eater manager with IP addresses. And the second one is a device list. In this environment, there are four devices, network interface card and GPUs. When you see a detail, you can see a group tag which means group ID of the Express Eater. We mentioned that Express Eater is controlled by group ID, but you don't need to care about the group ID when using an OpenStack API because Express Eater manager can control the group ID. So the second example is node operations. In this example, node has a node spec and to attach and detach the devices, actually you have two choices. One is specifying a new node spec to satisfy. In this example, compared to the original node, in this example, you can add a network interface card and a SSD. And the second choice is a specific device, a UUID directory. In this example, you can attach an actual device. So we are now developing on-demand device attachment based on the IO load of the machine using a sailometer and heat template. This is what we call device authorization. And typical use cases, for example, web servers suddenly get tons of requests and you need to add another network interface card. So we also support GUI using Horizon. The upper browser shows a node and device connection. The lower browser shows a device list sorted by categories. In the future work, we are going to develop some framework to safely operation because, for example, if you remove the storage before un-mounting, the data might be corrupted. So you need to un-mount before removing the storage. And also, we want to support the shared devices such as SRO, IOV devices. Thank you. Okay. In the next part, I'd like to introduce how EXP ESA works and how does it variable from standpoint of application usage. Since I try to introduce is PIGISROM, that is an extension of POSQ SQL and allow to off-load SQL query workload into ZP-ZPU devices. First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm Kaya Kohler of NEC. My main role is to productionize PIGISROM and also I contributed various open-source community like POSQ SQL, SQL Linux and so on. PIGISROM project initially launched as my personal development project and then NEC determined to fund this project for making new businesses. And now, we try to make new business opportunity using this technology. What is PIGISROM? Here are two core technologies. One is SQL to ZPU native code generation. It allows users to use ZP-ZPU without special syntax to SQLs. And one other idea is asynchronous and pipeline execution of SQL engine that allow to hide latency to transfer the data from main memory to ZPU devices. The brief flow of the execution is once user gives SQL code from the client, then POSQ SQL database pars the query into internal data structure and make a query execution plan for better and cheaper query execution. Then it executes query like scanning relation, joining input stream and so on. PIGISROM works within POSQ SQL as an extension of the module. It intermediates the world of POSQ SQL and world of ZP-ZPU. Once PIGISROM injects its execution plan into a POSQ SQL, it hooks part of query execution plan to use ZPUs. Four more details. As I introduced, once SQL query is given, parser make a parse three and query optimizer makes a query execution plan. And usually query executer learns query plan to scan the relation or making relations join aggregations, sort and so on. The upcoming POSQ SQL version 9.5 has an epoch making feature. It is a custom scan and join interface that allow extension module to replace a part of query execution plan. And PIGISROM works as a custom scan and join provider. Once PIGISROM allows to replace query execution plan, it replace part of responsibility of POSQ SQL itself. And the replace logic executer could call dynamically generated and it send dead chunk rate from the relation. And this own execution engine execute could call towards dead chunk rate from the database. All of operation hidden from the user perspective so user can run the SQL query as usual. This is one example of SQL to CPU native code generation. It is an automatically generated GPU code and it describes these code code. This is a part of automatically generated code and it includes a formula expression come from SQL query. That is equivalent to the portion in the red box. It is automatically generated so no need to care about user perspective. And PIGISROM compiles these code code on the fly to run. On the other hand, once we turn off PIGISROM, POSQ SQL runs on the built in query execution plan as usual. It is fully executed on CPU sequentially. So we cannot utilize power arrays by GPU. When we use ZP-ZPU computing, people usually say ZP-ZPU has a much higher computing capability. However, here is bottleneck to copy the data from host side to device side because CPU has more than 100 GB per second bandwidth and CPU has more than 300 GB per second bandwidth to access data from its own RAM devices. But once we try to copy data chunks from host side to device side, the bandwidth of PCI Express is much lower than RAM accesses. So we usually need to care about these bottlenecks. In case of PIGISROM, how does it tackle this? Pipeline. When we try to scan a bunch of relations, it contains mass amount of rows. We split a part of relations with multiple rows. Usually, a chunk contains much 100,000 rows. In step one, CPU reads a chunk from a storage or shared buffer to the DMA buffer. On the next step, a CPU kicks a DMA send and makes a progress buffer read. Since the DMA transfer is asynchronous process, so CPU can make advance buffer read process concurrently. On the next step, a CPU kernel will execute the data transfer on the previous step and the chunk I plus 1 is kicked by DMCore. And concurrently, CPU can read the next chunk. This process iterated multiple times. Then we can see only first step is attacks for data transfer. But next and righter part included within the buffer read process by CPU. So we can consider this DMA transfer course is part of the entire execution process. No need to synchronize DMCent and receive. Once we designed the software carefully. So we showed how PG Strong works towards existing possible SQL. This diagram shows the query response time when we joined multiple tables and horizontal axis shows a number of tables to be joined. And vertical one is query response time. So smaller response time is better. The red bar, sorry, blue bar shows result by possible SQL, usual possible SQL. And red bar shows result by PG Strong on EXP either. And green bar shows result or PG Strong, but connected by a physical PCI express. It shows PG Strong accelerate wall of table join process multiple times faster than existing possible SQL. And here is a little bit difference between red and green result. Result by EXP ESA has little bit disadvantage than physical connection. However, it is not so large. We can pay attention another benefit from EXP ESA. Not only table joining, we can use PG Strong to learn a little bit more complicated workloads like scan with complicated qualifier like a numerical formula. And one other example is aggregation to make a simple histogram. In both of cases, PG Strong will accelerate query response time and EXP ESA will provide almost equivalent result toward physical connection. The well-designed software architecture will hide this DM transfer latency and how to prove our capability of ZPU. Inside of ZPU, we try to run a table joining in parallel. In this diagram, ZPU cores run hash joining by five parallel cores, but actually this ZPU hash join is executed by much thousand cores in parallel. It is the reason why PG Strong accelerates real-life query workload. And eventually, how PG Strong tries to solve the real-life problem like one example we like to solve is OLTP and OLAP integration. In usual enterprise systems, here are two databases typically deployed. Since one database OLTP handles mass amount of write workloads, the key workload of OLTP is updating of the record. And one other kind of database is OLAP. The core of OLAP workload is analytics. The reason why we have to have two separated databases is typical OLAP workload that includes table joining aggregation have disadvantages on a formalized dataset, usually used on OLTP dataset. But once we could accelerate table joining and aggregations using ZP-ZPU, here is no reason why to have separated databases. It is an future vision of PG Strong. We try to improve the capability and functionality of software to get these purpose. And for the purpose, ZP-ZPU is a mass-requisite component. So EXP-ESA will auto-deploy ZP-ZPU within a cloud environment without typical restrictions like power supply of ZP-ZPU or physical form restriction of ZP-ZPU card. So we're happy to integrate our database solution on top of EXP-ESA solution. So that's our future project roadmap. We stand on error of post-rescue version 9.5. The current target of a dataset is hundreds of gigabytes. But future improvements of PG Strong will catch up existing high-end commercial solution rapidly. Within a few years, we will catch up these solutions to care about 100 terabytes. Thank you. If someone has a question. At this moment, no production system uses PG Strong. It is under development. It is the highest priority to improve software quality and debugging to production adoption. Does it make sense for you? It uses CUDA. In fact, I tried to use OpenCL, but module vendor release OpenCL driver individual. It's software quality and detailed behavior is not compatible. So it is a headache for us. So we switched to CUDA. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you for participating.


I'm coming back from Situe, but more importantly, our team has just come back from a string of three townships to the east of Situe, which were the township, some of the most severely affected by the recent troubles of October, where they've seen as divided communities, they've seen civilians that have been cut off from the rest of the world and from access to essential services. Our people have been involved in the evacuation of close to 300 patients to referral hospital. I mean, just imagine, for instance, a lady needing a C-section at a hospital. The problem is the lady hailing from a neighborhood, which is separated from the hospital, where she's to have her C-section, by a string of villages where she doesn't feel safe, where basically she could not hope to cross where she alone. So what it means, it means letting this lady, having this lady access this medical care. That's what it means in tangible terms. The name of the game for us, together, of course, with our partners at the Myanmar Red Cross Society, is to re-institute, to re-establish access to essential services and especially access to medical care. And the second thing is, of course, to help improve the water and sanitation situation. In a context where it's difficult, where acceptance is an issue, and an issue that can basically effectively prevent you from working, so far, ICRC has managed to enjoy the acceptance from a broad spectrum of the communities, and that has enabled it to work. That has enabled it to work without escorts, to work according to its criteria.


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So, Poetic Places is a project that has been funded by CreativeWorks London. I don't know if you know them, they were AHRC funded and they came to the end of their funding this earlier this year. And I was funded under their Creative Entrepreneurial Residence scheme which is very worthy as my father put it. Thanks dad. Most of the time I'm creative geek at time of age. More on that story in a moment. I've been working in collaboration with the British Library where I've been resident during this project. So this is my job description. It's gratuitously vague on purpose. Digitise things like the British Council's 1940s film collection, make video games, do exhibitions, whatever needs doing really. So this was a great opportunity because I'd never made an app before. So what is Poetic Places? Has anybody come across it before now? Nobody. Perfect. That's great. So it is a free native app for Android and iOS devices. You can download it now if you want. It's free on both stores and quite easy to find. It brings poetic depictions of places into the physical world and it helps you to discover, for example, a poem about a place in the place. And it draws on archive materials, music and images and a tiny bit of film, I think, to kind of bring things to life. So one of the things that I was keen to do with it was to not do any tours. There's lots of things that do location based narratives and archive materials that involve walking tours, which are fine. But with walk tours you have to set aside time to go do them. It's an active choice. You have to kind of know where the stuff is, what's going on. I was moving towards a mode of more serendipitous discovery. So the idea with Poetic Places is if you give it enough permission on your device and leave it running in the background, it will notify you when you happen to come through a place where there's content. So if you happen to have the app running and go to King's Cross, it will pop up with notification, sorry, notification with a poem by GK Chesterton about the place. That said, I don't believe that you should have to go to King's Cross to access the poem. Why would you? So you can also access content without going to the places. Finally, we had the ambition of this being a project that could inspire other small arts organisations. So let me explain what we had as resources to work with. We had, funded by Creative Works London, £5,000. We've been fairly upfront about the costs and everything and how the project has been made. And if you go on the website for Poetic Places, which is poeticplaces.uk, you can find blogs about the development. And the £5,000 had to cover all of our costs, including my time, as the creative in residence. We had six months because we got the funding late August last year and Creative Works closed at the end of the financial year. I said, you have to have the report to us by the end of January. Good. It's loads of time. And finally, we have lots of experience with coding and apps. That's not true. I can't code my way out of a paper bag. This is a comic from XKCD about your code looking like an IKEA conversation. And as I said earlier, I've never made an app before, but I wanted to prove that you don't need to be able to code and you don't need to have a lot of time or a lot of money to be able to make something like this anymore. So the way we had to do it was we had to find an app building platform. There's quite a lot of these on the web these days and I have tested most of them now in an attempt to find something that met very few requirements actually. So first of all, the platform had to allow geofencing or GPS triggered events. It had to be able to tell where you were and then do something with that information. It had to allow push notifications to tell you when you've discovered something. That kind of meant it had to create a native app. So something that you download and has its own icon rather than be a web app with the way we were doing it, push notifications, web apps, a bit complex. Two complex for this project, certainly. It had to develop apps that were media-friendly, which is a very weird thing to say, but some of the things I tested looked great up until you tried to load them on your phone and everything was sideways or you couldn't zoom in on the pictures or it didn't resize on different devices, which was surprising to be honest. So this became a requirement and finally it had to be affordable. Well, I told you the budget. Some of the things I tried, they wanted quite a high monthly cost. Some of the things were free and then when you went to publish it, they wanted quite a lot of money. So finding something that did all of this was actually quite a challenge and meant that we didn't really get into building the app until December, but we got there in the end when I came across a platform called Goodbarber. They're based in Corsica and the reason it took me so long to find me was because they're mainly targeted at people who own, say, a small chain of coffee shops. I want to alert people to sales of, I don't know, pumpkin spice stuff. So this is Goodbye, but you can see it's kind of got a visual interface. You can put your text in your pictures. It supports all sorts of media, so that's quite nice. You can put a video in it and link to SoundCloud and all sorts of things. This is sort of interface for setting up the geo location notifications. And you can see in the top right there how the notifications come up on your mobile phone screen. So it's pretty straightforward to use. You can feel about the coding and if you want, I only did a very tiny bit because as we've ascertained already, that's not my forte. And here's the pricing structure. It is in euros, so this was cheaper last year. And think about ongoing maintenance. I may need to re-budget that, but so you pay them manually or monthly depending on how you like. Pros and cons do it this way, of course. The con is that I am beholden to them. If they go bust, I've got a problem. By the way, the point of choosing somebody who seemed quite robust, I did my research on the company. Also if I stop paying them, of course, I don't get my app anymore. But on the bright side, whenever there's an operating system upgrade, they deal with it. So if you think of the annual cost as being what you would be paying to keep your app up to date anyway, it doesn't come out too badly. So what's in the app? There's kind of a triumvirate, as it were in the app. The first thing is text, the poems and the prose that go into it. To save time, I drew on existing anthologies and resources. There's an excellent website called Poetry Atlas, which pins a lot of things, not always correctly. I'm not sure the process that they use. I also drew on old anthologies of predominantly London-based stuff. We decided to only use content from London to start with because we had to limit something somewhere because we didn't have enough time to do the entire country as much as I would love to. So most of the content is in London, although it's now creeping out. So when we launched, we had about 30 entries. Five of them were licensed, things I particularly wanted. Most of the content in the app is out of copyright. For a whole host of reasons, mainly time and money because clearing copyright is hard and slow, especially if you have to go through a major publisher who sometimes have a note on one of their websites saying it may take eight weeks to get back to about a copyright inquiry, which is no good when you've only got six months. To go with the text, we've got images, and this was a great opportunity to highlight open collections now to copyright works. So, for example, the British Library's Flickr collection is a million free images. You can do whatever you like with them. That was a great resource and, obviously, being in partnership with the British Library, the one I prefer to use. The Yale Centre for British Art was another favourite who I hadn't even heard of until I started on this project, but they've got loads of high quality images under, again, a completely open licence, which is great, and if you email them, they'll send you high quality tiffs if you're feeling keen. So anyway, the benefit of using both out of copyright texts and images that could kind of get contemporary images for the poems, and we'll see why this is particularly useful in the moment. Where we couldn't, we went to Flickr and found more generic, evocative images to do with the place or the poet or the poem itself. We went for one to five images per entry, and there's only about, again, five licensed images in the app where we really wanted those images for whatever reason. We're on that store in a moment. We didn't make a habit of it. To go with these two things and marry it together, we researched the poem, the place, to find something meaningful or unusual or evocative to bring everything together and kind of make it memorable. It's contextualising and it provides a history lesson and it can completely change your understanding of a place or a piece of text. So, here's an example for you. I'm going to read you a poem now, which I'm sure you're all very excited about. And I'm sorry, this is not my, I'm not a poet. Earth has not anything to show more fair. Dole would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty. The city now doth like a garment where the beauty of the morning silent bear. Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky, all bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendor, valley, rock or hill, now saw I never felt a calm so deep. The river glideeth at his own sweet will, digop the very houses seem asleep and all that mighty heart is lying still. So it's quite nice, it's quite a visual thing, it's quite evocative. This is the text that goes with it in the app. Start of ten, the date is wrong in the title of the poem.  His sister Dorothy however was quite good at it. So we can tell you that it was written at 6am on his way to Dover to visit his aunt, if I recall correctly. We can tell you the bridge is not the bridge that's there now. It was the first wooden bridge to stand at Westminster which was the first bridge upriver of London Bridge built quite late. And the Palace of Westminster which you're perhaps imagining when you think about this poem isn't there. So this is what you might imagine when you read the poem or perhaps you're stood there because you're using the app in that way. But this isn't what Wordsworth is describing. This is what Wordsworth is describing. This is from the Alesons for British Art. You can see the old medieval palace in the background before it burned down. And you can see the other bridge there. There's another entry in the app which is a poem complaining about the fact they're going to build a bridge at Westminster. And you can see the construction works in that painting. So putting the image and the text together gives you a new sense of the place and a new appreciation perhaps for the writing as well as the location. And here's the other picture that goes with it in the app which we licensed from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Unfortunately it's licensed for the app and not for presentation and not for web so I can't really show you it. You'll have to download the app. But I include this slide to make a point about open collections and how they are a great creative resource and how having this was quite an expensive image to license. If we'd had to pay this much money for every image in the project we'd have never gotten anywhere with it. But it is an amazing painting so go have a look. You can turn the music down a bit if you like. I'm going to talk all over this. So this is a preview video of the app in action on an iPhone 5 I think. This has changed a little bit. We've added a music section in collaboration with the State Library of Queensland. We've found some jaunty in 1920s tunes about particular places in Queensland which you can now access off the main menu. So you can see here you go in through the map interface and you can access content that way because I was quite aware when I was designing it of having a nice smooth user interface to make it more accessible. And some people like to go in through the map. Some people like to go in through this listing here if we click on poems. You can just sort of browse things this way instead. I don't have a demonstration of the notifications popping up but they look like every other push notification on your phone to be honest. And you can, every place where we've gotten the images from has been referenced. You can zoom in on the images to see a bit more detail. You may not watch all of this. Oh, and you can get back to the map through the bottom there. And the directions opens up. Directions in your native map browser for your device. One of the other things that we've included in this is, in which we'll come up in a moment, is the facilities who suggest content to include going forward. So there's a feedback form going to tell us what you think of the app. But then there's another bit saying please suggest a place or a poem or a poet or whatever inspires you to include. And people are welcome to submit their own works if they feel keen. Although we haven't had that yet, we're working on that, but... We'll skip this. How are we doing for time? We're okay. Right, enough of the video. There's a lot of points of interest, a lot of different things we were experimenting with with poetic places. And if you go on the website that these are expanded out, I didn't want to inflict all of this on you. And yet here we are. So GPS is very good for outdoors things. It's not very good for indoors things because there's a certain area of effect. So when you set up a geofence to trigger materials, you have to allow a 50-metre diameter on that because GPS isn't that accurate. And different devices process it differently. An iPhone will assume that you're in a very large area if it can't tell you exactly where you are on trigger early, which is fine, but Android devices don't always do that. Because there's such a variety of Android handsets that can be a little bit difficult to get round. So the platform supports Bluetooth beacons, iBeacons and QR codes. So if you were doing a variety of things in one museum or library or archive, you would probably want to take that approach. Low budget, I didn't specify, but the technical costs for this project have been up 500 pounds. So if you have a member of staff who's all right with a computer and you've got 500 quid, you can make this yourself. And another thing that's a couple of the points. It's been very nice, whilst I've been based at the British Library, I haven't been restricted to using only their collections. I've been able to draw all of these different collections from all over the world, and it's been really nice to bring things together in one place and match two paintings from different collections and put them next to each other and mean more together. And also using GPS as a slight aside allows you to not have to get permission from people to base things in a place, which is nice. We thought about using iBeacons at the beginning, and then I realised I would definitely get arrested trying to stick one to Westminster Bridge. So, yeah. Moving on. Oh, yeah. So how's it gone? It's gone pretty well, actually. We've had some nice press. We actually did a soft launch because we launched this back in March. We didn't promote it really through the British Library. We kind of did a quiet announcement just to see how it would go because we were rare. There's only like 35 things in it, which are great, but, you know, it's not like 500 items because everything's had to be hand-researched. But we got this article on the Vice-Creator's Project, got Techable Japan, which is actually the nicest article if you can read it. Google translates excellent these days, but not quite there. And some Facebook chats. So we've had about 7,500 downloads in the first six months, which isn't bad, I think, considering we've not promoted it through the library particularly strongly. Mainly on iPhone, interestingly, I'm going to be publishing a kind of analysis of downloads and usage and stuff in the next couple of weeks on the website. But preliminary kind of browsing suggests that about 80% of the downloads are iPhone, which is somewhat surprising. I thought it would be more balanced. I'll have to look into that. And the feedback we've had has been almost or entirely positive. We've had a few people going, how do I get it? The American content, and I have to reply, well, you write it and then you send it to me and then I load it and then you read it again. But there is a vision to expand, of course. As I mentioned earlier, we've just started a little collaboration with the State Library of Queensland with their old music files, which you can see a couple of examples of in the app now. These are a test to check if the triggering works correctly in Australia as much as anything. Should do, no reason why it shouldn't, but just a check. There's also a couple of the other people we're threatening to work with. We would like to add more content in geographically across Britain, if not the rest of the world. With all sorts of little experiments, which I encourage you to browse on the website because we've listed it all, as I said, we've been pretty open with it. And I encourage you to try it out. I've got some little postcards at the front here if you want to take a printed entry from the app to take home and remind yourself about it, have a browse. But other than that, I will stop. On time? Good. Thank you.