This is stock number 9868. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep Wrangler headquarters. Today, we are checking out this ultra clean 2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara. This vehicle has the 3.8 liter V6 motor. From this HD video, you will be able to tell that this Jeep is extremely clean all the way around inside and out. Sahara Tan is the color on this vehicle, so you can get a Jeep Wrangler Sahara in Sahara Tan. Really good looking color on here. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on now because it is like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me. It comes with the 17, I'm sorry, 18 inch painted alloy rims, no scuffs or scrapes on that rim, and it has good year, or I'm sorry, Bridgestone Duler A slash T tires, 25570R18s. These tires have right around half the tread left and on the front we have brand new brakes. We put those on during our safety inspection. Front fender is in excellent condition. No major dents, dings, cracks or scuffs. Front grille is in nice clean condition as well. And the hood does not have any dents or dings and is in really nice condition also. The front bumper, I didn't see any dents or dings on that. It does have the factory fog lights, passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on that. And as we go down this side of the Jeep, you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. You always want to check these to make sure these fenders back here that they're not all rock-chipped, but a lot of times the step bars help keep those looking good. And you always want to look at the door hinges on these to make sure that they're not completely corroded, and these are in really nice condition. Both front and back. A lot of times people take the doors off and they can chip the paint and then they start corroding, but this one's in nice condition. This back fender is nice. This back rim is in excellent condition as well. Looks like the back brakes might be brand-new as well. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires right around half the tread left. Framing on your body is in really nice condition. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip down, you can still see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. See the lower rockers are all in really nice shape. It has the color-matched hardtop, which is in excellent condition. I didn't see any scuffs or scrapes on that. Once again, when people take those off, sometimes when they put them back on, they can have the tendency to misalign it and chip them. But this one's really nice all the way around. It has a towing package, which includes a receiver hitch and four pin wiring, and it does have a matching spare tire and rim. Back storage area is very nice and clean. It does come with the Infinity sound system with the factory subwoofer and very clean back here. You do get storage underneath here for your roof bolts. Speaking of that, you got three on each side. One, two, three, and then you got one up top. You have two quick disconnects, and that's how you get the back hardtop piece off. First you have to take the front pieces off, but see your sales professional for an exact demonstration on that. As we come around to this side of the vehicle, very, very clean. No scuffs or scrapes. You can see that fender is in excellent shape, and the back rim is in nice condition as well. Brand-new brakes on the back here too, and once again that hardtop. Nice condition. All the doors, really nice condition. Door hinges. Nice condition. And I didn't see any dents or dings anywhere on this vehicle.  There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats. Good to note on this Jeep, it does have the side curtain airbags. That is an option on these Wranglers up until 2018. We have factory floor mats throughout, so not all of them come with the side curtain airbags. Got power windows, power locks, power mirrors, auto headlamps, and as we hop inside here, you can see that this Jeep has 63,586 miles. You get an outside compass and temperature display, as well as a mileage display. Leather wrap steering wheel with the Bluetooth audio controls and cruise controls on the right, information and Bluetooth audio controls on the left. You also have radio controls on the back of the steering wheel. CD player, AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities.  Of course, that's your hazards, and that's for your 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in to turn that off and on. You get the 4x4 shifter on the floor, and the automatic transmission right there. Factory floor mat on that side, and the passenger seat is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that. This vehicle has never been smoked in, smells extremely clean inside, and those hard top pieces are in excellent condition. I would definitely venture to say that they probably never had the hard top off much on this vehicle, considering just the wear and tear on it is very minimal. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then check out under the hood. Finally, that's where your 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in is on this vehicle. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. There are no rips. There are no tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system. You have some floor mats back here as well, and this back seat does fold down. Both sides do nice and flat like that. So if you have extra stuff, you can put those down and make room. We'll take a quick look under the hood. 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So, thank you very much. So, I love Bosch and so when Paula and Colin asked me if I'd like to share, Paula said this was my talk title, which is great because you know, we've all had happy days with the Bosch and the sad days and you know, so when I say I love Bosch, it's the same as in the same way I love my children. You have the good days and then you have the other six days of the week and which is why you should have more than two children. I have three children which and my children have started to hear me say this next phrase and started to question it and I always joke that I actually have two children plus one for spares. So, hopefully they don't say I've got one parent and one for spares. That's going to turn out badly. So, whilst to come to that place is to really, I thought we in the sense that everyone else is going to share the ongoing story of Bosch. I would tell the story that led to loving Bosch because I don't think if you worked at McDonald's and found Bosch there's not much in it for you. So, there's probably a lot of context and a lot of even you know the pain that you've gone through in your life to find Bosch and go oh my god that solves that problem that problem that problem this is the best thing ever and so perhaps when we ask the question why don't more people love Bosch, my gut feeling is not enough people have actually experienced real production pain and then had thoughts about why their life is so terrible to then see what Bosch does. So, I'll tell the story of where I came from put a little context across our customers last year. I estimate we have about 50 different things running on a bunch of different Boschs. There may be a bigger number than that. A lot of those are running under pipelines and that and relatively stably and I really think that that Bosch is allowed in addition to concourses allowed. I don't have a cool Bosch t-shirt on me so I'll go with the concourse t-shirt because they tell a similar story of deterministic awesomeness but so it's really you know we're moving forward really well in terms of not not us so much as the customers the things that are happening you just can move forward so fast when you've got a rock solid platform but to tell a story I think we'll go back in time which now I get to use my keynote skills all right watch this oh yeah look at that that was cool as long as you have low ambitions for what you'd like to achieve with keynote you can pretty much do them. April 2012 I was when Bosch was was publicly announced and and I happened to be at the event when it was happened now you don't just happen to be at VMware for the day that something that you want to see arrive arrives you have to know about it in advance and so yes I was lucky in that I knew people at VMware who were telling me this stuff was coming out so we'll go back further 2010 I joined a company called Engine Yard who were one of the first companies who took the name Paz and said this is what we are which is great because I called us a hosting company which wasn't very cool so Platform of Service much cooler name and but but in a way you know my little my short duration at Engine Yard short relative to the entire length of Engine Yard and to our entire profession doesn't really I don't think it's respectful so we'll go back a little bit further all right so Engine Yard was created in 2006 and I think its story is an interesting story that leads to why Bosch and I always really enjoyed the when I came later in Engine Yard's life I enjoyed trying to uncover the history you know a lot of organizations have amnesia it's not just companies but you know governments have amnesia we all have it so it's interesting sometimes to go back and hopefully we learn why we did things and doesn't sometimes mean you get to fix them but you can like okay now I know why we have Gen 2 so Engine Yard in even you know probably many of its products now Kevin is that right we're still cloud and Gen 2 is still and most cool kids today would not be touching Gen 2 there aren't barge poles long enough no one has barges it's really hard to get the right tools to poke Gen 2 but in 2006 it was chosen because it was the only OS platform or distro environment where we could do we could create the VPSs or slices in a 64 bit environment and some of them knew Gen 2 because they were hackers you know they'd played with they built their own thing and so we picked Gen 2 you might think well okay we'll pick it today and we'll change our mind tomorrow some of these things you can never undo and you know you get some skills you've got the people is it really worth I mean I think in the two years I was at Engine Yard every six months we'd have the why haven't we switched to a Bantu conversation because that would make us cool and oh yeah but then we'd be pulling down arbitrary packages and would be own our own packages and it's it's a very hard conversation because well we'll go through it so so what did we get out of Gen 2 so one things we could do if you and this isn't part because I'm sure many of you who's ever used Gen 2 look at all the pain that you've brought see you're here with me on this story so so Gen 2 is wonderful in the sense once you start to understand what you're really trying to achieve with a with a stable production system that you know your company wants to run on top of is you get to build things from source so that means you can twiggle the flags you can you know you can use the specific source you want to use you can build the specific dependencies you want to use there is a quarrel into that which we discovered in the history of it Engine Yard was what happens when the source disappears so I heard about this in but this is a very exciting story yes so what happens when one of your packages cannot be built anymore so anyway well obviously there's the solution to this but packaging script is just a bash script I mean I wish it was just a bash script it turns out that it's actually a bash script but there are magical wizarding rules that you must follow in order to be a correct you know e-build and so when I found Byte it was like oh my god I can build my own packages and no one's going to tell me I'm a bad human being and then Gen 2 has the system for for taking you know you can build the binaries and that they can be built so you're not building source on the machines you know you have your binaries and but in its essence you get to curate your own distro so let's have a look what Bosch does Bosch builds packages from source it has a packaging script in bash we get compiled binaries that are available to us and you might not have thought of this way but every Bosch release is a distro it's a distro for very for one very specific thing and and I became very much a fan of this idea that yeah I mean you don't get the reuse inherently of of one package for many reasons which is what a standard distros for but you know what I don't want that I want I want a Ruby for the specific job of running CF containers broker that is part of the Docker Bosch release I want another Ruby that might be exactly the same or it might not but I want it specifically described to run the cloud controller and I'd rather solve the problem of managing those packages horizontally than the worry of if I touch this one here that's shared across 50 different Bosch releases what's the outcome and so fundamentally they have a very similar role in the packaging so that was really interesting in the history of EvEngineard we were the one of the first people that so Ezra who was one of the founders of EvEngineard met Adam from Opscode and both of them were very excited about this thing called Chef and Adam was writing Chef Ezra was using it and I think we were one of the first companies to really put Chef into production this is great I've got Dennis here Dennis and Kevin are going to keep me on track for the EvEngineard and and so one of the first sort of releases of Chef was 0601 I've no idea why so early they were with four bullet points but and by the time I arrived and by the time I left the version we were at was 0601 what had happened was was we had because we were innovating in a sort of forked universe to Opscode itself Opscode wanted to go with a Chef server model where you know you describe it and pull it down we wanted our own model of we would control the Chef repose and we would you know we had a different thing called Chef Solo and so a lot of the innovation around how this all worked and the community grew separately and in essence we were competitors with Opscode who are now Chef and so one of the things we did differently that we never unwound was we had two Chef runs so we ran our Chef right set up engine x and and the app to all the install all the packages and everything and and you had a perfectly designed cluster of machines and then we said now you can run some Chef and you would you know you could provide your own bespoke Chef and people did all sorts of interesting things run Redis and other systems and there would be competition for certain files as they would want their ideas engine x being one of them the configuration for my sequel and so the problem was that we lost the ability to easily move our platform forward with confidence and there were a lot of it was a lot of heartache every conversation around curating the cloud cookbooks is what they were called was was fraught with this well we have a customer who did this once this is a terrible place to have have an experience of trying to move a platform forward but another one was we literally really couldn't move Chef forward either because to what and how many are we going to do this every week and now do we need to let customers know that Chef has changed in some way in their cookbooks running it was it was a nightmare and and like many things if it's just a bit too hard you just don't do it today do that 365 days a year for five years and you get that everyone feels bad about it but no one really has the job to fix it and this so let's have a look what Chef did for us and my gut feelings is what Chef does for everyone you install some packages I mean it's in Ruby what's cool about Chef at a glance is that you get these two runs through it you get to write in Ruby a programming language and you can write you know high-level functionality in there but but this is pretty much all we ever did I think this is what people your Chef for we install software packages which were built either by people we don't know or some other system that we did control so we were installing identity packages you create configuration files and Chef has two ways to do that there is the file command and then there's the template command I don't know why like I could just have one the template command which might do templating one of those types of files might be a wrapper for monitor so we use monitor coincidentally and then you tell monitor to start monitoring because that's his job and so it turns out if we look what Bosch does it installs packages it creates config files we install monitor scripts and then we start monitor and so when people ask me why don't we you know why not Chef it's like well what else do you want like what what is that thing that you can't do with you know if you look at what you're using Chef for let's get rid of all of Chef and just describe the packages in a list just have like a folder full of template files and process them all with the same inputs so with Chef you would sort of say here are my inputs for this one here are my inputs for this one let's just throw all the inputs into all files and let's just default to monitor like in Chef you can pick different process monitoring and so to my mind the convergence standard a very simple way of doing config management was one of the things I liked about Bosch all right so engineer we were a Ruby company we sort of grew on the back of the growth of Ruby we made Ruby applications specifically Ruby on Rails easy to do and and so we Chef was written in Ruby and so on when you brought up a machine as a customer like yeah we we brought the machines up for you and then we run Chef but you needed Ruby so we had Ruby on there to run that the problem we had was that when we started there was Ruby 186 and that's what the noise it used to make that was provisioning all right they all had a ringtone so so Chef was running on on Ruby and and our customers applications were running on Ruby and you got it on the same Ruby like the same package you know as you would app getting still and he select and and then a new version of Ruby came out some of our customers wanted to use it and some didn't and so this was a tortured process of untangling this and providing the option for we ended up having we had to have our own Ruby for our Chef stuff and then and a whole and we basically forked that whole thing and isolated it and said this is us for for the Chef called resin and then there was the option to pick rubies and you know it was the it was the learning lessons over time but they you know you can imagine the cost and then the R&D cost and the meeting cost and the customer dissatisfaction and you know why are you taking so long to do the simple job of offering us 187 and we had a similar problem later on where we went from one Amazon region I will get to Amazon and got to the point where where you know the Ruby maintainers wanted to move the hell on and just wanted to play with shiny new Ruby well we were a distro company really you know in a sense like you as a new company you still sort of mentally map yourself to legacy or existing industries and so say we like that we were like Red Hat except we managed running systems so we managed packaging we took it very seriously we had some people who took you know package and security maintenance very seriously and one of the things because we still had customers on 186 and we did for five years it took us a long time to get them off was we maintain security for that so along the path of Engine Yard came so we were running our own servers in fact in the early days that was one of Engine Yard sort of um conference ways to turn up to conferences to come in with their servers and say look at our servers these are awesome that's right they did that didn't they they're very excited about their servers that was 2007 you have to stop doing that for a while because obviously that involves downtime sorry you're perhaps not running we're taking the service at the conference and we had all our own you know somewhat bespoke code whatever for bringing up slices and things and Amazon came out around the same time that Chef was coming around and but Amazon Web Services didn't look like this back then it looked like that very benign this looks helpful doesn't it like you would build an entire business on that thinking nothing could possibly go wrong and um but and so yeah we had the we had the challenge of having to build an entire platform from scratch like so at this point we were now a bigger company we had more funding and so we could do a bigger investment instead of bigger investment instead of little scrappy little shell scripts that no one saw we now start to build a customer facing portal that would provision clusters run Chef and your app would come up and and all that billing and all that other stuff that you just have to do in order to be in business um and and just to go back I mean as over time Amazon became a machine and a very big public presence and new things would come out and our customers would say well why can't I use the ELBs it's like well you don't really need them um we've got you know we're using HA proxy on every machine what exactly do you need ELBs for it's like all right why can't I use IAMs like for God's sake right we build everything before they had that stuff we don't need it so staying staying with Amazon you know and and essentially competing with them and and and uh so I guess we were one of the first organization in the world to realise that that our days were going to be challenged by our very own vendor um hence we have this this whole multi-cloud premise here not just because of Amazon but mostly because of Amazon um so there and so we built this thing called app cloud and tens of millions of dollars really would have been spent um perhaps perhaps even more than that so uh over years right and when they built this there was only one cloud and only one API to build against so the idea of of building for multi-cloud wasn't really a concept you had no idea of what the abstractions might be even if and then then there's the you know engineer engineers had this idea of of agile development only build what you need and unfortunately that idea of only build what you need often means let's not worry about abstractions today or tomorrow um all right there's a number of very angry engine up people here and um and uh and it's really hard to add them in later on sometimes and it's hard to plan them in advance so it's a hard problem in general I mean one of the ones we missed was and it's hard not really visualised there but was uh then they came out with the second region oh my lord oh wow that was a surprise did not see that coming um you know he's mad you know you had we were deploying to Amazon that was it we were deploying to Amazon and then they said there's this other one what what does that mean what do you mean there's another one we were we were doing this and now you've got that um and so yeah the effort that goes into orchestrating and annex you're adding another access to things um so in essence we you know this was our um the thing we did you know we did packet management config management infrastructure management um that's what we did the value proposition was was always nebulous not nebulous not the right word um the value that customers saw didn't always manage you know they we would still have to have this do it yourself yeah I'm sorry how do I put it we suspected our main competitor wasn't Heroku it was people who said but I could do this myself like why am I paying you extra like like they saw the value of Amazon because you know infrastructure people need to be paid but exactly what are you doing it's like um we didn't have emoji back then so um um you could put that in support tickets but um yeah it was um and so you know you all our code bases get a little old little weary and um how am I going for time by the way doing great for time doing fine Matt doesn't want to come up next um and uh uh uh for finished so it's okay so you code gets a little weary and you know you the company starts to want to be multi cloud you know there was cloud stack there was these other things coming along and and open stack and um but our code was nowhere ready for that and we had different ideas we weren't really a container company even back then you know cloud foundry had come out by about now so we're in 2011 2012 we weren't the next phase wasn't going to be containers in any shape and um um but they wanted to redo everything you know they were open to redoing the entire product to to open up to other ideas that we'd learned and so at this time I discovered uh I was I started to know through Twitter our enemies at VMware um but they were funny enemies in a sense James Watters was hilarious um we would banter and he was funny I knew Dave McCrory um his good friend uh he ended up you know taking cloud foundry to warning music and but it was Dave that that telling me quietly there was this this thing that was going to be called it was Bosch and it was it was how you know cloud foundry had come out in the first year with some chef recipes and and very irregular updates but uh they worked and people happy but they weren't what VMware was using and that pissed people off and it caused problems and so they they brought up Bosch and and this is what made me fall in love with the cloud foundry project as a as a mission it's like because can you trust VMware don't know but they just shared how they run this thing and that that was pretty pretty powerful to me and um but I was still at engineer and still worried about engineer problems and here was a system that just came out that was completely open sourced and solved 80 percent of what we found hard and so to crickets I asked does anyone want to come down to VMware with me to investigate to crickets I brought it back to engineer and unfortunately true to um you know I was a junior executive in my I misbehaved and I wasn't I didn't have a lot of political capital about that time no one listened to a word I said and so I became the world's number one Bosch evangelist but no one at engineer gave two shits and that was hard um you know I could build demos of things in a week and they were still discussing what they might like to build for their v2 and it was it was becoming confusing internally why is nick making this stuff that's not what we're doing I built an api in a we're gonna wait it's a little ruby thing I just said like you have a post api and you'd send a request and it would talk to Bosch because Bosch has an api you all know that right it's not private and secret internal if Dimitri says that he's lying as did every product manager like Matt ever they lied and said there's no it's private don't use it no it's awesome and it's fabulous and you should talk to it um and it's really stable because no one touches it you know you construct your manifest and you give it to Bosch and up comes a thing a versionable thing a thing independently versioned from every other thing you brought up you bring I'll say you wanted to my demo was redis this was exciting I you know you go post instances you get a redis cluster post instances another redis cluster they could all be versioned independently like I didn't have to upgrade them all and it was just that was exciting couldn't anyway um it was an engineer I have the idea okay that's not working what else could I do all right we could we could start doing independent services we could do react as a service and not have to sort of jam it into our old system it doesn't have to be just for engineered customers because a hundred percent of engineer customers didn't want react I said redis I meant react um because they weren't using it so but no and then the last one I had was the idea of like this is really cool you could like use this as a a delivery system for systems in the enterprise it'd be like an app store and I gave that that was the last meeting I have with the CEO and he didn't like that idea and so I left and there are so many things we can do with this uh with this system um so I I I wish to finish there I there was an entire day of interesting stories that are going to come on that was that was how I got to Bosch I you know many of you have followed I have joined my journey along the path in the first year while I was still an engineer there was there was like three public people playing with Bosch there was myself 30 a couple others who've Brian McClain maybe one or two others who I've names I've forgotten now but and then and then it started to grow and people started to you know people started to find Bosch and then people started to use Bosch for reasons unrelated to running Cloud Foundry and whilst it can be a little painful to be so early it is so exciting to have a room full of 200 people that think Bosch is pretty okay so I'm pretty excited to sit down and shut up after a whole week of talking so thank you very much and have a lovely day


it okay yeah right then I shall start so thank you very much for the opportunity to share with you today today I'll share with you the Singapore's experience and hope that it will start to generate and trigger some good discussions so I'll go on to the first slide if you have been to Singapore then you will know that the Singapore today did not happen by chance at all I'm not sure if you are surprised that the situation in the 1950s and 60s were actually characterized by these pictures you see here of overcrowded slums poor sanitation and there was pollution disease and flooding all of which very much negatively impacted the health outcomes and today when you visit Singapore Singapore has transformed to be consistently ranked as one of the worst most livable cities even as our population has tripled during the same period Singapore strives to achieve high livability despite our high density contacts by adopting what we call an urban systems approach outcomes of livability and health are met when the various urban systems you see here are well integrated and addressed as a whole a livable and healthy city begins with integrated master planning and thinking long term today I shall share a few key strategies Singapore has adopted first the creation of polycentric centers have has helped Singapore to overcome the initial challenges of resettling our occupants from the inner city slums into good quality housing with clean drinking water and proper sanitation and this has tremendously improved the public health of our population in those early days this is complemented by locating jobs within and close to these centers to ensure that the occupants and people have access to employment opportunities and to reduce the need to travel to the CBD second is the creation of self-sufficient towns amidst a high density context where localized amenities like your grocery stores clinics and food centers are cited within each neighborhood today I'm not sure if you are surprised but over 80% of Singapore's population is housed in this self-sufficient towns and during the pandemic this has proven to be an effective way of ensuring essential needs are met and within close reach and thereby this minimizes the need for our residents to travel long distances which will thereby increase the likelihood of transmission a third strategy for us is consciously embedding health has a key aspect of our city planning enabled by the first two strategies I shared with you earlier on polycentricity and self-sufficiency Singapore plans for the adequate provision and distribution of healthcare facilities and we do this by organizing our healthcare system into three integrated health clusters in the east west and central regions and each cluster you see here provides a full range of healthcare services from primary care all the way to general hospitals like how different regions are planned to be self-sufficient for residential commercial and recreational needs and by doing so this allows our residents to have quality healthcare within close proximity to their homes but beyond healthcare it is also about healthy living scientific evidence has shown that our social and urban environments account for more than half the variation in population health outcomes so simple interventions like this you see here which is very prevalent in Singapore which are called shelter pedestrian paths they help encourage walking and physical activity from point to point especially in our hot and often stormy tropical climate and during the pandemic it helped to ensure that all of a person's basic needs is met within a 15 minute walk or cycle from their home come rain or shine but at the larger scale in fact I would like to share this news with you a couple of days ago Singapore has just announced a pilot health district project and this project is supported by a cross section of people from the health social care planning and design as well as technology sectors and all these players come together to bring holistic well-being to the residents of this area known as Queenstown which will not only serve as a pilot but also a living lab for us to test new health initiatives that can be scaled up across our city island and you can google to find out more about this finally Singapore is known as a city in a garden and we plan for green and blue spaces that are accessible to all throughout the pandemic parks have been kept open enabling our residents to continue healthy habits of physical activity safely in order to maintain not just a physical but mental well-being as well so in Singapore's high rise and high density context we also demonstrated innovative ways of injecting greenery into places like your pocket parks vertical greenery green roofs to maximize greenery in all spaces and at all scales and levels I'd like to share a case study with you in 2006 Singapore launched the active beautiful clean or abc waters program to transform our waterways and water bodies beyond just drainage and water storage functions and to turn them into multi-purpose use as beautiful urban assets that are spaces for community bonding and recreation and one instance is this Ang Mo Kio Bichang park parallel to the launch of the abc waters program as you can see at the top left hand corner it was merely a linear canal running through the park completed 10 years ago in 2011 the park now features a meandering waterway that you see on the right that serves as a floodplain during wet weather and has a vibrant recreational space during dry weather and this is my last slide today many of Singapore's parks feature beautiful naturalized waterways that serve both as water channels as well as recreation spaces and these waterways are also clean enough for plants wildlife and biodiversity to thrive and together with the abundant greenery these efforts will help bring Singapore closer to becoming what we aspire to be which is a city in nature in terms of public health greening can improve thermal comfort air quality and encourage walkability and physical activity furthermore various research also identified close correlations between green spaces and mental well-being so i hope my sharing has shed some light on the Singapore experience towards creating a livable healthy city through both urban planning and greening thank you so much thank you so much dr tan wow that was really really fascinating now the ice see there's a qr code there for folks at home to to follow as well wonderful so um same question to you the what you feel might be priorities for us to to really work on to generate healthier cities across asia pacific and um what might the research community do to help thank you tomas that is a very interesting question and a very pertinent one to us i i like to just first highlight that asia or asia pacific is home to some of the densest cities in the world and apart from singapore you have cities like tokyo so shanghai and nearer to home bencon in jakarta so the densification was brought up has a discussion point on whether they were a positive or a negative during this pandemic situation and i like to share that for many of the cities in asia for instance in singapore included this densification is not a choice and we're on a trajectory of projected growth so how can we leverage therefore the question is how then can we leverage on the advantages of our density and here i'd like to offer three propositions where we can have deeper study um and you you see first in a density you can have many services and amenities within a given area therefore the planning and provision and distribution of essential needs amenities is paramount to ensure proximity and accessibility to everyone and in mixed income neighborhoods especially this is a positive aspect walkability is a key feature for densities because this encourages more physical active mobility and reduce the use of private cars and this not only improve physical well-being but also helps improve the air quality and lastly on greenery greenery and the innovative injection of greenery at every scale and level is key for a city to provide physical and visual relief and also to maintain the connection to nature and when done well the reinstatement of biodiversity is a bonus and we've seen them in some of our projects and even in that amokio bisham park case study that i shared earlier so so yeah i could humbly offer these three propositions thank you very much


Here's something you probably didn't know. Ancient forms of meditation allowed the human body to gain amazing abilities. To carry out physical miracles through chi energy control and feedback. Sounds far-fetched, doesn't it? Almost superhuman? In some ways, it very much is a superpower. And just like Superman using the sun's energy, humans can tap into the energy of the universe as well. Because the truth is, your body is already tapped into limitless energy. You just need to know how to make it work for you. Sadly, over the centuries, these secrets have been lost to humanity. Practice today by only a secluded few in remote locations around the world. Imagine if you could regulate your body's core functions and use them to your advantage for everyday healing, well-being and abundance. You can. The science is in. Deeper levels of human consciousness are intricately connected to the order of the natural world. By looking inside, you can shape the outside. Some call this the physics of spirituality. In the next few minutes, we'll explore examples of real-life human superpowers and the science behind them. You'll learn how to harness this untapped chi energy for yourself with cutting-edge new technology, so you can start activating your own powers for a better you. In the 1960s and 70s, Herbert Benson, associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, found himself fascinated with Buddhist monks. And the deep levels of meditation they practiced. He believed studying advanced forms of meditation could uncover capacities that would help us to better treat illnesses. As luck would have it, in 1979, the Dalai Lama visited Harvard University. And Benson made an unusual request. His holiness agreed to help. In the early 1980s, Benson visited secluded monasteries in the Himalayan Mountains of northern India, where Tibetan monks living in exile practiced traditional tumo, a form of deep meditation. In his practice, monks harness the psychophysical chi energy that courses through the arterial system, the spinal column, and the nervous system, and consciously accumulate it to use for specific purposes. Tummo is a Tibetan word for inner fire, and that's exactly what tummo meditation results in, an increase in energy and body temperature, particularly at the extremities like the fingers, toes, and head. Benson found that the monks' body's temperatures rose as much as 17 degrees Celsius, and their metabolism decreased as much as 64%. These findings were just the beginning. In temple rooms no warmer than 5 degrees Celsius, monks deep in meditation were wrapped in soaking wet sheets dipped in freezing water. For most, this state of rigidity would induce uncontrollable shivering and possibly even onset hypothermia. But within minutes, the miraculous occurred, steam began rising from the wet sheets. Within an hour, the sheets were dry. In 1985, Benson witnessed the most superhuman feat yet. One February, on the night of the winter full moon, a group of monks clothed only in wool and cotton wraps, set out to a rocky ledge some 15,000 feet high in the Himalayas for a traditional sleep out. Benson documented the excursion. In negative 17 degrees Celsius, the monks were able to fall asleep easily without huddling together, and in the morning, they returned to the monastery unharmed. This can only be explained by the enhanced state of control over the mind and body. As Benson once said, Buddhist feel the reality we live in is not the ultimate one. There is another reality we can tap into that's unaffected by our emotions, by our everyday world. These decades of research led him to believe that meditation can help the mind control physical processes once thought to be uncontrollable, things like temperature, metabolism, heart and breath rates, and even brain activity, particularly in association with conditions brought on by stress, anxiety and pain. Benson concluded that this was possible through something he labeled the relaxation response, which he described as a physiological state opposite to stress. Scientifically, it's an autonomic reaction to a meditative state. In simple terms, it's the ability of the body to induce decreased activity of the muscles and organs, and the opposite of your fight or flight response. By entering this enhanced state of relaxation, the body can redirect energy to more targeted purposes. Study after study has shown that the relaxation response can help with everything from depression to high blood pressure, insomnia to infertility, anger management to heart conditions, and so much more. In other words, meditation holds the key to unlocking literal superhuman control over the human body. These powers over mind and body aren't restricted to the human land peaks. They're all around you, sometimes famously so. This is Wim Hof. He's a Dutch extreme athlete best known for being able to withstand cold temperatures that would put most of us in the hospital. The records he's set over the years include father's swim under ice, longest full body contact with ice, and barefoot half marathon on ice and snow. He's even climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, wearing only shorts and shoes. He made it up to 26,000 feet up Mount Everest doing the same. Hof describes his ability to cope with freezing conditions as a combination of meditation and self-control. A technique he calls the Wim Hof Method. The method includes three pillars, regular cold exposure, breathing exercises, and meditation. Medical studies performed on Wim Hof before, during, and after his amazing feats of cold resistance have demonstrated that his method is akin to the Tamil meditation practiced by the Tibetan monks. By tapping into another level of consciousness, Wim Hof is able to control his body's response to external factors like freezing temperatures, just like the monks Benson observed. He's tapped into his Tamil, his inner fire, he's mastered his flow of Chi energy. Both Tamil meditation and the Wim Hof Method rely heavily on breathing technique. This isn't something new. In fact, traditional Eastern practices have championed the concept of breath control for centuries. One such practice is Chinese Qigong. To date back at least 4,000 years, the term Qigong translates from Chinese as breathwork, energy work, or breath technique. Qigong is the pursuit of breath management in order to achieve and maintain health, stamina, and coordination using the body's network of energy pathways through which Qi or vital energy travels. In short, Qigong refers to the variety of energy-based healing practices, deeply rooted in Taoist and Chinese medical theory and philosophy. Qigong masters describe two key forms of the practice, internal and external. Internal mastery cultivates energy within the body, and external mastery allows for the projection of energy onto others. In both cases, the energy is believed to assist in the promotion and maintenance of good health and healing, and in the manifestation of visualizations and actualization. As the Natural Medicine Journal noted, one of the major benefits of Qigong practice may be the induction of the relaxation response, a term you'll recall from Dr. Benson's work with the monks. Some experts believe that through the relaxation response, the body can selectively enhance drug uptake. In other words, use less of a drug to gain the same results. Qigong then, like Tummo, and the Wim Hof Method, is an example of mind over body through trained control of Qi energy, and this brings us to the intersection of spirituality and science. In 1975, physicist and systems theorist, Fitchoff Capra, published a book that shook the scientific and religious communities to their cores. It was called The Dial of Physics, and in it, Capra outlined that even the most advanced science, particularly in the realm of quantum physics, there exists a dramatic overlap of how the major Eastern faiths like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism describe the natural world and its order. Perhaps the greatest of these overlaps is the ancient Eastern concept of the oneness of all things. That mind and matter, or spirit and matter, are one and the same because everything is interconnected by the flow of energy. Physics has come to demonstrate this same concept of unity within the structure of the universe itself. Atomic physics has shown that matter can manifest itself either as particles or waves, but sometimes we can see them as one and the same. Take light for example. As matter, it exists in the form of photons or light particles, but light particles in motion are observed as electromagnetic fields, waves. This duality is akin to the Eastern concepts of Yin and Yang, two differing aspects of a broader unified whole. More simply, we can't define matter independently of how we observe it. Therefore, if we change the way we observe matter, the matter itself will change. Likewise, if we change the way we observe our understanding of ourselves, we ourselves will change. Take another example of Capra's book, Space and Time. When Einstein developed his theory of relativity, physicists began understanding time and space as linked. That time was not separate from space, but instead, relative to it. This was perhaps the most groundbreaking scientific breakthrough of the 20th century, and its foundation is something ancient Eastern mystics presupposed many centuries before. The Buddhist, the Vatamsaka Sutra, declares that enlightenment is an understanding of the interpretation of time and space. Japanese philosopher Desetsu Tetero Suzuki wrote that when the human mind finds enlightenment, there is no space without time, no time without space. Capra also focused on the concept of dynamism. In Eastern religions and many global Aboriginal belief systems, the natural order is constantly changing and in some ways oscillating in function, it can regenerate itself. Quantum physics shows us that subatomic particles are in constant motion, to the point that the universe itself is ever expanding. Physics also teaches us that matter and energy can be interchangeable. Burn a tree, and its matter produces energy in the form of heat, while also creating more matter in the form of carbon dioxide. In this way, science supports the ancient mystic notions that energy regenerates and changes. One of the more interesting points of overlap is the concept of the space between, or the empty space between particles. Modern physics says that empty space actually informs how matter can move and change, that it's all connected through energy fields. Eastern concepts say the same. Hinduism and Buddhism teach that the reality of all natural phenomena occurs in the formless void. Daoism teaches that the essence of the universe is empty, and in that void, these ancient beliefs suggest that potential and creativity are born. In both physics and ancient Eastern modes of thought then, we find the singularity of all energy, an ever-changing form of all matter. This is the secret of true self-actualization. Physicists like Switzerland's Nassim Hermann continue to work toward the elusive theory of everything, a mathematical framework for how all aspects of the universe function and interact. As we've unraveled, the interplay between ancient philosophy and scientific understanding may prove to be fertile ground for this quest. Chiefly, perhaps the ancient notion that everything truly is connected holds some powerful answers. As Hermann points out, humanity makes endless categorical distinctions and divisions when it comes to physics, biology and chemistry. But nature and the universe make no such distinctions. The operating principles of these fields of study are all applied at the same time, regardless of how we separate the concepts for our own simplification. Hermann's work, among others, suggests that existence and consciousness form a forward-feedback loop. But simply, he believes that life forms are actually bio-oscillating antennas, that we are literally tapped into the universe's energy field, constantly transmitting and receiving information through energy, shaping reality, and being equally shaped by it in turn. And that energy can be rerouted, reused, and focused with purpose. Using this framework, it becomes easier to understand how Buddhist monks can control their body temperature or metabolism, how Wim Hof can withstand bone-chilling conditions. More than this, Hermann's ideas align with Capra's concept of empty space, the so-called void. Hermann reminds us that particles are not just floating in a vacuum of space, they are constantly interacting and reconstituting within various energy fields. The same occurs within the human body. Biology tells us that roughly every three years, every cell in your body is replaced.  New cells replicate the old cells based on biological memory. So if you can tap into the energy fields influencing your biology, and gain power over the body through the mind, Hermann argues that it's possible for you to override that process, programming your body to reconstitute itself as you wish. Imagine consciously reprogramming yourself with intention. He believes this is the future of biophysics and that it holds limitless potential for self-healing. In the dial of physics, Fridtjof Capra placed an emphasis of differing energies, Yin and Yang. The balance between polarities is one of the connecting points he describes between the laws of physics and the principles of Eastern philosophy. What else comes to mind when the word polarity comes up? Are you thinking magnets? Good guess. Negative and positive charges define the makeup of particles and matter throughout the universe. Electromagnetism affects almost every aspect of our lives, from waves our cells interact, to keeping the takeout menu stuck on the fridge, to the waves that allow our smartphones to be, well, smart. Magnetism is also at the core of the most advanced physics experiments, and nuclear research taking place right now at places like CERN in Switzerland. In terms of electromagnetism, however, no other device comes close to the Tokamak, a type of thermonuclear fusion reactor that uses a magnetic field to trap hot plasma in the shape of a torus, a donut-shaped container which scientists refer to a toroid. Originally conceived in the 1950s by Soviet scientists, the goal of toroid machines is to combine atomic nuclei in order to produce energy. If that sounds complicated, it's because it is. It's advanced physics, after all. But in simple terms, the goal of the Tokamak is to create a reactionless drive that can create perfectly efficient, unlimited energy. There are many Tokamak devices and operation around the world, most notably the joint European torus in the United Kingdom. And the hope is that someday soon, power plants can be constructed using this technology in order to power our cities and homes without the dangers of traditional nuclear facilities. The geometric torus shape is key to allowing these machines to function, creating a sort of feedback loop of energy within the circular device. Scientists consider it the perfect shape for this purpose in many ways. They've inadvertently proven Fridja of Capra's understanding of the overlap between spirituality and science, the overarching concept of unity within the structure of all things. You see, the torus shape, or more simply, the donut shape, is one that transcends nuclear fusion. The universe itself seems to have a torodo shape. In fact, the mathematical formula for calculating the volume of a torus is the same as that used to calculate the volume of the observable universe, what physicists call the hypersphere. But you don't have to travel to outer space to get a sense of this shape's unique importance. Natural phenomena here on Earth, like tornadoes and cyclones, rely on torodo energy to move the way that they do. Even the human heart makes use of this shape in the form of its electromagnetic field, which arcs outward from the heart and back in the form of a torus. In fact, the energy fields around almost everything are torodo in shape, when driven to their maximum acceleration point. Philosophy and mathematics have long seen the torus as associated with the concept of infinity, a feedback loop of energy. Pythagoras himself considered it to be a perfect form mathematically. Ancient Chinese depictions of the universe were drawn as a spherical torus, and perhaps most telling, the word universe itself is rooted in Latin, meaning one turn, which is how energy flows through a torodo structure, constantly flowing back into itself. Philosopher Arthur M. Young, inventor of the first commercial helicopter, saw the torus as an answer to what he called the philosophical problem of the individual. For him, each individual person is connected to everything within a torodo universe because consciousness itself is torodo. The energy we put out bends back in on ourselves, in continuous flow through the shape's center, its doughnuts whole, repeating and refreshing itself in a feedback loop, and therefore, the energy continuously influences ourselves. So how can you control your own energy? How can you bend it to your will and intention, like the Buddhist monks or Wim Hof? 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Hello friends, myself Dr. Narendra Kartikar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Valachandra Institute of Technology, Solapur. Now, we are going to see the discussion on study of resistance welding. At the end of this lecture or session, student will be able to understand the elements in resistance welding setup, process and also know where to apply it. The content for this particular discussion, comparison, introduction, introduction to joining processes, advantages and disadvantages of welding, resistance welding, spot type, setup and description, advantage, disadvantage and applications of resistance spot welding. In the introduction, let us see as we know to produce any single element or an assembly you require to go with any basic manufacturing processes. Out of these four processes like casting, metal forming, joining process, metal cutting and so on. But the whenever the question comes, the task comes for the permanent kind of joints of more than two elements, then only one option that is the joining processes. The rather the welding process which carried out an assembly can go with some of the parameters like heat energy, filler material, flux material and pressure. Out of these four, few of them may be used combiningly as per the requirement and type of welding process. Why to go with welding? The answer is here that is the advantages of welding processes. Welding provides a permanent joint. It is the economical way to join the components in terms of material usage and fabrication cost. Other methods of assembly requires, for example drilling of holes, usage of rivets, bolts, nuts, screws, etc., which will produce a heavier structure itself. A good weld is as strong as the base metal. General welding equipment is not very costly as well as the portable welding equipment are possible to avail the same to fulfill the task as per the requirement. Some of the further more advantages of welding are most efficient way to join the metal, lowest cost joining method, it joins all almost commercial metals together and also it provides the design flexibility itself. Some of the disadvantages or limitations of welding processes are there which restricts it for particularly application of welding. It gives out the harmful radiation in the form of light, fumes and also spatters the hot spot molten material. A skilled welder is much to produce a good welding job. The welding heat produces some of the metallurgical changes in the base metal itself. So with due restriction of particularly some of these disadvantages of welding even though we are going to use the welding joining process for making the assembly with a wide varieties and types of welding process. Some of the further disadvantages whatever the manually applied particularly welding processes. So that is why it is required a high labor cost. It is particularly producing the defects which are very difficult to go with the its remedies. At this stage of this session are you able to recall or share some of the parts where different geometries are welded with any type of welding process unless such welded parts which you had seen earlier anywhere in real time. Just enlist here we go. I hope that you had enlisted the parts or assembly which can be joined together with the means of welding process. Let us see the introduction of resistance welding itself. Resistance welding is a welding process in which work pieces are welded due to a combination of pressure applied to them and a localized heat generated by a high electric current flowing through the contact area of the weld. Here one of the type of resistance welding conceptual figure is shown over there. The electrodes of two numbers as well as the work piece is the part of electric circuit normally AC power supply of course to fulfill the particular task you required to go with the pressure parameter itself. Principle of resistance welding heat produced by the current is sufficient for local melting of the work piece at the contact point and formation of small weld pull called as nugget. The molten metal is then solidified under a pressure and joins the pieces AC electric current up to the 1 lakh ampere is supplied through the copper electrode connected to the secondary coil of welding transformer. The following metals may be welded by resistance welding, low carbon steel, aluminum alloys, medium carbon steel, high carbon steel and some other types alloy steels also.  Let us go to understand one of the type of resistance welding that is spot welding. Here the setup of spot welding is there. You can see the setup consists of one electric circuit may be called as resistance welding circuit where the source of electricity is there which is controlled or flow through the transformer. Another two movable, further two electrodes are there. One is fixed in the movable arm, another is fixed in the fixed arm. These particular electrodes normally a water cooled and off copper material the job can be held together under the pressurized condition of two electrode itself. You can see the regulator is there which controls the AC current supply. In this process overlapping sheets are joined by a local fusion at one or more spots by the concentration of current flowing between two electrodes. This is the most widely used resistance welding process. It essentially consists of two electrodes out of which one is fixed. The other electrode is fixed to a rocker arm to provide mechanical advantage for transmitting the mechanical force from a pneumatic cylinder itself. The other possibility is that of pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder being directly connected to the electrode without any rocker arm for welding large assembly such as car bodies, portable spot welding machines can be used. Here the electrode holders and the pneumatic pressurizing system are present in the form of portable assembly which is taken to the place where the spot is to be made. The electric current compressed air and the cooling water needed for the electrode is supplied through the cable and hoses from the main welding machine to the portable unit. In spot welding a satisfactory weld is obtained when a proper currently density is maintained the current density depends on the contact area between the electrode and the workpiece. With the continuous use if the tip becomes upset and the contact area increases the current density will be lowered and consequently the weld is obtained over a large area. This would not be able to melt the metal and hence there would be no proper fusion. Resistance spot welding setup few of the figures are here. Resistance spot welding setup multiple spot welding setup advantages of resistance welding delivers the following advantages like high welding rates low fumes almost no fumes cost effectiveness easy automation no filler material are required at all low distortion almost no distortion is there. These are the advantages of resistance spot welding as compared to the other welding processes that is gas welding and arc welding. Some of the disadvantages of resistance gas welding application of resistance gas advantages of resistance spot weldings are as follows high welding rates low fumes rather no fumes at all itself it is a cost effective cost effectiveness is the most important advantage of the resistance spot welding. It can be easily atomized no filler material is required at all it delivers very low distortion in some of the cases no distortion at all some of the disadvantages of resistance spot welding high equipment cost low strength of discontinuous welds thickness of weld sheet is limited that is it can go with the 6 millimeter rather 1 fourth inch itself. Application of resistance spot welding it has applications in automobile and aircraft industries the attachment of braces brackets pads or clips to form sheet metal parts such as cases covers or trays is another application of spot welding spot welding up to 12.5 millimeter thick steel plates has been done satisfactorily as a replacement for riveting many assemblies up to or more sheet metal stampings that do not require gas tight or liquid tight joints can be more economically joined by spot welding than by mechanical methods containers and boxes frequently are spot welded itself. Some of the references for this discussion come presentation introduction to basic manufacturing process and workshop technology by Rajendra Singh a textbook of workshop technology and manufacturing processes Khurmigopta NPTEL study material and so on. Thank you.


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So, some people in our industry are writing long and detailed business plans before they start a product or an idea. Others just build stuff in order to do what they love to do. I never planned to be self-employed or even run my own company. It just happened somehow because I did what I love. I'd like to tell you a story. The story of how I teamed up with great people to build a Cyproject which led us to become a WordPress agency. The team. Let me introduce you how we met. The past 10 years I worked as a designer for several web agencies and changed jobs and agencies very frequently. I worked with a lot of talented people along my jobs. For example, one of them was Sylvan, which I met when we worked as web engineers now called front-end engineers at the biggest web agency in Switzerland. We shared the same job title and worked on the same kind of project, but we were actually very different in our skill set. So, Sylvan was more a front-end engineer with a stronghold on scripting. While I set more focus in designing with HTML and CSS. Oh, sorry. To be honest, neither of us were really happy in our jobs and that's how we eventually connected in the beginning. So, after a while, we decided to go on part-time work to fill the gap of the creativity we had on our jobs. In order to cover the skills needed for our Cyproject, we needed to expand our team with a bit more manpower and skills. So, Sylvan worked with Felti at his former job and was really fond of his designing skills. He proposed that Felti would be a good fit to our team. And I already worked with Stefan a couple years ago. I found Stefan would be a good complement to Sylvan's coding skills. And that's how we sort of teamed up to work on our Cyprojects. We are a good mix in terms of skills. Two of us are designer. While Felti designs nice and usable responsive interface within the browser, I am more focusing on the user flow and information architecture of a web design. The other two are developer. Stefan is a solid PHP developer who builds custom web applications and Sylvan has a deep knowledge in WordPress development. Since we were already experienced in working together on our former jobs, we all agreed to give it a try. The Cyproject. We are doing something without a client involved. So, we love our clients, but there is something... There is the thing when working with clients. You always do what the client wants. So, we always dreamed of building a product where we were actually our own clients. Something where we could express ourselves and follow our ideas. So, let's go back in time to the year of 2006. Back in 2006, finding a job for the web industry was very disappointing. There were relatively few job listings on the major platforms in Switzerland. Besides that, when looking for a term like web design, one would end up with a huge list of jobs from SAP consultants to Java software engineers, which aren't really design jobs at all. So, the use experience of looking for a job in the web industry was not satisfying at all. Well, back then, and still today, in our industry, job titles aren't really formal or somehow protected. Everyone can call themselves whoever they want. Web designer, web publisher, web developer, web whatsoever. Finding a job that matched what we were looking for was a gamble with keywords. For example, the most popular job board in Switzerland looked in February 2006 like this. Let's zoom in to see the text search a little bit. And I remove all the distractions around. With the keyword web design, one could search results like senior Java developer, embedded Linux firmware whatsoever, and JEE software engineer, web application. So, as a web designer, there are no design jobs here. The most relevant result would be the web publisher, which is usually nothing more than a content manager with little knowledge in HTML. So, no job for me. You know, the funny thing in life is sometimes unhappiness can lead to new ideas. Because since we were all unhappy with our day job, we were obviously trying to find new ones. This was really complicated, so we all shared a similar problem, and that's how we connected and decided to change it. We wanted to build a dedicated job board with consistent content quality to provide relevant job results for web professionals. Fast forward to summer 2010. We didn't build anything yet. So, the concept of a dedicated job board popped up again in a discussion over a couple of years. The urge to change job emerged in all of us again, because the pain in searching for jobs still existed four years later. We decided that it is time to finally do something about it, and started brainstorming on features, names and suitable technology to be used. We had some big and awesome ideas. All the features we thought we would be great to build. We wanted to change how people are looking for jobs, at least for the web industry. But we wanted to start lean with a prototype to get the feel for the industry and how a niche job board would perform with its huge competitor, the well-known job boards we didn't like so far. Therefore, we focused on how to provide good quality in content and use experience instead of a fancy feature set or an entirely new concept to present job listings. As web nerds, we had to do this right. The site needed to be responsive. Back in 2010, dedicated mobile websites and native apps still ruled the mobile world. Responsive websites were still new to the industry. We set our focus in the browser to satisfy the webgeeks and iPhone fans with a responsive experience across all screen sizes. Swiss WebJobs was our code or mission name, and we ended up building a proof of concept within three months. Let me share you the initial draft of the design. It was a static HTML and CSS design in the browser. This was our prototype to talk about the idea with people in the industry. We also tried a version where we gave the designer a little bit more of a dark background and with some glossy buttons. The glossy buttons were really popular these days. Really popular. So, as Sylvan was already really fond of WordPress back then, we wanted to build the job port with WordPress. It was still just a proof of our concept, so we took an existing WordPress theme that had job listing features and started tweaking it by removing unused features and added some new ones. The name. That Swiss WebJobs wasn't exactly a catchy name, and people would probably mean that this is just another platform with PHP, no, sorry, with SAP, enterprise solution jobs on it. So, we decided to come up with something catchier and a little bit less specific. We came up with the name FreshJobs and felt he designed the visual identity. We were already done with what we were experienced in, building and designing a web application, but we eventually had to make a decision in how to run a job port. That was new to us. We had to create a pricing structure. So, compared to other platforms in Switzerland where a job listing starts from 500 francs, we wanted to help startups and smaller agency to access talents by creating the pricing very affordable, because we all know how crucial budget is when companies just start, right? So, for us, it was more important to solve the problem than making money. But most people in Switzerland are weird creatures and have different mindsets. So, they believe if something is for free, there is no value behind it. So, that's why we decided to sell the job listings. And we also had to cover our basic costs regarding web servers and the time we would spend by maintaining the application. So, we designed the following pricing structure. A full-time job would be 79 francs. A part-time job 59 and a freelance job 29. On average, it takes 60 till 120 days in Switzerland to find good stuff. That's why we doubled the usual 30 days duration for a job listing. So, on fresh jobs, a job would last 60 days. How do we ensure great content quality? That was a big question. By manually reviewing every listing before we publish it. We reviewed a job. We checked if the content matches our visitors. And if not, the listing got retracted. We fixed formatting and spelling issues, if necessary. And we then updated the meta information on the listing to improve search result rankings. Search engine rankings. It took approximately 15 minutes per listing. But it was totally worth it to ensure platform quality and to learn what our customers actually needed in terms of features and usability. How did we spread the word? So, it was time. In January 2011, we planned to launch fresh jobs to the public. In order to reach the people working in the web industry we decided to use Twitter to create interest. So, we also created a landing page to allow people to follow and like us. We spread the word by creating some creative tweets to catch them by their curiosity. And these were the tweets we shared. If someone in this room does not speak German, there. Okay. So, I tried to translate one or two, but I must confess they only really work in German well. So, I pick one. For example, this one would be Internet Explorer 6 sucks. I need a bug remover also. And yes, back then we had to deal with ISX. Or working with Photoshop is very stressful. I need a pixel pusher right away. Yes, there was no such cool app like the Sketch app. We had to deal with Photoshop to do our web designs. And here is a screenshot of our splash page. The curious who followed the link in our tweets will get a little more info about the upcoming platform. So, what does this page say? Not much, actually. Just that there will be a job board for and from people from the web industry. And that one would find jobs like web design and front-end engineers and so on. The splash page was indeed a good preview. It started to gain traction. And the community started to notice and wonder about what will come to fresh jobs. We launched fresh jobs on January 31st in 2011. In order to already serve content, because a job is only good with active listings, we asked big agencies for their current openings and offered them a special deal. By the time we launched, we already had lots of interesting job openings on the page. And we had our very first paid listing on the day one we launched. All the memories. This was what it looked like. We had dedicated categories like back-end, design, front-end, consulting and a job listing had to fit into these categories. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a fit for the job board. And on the right, you'll see the responsive experience on a small device. So, back then our competitor looked like this. As you can see, there are about 29,000 jobs from over 5,000 companies. Jobs from all industries. In comparison to fresh jobs, fresh jobs had a average of 40 jobs from around 10 companies. Very few but relevant jobs for the web professionals. The missing features. We launched fresh jobs with some missing features. For example, the renewal process that allowed companies to extend their job listing was broken. This wasn't a showstopper for us because since the duration of a listing is 60 days, we thought, well, we have 60 more days to fix that feature. Therefore, we just went online without this feature. 60 days later, and the renewal process was still broken. We hadn't had time to work on that. So we ended up doing this manually. Five days before a listing would end, we manually sent an email to the customer to inform them about the possibility to extend the listing for free. This way, we could manage to renew their jobs by ourselves, and our customer didn't notice that there were no feature for that. This was actually awesome because we had consistent content on the platform. We engaged with the customers and could answer their emails personally, which made them feel good. And we got a sense of how our customers needed, so we could later automate the right features. Fresh jobs run smoothly. With a team of four, we could easily delegate responsibilities and support requests. This way, we managed to drop out besides our day jobs. To further spread the world, we spent time by attending meetups and talked to people about it. To further support the web community, it was clear early on that we are going to sponsor relevant events in the industry with some money we make. Like I said, we wanted to build a job board for the web community and help people from the web community. It's part of our philosophy to give something back. So we are sponsoring local conferences with some of the money we get. One of our sponsor package includes that we provide vouchers to the other sponsors of the event. They can post their jobs on Fresh jobs for free during the conference. We then create a dedicated feed to put it on the conference website. As you can see here, for the front-end conference in Zurich. So, a niche job board with an average of 40 jobs does not cover the cost at all. And in order to push things further, we have to come up with a solution to finance it. Fresh jobs got noticed and we got approached from investors offering us money to build jobs to build job boards for them in order to niche us. First, we thought, well, why not? Since we collected all those valuable experience in how to run a job board, it would be beneficial to take the advantage and spread the idea in different niches. So we were open to discuss possibilities with partners. Unfortunately, none of them were in line with our vision. Some wanted to include fancy features that we couldn't agree on and some even wanted that we gave up fresh jobs for the new job board we would build for them. Fresh jobs was kind of our baby, so we believed in our passion. That's why we cancelled all plans with possible investors to stick to our ideas. We would stick to our client projects, to finance our side project. But we would do it right. We would also quit our part-time jobs to follow our passion full-time. We would found a company. That's when we as individual freelancers founded the required Gambira. We are required. We would provide services in the field of UX, design and PHP development. One could book us as individual freelancer or one could develop a complex project with us. Since each team member has its same value to the company, we split the company shares through four. Each of us got 25% shares. Fresh jobs version two. To be honest, running a job board based on its proof of concept prototype over three years, it was damn time to build it new. Fresh jobs version two came to our mind. Three and a half years after the launch of our initial prototype, the version one, we finally planned the milestone to build the fresh jobs we always wanted. But how did we do it? Some of us did focus more on client work because they just wanted to work for clients. So we decided to do it on the job board. If we put that on a scale, I would say one and a half person were working on the job board and the other two and a half for clients to bring the money in. Over the last three years of running a job board, we collected many valuable experiences and we knew exactly what our customers needed and most of all what features we as providers needed to maintain and run the platform more efficiently. And that's where we focused on. Building features and designing user flows which we knew were valuable to all. We not only wanted to redesign the platform, we also wanted to reach more web professionals across Switzerland. There is this thing about Switzerland which is a small but very complex country. As you might know, the country is divided in three parts. The German, French and Italian part. Fresh jobs was only present in the German part. So in addition to the redesign and rebuild, fresh jobs should bridge the Röste Graben. This is called in Switzerland where we eat Röste and there is like the gap between the German and French part so we bridged the Röste Graben by translating the platform into French and spread the word in the so called Romandy, the western part of Switzerland. Fresh jobs do. That was our mission name or in German fresh jobs 2. With the subdomains 2.freshjobs.ch and 2.freshjobs.ch one would get an info page. We made a microsite explaining our mission to the web industry. We partnered up with the UX agency ratio in Lausanne to they sorry they helped us with the translation of the whole application and approach possible companies who would post jobs for the western part of Switzerland. Does someone speak French in here? Good. On this microsite one could subscribe to our newsletter in order to be informed about our launch day and of course we again spread the word on Twitter. In July 2014 we finally launched fresh jobs with its new design and features. The job board still runs on WordPress. We built a lot of the features in custom plugins and we open source most of them. To our users the job seeker there is an overall improved user experience for searching jobs with the filter. You see that in the gray area. To our customers the employee the employers we improved the user experience to post a listing less form fields and an easy sign up flow. Most important we improved the payment process with the stripe integration which makes paying by credit card very easy. And we sent transaction emails to our customers so that they are always on track with their job status. And this is how a company gets the viewments locked in. As you can see three and a half years later we finally have this renewable feature. So one could stop the listing and activate it later on or one could just extend the listing. There is also the possibility to see transactions and download received if they want. Since we collect company infos over the past five years we built a company index page. So web companies are present with its profile even if they don't have an active job on fresh jobs. So far we have over 400 web companies across Switzerland. So yes, Switzerland is a small company and we have many small companies. Ten years later and the major job board in Switzerland have the same issues regarding job results when searching for web jobs. As you can see, with the keyword web design today one would still get irrelevant job results like Web Intricler Java Developer Web Analyst No Web Design Jobs here. So ten years later of the initial idea of fresh jobs celebrates the fifth anniversary. Yay! So we learned many things. We couldn't learn if we wouldn't run a platform like this. And we are keen to give our learnings back to our clients projects and work camp like this. Since we launched the version 2 we observed better usability by our customers because of fewer support requests and the renewal feature and the automatic email the platform sends to our customers led to the fact that almost every job gets extended. So with the presence in the RomoD fresh jobs also increased reach in popularity. The idea of a niche job board for web professionals seems to work and we are really proud of it. The balance. Working for clients and product equally well is really challenging. So we have so many ideas for fresh jobs but rarely time to work on them. Sometimes it can be frustrating because we automatically put the agency work first. Because that's what we decided to focus on. Our clients are eventually the one who are paying our bills. We are lucky that the job board is more or less running smoothly. Well we run the daily business of course by reviewing listings and answering support requests and there is always one person of our team which is on duty. We sometimes switch responsibility so everyone on the team knows how to run the daily business. Which makes us more flexible. Constraints forces us to focus. Which means that if we manage to work on fresh jobs we try to work on things that matters. And we are lucky that we work as a team very well. One reason why we work so well together is because we share the same attitude towards work and life. Only do what you do best. That's why we would focus on the things we are passionate about and won't take on projects nor clients which didn't share the same passion or mindset. Because we truly believe if everyone on the project is passionate about it everyone gets the most out of it. That's why we do UX design front-end and PHP development. Either custom or with WordPress. If a project isn't fit to our skills or to WordPress we refer it to another service provider. Which is giving us more space to focus on what really matters to us. Working on our passion. The takeaways and what we've learned. The best product has a vision. When someone uses a product they're not just looking for features they're looking for an approach. Decide what your vision is and run with it. In the case of fresh jobs it's the dedicated job results. Less is more content over features. They didn't come because of the design to fresh jobs. They came because of the content. That's why the feature didn't matter which were missing actually. Let limitation guide you to creative solutions. Constraints, drive innovation and force focus. Use them to your advantage. Since we didn't have much time besides the client work we worked only on feature which really mattered. Focus entirely on your existing customers. Treat them well and they will become your friends. We get engaged with our customers by personal trust. We answer support mails in person. People can sense it when something is built for profit only. We never put money over our passion. Never ever. An idea by itself is worth absolutely nothing. It's the team that executes on the initial idea that makes the difference. We are a great team and we support each other while respecting our individual lifestyle. Fall in love with a problem everything else will follow. Because people who are passionate about solving a problem are the ones who eventually find each other and make it happen. We are still an awesome team and are slowly growing. Thank you for listening to our story and many thanks to my team. You can ask in German if you like as well. Your question was we are growing slowly and what's our approach to grow in general? We have no plan and we don't have an approach. We just go step by step. We were the four of us in the beginning and we had last year the opportunity to have Pascal on our team. We knew that we wanted to have a little bit more manpower and since each climb project is a maintaining project as well because the work is going to be more and more. It would be cool if we could just have each year one person on top of our team but it doesn't have to. It has to be a fit rather than just growing slowly as we can. How exactly did we integrate with each other? I don't know. I don't know. On a development thing or yeah. Stripe if someone doesn't know stripe it's like a cool payment process which can be integrated very easily. It's not only cool for developer for integrating with each other. We know that there is something different. With PayPal you always get redirected to PayPal and come back. With Stripe it's just an overlay. You type in your credit card information and then it's done. That's actually the answer. We have both integrated. Stripe is just paying with credit card or paying with PayPal. We notice that since we have this button paying with credit card everyone is just paying with credit card through Stripe because PayPal sucks. Yes. And now PayPal requests and signing and login. Before that it hadn't had so we noticed that people were like distracted with PayPal because they thought they had to have a login and we had so many support requests they said oh I don't have a PayPal login can I just pay with credit card and we had to send them a screenshot. Yes you can do this on the very end of the corner you see paying with credit card only. So it was not really satisfying for our customers at all for the payment process and I think that's a good thing about Stripe. It just makes paying much easier. Therefore it increased with whatever they just pay. Yeah. Is that an answer to your question Yeah. One is do you have any tips or experiences about how you juggled issues or conflicts linked for partners of the agency and the question is how has first jobs benefitted or the opposite to your other business? The first question was if we start struggling to be partners with the four of us no we didn't have any struggles there were discussions there is always the discussion when money is involved but we actually changed our concept how we would be involved with our partnership every year because we knew our plans weren't really working out so we have we are really lucky that we are such a great team so we always try to find a good solution for everyone so no I have no tips yeah well my tip would be find great people to work with and don't put money on top of it money is always a show stop and the other question was I forgot it benefit or disadvantage of running a drop board with having an agency benefit all our customers or our competitors so it's like we got how can I say that while running a drop board for web agencies they got no test of us they didn't thought ok we are an agency as well so we were like they posted their jobs on fresh jobs and sometimes they ask us if we would freelance for them and we thought no but just put it on fresh jobs and when we are on a briefing or when we are on a pitch with a new client and we see that they have drop openings we come with vouchers and tell them ok by the way we saw that you have drop openings here you can have a drop on fresh jobs for free yeah that's the beneficial of it and the disadvantage is is there a disadvantage no time to work on fresh jobs yeah anything else cool then thank you thank you