Hey friends today, I am hanging out at Disney's contemporary resort the contemporary is going through some changes recently and Disney gave us our first look at the renovated rooms with the incredible touch to it and Also, the wave is going to be closing down for an extended renovation And it's going to be from July to the 50th anniversary So I thought it'd be worth it to come out and do a little dining review any who's Let's go do this as you can see the contemporary is still going through changes and Let me know in the comments what you guys think about the incredible rooms the contemporary has always been one of my favorite resorts It's an opening day resort and it's just got so much history to it. So I'd love to hear your feedback Another interesting thing is why I wanted to come out and dine at the wave is because Disney did announce that it is going to Be reopening with a reimagined dining experience So it might not be coming back the same as it was and there's even rumors out there that it could be changed to a Steakhouse they might change the name. There could be an incredible overlay. I mean, they're all just rumors But it's really interesting and I wanted to see what it's like right now just as we're coming up on the closure If you check out Disney parks blog They even say on there the wave of American flavors will also soon close to make way for a Reimagined dining experience in time for Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary celebration So like I said, there's a good chance the wave might not be coming back the wave Right now the restaurant is switching over from lunch and dinner So the dining room is closed and it won't reopen till five o'clock So we have time to actually explore around the resort a little bit and then after dinner Maybe we might hop right on over to the Magic Kingdom It's one of my favorite things about dining here is you can just have a nice Stroll to Main Street USA after dinner just so you can kind of digest and relax a little bit It is a beautiful day out today though And I love the contemporaries like outside Recreation area and Bay Lake Towers. They're almost the same they share it and I did a staycation at Bay Lake Tower Not too long ago So if you guys want to watch that video to get a better look of everything the resort has to offer I'll put the link in the description so you can check it out for me I think we're gonna go upstairs and maybe a grab a drink before dinner Earlier I was talking about how much I love the contemporary because all of its history One of the cool history facts that happened here was in 1973 Richard Nixon made his infamous I am not a crook speech right here at Disney's contemporary resort How cool is that like that is such a bit of history isn't it? Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got We have made our way up to level four the Grand Canyon Concourse and you can see there's still a lot of Refurbishment happening. You can actually hear them hammering and drilling up there. They're just ripping everything out But one cool thing is the arcade reopened. I am so excited to see the arcade's reopening This is such a great thing. I don't know when it reopened, but if all the arcade is gonna open up I'm pumped. I'm really excited for this Look at this and this one happens to be one of the bigger arcades This is amazing the massage chairs are back. Oh, yeah, this is gonna be a lot of fun I am so happy that they got these all open again They have ski ball. They have basketball They even have a Nerf arcade and a lot of amazing machines some of them are older And I think some of them are brand new so they definitely put in some new arcade games. That's really cool I don't think I've ever seen a nerf arcade machine before. It's nerf or nothing Really starting to feel like all is right in the world I love these massage chairs They used to be in the space mountain gift shop a long long time ago He's we were to get a lace little massage in the middle of the park day at space mountain I wonder if they're gonna bring those back, too Now I think we need to head back down to the wave and get ready for our reservation We didn't actually play a lot on the arcade as much as I wanted to I did get to test out the massage chairs though So at least that was fun. I'm just happy to see it back open One of the things I'm gonna try to accomplish at the wave itself is ordering things. I've never ordered from before Oh, hey friends. Oh Awesome, no, it's okay. Thank you. Bye. Bye. That is so awesome Like I said, I'm gonna try to order things. I've never ordered before and it's gonna be really easy because I've only actually ordered dinner here once before and I think I got no key. I'm not too sure but We'll just have to look at the menu It looks like they're still setting up for dinner service So I'm gonna be able to go in there and show you guys around without it being overly crowded Which is kind of amazing because usually once it starts to get busy the lounge fills up and the lounge is a popular spot You can get great drinks and appetizers and I think you can get the full menu, too Honestly though, I could never picture this being anything else but the wave like it's just so iconic to me And I love coming in here We visit the lounge all the time and I love coming to the blue room like there's no way they can get rid of the blue rooms So many monorail crawls started right here in this blue room And I could not imagine what am I gonna do for a couple months like this is set to close I think July 15th, and it's not gonna reopen until October Well, maybe the week before but it's set to open up for the 58th anniversary Looks like our table is ready. Look at this The cast member came over and asked what I was looking at getting to drink and I said I was kind of in the mood for coffee and He said well you're in luck because I'm the master of the iced coffee and I was like go ahead do your best So we're gonna see what we're gonna get here and Take a look at this. He wasn't joking.  I can't wait to try this This looks very delicious. I Always tend to listen to somebody whenever they say they do something very good So like you know I mean if they say they can make a good iced coffee I'll believe them and I'll definitely give it a shot Oh And that is wild That is good like he had the perfect amount of measurement for me I don't like it too sweet. I like that coffee taste and wow, how did he know me so well without knowing me? Now that we have our amazing iced coffee Let's take a look at the menu and figure out what we're gonna get to eat Before I seen that they had a bail bun appetizer But it looks like it's not on this menu when he told me it was for lunch only so I went ahead and I ordered that And then for entrees, I was really sold on the sustainable fish of the day They said it's a salmon, but I wasn't really feeling the salmon But the thing that caught my attention was the rice perlou. It's rice served with shrimp and chorizo So I asked if I can get that rice perlou with the grilled beef tenderloin and yeah, I think that's what we're going with So basically to sum it up we're looking at iced coffee bail buns grilled filet mignon and Rice with chorizo and shrimp this sounds like a pretty amazing meal and plus they have a bread service So I'm very excited to show you that The cool thing about this bread service is they give you this nice sea salted butter right here And it comes with multigrain bread But in the morning they serve this kind of pecan butter that is absolutely amazing I got it with their pancakes. They have sweet potato pancakes And they were one of the best pancakes I ever had and if you ask for it They will give you that butter that they give for morning for your bread service And it's kind of like texas road like texas roadhouse dinner rolls like their apple butter is phenomenal. Wait till you see this butter here So i'm not too sure how it's going to taste On the multigrain bread, but we're going to give it a go. Look at this It almost looks like ice cream, doesn't it? But there's pecans in there. This is such amazing butter This seriously might be some of the best butter I've had at disney world Oh, I cannot wait to try this on this bread That is the best.  It's got coleslaw on top Very fancy You can order these at the lounge outside of the restaurant itself I think they're available all the time there and I think I've had them before so I think they're pretty good Oh, yeah, these are absolutely amazing. I love them such a good thing So if you don't see them on the appetizer menu Ask and you know, you never know if they can get them So I don't know if they serve them in here all the time or if I was just lucky enough to get them this time So always ask I know one of the rumors is that they were going to re theme this restaurant to uh steakhouse 71 Which is kind of like a steakhouse 55 that they have in disney land and 55 being the year that disney land opened up And 71 being the year while disney world opened up the steakhouse 55 is in the disney land hotel So if they did want to hear I probably would be on board with that. I mean sounds really cool I think we need a solid steakhouse on the magic kingdom loop. I mean, that's phenomenal And speaking of steak here is my steak and take a look at that. It's a filet. I ordered Pittsburgh So I like it about mid rare on the inside a little bit of char on the outside And then here is that rice that I was talking about a mixture of rice shrimp and chorizo This normally does not come with this. This usually comes with the sustainable fish But I was very interested in trying it. So I don't know we're gonna give it a go I'm pretty positive. I heard about the steakhouse 71 rumor from blog mickey I think they actually posted it. Like I said, these are all just rumors So you never know what's gonna happen But I would be interested in seeing that and now I got a steak here. So it's kind of funny how that works So let's cut into this bad boy here Like I said a little bit of char on the outside perfect with a nice mid-rare center We'll try the steak first and then the rice Steak is good, but now we gotta try this rice. Oh, look at that a nice big old shrimp as soon as I put down the fork there I love chorizo and I love rice and I love shrimp. So this is probably gonna be phenomenal Oh, wow, I do have to say This rice is absolutely amazing like wow It totally made this whole meal and like I said, it didn't even come with the steak So if you do like fish or like salmon, this probably would be such an amazing combination I do have to say overall, I really do love the food here at the wave I think I love breakfast a lot more only because I've had such a great experience with the sweet potato pancakes They were hands down one of the best pancakes I ever had But overall the food itself is pretty good I definitely see that they need a renovation and probably an upgrade to the menu just to make it a little bit more I don't know Like co-existent with all of its other restaurants in here Like, you know what I mean? Like all the different restaurants inside the contemporary or on the monorail loop itself Now it's time to head out. I finished up all of my food and instead of getting a dessert my Waiter actually made me another coffee to go and this is a different flavor The master of the iced coffee strikes again That was so good. Now I'm pretty full and I think we're gonna head over to magic kingdom I don't know if I should get the monorail or walk I don't know. It's tough decisions tough decisions Well, looks like we're gonna have to walk. They're still asking for guests to wear masks on the transportation And I stopped bringing masks with me. So I wasn't expecting to actually take a bus or a monorail And uh, yeah, I guess always be prepared But that's my fault. So it's not too bad. It's a nice day for a little walk over to the magic kingdom Also, I did hear some amazing news starting officially tomorrow Cast members have the choice to wear the mask and the goggles in the restaurant So they don't have to wear their mask starting tomorrow. That's so awesome, right? Only if they're fully vaccinated But still absolutely amazing. I'm so happy because we've been walking around enjoying the mask free parks And it's about time the cast members get to work without them We're just gonna start walking over to the magic kingdom and look at that beautiful sky over there Looks like it's gonna be a nice clear day. No rain But then all of a sudden we take a look over here And I think a storm is brewing So we may only have like 10 20 minutes inside the magic kingdom and a lot of people would say it's not worth it But I mean if you're right here, I mean five minutes I think is worth it just to stop in and say hello real quick. Hello magic kingdom And then uh, try to run out of there before you get poured on. I'm up to that challenge When you're crossing the street here to get over to the magic kingdom, this could be kind of scary I mean you've got things just flying all around I mean, this is intense, right? Look at a bus flying in there It's really awesome to see all this though If we don't hurry up, we might not even beat the storm I'm like trying to power walk to get over here. It's not that far of a walk It's only about like maybe eight minutes from the contemporary magic kingdom But I didn't think the storm would be rolling in that quick Look at this It is like creeping right up on us here Holy moly And look at that. We made it made it before the rain. That's all I cared about just to be able to be here Just for a couple minutes Lots of people are heading out. I mean when you see the storm is approaching like that You kind of just take warning and just seek shelter and a lot of people are smart again now before it starts I guess you could say I'm not smart like honestly, that is crazy Look at it. It is literally just creeping towards the magic kingdom That is so funny. Also, did anybody else think I was dressed like a cowboy today? I mean I wore my wooden shirt and I got my cow punter badge back on and uh I just ran into someone and they said wow you really look like a cowboy And it is true. I do All right, we have made it. So now we have to figure out what we're gonna do I kind of want to ride a ride should we head to the people mover? To Pirates of the Caribbean I don't know. Oh boy. Joey says I'm actually half tempted to just stand here and watch the storm Come to the magic kingdom because I think it's so creepy and amazing. I'm loving the way this looks right now Seriously, just look beautiful skies and then it's literally creeping right up Main Street, USA That is intense, right? That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea I think we're just gonna post up shop for a little bit and watch the storm come rolling into the magic kingdom It's so awesome. I don't know how well it came out, but we'll find out once I post this video Now I think I'm gonna head on in to Cinderella castle and walk right through it and maybe uh Take a spin on Prince Charming's carousel. I haven't done that in a while I never am able to hear the music in here. Wow Sounds like it's coming from this door It's so funny because right on the other side of the castle is that big thunderstorm And it's kind of blocking it right now. It's so bright and sunny over here, but like on the other side whole different story I'm not too sure what possessed me to come ride the carousel, but I'm happy. I'm doing it right now. They're playing some merry poppins Chim chiminy chim chim cherry It's because I'm dressed up kind of like a cowboy. So I got to come ride a horse. This is all piecing together Oh, I'm so excited. We got to pick a horse pick a horse That's the one right here. This is the silver tuna. It's even got a silver lion on it I am really high up here And I actually had to climb up on this horse just to get on this one.  Look at that Huh? It makes me miss kinobles in eliesburg, Pennsylvania because they still have the brass ring So, uh, if you watch that video that I did at kinobles on their carousel You have to reach out and you have to hook out a ring You have to pull a ring out and if you get the brass ring you get to ride again And oh man, how cool would that be to do that here? Probably a little dangerous That's probably why disney doesn't want to do that But this seriously hits me right in the feels like I have such a happy feeling right now. Oh, no I spoke too soon. Now it's coming to an end. Oh, no I ended all the way in the up position too. So now I get to hop down I'm gonna have to step on this one to get down Look at that hysterical, isn't it? Holy moly It's taller than I am Honestly, I really feel like if you're having one of those rough days at the magic kingdom It's been a long day. You've been here since park open and you've been going at it all day long Go take a ride on the carousel. I really think it'll make you feel better It definitely makes you feel a little euphoria and just I don't know It really does something wonderful if you ever watched saving mr. Banks In that movie they talk about how Walt disney got mary poppins and I think ultimately it came down to Uh her riding the carousel. So like that's what I mean. Like it's definitely something that I'll carry out always And if the carousel doesn't do the trick for you, then maybe try seven doors mind train right now It says 45 minutes, but I think it just recently reopened because it was closed because of lightning in the area Which I don't understand. I feel like if we hop in line There's a good chance that it's going to start lightning and then they're going to close the ride again But I'm willing to go for it. I think we should There is no way this is going to be 45 minutes. I think we lucked out. I hope we can get on there in time before the rain starts That was truly amazing Just about 20 minutes And I don't think it's raining or lightning Because they probably would have closed the ride already and instead of riding the front row I elected to ride the back row because I don't think I've ever ridden the back row before So this is going to be a new experience for me Oh it was quick Oh There we go came out so quick like that We're gonna ride the back row now back row on seven doors mind train is way better than the front. That was amazing. Absolutely amazing Look at this We get a little dancey time in here and then I think we get to watch the other Cart come flying down the hill right here and still no rain That was amazing, but I think we're definitely pushing our luck here We better get heading back or we're gonna get poured like it's gonna get we're gonna get soaked. It's definitely gonna pour Wow, I feel so lucky like honestly I thought we were gonna come over here probably hang out on main street usa for like 10 minutes Instead we got to go on the carousel ride seven doors mind train Which is honestly an accomplishment on its own and now we're heading out and not even one raindrop yet Seriously, I think I spoke way too soon.  So I have a feeling we need to probably run Oh my lord, this is gonna be so interesting I think it's gonna just start down pouring any second now like it's like a light drizzle now But these are big droplets big droplets mean a big storm. So we're gonna try to make it out of here I wish I had an umbrella But can you believe if I didn't come over here? I would have missed out on the carousel and seven doors mind train That blows my mind. Doesn't it?  It really hasn't down poured yet Oh, I gotta get out of this picture. All right. So I think that's gonna do it for me I think I need to put the camera away and make sure I get back to the car before I end up getting soaked Especially with the fancy electronics, you know, you don't want to get your camera wet And I don't have any bags or anything like that. I guess I could kind of like hover the hat around. I'm bald Anywho's I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time Bye


The Columbia Broadcasting System presents One World Flight. You are listening to a 71-year-old Polish pianist, Madame Zofia Obsawitz, playing Chopin in a room in shattered Warsaw in the heart of Poland. This is one among several authentic recorded sounds of foreign places and voices of foreign people. To be heard in this fourth of a series of Columbia Broadcasts, a series based upon Norman Corwin's 37,000-mile global tour, as first winner of the Wendell Wilkie One World Flight Award. This is Norman Corwin. Between no two cities in the world, could you find greater contrast than between Stockholm, capital of Sweden, and Warsaw, capital of Poland? One is beautiful and intact, with not a scratch of war anywhere on its surface. The other is a vast ruin, the most completely destroyed city of the war. The people of one suffered little more than shortages and the tensions of neutrality. The people of the other suffered anguish and horror beyond record and beyond belief. Stockholm stands at a junction of a lake in the Baltic Sea. The waterways which have earned at the name of Venice of the North are sparkling in blue and reflect a montage of docks and palaces, wooded islands, bridges, banks, ships, hotels, in general an attractive mixture of the antique and modern. In the summer, when we were there, the northern night gets no darker than an American twilight, and half the city seems to go boating or dancing or promenading in the famous Tivoli amusement park. It was here one night that we realized Tin Pan Alley runs right around the world. Almost all the music heard there came from Broadway, including this familiar tune which we recorded along with the dancing of Swedish Pete. Not only Sweden's standard of entertainment, but its whole standard of living is closer to that of the United States than any other countries. Stockholm, at least, is rich and relatively well fed. It lacks only enough fuel, a serious lack in this latitude, to equal in material comforts to typically prosperous American city. In Europe, it's most uncommon to hear a homemaker say that she misses nothing. Yet in the next recording, an average Swedish housewife, Mrs. Eva Daenerys, wife of a laundry worker, says that very thing. I asked her whether she was short of butter, eggs, meat, or other commodities. I can't say that I miss anything. You don't miss anything? No. You don't have to stand in line for bread or for food of any kind? No. Sweden comes by her prosperity through many causes, not the least of which was her neutrality in two world wars. She has a modified capitalism with a blend of socialism in the form of a cooperative system. She has resources and highly developed industries and good relations between management and labor. But Sweden resembles the United States in more than levels of wealth and plumbing. You find that modern American culture is heavily imported. American music, films, periodicals, fashions. Swedish newspapers run pictures of Californian bathing beauties along with local news. The comic strip Popeye appears in the Ufton blooded under the name of Carl Alfred. The week we were there, Popeye had an adventure which ended with his saying Varikmir Svansson, meaning, well, shake my tail. You find that the schoolboy of Sweden has roughly the same ambitions as the schoolboy of Missouri. I had a talk one day with a shy 18-year-old over Bergstrom in a country town near Uppsala. He said he wanted to be a businessman, to travel, to see America, to look at the motor industries in Detroit, and the film stars in Hollywood. He thought Russia was dangerous. I think Russia is a dangerous country, too. I don't trust one. And why don't you trust it? All the troubles were the English and the American every day. All the troubles were the English and the American every day. In Sweden, as in America at that moment, Russia was regarded as a crucial and pivotal point in international relations. I heard some anti-Russian talk, more than in Denmark and Norway, but there was also the attitude expressed by the Baroness Erin Kroener, a young, blonde newspaper woman on the staff of the Ufton blooded. She said, Speaking of Russia, I have an idea here. It's not mine. It's from many interesting people in Sweden, especially the youth. They would like to get in touch with Russia. Because we think that cost what it may... Cost what it may? Peace only can be gained by obtaining the confidence and belief of all peoples and in all nations. We must show Russia our belief in them and not mistrust them. Not mistrust them. And in exchange, obtain a positive something from the Russian nation to believe in in our term. And in exchange, obtain a possible something from them to believe in in our term. The prosperity of Sweden is by no means confined to industrial workers. I was told that its agriculture is in excellent shape. In a farmhouse near the village of Norby-Satteri, I interviewed a husky pink-faced farmer, Sven Siddin, whose house looked as though it had stepped out of a fashionable architectural magazine. He was happy with the way things were going. Said his only need was for American tractors, which he preferred to any other kind. I asked him... From where you sit here on this beautiful farm, do you feel nervous about the future? Or are you pretty confident? No, I don't feel nervous about it. I don't think that we get another war in my time. In all countries visited in the One World Flight, most people were eager for a unity that would guarantee existence against the hazards of the atomic age. But nowhere did individuals and government alike show more fervor for peace than in Sweden. It was almost as though having been without war for 140 years, they were anxious to stay that way forever. Swedish women especially seemed to be thinking hard about means of perpetuating peace. And I heard all manner of plans, theories, dreams, ideas, some good, some perhaps unsound, but all sincere. One plan was that of Mrs. Ludovica Heinish, who represented a group called the Universalists. She explained the main point of their program. But I want to come to a special point, which is interesting us. We thought it would be worthwhile to try and make a big effort towards really realizing our principle. It is in just two words, it's mothering the world. There was an aggressive peace plan of Mrs. Karin Hamar, a twinkling and energetic grandmother of about 60. She believed that if house mothers of the world united in a great labor union, we might be on our way to unity. Mrs. Hamar lives in a small town near the industrial city of Bofors in the center of Sweden. I asked her if it wasn't in Bofors that the famous anti-aircraft guns were made. That's where they made the anti-aircraft guns, no? The anti-aircraft guns? Yes, oh yes, yes. But he's a very peaceful man. Your husband makes anti-aircraft guns. But he's a peaceful man. He's a very peaceful man. He wishes that they would use guns. Just to shoot birds with, not men. Yes, and one world, quite a few. And I am also grandmother. You are grandmother? Yes, and I have four grandchildren. Grandchildren, yes. Mrs. Hamar, what is the name of the organization that you represent? The house mother's labor union. I asked her if she'd like to send a message to America, and when she made sure what I meant by consulting my friend Sven Norberg, sitting next to her, she straightened up and proudly extended greetings. Would you kindly say a word or two to the housewives of America? What? Saying a word in his name... Yes, so. They greet each other. I greet all American house mothers from all my heart, and I hope that they will be happy and economic independent, and they will be able to work for the peace, not only in America, but in the whole world. And then there was the little silver-haired 70-year-old Kirsten Heselgren, first woman to become a member of the Swedish parliament and a long and staunch fighter for women's rights. She offered no specific plan for peace, but did make a strong general recommendation. Begin with the children. Teach the children from the very first to cooperate and understand each other and respect each other. Teach the children to respect work, their own work, and to respect other countries as well. And there you have a beginning of the possibility of cooperation amongst the nations. Sweden at this time had not yet been admitted to the United Nations and it was anxious to join. In the face of current talk of new power blocks, the acting foreign minister, Nils Kwenzel, made a statement to me which indicated without any question where Sweden stood. He said, quote, Sweden is willing to relinquish its neutrality to the extent demanded by the statutes of the United Nations in case of a future conflict. But if there should appear a tendency within the organization to a division of the great powers into dual camps, our policy must be not to let ourselves be forced into any such grouping or block, end quote. Together with statements previously made to me by the foreign ministers of Denmark and Norway, this amounted to complete agreement on the score among the Scandinavian countries. One of the most internationally-minded men whom I met in Sweden was the tall, young, handsome Prince Bertil, son of the crown prince Gustav Adolf and fourth in line for the crown since the recent accidental death of his older brother. I had an interview with a prince just before I left Sweden and in it he said, Sweden is fully aware of the simple fact that she can't exist alone and by herself or even as a member of a group or a block of countries. Whenever there is an attempt at breaking down economic barriers, you are bound to find Sweden in the front line. I'm sure that during your stay here, Mr. Corwin, you've noticed how anxious we are to take part in any constructive attempt and international collaboration. To me and to my countrymen of Sweden, it seems clear that as good Swedes, we must at the same time be good citizens of the world. We left Stockholm for Warsaw on a bright cloudless morning which bore the good American date of July 4. It was the maiden flight of a new skymaster freshly delivered from Santa Monica. All the signs and legends on the ship were in English, but the Swedes had painted the name of a girl on each motor, Margit, Gunther, Ingebritt and Ingrid. We crossed over the calm Baltic, bisected the island of Gotland, covered more open sea, and finally made our landfall on the coast of what was once East Prussia. This territory was the first crossed by our path in which we saw any full-scale devastation. Bomb pits and tank tracks were visible even from 8,000 feet. But not until we approached Warsaw itself did we see how ghastly a terrain can look when it has been systematically destroyed. From the air, the city was weird and unbelievable. It looked like a painter's imaginary conception of catastrophe in which he had overstated his case. Little of the harsh detail could be seen in flight. We had to wait until we were on the ground and could see it face on before we could appreciate the vastness of the ruin. We landed at an airport whose only runway had been reclaimed from bomb craters. It was oppressively hot. The flat countryside was parched. We were met by a representative of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He greeted us and said, I am instructed to tell you that you were invited to go anywhere you please in Poland to see anybody you wish and to discuss any subject of your choosing. We were taken immediately to a reception in the garden of the Polish State Radio Station. The ride in from the airport was past long vistas of broken and toppled buildings, burnt out homes, twisted debris. The radio station itself was in an old mansion whose blasted interior had been rebuilt since the liberation. Our hosts had learned when we were coming only the day before and had hastily arranged a party to coincide with the American Independence Day. In high spirits they shared our celebration of it. Some of this was captured by my colleague Lee Bland on the wire recorder. We live in a democratic state where the Polish people do not live. They do not live! They do not live! Long live the United States! Well, that was Professor Krzyżanowski of the Polish University of Warsaw speaking. He said that we are the children of the great national hero of both Poland and the United States of Tadeusz Kościuszko. He said that being and Kazimierz Pulaski, he corrects me, excuse me, who fell at Savannah. Who fell at Savannah, I said. Well, since we are the children of these two national heroes would like to greet on the Independence Day of the United States of America on the 4th of July. Well, all the best to the United States of America from all the Poles. The garden in which these toasts were made was a pleasant oasis of green among charred and fragmented skeletons of houses in the neighborhood. There seemed to be no point in the city from which the outlook was not one of utter demolition. Dr. Ignas Zlatowski, a scientist who has since become Poland's delegate to the Atomic Energy Commission, explained to me that whereas cities like Berlin and Stalingrad and Manila were devastated by fighting, Warsaw was largely destroyed out of Nazi spite. About 80% of destruction in Warsaw actually is due to the fact that after the well-known terrible Warsaw uprising the Germans decided to destroy the city in a very systematic and typically German way. In other words, house by house, street by street. In other words, it wasn't a regular warfare.  There were a number of artists, writers, musicians, scientists and radio men at this reception and their clothes were in every case plain and worn. Poland is destitute. It was the first country overrun by Hitler. It endured the longest occupation. It suffered the cruelest treatment. The Poles lost 6 million dead of whom 3 million were Jews. But in spite of the colossal and stark gutting of the capital the spirit in Warsaw seemed far from despairing or indolent. Workmen were hacking away at the ruins by the most painfully primitive means. They had no tractors, bulldozers, steam shovels, acetylene torches. I actually watched a man working on a thick steel girder with a 16-inch hacksaw, a task requiring hours when a torch could have finished it off in a minute or two. Life was going on stoically against unbelievable hardships. Families were living and raising children in corners of ruins which they had cleared of rubble. Students were sharing books. Everybody seemed busy including the intellectuals. The pianist whom you heard at the opening of this broadcast, Madame Rabshevitz who at 70 was not too old to be in on the uprising was still giving concerts. When she learned that I was going around the globe on a one-world mission she chuckled I really wanted to. Madame Rabshevitz says that she hopes that we will achieve one world living in peace but she is afraid she's rather old and will not live and have the chance to live in those happy days. I asked her whether she thought artists and musicians could contribute to the making of those happy days and she replied with Huma that she was an artist. I asked her if she could contribute to the making of those happy days. I asked her if she could contribute to the making of those happy days. I asked her if she could contribute to the making of those happy days. What she said was I don't know if all musicians are such politicians as Paderecki was so I doubted very much. It was a reference to the late pianist Paderecki who was also a pre-war premier. Not long before we arrived in Poland there had been a national referendum. Signs telling people how to vote were still evident on whatever walls were standing. The opposition to the Warsaw government principally the peasant party of Stanislaw Smikolajczyk had protested the voting procedure claiming coercion and intimidation. The country was then as it is now divided in what proportion I was in no position to judge especially in as much as the disputed election of two weeks ago were still seven months in the future. There was an act of underground against the government. There was violence and killing over political differences. Charges of terrorism were coming from both sides. American correspondents who were there at the time were themselves divided in their estimates of the situation. What most deeply interested me as a traveler trying to investigate prospects for one world was not the claims of either party but the question of whether from the standpoint of its effect on the world outside the forces which had destroyed Poland in the first place and killed its millions were still alive. My questions were mainly to this end. One day I asked to interview a typical group of Polish workmen and was taken to a newly reconstructed power plant on the banks of the Vistula. The men were politically conversant. One of them said he didn't think atomic energy was the greatest source of power in the world. When I asked him what he did think greatest he replied the human being. Another said he believed that the great powers should get together on a definition of democracy before they do anything else. A mechanic asked me to explain Wendell Wilkie's concept of one world and when I did he said something in Polish which the interpreter translated as follows. I want to say that this idea suits me completely but I would like to say too that within this one world every country for instance Poland should be free and have the round possibility to develop their national culture and feeling. To develop their national culture and feeling. Another worker complained that the Allies were giving more material help to their late enemies than to their recent comrades in arms. I think that it's amazing for us that Italy a country which holds allies does get more material help than Poland. It's amazing for us that Italy gets more material help than Poland. I told a third worker that in the United States there was the impression that a substantial part of Poland was unfriendly to Russia. His answer dodged my question. I think we will always work with this nation which will destroy the German power and not this power which will reconstruct Germany. Not the matter which power it will be. That was rough both in quality and language. What he obviously meant was that Poland would cooperate with any nation that would destroy Germany's capacity to make war and would not work with any nation which would reconstruct that capacity. The next day we went to the Belvedere palace to record President Bolaslav Beirut. The palace is a great white structure the simplicity and dignity of whose exterior made me think of our own White House in Washington. It was left standing because the Germans used it right up to the last moment. President Beirut is a short solidly built man with a strong face and a black moustache. His attitude in our meeting was friendly, modest, unhurried. For an hour sitting at a small table in the Pompeian room he discussed questions that I had submitted. Only when he was satisfied that he had given them sufficient thought did he commit his answers to wire. The first need of Poland he said is actually a long lasting peace between the nations. Only in this way can Poland hope to reconstruct the damage inflicted by war for it will take us a long time to recover. He then appealed for help to Polish children often by war and for assistance in re-establishing Poland's badly disrupted educational system. In answer to a question about means of implementing the peace he said I think that the best way of securing peace is to destroy suspicion at any moment it arises in international relations. The best argument for what collaboration among nations can accomplish in peace time is what it accomplished in wartime. But here is the voice of the president himself making additional points. I take the liberty of quoting the translation from the official transcript because the rate of speech of the on the spot interpreter is exceedingly slow. In the direction of relations between countries one must give thought not only to constructive possibilities but to the possibilities of a rebirth of these dangers we escaped such a short time ago these dangers still exist. I am thinking about the rebirth of fascism and Hitlerite militarism. In their common collaboration nations must not forget this danger even for a moment. We have lived through a terrible war that no one once repeated. One broiling afternoon we went into what was left of Warsaw's ghetto. For hours we crawled around and through the rubble of the once walled in city where the Jews after having lost nearly 300,000 men, women and children to the gas chamber, the oven, the poison pit to typhus and starvation rallied themselves together and with pitifully few weapons stood off a German army 25,000 of them were slotted in no time. The Nazis rolled tanks right up against their homes and fired point-blank. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of bodies still buried in those ruins. To the eye there was only a sea of ashes and bricks to the ear a dead silence the silence of a city become a cemetery. Wherever a living thing could attach to the earth there were weeds growing but the detail as we went along was the little human heart-breaking detail a shoe part of a bureau some woodwork an old porcelain bathtub with shrapnel holes through it. This wasn't the work of aerial bombs this wasn't done by night raids in which the defenders had at least an anti-aircraft gun and a fighter plane or two and no so much of with all its cowardice and its sadism here was the ultimate picnic ground of the professional anti-Semite this was the paradise of Julius Stryker I heard more talk about fascists in Poland than in any place I had struck so far they used the word with special emphasis typical of that emphasis was what Dr. Zlatowski said to me we've realized that there are still fascists all around the world both in Poland and outside of Poland both on this side and on the other side of the big ocean there were still fascists in Poland all right and it did not make me any more hopeful of an early arrival at one world to know as I stood there in the ghetto that only the day before after all that Europe and Poland had gone through a pogrom in the town of Kelsa a hundred miles away a pogrom which according to six American correspondents who rushed to the scene had been coldly and deliberately planned and executed executed by elements whom the government immediately denounced as hostile to the regime in any case 41 Jews, men, women and children had been ambushed and cruelly massacred it was hot that afternoon in the ghetto hot and still I looked at a circular stone monument which the city had put up among the debris withered and dusty flowers were strewn about the inscription read in memory of those who gave their lives in a singularly heroic fight for the honor of the Jewish people for liberty for Poland for the liberation of all mankind the monument had been there for a year but the bodies in Kelsa were not yet buried you have been listening to Norman Corwin first winner of the Wendell Wilkie One World Flight Award in the fourth of a series of broadcasts based on his recent 37,000 mile global tour all recorded voices heard on this broadcast were transcribed in Sweden and Poland next week at this time One World Flight visits the Soviet Union tonight's musical score was composed and directed by Aleksandr Semler Guy Delachapa was associate director this is Lee Vines and this is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System


So, hai, hai, semua. So, it's the year 2016 and it's the year of Linux desktops and I'm using one too. So, let me just drag this slide here. Okay, so today I'm going to give you guys a talk on Tai Chi, accountability. So, you guys know what is Tai Chi? So, it's like a form of like a martial art that some people in the past and even nowadays they still practice this martial art. And it's basically what people mean by Tai Chi, accountability means throwing the accountability to someone else. So, and just a quick information about myself. My name is Huirin and I have a tagline there. Proprietary softwares vs nightmare, I think. So, I do help out and contribute to some open source projects. So, just get straight on to the topic itself. So, here's a really short bender. Yeah, Jenkins build. It takes time, right? Anyway, so, very quick question for you guys. Have you ever made a mistake? Yes, right? Hated someone or wanted to climb the corporate ladder? Well, I'm here to propose to you a very great solution. Something so innovative and mind blowing that it will change the industry forever, right? So, yeah, tools we are going to use today is some two very simple things. GitHub and Git. So, just in case you don't know what is GitHub, it's an award winning enterprise. Reliable production, blah, blah, blah. So, this is what you get at a typical conference itself. Anyway, let's get on to the more serious stuff. Let's just show you a very quick demonstration because I can't really see where my mouse is right now. Okay, that's my mouse. So, this thing is called a git blame someone else. So, what it does is it does an interactive git rebase. Git rebase interactively. Yeah, and it uses that and then it changes the author of a particular commit. But it's useful to blame someone. But as you guys might know, git rebase does leave trails behind. So, this is not something very complete and it does leave some form of trails behind. Let's see this one. So, I tried blaming CJ and you can see it still leaves the trail here. So, it doesn't modify the entire tree branch itself because it's git rebase. And I've not found a way to do it the manual way. I think CJ might know how to. So, let me just give a very quick demonstration of how I'm going to do that. So, how do I enlarge things? Okay. Control plus. Where's the plus sign? Control plus. Am I doing it wrong? Oh, okay. Thank you. That works, right? Okay, yeah. So, you know... No, this is the wrong report actually. Never mind. Hold on, give me a minute. No, what is... Am I typing something wrong? There's something wrong with my keyboard. So, let me try to press it manually. Okay, wait. So, you guys use cloud now. It got acquired by AWS, I think. Yeah. So, you get this... It's a fancy full ID. Make your laptop cooler. Yeah, just... Okay. So, here itself you got the terminal. So, you guys know what the terminal shell is, right? Yeah. Okay, so we're going to try blaming someone today. Any volunteers want to give their email and name? I don't know. Crap. There's something wrong with my keyboard. I think I need left pad or something.  I don't know what's wrong with the keyboard. Did I change the language or something? Yeah, you probably did. Sorry, no, I'm back.  You need to change that. Sadly, 2016 is not the year of Linux desktop yet. Okay, but there's always backups, right? There's always backups. So, these are very simple how it looks like. So, this is what happens. You see, basically, you need to install this thing, the installation command is just right here itself, very self-explanatory. Then, you do this, you include the author name and their email, no, no, not their email, email as well, as well as the commit hash. Yeah, that's simple. And it does a git rebase and then changes the author to what you will see in here, actually. Yeah, so CJ didn't commit this at all. I just did that and then it happened. And so, just after the demonstration, there are ways to prevent this from happening. Very simple verification using GPG or slash PGP, whatever you want to call it. Okay. I think there's only one right way to call it. He says it wrong. Oh, did I? Oh, wow. Okay. What is this? Okay, so, if you all don't know what is PGP or itself, let me just give a very quick introduction. It's just a way to verify your identity itself. So, it's to confirm, oh, CJ is really CJ through what we call keys. And they need to sign these keys. And when you sign these keys, GitHub, I think about a year ago or a few months ago, they actually have this tick green color tick if the git commit that you push out is signed, there will be a green color tick. Yeah, very simple.  And that's about it. So, you guys can have fun with blaming people and all the best. Yeah, any questions? No? Okay, yes. Oh, it needs to do a git. It's a very specific git line. If you want to actually hide the owner, I mean, you really want it to be not me, it has to go through the entire git tree entire thing. So, it's very tedious. And it's not true rebase. Rebase will definitely leave a trail behind. Yeah, any other questions? All right, I guess that's it. Thank you.


The study investigates the completeness of survey data, audio recordings, and passively collected location data from three smartphone-based studies of people with a myotrophic lateral sclerosis. Despite patients' progressive physical and cognitive decline, time to discontinuation was higher than in typical smartphone studies. The study provides an important benchmark for participant engagement in a neurodegenerative population and suggests that collecting passive data and identifying participants who are likely to adhere during the initial phase of a study can increase data completeness. This article was authored by Anna L. Buchanhorst, Catherine M. Burke, Zoe Scheyer, and others.


For the public that is watching good evening everyone for the public who is watching there's been a slight delay in Convenience this meeting special meeting of the Common Council Of about six months. We will convene now Call the special meeting of the Common Council the order. Please call the roll boran Bulk here Gisha Hanna Heidemann Kittleson my unis Manny Myer, Montemayor, Rin Flesch, Ryan, Smith, Vander wheel, Verhastelt, excuse and Wongamon 15 present forms present Heidemann, would you please do this the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Individual with liberty and justice for all. Thank you all women Heidemann President Hanna Thank You, Mr. Mayor. I would move that all that R.O.'s 11 17 through 16 27 be accepted and placed on file Motion and second under discussion There is none all those in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries President Hanna Thank You, Mr. Mayor, and I would move that all R.C.'s be accepted that R.C.'s 15 61 through 16 45 be accepted and adopted second motion and second under discussion There is none all those in favor say aye aye any opposed Motion carries President Hanna Mr. Mayor, I would move that we take a five-minute recess so that you and I can discuss some amendments to 15 50 and 1551 They're second to that second motion to recess for five minutes any discussion All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed motion carries will stand recess for five minutes Alderman, please take your seats Welcome back the public and Citizens present President Hanna need a motion to reconvene So moved second motion to reconvene second under discussion There is none all in favor say aye Any opposed motion carries we are reconvene president Hanna. Thank you, mr. Mayor, I move that resolution number 13040708 be put upon its passage second Motion and second under discussion We're being on please call a roll Boran Bauch Gisha Hanna Heidemann Kittleson Clioness Manny Meyer Montemayor Rinfleisch Ryan Smith Vanderwill and Wangeman 15 ayes motion carries 1551 president Hanna. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I would like to put Resolution number 13050708 upon its passage with With a motion An amendment to reflect the following changes In order to reduce the health insurance To properly reflect the health insurance for individuals taking early retirement incentives police department 48,000 605 fire department 81,005 dollars streets 22,000 480 cemetery 16,000 202 and parks 32,000 402 which totals 200,000 694 dollars With the following revenue adjustments in lieu of taxes from the water utility 75,000 Proceeds from the sale of property 72,825 Is there a second for that second There's a motion to put resolution on his passes with a motion to amend under discussion on the amendment Almost man Thank you, your honor could there be given an explanation to it I'm thinking of the citizens at home to the as to why we're just changing this at the last minute absolutely the As you recall we had we had a balanced budget the last time before we heard unexpectedly from the state that the The tax rates and manufacturing had gone down Therefore our reasonable projection of 300 about 330,000 dollars for our budget Therefore becoming accurate and became a deficit So we had to come back and find 330,000 dollars give or take that amount as you will note in the amendment that president Hanna has made Will come from back in the the The insurance costs that had been budgeted for the retirees which we don't need so that money does not need to be Appropriated so there's being backed out the pilot in lieu of the payment in lieu of taxes taxes comes from the water utility The water utility makes that payment to the city of Sheboygan We expect generally this year at least we expected about 645,000 dollars in a payment in lieu of taxes We were made aware that that payment is going to be a little bit larger Therefore we can reasonably project 75,000 dollars more in additional revenue The 72,000 dollars give or take with respect to the projected land sales was as a result of further looking into a more More accurate market analysis of both properties at the some of the all of them are contemplating on putting up the market So they would give us the the revenue that we need to make up at 330,000 dollar deficit That was caused by the state let us know Any other questions? Over inflation Thank you, Mr. Mayor Also for those people at home. I think it looks highly irregular necessarily at the beginning of this session to go behind closed doors I don't think anything there was so controversial that we could not have all been a part of that conversation initially So ours next time let's keep that open as much as possible I know I'm gonna have some phone calls that way of why was that done, you know You know in an open session behind closed doors and recess versus I think that's some good news that we can Roll out right away and hit her everybody here right away. Thank you Turned about the recess right now Tell me the recess to discuss the issue right done in recess instead of in an open session because I think it is Good news that we found that money and been nice to have that discussed at that time that people can see that there It's not all done behind closed doors. We do do it in the open for the public interest And I could assure old man wrench place We're not doing it behind closed doors emotional was made publicly second publicly voted by everyone including yourself We came back and reconvened. There is not nothing done behind the closed door We have our finance director working on it. We have a president of the common council working on it There's nothing done behind closed doors Thank you Thank You mayor Perez and actually that In commenting on what older prison rent flesh said These budgets do go right up to the wire. I mean we didn't find out about a lot of these changes I haven't been involved with everything with the budget just a few meetings here and there and and Sometimes negative things are said so positive things should be said as well I have enjoyed working with the finance committee tremendously and my colleagues on the finance committee regarding this budget and I have to say I've enjoyed working with the mayor tremendously on this budget He does know where every nickel is And I want to thank Nancy bus for her help. It was an interesting position to step into his interim finance director With rich retiring so and the other council members who have been involved in their own committees I think just did a tremendous job We had a little surprise here with the state I think everybody rallied together and worked together and found a solution to that financially everybody given a little and Finding some dollars that were unused and moving them over here or there and that does go right down to the last second Obviously with this evening, but I want to publicly thank the mayor for his help with the budget and his leadership with that and all the People I interacted with it's just been absolutely wonderful employees of the city pitching in as well. Thank you Thank you Thank you, your honor I hate to put a little bit blanket on it nice comments Alderman Gisha I just thought of some concerns about the information technology and the fact that the fund has been reduced and it may affect one employee very seriously and I voted against it a couple of sessions ago and I feel Discouraged by the fact that the information technology department is being short-changed in some ways. Thank you Thank you. Alderman Hannah. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Mayor present. Excuse me. Thank you and I too Nancy bus was put into an incredibly challenge in the situation and Picking up from where rich left off and I have to buy publicly. I want to thank her for an incredible Professional job. She's been a delight to work with always had answers got back to you in a timely fashion And I and I do want to second what what Alderman Gisha said. I thought that The mayor has a handle on the budget The taxpayers Really need and owe you a great. Thank you for the way you handle the budget process It's got to be one of the most challenging parts of your job You're on top of every line item and thank you for your leadership President and I appreciate that. Oh vice president Warren Thank you, your honor. I want to just second what Alderman Hannah said I've been on the finance committee now for two years and To think that you started out with having to come up with I think almost close to three million dollars the balances budget I want to thank you. I want to thank the department heads And it's also been a pleasure working with my my fellow finance committee members and also kudos also again to Nancy just to have to step in kind of like in the seventh inning and Pick up the ball and run with it. I think she did an outstanding job but again to balance to You know to take a three million dollar almost a three million dollar deficit and Balance our budget for the second year in a roll is the Oman's work. Thank you. Thank you, vice president born Olden bulk Thank you, your honor. I don't want to turn into a self-licking ice cream cone here tonight, but I Think the city does deserve To know about the great things that have gone on in ways that they may not see all the time I'm on the finance committee, but I played a very very minor role I I voted a few things that I believed in but this city.  So Again just very great kudos to the leadership of of you for it's been a great year And it was an uphill climb three million dollars without raising a penny of taxes on the good people out there in the city of Sheboygan, I think I think it deserves a round of applause to you Older than bulk any more discussion on the amendment only Alderman very place. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think Mr. Mayor, excuse me I Felt all of them did have a question regarding or at least a statement regarding the IT Department, I guess I'm sure we all received the letter from Attorney T. Winkle regarding Margie Verhalst and that position there I Understand that as we go through there's been some changes made in that department. Can you give us a rundown? As it has a budget item why that department is being cut back and why that position salaries being cut back. Thank you Sorry was that a question for me. That's the question for whoever would like to answer Okay, I didn't catch it. Would you please if you want me to respond to that, please? Okay, I guess If you like to respond or direct whoever is in charge I guess the the question is we always see the letter from Bill T. Winkle the attorney for Rode Dale's regarding Margie Verhalst her position there I guess we're looking for some clarification of why that department and specifically why that position Salary in terms of the budget processes being reduced as it is to meet that to meet the balance, but thank you I can give it a shot The that position that you refer to That is being held or was being held by as a Verhalst is no longer exist The position was eliminated by salary and grievance in a new position was created and that is a position of IT director The former position was IT manager under the supervision of the finance director That Hierarchy has changed. That's a decision that was passed by the salary and grievance committee and in doing so they also adjusted the salary accordingly with the the new position and the new job description that that applies the Correspondence to that to that position the every anyone is free to apply that position has been advertised We have applicants anyone is free to apply Knowing full well what the salary is anything else on the amendment Please call the roll Boke Gisha, Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny Myer Montemayor Rinflaich Ryan Smith Vanderweel Wongamon and Bourne 15 eyes motion carries No, I need a motion to put the resolution upon as fast as I'm ended Okay, but they put the resolution upon his passage 135 0708 as amended motion in second under discussion There is none please call the roll Gisha Hannah Heidemann Kittleson Clowness Manny Myer Montemayor Rinflaich Ryan Smith Vanderweel Wongamon Bourne and Boke 15 eyes motion carries Second motion and second all in favor say aye opposed we stand adjourned


I'm just waiting for, yeah, I think maybe we can start. So, Siddharth Goyal is going to talk about going serverless with Django on AWS Lambda. So, over to you, Siddharth. Thank you. So, hello everyone. As I explained, I'm Siddharth and this, the topic for our today's talk is going serverless with Django on AWS Lambda. So, what you will see in this talk, I'll be briefly talking about serverless computing, why is it for you and the benefits disadvantages of it. Then we'll talk about deploying a web application in a serverless computing platform. The things to look out for, we'll have a live code demo for the same. And to conclude, I'll talk in brief about API gateways and their role in serverless deployments. So, let's get started. Serverless computing, what is it? So, serverless computing platforms are a type of service offered by major cloud vendors like AWS, Azure, et cetera, wherein the cloud provider manages the machine resources. This is in contrast to a traditional service like, say, EC2 server, wherein we pre-provision the resources ourselves. So, why? As we all know, a lot of work in IT has gone into ensuring that operating system hardware is abstracted so that developers can focus on writing business logic code. Serverless computing platforms are a manifestation of this. And as we can see in this, as we move from infrastructure as a service to say function as a service, which we are talking right now, more and more components of the stack are abstracted to the vendor. And the serverless platforms today are mostly function as a service offerings, wherein we, as a developer, only have to focus on writing the business logic code. Now, one of the biggest points to note in serverless platforms is they are event-driven. So, unless only when they are requested, an event is generated through which the serverless computing platform runs. And it, in theory, downscales to zero. So, it has a lot of differences when we think of deploying a traditional web application like a web service or an API on a serverless platform. We will be discussing these differences in the session later on. Now, you might be wondering why should I bother with it? Like, I'm fine with my Docker containers. So, one of the biggest advantages of serverless computing is, since more layers are abstracted, the less you have to manage. The only thing that we manage here is our business logic. And secondly, if your application has a lot of variants in terms of usage, like it needs to upscale, downscale a lot, then, again, serverless computing platforms are very cost-effective because we only pay for our current usage. We do not pre-provision future usage right now. But this is not always completely true. For example, like say, if you have a very high usage without a lot of variants, a sustained usage, then a traditional computing platform will be much cheaper than a serverless option. So, in today's talk, I'll be mostly demoing the things on AWS Lambda. But a lot of advantages, disadvantages, things to look out for are common across most of the offerings by different major vendors. So, you should be able to take learning from here and work with vendor of your choice. Now, what are differences in a traditional or a serverless deployment? So, first difference is that you do not have fixed compute resources. Now, since you do not have fixed compute resources, your code has to be, has to ensure that it does not rely on any of these. For example, memory caching. A lot of us sometimes use memory cache in our web services or in our APIs because traditional deployment, the service continuously runs. But in a serverless computing environment, the application has the potential to completely downscale. And in that case, you will lose the memory cache. Similarly, a file system. So, since the components are so abstracted by the vendor, we do not have access to like a typical file system that we might have in a, say, a containerized deployment. And another difference, which I think is a big disadvantage of serverless deployment could be that the deployment strategy is a little vendor specific. So, what does, what do I mean by that? Again, like say, for example, I have a web application and I have containerized it in Docker. If I make a Docker container, I can pretty much deploy it to Kubernetes offerings of any major vendor without any issues. But in a serverless platform, since again, the so many components are abstracted by the vendor, each vendor has its own methodology of how it takes that application and runs it. So, deployment strategies have to be tweaked for each vendor. Now, things to look out when specifically making a web application. So, as an example, I'm using Django, but since most Python common web frameworks follow WSJ request response flow, you should be able to again use this thing for say a flask application. So, again, the biggest disadvantage in my view is that traditional serverless platforms mostly do not provide the web service, gateway interface, request response, object flow. As we all know, like in a traditional web application, so like when I say run, I make a Django web application and I say run server. So, the endpoint that is exposed from, from the browser or say your client to your web service, the request is converted to a WSJ request and the application returns a WSJ response. The gateway acts like as a bridge between your client and the application. So, in a Django application on serverless platform, you will have to add another layer between like the client and your WSJ wrapper. Another thing, since again, the application has the potential to downskill completely. So, latency is a big issue here. You have to ensure that your application starts as quickly as possible. Again, this is not an issue in traditional deployment. Even if my web app takes a minute to start, it won't be much of an issue. For this point also, we have an example coming up later in the session, a sample example, so things you can do to make it faster. Third point would be linking to external services. Since, again, the platform has the serverless platform deployment has the ability to upscale and downscale rapidly. So, if you have an external service like, say, a database, those applications will make individual connections a lot of individual connections to that database and it might lead to performance issues there. So, you need, and it's a good practice to have a proxy between the application and the database.  Okay, so now we'll start with the code demo. So, guys, I have a simple web application here. It just has a single web page and it displays data from the NASA Rata API, this one. It's a free public API. So, I'll just quickly walk you through this application. Anyone who is even a little familiar should be at home with this. So, we have two app modules. The source folder has all the code, by the way, and we have two app modules, Sample and Stars. The Sample app module contains standard Django files, ASGI.py, WSGI.py, these files are WSGI app initializers. The URLs.py, this is the base router for the whole application. And this, as you can see, I have just routed every route to the Stars app. The settings.py, as Django standard dictates, this file contains all the configuration for the whole application. This custom storage.py file, this is not a standard Django file and we'll look into it later, why is it here? Now, coming on to the Stars application. So, in here, again, pretty simple, just a single URL path, the slash path redirecting to the home page view function. Single view function, home page view function, which just uses this helper file to fetch data from NASA APIs and renders the home page HTML page with the context data of that. So, pretty straightforward. And for a demo purpose only, I have a single static file which is just a logo for the application. Now, this is a very simple and straightforward application. I do not use any database, et cetera. And if you see, and I run it, so this is our application. This is Astronomy Picture of the Day, as told by NASA, one of their most popular APIs. And this is just a windows plot for the Mars inside station or the last available solve data, which is Sol 656 yesterday. So, as you can see, a simple Django application, I can run it very simply as you would any other Django application. Okay, now we will go and check AWS console. Okay, so first I'll introduce you to what is a simple Lambda function. Then we will connect it to an API gateway and then we'll see what is that event thing that we have been talking about from the start. So, let's create a Lambda function, say icon live demo. And time is what language runtime you want to run it in. Let's select 53.6. And for those of you who are completely unfamiliar with AWS, so each service object, like say this Lambda function inherits a role and role has proper permissions attires to it. Permissions can be simply like ability to access S3. So, this project will inherit those permissions. So, as you can see, it gives a standard boilerplate code for us. It's a simple Lambda function.py file. And here we have the function which has two variables taking event and context. Let's log this event and see for ourselves what is it. So, I'll just save this. And we have successfully saved it. Now, let's connect it to an API gateway for people who have not heard of it. API gateway is simply as the name suggests a gateway through which you can link your external environment say the internet to your internal services like say a Lambda function or you can use it to proxy pass to another STTP endpoint, et cetera. I'll again name it mic online demo. We shall create it. So, as you would say in an Nginx, you would give routes like for example, what to do when you get a slash route. You can specify routes, methods, et cetera. So, let's create any method like any method all out and the integration type. So, as I was talking, it allows you to connect the external environment, internet to an internal service. So, you can have a Lambda function which will use an RKS, an STTP endpoint, an internal VPC link, et cetera. So, let's select the live demo that we just created. Save it. And there we have it. We have integrated it with that Lambda function. So, thankfully AWS provides a console internally to check out, to like test this API. So, I'll just make a simple get request and we get a response hello from Lambda. If we see here, the code here is also hello from Lambda. Now, let's see what is this event that we just logged. So, these are the logs for this Lambda. We didn't log it, I think. Okay, yeah. Okay, so we have it. I think it didn't load it the first time. I'm scared. Yeah, so, yeah. So, here we have the event. Let me copy it and prettify it for everyone's so that everyone can see it easily. I can just copy it correctly. So, here we have it. As you can see, it contains a lot of keys, but the thing's to note. So, it has a request context key which has the path and it has the method through which we have called. And if you were to make a post request, it would even have the body. And correspondingly, if you see, so it has pretty much every standard information that you have in a HTTP request. And it has all of these. So, what we have to do to deploy our simple web application to Lambda, as I told, we have to convert this event to a WSGI request and then take a WSGI response and return it back in a format that this understands, which would be this kind of format. So, this is one of the trickiest part in deploying a web application to Lambda. Properly converting this event to the WSGI request. Again, if you can do this, you can deploy like a Flask application also because that also uses the same standard. So, now let's see here. So, there's a thing called handler in Lambda function. This is basically what file name you are calling and what function in it it will call. So, as we can see here, the file name is Lambda function and the function name is Lambda handler. So, on a similar note, we have another file, a Lambda handler file and the function name is also Lambda handler. So, what I do here is I take the WSGI app object, import it from the Django application that we have. This is standard Django application. Then we create our own function which takes this application, the event that we get from Lambda and return the proper response. So, now let's look at this function. So, we come in here and for those who are completely unfamiliar with like WSGI app, let me go here quickly and show you guys. Yeah, so what this function does, it returns a WSGI handler class and if we just go here and check, so basically what it does is it has this properties for the handler which loads your whole code and takes this over that class and returns the WSGI response. So, basically what this will expect as a parameter, you can say is this environment which represents like the request information and the start response which represents the response information. So, taking this knowledge again, here also we create our own response object and we generate the environment from the event. This part is basically converting what I told, converting that event to WSGI request format and this part represents converting the WSGI response to the standard response expected by Lambda, API gateway. First, let's look at response. This is very simple. So, we have a start response class. Therein, we have this response function which just takes this output as a parameter. This output would be what? The WSGI response outside. It parses it and converts it into a format which is suitable for API gateway. And this again can be used like say a Flask application. Now, for the environment part. So, here we have a function and in this function we basically convert, we take that event body and convert it into this format. This is the standard environment format or the request data you can say in layman terms which the WSGI application expects. So, herein, I parse the headers, the path, the body, et cetera, et cetera. So, this is the code that basically enables us to run this application to Lambda function. And now deploying it to Lambda. So, as I told, the deployment is a little tricky, when that's specific. So, how would you deploy? So, Lambda expects self-contained code block. So, what do I mean by self-contained code block is that you have your requirements, you have every file in there. So, this is a simple shell script which allows us to deploy to Lambda. So, again, very simple. We go into the source folder. We install the requirements in the target dot and target dot would entail that all the requirements are installed in the source folder itself so that it becomes self-contained block. We will look into later what this line is for. We make a zip file and we upload it to the function. And the function is PyCon demo test. And suppose I run this. In the meanwhile, we can check out. So, in my repository, I have added continuous deployment step using GitHub actions which does the same thing. So, this would be the configuration file for this. In here also, if you see, it's quite simple. We check out all the code. We set up Python 3.6. Then we run a simple script which does what it again installs, like updates pip, goes into that folder, installs requirements in that folder for a self-contained package. We look into this line, makes a zip. Then there is this action which basically takes that zip and uploads it to the Lambda function. So, let's see if that is done. Yeah, this was successfully updated. Now, let's see. Yeah, there's updated 39 seconds ago. Similarly, I have made an API just like we saw right now. This does what this also links to that API. And it is deployed live on the internet with the specific stage. Please go ahead and here it is. So, pretty straightforward again. It's just converting that event to this. Now, another thing that we saw that I talked about is reducing the latency. So, for you, I have an example. So, people who are familiar with content hashing, so we will be doing that in Django. So, quickly if I can just tell what's content hashes, basically, suppose I open this URL and let me reload it. Let me hard reload it. Yeah, so this fetches some CSS, JSS files and if we see here, this is the star image that I showed you guys here in the static files. This is that same star image, this logo thing. But if we see the path, the path has this string like between the star image and PNG. So, this is content hashing. It is basically a way to invalidate static assets cache. Now, Django has the ability to do this by itself. There is this mixin which is called manifest file mixin which Django storages static files app itself has and like say, if we couple that with S3 Boto3 storage which is from the Django storages package, what this does, this allows us to create a way through which we push our static files to AWS and serve them through that place. And as we see here, the, yeah, sorry. So, as we saw here, this is from S3 bucket. But so what it does, like when we do this collectStatic command that we saw this, saw here, so what this does, it takes all the static files, collects them to a place, takes the content of those files, makes a hash out of it. So if you change the file, the hash will be different and the application will fetch the new file itself and makes this json file which is like the manifest file. So Django uses this file to fetch to know, like for suppose this path, I have to fetch this API from the static file source. So traditionally what will happen, this file will also be pushed to Azure. Sorry to interrupt, just a time check. We just have about five minutes. Yeah, no problem. So however, what I have done, I have overloaded these two functions which are basically for reading and writing the manifest file and they write it into the local file itself. So this manifest file becomes a part of the package. So in a traditional deployment, loading this file won't be an issue when you start the application, but this reduces latency by a lot when we make this file a part of the whole package itself. So these are small, small things that one can do to reduce the latency and it's very crucial you do that in serverless deployment. Next, I'll just conclude with a little bit about API gateways. So as we saw the demo and the created gateway also, API gateways are just the initiators of the event of a serverless function. So there are of course multiple available gateways from different vendors. Some of them are even open source, like part of them are open source, like say con, but the crux remains the same. They all have ability to call the static, to call the serverless functions, but the differences arise in the events. So unfortunately, I cannot show you the event, like live demo of con, but I have an event of it, I think somewhere. Yeah, so this is like the JSON of a con event. As you can see again, we have similar, we have all the information for request. We just have to convert this one also to a WSGI request object and our app will be able to run. So guys, that's all from my side today. The code is available for publicly on this, on my GitHub and feel free to connect with me on the ZULIP chat or through any of my social contacts. Thank you. Do we have any questions? Yeah, thanks, Siddharth. That was a great session. Yeah, we do have questions. So there's one about Lambda. So can we get access to the Git repo for this Django AWS Lambda? I mean, yeah, experiment I guess, yeah. Guys, I'll share it on ZULIP for everyone. The repository is open and the deploy and pull request is also open. Anything else? I guess there are a lot more questions, but probably you could take them on ZULIP. Meanwhile, let's just ask you a general question. So why did you go with AWS? Why not, you know, GCP or Azure? Mm-hmm. The basic difference is that AWS, I thought was more familiar to me, but I have tried Azure, especially Azure has Azure HTTP functions which make this converting event JSON to request object a lot easier. So there are, of course, plus and minus of different vendors, whatever you are comfortable with, the basics remain the same. Uh-huh, that's nice to know. And Lambda can in general be used for any kind of real-time or near real-time compute, right? Is that right? Yeah, yeah, so that also again has a whole new topic in itself like hot scaling down scaling, but yeah, you can. I see, that's nice.  Very impressed, thanks a lot. Thank you, everyone.


He is not just a winner. He is the real champion. Why? Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Hello brothers and sisters. Annyeonghaseyo. I am Aduki. Mashallah Habib won the game. Yeah! It was an amazing game. To be honest, I didn't know what is UFC because I didn't interested in fighting sports so I've never seen it so I even don't know about the rules. But I saw this for the first time yesterday because many Muslim brothers told me that oh that would you should watch this game. So I watched it. And still undefeated in the UFC. Kabib! And of course he won and be the champion. Yes. Mashallah. It was so amazing and he was so strong. Yeah I didn't interested in fighting games but it was so interesting attractive and so powerful. Like a man's force. I think I'm gonna be a fan of UFC and my favorite is of course Habib. He's the best player I ever seen. Yeah of course I don't know about other fighters. So I heard that he fought 29 times and he won 29 times. It doesn't make sense. So he never lose right? Wow that's amazing. So he fought in the MMA. Wait then what is UFC? Is it the same or different? I don't know but by the way he was the best. But after the game I was so shocked. He is the first winner I've seen in UFC but after the game he said I will retire. But why? I just knew him yesterday. I want to say come back Kabib but I couldn't say this because I heard the reason. Alhamdulillah. God give me everything. It was my last fight. And no way I'm gonna come here without my father. He said he doesn't want to fight anymore without his father. He said it was a decision for his father who passed away and other family left behind. This is what he posted in Instagram. When I love with you nobody can broke you nobody. Thanks father for everything you teach all my life. May Allah grant you the highest paradise. Suwan Allah. This is so touching. He truly respect his father. He said when Allah is with you nobody can beat you. So that's why I said he's the weird champion not just a winner. Of course he's physically very strong but that's not all. He's strong but it's not just for himself. He's strong as a sake of Allah. His punch is strong maybe he hit me then I couldn't die. But his soul is much more powerful. You know like sports stars since I have everything and have successful life. But you should know that that's temporary. That's just small success in this life. We should look more than this. The real success as a Muslim is serving Allah and following Allah's words and eventually go to Jannah when the day of judgment comes. So Habib is not only the winner of the match but also the real winner of this word. So he is the weird champion. Suwan Allah. May Allah bless him and grant him the the paradise. Mashallah. Mashallah. Maybe I don't know but other fighters can fight for his fame, his popularity or his fight money. But Habib fight for Allah and fight for the honor as a Muslim. I felt his sincerity through his match. No punch can beat our dua and no kick can be stronger than our iman. So Alhamdulillah he's the weird winner and he's the weird champion.  But after singing Habib my old prejudice were broken. Yeah as you know he is from Dagestan and Alhamdulillah very sincere Muslim and his life is very modest and he respects his family and friends. So such a nice guy. And look at this picture. Suwan Allah his great iman makes me cry. I really really respect him. Like I know that the popularity or fame can make people arrogant but it doesn't affect him at all. He is still a Muslim and very good Muslim serving Allah. I really love him. I love him as a sake of Allah. I love his personality and I love his iman. I love his respect for his family. Superstar but still modest and still amazing Muslim. He is the weird champion we need. You know like many Muslims worldwide have hard time these days but I think he gave a lot of hope and energy to all Muslims all over the world including me. So brother Habib I'm so sad about your retirement but I support your wonderful future inshallah. Okay then I'm done today. May Allah bless you. Take care and be safe. Alhamdulillah. Ma salam. Thank you. Bye. Habib retires. Khonal Alhamdulillah. Is he Muslim too?


Next question from Drew, the next Bitcoin protocol update, what's the latest on Schnur signatures, masks, grafters, tap routes, and when can we realistically expect to see these features? That's a really great question, Drew. In fact, I was reading an update, which was a summary by one of the core developers working on both Bitcoin... as well as Lightning Network, Rusty Russell, who did a summary of some of the latest changes... and summarized the expected state of the next big upgrade to the Bitcoin core protocol, which is called Segwit V1. Segwit V1 is not the one we already have, but the one we already have is Segwit V0. The reason it starts from zero is because the version of the scripting language inside Segwit, which is actually one byte in the protocol, as programmers do, is indexed from zero, so we start counting from zero. The Segwit that was introduced by software into Bitcoin in August 2017 was Segwit V0. The next upgrade is going to be called Segwit V1. That refers to a project version, which is literally the scripting version number that goes in the protocol... that tells you what version script you're trying to satisfy in the Bitcoin script language in order to spend the UTXO. With V1, which is going to be the next upgrade, this can happen by a soft fork, a number of things are being introduced simultaneously. The first one is a new signature mechanism called Schnur signatures, which provides a number of significant improvements. A change in the signature format that reduces it from, I believe, 73 bytes at the moment, down to 64 or something like that, or 68. A new version, which is Schnur, which allows signature aggregation, smaller signatures, and a number of other really interesting features to come in later. Taproot, which is a privacy enhancement that allows you to have a number of complex scripts all present the same as a single public key payment. Which is a great privacy enhancement, because it means that if you're using complex scripts, whether lightning, multi-signature scripts, time lock scripts, or various other privacy enhancing scripts, perhaps confidential transactions and things like that, then no one can really distinguish that UTXO from a UTXO that is simply a payment to a public key. That really enhances privacy, because you can use privacy without sticking out like a sore thumb. Mast, which is Merkleized Abstract Syntax Trees. This is the ability to have a complex script expressed as a binary tree with a Merkle root, which allows you then to pay to the root of the Merkle tree and execute any one of the branches without revealing the contents of the other branches. So you say, okay, there's this very complicated script. You don't know what it is, but what we do know is that the root hash of the Merkle tree that expresses this very complex script is X. Now, I'm going to use one of the branches, the third branch, and here's the third branch. It's the only one I reveal. You don't know what the other branches are or how many there are. And here's a proof that links that third branch to the root, showing that it was part of this very complex tree script. So now I can spend it, but you don't know what else was in there, who else was allowed to spend, under what conditions. Compare that to how it is today. If you do a multi-sig, every time you do a signature, you have to show all of the keys that could have spent it, but didn't. If you do a lightning network spend, when you close a channel, for example, then what you're doing is you're showing that this was a lightning payment, and you show the channel public keys in the spend. You show the entire structure of the script with Merkleized Abstract syntax trees. This would be much, much more private, much more obfuscated, but also much more efficient. You can represent a script with a thousand branches as a tree with only ten levels. That's fantastic. It really reduces the amount of data you need to present in a signature of a massively complex script. There are a couple of other important changes, including the change of how validation of scripts works. One of the important changes is to change the unused operands. In the old script version, these were called upnup. Nup means null operand. It doesn't do anything. They will be changed with something called op-success, which is interpreted by the script as a successful execution. That allows you to do upgrades where you introduce new operands in the place of op-success, and the script verification validation process is much more straightforward, and it's easier to do much more complex upgrades with future soft forks in the same version of the Segwit script. I know this is all very, very technical. There's a great post on the Bitcoin developers mailing list. If you want to read all of the details, there's a bunch of other details about how this increases upgradability for future scripts, too. But so far, that's the bundle that is planned for the immediate future. Realistically, when do we see these features? Some discussions are about seeing a soft fork activation within the first six months of 2019, which introduces Schnorr signatures, taproot, mast, and a bunch of other little things that will make future upgrades easier. That would be BioSoftwork, it's opt-in, and it's backwards compatible, and would be a fantastic development for all kinds of privacy reasons, for scalability reasons that include some significant scalability improvements, and will also increase the privacy and scalability of the Lightning network by making it much easier to open and close channels and reducing the complexity of the Lightning peer-to-peer protocol through a Lightning protocol called L2ELTOO. So that's what's coming next in terms of development. Thank you again for being here, and thank you for coming. My question is, I have so many questions that I'm going to pick one. For example, related to improvements like confidential transactions in Bitcoin... In improvements like? Confidantial transactions in Minecraft. What is your take on that regarding privacy and functionality? And also, given that these kind of changes can be controversial, do you think that this kind of technology enhancement has to consider the adoption or the detrimental adoption? No. I am absolutely for and optimistic about privacy-developing technologies. I think they're absolutely essential. And in fact, what we're seeing is an explosion in privacy-related technologies. One of the things that people don't realize is that sometimes you don't do privacy because you don't need to, and then suddenly you need to, which is that our entire crypto space is driven by evolutionary imperatives. When governments start trying to stop cryptocurrencies by monitoring networks, then cryptocurrencies become network stealths. When they start trying to confiscate cryptocurrencies by monitoring identities, then cryptocurrencies develop confidential transactions, etc. A lot of this is going to happen in response to crackdowns, to pushback. We're going to see development of this technology. Bitcoin itself, which is the granddaddy of the cryptocurrencies, wasn't the first. It was maybe the 20th digital currency, and the other 19 weren't decentralized enough. Decentralization wasn't a feature that we needed until we needed it, and then it was developed. So privacy will happen, and I don't care about adoption. One of the interesting things about the way forks play out nowadays is, I think of forks now as the multiverse of development.  It might be lonely, it might be greatly successful. Who knows? It depends on your definition of success. So how free we are now. We can explore all possibilities. Everybody gets their own crypto.  And just ignore that, too. Because it doesn't matter. In the end, we get to explore all technological avenues. And what an amazing environment in which we can experiment. Let's hope we don't stop experimenting. I am much more afraid of stagnation than I am of reckless experimentation, where 99% of the experiments fail. Edison once said, you failed to make a light bulb 9,000 times. Why do you continue? And he said, because I've discovered 9,000 ways you can't make a light bulb. Just keep trying. So maybe we'll discover 9,000 ways you can't make a crypto. Right? We're trying 1,200 at the moment. That's a pretty good run, good experiment. Considering a human is a lazy creature, in the hypothetical case that somewhere in the future crypto becomes mainstream, do you think people will sacrifice user experience in order to have privacy and anonymity? Or would they prefer a nice, god-of-all smartphone client that does everything for them, but controls them? I think the answer is absolutely clear. They will choose the colorful compliance surveillance control system. If you're interested in the philosophy behind this, the really two giants in the space of human control and the descent into totalitarianism are George Orwell, of course, 1984. His dystopia is a dystopia of fascistic control that is obvious in your face every day, but inescapable, and I think he was wrong. Because what we're living now is another future, and that's the future of Aldous Huxley. You have to read Aldous Huxley to understand where we got. His idea was that the totalitarian fascism would come wrapped in a sugar-coated, beautiful experience where you would be nulled and dulled into compliance through entertainment, through addiction, and through stimulation. And if that doesn't describe modern social media, I don't know what it does. So people will choose that. That is the future we're trying to avoid or at least disrupt. Here's the thing, freedom doesn't need to go mainstream for it to give people freedom. Meaning that if 80% of the people choose the candy-colored interface of Facebook coin that has full surveillance and controls their lives and gives them little stimulation through dopamine every time they use it, that's okay as long as some of us have the ability, as Rodolfo said, to opt out and use the other system. So is there a door that allows you to exit that? Because some people will need to exit, and when they need to exit, they will find that door. They will work very, very hard to find that door. So laziness is the luxury you have when they're not shooting at you. Laziness is something that is a luxury in an environment where you're not starving, where you're not freezing, where you're not killing your family, where you're not in a totalitarian disaster. But one in Venezuela is lazy. It's impossible to do that. So the more comfortable a society is, the more lulled into subservience it is, the more lazy people will be with their choices of freedom and privacy at least. But can we keep a door open? Can we have an alternative choice? That those of us who see or want to see can go there and then guide others to that exit so that we can find some freedom and we can.  And if you believe that, you will be very miserable for the rest of your life. It's all fake. That drug of all these other people seem so successful, I must be doing something wrong, that drug exists. That is the world we live in. 500 people showed up today to hear about something that isn't giving them comfortable truths like that. We have already chosen to listen to something else, to do something different. The same internet that is the surveillance hell of Facebook and dopamine injection, is the internet of the dark net, is the internet of the tour, is the internet of whistleblowers and truth archives, is the internet where Bitcoin was born, is the internet where 1200 cryptos are operating today unstoppable, uncenturable, and disrupting the most powerful governments in the world. Those are the same place. We have opened a small door, and through that small door, freedom is flowing, and it gradually makes that door bigger and bigger and bigger. Yes, most people, when Facebook does a coin, when the US dollar is a digital currency, when it comes with super convenience already in China, they are doing this with a program called Sesame, that has a financial and social political score. I just read the other day of this feature that it has, where if you are in a train or in some public space, and someone near you hasn't paid their debts, it identifies them. I don't know, so you can scream at them and go, pay your debts! Some people are going to use that. The question is, what are you going to use? I'm not going to use that. And then find ten other people, give them a copy of Aldous Huxley, slap them in the face, tell them to delete Facebook from their phone, and show them a new path, because we have hope. And in order to build that hope, we have to work together. Thank you so much for coming out today.