While we're on the subject of audio, I want to talk about a device that I've had the chance to use lately. And I'm pretty excited about it is the Sonos Ray, which is their latest soundbar. The lead here is that it is a $279 soundbar from Sonos. It is a fully Sonos device. It fits really well in front of a 32 inch TV. It's super narrow and the speakers are only on the front of it. So if you wanted to put this soundbar like inside of a bookshelf or something, you're not going to be dealing with, you know, all the reflections that you would get, the undesired reflections that you would get if it had speakers, you know, aimed to the top of it or the sides of it or whatever. I mean, it does have speakers that aim out to the side to give you a nice wide stereo field. But but it is, you know, the speakers are all on the front. So you could put it in a bookshelf and just have it at the front of the bookshelf and you're not going to have any issues. It uses an optical input, which most TVs have. So you can just output from your TV into it. And John, one thing I really liked about this was, you know, those the optical inputs or those little what I called what I learned as toss link TOS link connectors. Yep. And those things are always a pain in the neck to plug in because there's like one side that's shaped a little bit differently than the rest. The jack on this Sonos Ray is what I will call a universal toss link port. I plugged it in perfectly on the first time and I'm like, wait a minute. And I looked at the port and then I pulled it out and I rotated it and I plugged it in again and it also fit. It it takes it at any rotation. So whatever they figured out, whatever they whatever vendor they worked with on that that tossing port or maybe they designed it themselves. Very that was a super nice touch because it just made set up super easy. The sound out of this thing is fantastic. It it's great. Like I talk about a spectacular dorm room speaker, right? Because you can play music through it, too. But then also it will it will play your, you know, obviously the stuff from your TV. It's your home theater as well. I'm blown away. It does not have any voice assistant with it. That's part of how they got the the the cost down. It it does not do it does not do Dolby Atmos partially because it doesn't have speakers that are aiming up and down. So it wouldn't really get anything out of that anyway. I really like this thing for two hundred and seventy nine bucks. It's a great, great little thing. I'm just blown away that Sonos is is making this at this price and, you know, offering something at that level. So, yeah, anyway, I like the connector option that that's neat. It's like, you know, looking back in the bad old days of USB. Yes, exactly. Right. Is it was always like the chance that you're going to plug it in wrong is like almost 100 percent. Yeah, even with USB, you have a 50 percent chance of getting it 100 percent wrong every time. That's right. Yeah. Why is that what this is one of the mysteries of the universe?  OK, brought John, this brings me to a question that I have for everybody.    Why is there not a word in our in our common lexicon to describe that maneuver that the the the the the the gentle hang whatever it is that that underneath you're doing it blind.  We've all done it. Why does it take me ten minutes here to describe what that maneuver is? We need a word for it, folks. And I'm looking for you. You folks can do this feedback. Kicab dot com. This is this is the this is your homework for the week. You've got to come up. We've got to come up with a word or a phrase to describe what that little maneuver is.  So that it's it's, you know, it's got some pressure on it. And hopefully, you know, it'll be there when you go and reach around to grab it. I don't know what it is. I don't know what the word is, but there's a phrase. There's something we need to come up with to describe that. We do it all too often. And the end is not in sight.


ot really getting into that and it could discourage some people it could have discouraged me so how can i enjoy uh you know the our beautiful surroundings are there organized trails you know was there a map where i could go right next weekend i might put on the right gear forget about whatever the weather is and i can enjoy a an established trail that exists doesn't it marz that does exist yeah and and sport island outdoors have probably the most dedicated website for that information and it's broken down county by county as well so even if you're traveling down through the country you know you can still access the trails down there and don't go all alone i think we have something around maybe 41 or 42 registered trails with with sport island at the minute and they're all varying from the pilgrim pilgrim path in sleet lake which is about i think roughly about eight kilometers to shorter you know riverside walks to seaside walks you know there's coastal walks there's there's even walks out in tory island you know so that there's a whole range of different types of walks that are out there and i suppose we're very you know you talk there about access and it's important that you know you know in terms of access that we respect landowners not as well you know that we have that and for going out that we're doing things in a in a safe manner and yeah some of those signs i talk off are probably born of frustration and a lack of respect for the property i get that i do think we i do think reg we have enough infrastructure in terms of walking infrastructure outside of that alone you know in our own communities and sometimes we we just need to sit down as community people and see exactly what's around us in terms of environment because there's there's there's a whole lot of them out there so these trails we talk of you know some people might be starting out uh they they vary in terms of presumed of level of difficulty and that type of stuff don't they all that information is there yeah the information is there in terms of the distance you know whether they're moderate or are are more difficult type terrain uh so it's important that people and it's the same like an ethical activity if you're going out planet properly understand exactly where you're going the distance of the trail along it'll take you what you'll need in terms of footwear and and and clothing etc etc so that you're you know that you're going out and you're going out to enjoy it and if you're somebody that's new to trails i would say start low start on a flat surface first of all you know build it up accordingly and then you know maybe come the summer of next year have a have a go then at some of the more difficult trails or whatever yeah because it's more than you can choose such you know and you're also uh you're also gauging your improvement in in stability or physical yeah your sometimes people take on too much and then their body kind of responds in a negative way and they get sores and there's you know and they say oh that wasn't a that wasn't a good experience so you're trying to i supposed to get your body used to getting into physical activity and then to that you know that whole area of track and trails as well in terms of surfaces can be very difficult as well some of them can be you know quite quite good and others can be challenging and even gradients in that as well or obviously and other additions that as well how important are the right shoes right boots the right socks the right gear but primarily i suppose you know the part of you that's touching the ground touching the rocks touching whatever it might be so important yeah you know that if the feet are happy the rest of the body are happy that's my motto generally you know so it's important that people understand that as well and even in terms of pre going out for a walk even to do that a little bit of stretching and mobility in that as well to you know and to loosen up the feet and the ankles not prior to going out because the thing it does it does pay a bit dividends and in the end but using the right footwork is so important so you know to protect your ankles and protect your arches and so on and to just give you a better experience that's really what you want start off correct and listen i mean obviously it depends on on the type of trail but anytime you're going outside and exploring you know make sure you've got your phone with you keep it well charged you know bring water with you a snack if need be as i say you know that's right across the board decent advice if you're going to find that because it's a physical activity Greg you're going to be a little bit hungrier and you're going to be more thirsty and you're going to need hydration and that so it is important to have that you know those checklist of things that you should be doing even in terms of phone just let people know that you know if you're going on a long hike for example that you let people know but sometimes batteries and phones can sometimes you know you know you might you might wear it or whatever and you might your battery could go down or whatever you might have access to your phone so it's important that you know that you plan it properly what about leaving a note on your car because sometimes what can happen is these cars can be left in car parks innocently and the person's not doing any exercise or anything at all but it can spark a search or those little you know warnings with those little signs can be of importance and also take into consideration things obviously like the weather and that as well the time the time of year like if you've been out hiking now and so you decided to go next Saturday okay darkness comes in around probably four or five o'clock you know so it's important that people are aware of that as well and they don't as I said earlier don't bite off more than you can chew it at the current at the minute you know but it is something we the majority of us can do those that are that are you know that they aren't impaired with a physical disability or something there are you know and even there are options too for people who use a wheelchair and what have you I'm sure but my point is is that we the majority of people can get out there and get that fresh air and in and enjoy it and see the benefits of it what's your favorite trail I presume it's going to be like 90 degrees or something like that something fancy to make yourself feel like I'm at an age where I like flat stuff as well great you know so I don't uh too much I I I have a couple local trails here and that are kennedy that I love to just walk and bring the dogs out and and just and it's it's it's challenging yeah challenge physically but it's the mental health side of things it's just as you said earlier getting away from from all the anxieties that are there and and letting environment and letting nature play its part in terms of supporting your your body you know when you're well being all right so important and we have a number of we have a problem called woodlands for for well-being which we're delivering delivering around the county at the minute in different communities and that's targeting mental health and that's really supporting a lot of people that have been referred into mental health services as well and we're seeing real real positive benefits out of that as well in terms of of outcomes sorry there was someone speaking my ear there did you mention the woodlands for wellness program yeah we're delivering into six locations that we have we have two done at the present minute we had one program which we completed there recently in drumbow but we're working with mental health Ireland and we're working with the mental health services here in Danygoal and also with the community and voluntary sector within the county because we we collaborate and partner with a lot of those agencies in terms of our work but the first program we delivered was in drumbow and it was over 12 weeks and the outcomes from that were really really positive to the extent that we have continued on to deliver and the engagement and the retention of people on that program has been very good and so we're delighted with that we've moved now to Movil we're hoping to move to to to deliver in Danygoal town and also down in the southwest region around Glenti Zardran port now so we're working with and in those communities to try and support mental health as well okay and people can get more information can't they from the Sports Ireland website that's where I keep people can get a link as a suggestion people just Google Sport Ireland outdoors they'll get a whole range of stuff there including the database with all of the trails on it on our own website as well active Danygoal there's a physical activity hub there's a lot of information there as well that people can can download and can access as well all right five there's five physical activity packs which you've made available to us we're going to give them away by way of a competition shortly and you know you talked about you talked about um what we can go too hard at things too early and then discourage ourselves so we can have the best will in the world build up to something and then we try and climb Aragull first time out or something like that there and we're going to see that again in January because and and gym owners will tell you you know you have to plan and operate how you go to the gym for people going there new you go there for the first week and you absolutely hammer it and then you're exhausted or you're injured and you can't do it anymore maybe if you're starting if you want to go to the gym in January start building up a little bit of of energy now and stuff by starting out and the trails or whatever think about it and make it best work for you not even the trails even locally here just walking around the park for a one or two k walk at the start build it up maybe do that three times a week you know go out for 15 or 20 minutes you can time it as well you can use the time um you know increase it then gradually maybe use a gradient maybe increase the distance increase the time etc and build it up and get and as I said earlier get your body used to getting into and then by the time January comes in you know if you do want to join the gym you know you can you can your body will be in better condition and better prepared probably to take on those challenges sometimes I think there is difference between people like Miles I might see something like that as a chore where other people see it as an exciting challenge and an opportunity um you know it's something that you should try and enjoy you want to enjoy it from the get go don't you not see it as a chore or set yourself targets that are really hard to achieve start off as doing it for fun and see the benefits for you mentally even and then let the physical stuff follow yeah the studies would have shown that mild to moderate exercise is more of a benefit than actually going into really vigorous exercise you know for seriously mental health so keeping it keeping at low levels is what exactly what we're saying is maintain that uh level where you know where you're not over exacting as well and and tie it into being part of your daily or your weekly your lifestyle as such so it becomes natural and normal to people okay inspiring thank you very much Miles and thanks for uh the activity packs we'll we'll sort that out that we'll be giving away shortly if you've got a question maybe you could maybe you've got a question for us don't want to put you on the spot but Caroline put me in the spot so I might as well pass it on over to you well see we're maybe working on drills and it's probably a very simple and easy question that's it that's what we want yeah what what's what what's the highest mountain in donnie gall I love it what is the highest mountain absolutely perfect I'll get my phone out and google it in a second um text in the highest mountain in donnie gall to 08 6 60 25 000 or whatsapp and we'll pick out five winners uh and they'll each receive a physical uh physical activity pack thanks for getting me out of that hole thanks for your help and thanks for that lovely stuff Miles okay take care of yourself Miles Sweeney there 08 6 60 25 000 text or whatsapp we have five physical activity packs thanks to uh the sports partnership program uh as part of national take a hike day which is today uh text or whatsapp 08 6 60 25 000 what's the highest mountain in our uh in donnie gall I beg you pardon and uh to keep it time sensitive we'll take this break and close the lines after it today's nine till noon show is brought to you in association with ulster tires are your tires ready for winter call into ulster tires in letter kenny and ballet buffet today at ESB networks we're connecting our land to a clean electric future and as part of the national smart metering program we're 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dreaming about the festive season so why not make a start park for free and enjoy your christmas shopping this year leta kenney shopping center bringing you the time at it is 11 27 the scenes through the window of the studio is people scramble around to try and find out what the highest mountain in in in donna gall is everyone thinks they know but aren't prepared to commit to the answer we know the answer of course google caroline okay the lines are closed now okay thanks to all of you who entered will announce the winner shortly listen we were talking about trails and going out and enjoying our environment and it's fantastic and it's a beautiful thing to do but my word some people don't respect that environment they make an absolute mess of it john duffy joins us john thanks for the call okay right uh the focus here is bonnigie the bonnigie area in letter kenny what if you say i've saw the video but uh we've brought you on to explain the visuals to us john well as you can see there you know that's an open piece of ground this belongs to the the hotel down below the the the clannery hotel it's not fenced off people just don't want to let and you know you know i don't mind them i was told one time by the county council that there's nothing attempted up grass you know that's not considered stop and that's okay if you're not the grass will rot under the ground it'll go away but the stuff that's there now won't rot it's plastic it's a plastic drone there's a bit of a suite of furniture there and there's a very near lorry load of rotten tip bowl so maybe are you thinking that people may be renovating a property or something or loading up driving there and just dumping it for example exactly that's for exactly what happened uh how are they accessing it well they can access it they used to come over past my house and turn down to the right down there but anytime i saw a trailer go down revan go down i would keep an eye out on the door don't want to go down and tell them to stop it you know john did we speak about this a couple of years ago we did yes so that yeah i remember i remember your voice um so this this has been ongoing this is not something that started happening recently oh no no no no no no this has been ongoing for more than two years yeah and this is 500 yards from my front door and there's a lady across the road and there's 200 yards from her back door you know it's just it's not right what did the council tell you when you contact them ah you go through they tell you that they'll put it up on the website and get through to somebody and somebody will come out it's been reported for right to input the council if they're not absolutely nothing can this area be fenced off chained off you know like a gate of course it can yes of course that would put an end to it then it would right okay well as someone making quarries john um it's right next to your house it's been ongoing for ages you've raised this with us before as i mentioned um and and we'll we'll get an answer see what the story is so you you showed a buddy with yourself yeah yeah it's there for for all to see what might stick it up on the social media later so everyone knows that you're not talking about a bin wrapper here this is extensive extensive dumping all right john leave it with us thanks very much great thank you very much take care john stay safe thank you very much indeed now uh sad news really because we thought we were all moving in the right direction um and thankfully all the letter kenny businesses are all open all have the christmas offers offers all safely all following guidelines but really what was to kick off the the the christmas period in earnest was the switching on of the christmas lights in letter kenny it was going to be a public switch on this variety but unfortunately a tough decision has had to be made tony forestry CEO of letter kenny chamber and joins us now uh tony regrettably a meeting this morning was it decided that this can't go ahead really as a public event yeah we we had we had a meeting with a bit of a meeting yesterday a bit of a meeting this morning or and basically we just agreed um together that we felt we couldn't ask people to come out on friday night it was a big event in letter kenny you know we would have had over a thousand people at it in a normal year and um we had planned extra music this year and and different things in a road closure and everything but we just the numbers are very high the government are giving out obviously there's it's not there not their fault but they're giving out signs of of please don't socialize too much so we felt it was just to protect our families yeah to be able to to be able for them to feel safe uh christmas as well i mean people are going to be listening at tony and they're going to be saying look at i was at a i was at a football match at the weekend and there was you know hundreds of people there and it was outside and and that's okay and it's safe why can't i go to the lights and i understand that but i suppose all it would take is one outbreak one situation you know a week later huge pressure on the hospital and everyone would look towards this event and and it's just uh not something really i suppose a gamble that you can take we we don't feel it is um we're we're we're inside a caution nobody has told us we can't do this you know but we're just airing inside a caution at this stage um and i suppose we work you know our messages are all going to be wear a mask you know keep your distance but it's very hard when children are out and you know santa's coming down the street they get very excited so we're really really you know disappointed that we had to do this um we just feel it's the right thing at this stage you've got one hand the lift it would give people and then on the other hand the potential impact and you have to to weigh that up it's an impossible decision really but it kind of is and and we we want to make sure our businesses are safe and remain open and you know have a great christmas have a great um sort of shopping season so it's you know everybody is encouraged to go out shopping and and do their normal christmas things and i'm sure there and there will be santa's grottoes i would imagine yeah and and the different shopping centres so you know we want to still encourage uh a great christmas out there i mean just sorry now we will be on facebook live okay tell us about that what time up so we're having i just put in picture we have um we have a winner of our art competition um who always turns the christmas lights on for us so we'll be doing a virtual switch on um where they get the big plunger they push turn the lights on so from around seven o'clock if you tune into our shop okay facebook page and our chamber facebook page you'll see our our friday our switch on so the lights will go on they just won't have thousand people like you know this and santa santa might even make an appearance okay good stuff all right tonus and thanks for that all right take care of yourself bye bye now um i suppose really you know uh just to put it into context um it is still safe to go out and shop it's still safe to go out and do the stuff that you want to do go out to your restaurants nor they're all being run really well funny not funny enough but you know in donagall we've had really high rates and i'm not playing anything down by the way but it's for context okay we've had really high rates here in donagall at the moment it's it's pretty steady um in terms of case numbers um in fact the seven day case rate in donagall fell somewhat five hundred and eight five hundred and thirty eight point three per one hundred thousand uh that is uh under the national average the fourteen day rates still over a thousand which is regrettable we're looking at about 128 cases per day in donagall that's a five day average it has been higher the hospital is under immense pressure generally we heard from the uh the the trolley watch figures but a lot of that happens a lot of that's historic um and you know the the number of people in hospital at the moment is actually less than it has been in uh previous weeks so it is still safe to go out uh and enjoy yourself to be happy um and um you know that we have to be cautious but uh not to be afraid and with all this conversation people out there might think that you know uh that we're back where we were we're not back where we were yet we're trying to avoid going back there all right uh we're going to be joined by uh karen talking business after these today's nine tone news show is brought to you in association with ulster tyres get your tyres ready for winter call in to ulster tyres in letter kenny and bally buffet today no matter how busy we are how can we make the most of our lives each day by spending quality time together or spending time giving back however you spend each day with debit mastercard spend it doing what matters most to you because a 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tiktok yep that's it so uh let's see arch and culture venue obviously that's a good news there so that's a good starting point for them and hopefully um it can take legs and develop from there all right uh it's like more funding for another dunneagle firm or i dunneagle firm sorry kirin yeah dunneagle based data technology company content lama has secured 2.5 million euro and fundraising to further expand its presence globally and broaden its reach to potential customers so this funding round was led by elkstone partners and the western development commission the company which is co-founded by jolly looney and krini kelly said it expects that up to 20 new positions will be created in the next 12 months and these new jobs will include roles in product engineering customer success and business development all right a national award for the council yeah dunneagle county council have won the esra erin 2021 community engagement award so this award recognizes excellence and gathering data and performing spatial analysis to share with communities of interest right our next bit of news is uh good news actually and a real um a real nice honor for george boland and well deserved most would everyone would agree very much uh the busy roundabout just beside us here greg at the mountaintop also officially named the george bol roundabout at a ceremony on monday the the well-known businessman who set up a panel industrial estate here at the mountaintop is one of lila keny's most popular and respected citizens and he's also known for generosity and support to local businesses so big day for george and his family and congratulations to george yeah big year for the uh motor insurance uh companies that are raking it in big year for the companies yeah motor insurance companies have been accused of exploring the pandemic to drive up their profits insurers saw their profits jump to a 10-year high in 2020 to 163 million euro and that's at a time greg when most people were forced as we know to stay off the roads due to lockdowns so the latest central bank report at the motor insurance market shows premiums fail yet the rise in profits was still higher and central banks statisticians have referred to the industry as nearing the peak of profitability it's nice for them isn't it that means there would get this much of the Canada to me and you greg yeah um now you know we put it out yesterday uh because we have seen i think seven percent decrease in premiums um in 2019 um or 2020 and eight percent so far this year 15 percent and i kind of scoffed that a little bit and then people were texting in some of the savings they were making you know um and a lot of people seeing the premiums go down and suppose you know we we highlight when when premiums are are going up so i suppose we have to touch on when they're going down i just wonder you know these vouchers and stuff that they gave away i wonder how many people redeemed them you know i know the company i was with it was for a supermarket and you had to print it off and they need to take it in and they got 50 quid off or something or other i'm not going to lie to you um and it's not because i have a ton of resources i didn't it was just too much hassle i got a check for for a 20 euro or 30 euro that was i've got a remainder i think i need to buy around the dv ball i got two or maybe there's about you three rounds you could you could check out but uh it was just a remainder to say look if you didn't cash the check or lodge it in your account you'd more or less lose it so well that was like a 30 euro so yeah and you're not gonna fit to use the car and paying your premiums exactly all right be that as it be that as it may it is what it is and all that uh we are where we are and all those things when you can't get your head around something you just uh trot them out okay let's talk about this week's podcast kieran yes greg on this week's business matters i'll be speaking to the ceo and founder of fit pink jenny timonny and the mayor of leary kenny and milford uh district culture jimmy kevna and i know he was on the show we're talking the same thing so it'll be a specific question well ours was actually quite a short interview so it'll be interesting uh to hear uh the the broader piece on that kieran so in july 2019 uh jenny timonny launched fit pink and that's an active uh brand for women that has experienced rapid growth so fit pink donates to plan international earning for every pair of leggings sold and so far has donated 10 000 euro on behalf of fit pink customers we're started out as a one person operation currently employs 15 people so jenny told me how the idea for fit pink came about that came about in um 2016 i had just had my fourth child a little boy and i was trying to get back into my my exercise i always would have been fairly fit and so i bought myself some of the bigger brand leggings um the adidas and likes of the world and i suppose i was a bit annoyed in that they just didn't fit really well they didn't feel comfortable they didn't um flatter my figure i just had a baby um and i i got looking at the market really and i kind of looked at it with an entrepreneur's hat on and realised that a pleasure was the fastest growing category in clothing and this was back in 2016 so yes the pandemic certainly accelerated that but this was a trend before the pandemic came along and i just spent time um over and back with suppliers getting samples iterating those samples you know taking a leg off one sample or pocket off something else or waste off something else and hacking them together to make another sample and then by july 2019 i was ready to launch the business um a very small collection of very well fitting um fitness gear for women yeah it sure is a huge success though you're seeing that gear everywhere i got a great reputation uh and i can see only one trajectory for that business and it being uh upwards okay so tell us more about your convo with councillor cabner then yeah last thursday the the mayor of litterkinny and wilford district councillor jimmy cavena opened the month-long consultation process of the litterkinny 2040 draft master plan so i asked councillor cavena if pedestrianisation of certain parts of the town at certain times was something that could happen in the future i don't see that happen here and i think the whole area of active travel of of promoting walking promoting cycling and so on uh it's something that we have to get more serious about and that's something that that runs alongside this regeneration plan as well as all our funding applications for uh active travel and so on but yeah i mean if you had for example a refurbished market square that was much more friendly for uh for pedestrians uh and if you had a tourism facility at the courthouse uh and so on and if you had more development of the cathedral quarter i think you would have a great opportunity then for pedestrianisation of main street in the meantime i think you could pedestrianize it for certain events and and get people thinking that way if you like yeah it's got the conversation going anyway kiran um it's your town yeah as was the one thing that struck me was talking to jimmy is you know there are four key projects uh that he mentioned when i was on with you earlier as well um you've got the the the transport hub and you've got the cathedral quarter area and you've got possibly the tourism project uh at the old courthouse so i think once those are completed one will complement the other and will certainly give the rekenne and the region uh much more of uh making much more attractive for people to come to yeah and i think when people start seeing stuff happening then it becomes a reality because you know we're it's an awful lot of 2040 conversation yeah i don't say belong to him away but you know there are certain things that are happening and i think that are happening now yeah one thing you know the transport hub cathedral quarter and the the tourism initiative at the courthouse i think once they sort of link up one door i think they will all come and once they sort of dovetail they will another the town and the area will benefit yeah all right uh full interviews with jenny and jimmy jenny timoney and jimmy cavena they're available now on our website harlandradio.com you can uh podcast the podcast as you can imagine on spotify and itunes i used to like it when you called it spotify yeah i thought it was cute but then you changed and you kind of lost that little thing up we had in the wedding i packed up on it yeah and you're at 65 episodes that was about 65 episodes or something like that okay um now that is if you want to listen it to it on demand it's an on-demand feature for you but of course many of you still like to listen to scheduled radio and uh you can listen to business matters it's played out on sunday evening after the six o'clock news that is great okay um what if people want to get in touch with you yeah just drop me uh an email please greg business matters at harlandradio.com all right kieran listen thank you very much indeed we really do appreciate it's always good to get that news update in there as well thanks great uh right the uh as i mentioned it's available for you know on our website spotify itunes and uh played out on air after the six clock news right let me see what i want to do i want to tell you more about uh dementia understanding together as you know we're trying to inspire people from all sections of our society to stand in unity with the half a million irish people whose families have been affected by dementia there are some things we can do as individuals and as communities to support people and families who are living with dementia including six actions i'll read them out for you see the person not the dementia talk about dementia it's not a uh a dirty word talk about it have the conversation ask people how you can help what can i do to 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we do have a big challenge in ireland we have so one in seven when we talk about alcohol dependence so that one in seven feel that they they need to drink at some level or another to sort of continue with the life as is is that what that means or yeah so it means that they actually have a probable addiction and and to alcohol and but but i i think as part of alcohol awareness week this week we really want to raise awareness around the wide range of harm that alcohol can cause to our health so that people can make informed decisions about their alcohol use and so so we know that the heavy alcohol use can can cause a range of problems in health care conditions but we're also learning more and more about how even low amounts of alcohol use can be harmful to our health and including and causing cancer and a whole range of other problems and this year we're really trying to highlight the impact of alcohol on the brain and our immune system and i think the immune system i suppose is 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Australia's victorious state authorities say there was still unclear whether a snap one week lockdown to contain a fresh COVID-19 outbreak would end as planned in two days as the state grapples with a growing virus outbreak. Australia's second most populous state was plunged into the lockdown on May 27 after the state reported its first locally transmitted cases in nearly three months early last week. This forces its nearly seven million residents to remain home, except for essential businesses. On Tuesday, nine new locally acquired COVID-19 cases were reported, taking the total infections in the clusters to 54. Tuesday's data includes six cases announced on Monday, May 31, which were recorded after the midnight cut-off deadline. Firstly, I don't know if there's going to be an extension or not. We are in, as the Acting Premier pointed out yesterday, there is every prospect that things might get worse before they get better, and the aged care settings are quite troubling. Yes, we are making significant inroads through our contact tracing, through our support from millions of Victorians who are following the rules and doing the right thing. That is helping all of our processes, but we are not yet in a position to make that call, and as soon as we are, we will be certainly coming out and sharing that with all Victorians. This is the biggest outbreak we've seen in Australia this year. It's certainly the fastest moving outbreak I think we've seen anywhere in Australia for a long time. I'm not taking this one lightly at all. I'm confident that we're doing everything we possibly can to get on top of this, and I'm confident that all of us as Victorians are out there willing this thing to be over and willing us all to get on top of it and by behaving in the right way.


We're going to move right along to how to govern data like a strategic asset, and to talk us through that we have Arthur Bellost, who is a principal consultant, principal business consultant with Mega International, focusing on enterprise architecture. He's supporting customers in their EA transformation journey and delivering application projects for customers around the Asia Pacific region. He has extensive experience in the public sector and financial service domains, and holds a Togaf certification. In this presentation, Arthur will provide an overview of how data governance can help you accelerate towards digital transformation and why it's important. So a warm welcome from the open group please for Arthur Bellost. Hi everyone, I'm Arthur from Mega International. Thank you so much for attending this presentation. It's a great pleasure and an honor for me to speak to you today. So before we start, I'd like to apologize for not being able to attend this event live. So I'm based in Singapore, so it's the middle of the night right now for us. In the interest of everyone, I recorded the video and I hope to hold your attention for the next 20 minutes. So in today's presentation, I'm going to talk about data governance. So data has become a strategic asset for organizations. So it is now critical to set up the appropriate governance on data. So based on my experience as a consultant and an expert of a HOPEX information architecture solution, I will show you in this presentation our outcome-driven methodology for data governance. So first of all, what is the market telling us? So Forrester has identified two trends in its latest report on data governance. So first, the data demand is growing. Decision makers need to expand their access to data sources beyond their enterprise. We can easily understand why in a world where the value of data is ever increasing. Getting access to more data means getting more opportunities. So with that need comes a question. How to trust and understand all these data? Data coming from various sources means that we need to know more about data origin, data access, data usage. The data supply chain must be under control. That's what we're going to look at in this presentation. So we have identified three key challenges linked to data management, just three big calls for data governance. So first, the data integrity. Can the data be trusted? If you don't know where the data comes from, how are you supposed to trust it? Is my data accurate?  No decision making can be based on dubious data. This challenge of data integrity is particularly relevant now that data sources have expended beyond the organization, thanks to the use of external APIs. The sources are heterogeneous, which may lead to data conflict.  The second challenge is a data usability challenge, which is also amplified by the multiplicity of data sources. If data is not structured or documented, it cannot be used by business users. They won't be able to search for data or even understand its meaning. Only 3% of employees are able to get the data to answer their questions in seconds, according to the latest poll. As a consequence, business users may develop different understanding of data. If you're not sharing the same terms or data definition, this will lead to bad cooperation between teams. So who owns the data? Who can provide information and documentation on the data? The last challenge is regulatory. There are more and more regulations on data. In Europe, for example, we can cite GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, which require organizations to control the personal data and threaten companies with heavy regulatory fines if they fail to comply. It's up to 4% of the global annual turnover. So these regulations require sophisticated monitoring and policing. Data governance can address these three challenges. Thanks to data governance, we can achieve the following objectives. First, increase confidence into data and improve business decisions. We need trusted data for efficient decision making. As you know, with false premises, you might expect false conclusions. So we need to build these good premises, these good and trusted data. That's why we're going to set up a data governance methodology and solutions to maximize the data integrity through ownership, life cycle management, and data indicators. The second objective is to get visibility into the usage of the data. You want to build the data map, understand the data across the company. This will help us understand the company as well. With the help of solutions like Hopex, you can build your data repository. If you're building a shared glossary and building this visibility of your data to all stakeholders in the organization, this will bring value to your company. And the third objective is quite simple. Just avoid fines. You need to comply to regulation on data. To achieve that objective, we are going to measure the regulatory compliance of our data. So let's start with the basics on data. It is often said that data is the new oil of the 21st century and not only because everyone is fighting for its access, but also because it needs to be refined to be usable. Companies only analyze 12% of their data they have. So you got it. 88% of data goes unanalyzed. Data comes first in its raw form. From its raw form, usually an event recorded in a system, we need to build a more structured form that will constitute information because now the data is analyzed in relationship with other data. When we add the context to that information, we create knowledge. And finally, based on this knowledge, we can take action, informed and relevant actions. As you can see from this pyramid, data governance ensures data integrity, which enables better decision making and gives competitive advantage. So how to establish a data governance program? So first of all, it's a journey, not a one-time effort. So we recommend three simple activities to achieve the objectives stated earlier of data integrity, data visibility and data compliance. So first, you need to architect your data. We cannot govern what we don't know, which is why we need to start with the identification and the structuration of the data used in the company. Data dictionary and business glossary must be populated. To speed up the process, it can also be automatically populated through data discovery methods. As much as possible, we need to understand the three levels of the pyramid. In data architecture, we identify three levels of data, the technical, so what's in your database, logical, what's used by your application or your program understood by your application owners, and conceptual, what is used by your business. So we want to model the three layers and connect them together, from technical to logical and from logical to conceptual, linking our technical data to the business data. The second activity is to trace the data. The data is not static. It is dynamic. It is created, updated, used, archived and sometimes deleted. So we need to know what happens to the data. Data is used by applications, by processes. So by linking the data to these applications and business assets, we can establish criteria also to assess the quality of data. Knowing who is transforming will enable us to assess the criticity of the data if you have a critical application updating it or a critical process. The third activity is to govern the data. To effectively govern data, we need to establish the leadership and the ownership. So who is responsible for the architecture and the tracing of the data? Is someone responsible for checking consistency? So we need to identify data designers, data owners, scientists or data chief officers. We need to establish these roles. Some of them are responsible for the modelling of the data. Others will be capturing other information on data and some roles will be responsible for the validation of the data or the validation of the transformation steps. We can implement the collaborative workflow to ensure the validity of the data with a simple maker-checker workflow. A second aspect of the governance is in regard to the regulations. We need to describe the rules that are required by the regulatory bodies. We'll tie these rules to the processes and ensure that these rules are enforced through compliance campaigns, for example. Remember, three activities can be done and must be done concurrently, simultaneously. Let's start with the first step, architect data. The process is simple here. We need to collect the data and structure the data. So first of all, we need to multiply the sources. We can use the bottom-up approach, trying to gather as much technical data as possible, or a top-down approach, capturing the information as understood by the business. So here, it's important to know that we are collecting the metadata, not the actual data with their values. For example, we want to know the customer identified by its name, email address, phone number. This is the data. To build the data architecture, we don't need to collect the actual names and addresses of our customer, only the structure of the data, the metadata. The structure is captured in a data dictionary. Data models can be designed with the help of a solution like OPEX. This will allow a better visibility and understanding of the structure of the data structure deployed in existing database and used by your users. From the data dictionary, we can build the data glossary. It's the list of concepts used by the business with the terms and the definition, but also the synonyms and the relationships between the concepts. With the solution like OPEX, it can be auto-populated from the data dictionary. That glossary must be published to ensure a shared understanding between all the stakeholders. So we recommend to build a map of your glossary to facilitate the understanding of that information. Remember that one picture is often worth a thousand words. The next step is to trace the data. So understanding the structure of the data is not enough. We need to understand its journey, its lifecycle in the organization. That's the goal of this step, this activity, trace the data. We're going to use maps to understand the data lineage and the transformation that happens to the data. You need to identify who is responsible for each transformation. What are the systems impacting the data? What are the processes impacting the data? So for this activity, there is a preliminary step. You need to capture and manage the repository of your assets, systems and processes that are impacting the data. So with the solution like OPEX, you can leverage on the existing repository populated in other modules. So you need to build your application inventory, your process inventory, and you can leverage on this structure. This will allow you to link your data to your assets and generate impact analysis reports to answer questions such as what system is reading the data? What system is updating or deleting the data? What data are used by a given system? Or what data are required for my processes? So with reports like the one shown in the slide, you'll be able to answer these questions. So here we're getting the big picture from the static view to the dynamic view. But there's a third activity because architecting and tracing data are of course two key activities to understanding the data. But it's not enough because how can we guarantee that the data is under control, that the descriptions are correctly populated and that the data is compliant with the regulation? For that we need to set up the governance. This is the last key activity. Remember that the activities can be and must be carried out concurrently, simultaneously. So first we define the roles and responsibilities on data. Typically we need to know for each data or data domain who is the data architect, data scientist, or data steward, providing description of the data. But we also need to know who are the business users because they can provide valuable information on the data usage. You can identify your data governance committee that can guarantee a clear and comprehensive description. They can supervise the documentation of the data. Then you can implement a workflow, a maker checker workflow, to help ensure the validity of all the data descriptions. The data quality should also be assessed against simple criteria, such as accuracy, timeliness, consistency of the data. On the regulatory side, you need to describe in detail the regulatory rules. Identifying the set of rules, usually organized by chapters and articles. Each rule is tied to a process and we need to ensure the compliance of the process against the rule. This can be done through a compliance assessment campaign and these campaigns can be automated with the help of a solution like HoPEX. So finally, when a non-conformity is identified, controls and audit procedures must be set up in order to remediate to the risk of non-compliance. So if I identify the three steps, architect data, trace data, and govern data. But now in practice, how to deploy this methodology. So here are some best practices based on our experience. Some tips. The first one is to establish your data governance plan program. So remember it's a journey, not one time big bang effort that's going to solve all your data problems. So you need to plan carefully the activities step by step. For each step, set realistic time bound and measurable goals. For example, improve the data quality of my product domain by 50% by next year. The second tip is to really get a solution like HoPEX to support your data governance activities. With a solution, you'll get data discovery functionalities, data modeling functionalities. You can have a data portal to share easily the information with your stakeholders. And you also can benefit from the automated workflows to better collaborate. This will help you greatly. The third tip is to really start with quick wins. Typically, we start by building the business glossary and share it across your organization. This will allow you to quickly demonstrate the value to your organization. Next recommendation is to be transparent. Really. Continuously share the progress of your data governance initiative. You need to build the trust and the trust in the data. This is very critical when it comes to data. Next recommendation is to set the rules. Really. We have three types of rules. The data governance committee, the data owners and the business users. Data governance committee responsible for the overarching activity and validation consistency of your data. Data owners responsible for data descriptions of each of your data. And the business users that are actually using the data. Note that business users can also be data owners in some cases. And the last of our best practice recommendation is to really train and educate users. So it is a journey. It will take time. You need to train your users for example on data modeling techniques to help them improve their data descriptions. Or usually also train them on data governance process to raise awareness on the data for them to understand the value of having a good data governance. So I would like to end this presentation by sharing with you the results of a data governance project that we implemented a few years ago. The customer was a large company in the transportation sector. So what did we do and what were the direct benefits? So we followed the same philosophy of that methodology that I just explained to you by focusing mostly on three simple steps. First we architectured the data by building the common glossary. We did it in less than six months consolidating the definition of 900 concepts with a unique designation for each. Then we implemented an intranet, a data portal to share this glossary to all the stakeholders, both business and IT stakeholders. Finally, we traced the data. We mapped the data, the concepts to the processes. Describing how processes are affecting the data, who is impacting the data and how data drive processes. So what were the direct benefits from this initiative? So we managed to facilitate the collaboration between experts tremendously. We improved that collaboration. So to cite an example for a big transformation management system program that was involving stakeholders in more than 100 countries, they benefited directly from this shared glossary. They were finally able to understand each other without any ambiguity. So it is now time to conclude this presentation. So to summarize, we generate a lot of data. So two quintillion of data is generated by companies each day. But we only analyze the tip of that data iceberg, that data galaxy. Analyzing the data cannot be done without the proper governance. At MEGA, we believe in an outcome-driven approach. And with our simple methodology of architecting, tracing, governing the data, you'll be able to create and share the value to your organization, increasing data integrity, building trust, increasing visibility, sharing the data glossary and all the data models, and avoid fines. Thank you so much for your attention during this presentation. We wish you all the great conference and great day ahead. Bye. Thank you very much, Arthur. Thank you for taking the time to record that. And if any of you had challenges, either of the videos, then you certainly will be able to see them in the post-meeting documentation and materials that will make available. But it's a great summary and the topic of data and its increasing importance is obviously really, really important.


is someone came up with an equation that represents a smooth curve that often represents things that happen in nature. And that allows us then to, if we see something that can be represented by the smooth curve to not have to do that, you don't have to go through the math so much because we can do it within Excel. But all we have to do is recognize it and then we can basically use the formula to make predictions about something. So this represents the number of successes in a fixed number of trials. So we'll take a look at examples like sales made in a fixed number of sales calls. So usually the characteristics of this kind of distribution will be that there's gotta be something that has like a yes or no outcome to it. So if you're saying that you're making a number of sales calls, then you're either gonna have a success or non-success. That's why it's gonna be binomial. We can basically say, well, if I get a sale during that call, success, not sale is a not success. If you're thinking about a coin flip situation, then you can do a similar type of test which we'll look at some examples on where you would label the heads or the tails, but let's say the heads as a success and the tails as a non-success. And then we would need to know the percentages of each of those activities in terms of the likelihood of it being a success or not. A coin flip basically being 50-50, a sales call usually being a lot lower for the success, 10% success or something like that. So we'll get more into the specifics again of when something in actual practice will typically follow a binomial distribution. And if it does, then we can use this concept to make predictions about the future. And importance of mathematical models so allows for quantitative analysis. So obviously, if we can get a mathematical model, remember, when we're taking a dataset, the dataset could be any jagged line, just like we said when we looked out the window, it might not have any curve that can easily represent the data. If that's the case, then the data's not useless. We might be able to use calculus or use some complex methodology to take that data and extrapolate it into the future and possibly get some predictive power from it. But if there is a mathematical model that it can be represented by, which is some form of line or a curve, then we have a really nice, powerful tool in order to plug numbers into that equation to give us more insight about what's actually happening. Helps making predictions, assists in understanding underlying phenomenon. So if we know the characteristics of what goes into a particular curve normally, and we see that some data is following that curve, then that might give us some better understanding about actually what is happening within the world. So conclusion, understanding the shape of data is fundamental in statistics. So clearly we need to know what the shape of the data is, which we can use in non-mathematical terms, meaning we can plot the data and use terms such as, it's skewed to the left, it's skewed to the right, it's centered, it's got two peaks and whatnot. And we can then use mathematical models to provide a framework to describe, analyze, and predict. And then we can get into more technical, actual mathematical models, not always something we can do for every data set. We can't do it for every data set. We can do it for those data sets that we see a pattern where the curve is approximating, something that we know to be represented by a line or curve, which happens a lot because nature seems to follow patterns. So if we can recognize those, then we can use these. So combining shape, center, and spread provides a holistic view of the data. So that's the theme of the course here. We cannot represent data with just one number typically because really to represent what is going on, we need to know more and you can summarize that in terms of the shape, the center, and the spread of the data, which we can see pictorially with a histogram and possibly be able to use more mathematical calculations to represent those numbers as well so we can get more specific on the mathematical side. And if we can do that, that would be great.


This systematic literature review examined the tribological performance of four different coatings, diamond like carbon, dlc, titanium nitride, tin, graphite like carbon, glc, and tantalum, tar. The study found that tar had the lowest wear rate among the coatings tested, followed by dlc, glc, and tin. Additionally, tar had the highest hardness and the lowest elasticity, while dlc had the highest hardness and the lowest elasticity. These results suggest that tar may be the most suitable coating for use in joint implant applications. Further testing is required to determine whether or not these findings can be applied to real-world situations. This article was authored by H.A. Ching, Diponka Choudhury, M.D. Joe Canine, and others.


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OK, felly we've now seen what is in the STM32L4. You've seen all the various low power modes that we have, and you've now seen all the new features that we've added to the STM32L4 family. So what we're going to do now is a hands-on now for the rest of the afternoon, where we're going to put all that together into a real-life application. So we're now going to use the cube in a step-by-step process and generate a real application for you to test all these features out with. So what we're going to do, you're going to get more hands-on experience of using the CubeMX tool. You're going to see how we've structured this pre-prepared demo. So we're not going to teach you about all the writing of the code area. So we're going to copy and paste in the main structure of the code, but we're really going to use all the tools to develop the application. So it's a good way of getting to know and playing with all the various tools we have for the STM32 family of devices. So let's now take a look at our discovery board in a bit more detail. So we're going to play a lot more with the features that are on board this discovery board. So if we look at the top side of the device, we have the STM32-L4, which is the 100-pin package on the board. Then we have lots of other sensory and auxiliary items. So hidden underneath the segment LCD display, we have got an accelerometer, magnetometer and a gyro. So you've got nine axes of sensory data available to you. We've got the 32 kHz watch crystal. We've got the new quad SPI interface in use with a 16 megabytes nor flash attached on the quad SPI interface. We've got a MEMS microphone. We have the USB OTG connector at the bottom of the board so that we can use the USB device part of the STM32-L4. We have an audio codec and an audio out jack so we can actually connect our headphones to the target board so we can actually generate some audio from the device. The reset button and the joystick button you've already been using. So they're already known to you from the morning's examples. Then we've got a few extra bits. So at the top part of the board we've got the integrated ST link so you've already been using that for doing the programming and the debugging during the morning session. Then we've got a selection of op-amps and another STM32 which is there for the base demo that comes inside the discovery board for doing the ID current measurements, so the automatic current measurements of the system. Then you've got the two headers where you can access all the GPIO pins if you want to add any extra features to this particular target board. On the underside you've got the ST link, the USB connector, so that's the USB mini connector which is what's providing the power and the debug information back to your PC. And we've also got a battery socket available to you on the underside of the board. So let's now get to start, do some work and get a feel for all the various tools that we have available to help you develop your application. So the application we're going to generate is a very simple audio player. So we are going to use the STM32L4 to stream audio from the QuadSPI flash via a FAT file system out through the audio codec to the headphone socket. We're going to use some of the buttons, so the left, right, up and down buttons to do the stop, play and pause and we'll be displaying text to say what mode we're in on the segment LCD display. Finally, we will have to use the USB connector so that we can upload the audio file into the QuadSPI. So this means we will turn the QuadSPI into a mass storage device using our USB libraries inside the STM32L4. And to make all this development modular, we're also going to show you how to use the FreeRTOS as well that is available to run on the STM32 family of devices. So here's our strategy at the moment. So at the moment, we are currently sat at this point. So we've got a nice sad face. We have nothing working at this time. So we want to start building our demonstration up. So our target application we will build up. So step one, we'll be generating the USB mass storage functionality so we can load the audio file into the STM32 QuadSPI flash. Then we will add the operating system so that we can then add all subsequent tasks as extra modules to the operating system so we can then do a modular development. Then we'll add the file system because the application will need to open and close the file so we need to have a file system structure inside there. Then we will connect the audio functionalities so that we can use the audio codec. Then we will add the GPIO functions to do the play, stop and pause. And finally, we will add the display so you can visually see what mode we're actually in. So all of these will be step-by-step instructions and we will slowly go through this nice snaking diagram until we get to the end where we have our nice smiley face. So section one, the USB mass storage. So the first thing we need to do, we need to store the audio files from the PC into our target board. To do this, we will need to use the USB mass storage libraries and functionality of our device. So we're going to start generating our project in cube. So we're going to start from a complete empty workspace. So our first selection is to choose our target device again. So for this board, we are going to make sure we select our STM32L476VGT. So if we go into cube now and start our project, here's our cube environment again and we are going for the new project. Our board is an L4. It's the 476 family and it's the 100 pin. So there's our device again, the L476VGT. So if we select that and OK, we should get presented with our pin-out diagram again. So there we have, we have our empty pin-out diagram. So the first thing we need to make sure that we add to our project is our debug pins. So we've got to make sure we automatically allocate our debug pins so we can carry on talking to our board, programming them by our board and debugging our board if necessary. So to do this, we need to go and add a peripheral on the left-hand side for the serial wire debug. The debug is a system peripheral, so it will be available in the SYS section on the left-hand side of the cube screen. I expand the SYS section and the debug is currently disabled, so we need to enable this and we want to use the serial wire debug. So we want to use serial wire. So that has now allocated two pins on the pin-out diagram in the top right-hand corner, so P813 and P814. So that's now made sure that we have the debug pins available to us for the rest of our application. So there we go, so those two pins are now automatically assigned for our debug pins. Next item we need to add is the quad SPI, so we need to attach the quad SPI to our target device. So again, on the left-hand side of the pin-out diagram, we want to add the quad SPI and we want to use all lines, so we want to use it in quad mode. And from our hardware diagram, we know that our pins are on PE10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. So we need to make sure that when we add our quad SPI, it matches the hardware that we have on the discovery board. So we'll go back to our cube environment. We don't need to expand system anymore. We need to expand quad SPI and we want to use it in quad mode. Now you'll notice that we've not been assigned the correct pins automatically. So we now need to reassign some of our pins so that they match our physical hardware we have on the discovery board. To do this, we have a function inside the cube tool. So what you need to do for the pins that are not in the correct places, PA6, PA7, PB0, PB1, you need to hold the control key down and click each individual pin. So PA7 in this example will now become PA14. So you need to find out which pin it is, then you need to move it to that other pin location so that your diagram will eventually look like this. So if we go back to our cube environment, so if I start with PA6, I'll hold the control key down and click. So PA6 needs to go to PE15. So if I now click and hold the control key down, if I now move that to there, PA7, that goes to 14. So now I move that one to 14. PB0 goes to PB13. Hold that one and drag that across. Oops, missed. There we go. And finally, PB1 goes to PB12. Let's take that one across there. There we go. So now we've assigned our pins so that they match our physical hardware that we have on the discovery board. So the next peripheral we need to add is the USB. So we need to add the device only. So we are going to use the USB OTG full speed as a device only. And this should add two more pins to our diagram, which is PA11 and PA12. Back to the cube environment. Can reduce quad SPI now. Scroll to the bottom for the USB OTG. And the mode we wanted was device only. And that has now added two more pins, PA11 and PA12 to our pin out diagram. Now, on a hardware, we also need to use the VBUS pin. So this is not automatically added by the peripheral when you add it. So we now need to add an extra GPIO pin to our diagram for the VBUS. So to add a different GPIO pin, we need to locate it at PC11 on our hardware. So we need to be on PC11 to match our discovery board for how things are physically wired. So we now need to assign PC11 as a GPIO pin. So first thing we need to do is click on PC11. This will bring up all the possible functions that PC11 can do. And we need to select GPIO inputs. Because we're using pre-written code, our pre-written code is accessing pin functions by use of labels. So we have to make sure that we edit the label for this pin so that it matches our pre-written application software. So for this, you need to right click on PC11 once you've assigned it as a GPIO input and select enter user label. And then you need to make sure that the label matches the case sensitivity of what we have from our schematic diagram. So our schematic diagram said usb underscore vbus all in uppercase. So we now need to enable a pin and enter a specific label for that pin. So if we go to PC11, so it's left click first to select a GPIO input. So now it's been assigned green so it's been assigned as a GPIO pin. Now we need to right click and enter a user label. So this label will get ported into the software code when we generate the project and it was usb underscore vbus all in uppercase. Now the label has changed to match what we will then use in the software for the application code. So that we can make sure we keep an accurate clock source we need to attach the low speed external crystal to our pinout diagram. So on the hardware we already have the low speed external crystal so we now need to use that crystal in our application. So the clock system is under the RCC so reset and clock control on the left hand side and what we now need to enable the LSE to be a crystal stroke ceramic resonator. This will then assign two pins on our diagram PC14 and PC15. So if we go to our left hand side again don't need usb anymore this time we need RCC for reset and clock control and we want to enable a low speed external to be crystal and ceramic resonator and there we've now gained two more pins assigned PC14 and PC15 are now available for our crystal which is on our discovery board. So we now need to configure our LEDs so on our schematic diagram for the discovery board our LEDs are pb2 for red and pe8 for green so just as we did earlier we need to find those two pins on our diagram left click mouse and select the GPIO output for these two pins and then we have to edit the labels for these two pins as well so that it matches what we will be using in our pre written application software and pe8 is led green and pb2 is led red and these are then going to be shown on our diagram like that. So if we go back to our cube tool so that we can quickly find it I will go pe8 there's pe8 flashing now so I will click on that as a GPIO output and pb2 is one across and that one is also a GPIO output we now need to enter our labels so it's right click on the pin so which one I'm selecting pe8 first and pe8 is led underscore green all uppercase led underscore green and pb2 we need to enter that label and that is led underscore red so there we've now got our two green and red leds added to our pinout diagram so just to make sure everyone is following along and is up to speed so this is now what your diagram should look like so you should have the two clock pins on the left hand side we should have the two leds and the six quad spi's on the bottom of the diagram we should have the two usb's and one of the j tag programming pins on the right hand side and on the top of the diagram we should have the usb vbus and the second j tag pin so hopefully you're all followed along and this is now what your diagram looks like


Just where you want us? I think I know what you're talking about. Thanks very much. Just a little bit more. Yeah, I'll... Obviously yesterday's announcement of arrest was, and a person being charged was a significant step, and, you know, it's a very difficult place Denise and I and the family find ourselves in, which is somewhere that we've worked hard over seven years and eight months to be in, and yet when you're there, it's a place you don't want to be. So, you know, it's an extremely difficult time and last night was not pleasant at all, but, you know, we're really indebted to the police that have worked extremely hard over the course of the journey to ensure that we are where we are today, which is a man who has been charged. And, you know, we're just obviously with the matter before the courts. Denise and I and other family members are very limited in what we can say. The last thing we want to do is prejudice any legal matters ahead of us. How do you cope with the fact that you have seen this person that has been charged before or even just visualised? Yeah, look, we don't want to make too much comment about you know, it's not really about us and what we thought. We're just really pleased where we are and we'll let the legal process take its course and go from there. But, you know, there's still a lot of work to do and, you know, we are aware that it may still be a couple of years or even longer before, you know, this matter has fully been run out. You put a lot of faith into the interest of the oldest dreams, could you? Well, you're always hopeful, you know. Every day we get up, we were thinking today's the day we find the answer and certainly as we worked towards the coronial process, you know, that was an extremely difficult time, but we got up knowing that that had a purpose and without any shadow of doubt that was perhaps crucial in getting where we are today. The review process that enabled somebody to become even more in the spotlight and, you know, there's been an enormous amount of work in the four months since that person gave evidence and I'm sure that'll be evident as this goes to trial down the track. Did you talk about closure? Did it really bring closure? No, closure's not a word that we're very comfortable with and please consider that a man's been charged. Our priority as parents of Daniel is to find Daniel and that's what we're driven to do and we're reassured that the police service is very much hard-nosed in finding Daniel and returning his remains to the family, so. That means to turn it as you have to do that? Absolutely. Do your children have children? Yeah, absolutely. The police have had open communication with us for many, many years and, you know, this has not been an easy process and I think we can all appreciate that the amount of information that's come forward from the public has been extremely helpful but sadly some of that some of those criminal elements have thought it a notoriety or to confuse the police. You know, but at the end of the day they've hampered the investigation which, you know, has been extremely upsetting to the family. What sort of support are you getting through this as you do at this difficult time? Oh, look, the public are absolutely extraordinary. You know, the amount of media interest is quite unbelievable really and, you know, it's right around the country full front page ads and live crosses on TV and, you know, we're really appreciative of the work of the police but also the media for keeping this in the public area and no doubt the public have been really strong in coming forward with any information they've got and, you know, we've never given up hope. We've always said today is the day we find that information and truly little did we know that yesterday was the day that we got up that we did find some information but we still have a long way to go and really our focus is not so much on the man that's been charged. We'll let the legal process run that course and really, you know, we're observers in that. You know, there's not a lot we can do. What we want to do is find Danny. In the preceding days. No, it actually came as quite a shock yesterday afternoon and, you know, we'd had some communication about Assistant Commissioner Condon wanting to meet us throughout the day but we had no idea that that was a notification of an arrest. We just thought it was an ongoing communication as we've had over the months and preceding years. I like to think it's been a team effort. You know, we've certainly put ourselves out there and made ourselves available and we've said right from day one the person that's responsible picked on the wrong family and we said we'll never give up and well we're true to our word but also the media have been terrific. They've never given up and of course the police have never given up and, you know, we could say that this was the case that he personally wanted solved before he retired and anyway I think we're a long way to that fruition, so Can you keep the foundation going? Certainly in just three weeks time it's Child Protection Week and certainly in three weeks time it's Child Protection Week right around Australia and one of the high priority aims of the foundation is that we educate other children on how to be safe and to how to keep themselves safe and how to remove themselves from danger and we'd organised a trip from Brisbane to Cairns to talk to some 20 different schools on how those children can pick up those safety message that'll give them the life skills to keep safe and we still plan to continue that trip and so, you know, Daniel's legacy will be that many, many other kids will be safe from predators and, you know, that is something positive that will come out of this very sad affair. What are your plans for tomorrow? We'll we'll just discuss that privately but we have already seen the person that's charged so I'm not sure there's necessarily anything really to gain from that other than it being extremely upsetting to us and extending that pain so, you know, we know who it is, we know what he looks like we've already given him the glare and, you know, I'm not sure we can do much more Are you going to go to the search area? Have you made a decision whether you will go or visit the search area at the moment? There are discussions at the minute and police are assisting us with information on that search area and, you know, they'll certainly provide some vision of that to us later today and if we're up to it, no doubt we'll pop out there but, you know, they certainly haven't found, as I understand, any of Danny's remains or anything significant so we'll just hope and pray that you know, that it does become significant in that area How are the boys? Look, the boys are extremely quiet and they certainly haven't said a lot we just hope that they put some of the events of the last couple of days behind them but it does bring, you know, almost eight years of thoughts and discussions and theories to the forefront and, you know, that's what we've gone through is all those stories you know, some have been correct and many have not been but, you know, I'm sure they're weighing up all the difficult times as well No, I see the foundation's work as a positive thing and look, the community have supported us enormously over the journey this is our way of saying thank you and it's just something the family want to do to make sure that other kids never find themselves in any situation and we appreciate that abduction is extremely rare but, you know, unfortunately child abuse is not and, you know, if we can encourage children that have been abused in the past and are still being abused to come forward, notify police or the kids' helpline or a trusted adult we think we're doing the right thing by Daniel and, you know, that's what he'll be remembered by as making a difference Look, I think if we just try and keep it simple it's just to be observant and adults to be observant and if they see anything that's suspicious or they feel is wrong then to follow up on that hunch so if it's a child tell somebody that will be in a position to help them so their parent a friend's parent maybe the police, kids' helpline someone that can do something to follow that up maybe a suspicious vehicle suspicious person, activity internet activity on their Facebook whatever it is, if they don't like it they feel it's wrong, tell somebody and obviously those people you know, will be dealt with by the authorities I'm not real sure to be honest we just do what we think is right I suppose and it was right to come out here today and thank the media, the community and the police and that's why we're here because without those vital ingredients you know, we would never have been in a position to solve the case and it's been all those links in the chain that have helped us get to where we are today and you know, as I say we've still got a long way to go with any luck you know, we'll march towards a guilty verdict from here no, we've always been positive in our thoughts that we're going to find the answer and of course we're only halfway there and we're still looking for Daniel and that's the personal focus for us is to see if we can find Daniel Denise, there's been amazing support on this Sunshine case, is there anything you'd like to say just in relation to the response over the years? Thanks to everybody who supported us, the foundation and our family Your pre-passion about seeing the foundation go on, would you like to see the government start to step in and provide some funds to help with the health care We need it The foundation has really survived on community donations and to get some recognition beyond that at a government or a corporate level will be extremely helpful and while I've identified Child Protection Week is only three weeks away we of course have the 28th of October being Day for Daniel which we we tag as our day of action where we want children to leave home in the morning with a safety message incorporated in the school day so that when they return home at three o'clock or four o'clock they are safer with additional tools to use to keep safe at the end of that day So certainly September, October is an enormous couple of months for the foundation's work and we just hope that the exposure of the events over the last 48 hours will make Child Protection Week even more significant and obviously that will be driven home with the Day for Daniel on the 28th of October being really significant and if anybody wants further information just jump on the Daniel Walkham website It's an incredible amount of anger on social networking sites I think it's really important that the people's judgement needs to be very much measured and we've tried to be examples of that where the human nature is to perhaps be a little angry but you've just got to ask yourself, is that being helpful or is that a distraction and look at the end of the day we want the right person to have a guilty verdict and we want to find Daniel and that's why we are always cautious and measured and trying to the right thing to make sure that we're heading forward and not being a nuisance or look at the end of the day to stuff it up