Welcome everyone. We're back at the first Flink Forward Conference in the U.S. It's the Flink User Conference sponsored by Data Artisans, the creators of Apache Flink. We're on the ground at the Kabuki Hotel and we've heard some very high-impact customer presentations this morning including Uber and Netflix. And we have the great honor to have Xiaowei Jia from Alibaba with us. He's Senior Director of Research and what's so special about having him as our guest is that they have the largest flink cluster in operation in the world that we know of and that the flink folks know of as well. So, welcome, Xiaowei. Thanks for having me. Okay, so we gather you have a 1500 node cluster running Flink. Let's sort of unpack that, how you got there. What were some of the use cases that drove you in the direction of Flink and complementary technologies to build this? Okay, yeah, I explain a few use cases. The first use case that prompted us to look into Flink is the classical search ETL case. We basically need to process all the data that's necessary for search service. So we look into Flink about two years ago. The next case we use is the AV testing framework, which is used to evaluate how your machine learning model works. So today we use it in a few other very interesting cases. We use it to do machine learning to adjust the ranking of search results, to personalize your search results at real time to deliver the best search results for our user. We also use it to do real time anti-flow detection for ads. So these are the typical use cases we are doing. Okay, this is very interesting because with the ads and the one before that was that, was it fraud? Ads is anti-fraud, before that is machine learning, real time machine learning. So for those, low latency is very important. Now, help unpack that, are you doing the training for these models like in a central location and then pushing the models out close to where they're going to be used for like the near real time decisions or is that all run in the same cluster? Yeah, so basically we are doing two things. We use Flink to do real time feature update, which changes the feature at real time in a few seconds. So for example, when a user buys a product, the inventory needs to be updated. Such features get reflected in the ranking of search results at real real time. We also use it to do real time training of the model itself. This becomes important in some special event. For example, on China single stay, which is the largest shopping holiday in China, it's like generates more revenue than Black Friday in United States already. On such day, because since it goes on sale for almost 50% off, the user's behavior changes a lot. So whatever model you changed before does not work reliably. So it's really nice to have a way to adjust your model at real time to deliver the best experience to our users. All these things are actually running in the same cluster. Okay, that's really interesting. So it's like you have a multi-tenant solution that sounds like it's rather resource intensive. When you're changing a feature or features in the models, how do you go through the process of evaluating them and finding out their efficacy before you put them into production? Yeah, so this is exactly the AB testing framework I just mentioned earlier. So we also use Flink to collect the metrics, the performance of these models at real time. Once this data are processed, we probably add it into our OLAP system so we can see the performance of the models at real time. Okay, very, very impressive. So now, so explain perhaps why Flink was appropriate for those use cases. Is it because you really needed super low latency or that you wanted less resource intensive sort of streaming engine to support these? What made it fit that right sweet spot? Yeah, so Search has lots of different products. They have lots of different data processing needs. So when we looked into all these needs, we quickly realized we actually need a computer engine that can do both batch processing and streaming processing. And in terms of streaming processing, we have a few needs. For example, we really need super low latency. So in some cases, for example, if a product is sold out and you still display it in your search results, we use a click and try to buy, they cannot buy it, it's a bad experience. So the sooner you can get the data process, the better. So near real time for you means how many milliseconds does the... It's usually like a second, one second, something like that. But that's one second end to end talking to inventory. That's right. How much time would the model itself have to... It's very short. In the single digit milliseconds? It's probably longer than that. There are some scenarios that require single digit milliseconds. That's a security scenario. That's something we are currently looking into. So when you do transactions in our site, we need to detect if it's a fraud transaction. We want to be able to block such transactions at real time. For that to happen, we really need a latency that's below 10 milliseconds. So when we're looking at the computer engines, this is also one of the requirements we were thinking about. So we really need a computer engine which is able to deliver sub-second latency if necessary. And at the same time can also do batch efficiently. So we are looking for a solution that can cover all the computation needs. So one way of looking at it is many vendors and customers talk about elasticity as in the size of the cluster. But you're talking about elasticity or scaling in terms of latency. Yes, latency and the way of doing computation. So you can view the security scenario as super restricted on the latency requirement. But view the batch as the most relaxed version of latency requirement. We want the full spectrum, the support of the full spectrum. It's possible that you can use different engines for each scenario. But which means you are required to maintain more code bases which can be a headache. And we believe it's possible to have a single solution that works for all these use cases. So okay, last question. Help us understand for mainstream customers who don't hire the top PhDs out of the Chinese universities but who have skilled data scientists but not an unending supply and aspire to build solutions like this. Tell us some of the trade-offs they should consider given that the skill set and the bench strength is very deep at Alibaba and that's perhaps not as widely disseminated or dispersed within a mainstream enterprise. How should they think about the trade-offs in terms of the building blocks for this type of system? Yeah, that's a very good question. So we actually thought about this. So initially what we did is we were using data set and data stream API which is relatively low level API. So to develop an application with this is reasonable but it still requires some skill. So we wanted to make it even simpler for example to make it possible for data scientists to do this. So in the last half a year we spent a lot of time working on table API and SQL support which basically tries to describe your computation logic or data processing logic using SQL. SQL is used widely so a lot of people have experienced it. So we are hoping with this approach it will greatly lower the threshold for people to use a think. At the same time SQL is also nice way to unify the streaming processing and the batch processing. With SQL you only need to write your process logic once you can run it in different modes. So okay this is interesting because some of the Flink folks say you know structured streaming which is the table construct with data frames in Spark is not a natural way to think about streaming. And yet both the Spark guys say hey that's you know what everyone's comfortable with we'll live with probabilistic answers instead of deterministic answers because we might have late arrivals in the data but it sounds like there's a feeling in the Flink community that you really do want to work with tables despite their shortcomings because so many people understand them. So ease of use is definitely one of the strengths of SQL and another strength of SQL is the description it's very descriptive the user doesn't need to say exactly how you do the computation but it just tells you what I want to get. This gives the framework a lot of freedom in optimization so user don't need to worry about hard details to optimize their code. It lets the system do its work. At the same time I think the deterministic things can be achieved in SQL it just means the framework needs to handle late events such kind of things correctly in its implementation of SQL. When using SQL you are not really sacrificing such deterministicism. Okay this is we'll have to save this for a follow-up conversation because there's more to unpack there. But Xiaowei Jack, thank you very much for joining us and I'm parting some of the wisdom from Alibaba. We are on the ground at Flink Forward the data artisans conference for the Flink community at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco and we'll be right back.


Hello and welcome to Prophecy Files Briefing. This is a short segment to bring you information about what's happening in our world as it relates to Bible prophecy. And I hope that you'll share this out on your social media connection. Talking in the Word of God from the Book of Revelation, it's very, very clear that the Bible shows us in Revelation 13 how that there will be given to the beast, the Antichrist. The Bible says power to make war on the saints and overcome them. And power was given to him over every kindred, tongue, and nation. That's a one-world government. And then the Bible says in verse eight, and all that dwell in the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. That is a one-world religion that's going on. You drop down to chapter 13 verse 15 and the Bible says that power would be given to the image of the beast in order to make it both speak and as many as would not worship the beast would be killed. That's AI in operation, the big brother, and the technological events that are taking place in our world. And then verse 17 says that no man will be able to buy or sell, save they have the mark of the beast. And that is a one-world economy. Well, what's showing up in our world that is showing us that these things are coming to pass and the very system of the Antichrist is already in place. Well, it's very clear, and you've heard a lot about AI and you've heard a lot about the World Economic Forum and the UN's sustainable goals that they had in place. Let me just read some of these to you very quickly that I think will be of interest to you. There are eight predictions that were made by the World Economic Forum and the UN. And some of them include that all products will have become services by 2030 to have this in place. In other words, you'll own nothing, but you'll be happy. And that people will pay a global carbon tax and that powers will be handed over to others rather than the United States. It will lose its dominance in the world, the United States, as well as the United States dollar. And there are several others that they've ascribed to. This list of eight that I have right here in my hand was formed in November of 2016. We're now in the year of 2023. And according to the latest information just this past week, the World Economic Forum has now said that they will accelerate the implementation of the global agenda 2023. And what are they doing? Initially they're doing a push towards civic participation. What does that mean? That means that every person on this planet is going to be pushed towards this one world system and we're watching it take place in our world right now. My question is, are you ready for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ? If you're not, you need to get ready right now because what we're seeing on the horizon is nothing other than the pointing of the forefinger of Almighty God to the imminent return of Jesus Christ. It's time to get ready. And until the next time, right here on Prophecy Files Briefing, remember Jesus Christ is coming soon.


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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. The China-led Belt Road Initiative is the largest ever infrastructure and connectivity project ever planned. The Chinese idea is to fund a series of road, rail and sea routes with linked infrastructure projects such as ports. And the idea is to sort of undermine western hegemony over trade and finance and hasten the shift to a multipolar world. And of course such a huge project which involves apparently 65 countries, close to $4 trillion in cumulative investment, and some 900 projects will raise a lot of questions. And to address these questions, we are joined by Prabir Purkayasa, the founder-editor of NewsClick. Prabir, welcome to this interview. The Belt Road Initiative is an attempt at reconfiguring world trade. Currently, how is world trade reconfigured and what is China attempting to do with this massive project? It's clear that current global trade is really by sea and dominated by a certain set of powers who were the maritime powers, originally the colonial powers, and now it's the United States as well. They dominate the current world trade. 90% of the world's trade is known to be on sea. So this is what the current configuration of the world trade is dominated by maritime powers and on the seas. The Eurasian landmass had the original silk route, which is how the connections were. So this would also bring about a change in terms of the European and Asian countries' ability to trade together using land routes. So revival of the original land routes, rail, pipelines, roads, this would then be the configuration of the trade as well. It's not only to see this as either an issue. It's not that the old ocean routes would go away. They would still stay, but this would also bring the Asian economies, the European economies together. Using what were the original ties that they had and a lot of goods which today really can't move. For instance, from Central Asia, if you want to bring fruits to India, for instance. Now that could reach through a railroad route probably in about four to five days. Now it cannot. So those are the kind of changes that could take place. So there is a possibility of looking at new opportunities for trade using this. And this project is coming at a time when growth is plateauing in the West. The sort of liberal democratic free trade framework is in crisis. You see it with the Trump presidency. You see it with Brexit. And the sort of analysis is that globalization will no longer be led by the West but by the rest, with China taking a lead. So in terms of China leading globalization, how do you think it will do it as opposed to the earlier phase? What are the institutions that it will set up or are going to help with projects such as this? And linked to that, there are concerns about increasing indebtedness of countries that will be part of this project. How would you address some of these concerns? There are really two sets of issues here. One is how do we look at, for instance, the global trade in terms of what was being done earlier, which was really opening the global south, the economies of the global south to finish goods services from the West. That was what would be called the neoliberal expansion of trade, which was also the financial services of the banks, finance capital and so on. I think that has started to implode inwards as the global south has developed manufacturing and one of the consequences of China developing manufacturing in India, for instance, Southeast Asia, even Bangladesh, examples being textiles. So you see a shift of manufactured goods taking from the West to the global south, global north to the global south. From the global south, manufactured goods coming back to the global north economies. Now, therefore, the protectionist measures in the global north, which Brexit is a particular example, but also Trump, as you have said, are examples that they are rethinking globalization if it doesn't help them to export more goods. What should we do? What should other countries do? I think we need to look at a set of measures by which you protect our industries as well allow global economies to grow, not in competition with each other, but with a partnership to each other. So I think the partnership model is what we need to really advance and if we do that, the certain consequences follow. What the World Bank did was really impose certain conditionalities with attached to their loans. We are really looking at loan coming in ways which will not be so conditional, but which will accept that there is sovereignty of each country to do what it wants, not what the World Bank wants. So we do need to see that shift takes place, whether China is going to play the same game as the global north did, use its economic and financial power to do it, or it will have a more cooperative way of looking at trade and economic development. That's what we have to see. But one thing is very clear, maritime power allows you to trade to any place without any barriers. If you have land trade, it's a cooperative venture. It's not a competitive venture like a sea trade is. So therefore land trade necessarily means cooperation of all the countries because if one country does not behave well as it were, the entire land trade then comes to a halt. So which are the institutions that China is setting up to fund the Belt Road Initiative? Well, there are two sets of institutions. One is really Chinese institutions, which are the Chinese banks, the Silk Road Fund, which are going to be controlled by China. The other two institutions, one is what's called the BRICS Bank, which is supposed to also have a hundred billion dollars of capital, part of it paid up capital, part of it is going to be what it will raise from the market, and the Asia Infrastructure Bank, which also is supposed to have a capital of hundred billion dollars. Both the last two are multilateral institutions and China is basically saying that it is not going to control these institutions. It will be controlled cooperatively and use certain set of conditions which everybody will accept because there are parts of it. Of course China is the largest shareholder, so it will have a larger voice. There's no doubt about that. But the way they are placing it, it seems to be, it will be following multilateral principles of how other banks have operated, except it will not have the conditionalities that we talked about. But the Chinese banks are concerned, obviously they are going to be funding largely Chinese infrastructure companies in terms of the projects and maybe also certain other companies. It's also very clear, if western companies come in, global north companies come in to set up any part of the infrastructure in any of these countries, then their banks would also be partners. And that's why one of the reasons why a number of European countries are partners in the Asia Infrastructure Bank, because if they are not, then their home companies may not be able to code for this project. So far almost 100 countries have expressed interest in the Belt Road Initiative. Recently, earlier this week, China had the Belt Road Summit in which at last count it was some 57 countries that participated with some 29 heads of state. And interestingly, India kept out of it. And there's a strong sort of voice within the government to boycott this project, citing concerns about the sort of infrastructure corridor from Gilgit-Baltistan towards the Gwadapur. What is your assessment of that and what is the position you think India should take on this project? India has in this case been really caught on the wrong foot. It went with the American position, this Belt Road Initiative is bogus. It will be too dead driven. It will create all kinds of burdens on the countries. Now, if the countries who are interested in development do not see it as a burden, for us to say it won't, doesn't really sound very credible. The Americans who initially were supporting India in this opposition to the Belt Road Initiative, they seem to have climbed on the bandwagon and they have sent a delegation to the Belt Road Initiative, leaving India out on the branch. So this is one part of what we see as the developments taking place. Simply put, there is a huge economic activity which is centering around the Belt Road Initiative. We talked about $4 trillion. Estimates are these countries whom we are talking about need something like $20 trillion to build their infrastructure, of which this is only a part. So given that being out of that economic activity doesn't really make too much sense, China had given the option that India should take on the responsibility as a partner in the Belt Road Initiative, joining both Southeast Asia as well as to the Chowdhawar Port, Iran, also the coastal route that they were proposing. So India had the possibility of becoming a partner. It was just possible that if India had entered the initiative, it could have asked China that the Guadalupe route should not go through disputed territory which India has been opposing and shifts it somewhere by which it avoids the disputed territory. That is a possibility. Whether it have happened or not, we don't know. But however to make the larger Belt Road Initiative centre-round, entirely the question of Gueliquin-Baltistan, I think in retrospect India will find this has been a mistake. Given the kind of economic activities that it is helping to build and the long-term trade implications, it might mean that India gets itself cut off from a very large trade base that will develop here. Prabhu, taking on from your point about the massive infrastructure requirements in the south, this sort of shift from the sea routes to inland will entail massive construction in a lot of the areas. And there is the old critique of what will be the environmental consequences of these developments, land grabs, massive displacement of communities. And it brings us back to the old questions of development versus environment. How do you think countries should respond to this? One of the critiques about China is that all its banks and institutions don't have adequate safeguards, either environment or social. How does one address these concerns that are now emerging from environmental groups in many of these countries? Well, I think there are two sets of issues again involved. There is already a pattern of development that is there. This is being driven by a certain kind of understanding, which is what we call the neoliberal capitalist development, which is seeing a whole range of services develop, not helping the people directly. It's in fact helping to immiserise large sections of the people. Given that we need an alternative development model. I do not believe there is a non-development model that is possible. We need to develop infrastructure. We need to develop urban land. We need to develop urbanisation of a certain kind. What kind of urbanisation? Sure, there should be a debate on that. But at the moment, our cities are largely on the sea shore because our trade is really outward, connecting to ex colonies. So, ex colonial pass, because we are ex colonies. So, the global trade, if we look at it function as if it's a suction, drawing out resources from the global south, and then sending finished goods back to the, from the global north. That is what used to be, even if the manufacturing base is shifting to China and some of the global south countries, this pattern of urbanisation and trade still remains. So, we need to look at it from the point of view in internal development. Now, trade lines are there. It's not that the rail lines which are being proposed will come up anew. Already exist. Roads exist. They need to be upgraded to make trade happen inland. So, I don't see this as something qualitatively new. It's for instance, the Indian railway system already exists. You can refurbish, have double lanes. You could have the superior trains running on the same tracks. You can upgrade the tracks. Now, all of that does not need, need therefore the huge land raps to take place. So, I do not see building infrastructure, including electricity, including pipelines, as something which is really the kind of things we are talking about, which is destruction of environment and so on. So, I think there are mistakes to believe that infrastructure development is what is causing destruction of the environment. And I do believe that fundamentally these countries which are being termed as developing countries or are relatively economically backward, they do need to develop a much superior infrastructure. And therefore, I would say that it's not development versus lack of it, but really what kind of development we want, both of which would involve building infrastructure. Thank you very much Prabir for this analysis. And this is a project that is still in the making and we hope to come back to you for more analysis on various aspects of the Belt Road Initiative. Thank you very much.


I'm Robert Lansing. During the past few years, I've become fairly well acquainted with the United States Air Force and its mission through different parts that I've played on television and motion pictures. Although the primary mission of the United States Air Force is, of course, national defense, there are other Air Force activities that have a dramatic bearing on our lives. A specific Air Force accomplishment I'm going to talk about is Air Force support of our Civil Air Patrol. The Civil Air Patrol is an Air Force auxiliary made up of thousands of civilians who give of their time, their efforts, their skills in finding and rescuing people who are lost or injured. The story you're about to see will give you an insight into how those rescue missions are organized and carried out by the men and women of the Civil Air Patrol. Music Yeah? Mitch Crawford? Yeah? Mitch Crawford, this is Major Brown, Western Rescue Center. How old now? I've got a November 7197 Alpha, a Cessna 172, two personnel on board. Excited. California, 2,300 Zulu hours yesterday. Destination, Scottsdale, Arizona. Another job for the mechanics, the salesmen, the plumbers, the volunteers of the Civil Air Patrol. Another overdue plane to find. Possibly lost in a wilderness so vast it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack. When the plane didn't arrive Scottsdale, the pilot's wife, Mrs. Donnelly, called Phoenix Flight Service. Phoenix issued the all-night. We've completed ramp checks at Riverside and Scottsdale. Results negative. Other ramp checks are in progress en route. As to man and set up a mission headquarters, five hours to alert pilot and crews, have them briefed and ready for the search. I want you as my assistant. Captain Michael Riley at your service, sir. Okay, Tom, let's have it. And try and get at least one with night weather electronic search capability for an ASAP launch. Just in case Dr. Donnelly had a locator beacon. Sure can. But what's the story? Later. Two planes into the air at first light on an initial route search. Should heck it. Me, you, ground ops, comm, IO, and admin types. Okay? Now, here's the story. Assessment 172 with two aboard departed Riverside. First light. Two aircraft are launched on initial route search for a pilot who did not file a flight plan. His most probable route. Riverside direct thermal. Thermal direct life. Life direct Buckeye, Arizona. Buckeye direct Scottsdale. Until we get more information, we must assume that Dr. Donnelly flew this route. We'll start by covering 10 miles each side the assumed flight route. But we'll concentrate here and give the area first priority. Mike, will you brief the grid assignments? Thanks, Tom. Carter, you have the aircraft in experience. You'll take grid 236. You inform them, lay out a plan of attack, and then turn them over to Mike Riley. He gives them the specifics and the detailed briefings on individual grid assignments. You can't just launch aircraft into the air and expect to achieve any meaningful results. The crews have to be informed. You stress flying safety, review scanning techniques, brief them on the weather to expect, go over the search patterns and all the other ingredients so vital to a well-organized mission. Only then do you flash the green light. With the initial search plans laid out and the search planes in the air, mission headquarters can now tie up the loose ends, seek more information, and begin piecing together the puzzle. Mike, what have you got? Mike and Edward's report the weather was generally fair to poor last night between Riverside and Arizona. However, there were some snow flurries reported in the San Bernardino Mountains. Flight Service reports pyreps indicating moderate turbulence in the primary search area. Find out how much endurance he had when he departed Riverside. Let's find out about his habits and skill. What nav aids did he have and did he know how to use them? Did he panic under stress? Didn't he have a history of any sickness or illness? Word goes out. All points bulletin. Where's the teletype that should get right out? Okay. San Bernardino to all units. Be on the lookout for a down to aircraft. Riverside to Scottsdale. To every town between. In the desert. In the mountains. Hey, Rob, I just received an APB about a down test on 172. Took off from Riverside and route to Scottsdale. Civil Air Patrol ground team spread out. Questioning, trying to get answers. If only 10 can give you a lead. Or even just one. I got this information from his wife. When Dr. Donley left Scottsdale, he planned to divert to Tucson and route to Riverside. Hmm. Let's check it out on the map. Tucson Flight Service says he filed a flight plan to Riverside. And topped his tanks with a fuel endurance of five hours. But get this. Riverside has no record of his refueling and all the fuel vendors concur. At least he did something right at Tucson. Where does that put them? Here somewhere. He had less fuel than we thought. Possibly enough to get him 175 miles max. Let's call this the area of maximum possibility based on his fuel. And this the most probable area. So, let's check fuel vendors all along this route. On the map, a mere few inches from a small plane, the vast hostile expanse. How did it react? Darkness closing in, fuel running low. Some turbulence in the valleys. In trouble, did he continue flying east toward Blythe? Or did he reverse course? Or did he search the valley floor of her place to land? Or did he fly into the side of a mountain? Let's concentrate coverage a little more. Reassign Andy from Blythe. And ask Western Rescue if all ramp and fuel checks have been completed. Then update them on leads. Hi, Mr. Stavis. I don't know if it's the airplane you're looking for. Oh, $900. Leads resulting from press, TV and radio coverage coming in. And people who saw a plane or thought they saw one. People trying to help. Okay, ma'am, can I have your name and number? Okay. And thank you very much for calling. Hello, patrol. Mr. Stavis. A lear jet near Palm Springs. Scheduled 747 of a big bear.  Hi, Bob. How's the pleasure? Oh, it's really bad. Terrible. What can I do for you? I understand you saw a low-flying aircraft around here yesterday. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a Cessna 172 that went down right over the horizon yesterday around dusk. The right type of aircraft, the right time frame, but the wrong color, the wrong owner, the wrong plane. Some of these leads get pretty wild, Tom, but we try and check them all out.  Ground operations, Major Savucci. A white and red beach craft. Hello, Dee. Hi, Major. Here's what we have on Dr. Donnelly so far. According to his son, he was a good pilot, but had less than $300 experience. Here's one. I quote, For my dough, Dr. Donnelly couldn't fly a kite. Unquote. That's the opinion of Dr. Matthew's brother. A Riverside associate said he had a couple of cocktails, but seemed sober when he took off. Then why in the hell didn't he file a flight plan and refuel? Now, this may help, Major. A flight instructor who has flown cross-country with Dr. Donnelly reports that he sometimes fails to lean his mixture. Now, that would reduce his range and reinforce this as our primary area. Western rescue completes all checks and Arizona is thanked and relieved of the search. It's three hours not a dark. Three hours before the day's search ends. Air crews continue their sorties, recover at Chino and then fly again. They check out any clue that might lead to a five. White Bear 755. I see a break in the trees. Headquarters, this is Brown Bear 135. I can't make it out. White Bear 135, copy. When you've squeezed every minute out of daylight, then it's time to bring them home. You get them together so you can compile what was accomplished during the day. Today's coverage in the mountains, 10%. In the desert and valleys, 50%.  You prepare the assignments and plans for the next day. The list of replacements, Major. Thank you, Judy. Here you go. The list of lawyers, clerks, plumbers, salesmen, and mechanics, you select the replacements for those who can't make it the next day. The press demands word on the latest developments and gets it. In exchange, they give you saturation coverage. Have there been any civilian fatalities reporting? Do you know where the airplane was going? Tom? Yes, Cheryl. Could you come and answer a few questions, please? One thing, Major, can you tell us if you expect to find anyone alive? Gentlemen, let me put it this way. We certainly hope so. Today our people flew 48 sorties. Some risk their own lives. We will continue to fly sorties until there is no longer any hope. Does that answer your question? The search area is expanded. Areas of highest probability receive first priority. 12, 30 hours. Thank you. We'll follow that up. Hey, Tom? Mike? Yeah. Los Angeles reports that Adela 747 picked up a weak signal beam on Victor 264. Now, that's about 55 miles east of the Pomona Vortac. Where does that put them? Let's see. That should put them just about right there. If that was Dr. Donnelly, how did he get way up there? Never mind how he got there. Check it out. Hit grids 208 and 209 hard. Reassign aircraft. Move in the ground teams. Keep your fingers closed. This may be the lead you've been waiting for. We are reassigning you to grid 209. A rancher in the Yucca Valley recalls the morning news broadcast. Two days ago at dusk, he saw an aircraft circling at a low altitude, engine sputtering. A Cessna, white with green trim. He remembers the description even to the tail numbers 97A. This had to be it. Concentrate on grid 209A with aircraft and ground crews. Give it everything you've got. We're getting hot. Advise western rescue. Have them alert a rescue chopper for a possible recovery. Alert the ambulance. Alert the medics. Have them ready to go in. Overlook anything that might be a clue. The wind of sunlight on metal. Broken branches. Anything. I find that not the one you're looking for. Some of the highway patrol can take care of this one. You call in hoping this isn't it. He never walked away from that one. Get around for another look. Another hour. Nothing. Less than an hour to dusk. 3-5. This is white there. 7-5-5. Over. California found them this time. Next time it could be Colorado, Louisiana, Maine, or any other of the 52 civil air patrol wings in any one of the other 49 states in Puerto Rico. Now call in the civilian pilots. The dedicated guys who risked their lives and aircraft. Let them go back to their families. And do their jobs in the banks. In the offices. In the stores. In the plant. Knowing that what they did today will be remembered by two men and their families. As long as they live. And then when everyone is checked out.


A Brainerd High School student is one of only 0.5 percent of all high school seniors in the U.S. to be named a National Merit Scholar Semifinalist. The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition that recognizes and provides scholarships to high school students. The program began in 1955. Students enter the National Merit Program by taking the preliminary SAT test or PSAT. It's really exciting because it's just kind of like an acknowledgement of like the effort I've put in academically and like studying for standardized tests. I'm hoping to go somewhere like kind of nearby for political science for undergrad and then I want to go to law school eventually and become an attorney. Schold received the news of her semifinalist status this week and she joins a number of only approximately 16,000 students out of a total of 1.6 million that take the test every year nationwide. Manny's a fantastic student. I had her for two years, first in AP World History and then in AP U.S. History. She's kind of the perfect kid to have a class. She participates good in discussions and really good at holding her fellow students accountable for doing work and making sure they're they're in the game too, if you will. I can't wait to see where the future takes her. Schold will hear if she has moved on in the program to be named a National Merit finalist in February.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this wedding card or an anniversary card or an engagement card. It can kind of be for all of them so inside it just says congratulations which I'll show you in a moment so I thought that way it will cover everything because I do need a few in my stash for future occasions so I thought I would do a tutorial. So I've done this acetate style before but it was probably about 18 months ago, something like that. It was in the earlier tutorials, I find it I will share a link for it up here. So what I've got here is the front I have cut out and replaced with this acetate sheet.  I've layered them up so you can see there's some nice dimension on there and on the reverse side I have dyed them and stuck them on so that you get a really nice finish on the inside as well as the outside because obviously you're working with acetate. It's six by six I've finished it with this ribbon running all the way through and we've got the little heart there at the bottom but I really love this one it's really sweet it stands up nicely and I just love wedding cards when they're really kind of simple I love white and silver and the one I'm going to be doing is going to be golden white so I thought I'd show those two different styles so that's that one there the vellum is from a big pack of vellum that I purchased a while ago and I did share this I got absolutely tons with all different patterns I've got oriental pattern I've got plain flowers hearts more script butterflies champagne popping so if you recognize or know of anything that's similar let me know but I will link in any kind of vellum but if you've got something that's patterned then that's good but if not some plain vellum will be nice as well so everything I need is here and the dies that I've used are these ones here so like I said these are first edition and these are called I always cover it Paris I've got to do all my labels I haven't got around to it yet so any kind of Parisian themed dies are always great for you know weddings anniversaries and engagements and things like that so I've used everything apart from the little letter I was going to and it is gorgeous I'll just show it here because I did cut it and then fill it with white cardstock just to really show off the design there so that was the little envelope which I thought was really cute and then the love there that's how it looks there I've just left the silver inside just so you can see it but there's some really lovely little die cuts from this so yeah everything's been die cut at the minute apart from the rose and the bike so yeah I think this is going to come in very handy and the champagne and the glass are great for birthday cards as well so you know you can use it for other occasions okay so you need a six by six card base you need a piece of six by six acetate and a piece of six by six vellum and the acetate that I'm using because like I said you do want it nice and strong I've got this one here which is by do crafts paper mania I have shared this before I have got it over on my amazon storefront I believe and this one I don't know the weight of it though and I have said that before I need to work it out I'll put a little note up here if I find out because it doesn't tell you anything in terms of the microns because that's the weight of acetate and it has nothing here to tell me what that is but like I said I will look into it but this is really really strong stuff so that's what you want to be using really because you need that card to be able to stand up you don't have a pre-made six by six card blank then you just need to cut a piece of 12 by six and then score along the 12 at six inches but you can also do this with any size card so as long as the pieces that you're cutting are the same size as the card itself then it's fine you can do this any size so I'm going to get rid of that and then with my trimmer you don't have to use a trimmer but what I'm going to do is on my top sheet pop all that to one side so it's going to be a top folding card this top piece here I'm going to pop it in and this score line I'm going to line up with the one inch marker and I'm just going to cut so you're cutting that all the way and you're left with this little one inch which now acts as a hinge for us to attach the vellum and the acetate now with these pieces here you want to cut another piece that is one inch and that is going to be the piece that we have on the back to sandwich the acetate in between and then you want another two pieces of one inch for the bottom okay and then you've got that piece left over if you need it or if you cut one wrong so you should have three pieces of one by six or whatever size you're using and then your card blank that looks like that okay so that is everything it's now a matter of putting it all together and it's actually very very straightforward so these are all the bits that I've got to decorate I'm also going to show you a few little tricks with die cutting so pop all those there because I don't want to lose anything okay and that's for that as well right so this piece of acetate make sure it's clean mine are pretty good so just come out with packaging this is going to sit inside here and it should sit perfectly if at this point it doesn't go and recut it because you do want it to all line up that's going to fold over like so so what you want to do first of all is stick some tape along this inside tab now I'm using the red liner tape because it's really strong and it sticks really well to acetate that's my preferred one but that doesn't mean to say there's not other good ones out there it's just the one that I like to use so I'm going to run two strips along there and always make sure you go over your tape with a bone folder or a ruler and just get all those air bubbles out and then I'm going to stick my vellum inside the card as if it's the front so make sure everything is nicely lined up make sure you focus on the bottom part of the card if the top is a little bit crooked that's fine because this hinge is going to cover all of that anyway and you want it to just I would say maybe have it so it comes just a little bit shy of the six inches so maybe even yeah maybe even do it at five and seven eighths of an inch you want it to just come down from the scoreline itself otherwise you're going to get quite a lot of bulk and it might not be able to fold so we'll put a little kind of caption up just to say actually maybe cut it so it's six by five and seven eighths just so you don't have all that bulk but you want to make sure that you get it right down to the bottom part so you've got that little bit of gap at the top and then you're going to bring that piece over and again go over it with your bone folder and you'll know if it is too bulky because it wouldn't fold over perfectly because obviously I've already scored this because it was pre-made it folds perfectly and you want it to just fall down like it would any other normal card and because this is heavy acetate it's pretty much the same way as the card blank itself which is about 300 gsm so it is pretty strong stuff okay so that's that piece now all in place now if you're going to decorate with any ribbon I do have mine on show and that's completely fine okay so that's one way to do it if you don't want to have your ribbon on show you need to do your ribbon now so that it will then go in between this and then when we go to stick one of these over the top the ribbon will be hidden but I actually quite like the ribbon on show so it's entirely up to you just do it at that point if you do want it hidden I don't so I'm going to pop this now over the back there so again I'm going to run some tape on here again just make sure that you get it all lined up if it does overhang slightly that's okay you can just make sure obviously it's all stuck down but when you turn it back over you can just go along and just trim off anything that's on the side so now when you put that back on you might start to notice a bit of bulk so I'm just really making sure I work that score line in you want to make sure it always still lies flat and just test it when you pop it up and you want to make sure it still stands which that one does so now I'm going to add these two pieces to the bottom and this will help just bring that card this will help bring that piece of acetate down it just gives a little bit of weight and just helps land the card really so I'm going to add some double-sided tape to both sides of this okay so I'm going to turn upside down and stick this one in first so I'm just going to start this corner here just make sure it runs all the way along the bottom like so and again go over that make sure the air bubbles are out and now this one here I can just line up at the very front like so and now when I put it up again it's even stronger now when it stands up because it's got that weight from there but if you pop it on the side you know you can see they're both completely straight so it's a really nice acetate to work with and it's the same acetate that I used to make the large acetate gift bag so any of you that have used it for that it's that same one okay so then I'm going to add this lovely piece of vellum and to attach the vellum I'm just going to add a very very thin strip of again the red tape right along the very top now this is a quarter of an inch so maybe even a little bit smaller than that but you just want a thin strip if possible again make sure it's all stuck down take the backing off and the reason I'm using this is vellum is always lovely on wedding cards anyway but it does also just blur out anything that you may write in the background for your message alternatively you can write on the back so but it does make a difference so I'm just going to pop this one just in here again try and bring it a little bit down from the score line so if you've got anything overhanging you can just trim it but mine's okay like so and then fold it back so actually create a crease make sure everything stays nice and straight above but I just think this adds a touch of real nice luxury to the wedding card and then this one here I've already gone in heat embossed this congratulations again if anybody's interested this is an old one this is timeless love by stamping up it might have even been a celebration I don't know something tells me it might have been I always cut these sides off so anyway that's the one I've used you can always look them up so lots of people always sell these things on eBay so this one is going to stick inside here okay so now it's the decoration so I've got everything here so first of all I'm going to add my ribbon so what I want to do is I don't want it going through the vellum just the actual front here but I'm going to wrap it around twice because it's so thin so I'm going to do one again I don't want to go over the the vellum I want to go on top of the vellum two so now I want to make sure the ribbon is all nice and flat okay like so so then I'm just going to trim that off these scissors are so sticky and then my snips so I need to sort that out because that's really bad that's going to be for the bottom so what I want to do at the top is I'm just going to add a very small piece of I'm going to use the slightly thicker one but still a small piece but it's wider in the very center here because this is going to be covered by the bow but I want the ribbon to just have something to cling on to so I'm just going to pop that piece down like so and then I can make these bits tight but what I want to do is create like a crisscross effect so like that and then that one can be trimmed off because it's going to be covered with a bit of glue with the bow but you can see there now and then this one's going to come down and then up there again trim that all off like so and what I might do is pop another piece over the top and just use this to actually stick the bow down because it is a very strong usually I use the hot glue or the silicon but I think this is going to work with just this one so we already went ahead actually know it's going to be a little bit exposed so I'm just going to roll some of that in on itself just so it can't be seen there we go make sure that's really pushed down there we go so you can see now I've got this crisscross effect inside here it's all nice and neat and it crosses over there as well but the good thing is is you can move this around so they go I can extend that out a little bit more like so there we go that's better see that cool effect you get looks really really pretty so that's that one and then the one on the bottom I'm just going to do a plain strip because I've got the heart going in the middle so this is just going to be going underneath stick that one down pull that nice and torped like so and then with this one like I said I've got this heart that I'd already die cut I did die cut two and stick them on top of each other I'm just going to pop a little bit of the wet glue and that should cover everything nicely which it does okay so that's the bottom there like so so now all we need to do is decorate so I have already got my Eiffel Tower die cut so this is going to be this one here but if you look it's got white already in there as well now usually when you die cut your dies all the pieces will fall out which is what you want it to do but to get this easy background effect you don't want them to all come out you want it to say hole and it's almost embossed and that's what this is here so it's the same die cut but can you see everything is still inside and it hasn't really cut through it's just left and embossed and that's what we're going to do on the white so the easiest way to do this is you need the color cardstock that you want to have as your embossed piece so your background for whatever a die is that goes down first then you want a piece of white cardstock or any color but just a cardstock to go on top and then you add your die okay so basically what happens is is it will cut through the first piece but it will just leave an impression on the bottom and enough kind of perforation for you to be able to kind of pull the shape out so if I just run this through and show you I have done this before it's the same as the shell that I done for the mermaid card so now that is cut through perfectly so I've got this piece and it is almost like it's stuck to the one below but if you pull it away you might get some bits there you just need to pick off like so but now it will have cut enough away for you to pull it apart and don't worry if it does kind of rip underneath because you don't need any of that all you want is this piece okay so don't worry about what it looks it's a little bit ripped there but it's fine so now when I pop this over the top I've got a perfect background for my die like so okay so I'm just going to add a little bit of glue and then now I can sit that right over the top and now I've got this really nice detailed die cut and it was really easy to do and you can do that with any colors and obviously you know any any dies that you've got but that's how I've gone then and got that one and that one so exactly the same method and then you've got those three and that's what I've got stuck on the front there so they're all ready to be stuck down I'm going to stick them down with red tape and then because you will be able to see that through the acetate on the other side I'm going to be covering the other sides of them with these pieces and these are all those embossed bits so that white piece that I just done that's all that is again but just in gold so that's what you want to do for the backside so I'm going to go and stick these all down first okay so that's those stuck down and then underneath so you can see there just about picking up you can see all the tape so that's now where you just want to stick these pieces directly over I mean if you want to die cut them the same way that you did the front one and have the white on it then by all means but because this is on the inside I've just kept it that little bit planer but they will literally marry up perfectly and cover the inside so again I'm going to just stick them down there you go guys two really cute cards I think they're lovely I love that they're going to work for you know wedding anniversary or engagement um working with acetate I just think it's really quite special when you do kind of an occasion card like this and especially with the vellum it does give it a touch of luxury so let me know which one you prefer whether you're a gold or silver person and yeah give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


ificant weight of EPA and DOE and the Department of Transportation and just the process of trying to do that has been extraordinary and I have to applaud them on the efforts that they've gotten. We're just coming back from New Orleans, Louisiana the HPCU Climate Change Consortium with over 400 people from government agencies and nonprofits and students alike where these are groups that are also benefiting from an EPA Thrive Grant and this is how communities are coming together and having these conversations and bringing in people from all over the country to talk about the solutions that's happening in part because of additional funding that's coming through Justice 40 and we just left and I saw a whole station from NASA that was set up here again in this space that was directly addressing and having these conversations with students on a level that we've never thought of before so that first answer is yes and we should all be empowered by that. The same time we have to be very concerned because it is under attack. Right now we have a representative representative Scalise who is one of the people who is up for a speaker of the house that's coming from a constituency based in Louisiana that is facing extreme environmental challenges there's salt water going up the Mississippi River we just talked about that and so the idea that we could be in a position with a federal government that is already right now an administration that is doing their darkness to be able to live up to the commitment of environmental justice as they stated when they began that's also fighting with a legislative body that doesn't like regulation so these communities need your help they need your support they need this advocacy passing IRA was not enough you can't pass it and don't support the entities and the communities that need to continue to see it done so you know I know there was a lot of celebration after we got that finished but there were folks that were saying okay now we need everybody to get down on the ground with us and keep pushing and keep fighting so that we can continue to have a flow of funding and we can leverage it and we can talk about private investment and we can begin really having I think more a global impact that's the next level in the next space where we are now we have a very large question from our global online audience which is that more and more the world seems to be retreating back into camps or zones of influence which can only make global efforts to tackle problems like the climate crisis more difficult is there any way to reverse this trend or do we have to figure out ways to work within this new system of essentially great power competition I think that there's certainly I mean there is local resistance you know there's agency there's solidarity but it is David and Goliath and I think that that big cruise ship or yacht does need to come to the fore and I think in the geostrategic space what needs to happen and we've been trying to push this through different think tanks you know the idea of China and the US for instance right so I mean there was a time in the Nixonian era where you know that rapprochement happened through Pakistan you know it's a roller coaster relationship I'm you know I'm aware of that as well but there are possibilities in these you know countries to try and green see back for instance right for the US and that would be the interesting possibilities there I think now with the new cop I mean Saudi is China you know has been in discussion with Pakistan to set up a 10 billion dollar oil refinery right so I mean this set you know while it's trying to transition itself you know there is this fear that a lot of this obsolete you know technology gets shipped off elsewhere so I think those are kind of the concerns and also the opportunities where I mean you know in the possibility to leapfrog I mean if that can happen but I mean of course it needs you know it needs resource commitment and it needs a less acrimonious engagement for which they are also vested interests I think we have one more question from our audience and then I think we'll have to close out the session Hi I'm Emily I was one of Sayid Mohammed's previous students at American University so my question is about activist movements like related to debt for climate exchanges from places like the World Bank and IMF there are a lot of people from the global south that are calling for these larger international financing organizations to exchange or relieve debt because of the environmental degradation they have caused so you kind of touched on this with the case of Guyana and they're sort of like because of their debt they're opening up more land for extraction from Exxon you see this with industrial agriculture and Costa Rica and different parts of the world all over and so I guess for all of the panelists when it comes to financing a just transition how do you see these kinds of debt cancellation actions and that would be the most beneficial way to go about it I think you have to look at a body of financing there's not going to be one particular avenue and certainly as in I think we have to look at this with the eyes of a financing perspective because while there's relieving debt there's also making a profit and so with every debt that's relieved that's either coming off of someone's books or it is now giving an opportunity to create profit so really profit is the end game not just the debt relief and when we think about that profit side of it and who is getting the profit and why and what is the purpose of it is it really driving us to a space where again we're getting into a fossil fuel economy and we're moving into a transition of renewable energy I think that has to be a part of this debt relief conversation for some countries and for some spaces absolutely because the debt relief allows them an opportunity to invest in some of the renewable options that they really are seeking to do but in some spaces yes there's definitely a conflict if the debt relief is associated with Exxon taking and getting rid of its old or refinery stuff and then giving it to a space in a country or an opportunity to not not updated or upgraded then we have a bigger problem than what we started with in the first space so I just think that there's a bit more to that question that doesn't only rely in relieving debt but must be married to the point of getting the profit and profit into communities that have historically needed it but also are really looking to drive a renewable economy for themselves debt relief in the sense of multilateral debt which would be it would be a tough sell for the lenders but the possibility of climate debt right so channeling that relief I mean not so a minister can buy a Rolex right but you know for useful stuff and all these historical reasons for it and social justice reasons for it but yeah I know I said last question but I see that President Sterleaf has a question thank you I don't really have a question but I want to make a statement and maybe that might inspire others to respond to that everyone knows that power diversity is concentrated in the global south mainly in the form of forests, large forests forests have been used as a source of livelihood for communities there's been a movement of trying to make sure that the preservation of forests are maintained in response to give some support for community development most times very primary support that will not do any transformation of those communities into self-independence self-sufficient communities we also have a question of many of our countries that rely on fossil fuel that's how they create the domestic revenue to finance their own social goods to finance governance and there's a lot of pressure now coming from partners that says we're going to cut off assistance unless you stop producing fossil fuels the reliance then is on well we're going to get through the COP arrangements there's going to be a flow and we know that there have been so many meetings with the COP and the commitment to provide these level of financing to enable countries just has not come the money has not come and when it comes to forests there's not a big it's like the gold rush now carbon credits all the capital is we're going to do carbon credits and that's we're going to enable you to get well carbon credits it's not well known by the communities where the forests are hardly known to by the governments this is something new and so that's going to be another area that's going to lead to corruption to deals and to all those types of things so maybe now we may have to some of our countries in the global south decide that if the money isn't coming we're going to be very clear about botter arrangements we'll go back to the old days you know if you want me to stop doing fossil fuels then give me a hydraelectric plant or give me a solar plant give me something that I know is substantive is going to lead to financing things that will improve the lives of people climate change is real and the effects of it on many of our countries are very devastating unless we find a means to respond to those by providing a means whereby they can have this transformation to the means of getting the energy that they leave for their development then we'll be talking about this and not really being able to get the effects of making a world as greener a world as better I know that we are over time but if anybody wants to have a very quick one-sentence reaction to that but then we can move from there yes and thank you thank you so much to our panelists this has been a wonderful event I want to thank you madam president for joining us thank our panelists stay tuned conversation is still going on and you're invited thank you


Hey everyone, it's Gabrielle. I'm over here at Oxmer Toyota today for our weekly used car specials now this week I have picked out three hybrids. So let's go over some information on this first one This is a certified pre-owned 2018 it's Toyota Prius Prime. It's the advanced hatchback Now the exterior color is in that magnetic gray metallic. So a few things on this it does have the navigation There is heated leather seating. There's Bluetooth backup camera blind spot monitoring and it has that rear cross traffic alert now Estimated MPG is 54 Does have a clean car fax that had one previous owner so that interior as you can see is in that black Mileage is thirty two thousand four hundred and eighteen the price on this one is twenty seven thousand for our second This is a 2018 Honda Accord hybrid EX the exterior color is called a modern steel metallic This vehicle does have a sunroof As you just saw there is those 17 inch alloy wheels There's a backup camera Heated seating this vehicle was locally owned This one gets about 47 miles per the gallon that city and highway. There's a clean car fax Interior is in a gray mileage is thirty seven thousand three hundred and fifty two the price is twenty three thousand Now for our last one This is a certified pre-owned 2018 Toyota Prius 3 hatchback Exterior color is in a classic silver metallic This vehicle has those 15 inch alloy wheels There's the blind spot monitoring with the rear cross traffic alert Bluetooth backup camera This one just came off a lease. There's a clean car fax on it Estimated mile per gallon is fifty four city on this one interior is in an ash Mileage is nine thousand four hundred and five the price is twenty three thousand six hundred If you guys have any questions feel free to let us know you can stop in take one for a test drive I will have all of our contact information listed right here. Thanks everyone. Bye


So, we start from last year building a decentralized service of drones that could fly autonomously and capture data and then move this data into data insights that we can sell. So we did a poor concept in Papua New Guinea, where we had this drone that autonomously flew over the plantation of coconuts and then analyzed our mini-coconut petri. Then we used this data to sell to Hedgefond. So then we had the problem of scanning the drone due to regulation and all this stuff. So lately, over the past six months, we've been working on something. Instead of having problems with data collection, now we use the four biggest satellites worldwide. So now we don't have a problem of data collection. So I'm going to show you. So we're building a protocol, but the concept is you've got a huge value of data from space, geospatial analytics. This is growing very fast, but no one is trying to actually capture this data. So you can actually make better decisions, decision triggers, and capture data analytics to sell to Hedgefond or to predict the production of caca worldwide or to do parametric insurance, for example. Cool. So what we do, we build like Numeri or like Kaggle. You guys know about Kaggle and Numeri. We build a competition of data scientists that are incentivized to build a specific model for a specific use case. So we pay data scientists $25,000 die to build a model and we give them 10% stake in this model. So then those models can be used by different companies to fetch data. For example, we're building a model that can predict the number of cacao plantation in Brazil.  So every time Hedgefond wants to collect data from the specific model, the data scientist receive 10% stake. So we got a company in Paris, for example, they're doing this. They build a model that can calculate the position of the ship, the containers in the ocean and they sell the analytics to Hedgefond. They're making between $3 and $5 million a month. So I'll let you know how much it would be if we decentralize this entire market cap. So what we do, we tokenize this model, we turn them into a non-fungible token and then we give opportunity for anyone here to invest in this model. And then the clients pay directly. So the interest value is the money that is paid by the client and then you can own a stake of this model. We can also turn this model into ovicles. So what we're doing, for example, for the biggest insurance company in the world, we connect this, for example, a farmer can link his land, can sign his crops and policy through the AXA insurance company. And whatever happened to this land, we trigger the ovicle and we verify there's nothing, for example, we calculate the damages that happened to this crop between zero and five.  So then we can do automation claim. The farmer can actually receive it automatically. So this is what we're building, for example, as model dashboard. The design is a bit taken from 0x. But you can see all the different models, for example, coffee yield. We're building something in Mexico Beach. Sorry, I'm a bit... We're building something in Mexico Beach, for example, you have rooftop anomalies. So we have this model that can use, it's a machine learning model, that can fetch data from the satellite. And we calculate on GPS-based location where all these anomalies prove top. That you can, for example, you can connect to a farm or stuff like that. We're building an interesting project which is carbon offset for forest density. We can monitor from space what is the density of the forest. And then we can talk on as this, we can basically use a carbon offset. This project is called Reforest Room.  So then you can actually reclaim a tax incentive at the end of the year. So you can see on this dashboard that we get NTN token, which is called the nitrogen token. But then we've got something else, which is called nitrogen X. And this nitrogen X is actually captured by using a bounding curve. And this bounding curve lets you... I'm going to show you. Is that loading? I see the slide on the internet, so it's a bit slow. Do I have access? Okay, let's go to the next one. Okay, cool. So we've got all these different models. And then we can use the model as an Oracle API. So we can actually link this Oracle, this model, to Prediction Market, like Noziz or Augur. And we can also link it to different smart contracts. We can do decentralized insurance company, like e-service. We can also build a DAO. And a DAO will be something that will be specialized for renewable energy or climate change. And this climate change DAO will have all the different models about the climate change. So for example, we're building a model. We send someone in Antarctica that we can capture how fast is the ice in melting. So we can actually capture this data. And we can also have exchange market with private people that can actually trade in this model. So we can actually apply any kind of financial instrument on the top of this model. So derivative, future, cap, swap, catch swap. So this is like, for example, in this example, we've got a DAO that's specialized in agriculture. So we've got a coffee yield model, carbon credits, cacao biomass, crops analysis. So we got those five, four different biggest satellites. They give us access to five or six different bands, which is RGB colors. We've got a infrared. We've got biomass spectral camera. So we can extract. You've got the different layers into the protocol you can actually capture your data and turn them into useful information for those models. I'm sorry for the starting. So yeah, the token sticking is interesting. So what we do, the nitrogen token, you stake it against a model, and it gives you a return based on the burden curve. It gives you this nitrogen X. Those nitrogen X cannot be trade. They can only be used in this model. So you can actually capture and you can invest in this model as an investor and then capture a revenue income. For example, we can have this landing page of all the different models that have been generating money over the past three months. And what is the expectation or the prediction of this model to generate money in the next three months? For example, we know there's a catastrophe going to happen in Caribbean Island. And we have this specific model that can capture what is the stage, what is the degree of damages in Caribbean Island. So we know this model will be used and generate a lot of money. So you can actually stake it into this model. So that's what I was explaining.  And then based on if your early stage in the model, so the model was just created, you get the most of nitrogen X. And you can actually use it to spend in the model. But at some point, the model will get up in value so then you can always sell your nitrogen X. It would be more advantageous to sell them to actually consume the data. One nitrogen X gives you one access to a computational power for running those data into the model. So per model, you can see how much you've been staking against them. And how much if you get the stake back, how much it will give you in nitrogen X. So yeah, you can actually build all-vehicles mechanism. Also, so this is the five different applications that we're building. We're building a co-op parametric and trans-mechanism. So you can actually link this to Easter risk. So this is kind of like building a proof of observation from space. So this is a protocol layer to give you data inside from space. We're building carbon offset, roof plop anomalies for insurance industry, community trading, and tracking for climate change. So those models are being built internally and we are planning to give access for anyone to invest in those models to the first two, like in the coming weeks. But the plan is to let anyone build models through a competition, like the same as Numeroi is doing. Numeroi is doing this for the financial stock market. We're doing this kind of same mechanism for visual data coming from space. Yeah, this is just like, for example, catastrophe insurance. So you can have this model that gives you insight or give you a binary input. So those models, the plan is long-term, you can also train or run the computational of those models into Golem or into other platform. So we're going to see this model for rooftop anomalies. So this is the kind of information you can get from space. And this can also be plugged into different models. Yeah, thank you. I'd like some other slide, but it's not loading, so.