I've got a simple Godot project here where health bar decreases over time from a previous screencast I've got some code set up where I reference a health label and a health bar throughout and There's a different way that you can reference these we can create a variable called health bar and Not assign it any value and then in the ready function when our scene our node is ready We can then say health bar is equal to the Dollar sign health bar so to that node in the scene and then we can refer to it throughout in a way that is a Little more resilient so we can have our variable name here and if the name of our Health bar node changes. We only have to update it in one place and you also you might just other see people do This type of thing too in the code. So I just want to explain it quick So now we've got the health bar and the health label We'll change these to be the variable name And let's see what the problem is Okay, we need to also declare bar health label up here so that we have an all variable to put that in We'll go ahead and run the game again, and we'll see that hopefully everything works. It does setting this variable here and Then also initializing it to a value on ready because these don't exist yet It's a little duplicative. You can simplify your code to say on ready. So at sign on ready there for for variable Health bar, and then you can say is equal to our health bar node and you can just delete this line of code So now it's quite a bit simpler and cleaner and we can do the same here, but let's see what happens if we Don't do on ready for health label We already get an error that says the default value for dollar sign to get the node before Ray is called do on ready annotation to Fix that so it already knows that we want to do that to make that better. So That's the equivalent doing this is the equivalent to the code We just had we declare the variable is no longer you said it and then now we can easily reference these nodes here And if we changed it, you know, if we change this to for some reason LB L Run it again. It's gonna fail Because it's not It's null. So then all we would do here is we would just rename it It'd be nice if Godot renamed that in the GD script that would make the code a little more resilient, but Generally fine that using on ready there your balls can really help with that So that's on ready variables explained nothing too fancy. You'd use a variable Normally without the annotation when you have the value that you can set ahead of time Like max health is declared here. So we can assign it to health without on ready But if in some reason if your variable relies upon like a node That's a child that the script is associated with or some other value Like maybe Yeah, another node you would use on ready there or you would just set it in the ready callback That's a little quickie. Hope it helps explain what that is. Thanks for watching


For it's time for member statements to members from Simcoe Gray Speaker I rise today on behalf of the town of Wasaga Beach its citizens and the thousands of visitors and tourists that come to the community every year The government's refusal to property maintain the beachfront areas is negatively affecting the economic well-being of this beautiful community The Saga Beach is recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest freshwater beach in the world This designation will be lost if the beach is not cleaned up and maintained properly Many areas of the beach are now overgrown with weeds and other vegetation and many public parking areas are in a state of disrepair Your speaker was Saga Beach does not have traditional industry for jobs The community relies on attracting visitors to its beachfront for economic growth and jobs The current state of much of the beach area does not present an attractive picture for visitors to the community In addition washroom facilities at the beachfront have needed upgrades for many years The promise has promised new washrooms on a number of occasions, but it's not delivered These investments are needed to help grow the economy in Wasaga Beach and ensure the beach continues to be one of the most popular tourist destinations in the entire province Many citizens and visitors have signed my petition asking for the beach to be maintained properly It's time the government acted on this situation the current state's beachfront is unacceptable and must be cleaned up The residents of Wasaga Beach are waiting and they know that the election is just around the corner To speak today about an overdue honor for Ontario's Silver Cross mothers Speaker, these are the women who have lost sons or daughters in combat while serving their country Canada The Silver Cross is also known as the Memorial Cross It was instituted way back in 1919 Other provinces have come up with an innovative way of showing respect for the families of our military personnel who have paid the supreme sacrifice It's a license plate known as the Memorial Cross plate or the Silver Cross plate Saskatchewan introduced them back in 2014 British Columbia made them available last year. Here's what rear-admiral Art McDonald commander maritime forces Pacific had to say about them The Canadian Armed Forces are delighted and humbled that the government of British Columbia has decided to honor those who have died as a result of their military service to Canada and the sacrifice of their loved ones who were left behind in such a meaningful way This Memorial Cross license plate will be a daily reminder of the sacrifices members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families make for their country And I welcome this thoughtful initiative speaker the medal itself used to be given to just mothers and widows But recent changes now allow Canadian Armed Forces personnel to designate up to three Memorial Cross recipients If three license plates were issued to each family, it wouldn't break the bank in Ontario My constituent Teresa Charbonneau lost his son 23 year old Andrew Grennan on the 3rd of September in 2008 while serving with the PPC Li in Afghanistan She deserves to have an Ontario Silver Cross license plate just like the parents in Saskatchewan and British Columbia I call in this liberal government to do the right thing and introduce these license plates Thank You speaker it's my pleasure to rise today as a member of Tunis, but I know Anna is as an immigrant who has born Who was born in China to acknowledge China's National Day on October 1st on Sunday I had an opportunity to accompany our Premier and the Consul General of People's Republic of China his Excellency her way and my colleagues the Honourable members from Scarborough Agent Court Scarborough Rouge River Toronto Danforth and the Chinese community leaders to raise the Chinese flag here at Queen's Park Mr. Speaker in the past five years our Premier Kathleen Wing has led two successful Delegations to China and she is going on her third Third one this coming November this government continues to strengthen the important relationship between this province and China On September 25th I had the opportunity to meet with the founder of Alibaba Mr. Jack Ma at the gate Gateway 17 conference More than 3,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs went to the conference to explore new partnership and opportunities in the Chinese market Prosperous trade relations between China and Ontario will continue to provide good-paying jobs and business opportunities for all Ontarians mr. Speaker this province will not have achieved so much in the past 150 years without the hard work of Chinese Ontarians Please join me to thank them all for what they've done for this province. Thank you Thank you Thank you speakers a proud graduate of Coniskill College a stand to recognize one of the province's Leading post-secondary institutions as they celebrate 50 years of equipping students in Warler region and beyond with the tools to open doors To a bright future and a role of opportunities Founded in 1967 Coniskill College is a leader in polytechnic education Offering education and training opportunities to directly serve and meet the needs of our labor market in meeting those needs Conestoga help students fuel our local economy as they grow roots work invest and raise families in our region's community almost half of our area's workforce 193,000 people have been educated at Coniskill College And of course I am proud to say I am one of those with over 13,000 students across eight campuses 65% of Coniskill graduates stay in the area contributing over $2.3 billion each year to our regional economy Coniskill College also offers opportunities for career growth of those re-entering the workforce or wanting to expand job skills through ongoing leadership and continuing education Coniskill College has had a hand in making Warler region the internationally renowned center of technology and innovation It is today with graduates going to work in local companies such as Blackberry, Christie Digital, Linnimar and Open Text to name a few Speaker we are indeed proud to have Coniskill College and Kitchener Conestoga And we congratulate them on a on this significant milestone of 50 years 50 years of providing an education to students locally and all over the World and 50 years of building communities and careers that help shape the future of our great province. Thank you so much, Mr Speaker and congratulations Member Stevens member from Niagara Falls. Thank you, Mr. Speaker today. I'd like to rise to recognize world teacher day On this day every year we celebrate the incredible work that our teachers do I know that a nagger we have some of the best teachers in the province And I'm proud to say that not only my wife is a teacher but also a principal for my two daughters Shantel's a teacher and Tara Works for the special needs kids at the Catholic School Board and Jacqueline is a student at Brock I want teachers to know that the tremendous amount of work and extra hours they put in doesn't go unnoticed They are not just employees of school boards. There are volunteers mentors counselors coaches and friends There's not many professions that have a profound impact on our community like teachers This is why it's so important as legislatures as MPPs We stand up for our teachers in this province with that being said teachers can only do so much with the resources They are given in Ontario. We have seen reduced class sizes resources Sweltering classrooms and violence violence in our schools We have teachers come into my office and tell us they've experienced violence from students and has had a devastating effect on their lives These are issues that must have take have action taken on them I know that my colleagues and I will continue to fight and bring awareness to issues facing teachers So we can assure that they are able to do the best job that they can for our children as we celebrate World Teachers Day We must ensure that every child in the province has the opportunity to get a good education. Thank you know that Well, sir for First Nations children to ensure that they have the same educational opportunities as all children in the province in terri Thank you There's for all across the province for a wonderful work. They do. Thank you You didn't hear me. Oh, I'm sorry, I should have been louder. Thank you Never statements the member from a Tobacco Center Thanks very much speaker speaker One of the things that makes a Tobacco Center such a wonderful community to live in is the people who work so hard who volunteer Who give their time their money to help make other people's lives better since I was elected speaker? I've carried on a yearly tradition of recognizing these people who made a positive difference in the lives of others In at my annual community recognition awards the awards are given to people living working or volunteering in a Tobacco Center Who may have made a real difference in the lives of other people in our community? The recipients recognize come from a range of ages speaker and they come from a range of backgrounds And they contribute in a range of ways from caring for seniors to engaging youth to volunteering in their parish And I'm pleased to announce that the nomination for the 12th annual community recognition awards are now open There are a number of categories to be nominated for outstanding volunteer service to the community outstanding volunteer service to seniors Outstanding volunteer service to the community by youth and outstanding service by professional staff employers or employees nominations could be submitted to my constituency office at<PHONE_NUMBER> or by emailing me and the deadline for submissions is November 15th So I encourage everyone watching to submit a nomination for someone in our community after we've collected the nominations a committee of volunteers will Select the recipients and I will have the opportunity to recognize these folks at the community recognition awards on January 14th During my annual New Year's levy. I'm honored to represent our community in a Tobacco Center. Honored that we have so many wonderful individuals Let's recognize them. Thank you. Thank you Remember from starting your life. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I Stand today to recognize that thanks to the work of members of this legislature this Monday October 9th We'll mark the first official pan-to-pans awareness day in Ontario pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections or pandas for short and pediatric acute onset Neuropsychiatric syndrome or pans are serious illness. They're impacting the lives of young children across our great province the pan-to-pans term refers to the sudden onset of debilitating symptoms including obsessive compulsive disorder ticks and Diabetes depressions irritability and regressive behavior and children that cannot be explained by any other neurological or medical disorder But that often occurs following a common strep infection Unfortunately, pan-to-pans is often misdiagnosed due to the lack of awareness both by the public and the medical community The treatment for pan-to-pans vary by the needs of the child that they do exist It may be as common as antibiotics or anti-inflammatory medications, but the condition must first be diagnosed correctly Mr.. Speaker's imperative there be greater public awareness of the serious children's disease recently I introduced bill 64 on this legislature calling on the government To strike an advisory council in pan-to-pans to advise the minister of health on research diagnosis treatment and Education relating to this disorder. It's my hope that the members of this house will support this important initiative in the back October 9th 2018 the advisory council will start its important work on this debilitating problem For their member statements the member from Ajax Pickering From Ajax Pickering. Thank you. Mr. Speaker Both Catholic and public school boards have been recipients of Ontario grown and Durham farm fresh grumptious apples for all Ajax and Pickering schools from Myself and our MPP team on our 10th MPP anniversary this very day of this very week I thank you for supporting us as your provincial member in the legislature, and I say thank you to each of you These apples are enjoyed by our principals all of the great teachers and all of the hard-working support staff This was completed with a personalized letter to each principal and their school on Tuesday and Wednesday and today of this week It has taken us a total of three days to deliver all of them Also this week in Ajax with our MPs 10th anniversary of personally distributing packages of dad's cookies Which are always delicious for a resident running to the GO train station first thing in the morning on the way to work or school This is a thank you to everyone. We started this morning at 5 45 a.m And we ran out about eight oh five after delivering some 3,500 packages of dad's cookies If you're from Ajax Pickering Whitby, Oshawa or for mr. Leal even Peterborough or anywhere else and caught the GO train station in In Ajax you received a special treat this morning Finally, I just wanted all of the Ajax Pickering schools Educators and staff to know how much they are appreciated and how much their efforts to educate our children are Truly appreciated. Thank you You're welcome You speaker college and university campuses across the material Continue to create communities that build and develop loving knowledge It's present in the classrooms from the contributions of students and certainly from the expertise of faculty members And in terials 21st century economy speaker both the public and private sectors are looking for the most effective means To apply this knowledge to the benefit of our local communities Partnerships between universities Colleges and local businesses have the greatest potential to develop these solutions in particular the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Trent Durham's campus in the city of Oshawa an Ambitious initiative to effectively apply the knowledge being developed on campuses is the city of Oshawa's teaching city speaker It combines the knowledge generating capacity of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and the civil engineering department at the University of Toronto to develop modern solutions to 21st century challenges Through this initiative Oshawa's workforce will be equipped speaker with adaptable skills necessary to tackle modern challenges If partnerships like Oshawa's teaching city continue to be fruitful There's no end to what Durham's local communities can achieve. Thank you speaker Thank you. Thank all members for their statements. It's there for now


As we celebrate Veterans Day here at PC-TVS, we honor and show gratitude to all of the veterans who have fought for and are still fighting for our country. There is no way to truly thank veterans for all they do and have done for our country and our families. They risked their lives to keep us protected, happy, and thriving as a nation. They signed their lives away, willing to leave their families, friends, loved ones, and way of life to ensure we get to keep ours. The sacrifices veterans made for us do not end on the battlefield or in boot camp. Their sacrifices are forever. We can never truly comprehend the effort and sacrifice our veterans have made in order to protect us Americans. In order to return the sacrifices our soldiers made for us and to express our gratitude for their service, it is crucial that we keep honoring their service through whatever means necessary. It's impossible to fully understand the work and sacrifice that veterans put in to keep Americans safe. We must continue to recognize their service through holidays, service, and stories. It's extremely important that future generations of Americans continue to recognize the importance of their service for the future. Our country takes many opportunities on Veterans Day to pay tribute to our veterans who sacrificed their lives for our country. Some examples of this are the many discounts they receive on items such as shopping, cars, and food. In addition to the free medical care and support from the Veterans Administration and countless ceremonies hosted throughout the year. Although as a country we have many opportunities and tools to help veterans, as a community we can always contribute more. Veterans come from all walks of life, but are brought together to defend the United States, its people, and the values we all cherish. Despite other risks, Americans still continue to notice in the military. For them, the protection of America always comes first. They will do anything to protect our country and its citizens. They use immense courage and bravery to overcome the risks ensuring our country is in good hands. The sacrifices our veterans have made are great and heroic. Not everyone is willing to put their life on the line for others. This sacrifice deserves honor, and we as U.S. citizens must reflect on whether we have honored our veterans in a way that is meaningful. They gave much more to us than we could ever give to them. For our veterans, it is a service in spirit that started with the vigor of the revolutionary soldiers fighting for their and every American's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that has carried on with every veteran from the Civil War to Afghanistan. It is with humility they sacrificed and continue to sacrifice to give us the rights and privileges we so greatly cherish and should not take for granted. Veterans have sacrificed their lives for our country. Without their sacrifices, we wouldn't be able to enjoy the freedom and safety we do today. I feel many Americans overlook this and don't truly understand how much veterans have done for us and our country. Even after veterans come home, they still face difficulties. One of the major effects of combat is PTSD, or it is known to some, shell shock. PTSD can cause fear and anxiety in veterans and can cause them to relive traumatic events from their time as a soldier. PTSD affects not only a soldier, but their family and friends too. Veterans deserve to be honored every day, even if it is something small like thanking any veteran you see throughout your day. They were brave enough to go into combat so we could continue to live comfortably. We honor and express our gratitude to all veterans who have fought for and are still fighting for our country as we observe Veterans Day. We will never forget the sacrifices they made for us in order to ensure a better future for everyone. Today and every day, we here at PCTBS honor and thank our veterans for their service and sacrifice. They are among America's best. Our nation continues to be the home of the free because of the brave.


Hello! This video walks through a simple demo of the Topics API. I'll show you how Topics inference and calculation works, and how to try out the Topics machine learning model. Now, if you haven't heard of it before, Topics is a privacy sandbox proposal to allow interest-based advertising without resorting to tracking the site's user visits. As a user visits websites, the browser on the user's device infers topics of interest. And to find out more, take a look at the topics overview on developer.chrome.com. And this video will make more sense if you have a basic knowledge of the Topics API, so if you don't know much about it, you might want to read that article first. Now, once you've done that, you can also learn more about how to experiment and participate. So, first up, I'll show you the Topics API in action. Now, I'm actually going to run through a few different things. The Topics taxonomy, a demo of the API, and then a quick peek at Chrome Topics internals, which can help with debugging and understanding how topics are inferred from host names. And finally, I'll take a closer look at the Topics model using the Topics Colab. So, the Topics API selects topics of interest to the user from an advertising taxonomy. Now, you can view that taxonomy on the repo for the Topics explainer. There are currently 349 topics and subtopics. As you may know, the goal is that the Topics taxonomy becomes a resource maintained by trusted contributors, incorporating feedback from across the industry. So, the Topics taxonomy is not a fixed list, and you know, it's going to evolve. We've built a very simple demo of the Topics API at topicsdemo.glitch.me. To access the demo, you'll need to run Chrome from the command line with flags. Now, the flags required for the demo are shown on the demo page. And the Topics article explains what the flags mean. For testing its scale, you should take part in the Privacy Sandbox origin trial. But for a single user, you can activate the APIs using flags. And I'll do that for the demo. Now, one obvious thing to suggest, you know, if you're regularly running a browser from the command line with flags, set an alias for the command and add that alias to your terminal RC file. The example here means I can run Chrome beta with flags to open the Topics demo using the command TB as a shortcut. I have similar shortcuts for Canary and Stable. So, let's see how that works. I'm opening Chrome beta with those command line flags from my terminal using the alias, just like I was mentioning. Now, let's take a look at the Chrome version page to check that Chrome is running with the flags we set, as expected. One thing to bear in mind is that Chrome flag settings can interfere with command line settings. Now, if you remember, I set the epoch length to 15 seconds with the flags. If you enable Privacy Sandbox adds APIs from Chrome flags, that can override that setting with the default, which is one week.  Anyway, all looks good here. So, let's take a look at the code for the demo, which is hosted on the Glitch platform. Now, you'll see in the Observe directory, there's a page that includes a JavaScript file that calls the method document.browsingtopics. This page will be in an iframe embedded on other sites to observe topics. So, let's go through the code. First up, we check if the API is supported and available. Now, I'll run these checks in the console, just so you can see the results. We also check permissions policy, and if the document object has permission to run the browsing topics method. Likewise, I'll show that in the console and show you the result. You should always do feature detection, of course, before attempting to access an experimental feature, but be aware that feature support doesn't guarantee that the feature is available. User settings or, you know, other factors may mean that a feature isn't available. Now, as you can see, this code calls document.browsingtopics, and calling that method causes the browser to record topics inferred for the hostname of the current top-level web page. So, for any page the user visits that includes this page in an iframe, the browser will record the topics it observes for the hostname of that page. Now, the return value of the method is a promise that resolves to an array of topics. So, let's go to a site that embeds this iframe. This is called cats-cats-cats-cats.glitch-me. You know, I know the domain name is a bit over the top, but just imagine that this is any site whose hostname tells the topics API something about potential topics of interest. Let's look at the page source. You can see from the code that this page embeds the iframe from topicsdemo.glitch.me. Now, if a user visits a site with a hostname with cats in it, well, you'd expect the topics API to select cats or, you know, something related to cats as a topic of interest. You can see examples of possible topics of interest in the taxonomy. So, just to reiterate, the code in the iframe causes the browser for each user on their device to record a topic observation for any site that embeds it. Now, we can view the demo home page to see how that looks over time. The page displays topics observed for the current user on sites that embed the iframe we just saw. Now, of course, in the real world, the topics of interest for the current user would be accessed in JavaScript, running in an adtech iframe as a signal to help select relevant ads. So, I'm going to have a look at the code in Chrome DevTools. First, let's see the HTML for the page. Now, as you can see, the page includes two JavaScript files. One file defines a taxonomy object that matches topic numbers returned by a document.browsing topics with topic names from the taxonomy. And this page also includes a JavaScript file that runs code to display topics for the current user. You'll see that this file includes the taxonomy object from taxonomy.js. So, first, the code gets the array of objects that represent the topics observed for the current user. Each object in the array has a topic property, which is actually the number of the topic in the taxonomy. For each of the topics returned by the call to document.browsing topics, the code then gets the topic name given the topic number. And these topic names are collected in the returned topics array. Next, there's some code to avoid displaying topics repeatedly. And finally, the topics are displayed. This code is run every second. So, let's see that in action. Side by side, I'll keep the demo page open and see what topics are observed by the origin topics demo.glitch me for, you know, when I browse sites that include an iframe that runs code from the same origin to observe topics. So, I'm going to visit a few more pet-related sites that embed the iframe to observe topics. If the topics API is working as intended, you know, it should observe my interest in cats. And after a while, you'll see topics begin to appear in the logging div on the demo page. We'll need to wait a minute or two for topics to start being observed. And as expected, there may be some random topics showing up as well. Now, remember that I've set the epoch length to 15 seconds rather than the default of one week. So, let's take a look at what's going on from Chrome topics internals. First, let's check that the flags I set worked as expected. And everything looks good. Now, probably the main thing to notice is, again, epoch length, the interval between topics calculation. And you'll see that the value is 15 seconds, just as I said it from flags. Now, let's move to the topics state tab. Here you can see the top topics observed for the current user. Sites I visited recently, including the following, cats, cats, cats, don't glitch me, dogs, pets, animals, don't glitch me, and so on. Now, this caused the topics API to select pets, pets and animals and cats as the top topics for the current epoch. The remaining topics have been chosen at random since there is not enough browsing history on sites that observe topics to provide five topics. Remember also that Chrome selects one topic at random from the top five sites, but also with a 5% chance that a completely random topic is chosen. The observed by context domains hashed column provides the hashed value of a host name for which a topic was observed. You can also use the topics classifier tool here to view the topics inferred for host names. I'll add some sites here to show you just what I mean. Just remember that the current implementation of the topics API infers topics from host names only, including subnomains, but not any other part of a URL. Now, bear in mind that this approach is in testing and not final. The requirement, of course, is to balance privacy and utility. So topics of interest for the top 10,000 sites are actually manually curated, and beyond that, Chrome uses a classifier model, running on the user's device to infer topics from host names. So let's look at that model now. A file representing the TensorFlow Lite model used to infer topics is downloaded by Chrome so it can be used locally on your device. The model file is in an efficient portable format known as flat buffers, and that uses the TF Lite extension. You can actually get the file path for the model file from the Chrome topics internal page. And Chrome engineers have built what's called a co-lab for topics, which is a data analysis tool that combines code and output and then some descriptive text into a collaborative document. You can load the TF Lite model file into the co-lab, and then use that for experimentation. So let's do that now. On the co-lab page, click on the folder icon. You can actually run all the steps at once, but I'm going to go through each step one at a time. So first, you need to install the Python packages used by the co-lab. By the way, for each step in the co-lab, you'll see a green tick if all goes well. So next, install the TF Lite libraries and the topics taxonomy. And finally, you can run the model execution demo. For each of the domains defined, you can see the topics inferred by the classifier. So let's see what happens when we change the domains. Not bad. So that's it for the topics demo. To find out more about topics, check out our article on developer.chrome.com. You can learn more about TensorFlow Lite. And of course, the demo is at topics-demo.glitch.me. If you have comments about the API design, file an issue on the explainer. If you have feedback or questions about the demo, or any questions about using the API, file an issue on our dev support repo. Or you can just message me on Twitter. So thanks for watching, and be sure to check out the other videos in our Privacy Sandbox series.


How has listening to the customer played a role in the design and development of Spring Health? Well, it's a basic principle that I learned the hard way when I started working with people who were poor, but mentally ill. That was in the 22 years I spent as a psychiatrist. And it totally changed my way of thinking about people with so-called psychiatric symptoms and how they might benefit and other families might benefit. So when I started treating them as real people and respecting them and learning from them, it changed how we provided mental health services and, in fact, we learned that people who were chronically mentally ill, maybe they'd been hospitalized for diagnosed mental illness four or five times, they responded more to an improvement in their poverty status, in their income level, in their self-respect than any formal psychiatric therapy we could think of. So I started doing basic income and self-respect strategies for the chronically mentally ill. And then I realized very quickly that people who were considered chronically mentally ill and very poor in Denver, Colorado, maybe were living on 500, 600 bucks a month, but there were people in Bangladesh living on less than 30 bucks a month. How the heck did these principles apply? So I started talking to the people there, and one thing led to another. But the whole approach is based on learning their preferences, interests, motivations. And I'm amazed at what interesting people they are and how much can be learned from them. So there's been a bit of a tendency by charity programs to regard the people who are helped by the charity as poor people who don't know any better and they can't think for themselves. That's a bit of a stereotype, but when you start to talk to them and their families as real people and have some respect for them, all of a sudden your approach to what they need changes and when they have to, on their part, belly up to the bar and pay for what you're offering, then they'll tell you what's wrong with what you're selling and you have to change it to suit them in order to meet their needs. So it just transformed the whole relationship.


Advanced materials have been developed from traditional materials through the application of architecture design principles inspired by nature. This has led to the development of materials with improved properties, such as increased strength, toughness, and unique functional characteristics. These advances have been achieved through the optimization of structural parameters and the coupling of multiple structures. Additionally, the use of bionic structures derived from biology has enabled further improvements in material performance. The synergistic effects of these designs have resulted in materials with superior properties, making them more competitive in the marketplace. However, there remain significant challenges and opportunities for further improvement in the structural innovation of advanced materials. This article was authored by Han Qingdai, Wen Qingdai, Zhehu, and others.


Barclay welcome to TFNN. Hey Tom, how are you doing? I'm doing great. Well listen we appreciate you coming on You know we know The Bank of the Ozarks does so much for communities across the country and let me so let me let me ask you Frisa Is is Bank of the Ozarks a community bank a regional bank? Where is that get placed? That's a great question. So about three years ago. We rebranded ourselves Bank OZK So it pays homage to what we were Bank of the Ozarks But it's really more characteristic of the fact that we are a regional and national bank I would say we're in the top 50 US banks mostly in the southeast But we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. Yes, and folks they trade under the ticket OZK They take in a billion dollars a year Bottom line is that each and every day we all deal with banks of course across the United States You know when you when we're dealing with banks specifically What should folks know? I mean, I know that you know, you do great work in St. Petersburg I can see it. I'm sure there's people right across the country that see, you know, we're small business Okay, when you when you're dealing with a small business You know, you don't you can't use the the monster banks because you're you get pushed to the side bottom line Tell me like when folks are coming in you got entrepreneurs coming into the bank What should they be paid for when they want to do business when I sit when I'm saying what I want to do business is that yes We open accounts and all that but let's say that they they want to Build a business. They want to build houses. They want to build An own business. What should the folks have when they're coming into the bank? Yeah, that's a great question Tom I think you know when you have a Medium-sized or regional bank you kind of have an intersection in the middle to quote your phrase You're not quite a monster bank, but you have more power and more technology Then you know say very small community bank with just a couple of locations You kind of fit the best of both worlds I think that's where you know our bank is at and you know for someone who wants to because that's what we like to do We like to build and grow our community I think having a relationship with a banker is important not the bank and so to know the Individuals and for them to be for that for your banker to be able to call Decision-makers and make things happen. I think is is somewhat of a lost art and it's it's in this highly Competitive technologically driven world. It's it's really a relationship that you need There's no doubt and folks as you're watching Tiger TV I know that you know a couple weeks ago We had one of the founders of the fairgrounds on and you can see this picture up here And this is so cool folks because you can see finance provided by Bank OZK You know, it's pretty it's pretty impressive. Barclay that All of us no matter where someone's listening right now. We have small communities. We do want to build them all And you the crucial part is that you know, like let's say if I go back 20 well if I go back 30 years ago, unfortunately Okay, we did have more relationships like this. So The the culture of your bank. This is a different culture folks Can you explain that the culture and that how you reach out to the community because folks? I do business number one with OZK and let me tell you the story folks You you may not know this Barclay. I changed so pitch this I had a relationship with Wells Fargo for 25 years and on the PPP They could care less about anything and I'm talking about millions of dollars that went through those accounts And it was like okay when this thing is over and I don't think I I says I'm changing everything so so If you because your culture is so cool. So tell us about your culture a little so when folks are in different states They can understand why did they may want to do business with you? Sure? I think there's a couple factors there Tom number one We're told to get out and to see the community and to know the community both Volunteering and and building up the community but also getting out and to know the business leaders Literally driving around finding out what's going on in the market I think you'll find from both the large loans that we do and the small loans that generally comes from Knowing the market and knowing the folks doing cool things entrepreneurs people involved in real estate I think also we have just a really cool culture, you know, we have an in-house Financial technology fintech lab located in St. Pete There's I think around 50 software engineers that are doing really cool things, you know to make the bank both banker-facing and customer-facing more competitive and to You know thrive in the 21st century. That's that's pretty cool, man That's that's it's amazing. So when we do let's let's bit. Let's pitch it that you get the aspect that You have to small business. We want to do business. Well, let's say that someone wants to build a house The bottom line is that they're new in the business and we've talked about this They're new in the business The bottom line is that I guess they'd want as much Documentation as they could get before they're walking into the bank, right? That's correct. You'd want to have I always tell people when when you're doing something Sophisticated like building you want to have a conversation with your banker You want to have a conversation with your CPA and you want to have a conversation with your attorney So that you get all three levels of advice from all of them because they're probably each going to see things Slightly differently and it's important for them, especially your CPA to know what your plans are two or three years out in the future That's you know, always a challenge is having those documents where we can lend, you know Underwriting standards are very good. They're they're strong given what happened, you know, 12 years ago And you know, I you know it too that what's happening in the Tampa Bay area and in Florida in general We are just very bullish on what's happening in the economy specifically residential real estate. Yeah It's pretty amazing. So inside of the the the aspect that that we have the bank We're growing out communities talk to me about a bit about because you just brought this up and folks This is so cool because this did happen 30 years ago that you are involved on the community because you're building out a Neighborhood so tell us how the bank helps neighborhoods get built out Well, we finance real estate. We finance people who are investing in real estate building real estate, you know Simple things like building a single-family home for yourself or for someone else, but also building, you know Town homes for sale condos for sale things of that nature. We also help nonprofits we have a lot of nonprofit clients who rely on the bank for their needs and That's not just Financing and deposits. It's also time, you know We encourage our employees highly encourage them to serve on boards to volunteer their time and all of this kind of Circles back to knowing your your market knowing your neighbor and it also does good in the community Well, listen, I I appreciate What you do for St. Pete the Tampa area in a big way Appreciate the education and absolutely. I folks the of course, it's the bank of the OZK The website is the exact same OZK.com Barclay, you have a great one safe one. And of course we look forward to having you back on again Tom, thank you so much. Take care. Thank you. Appreciate it


What's going on guys?   I'm sure I just have Pokemon Pop on my screen.   I don't know.  There's no water by me. Apart from the sweat on my head because it is hot here in the UK. That's why I'm wearing this while I always wear it best. You guys know what it is. It's hot here in the UK. Now basically making this video because if you guys want to see me do V-Logs, live V-Logs, I will.  Can't be walking the street like that. I need some small compact with a great battery life. It should be honest I need a new camera anyway. So I'm going to buy one but if you guys do want to see V-Logs let me know down below in that comment section and drop a like. I do appreciate the support. Now this Pokemon Go video, I was basically doing it to showcase you my first two hatched Pokemon. I mean two 10 kilometre Pokemon. I mean yesterday I went walking with what's in miles. I got home, sat down and I was both and I'm 9.9 out of 10 kilometres.  I'll do the rest tomorrow. At 0.1 I ain't walking around my house. I'm sitting down and I'm playing Destiny, Iron Banner. I ain't doing nothing else. But they hatched today.  I come onto my game. I thought my two eggs, a gun, disappeared but they're there. I just can't believe it and what I got is unbelievable now. Let me just quickly.   I'm not even going to lie. I thought well I've done all that shit and I've just lost two. What could be two great Pokemon? Now I'm only a level 12 at this current moment in time. Nothing big, nothing major, nothing spectacular. But I've only recently started playing it hardcore. I mean like the first few days it's come out in the UK. I didn't really move. I mean but yesterday and the day before I was walking around Birmingham City Centre for hours. Because the amount of poker stuff that I'm in City Centre is unbelievable.  Which I may even do because like I said I plan on playing this game for quite a while.  I thought I was going to get some great great shit because you can see my top CP Pokemon are the Hypno, the Pidgeot, Jinx and Arcanine which is probably the best one I've actually caught which I haven't evolved. But you can see basically Max is about 500 to 600 CP. Now you want to do two that hatched without even me even knowing they had hatched thinking they disappeared. Look at this. Forget the Pidgeot because that's one I recently just caught. But look at that. I can't even pronounce that.  And Chansey. These are the two I got out at 10 kilometre. 10 kilometre eggs. Them two there. I didn't have them. So they were new to my poker decks. But I was expecting something great because I've got a guide on the ones you can get up on screen. Now I think this is a legit guide. I'm not certain it was sent to me on Twitter.   I mean this was any other app, any other game. I probably stopped playing it because I'm like that but because it's Pokemon and I love Pokemon and Pokemon was my childhood.  If you guys want to see a video on that probably in the next V-Log if you guys want to see V-Logs I will show you guys it. But I've also now I've started incubating three more eggs. I've got one 10k, 10 kilometre and two five kilometre eggs. But I haven't moved. I don't know how it's got to 0.2 but still that's pretty good. Now I'll show you guys my Pokemon first. What I've got from bottom to top. Nothing great to be honest. I started off with Charmander. I was going to do the Pikachu thingy thingy where he waited four times. I don't know. But I like Charmander and I'll catch a high level Pikachu sooner or later. So yes my Charmander is what I started with. I've got Squirtle as well but I haven't got a Bulbasaur. I haven't even seen a Bulbasaur I don't think. I've got some decent Pokemon. Nothing great. I haven't fought a my first Gym yet which I will do. Let me put these in order of HP. I'm a Pidgeotster. Highest at a 578. My Hypno is like a 542. Then I've got another Hypno which is a 477. Then they got a Jinx which is just like Ezenel in a wig. Sick. But yeah. I haven't got great great Pokemon yet but still like I said I plan on playing this for quite a while so hopefully.    But I just can't believe what it is. I think it could be because I think I was about a level four or five. Actually it could be a six when I started incubating them eggs. I think it could be the level of Pokemon at the time of actually my average of my top Pokemon at that time of starting incubation. I think that could be why they come out at such a low level. But it is what it is. I ain't gonna complain much more about it. I am slightly gutted but oh wow. And I'll show you guys my Pokedex. Now don't get this twisted. I've caught 49 of the 56 I've seen but that's seven. Them seven have glitched on me. I mean like I haven't had a Pokemon disappear. Well actually I will take that back. I've had one. Like you know it vanishes. It puffs the smoke and vanishes off the screen. I've had that happen once. But excuse me still got a bit of a flu. But the rest they're just like the game glitching normally. You're catching them.  That's happened. So I've missed out on a couple here. You can see I've got a hunt today which I missed out on. I think that could be a king of right there. A wheezing. I was gutted but still can't really complain.  I'm like you must have some great internet connection or some great GPS signal. But yeah. Guys if you want to see more Pokemon Go Vlogs. Me walking the streets. Walking through parks. Driving to places.  Just let me know down below in that comments section. Now my house. There's nothing spawns near my house. I mean I literally have to go walk to the top of my garden. To even see anything. Now what's in this Pokemon gym here. This is the park round by my house. I mean like what's that. Let me move that away. 644 Hypno. Oh he's just took. I'm sure he's just took over that gym. I'm sure he has. That's that's that's yeah. I picked Team Mystic. I should have chose Team Velo. Because all like the people we go walking. Pokemon Go hunting with our all team fellow. So we could all fight gyms together and add our Pokemon to that gym together. But maybe in a scrub I chose Team Mystic. But Team Mystic for life now. It is what it is. And yes guys that's about it for my first kind of Pokemon Go Velo video. If you guys do want to see more Velo's let me know down below in that comments section. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. Do drop a like. I'd appreciate the support. Thanks as always for stopping by and I'll catch you on that next one. Peace out until next time. Peace.


Hello, people in Poitiers, I'm very happy to be here virtually to share with you some thoughts around our work in Taiwan. How do you use technology to improve citizens' lives? Tell us about your role or organization. My role in the cabinet is the digital minister. I am in charge of the public digital innovation space at digital service at a national level. We're automating away a lot of those chores that the public servants are doing in order to make large-scale participation possible. I'm erratically transparent digital minister. By that, I mean that journalists, lobbyists, and everybody gets to ask me questions, but only publicly. If I get questions from a private email, I will ask if it's okay to give my answers publicly. If not, I just give them links to what my previous statements are. And this applies not just to the lobbyists and journalists, but also internal meetings. For all of the hundreds of internal meetings that I have had since I became digital minister, everything was transcribed. There are written records for everything everybody said during those meetings which are published online. The effect of this is very surprising. The bureaucrats actually become very innovative and risk-taking and propose some very good ideas under this condition. That's because previously, before I introduced this kind of radical transparency, they would get a blame if things go wrong and the minister would get a credit if things go right. Now with this completely accountable record, if things go right, they get a credit because their name is on the transcript. What has been the most exciting thing that you worked on in 2017? Every Wednesday, I work outside of the administration in a local social innovation lab here in Taipei. My office hours are 10 am to 10 pm. Anyone can come to me and say, hey, we're solving a local sustainable development issue. We're running into this regulation problem and so on. In a week, because everything is transcribed, they will receive a written response from any ministry that is related to their cause to try to solve the problem. It is easier for the minister to work with the social enterprises and NGOs because their missions are aligned with the government in order to solve social issues. It's much harder for any purely for-profit company to get treatments like this. I also tour every other Tuesday to all the four different regional offices in Taiwan to have a high bandwidth connection to the Taipei social innovation lab. We're also setting up 360 and virtual reality live streaming. All the eight ministries related to social enterprise as well as many others are sitting in a Taipei office while it's connected to the four different regional centers. The different regional center social enterprises, the innovators, they gather around me, but it's just me who travel. Everybody else can remain Taipei, but we still have a very good video conference and transcription that makes it very easy to see the local problems being surfaced and being resolved in a very quick fashion because all the related eight or nine ministries are there. Once the people solve it, the other unrelated ministries also understand, okay, so this problem is to be resolved in this kind of way. What tool or technique particularly interests you for 2018? We are now actively experimenting using AI as co-facilitators in collaborative meetings. It is our priority to support all people in participating fully and freely. In 2017, we have utilized AI to provide full remote participation for large groups of participants and we're now taking the platform to a next level by bringing participants into a shared reality environment complete with real-time captioning in an immersive environment. In 2018, we look forward to welcoming people with different learning inclinations to participate and contribute freely in the ways that they are most comfortable. We believe that by using technology creatively, humanity can facilitate deep and fair conversations, form collective consensus, and deliver solutions that we can all live with. If you were to share one piece of advice that you learned in 2017, what would it be? I'm building and rebuilding trust among people. There is every reason for citizens to mistrust the government. I think it's mostly not because the government has done anything wrong, but because the social media and a new generation of digital technologies that makes the civil society much closer to each other. Because trust is bi-directional, if the public service is willing to trust people first, then eventually they will trust back, because just how human nature works. It doesn't work the other way around though. We cannot say we should do nothing and have the citizens trust us. That would be fascism. I think what we really need is to trust the public conditionlessly. And to do so, civil servants can also use the same kind of social technologies to build solidarity across ministries in the administration itself and basically cultivate a digital solidarity. To demand the national government to offer working conditions that doesn't treat them as machines, as paper pushers, but actually improve the workforce. And once civil servants adopt this attitude, they will be seen as authentic allies in this project to make everybody trust each other more. Not as faceless people serving in a civil service. What was the greatest challenge that you overcame in 2017? We had an e-petition platform as a way for people to participate. It was like the We the People platform in the U.S. It did not receive much attention because for cross-ministering issues, people would get those very blind, very bureaucratic answers that doesn't really solve their problems but just explains why they can't do much about it. After I became the digital minister, we asked each ministry to send a team, at least one person, to serve as participation officers. We assembled this virtual team of 50 people online using rocket chat and other tools for online engagement. And so now in Taiwan, when people start a petition, they know that instead of receiving just a beautiful response they will actually get to meet with all the relevant ministries. In Taipei, or we will travel to those rural areas and islands if they're petitioning for local development. We solve a lot of very interesting problems like this, such as redesigning our text filing experience together with petitioners without exposing any public servant to risk. So we relieved their fear, their uncertainty and doubt around civic participation. What book did you read in 2017 that most interested or inspired you? The philosopher Martha Nussbaum's new book, Anger and Forgiveness, was instrumental in shaping my understanding of the ongoing transitional justice process that people in Taiwan are going through. Who inspired you in 2017 and why? I'm inspired by the participants at a personal democracy forum in New York City as they converge on this inspirational consensus statement on the AI-facilitated online conversation polis in real time during my talk. We need to listen to people with opposing views to find the values we share.