Hello and welcome to this session in which we would look at an exercise or a CPA simulation that deals with an investment that's considered available for sale investment. This topic is challenging for many reasons because when we are dealing with investments, we have to be aware whether we are dealing with a debt investment versus equity and the rules has recently changes between debt and equity. Therefore, if we are dealing with available for sale, it's only for debt. No longer available for sale investments can be considered an equity investment can be can be considered available for sale. And the other thing about available for sale that we need to be aware of available for sale investments, all the adjustments goes on the balance sheet into OCI other comprehensive income. And this creates some difficulties and confusion for students. So I hope this exercise will help you understand this topic in a sense that you can deal with it if you are faced with it on the CPA exam, or for understanding purposes for your intermediate accounting course. Now, if you are a CPA candidate or an accounting student, I strongly suggest you take a look at my website, farhatlectures.com. I don't replace your CPA review course. So if you're studying for your CPA, that's fine. That's great. What I provide is alternative explanation or a backup system or a supplemental information that's going to be useful addition to your CPA review course. I will help add 10 to 15 points to your CPA exam score by helping you understand the material differently. This way you can use your CPA review course better, increase your grade and pass your exam. Your risk is one month of subscription, your potential gain is passing the exam. And if not for anything, take a look at my website to find out how well or not well your university doing on the CPA exam. I do have resources for other accounting courses as well. Connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so. Please like this recording. Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. So let's take a look at this exercise where we have to prepare journal entries. And part of the CPA exam is you have to prepare journal entries or you could this exercise could be giving in a form of an exercise. So Aram company purchased 1.2 million of Abbey's ink bond, 8% bond at par on July 1st, 2021 with interest paid summary annually. Okay, let's start with this one. Let's record the purchase. Well, we purchase bond. It's an investment. Well, it's an investment in bond, credit cash 1.2 million.  When you purchase something, you purchase it at cost. You record it at cost and the cost is 1.2 million. Now, this investment pays interest semi annually. Well, six months later, we're going to have to pay interest. Well, when we receive the interest, we have to compute the amount of the interest. And simply put, you have to know how to do this, whether you are dealing with investments or whether you are dealing with bonds on the CPA exam. And that's the face value of the bond, 1.2 million times the stated value times the stated value times one half, because this bond pays interest semi annually. So every six months, this bond pays interest of 48,000. That's good enough. I'm going to receive cash of 48. I'm going to credit interest revenue 48. And that's the adjusted. That's the entry that I will make on December 31st. Now, I have to make an adjustment at the end of the year. Now, I need more information. I have to know, how is Adam accounting for this investment? Because it's a debt investment. That investment could be trading securities, could be available for sale, or could be held to maturity. So now, we are told that Adam accounts for this investment as available for sale. So they chose to account for it available for sale. Well, now I need to make the appropriate adjustment. Now, at December 31st, the AV bonds had a value of 1,420. That's good. So we stop right there. I need to make an adjustment. I need to adjust my investment to fair market. And guess what? This investment went up by 220,000. Well, how do I make my fair value adjustment? Now, if you're not familiar with this, you have to be very extremely 100% comfortable with fair value adjustment. If you're not, this is what I suggest you go farhatlectures.com, where I have this information in explain in detail for students. So we have a fair value adjustment account, and we have an account called the corresponding account, unrealized holding gain slash losses, you have to be very careful OCI, other comprehensive income. So the gain and the losses from this available for sale investment will stay on the balance sheet. So this is a balance sheet account. And this is a balance sheet account for that matter. It stays on the balance sheet. Now, I have a gain. Well, when I have a gain, it means I have to have a balance in my fair value of the gain. And the gain is 220,000. So I need to have a gain. I need to have a debit balance. I need to have a debit balance of 220. Well, I don't have any prior balance zero. Well, it means my entry has to be I debit fair value adjustment 220. And I credit a corresponding gain of 220. Therefore, by the end of 2021, this is my balance fair value adjustment 220 gain, unrealized, I call it unrealized, but it's really unrealized gain on investment unrealized right there. It's unrealized and it goes into OCI. It's important. This is the trick. The trick is to remember this is OCI. This is a balance sheet. This is not net income gain. This is not realized on the income statement. It means it's going to stay with you in future years. When you sell the investment, you have to account for this. Okay, so that's why it's extremely important that you understand OCI available for sale adjustments goes into OCI. OCI is a balance sheet account. Therefore, it doesn't get closed. It stays with you from year to year. So we practically finish for year 2021. We purchase the investment, we receive the, we receive the interest revenue, we prepare our adjustments. So far, so good. Now we sold this investments on July 1st. On July 1st. I'm sorry. We sold it on July. Yes, we sold it on July 1st for 1 million, 1 million and 80,000. Now before July 1st, we did receive some cash because this investment pays interest summa annually. So before we received it, we on July 30th, we received the cash, the same amount of cash. Therefore, July 30th, again, debit cash, credit interest revenue. Okay. And this obviously, this goes to the income statement. Interest revenue goes into net income. I didn't say this. Well, obviously it should be implied in the year. Good. Now we sold this investment on July 1st, which is we received the interest. We said, okay, we got two payment of interest. It's time to sell this investment. Actually what happened by that time, the bond is valued at 1 million and 80,000. What 1 million and 80,000. What do we have to do when we sell this investment? Well, before we sell it, we have to adjust our fair value account. We have to adjust our fair value account. Now we have a loss. So think of it this way. I usually use, when I explain this, I use a number line. Okay. This is zero. At the end of 2021, we were positive. We were positive. We were positive. We were positive. 220,000 on this bond gain. Now, six months later, we are negative. We are negative. The loss is 120,000. So we're going to be moving 340 units to the left. We're moving to the left. And every time we, to the left, it means it's worse than the prior era. Every time we move to the right, it's better than the prior period. We're moving to the left. And this is how I explain fair value adjustments. So if you want to go to Farhat Lectures to find it in the tails. What does that mean? It means we have to make an adjustment. In other words, I have to have in my fair value a balance of 120,000 as a balance because now I'm at a loss of 120. So what's my entry? What's my adjusting entry? I'm going to have to credit 340,000 debit loss, a debit unrealized holding gain loss, 340,000. What happened as a result? As a result now, my balance and fair value is 120. My balance and the unrealized loss is 120. And this is exactly what I have the minute before I sell this investment. So I have to do the fair value adjustment. Therefore, the entry is debit loss on investment, which is this one here, and credit fair value adjustment, this one here. And now my, I still have a balance 120 and 120 in each one of them, in each one of them. Okay, now I'm selling the investment. I'm selling the investment. Once I sell the investment, remember, once I sell the investment, the gain or the loss has to go on the balance, on the income statement, because the gain or the loss is realized. Obviously, I have a loss. Now, but I still have a loss in the balance sheet and 120,000 in fair value. What do I have to do now before I sell the investment and book my actual loss? I have to get this loss away, basically close this. So how do I close it? I debit fair value to make fair value go down to zero. Now fair value equal to zero. Okay, this is the debit. And I credit this to reclassification OCI, and make this goes, basically I close these accounts against each other in a sense. And this is, I don't know, it doesn't matter where you want to put the debit or the credit zero. This is zero. So basically, the fair value on the unrealized holding gain or loss, thank you very much. You performed your purpose, you kept us up to date about our account. But now thank you very much. We're selling the investment. Therefore, we have to take out anything that we put in you, which is the 220, which is the 120, now we just, we get rid of them. Okay, so we adjust the value of the investment, then since we're selling it, we get rid of both of these accounts, basically. Now we sell it. We sold it for $1,080,000. Start with cash. We debit cash $1,080,000. We're going to compare the $1,080,000 to the cost of $1.2 million because we did not recognize any of this loss on the income statement. What's the loss? The loss, the total loss is $120,000. Therefore, I debit cash $1,080,000. I debit my loss $120,000. And I remove my investment. My investment is gone. My investment is gone. $120,000, $1.2 million. I have to remove it. I have to remove it. Now let's take a look at what really happened over the years. If I ask you, if I ask you, what is, what is net income? What happened to net income or on the income statement in year 2021? So in year 2021, we had those three entries. The only thing that happened in year 2021 is we have interest revenue of $48,000. What happened to net income in year 2022? Well in year 2022, this area here, I had $48,000 of income of interest revenue on the income. This is a plus and I had this loss, 48 minus 20, 48,000 plus 20 minus, I'm sorry, not 20, 120 minus because let's see, fair value interest. And so those are the two income statement accounts. So we have to net them out. So if you were to ask what happened on the income statement, well 48 plus investment minus, what's the difference between them? Let's get the calculator. So if I take 48,000 plus minus 120, which is the loss, the difference is overall, I had a loss in year 2022, a loss of negative $72,000. Simply put, a loss on the income statement in a sense that the net amount is a loss of negative $72,000. Now let's see if I ask you, what is the effect on OCI in year 2021? Well OCI had a gain in year 2021 of $220,000. What is the effect on OCI? So let me just, yeah, let me just, just, just want to make sure. Yes. So, so yeah, what's the effect on OCI on 2021? This is 20, sorry, 2021, we did it. Let's assume what's the effect on 2022. 2022 OCI, we had $340,000, a loss, and we removed this, we removed 120 of it plus 120. The effect, the total loss is $220,000 on OCI. Simply put, this gain was removed. That's, that's exactly what happened. We had, we had a gain by 2022, the gain is gone, 220 and 220. Basically, the gain is gone. Okay. So in a sense, those two, they, and I showed you in the entry, they cancel each other out. Notice fair value and unrealized holding gain or loss, they cancel each other out. So this is the effect on, on OCI. Okay. So you have to understand the effect on OCI overall, and the effect on net income because you have to understand OCI is a balance sheet, balance sheet. You need to know which one has balance sheet and the only income is net income here. The reason I'm doing this is because the, the, on the CPA exam, they could ask you, what is the effect on the particular financial statement? You have to know the effect on a particular financial statement. Okay. The overall effect is a loss on this investment. What does that mean? Well, given everything, we experienced a loss for this asset, for this investment. Why? Well, think about it. What's the total loss? If you really want to know, what's the total loss? We bought this investment, 1.2 million. It gave us 48,000 in interest revenue. It gave us 48,000 in interest revenue. Then what's 48 plus 48. So we were happy with the, we were happy with the interest revenue, 48,000 plus 48,000. That's 96,000. Then here comes the loss when we sold it minus 120, 120. So overall, overall comprehensive income, overall it means overall comprehensive income. As a result, we had a loss of 24,000 after all said and done from this investment on comprehensive income. This is everything. Okay. Including interest revenue, selling the bond. So OCI really is gone. And what happened in comprehensive income, our comprehensive income went down. Again, there's a lot of moving parts. The key, I mean on the CPA exam, the questions are not designed to like really test your, test your deep knowledge or your advanced knowledge. The test, test your basic knowledge. So if you have a strong basic knowledge, and this is where I can help you have a strong basic knowledge plus your CPA review course, you will be ready to answer any questions on the CPA exam. It's worth the investment. Take a look at it, study hard, good luck, and stay safe.


Hi, I'm Peter Burris, Chief Research Officer at Wikibon and welcome to another CUBE conversation. Today we're speaking with Chris Bady, who's the CIO of ServiceNow. Chris, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Now Chris, ServiceNow is on a tear. And I don't want to spend a lot of time talking about ServiceNow or what it was, but it's important to set the context because the job of the CIO at ServiceNow is strongly influenced by the demands being placed in your function. Tell us a little bit about ServiceNow. So ServiceNow, we are a rapidly growing company growing at about 40% per year or approximately 6,000 employees. And we're a B2B software company. So we transform the way work gets done, drive efficiency and productivity of employees. And we have cloud services for IT, for security, for customer service and HR, as well as an incredibly powerful platform where people innovate and develop custom applications to drive efficiency within the organizations. Now ServiceNow is an example of a company that's very much helping to transform the industry. Now at Wikibon, we like to talk about it, define digital businesses, a business that treats its data as a strategic asset, certainly more than its competitors. How does ServiceNow look at data, at the assets surrounding it, including software? And how does ServiceNow think about digital transformation itself, as a company that is, in many respects, natively digital? So the way we think about digital transformation, you mentioned data as an asset. It's incredibly important. Where we see enterprises struggling is not having the right data. So I think in order to treat data as an asset, you need to start with digitizing your processes so you get the data.  We want to use data to go solve something. The first step is getting the data, and that's often where it falls down. It starts with digitizing every single process within the enterprise so you can capture all that data. Now we are a digital company, we're a cloud-first company, but we have the privilege of having a lot of data that we capture in our cloud operations, and we absolutely leverage that data to help our customers in their journey. Approximately a year ago, we came out with something called ServiceNow Benchmarks, which allows our customers to benchmark their performance for key processes, key performance indicators, against their cohort of industries and companies their size, all in an effort to help them improve. And increasingly, we're bringing machine learning into that so that we can be more prescriptive to help our customers get the business outcomes that they're trying to achieve. So you're not only doing a better job of instrumenting processes, digitizing processes, capturing the data through all the different technologies that are available, but you're also finding new streams of value out of that data. Absolutely, and I think that's the key, whether it's an internal use case, external meaning to your partners or your customers, how are you leveraging data to build intelligence into every process and every decision? And I think a couple of years ago, people would talk about machine learning and AI as if it were science fiction. It's here and now in the enterprise. And I think companies that are able to take advantage of, to use your words, data as an asset, and build machine learning capabilities and build recommendations and to help people make better decisions. And in the future, automate those decisions are going to start to outpace their competitors. So let's talk a little bit about some of the things that an IT organization has to do. If it's going to support the transformation, but let's start by the current state. You've been an IT for a while. What does ServiceNow's IT organization do as a consequence of its role that most IT organizations in your experience don't do? Sure, so we do all the same things every IT organization does. Keep the core infrastructure running that supports all of our internal operations. We do at ServiceNow, keep cloud operations separate from the CIO organizations, and that division is on purpose. But we manage all the internal operations, drive all the outcomes with that. One of the things we're doing is leveraging data as an asset and really trying to drive velocity through every single process. How do we increase the speed of our business operations, but not enough to be faster? How do we be more effective? And that gets back to that. How do we build intelligence into every decision and every KPI that people look at? Recommendations associated with that. And last but certainly not least, how do we create great experiences for our employees? And this is not just, hey, we have beautiful screens to look at. I believe that the right experiences drive the right behavioral and economic outcomes. We had a very simple example of, as a software company, it's very important for us to file patents. But we had a clunky, cumbersome process to do so. And by digitizing the process, getting the right data, re-imagining it to be a great experience, we saw an 82% increase in the number of patent applications filed without any top-down management edicts. So just a small use case, but just an example that the right experience can drive the right outcomes you're looking for. So I want to impact this a little bit if I may. This issue of speed and flexibility. And especially the role that automation's going to play. Because as you were talking, it suddenly dawned on me in many respects what we're talking about is almost agile automation. Automation that nonetheless has the plasticity associated with it so that you can change it in a way that will naturally reconfigure to ensure that you get the speed, but you also get the intelligence and the surety that you're doing the right things. Talk about how that tension between speed and doing things right gets resolved in the organization. Sure, I mean, at service now, at the pace that we're growing, we can't afford to be slow and perfect. So culturally, what we've built into the organization is at least within IT, fast and almost right beats slow and perfect 10 times out of 10. So that's really what we try to instill in our people, which is it's better to take a risk, move fast and learn as we automate and with the right balance of flexibility as we move forward because we just can't simply afford to sit back and wait for the perfect solution. And a lot of that builds right back into that analytics construct. So once we automate something, how do we judge the effectiveness of that automation? So we heavily do process mining on each one of our business processes to look at effectiveness of the automation we just put in. Great term, process mining, explain a little bit. Process mining to me is taking a digitized process because you can't process mine something that's manual. Once it's digitized, taking all the signals that that digitized process throws off, so you can look at the quality, you can look at the cycle time, the effectiveness of people interacting with that process. And then leveraging all of those analytics, putting data science on top of it to come out with recommendations for how it could be better. How is your executive team responding to some of the changes that are being driven by IT? Because it sounds like IT it serves now is empirical, it's opportunistic, it's highly iterative, it has to be if it's going to do these agile process mining types of things. Is the business in sync, are you oscillating at the same frequencies? Are you moving faster than the business, slower than the business? How do you keep that balanced? I think I'm privileged to be part of an incredible executive leadership team at ServiceNow. And being a digital first company, this is a natural part of the vocabulary. And I contrast that with past companies which were more supply chain oriented companies, where the CIO would have had to put on a much more change management, have to convince people that this is the way things are going. At ServiceNow, I think it's a shared mindset of automation and experiences and driving machine learning is absolutely the way companies are going to separate themselves from the competition. So it is a lot of can't move fast enough. As technology, especially data gets embedded or information gets embedded more deeply into business activities and more deeply into business culture and decision making pathways. A lot more people are going to lay claim to that data, ownership of that data, management of that data. We've heard a number of different titles emerge over the course of the last number of years like the Chief Digital Officer. How do you foresee or envision the role of the CIO, the role of the CDO working together? I have a personal opinion on this, which may not be what industry says, but my view is that if a company has a Chief Digital Officer, they either have a CIO who's not stepping up to the plate with the transformation that that company needs to drive or they do have a CIO who's capable of doing it, they just don't know it. Because I don't view the jobs as all that different and I think the right CIOs need to step up and lead the transformation. Because if not the CIO, then who? Yeah, exactly. So your observation is that CIOs either need to step up and do this or find another job where somebody's willing to operate at a slower speed with less strategic orientation towards data. Absolutely. How does a CIO get themselves heard without annoying everybody? Art versus science, but I would say it starts with job number one of the CIO, which is what the job was, call it 20 years ago, which is making sure the core infrastructure of the company worked. And unless that's working and it is good shape, it's almost as if the CIO doesn't have that permission to step up and do all the transformation stuff. So get that part of the house in order. And then I think it's a bit of just, you got to take responsibility for more than just the standard IT stuff. Taking responsibility for business outcomes. How do you drive lead velocity? How do you drive sales rep productivity? How do I make my financial clothes more efficient? So really partnering with the other stakeholders around the company to say, what business outcomes do we need to drive to achieve our strategic objectives and owning them? So I've worked with other CIOs and senior leadership teams at large companies who said, for example, that they actually started taking advantage of opportunities to meet directly with customers, see what customers are talking about, see how their technologies are impacting customer experience. I would presume that you and your team are out in the field at least some of the time, better understanding how your portfolio is improving the effectiveness and the efficiency of service now in front of customers. Are you doing those types of things? Absolutely. And I actually used to be a customer of service now. I've been a customer of service now for over a decade before I joined the company. So it's great to be here. And internally we do act as customer zero. So we have a very healthy relationship with our product teams where we want to give them that candid, constructive feedback, everything the products are doing great. And here's ideas perhaps on where we could do a little bit better. And in my role, I also have the privilege of talking with a lot of our customers, peer CIOs who are all trying to go through the same digital transformation journey and exchanging ideas on how our platform can help do that. So the CIO and the IT organization has historically purchased things and has therefore set up some adversarial relations, largely managed and administered by procurement and procurement processes, get 5% out of this contract. When we start thinking about CIO, service now's relationship with customers, you're not providing a product, you're actually providing the outcome. And as a digital first company or as a cloud first company, I would presume that you also are working with suppliers that are providing those outcomes for you. That is difficult to establish that rapport with a procurement mindset. You need more of a strategic vendor mindset. Would you agree and what do you think that means if you do? I would absolutely agree and with that strategic vendor mindset come shared outcomes. And you've heard our CEO, John Dono, talk about this in terms of an increased focus that we have on customer success. We know that our customer success is our success and really with the mindset of we need to be a valued partner, a trusted advisor and have shared responsibility to help our customer base achieve the outcomes which form the investment thesis for them, looking at service now. And we look at it the same way internally with our strategic partners because as these services get embedded in the way we do business, it can't be a transactional relationship. This has got to be a long-term partnership where we're driving innovation and driving business outcomes. As your business thinks about where it's going to go, how are they factoring the role that your organization plays? The asset that your organization represents? The strategic capabilities of your organization in their strategic plans? Are you sitting on the strategy committee? Are you talking to the board periodically? What role are you playing in the overall portfolio of the company as it thinks about where it's going to be? Sure, I would say all of the above. And as CIO, and I'll genericize it a bit so it's not just service now, but I think that as organizations are moving forward, automation and scale and machine learning are going to be increasingly important aspects of a business. How fast can you move? How much scale do you have? How smart is your business? What are your experiences with your customer and how are you leveraging all the analytics that those experiences create? So I think CIOs have to be part of those conversations and I do have the privilege of being part of those at service now. So Chris, great answers. I've asked all the questions. Is there one last point you want to make? Just that I think now more than ever, it's an incredibly fun time to be a CIO. I agree. Incredibly challenging for sure. The plethora of innovation out there. And I think that the technologies have evolved from white papers and ideas to it's here and now. So I think as a CIO, it's never been more fun, more challenging, more responsibility on us to deliver outcomes for the enterprise. But that's what makes it fun. If you step up. If you step up. Once again, Chris Bady, thank you very much. Service now, CIO, really appreciate you being here on theCUBE and telling us a little bit about how you're performing while you're helping the company transform. Thank you. This has been Peter Burris, Chief Research Officer of Wikibon. Thank you very much for listening in on our CUBE conversation.


According to Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the United States has made the following efforts to protect Ukrainian skies during the last several months. Firstly, provided Ukraine with 1,400 stinger manpads in addition to considerable numbers of short-range air defense systems given to Ukraine by other allies and partners. Secondly, pledged to provide Ukraine with eight nasems and ammunition. 12 doves will be in Ukraine in the very near future, six more to be provided later. Committed a suite of counter and land air systems including the vampire system and other radar systems. Helped secure the donation of an S-300 system from Slovakia to Ukraine at the beginning of the all-out war. Sourced many spare parts to keep Ukrainian Soviet-type air defense systems up and running. A Pentagon spokesman confirmed this information to the local media on October 31st.


Residents of McCordy, the Benway State Capitol, have expressed their opinions and response to the recent unveiling of President Paula Chenebouche's chosen ministers and their assigned roles. The residents commended the development and said the ministers were strategically placed to ensure effective service delivery and also enhance good governance. The one from Benway State, who is my brother, is in charge of water resources. If you look at the geography of Nigeria, you discover that Benway is surrounded by water and there are a lot that can be taught from the water resources in Nigeria. So with somebody from Benway with a firsthand knowledge about this, you can actually do it. In the hope, we will have to wait and see how each of them will perform before we can wait. But I believe they can perform. I know of a few of them, like Nelson Wicke, the immediate path of the governor of the river states. It is on record and we cannot deny that fact. Wicke has transformed the river states because somebody has an ambition. He cannot fail. And if you go to a bonus state, you can see what the immediate path of the governor, he also transformed a bonus state. Go to a bar, you will see you are in London. Coming back from here in Benway, the one for water resources is eminently qualified and he is an experienced man. We all believe that he will perform even better than what he was doing. If you look at the man from a bonus state, I'm talking of our chief, David Umahi, who has been appointed and assigned the works ministry. The man, too, did his best to ensure that the bonus state is transformed. If you look at who has been assigned aviation, I'm talking about the first to scare the sun. You also agree with me, the amount of footprints which he has left while serving as minister of state for productivity. He discovered that these are seasoned activists over time. So I think by signing some of these major portfolios to these notable Nigerians who are known for performance over time, Mr President has taken a very wise decision.


In his latest son's ISC Diary entry Xavier does the analysis of an interesting word document that he encountered, a malicious word document as you can guess and in this analysis he talks about many things and one of the things he mentions here is this function, the format document function as Xavier called it and it's a bit unclear as to what this function does and I created a word document that will show you what this function does so one of the things it does is it changes the color font to black and then it deletes headers here well this is a social engineering trick I created a document here with this function as macro inside so let's open this document and as you can see here a document with two pages the macros have been disabled, they didn't run and you can see just a title and here the text header that says you if the document isn't displayed correctly click settings and select enable this content now actually the content of this document is present if I select here you can see that I'm able to select some text but the text cannot be read because it's actually a white font so the color of the font is white and the background is also white and that's why you don't see anything now when I enable the content then the macro will run and it appears that the document has been decoded because now you can see the text but actually what did just happen is that this document was not really encoded but the color of the font now was set to black so that you can read it and the headers have been deleted so it's a social engineering trick to make you believe that by enabling the content you have actually decoded the document and not as in reality run macros that launch malicious executable


And that takes us to what sound does. Sound pretty much does everything you can imagine because it's a source of creation. And this brings us to using sound as a tool in technology. Sound creates light. It's very obvious. We know that God said let there be light and you can do this yourself by attaching a speaker to an LED light and see what happens.


Hello again. I realised when I started thinking about doing a book a month that it was going to take me a very long time to get through all my favourite books. So I thought maybe I might do the occasional single book but there's also the idea of looking at themes. So it's new year. So this month's theme is forest gardening and it's... you could think of forest gardening as being something that's more to do with the summer because of course it's when you might be harvesting from the garden through the spring, the summer and the autumn but the winter is when we do planning and also when we might be planting a lot of things in the forest garden. So perhaps you've heard of forest gardens or perhaps you already have one but if you start looking at the books on forest gardening, those that have the words forest gardens in the title there's quite a lot of them and so this really is just looking at what are the different books that you might come across and why might there be the book for you. So I'm going to start with the first book on forest gardening. Now it's important to say that the forest garden is modelled originally on the tropical food forest where a lot of food is grown below the canopy of the forest because there's a lot of light in the tropics and you can grow things at ground level under trees. Now in Britain and similar latitudes northern Europe and so on it's a rather different situation it's a lot less light here so it tends to be quite dark underneath forest canopy and so really a forest garden shouldn't really be so much called a forest garden. Martin Crawford who's one of the most inspirational people doing forest gardening these days he says really he would prefer the term woodland edge gardening because it's really looking at what grows on the woodland edge or the different levels and so on. Anyway so the the first book was called Forest Gardening and so essentially that name has been kept and it was written by Robert Hart who was I was very lucky to go and stay with for a whole week in the last year of his life and I remember looking at the visitor book and seeing how many people have visited his tiny little quarter acre forest garden which always felt much bigger than a quarter acre when you were in it and how many people have been inspired and of course the evidence of that is seen in the forest gardens that you find around these days but also the number of books that we have now with the words forest gardening in the title. So Robert really was talking about his journey the creation of the forest garden but there wasn't a lot of technical detail there was some plants in here and so on but he didn't have a lot of technical detail in here to help you create your own if you like. So so that's the first one. So Patrick Whitefield who's who was a very inspirational permaculture teacher and had written a number of books very important books so he spent time with Robert and essentially wrote the technical manual that Robert never got to write so this book was quite fun trying to hold up a book and show it. You can see it's got quite a lot of there's some nice photos in here of well Robert's forest garden quite a lot of Robert's forest garden here things about the different layers of the forest garden the things that you might be planting and so on. There's also a bit at the beginning about how you might lay out the garden different patterns in the garden. You'll find the things and the kind of basics of what permaculture what forest gardens are and how they work and so on. Just never find the diagram you need. Anyway so that's the technical manual the first technical manual really on forest gardening. Very good book. Around that time also a couple called Addy and Ken Fern were experimenting with growing many different plants that might be well suited to the forest garden and they wrote this book Plants for a Future and set up a charity also with the same name and they've also created over the years many years now a large database of plants that you can access at Plants for a Future I think it's PFAF.org on the internet with over 8,000 different species now that they've documented lots of details about how to grow them cultivate them what kind of conditions they like what they produce and so on and this book really is there it's kind of the highlights or the main the main attractions if you like it's got some nice color photographs in here I remember when I got this book I was incredibly inspired to go out and get the seeds of many of these things and grow them and some more successfully than others but again really excellent book Plants for a Future and then across the pond in the States these two books came out so see now we've changed scale entirely so these two books edible forest gardens, gardens volumes one and two different thicknesses same price the reason is that this has got color in it and this is just black and white but both excellent books on different aspects so volume one is vision and theory and volume two design and practice this gives you a sense of what's going on inside the books and again very lovely books lots of information lots of research lots of case studies so this is a case study of Robert's garden winlock edge and the things that were good about it and the things that didn't work so well and that's one of the key things about this book is it's looking at what's one of the successful strategies and one of the things that are not so good what have we learned from doing these different things forest gardens are designed to be multifunctional so primarily perennial focused although they might have some readily self-seeding annuals in the system and that the outputs from the garden would include quite a lot of food but not necessarily just foods you have many plants in there to support other plants or to provide other things and one of the nice things about the parts for a future book this one here it has in the appendices lists of I can find it here we are plants for specific habitats there plant uses there we are right at the back and it's got all kinds of things in here gelatin substitutes oil egg substitutes condiments coffee substitutes that might be some people might debate whether it's a really a substitute for coffee seed paths there's fire retardants here are non-edible uses there's lots of things in heritages and beads and ink and insecticides and all kinds of things so plants for many many uses so these two books they're great they all set you back certainly outside the US quite a few pounds or euros and probably dollars do they say they don't have the price on the back in dollars oh yes they do 75 dollars still quite a lot of money but if you're thinking of doing forest gardening seriously then they're essential really because they're great books and the money you spend on the books you'll save anyway and the mistakes you don't make the trees you don't kill by putting them in the wrong place so kind of coming back and sitting somewhere in between the previous scales is Martin Crawford's first kind of proper big book he's written many what might be called kind of directories of different plants around different categories trees and shrubs and ground covers and nitrogen fixes and all kinds of things and lots of technical stuff this was his first kind of pretty book if you like and as you can see my copy is fairly well taped together from many years of abuse and it's not that old a book but compared to the price of the other books you know this this is a book that has plenty in it it's full-color it's very beautiful book has lots of technical detail in it it's basically Martin's experience from all the many 20 odd years of him doing forest gardening what he's learned the things he's grown the things that work to some degree the plants that he's grown that are in the plants for a future book that he agrees with rather than thinking they're a bit borderline whether I would eat that or not and so there's all the details of how to put it together and then long lists of species and the kind of conditions they need and what they produce and how you look after them and so on and so forth so an excellent book certainly in terms of value for money I think this is about 30 pounds which for the side of the book and what you get is really a bargain and I think if you were thinking of starting with a forest garden to do it properly that's where I would recommend starting that one and then there's a few books here that kind of sit to the side of the other books there's food from your forest garden this was Martin and a friend of mine Caroline Akin who is another permaculture teacher and Martin she they live quite close together so Martin gave her she kept giving her produce from the garden and she went about seeing what they could do with it so it's really a collection of recipes around how to use the different things that come from the forest garden because whilst forest gardens should include a lot of things we like to eat like apples and pears and soft fruits and so on there's also a lot of things that we can grow in a forest garden which are less familiar and it's good to know how to use them so this is a book of plants and recipes if you like and again really nice lovely book how they recommended food from your forest garden and this is the one that I'm obsessed by at the moment the Forest Garden greenhouse because living in cool temperate Britain and I'm very excited by what could be grown more inside a greenhouse environment in terms of things that we can't normally grow here what's on the edge of and wherever you are there's always it's likely that there are things you can't grow either because it's too hot or it's too cold and so Jerome who wrote this book the Forest Garden greenhouse lives at quite high altitude in Colorado and they grow bananas and papayas and things in the greenhouse environment because they create a very what they call a climate battery which is a way of storing the heat from the warm time of the year and during the day into the soil which involves quite a bit of construction put it all together some pictures of that going on in the book the case studies all of the different greenhouses they get they have and how they're designed to do to create different environmental conditions if you like tropical or Mediterranean whatever this is the basic idea is that a fan brings the heat from the top of the greenhouse down into a collection of pipes which are buried in the ground there we are there's quite a lot of work to do to begin with you can see quite a lot of pipes but once you've got that in place then essentially you create the conditions to grow lots of interesting things in a greenhouse situation obviously not really something that works in the little greenhouse but they say anything from 10 meters by three and a half four meters upwards and you should be good and all being well we have one of those very same a couple more books one is forest gardening in practice this is by Thomas Romiaz who again is another permaculturist in the UK network and he's gone around basically looking at existing forest gardens studying how they work and so some of them are private some of them are community what are the things that work about forest gardens so it is very difficult to show a book of this size to the camera and do the logistics of holding it and so on but so essentially it's his research journey if you like of going around all these different projects what they've learned what's good what's not so good how to do forest garden even better than we have up to now very recent book very very again very useful particularly if you're thinking about creating a forest garden what might go wrong so in what can you do well so the last book is quite thin as you can see but literally arrived yesterday and it's a little booklet on forest gardening a beginners guide by Graham Burnett now Graham is the author of a number of different small-ish booklets and also a rather chunky book called the vegan book of permaculture which is here somewhere here it is and probably best known for writing permaculture a beginner's guide which is now gone to a color version this is also a color booklet and full color throughout it's full of Graham's great lovely diagrams lovely colored diagrams I think it's quite fitting that Graham should write a beginner's guide to forest gardening because as you can see none of these are beginner's guides they're all rather big books it's very tempting to write a lot about forest gardening and but very fitting because often if you go on to the internet and you type in forest gardening you'll get pictures and you'll often see this diagram essentially which Graham drew many years ago in for that particular beginners guide so it's nice to see him actually pre-creating beginner's guide to forest gardening and yes it's quite small it's got 20 about 30 pages but he does he even makes really good use of the space so he starts with a very kind of succinct description of what forest gardening is and how it's important for the environment and so on so you have lost a page already different functions education health and well-being and so on a little bit of a history is picture of Robert Hart there and then you start getting into the realm of how do I go about doing it for myself so what do you want I mean a forest garden is a structure really and what you put into that structure is really down to what your needs are and so he just kind of asked the key questions of what do you want what you got what your current situation what scale can you work at because we can even create a forest garden in a very small garden for a small space with just you know a single tree and collection of things around and then he yeah provides a nice little pattern about how you might create it over time and just got things about resources and stock design in the ground layer a little mapping plan there that's a so on so forth and about these and then he gets into some recommended plants and particularly my one of my favorite plants is Japanese wineberry fantastic fruit it grows very well in the forest garden and so it's quite succinct but I think a really excellent book booklet to buy for someone as a gift or just as a starter it's really about inspiring giving kind of the essence of what forest gardening is about and where to start what are the key things to know about so my table is done there's a lot of books there hopefully there's one there that is perfect for you or for you to give to somebody as a gift and I wish you a lot of fun dreaming up what you're going to plant


Good afternoon Arthur. Thank you for coming today and first May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your appointment your reappointment as the study group 9 chairman? Well, thank you Toby. I'm glad to have another four years to work in this Exciting area very good and and perhaps you could tell us a little bit about some of the achievements in the in the last study period Between 2009 and now 2012 study group 9. Okay. Well in the last four years, we have worked on a large number of areas all in the broadband cable television industry One one big high high profile area. Well is IPTV over cable now we work With study group 13 and study group 16 on those because they they're also working in those areas Another area is quality assessment of video and multimedia. That's both Objective and subjective methods. We've just gotten into Assessment of 3d TV, which is a very hot topic and then we have traditional areas such as transmission worked on transmission of large screen digital imagery Some of the ultra high definition as well as standard and high definition television I I understand another new feature in the work of study group 9 in the last period was a smart cable right just in the last Meeting of study group 9 in May. We established a focus group Focus group on smart cable television, and it's very exciting. They've met three times already they're meeting again actually next week in in Shanghai and They're they're investigating all the new the newest areas in cable television and I'll tell you more about that in a few minutes Because that just got started and that's sort of in the future area So are there any other areas of work that you'd like to highlight from the from the previous period from the previous period? I'd like to highlight an important set of recommendations on preferential television telecommunications which allows for Services such as emergency telecommunications to have priority access During times of disaster and that's that can be very important and we're proud of that work also, there's the work on set top boxes and home networking that that has carried on and will carry on into the future and maybe I Should move into the to the next study period please do the I think the most important aspect Or the most exciting aspect. It's hard to say which is most important But the most exciting is the smart cable television in that area. We're We're developing. Well, we're looking now, but we plan to develop recommendations for Like grocery shopping over the cable network so so a customer can browse Shop for their groceries and have them delivered There's there's a health aspects. We've been talking at the WTSA about e-health There's a there's systems to share patient data through the cloud, but using cable networks in the home to do that and These these two items will help with accessibility Which is a very big topic these days other areas with home with smart cable television will be using watching television on Mobile devices that are harmonized with their cable set top boxes So a person could be watching a television show in their room in their living room and then just walk Walk outside and keep watching it on their Smartphone so there's really quite a bit of interesting stuff We will continue to work on our traditional areas of transmission a new transmission system called high-knock is just started work. It's a High I guess it's a high efficiency transmission system that will be able to deliver Television there are normal television as well as internet and You know over over a faster network That's called high-knock then we will continue to work on quality assessment, which Will will go into the areas more into the areas of 3d TV subjective and objected methods and and move into areas such as Ultra high-definition TV. There's two versions two flavors of that 4k and 8k We're already working on the transmission over cable networks in one question and we'll begin to work on Assessing the quality and our assessment questions. I know this is all very enlightening There's a lot of this new work that I didn't know about and I'm very much looking forward to Reporting on that as we move forward Thank you very much for your time this afternoon. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Arthur


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspysCaseRakes.com coming at you with 2022-23 Panini and Mosaic basketball. Six box, half case, pick your team five half case from a fresh case right there and if you follow the instructions and got an even number of teams you'll get an entry to win this prism choice box from 21-22 right there which is a really nice value. Think about the draft class there, we'll send it to you sealed, winner will get it sealed, you can sell it if you want to, you can rip it open yourself if you want to, we'll do that randomizer at the end. Love the Mosaic design and this is my first look at it, there's willing with double-ass bottom mojo, kings and spurs, good luck, good luck to him, good luck to everybody, awkward sized case here, let's make myself a little room. The other half of the Mosaic, okay this is Mosaic basketball right here, the other half is in the store right now, JaspysCaseRakes.com, you got a good chance of doing that tonight, it's down to 12 teams already, so basketball fans if you're interested let's finish off that second half, the scene right there, empty case, let's pull these back over here, so you can see that the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 top row and then another 6 on that bottom row right there, we're going to roll the die, we'll go 1, 2, 3 for the top row and 4, 5, 6 for the bottom row and it's 4, bottom row right here, so top row we'll save for break 6, second half of this case, again we can do this later tonight, so we're doing this is pick your team, 5, once again here the team, Duncan what's going on man, how are you, good day to you, we're pretty fortunate to be able to do this, I think all card ship, yes all card ship, what are we looking for here, we're looking for one autograph per box on average, nice Duncan, yeah kickback and relax, let's see what hoops hits to get out of here, big fan of the mosaic, yeah you definitely need a lot of, you know the fanatics live stream is a little bit easier but running the YouTube rig is a little bit more complicated, yeah you definitely have to have some working knowledge of technology, more than working knowledge, it's Colin Sexton not numbered, the Kuzma not numbered, kind of like this newspaper looking thing right there and I guess basketball season is right around the corner so it's good to kind of start thinking about that, that the rookie cards seem to not have color filled in there, I don't know if that was intentional or not, all right this is 2022-23 so second year Tunningham's got to remind myself of the draft class here, it's Kevin Porter Jr that's numbered to 149, rockets that's gonna be for Chris Butler, there's a Keegan Murray, AD and LeBron, Keegan Murray that's the key key King to be chasing and we've got a Blue Jonathan Kaminga to 199 and all that will be top-loaded and before they ship out, we've got Christian Braun, Shaden Sharp, Devin Vasell, Jordan Manwara, we've got Dort, red mark is smart and we've got an overdrive SGA, I don't know how short-printed or not those are but that looks really sharp and traditionally it's a relatively common insert, oh we're gonna start off with a nice one, it's the glove Gary Payton for the Seattle Super Sonic, Super Sonic stuff go to Chris Butler and OKC, I guess until Seattle gets their own team, all right nice first auto of six so we got a gold right here, that should be the 10, yeah Josh Christopher, one out of 10 Josh Christopher for Chris and the Rockets, I'll do a quick little recap too at the end of the break and Julius Randall purple 62 out of 99, nice montage insert that's for the Knicks that'll be for William and we got a nice Jaden Ivy rookie silver for Detroit that's gonna be for Steve H, we got a blue Ryan Rollins to 199 for Golden State that'll be for Chris and we've got a montage Zion and a montage Yanis and the Dodgers are down to their last out three runs down, Mann on first though but yeah David Peralta to get on board Mookie Betts could turn this into a tie game with one swing of the bat, turn that lineup over David Peralta, all right next box, what's the outlook for Dalvin Cook this year, meh I think the injuries are always a concern you're always gonna have to contend with that oh you're doing auction draft not sure how much did you pay for it and what was your budget you can start you can think about it as percentage of your budget what percentage of your salary did Dalvin Cook take, all right James Almond steals second, $11 on a $200 cap that's not bad and strikes out David Peralta that's the game Dodgers loose once again the red not numbered and a Palo Ben caro is that a stained glass I think so these look nice Orlando Sean Maddock let's take a look at what the I think there should be a picture on a how the stained glasses look like it is wow someone's asking $600 for this so that must be shorter printed more shorter printed than I thought I don't know how short print this is but there's only 10 players on the same last set checklist nice it's a sharp looking card there all right onwards oh that's the I slept through one of our drafts on Sunday one of my drafts on Sunday it's a Keegan Murray mosaic pattern and Spencer didn't win even $199 and auto draft like three quarters of my team yeah that's it Rex the Dodger season over they lost the Marlins and we got a D Anthony Melton purple to 99 7 out of 99 for the Phillies and we seem a little dark the brightness just a tad bit here no Chad I I I have no access to anything shipping wise so you're barking up the wrong tree I'm afraid you can hit that contact button on Jasper's case rates comm and reach out to us you can also if you go to the schedule tab I'm sure you are aware of the of the break schedule if you look at the tabs on the bottom there's a shipping tab so you can see find the date of when your break was and then you can see what the status of that is that's for not just for you Chas for everybody use that resource shipping team updates it at least once a night it's a Chet Holmgren rookie card that's for okay see that'll be for Chris Paolo Ben caro and a razzle dazzle insert that's pretty cool too right sometimes I think that too Duncan I'm just like you know what every time I prepare for this draft and spend hours on research and end up doing the draft and my team is still is not good yeah maybe just auto drafted one year and then see what happens all right there's Jeremy Sohan and he reveals it now to 49 Derek Harper nice 16 out of 49 and there's a Danny green gold one out of 10 the first one ever made calves that'll be for Tristan those radio I feel like though I feel like those ratings are just AI generated content based off like last season's like how accurate are those ratings I feel like they just use like average draft position so you could have a bad draft but as long as you're getting value it's Danny green to 149 right as long as you're getting like if the average draft position was 100 and you got him at 110 or something like that then I think they always say I think that's what a successful draft is according to that algorithm you know combined like main players but I think it's usually usually like what big names you get stat projections you know which is you never know and then average draft position so if they think you reached on a draft team like to know they'll they'll ding you for that which I don't know if it's fair hydration here Xbox right yeah most people always out perform their mark who does everyone have in this when is it in two nights week one of the NFL season has begun very exciting the basketball break where there's no basketball happening right now I guess people World Cup is happening right now the United States crushed Italy so that happens overnight so we can kind of float to a little NFL chatter here are you nervous Gilo chiefs also win right but because of that wow chiefs are now they were at minus like seven now they're Kelsey cost them two points or minus five now I luckily put an investment on the Lions at plus six and a half did that before the injury news you're still more nervous about the defense Kelsey did make that appeal to Jones and said hey come on man sign it make the deal done get the deal done help me out yeah Eric was saying Eric had even hotter take Eric just thinks outright that there's gonna be your chief Gilo outright see you have a woman see you tomorrow there's a redemption he guesses on that redemption for bragging rights four out of ten Lonnie Walker number match jersey number nice Lakers Matt with my Lakers that really awesome playoff performance right there I'm feeling pretty bullish about my Lakers this year yeah I don't know if the Lions are gonna win outright according to ESPN they're saying the Lions have a thirty three point five percent chance of winning this game but that would be quite a week one upset there's a Jared Vanderbilt 29 out of 99 Vando another Laker for from Matt Jabari Smith junior will go to Chris and the Rockets and Jalen with a L Jalen Williams without the Y ever you want to call it the I think this is the more desirable feelings the better one anyway both will go to Chris and okay see bullish on Max Christie Matt had a nice summer league could have a really nice season bulked up a little bit it's tough to win an arrowhead no matter what I agree but it's a good there there are some NFL trends that I that I usually go with in week one so I'll go through in a second here 29 out of 149 of Vita Zubac that's for the clip show that'll be for Tristan you're a heat fan for basketball and a Seattle fan for football how did that work out there's Seth Curry to 199 all right no guesses on the redemption it is AJ Griffin rookie autographs mosaic blue AJ Griffin is in Atlanta Hawk that'll be for Adam and Atlanta it just did huh are you do you live in a in a part of the world where you don't have a protein close to you I always wondered about that if you don't live in a team in a in a place with a team close to you and if you're you know your if your parents don't have any protein allegiance you know you're like a sports you're like a sports fan free agent oh we were talking I was gonna talk to you about NFL trends I was actually kind of working on this project a little bit late last night I think a general trend you know and obviously take it with a grain of salt with depending on matchups and injuries and blah blah blah so it's not like a blanket rule but it's something to kind of consider road dog after a loss against the spread and they the road dog that covers 56.9% of the time that's a pretty good clip here's here's one that applies this year the number one overall kick the number one overall if you're if you're a QB that's pick number one overall their week one against the spread is one and seven one and seven I don't know who that one win was or one cover was but in week two that same number one overall pick quarterback in week two six and one against the spread in week two so that would be Bryce young I think right and Bryce and was picked one overall so let's see if that trend holds true small sample size but too many quarterbacks after one overall you might be able to extrapolate that into rookie QBs in general making week one starts there's the Anthony Melton to 149 for the Sixers to Eric Eric's and your dad's a 49ers fan your sister and your girl are Vikings fans your brother is a Jags fan where do you live Eric how does this happen nobody will guess who your cousin is though cool don't need to guess Chet Holmgrim that's kind of that's all over the place though Eric there's a John Collins blue to 199 that'll be for Atlanta here's Palo Ben caro space let's see if we can find some parallels here Eric Derek desperate to name drop Matt Bosher former puncher of the of the Falcons cool you're in Pennsylvania so what no Philly teams no Pittsburgh no Philadelphia are born and raised in Philadelphia how does that happen that just seems crazy how team allegiances are all over the place and there's Lori marketing for the jazz like putting some injury stuff behind him starting to play pretty well for Utah David B 24 out of 49 Monty Morris to 149 awesome Reeves really really developing nicely and just be different no now I'd now I'm curious what are your hockey and baseball evidences Bradley Beale blue to 199 cards sticking together there a little bit there's AJ Griffin saw his auto redemption earlier feel like no offense to AJ Griffin but I feel like you like you should not be a redemption baseball's blue jays hockey's red wings and that is all over the place all right two boxes to go take a little dinner break after this then we'll come back and see if there's some people we we got six orders coming in here one from Mark two from Sean one from David another one from Mark and one from when shouldn't so when I come back we'll go through those orders we'll see what direction they want to take us at the moment nothing looks like it sold out no one's getting into the second half of mosaic Nick did post more spectra pre-order so maybe people are pre-ordering that hey I like that Eric yeah go against you're zagging while everyone's digging we've got a deer and Fox autograph King's were one of the last teams Hagan William last spot mojo Kings 70% of the time last spot mojo hits 100% of the time 20 out of 25 you're just sitting there nobody wanted him we got Alondas Williams for the next to 149 I see oh maybe maybe that makes the fandom a little more understandable if they're not even your favorite sports all right there's a Jabari Smith junior to 25 nice montage insert white mosaic parallel to 25 and it'll be for Houston that's gonna be for Chris got another white mosaic parallel five out of 25 for Robin Lopez calves Tristan and Jalen Williams with a Y that's Kevin Durant in his son's gear 13 out of 25 it's kind of a I like that contrast there it's a cool-looking card going to Phoenix that'll be for Matt yeah man I couldn't tell you a single thing about Supercross or motocross but I do I do like do enjoy racing so you know it's on TV I've I'm sure I've watched I've watched some races Chet Holmgren with another Ben Carroll Cunningham to 99 for Detroit Ben Carroll is just a base we just we need to find something more interesting here with Paolo Ben Carroll for Sean and Orlando well you get the same glass but I'm just hoping for some more more base card parallels is an overdrive Jaden I've yeah I'm a motorcycle that's something I want to get at some point someday I had a buddy have a buddy who's lived in LA for a little bit but he's originally from Pennsylvania from Allentown and he had a really cool Triumph motorcycle and it's really sweet what year it was on the older side so it's easy to kind of work on all right final box ladies and gentlemen we'll do a quick little recap after this good luck and let's see what we got good luck everyone no bomb got Steph Curry storm chasers that's the cool looking insert and then we're gonna Isaiah Mobley 92 out of 99 looked good in summer league Evans brother Garza what's going on just notice you in the chat how are you the twitching put up a little to everything I'm time saying I'm not sure what that means here's another Chet Holmstrom got that swagger insert Janice more Palo blue Chris Middleton to 199 not sure what I got for dinner maybe I get some I get meals from the endangered animal restaurant might have some California condor eggs poached California condor eggs maybe some some Komodo dragon steak maybe some whale it's a Zubat 99 yeah maybe maybe a humpback whale and a Nikola yokich nice pictographs that's pretty nice that's gonna go to Denver that's for William you know sometimes I go scrambled Rex just depends maybe just over easy it was nice to out of 25 is also nice there's a blue ojianno obi to 199 chicken and wind a chicken wing pizza for dinner Mike oh there we go some numbered sound that's what I was looking for 50 out of 99 Palo Ben caro montage insert nice now before Orlando that's gonna go to Sean a medic the blue og will go to Toronto that's for Tristan and the evita Zubat will go to the clip show also for Tristan there you go ladies and gentlemen nice little break second half in the store some nice auto some nice card some nice parallels love to see it some gold for the purple and gold I like that got in the Palo Ben caro stained glass also nice there you go gang I'm Joe for Jasper's case race calm thanks for watching thanks for breaking with us and I'll see you next time for the next break bye bye oh no wait sorry man I almost forgot got to give this box away alright so let's flip the house geez flip back to the list here I was like I know I'm forgetting something so there's everybody right here I'm gonna alphabetize by your first names and per the instruction if you bought at least two teams and even number of teams half of that number becomes entries so Aaron got to that's one entry Adam got to that's one entry Brian K. got to that's one entry Chris Butler got four that's two entries David B. got to that's an entry Matt Johnston got to that's an entry Shawn Matic only got the Orlando but that worked out okay Steve with two teams that's an entry Tristan got six teams that's three entries William got two teams one entry other William got ended up with five teams for the purpose of the promo four count that's still two entries William S let's just spot check the skin so I got Aaron I got Adam I got Brian Chris David B. Matt not Sean but Steve Tristan William G. William S. perfect alright good luck so it's a one in 14 chance at that prism box will ship a seal 21 22 prism choice one and a six one and a five six times total man I really need to eat losing my mind here six times total one and a five one two three four five and six and final time Tristan there you go after six times your name's on top and you got a box of 21 22 prism basketball going your way we'll ship it to you sealed and if you choose to open it and you get something awesome definitely let us know I'm Joe for Jasper's case raise calm now we're done we'll see you next time for the next break bye bye


Now let's play some games. So we're going to divide the room or we kind of have divided the room into three sections There's a front a middle and a back and these I think there's instantions. I don't know what they're called There's the dividing line. So if you're in front of that, you're in the team the front team All right So this is the thing I love about this type of thing you can create instant tribes Then the the next team is we're gonna call the middle team and you're from Jeff to Yoshi back there Okay See tribe tribal behavior kicks in really quick and then behind Yoshi and back to Weta is the our back tribe I Don't know do you guys want a different name than that is we could give you Yeah Hey watch as a smack talk begins Okay, so We're going to play a game. Okay. We're gonna we're gonna do the this closing session in kind of two Two phases so the first phase we're gonna play a game and I'll explain that in a second and then we're gonna take that group narrow down the contestants and they get to win a bunch of prizes Sorry the teams that lose And in fact this year only every person in the winning team gets a prize now Okay, don't get too excited It's just barely not a prize And then then we'll open it up and we'll do our traditional You know what we do always do we always do rock-paper-scissors And we'll have the whole group participate in that and then so you still even if you lose the first game You still have an opportunity to win some prize based purely on luck So you don't have to know any any of the trivia that we're gonna be doing So what's at stake we have prizes that have been donated by Very generous contributors you get the prizes and the bragging rights We have a bunch of dev boards Donated by the Octo project, so we want to thank them for that Dragon board minnow board and pocket beagle, so whatever your computing needs whoever wins that you should keep track of who wins the other one If you want to if you want to match your computing needs to your project you can you can horse swap afterwards We have the pocket beagle donated by Texas Instruments. I appreciate that We have a bunch of raspberry pies We have a Western digital 3 terabyte media server wireless pretty nice And we have our Scotland appreciation kit Which is Which it's got what I'm calling a wearable that's another word for a scarf And jams and cookies and a map and a book and stuff, so it's a very nice gift And oh do I I'll be out of here on Friday So we have we also have book mastering embedded Linux is Chris here Okay, so Chris is here the author of the book and if you talk if you sweet talk him afterwards I'm sure I'm sure you can get him to sign a copier you up with that. Are you okay with that? All right, and Then LWN net subscriptions keep up on all your code of conduct news Sorry that was probably in portase And then we have a Sony mobile pico projector, so pretty cool. I got to tell you a story so I have one of these and I Work with some Boy Scouts in in the US and we we took it and I used it I had my phone and this pico projector and we took it Splunking we went into a cave system and we actually paid Minecraft deep down inside a cave, which I thought was pretty cool So it's highly portable and pretty fun, although the cave walls were not as not as conducive to an image as I thought they would be So but hopefully whoever wins that can have a lot of fun with it. Okay. Oh Yes, this runs embedded Linux and so does the hard drive so and of course the dev boards do That is an excellent question you will have to Google go to this There was so neat there's a download site you can find the the this Colonel for that. Oh, I have no idea. It could be could be old anyway Okay, so oh ignore ignore what I said the room was divided differently than when I wrote my slides But that's okay. We understand how it is. Okay, so we're gonna play a game that I have called peril Okay, that bears a striking similarity to a copyrighted game called jeopardy So so there'll be a peril and super peril and double peril and yeah, the Analogy continues. Okay. Okay, so an important disclaimer, of course, this game is not fair So I don't want to hear any whining afterwards. Okay, and I don't I've got to be careful how I say that I don't want to hear any Corrections last year at Prague. Did anybody know this story? So I had some Prague trivia and Every single person from Prague got it wrong And It was well, I took it off a wikipedia. So, you know, come on if you can't trust wikipedia. What can you trust? Anyway, so the decision of the judges is final So I also I have a category Scotland this year. So I Apologize in advance to all the Scottish people who may miss the questions Okay, so how this game if you've never seen this game. This is a TV show very very long-running TV show we're going there's a clue on the board that will appear and That clue is revealed it. I don't know why they did it But just as kind of a weird thing you have to provide the question for that clue that matches that clue So you all of the statements that you make if you're contestant have to be in the form of a question Okay There are some hidden super peril questions Where the person who selected it can wager some of the points for their team That will be interesting We have two rounds of that and then we have something called final peril And I'll explain that when we get to that and the basically the team with the most point wins. So At this point talk amongst yourself while we get the game board set up. It'll take just a minute Yes, yes for those for those of you unaware we have learned nothing from our past mistakes Okay, let's see here. No, it's not that's pretty nice. Okay so now Okay, so I'm just I'm gonna pick a person totally at random cone Okay, so now this is only because we don't have a person who last answered the question correctly So you get to choose a category On the categories are mascots. Well, I'll read them to you Maintainers getting together. This is about Linux conferences distributions and silicon So please choose a category and a point value Okay, silicon Oh, we're editing the team names Okay And and if we get all the way to the end of this game without a python exception, it will be a miracle Because this this type of code is fairly hastily written Okay, so yeah, just click on 300.  Okay Mons That is correct Okay, so stand up. Okay, so that is front. Oh Did the scoring work? Oh Okay, so Tell us a category and a amount Painters for 200. Okay watch for the first hand to go up Olaf. Who is Greg K. H? Yeah, I'll just tell you right now. It's right Oh Yeah Okay, okay. All right Okay, let's be watching all the sections. Okay, so pick your who was it? Oh Ben what is a kite? Properly orders a question. Thank you very much, and that was correct Okay, did all the ringer set up front is that Okay, go ahead Mons What is a canoe that is correct? Okay front is tearing it up Distributions for 400 Okay, so please tell me a value up to a thousand points that you want to risk on this question And by the way, you have to answer He's in for a thousand okay So mon's you have about ten. No, it's just mon's that is still existing That is correct. You get to pick the next Maintainers 300 well we have Yoshi says someone Guys Okay, I think we have someone in the middle who is it Yoshi? Okay. There you go Yeah, yeah, that is correct Dave Miller middle All right middle gets on the board. Oh by the way you get to pick so Someone might know this But I have my doubts.  What did he say I didn't hear it Oh Well, I don't know do we subtract do you actually want to give that answer? Okay anybody else That was middle. Oh, sorry about that Yes, it turns out Python can handle negative numbers So okay, anybody else want to guess okay the correct answer was embed X Embed X which actually okay a little bit of trivia. Sorry. I came up with the name. I thought it was pretty cool What well yes, no one's heard of it Linio was a memory two years later Okay, so but the last person answer question correctly who was that I think over here so pick again Silicon for 400. I saw this hand right here Little wrong Okay, I don't know now. I don't know who the second was because I I'll say Grant What is omap is correct Okay, Grant these are all so easy I think it was pretty sure it was Wolfram what the heck is our That is the correct answer and the correct adjective I Knew I knew there was gonna be something in here that was wrong Okay, Wolfram getting together 300 I Made these two easy. Okay, right here. That's correct. I had to see what question we are on Yeah Of all people Remember if I made this hard or not. Oh, no, I didn't It was cone again That is correct Correct Cambridge UK was where That happened. Okay Let's do two more Yeah, we're not clear It's bad. It'll the game could change up And the the question selection does not need to be in the form of a question. Okay, what was it? Maintain us for other oh, yeah, who's Linus Torvalds? That's correct. How did you know that? That was middle. Yeah, the 100s are pretty Okay, one more so go ahead Distributions for 200. Yes Hard hat Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, subtract Sorry, it was not your at your response was not on the form of questions. So I'm afraid we had to mark that wrong Okay, so let's do another one though you can put you can pick since your answer was essentially correct. Oh Did you score wrong? Oh, but that was it that should have been a front. That should have been a front wrong. Oh Yeah, oh Yeah Okay, I'll tell you what if it's only a hundred difference at the end. I'll give it to you So I hate I hate to optimize but I Okay, one more so try the 500s that I saw in the middle. Who is it? Well, let's go Let's go with one of these guys here Yeah, go ahead What is Debbie and that's correct? Okay, okay, these are our scores After the first round, I hope it's not just because of the speed of light or something So, okay, but anything can happen because yeah next round Okay, so we're gonna move on to the second board and This has the following categories embedded Linux conference history embedded Linux milestones geek media postponed patches and Scotland so when one of these categories is a little bit different than the others Okay, so who was the last answer go ahead that is correct They continue okay, okay, give us select another category in point. Hey Scotland for 600 that is correct. Oh What oh, that's right Okay, I'm gonna confer with my so I don't have Thomas, okay It was like in the same sentence, so we're gonna call it right I Sorry, man Is it is it Gaelic or Gaelic?  Are you middle? You're middle, right? Okay, middle. Okay, so pick something. Okay That is correct That's front right. Hey, what's uh throwing it down. I think it was Wolfram. That is correct The consumer electronics Linux forum, okay, so go ahead and pick alright In the back that is correct. She's a category and a Who is it? What is sharp that is correct? Yes Okay Well a hand went up, but then it went down Okay back there. That is correct I'm middle section. Yeah middle section Okay, please choose a category. I don't remember if this one was hard or not. Oh That was hard and that is correct Okay, so choose a category and a point value postpone patches for a thousand actually I think this one is not that hard think it was Which one you wait, okay, wait, are you gonna override me back there? Okay, that is correct Sorry guys What was it? Sorry Scotland for a thousand don't think that's correct not a question and it's wrong Oh, wait, there was apparently one in the back here. Oh That that team's gone though. Okay, so go here Who is Robert the Bruce? Anderson is correct. So Mike has not shown up as much. He has come to ELC Europe He's not here this year, but he has been to almost every ELC over the years And he usually gives two or three presentations at last count. He had 26 presentations so What he did five at one of our beds crazy Great guy Okay, so postpone patches for 600 that is correct squash FS. Okay, go ahead What is the last Jedi is correct Okay, two more so go ahead Geek media for 800 so my personal suggestion is to go for it all but So how much do you want a wager a thousand? Okay, nice safe bet Okay, and only you can answer Surprisingly not the right answer So this is what is doom Oh, no, it was okay. Oh, okay, so Say that they so say that they got it right and then it'll oh you can do that Okay, one more question. So Geek media for 200 That is correct. What is the wrath of the heck one more question? What is Sterling Castle? That's correct. And if you're wondering I did my history research here That's the correct spelling of Stuart for the period It's changed since then okay, so now we're gonna move on to don't don't press anything So now we're gonna move on to Final peril and what we need to do is have Each section select one person to represent their section So talk talk amongst yourselves Okay, it's gonna come up. All right. Yeah, come on up to the stage. We have two pens Okay, here's a paper and a pen. Okay This is the middle section, okay Uh, oh there's stairs over there if you want to we don't have a lot of places to write Oh here, um Use this book Okay, and actually if you guys could move to separate sections of the stage You're in the middle and you can be just over there. It's your time Tim. Oh picture time Okay, okay, well you can use that Okay, so now how this works is Uh, these gentlemen who are representing your sections will Uh, we will first show the category the final category And uh, they will have a chance to make a wager now in the case of oh middle you're positive So That's good. So you can wager any amount up to the amount of points you have so there is What no they cannot wager a negative value That is that's a good question. I've never Uh, that's a great strategy you should go on jeopardy So you can wager any amount you want and then There's a strategy involved You want to make sure you have enough points left over to beat in case the other guys win etc etc And then after that, uh, we will reveal the answer And you guys will have about 15 seconds to write down Maybe 20. I don't know depends on how accurate we are To write down your question. Remember you phrase your response in the form of a question and then we'll see what happens. Okay, so The category is computer pioneers Okay, so select your wager Oh Oh, that would have been cheeky Okay, so have you guys got your wagers? We need to write them down. Yeah, write them down on your paper right now Okay Okay, so now here's I'm gonna get my stopwatch here Here's go ahead and hit the the clue Is everybody in okay, perfect. Okay, so Okay, now now we have to enter their answers. Okay, so let me this is front, right? Yes Okay, and there's the wager And middle. I'm not that would ruin the suspense I changed the capitalization. Don't worry. That's fine. No, it's just something him. Don't worry. Okay Okay, okay and then Hope so Okay, and then start from there. Okay So starting with 500 The the question was who is Alan Turing? hastily typed The wager Well, that is correct and the wager was 900 points. Okay. Yeah, next one is rear. Who is Alan Turing? I think they were that's a good point. Well, we're gonna blame that on the data entry Finally is front. Who is Turing? We're gonna call that correct All right, okay, okay. Thank you gentlemen Thank you You can go back to your seats now Please bear with us as we give some prizes to the front section So Remember how I said everyone gets a prize We'll get to that in a second first. We're gonna do First we're gonna select We're gonna narrow the whole section down to a couple of people who come up stage and stage and get a prize And I know this might be kind of anti climactic or boring for you guys in the back But hang with us.  Oh, and I gotta get where's my mouse. Oh, it's on the other screen Yeah, yeah, exactly Okay Sorry Okay, I've got a new background. I worked really hard on it So this is classic rock paper scissors We have approximately 10 prizes for this section of the round.  Oh, I guess I'm in control of this one. Okay Okay, this is the rules in case you're wondering Yes, yes standard rules Okay, remember on go ready set go. Okay stay in the game if you're a scissors if you're not scissors sit down That's an interesting scissors Okay Ready set go scissors Okay, how how how many do we have here? That's 10 Come on up. Okay, we'll do 11 if we have to Okay, so Talk amongst yourselves while we conduct our business hip here So No, you can select a select a number out there lwn.net gift certificate, okay, so mon's just won an lwn.net gift certificate for a professional subscription Someone just won a raspberry pi. All right Congratulations Scottish uh Celebration Oh, yeah, you're done. All right. Thanks grab a pocket beagle Oh, yeah, if you don't want to jump the stairs are over here Okay, you just won the three terabyte hard drive. That was only two rounds. I expected more What? Oh, yeah, really? I thought there were 11 in that Three there you go mastering embedded Linux, okay Oh, I see they're having a signing party right now Okay, so how to do this except just Don't memorize these Okay, wait, we're gonna have to skip that round Okay, so this game is for everyone. So everyone stand some people think I'm predictable strategy in real time Yeah, we may one of these rounds we're going to zero. You know that on lwn.net. It'll Okay, we still have some prizes left So Everybody up Okay, this time we got to get it down to one two three four five Okay, this is like This is likely our last round Uh We'll see though. Okay Ready set got to do one more round. Okay, so who's still up? How many do we have got to do one more? I'm afraid What Oh, well I'm fresh out Oh, yes This is very valuable Okay, ready set Okay Is that three go ahead and come on up or four four Oh, perfect seven raspberry pi. Oh, no from me I'm the power supply Scotland appreciation kit Well, it looks like it was either it was either the raspberry pi or the raspberry pi All right, thank you Oh, that's fine. We'll just leave it. Okay. So uh, this concludes our game We will okay. So the front section if you'll hang around for just a second. I have your almost you're barely a prize Um, but uh, let me see Okay, again, don't look at these I was really optimistic that this game would last a long time Okay, so I just want to say Just two really quick things There's been a lot of talk lately on the mailing list About code of conduct I think the simplest thing Is just be nice to everyone Okay, even those you disagree with Okay I have come to the conclusion looking at the numbers that linux is now the most pervasive operating system And actually probably the single most Used piece of software on the planet And possibly in the universe depending on your views on seddy But uh, so we've come a super long ways. It's been a great journey together. Let's keep collaborating I hope you had a good time at the conference and I thank you for coming Uh, let's just keep working to make linux a great operating system and a great community Sunshine and rainbow


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