Okay, so in terms of the agenda, I guess Chris will, I'll take one second to just talk about the, so the spot meetings, I guess everyone here already knows what they're about, but I'll just quickly fill in Leif and Scout.  No, I mean I know who Scout is, but I'm Leif Fedrikson, I'm a historian, worked with edgy for about a year and a half. Yeah, so the spot meetings are just, it's something that we've discussed in Radical Org and we thought that would be a good way to create us an edgy space where everyone in the edgy community is welcome to attend and which is not oriented to action items or is not tied to a specific working group, but it's a space for us to discuss common ideas or wider developments like the Green New Deal or maybe something of working groups working on that they'd like feedback on or work that somebody in edgy is doing, like Sarah's Lanterns project or anything else that someone's doing that we would all find interesting. So just a kind of learning space and a place to bring in new members and members from across the community is a way of bringing us together outside and beyond the tasks that we usually bring to do all edgy meetings. So, and we're planning to have them every two months, every alternate month on a Thursday at the same time as our all edgy meetings always are, so just in an off week from those meetings and we're looking for ideas for the next one as well, so everyone's welcome to ship in with ideas. So I think we can get started and Chris is gonna speak for about 10 minutes and then Kelsey's also gonna share the sunrise movements sort of take on the Green New Deal and then we can go ahead and discuss it. Chris, it's yours. You're muted, Chris. Yeah, yeah. I'm just concentrating on what I'm gonna say, so all right. So I think you guys I'm not sure how much of a chance you've had to read some of these links. I think they offer a pretty good overview of how this has come about this Green New Deal and the sort of the longer routes across the longer routes go back to the original New Deal, which is this huge shift in the 1930s during the Great Depression in terms of how government was active in the economy and you know more about that a little later. I think the more immediate roots of it of the Green New Deal, let me just share my screen if I could. Let's see that's that's this is what it is. The immediate routes. This article is a pretty good one going into all that the immediate routes are with the sunrise movement and I think I guess Kelsey is going to talk about that this sunrise movement going into Nancy Pelosi's office and sitting in and then Hazio Cortez joining them and that's kind of what sparked as far as I can tell the explosion of interest in the media and Green New Deal. This is an interest over time is a pretty good chart showing how you know things really picked up right around the time sunrise movement intervened and Hazio Cortez jumped on it. So but there are longer routes. There's as Dave Roberts article sort of suggests a lot of this. There are lots of journalists who've been covering this. It really goes back to the early 2000s. Some of the suggestions that there could be a comparable program in clean energy that to that of the New Deal was this is the paragraphs set of paragraphs that go into a lot of the background. It's also a sort of international idea. The UN part of let's see there's some place where the UN took up the idea. The calling for a global New Deal and Green New Deal in 2009. I don't know the British also seem to be on this in European Greens to comparable things. So that's the kind of longer routes and I think we're at a moment though where because the Democrats took the house in November of 2018 we fell into a moment where there was a whole receptiveness to what are the Democrats going to do now about climate change now that the Republicans have totally abandoned the issue and the Green New Deal kind of became the avenue by which Democrats could actually make this their central issue sort of weaving together a lot of other things they were concerned about as well. So I think looking at the at the you guys see the the the text of the Green New Deal is that coming up on your screen now you're great. Okay, so this is the resolution. It's actually it's not a program itself so much as a call for a program introduced February 7 2009 in the House of Representatives. I think it also builds on that October report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the assessment in US assessment about just how dire the situation is with climate change and so you can see the first of it the first of the Green New Deal is dealing with the findings from that report and sort of just putting them out there the highlights but the second part of it is also it's a night I think this is a great synthesis actually where we are in terms of a moment in US history for that matter. The four decade trend, the wage stagnation, the declining socioeconomic mobility, the concentration of wealth, the greatest income inequality since the 1920s. These are all other literatures that have been coming along I think over the last you know 15 years more or less independent the literatures have been of the climate change literature but the Green New Deal is at least in this statement is synthesizing these into a more sort of holistic sense of what what the crisis moment is now. So what they call for, this is page five, is a new national social, industrial and economic mobilization on scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era historic opportunity. So that's the big piece of it and then you get this is all the with these resolutions go there's this whole free animal thing that describes why we need to do something and then there's a resolve that is the duty of the federal government to create a Green New Deal and then the rest of it is sort of what what the pieces of this New Deal would look like. Fair and just transition, zero, greenhouse gas emissions, lots of jobs, infrastructure and so on you know what's striking for me as somebody who's been involved in edgy for such a long time or else you know two years is that is how little of our agenda is actually in this statement and I found you know stemming through this most of this is about building new stuff and it's not so much about and it's about building new things it's not so much about government there's very there's nothing about data really it's pretty pretty thin on what we've been oriented toward I think this is that this is the sole thing that I could find in the whole statement that really concerns things that edgy has been doing and it's more about governance than about data ensuring that the federal government takes into account the complete environmental and social costs and impacts of emissions through existing laws new policies and then it goes on you know ensuring the frontline community shall not be adversely affected so environmental data justice justice really so it's pretty thin on what we do and I think that's a sort of for me that's a that's indicative of some of its weaknesses I think you know I can go into these there's a whole I had somebody put up the links to Richard Walker and his living new deal and which is sort of belatedly trying to glom on to the new Green New Deal by making statements and he's done a nice op-ed in the Washington Post you know I think all of these are wrapped up now I'm gonna take I'm gonna take up too much time so I'm just gonna suggest this that all these are wrapped up with I think a sense my sense that this is basically for a particular political constituency and without much it's trying I mean it's very positive vision but without much sort of consideration of what happens to the rest of the country so it's in a way it's a kind of a vision coming out of a sort of Bronx Queens constituency increasingly white progressive you gentrifying neighborhoods and so on but still having a good deal of minorities there and the big missing piece I think one of the big men missing pieces is what does this mean for places like the South like West Virginia the South is actually very interesting in terms of the comparison with the old new deal the original new deal because it was this whole compromise over race that enabled Roosevelt to get those all that slow that slew of regent legislation through Congress he compromised on the racial a lot of the racial issues with the southern white Democrats at that time who were sort of wanting to uphold Jim Crow and so on and so that's been one of the big knocks that historians have on that original new deal and but I think there's this new this version of it the vision of it also sort of has is problematic in terms of the south what's the south has become because the south has become the seed of the anti-environmentalism in our country especially the white Republicans has also become Republican bastion and I think that that this new green new deal probably needs to to have a little bit more concrete vision about how it's going to take on the power structures that we're actually confronting an edgy that are there and what it's what it has to offer those constituencies that those power structures represent so that's I mean what about rest Virginia what does it mean for this for West Virginia so something like that and there needs to be I think some more of that if this is going to be a realistic thing I mean Roosevelt had huge margins in the house and Senate and that sort of political mobile is mobilizing has to happen has to be broader if anything like this is going to happen it's going to be achieved in our country now anyway that's my two cents on it and I'll turn it over to Kelsey you know thanks Chris you can hear me I'll try and speak up I need to de-sheer I think it's the bottom of the middle of the screen bottom middle of Paul's cheer is it are we not no longer sharing still sharing still sharing resume Paul's share new share it's not stopping it stop here there we go okay yeah thanks Chris that was really cool and I really appreciated you going through the text of the deal what I have is a lot more about okay well so I'll start with the Sunrise Movement it have you has anyone here heard of the Sunrise Movement can I see hands okay cool so Sunrise Movement is basically about young people supporting ends to climate change and young people is defined as up to 35 ish but it doesn't mean that other people can't it just means that that's who's in leadership for it and I'll explain a little bit about the vision and the theory of change but basically I've been involved with the Sunrise Movement sort of sort of like fell into it by accident but I've been involved with them for the last couple of months and I was initially excited about it because there was a lot of energy in the room and then I was secondarily much more excited about it because they had a really cohesive theory of change they they seem to have a really like really solid set of theories that they were working with in terms of how we can make real change so what I'm gonna talk to you about today is from one they have like multi-part webinars to try and do Sunrise 101 what's the movement and how are we doing it this is from their part two video notes but basically talking about what they're trying to take on and how so Sunrise Movement is bigger than just the Green New Deal but they see the Green New Deal as a big vehicle for what what we're trying to do they're trying to take on two challenges within Sunrise one is to end climate change and the other one is to end the kind of common sense that comes out of Reaganism specifically neoliberalism and strategic racism and basically they're looking around and they're saying well climate change is a huge issue for millions of people a lot of people are scared right now and that is both a responsibility we can take on and also a political opportunity if we can tell a clear story that drives solutions to the climate crisis while addressing economic and political inequality or economic it yeah then we can begin to change the language of what common sense is in in the political realm the the quote that they used when they they tied this the Green New Deal I loved this was quote the biggest sign of this emerging people's alignment is the Green New Deal and I really like that the way that they're looking at this so as Chris noted there the the Green New Deal is not a piece of legislation it is a 14 page resolution it is vague it came out in February what's really cool about that is that it means that this is our moment to say well this is a specific thing and we need it to be these several specific things in order for it to become legislation we want to support so while it is not currently concrete that's that's our time to say hey it needs to include this specific type of justice it needs to include racial justice it needs to include all this sort of stuff and some of the stuff that the Sunrise Movement specifically calls out as what it quote potentially can address is supporting investment in communities of color especially those hit hardest by climate change a jobs guarantee to address economic injustice a revamp of the agricultural system that engages rural farmers inclusion of disability protections and Medicare for all so basically that's that's the push that's the like what we hope the Green New Deal can be but there is obviously mobilization that needs to happen in order to make it something that's as sweeping and as effective as we hope it will be and their theory of how to make that happen is a combination of people power and political power along with an alignment of various political and social movements so essentially they want to build an army of young people and we'll get into a little bit of that of why why young people specifically and then they also want to make sure they have an electorate that is specifically sway able by those young people and is sympathetic to this cause and the way they're planning to build people power is through basically talking to people and ideally talking to media as well but mostly one-on-one just getting people engaged getting people active especially people who have not been politically active before especially among young people that's really easy to find people who haven't been politically active before but care about stuff and then politically essentially it's shifting the overton window type of stuff making sure that there is pressure on currently elected officials making sure that there are challengers to incumbents even if we don't think they'll get elected and ensuring that folks that are endorsed do things like support the no fossil fuel money pledges they had a really cool set of stats trying to gauge like where we're at and why this sort of political direction can or the sort of like approach can work I'll kind of read these off so this is all from the Yale Center for climate change communications 70% of Americans believe in climate change and want the government to do something about it 91% of millennials support 100% clean energy by 2050 which is a huge part of why young people are the big focus here over 80% of registered voters support the principle of moving towards 100% clean energy by 2030 and creating millions of jobs in the process one in eight registered voters say they would be willing to engage in civil disobedience against the government or against businesses that are making global warming worse and there is essentially overwhelming passive support so basically the way that they've mapped it they have like a spectrum they're using as a tool to show political like where we are politically with this but basically it seems like though there are not a lot of really active groups like mobilizing for climate change mobilizing for the Green New Deal right now there is a there is a great majority of people who if theory support it so instead of focusing on changing minds they feel that all they need to do is activate the existing and growing support base of young people and one of the things that I really enjoy when they're on these calls they they do a really good job of engaging with people and like I want to learn from them on how they do this facilitation because it's like it's really neat but one of the things that they consistently do is they say so anybody who's here have you like what's something that you've experienced in the last year as a direct impact of climate change and it's one of those language-changing things that they're trying to do of saying well like statistically most people believe in climate change but don't believe that it's necessarily now or personal or you know people still talk about it like it's future generations and so on these calls they're very careful to say hey you know I'm from Florida and we just got hit by three hurricanes so that climate change in my life how about you oh well I'm Kelsey I'm from the Pacific Northwest and I last year it rained ash from the sky that's not normal and right now it's like 80 degrees out and like I'm delighted but it's not supposed to do that till August anyway so that's sort of a couple of ways that they're working on the challenges of not thinking that crack the climate crisis is present and currently causing harm and the the way that they're working on like getting elected officials like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the obvious example is a way for people to re-engage with the system to re-engage with political action because trust is really really low in the government right now and it's really really low particularly in mainstream political parties and through much more active and specifically vocal younger politicians who've just been elected were able to see people starting to have hope again so I thought folks here would really enjoy the the approach of like the very specific intent to to change the language to change common sense and the re-new deal as a way to begin to have the right conversations that's my piece great thanks a lot Chris and Kelsey that was there was so much in both of those pieces that I think we can start talking about so does anyone wanna does anyone have questions comments I I have a lot so I'm just gonna start with at least one of mine and then I guess Chris I was just wondering what can you can you say a bit more about this southern political constituency and what do you think is left out because when I read the legislation I just thought it was it tried to really address lots of different constituencies and all various issues and not the legislation but whatever the proposal so I just wanted to hear a bit more about that particular constituency that you felt was really left out and how you think they could address the power structures in something like that resolution do you think I'm sorry before you talk Chris do you think it's worth having a couple of questions and comments before we have people come back just so that anyone else want to jump in on any other thoughts questions I have a question for Kelsey I guess which is what what does the you have a sense of what the son what edgy might do that could be helpful to the sunrise movement the answer they would like you to get Ruby to give you is there is a Google form you can fill out to officially endorse the Green New Deal as an org more concretely I don't have a specific thing or I would have already brought it up but it does seem like as we move towards getting specifics it would be really cool to have edgy talking about like well which communities are we supporting and how are we drawing how are we drawing these lines how are we how are we measuring impact because that's gonna be like the rollout's gonna have a lot of details that need hammering down correctly she'll I go ahead and address yeah okay yeah I think I mean I don't want to sort of go off too much on this but you might think about for a say West Virginia West Virginia is a place where in terms of the south that's what or where I would start because that's the cold that's cold country or any other of the sort of cold like Pennsylvania or Kentucky yeah where I think they see this oh it's all about the government investing in clean energy so de-investing in where they are okay and there's a little bit of there is language that you might think might you know applied up those places there's transitioning from cold but it's highly unspecific it's very unspecified and it's going to be easy for leaders in those places to say hey this is just about the rest of the country you know this is not gonna this is actually de-investing and and the government none of this money is going to come to us so having more specifics for instance about these coal the coal country people places that are going to be you know if this is if we do transition so so abruptly from coal these are the places they're going to be most agreed so I think having a more fleshed out vision of what it means for for those places that now all the investment is going into other kinds of industries what what are they going to get I mean it's just that it doesn't sound like at this point that they might get anything and especially if it's all backed by these other parts of the country and politicians from so I think that the idea to make a full new deal you need all this sort of people in congress that are going to vote for it and I think if the new green new deal can reach out to those places with actual you know promises to those constituencies the people in power there are going to potentially more easily be undercut so I think that's so that's what I'm thinking I mean I just looked you've looked back with my survey course that just how much of a margin in the House and Senate the Democrats had by 1932 and it was huge I mean this is we're we're pretty far from that right now and and I think that that sort of groundswell has to happen and you know you know the other places is I think suburbs and most of the cities in the south are very have grown more recently like Atlanta and Houston and they're much more suburban and I think a lot of it it those are also the places where a lot of the white progressives are moving from and so they're actually more a minority in that where poverty is more concentrated and yet they're car dependent so so I think having some sort of clear message to and those are the swing constituencies by the way you know across the country for republicans versus democrats so having more sort of goody it you know that's clearly targeted for these constituencies not the power you know the politicians but the constituencies in these areas where you want to win a win them over not just say oh this is just about you know New York City and gentrifying neighborhoods and you know let's be very unspecific about where it's going to apply I mean that's the typical urban move by the way is so so I mean that's the kind of thing I'm talking about so so I guess like my question there or the reason I mean I had similar questions as as a partner is like when I read it originally it's got somewhere in there there's like a super clear statement about like absolutely guaranteeing jobs and wage parity etc for people would be affected by that transition so why doesn't that language or what sort of thing would be better to reach say your coal miners in West Virginia or or the sorts of constituencies you're talking about yeah I think we're we we're so inclined to read this as people to cheer for it I think you got to read this as as somebody who's very skeptical and you know that's not a very strong signal it's also a signal you know many of these parts of the country the unions are under under attack and they're really shrunk back you know these are the most de-unionized parts of the country so that's a message that I think resonates more with people who are members of unions than in places where unions are now they've lost a lot of cloud and membership and so on and so most of the people reading this are not going to be they're going to see jobs if you know they're going to say oh this is just you know unless there's a clear signal that you know places cold country I mean this is the Trump people have been so upfront about how they're the guys for cold I mean this has really been the takeover point in the EPA you know Trump comes there and he's brings all these co-executives again to mouse they're just doing all these things I mean they those signals are very clear why can't the democrats do signals to cold country like them uh but they have a lot to offer and I think this this is definitely not that you know that's I mean compared to the republicans I mean putting out that kind of of clear appeal to their constituencies undercutting these guys power in those places that's that's I think what needs to happen I have calcium then Sarah yeah I really appreciate Chris you looking at this with a really critical eye like I don't totally buy it either one of the things that I have concerns about is like in my head I'm like oh well we go to cold country and we say oh well it shouldn't have coal it should have solar uh so we'll just retrain all the people doing coal into doing solar and they'll have better jobs never want to be happier um uh but I recently went to a rally for Andrew Yang who is uh going to be in the democratic primary debates he's running on a universal based income platform and he was like well so I looked at the numbers about retraining how we do on that um we have a success rate of zero to 15 percent um so that's very concerning because even if we guarantee clean jobs like in theory um we have to actually be good at that Sarah so um I we had a really interesting case in the EDJ meeting from Olga Bautista who's in southeast Chicago which is you know a rust belt area where the steel industry is super declined and I've been working with an anthropologist who's uh from there and we worked together to organize these balloon mapping events to map petroleum coke which was being stored along the Cali-Mut River um it kind of replacing old coke piles and what's really interesting in that case is the way they were able to use citizen science to um galvanize former steel workers um and environmentalists and the Latinx community um and in part that was through the activities of doing the balloon mapping and also because of issues around automation meaning that the sort of industrial jobs that exist now have so few workers and the work is so precarious um so I think EDJ potentially has something to offer um by kind of combining with public lab and thinking about the role of citizen science and also really articulating the precarity of a lot of these industrial jobs that are being promised even in coal mining now where there's and the return of the steel industry in the US is going to be largely automated so they're not good uh they're not working class um jobs that had kind of a future um as we saw with the steel industry so I think there are cases of really interesting kind of blue green coalitions happening and I think that uh that is frequently happening in places where people are starting to recognize the precarity of labor so I wonder if edgy could work at that nexus and kind of um do some do something about this that kind of the false promise of jobs in these industries um and uh blue green coalitions through citizen science particularly around you know the legacy spaces where a lot of these industries have operated are also dealing with you know serious environmental contamination um and so I wonder if there's things we can do to amplify that message um particularly around superfund sites um and bring in people like Olga or you know help lift up people like Olga who own this really great coalition building which we already started in the edj work um so and then the other the other question I kind of raised in chat in the chat here is like I think we could spend a lot of time picking apart the problems with the Green New Deal and there's a lot of things about it that edgy is not going to be able to solve like we're not a we're not a grassroots political campaign um so my question is really like which what are the places where edgy could contribute usefully where there isn't anything being articulated particularly around data infrastructure and you know one of the kind of really key things that was happening at the EPA before uh Obama left office was the it was the effort to try and integrate citizen science throughout the work of the EPA and so what you know is there something we can do to help build data systems that would support that down the line and maybe that's not entirely about the Green New Deal but it's could also support it could also support that um yeah I'm also wondering about the coalitions of universities um I don't really know what that would mean but how could how could universities play an interesting role in this um process either through our teaching or through creating opportunities in our cities that are around pedagogy and teaching around um just transition or something Dave? Oh yeah um I was just gonna follow up on some of what Chris said um I think that part of the issue is that uh you know it's one thing that the Green New Deal like there's you can imagine how policies can help shift to a different um energy source base but I think you know as somebody else mentioned that the as Kelsey mentioned about Andrew Yang like the the history of massive job transition is not so obvious and the policies to do that are not as clear like um and so I think that for many people like here in Montana you know I mean there's um I remember this quote from a guy worked in the coal in coal who still works in the coal industry here who is like you know this I voted for Trump because he's the only person who's arguing to save these jobs and he's and he's like if it doesn't work I'm not gonna vote for Trump again but like they're gonna ride that that that industry into the ground unless there's like a real alternative presented to it so it's one thing to say that there it's a doomed industry and it's another thing to say that to provide some sort of like alternatives and I think I mean I agree with what what Sarah is saying about you know moving beyond a critique of this um and agree that there is lots of things that edgy can do I mean one thing but one thing I'm interested I guess is whether we can deal with edgy or somewhere else is like or kind of on the history of like job transitions huge job transitions and why they have failed where there perhaps have been some successes or something like that to get some sort of historical grip on like what what would be um needed in a place like this out Steph I just wanted to say in terms of Chris's comment about why can't the democrats get their messaging together to gear something towards coal country and I mean I think it's because basically the reason the republican they're doing so well at that is because they're lying they're saying they're going to bring back all these coal jobs and you know make America great again and it's absolute lies and the democrats don't want to lie but they don't have anything true that sounds as good as that um especially if you know retraining doesn't really work because in a lot of cases you know the clean energy industry doesn't work in the same places that the dirty ended energy industries do um and then just another comment that I had was I think part of the reason that the you know the data justice side of things is included in this is that it's clearly geared toward the general public it's this is not a document that was written for you know policy wonks who are the kinds of people who care about the stuff that we do um whereas you know people in the general public are not going to understand even what data justice is and so I think the fact that it wasn't included doesn't necessarily mean that the people who are promoting this don't care about it just that they're writing to a particular audience that isn't us. Do we um want to think a bit like take up some of these trends in terms of what edgy might want to do with this today or do we want to postpone that to the next meeting where we have more of a discussion about edgy um how do we want to take this forward because we have another 10 minutes where we can actually either just continue what I think is really interesting about this which is the whole kind of jobs versus you know the question of retraining and and how we can involve also I think Sarah's suggestion about the citizen science and how that's obviously really an important part of it so we could just continue discussing this so we could think more concretely about kind of edgy and networks or work with regard to this. Sarah? This is kind of um and maybe outside of edgy stuff but I do think like in terms of retraining there's so much more universities could be doing to open space for retraining and there's a lot of work that could be done combining the kind of end-to-student loans call that's happening and a retraining call that's happening and kind of reinvestment in different forms of research too. So I do wonder if there is some way that um that academics could be helping to support something um like the just transition or or retraining I don't know if edgy wants to get anywhere near that idea but what about some of the other ideas um around working with sunrise that I'm seeing in the chat. Is that something um that we want to talk about a little bit like is there a way of connecting and I see Kelsey you've said it's decentralized but then yeah maybe in specific parts of the country or on specific issues is there. One of the things about the way it's decentralized that's really cool actually is that I think that it would be fairly trivial for me if I decided to to go and talk to national leadership. Sarah? I would love to I really like the youth movement part of this and I would love to see uh you know getting to Steph's point about the data justice stuff still being so distant from the general public part of making that less distant I think could be really engaging youth um in environmental data justice in part because they're more tuned into the whole questions of social media and extraction of data around them um and have this whole culture um built through it um and so I would I would love us to support the environment that the EDJ youth summit and see if sunrise would have any interest in engaging with us on that um because I I think that's something that's sort of doable the youth crews are already excited about it and um it'd be so neat to combine that with indigenous data sovereignty stuff um as a way of testing the waters. Chris? I I think there might be a place for like an op-ed or something like that on on the question of data and information um in the Green New Deal um I think like if we if we came up with a statement about that you know 800 words or something like that that and we could sort of collectively work on it and and develop our if we have a position to develop that uh that that would be a nice way of sort of getting us all more on the same page and thinking it through uh as well as um giving us the platform going forward we bring this to the to the leaders of sunrise and say hey you know this here's what we might bring to the table so. Rob? I was also just just thinking between some of the things you mentioned that um if if we see one of the one of the primary issues is being a lack of messaging to important constituencies um how can we identify in the work we're already doing um places where the stuff we do like really touches on those spots and focus our reports or write more reports focus around that kind of stuff right like if there's a thing that EPA is failing to do like in cold country west virginia or montana or something like how can we write more about those specific issues that we're seeing um as opposed to just the more broad scope stuff that we're doing. Kelsey just mentioned on the chat about um summer programs and maybe helping to provide some materials for them that sounds like a really neat kind of project to do um you know my my research is an environmental historian I do kids in the environment so um you know I've been very fascinated by all of this stuff um with the climate movement um but that would be really a neat project to work on I think to sort of and help them understand their place in history as well you know their place and where they are within the movement because a lot of them are coming into this with a lot of energy and excitement about what they're they're doing but I don't think that they know a lot about you know background about you know their their history that they don't know about I guess. Kelsey just um because I don't know that much about the sunrise movement I'm just curious um who what kind of youths or just like what's how did this begin and who are the who are the kind of um who are the founders or you know originators of this like just a little aside on the sunrise movement. The founder story that I've heard from from the movement is that there are about 30 high school and young college students who kind of got together in a living room about two years ago and said hey we should do something um I think there's a little bit more nuance than that in the story like I think that there was um uh specific interest from justice democrats somewhere along the line um but it does appear to be led by like mostly like the people leading the calls and facilitating are mostly in like their parents living rooms or in what's obviously a dorm room um and it's kind of amazing because the grasp of political theory is very very strong um it's it's really cool to get on like I definitely recommend I'll send out a link to the thing I took notes from just so you can kind of get an idea for how they do this because it's it's like they don't seem like kids you know um so we have about five minutes do we want to have some closing um it sounds like there's quite a few ideas there's the op-ed idea that Chris um suggested and it seems like that could be a good way of developing an edgy position on this and then we can share that with other groups there's the youth camp youth workshop idea um that's already edj is already thinking about so that could be in collaboration with sunrise um and then there's what rob suggested about and lay said um interviewing's already thinking about getting into specific states and specific issues so that could also contribute and then staff's um you know she's going to share materials on transitions and I think that might be something that we can also think about in an ongoing way just that question that also ties back to um what sarah said about the work that they're doing um I forget the name of the person but that's already ongoing with the activists that we heard from on the in edj so I don't know is that are they all things that we could maybe discuss further in another in when we in the next meeting when we want to talk about specific edgy work related to green you do anything on sarah just answering Chris's question um we work with um in uh over at sarah with earthworks ogat the oil and gas accountability project and they have kind of a net we're a network of grassroots organizations um that work on mining and oil and gas so they could be a really great um set of folks to reach out to you know we've talked a lot about coal country but you know there's also the new oil and gas frontier where there's all this environmental damage and that's oklahoma it's fruits you know so I think also concentrate on those places or finding the avenues to enter and have some say I was also I mean I think it'd be great Kelsey if you talk to sunrise about you know about what we could do or some collaboration or something like that if other people on edgy are up for that I was also wondering if through them we could get in touch with a new consensus which is the policy think tank that sort of developed the the green new deal and they you know they it'd also be cool to talk to them about possible collaboration or something that you know working with them on some data issues related to the green new deal so I don't know if you if you would have any ability to get in touch with them through sunrise or something like that Kelsey yeah I think it's really interesting I can pursue it um I don't know what my success will be like and I think it'd be a lot easier if I had something concrete and said edgy wants to help with this specific kind of thing versus saying hey can we help maybe that's a good point for our next call on this then is especially if we've had a moment to think about the op-ed because we'll have to kind of clarify things for that like where where could edgy really help Chris maybe I can just put up a google doc we can sort of brainstorm some ideas for the op-ed and see if something if something else from that and maybe that could be the basis for some some small meetings to get whoever wants to get on board with that I mean you know they're they're only allow like maybe three maximum authors but um maybe uh you know I think it should be a collective document and just somebody to be the representative for edgy once we get to the authorship so that's great can we take the last two minutes to just have a little closing round of um we didn't have an we didn't have a check-in though Kelsey really wanted to uh but we can have a little closing circle just because this is our first spot meeting so if anyone has any thoughts any anything to share about how the meeting went what we should do next time or just even how to take this work forward um specifically with the Green New Deal or the spot meeting so I'll just we'll just go around if that's okay Steph uh this is really cool I'm glad we got to hear everybody's thoughts and it was really productive and I'm excited to do it again in two months Rob um yeah same like this was super interesting um and there's a whole lot of really interesting points and stuff and good things to think about Dave yeah um I thought this was great thanks for organizing it and I definitely look forward to the next one anyone with more specific things that we can use to take forward um scout and then I'll get to you Chris I'll just say generally I don't know how specific this is but I've been very impressed with edgy sort of openness to different ideas and input from different groups and people and sort of thinking about things from different perspectives so um you know that that I think is very useful and can help academics get a better handle on how they can help and that kind of stuff so Chris yeah maybe we've we're solving now to this problem of siloing the working groups because it seems like we've got some good ways forward this has been a classic problem in edgy so I applaud you guys for for initiating this and it seems like it's really working great Kevin um I guess you know um for me I guess the intention was more discussion and we got into action items pretty like quickly halfway and so maybe stay meta a little bit longer and just allow like you know just thought and discussion to continue a little bit longer yeah that's a good point um Sarah it is a good point I'm sorry I always bring up action items just can't help it but I just wanted to thank Chris and Kelsey for putting in the energy to give the initial presentations I'm sorry that I missed yours Chris so thanks you guys yeah thanks with you and Kelsey you got to have the last word I really liked how different this was from other meetings I loved the lack of real agenda I thought that was really cool thanks so much for making this happen at farna the time went really fast yeah great thanks everyone um we'll see you thanks everybody yeah so we've got a recording of this and maybe we can draw I can make a few points out of it just for any future reference awesome okay great take care everyone


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Hello everyone, welcome to this session. I am Dr. Asha Tharangi and today we are going to learn quadrature phase shift king demodulation technique. At the end of this session you will be able to explain QPSK demodulation technique and state advantages, disadvantages and applications of QPSK. These are the contents we will be covering in this session. In the last session, we discussed QPSK signal generation technique. Now pause this video and recall how QPSK signal is represented for its four symbols. Well, table shows the four symbols of QPSK and its representation. As shown, they are combined by phase shifting the carrier signal cos of 2 pi fct by pi by 4, 3 pi by 4, pi pi by 4 and 7 pi by 4. We know that QPSK is a type of M-ary PSK where M is equal to 4. The signal is represented with the expression as shown. V QPSK of t is equals to b o of t root of PS cos 2 pi fct plus b e of t root of PS sin of 2 pi fct where b o of t and b e of t are in phase signal and quadrature phase signal and cos of 2 pi fct and sin 2 pi fct are pair of quadrature carriers used for modulation. For a pi by 4 QPSK for one symbol duration the signal representation for all the four symbols is as shown. Figure shows the block diagram of QPSK demodulator. As shown, it consists of a carrier recovery circuit, two correlators and a parallel to serial converter. As it uses correlator, we can say this is the coherent or synchronous method of QPSK demodulation. Let us see in detail how it works. The incoming QPSK signal is first applied to a carrier recovery circuit which uses a squaring circuit to recover the carrier. The received QPSK signal is raised to its fourth power to generate a sinusoidal component cos raise to 4 2 pi fct. This signal is then passed through a band pass filter to pass only a sinusoidal signal of frequency 4 fc and suppress all other frequency components. Thus giving cos 4 2 pi fct signal at the output which in turn is applied to a divide by 4 frequency divider circuit to obtain the coherent carrier signal cos of 2 pi fct. A quadrature carrier sin 2 pi fct is also obtained by phase shifting the carrier by 90 degrees. These two coherent carriers are applied to two synchronous detectors. We know that the received QPSK signal is the sum of product of pair of quadrature carriers with in phase signal b o of t and quadrature phase signal b e of t as shown. The coherent carrier cos of 2 pi fct and the received QPSK signal are applied to a multiplier of a correlator 1 whose output is integrated in an integrator over 2 bit interval 2Tb which is equal to 1 symbol duration. This integrator produces an output equal to b o of t Tb root of PS which is dependent only on the in phase signal or odd bits stream b o of t and is independent of b e of t. Similarly, during the same symbol duration the quadrature carrier signal sin of 2 pi fct and the received QPSK signal is applied to multiplier of correlator 2 whose output is now integrated in an integrator over 2 bit interval 2Tb which is equal to again 1 symbol duration. This integrator now produces an output equal to b e of t Tb root of PS which is dependent only on the quadrature phase signal or even bit stream b e of t and independent of b o of t. The output of both the integrators are sampled after every 2Tb time interval. The sampled values are either positive or negative depends upon the bit 1 or 0 at b o of t and b e of t. For bit 1 it is positive and for bit 0 it is negative. These 2 sampled values are then applied to a decision device whose threshold value is set to 0 volt. The device produces an output bit 1 if the input to it is positive voltage and produces an output bit 0 if input is negative voltage. Thus the 2 correlators they act as 2 BPSKD modulators which extract in phase data bits that is odd data stream and quadrature phase data bits that is even bit stream. The output of both the decision device are then applied to parallel to serial converter. The bit obtained from the correlator 1 is in phase data bit or odd numbered data bit. Whereas the bit obtained from correlator 2 is quadrature phase data bit or even numbered data bit. Both these bits are obtained during each symbol duration. Parallel to serial converter the bits are then obtained as output bit stream with the data rate RB bits per second. This is same as the data rate of the input bit stream which is used at the transmitter or the modulator. In this way synchronous or coherent detection method is used for QPSK signal demodulation. Now pause this video and based on the demodulation process explained till now for the received QPSK signal write down what will be it is respective demodulated output bits for each symbol. Well let us now see depending upon the QPSK signal received during each symbol duration what are the demodulated outputs. When symbol S1 is received VQPSK of t is equal to root of PS cos 2 pi fct minus root of PS sin of 2 pi fct. This makes the output of in phase channel integrator as positive and the output of quadrature phase channel integrator as negative. Decoding the bits as one and zero respectively. Similarly when symbol S2 is received decoded bits are zero zero. When symbol S3 is received decoded bits are zero one and when symbol S4 is received decoded bits are one one. Thus during each symbol duration two bits are obtained at the output. Let us see the advantages of QPSK. Among all the MRE PSK signals QPSK is most often used as it does not suffer from bit error rate. For same data rate bandwidth requirement of QPSK is half of that of BPSK and DPSK. Therefore bandwidth efficiency is increased here. Also here the information transmission rate is higher. In the presence of the multipath spread and fading conditions pi by 4 QPSK performs best. Both coherent and non-coherent detection methods can be used which makes the receiver design flexible. Along with the advantages QPSK signal also have some disadvantages. The interchannel interference is significantly large in QPSK. To avoid this QPSK uses filtering but due to this the amplitude and phase of QPSK waveform changes. QPSK requires around 8 times its bandwidth to transmit the same power. Compared to BPSK QPSK is more sensitive to phase variations. Transmitter and receiver have to be synchronized very often. Example by using a special synchronizing patterns before user data arrives. As far as applications are concerned QPSK is used in various cellular wireless standards such as GSM, CDMA, LTE, 802.11 WLAN, 802.16 fixed and mobile YMAX, satellite and cable TV etc. Thus in this session we have seen how QPSK signal is demodulated using coherent detection method, what are its advantages, disadvantages and applications. These are the references used. Thank you.


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All right. Welcome. This is NoSQL with NoCompromises, and this is really targeted at the, maybe not the broader sense of NoSQL that would include Hadoop. Although we do have a, we being gigaspaces, as a very good integration story of that as well. But this is more for big data, NoSQL databases, large clustered systems that try to emulate a conventional database to some degree, and fall short in some ways in order to achieve the goals of scalability and performance and reliability and all these sorts of things. Those are the compromises, but before I get to all that, let's move along. Okay, me, Dwayne Philpe, 25 years in accounting in the industry, from the development side really, various roles. The most recently independent consultant that was actually partnering with Gigaspaces, and then I joined them. And so now I'm the technical account manager, which I deal with pre and post sales engineering, proof of concepts, customer architecture, and the occasional speaking engagement like this. Probably more importantly is, I'd like to get an idea of the audience, just how many of you are kind of exploring NoSQL, not actively using it at the moment? Alright, so I don't assume too much here. And how many are planning?  Okay, great. And people are actually using NoSQL in production. And NoSQL like a Cassandra, HBase, et cetera, Mongo. Okay, great. So let's proceed now. So why are we driven to NoSQL in the first place? Well, limitation is relational databases. And the biggest reason is bigness. We've typically, from what I've seen, we've outgrown the data sets that we can comfortably store in a relational database. And we want to push the envelope on that. Sometimes not by as much as the typical use cases that are held up like Facebook or Twitter. You know, a few of us are dealing with data sets quite that large. And, you know, so we're looking to grow, we're looking for alternatives to handle more data, perhaps crunch very large data sets from our website operation and so forth. We're attracted to it because of easy scaling and not cumbersome clustering technology and conventional SQL databases. So scaling goes along with bigness, of course. But elasticity implies scaling at runtime, implies growing a cluster to handle very large scales and scaling up as well as scaling down. High availability. NoSQL solutions, again, like something like Cassandra or MongoDB or HBase or React or so forth, are very highly available. You're not reading through a single point of failure. And then reliability and self-healing goes along with that. And the large cluster is typically, if a node fails, data is replicated across the cluster. And actually, that replication is the source of some of the limitations we face with noSQL. But on the plus side is databases are highly reliable and the data gets moved around as needed. Extreme write capacity. You can be driven to noSQL because of the need for high write capacity. This varies. But again, goes along with the parallelism of having a large cluster of nodes, all of which can write independently. Of course, that extreme write capacity also produces the parallelism which ultimately leads to some of the compromises that I'll be talking about. And flexible data model is another thing. I'm not really certain if people are really being driven to a noSQL because of a flexible data model. Is that a prime driver for you? Who would say that's a prime driver? What's a flexible data model? That's what I figured. That is a great virtue. But not necessarily what actually pushes people over the edge to try to get beyond the relational model. So the compromises. The fact is that noSQL databases don't have any transactions. So there's a certain category of applications that absolutely must have transactions. And these are typically eliminated from consideration as applications that can use a noSQL database. A typical example would be a financial application that needs to credit and debit and account simultaneously. Without transactions, obviously, readers will get inconsistent views. Although that is a different topic from read consistency. So from what I pointed out earlier, I'm not a DBA. I do have my background mostly in the development side. But as far as transaction isolation, you're essentially only guaranteed atomic rights on individual keys in these databases. Which is not across multiple keys. Read consistency. This is one of the bugaboos that comes from having the high availability and the high right scaling and so forth. The databases now, our tuneability appears to be a feature that has come to most of them now. Read consistency simply means that when you write the data into this database, a reader is not guaranteed to read the value you just wrote. Even if you write it to a single key. Now there are many, many applications where that's fine. It's fine to wait for information to propagate across a cluster. And the reads consistency does not matter. But there's a large set of applications that require that. And they're actually built with that expectation in mind. There are ways around it that involve retooling your data model and architecture. Okay, no stored procedures. Typically there's no logic being executed. You could argue that that's a virtue actually, right? I know in my career, putting logic in a database was always viewed as not the greatest thing in the world to do. But the fact remains that many, many systems do have embedded logic in databases in the form of stored procedures. And you simply don't get that with no SQL database. Of course, no triggers. It goes along with no stored procedures. You can't. You're not going to get events. You're not going to get notified when something happens. And security while it's being nibbled out around the edges, it's immature at best. And you're not going to find sophisticated role-based security or Kerberos or something typically on a no SQL database. Yes. So some no SQL products do have transaction inconsistency. Does that mean? Well, the only way you're going to achieve that is, especially when I was getting to read consistency on no SQL was the... It's tunable. So you can select consistency into no SQL database in several of them. But the performance will be killed by that. You'll be having to wait for replication across a network to multiple nodes. There may also be several hops involved, even in rights. Yeah. So you can circumnavigate it, but at a performance cost. And part of the solution I'm presenting here is not just providing... I mean, if you've read the description of the talk, not just the provision of an acid transactional layer, but also extreme high performance. So the bottom line is even from the vendors themselves, there are limited use cases. They're usually limited to use cases that do not need consistency in transactions. They're limited to statistical type applications, too, for data mining and so forth. And that's fine. There's plenty of people that can live within those limitations. But for those who would like to take an existing application that is talking to a relational database and use a no SQL database instead, that's what this talk is about. So no compromise, what does a no compromises architecture look like? Acid transactions, fully consistent reads, strongly consistent reads, repeatable reads, horizontal scalability, and across the entire stack. Colocated native business logic. This is the equivalent of stored procedures written in native business logic. It can be a language such as Java or a .NET language or a dynamic language such as Groovy or JRuby. Real-time eventing. Triggers, equivalent of triggers, equivalent provided by a capability for doing continuous query. And by continuous query, I mean a query that's running all the time in memory, in our case, and that generates events in certain conditions that are reached in the data store. Complex event processing. The ability to respond to different events that occur, meaning data modifications, data updates, the arrival of data, the launch, asynchronous, multi-threaded processes, SQL queries. So the ability to do SQL queries, I realize this is not a new feature for most big data data stores, but this is a feature of the overall platform. A fully elastic and soft healing. So through the stack as opposed to a conventional stack, say with a web tier, app server tier, and so forth. Reads in the low tens of microsecond range. This is a cache read number, of course. We'll get into the details of that in a bit. Redundant writes in the low 100 microseconds range. These are redundant writes in memory. And roll-based security for both data and management. We've managed them with the cluster itself. A typical compromise architecture that I'm seeing now. Essentially what this boils down to is having two separate stacks. One to handle apps that can tolerate eventual consistency and lack of transactions. Or maybe something like this, where the app tier is actually smart enough to know where to go and maybe is actually combining the two together. And that's far as it goes. But we haven't solved scalability here. So the Franken architecture, yes. This is just pulling together a lot of pieces in order to produce what you need. And granted that some level of combining these parts and pieces together in order to construct a system is, it almost seems inevitable from what I've seen. But I think we can do a lot better than that. It's got complicated, obviously, many moving parts, all the different vendors, many contracts overlapping upgrades, different technology expertise, etc. It's not elastic and certainly not in any uniform sense. And it's inefficient. You're going across several network ops in a typical request flow. Okay, super cluster concept. So this is really the end result of this architecture. It's really a very simple note. How many of you are aware of Gigaspace's XAP product and what it is? All right, so before I get to that, well, actually before I get to this, Gigaspace's XAP here, I'll go into a little bit more detail here in a few minutes.  Gigaspace's XAP is an in-memory, horizontally scalable, parallel processing platform. And it's fully transactional data and processing are stored in memory and scaled horizontally. The NoSQL cluster sits behind it, serves data to XAP. And in effect, XAP serves as a sort of logical transactional veneer or layer on top of the NoSQL cluster. And this is sort of a note to myself, but this layering here is logical only. We have customers that actually mix the Gigaspace's cluster intertwined with the NoSQL cluster on the same nodes. So it doesn't have to be a physical separation. Okay, so there's some synergies here, obviously. XAP, actually, because of its nature, really is a NoSQL solution. And by the definition of NoSQL used for this conference, it's a NoSQL solution itself. It is a, it could be, it can be viewed as an in-memory, object-oriented database, clustered. It's an application platform. It's not merely a data store and that's where we get the ability to execute code and produce real-time event processing in front of the NoSQL back end. It's not disk-based. NoSQL is. So it's memory-based. This is, in practical terms, is going to limit the size of it, even though it itself has a very large upper limit on size. It's not going to become petabyte. Nobody's going to put a petabyte in memory for any of my lifetime, I don't know. But it adds a, let's see, it does a transactional layer here. They're both distributed data stores. They're both highly available. They're both elastically scalable independently. They're both self-healing and they're naturally complementary. This is just another view of it. So we have a lot of similarities and overlaps here between the two. When you put the two together, you end up with a platform that I think is really unparalleled of the power that you can get from the parallelism of the data access to the parallelism of the processing. So here we go. It's an in-memory clustered federation. This is the XAP product. Storage and processing, as I mentioned earlier. Transactions with strong consistency, high availability, and self-healing. So the way that's achieved is through replication here, we see in memory. So there's at least two copies of every data element. Normally organized on separate nodes so they can tolerate failover. It is horizontally scalable so there's a load balancing content based load balancing on the front of it. Data is sharded across multiple servers and lives in memory. Memory is the primary storage medium from XAP's perspective. Memory is the database. And if all your data fits in memory, that's great. If it doesn't, like we're discussing here today, you have no SQL needs. Typically we would have a relational database behind the scenes integrated with a store like this. But the additional, the combination of XAP with no SQL is more compelling because of the scalability, what it adds to the no SQL platform. And final, yes, XAP is no SQL. So you can combine. So here's a few slides just showing how XAP takes a standard stack and collapses it. You could view this as the no SQL database. And it's small, not because it's not important, but just because this is explaining XAP only. We'll take a standard message chair, a message broker, say a clustered message broker in an architecture like this. Messaging gets partitioned and co-located in memory. That eliminated one hop or multiple hops across the network to retrieve and fetch messages in store messages if you have a messaging layer. The business logic chair then also joins the messaging chair in memory as well, eliminating another hop or two. And then even the web care, the web applications can be hosted on the XAP platform and also manage the same high availability process, agent-based management we have to provide a high availability. And then the whole stack now that's all been joined in memory and clustered can scale in and out either manually or automatically based on performance metrics. So XAP, just some more details on that. In memory, there's fewer physical tiers. The logical tiers of course still exist. Logical tiers will always exist and should exist. But the typical organization of a full application stack in the physical tiers has great disadvantages for scalability. Data partitioning, this is similar to what you would see in those SQL database. Data partitioning spreads storage and load, although it's not executed the same in XAP. It has the same result, which means horizontal scalability and load balancing. So that's partitioning in memory? Yes. I said it was content-based partitioning. So when you actually define the data that is going to be stored in the grid, you can identify fields. The one thing I didn't mention for XAP, because we don't really have time to get too detailed, XAP stores data as business objects and or documents, and you can actually annotate certain fields to be keys and indexes and also the routing indicator in the object so that you can pick values that will scale evenly. So the annotations are at the instance level? Yeah, well, these are actually annotations on Java classes. So in the case of Java, we have a .NET also. And there's also XML, if you like that, you can do it in XML. So the business logic also is distributed across the cluster in memory with the data. So every node is running all business logic. So we also support a distributed RPC capability. Queries against memories. Query against memories flow to the node SQL store on MIS. So a cache in S, I mentioned before that we're clearly not storing all memory, all data in memory because the node SQL store is far too large. So when you run queries, these are SQL queries, you can run it against the data in memory. If the data is not resident in memory, the equivalent query will be generated and run across the node SQL cluster. The writes are persisted asynchronously to node SQL if desired, meaning you can also store data in there that doesn't go to node SQL if you wanted to. But generally the writes are persisted asynchronously and they are queued in order and they're fully transactional group. Continuous query triggers event listeners with logic. We showed earlier that you could have messaging in your cluster. You can also have procedures and events that are reacting to data as it state changes as it flows through or as it's replicated in the system. Management processes in the cluster detect failures, redistribute load, restart failed processes. So the system is scalable automatically and manually as well. And since user activity flows through Zap, user is exposed to Zap security. We're all flowing through this layer that hides some of the missing pieces of the node SQL system or the compromises. This is just a quick overview of the transactional rate. Just to give an example here. Is the node SQL like a third party node SQL or is it possible? Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. We have integrations now. We integrate with node SQL vendors. We are the in memory data processing cluster. We integrate with Cassandra, Mongo. We even have an HDFS integration although it's the story for HDFS. It doesn't relate to this talk and there's others coming. So the client will call a service which is exposed as a remote service from the XAP cluster. Copies are made to backup nodes in memory. The node SQL write is queued and the typical latency is experienced by the writer into memory is under 200 microseconds. Concurrent readers experience strong consistency. So I've written here, I'm not representing a write, but client writes are experiencing strong consistency. Meaning they're going to read exactly what was written. They're going to be locked out of transactions where that's desired. And experience essentially a relational database like experience. A query with a miss here and this is a little bit different. So we're essentially running, in this example, we're running Gigaspaces XAP in an LRU caching mode. Meaning that we're saving elements in memory that are most frequently accessed. In this case, client calls a service which queries or the client queries directly. Generally I advocate having a service layer on the grid so that you're not actually directly accessing the cluster. But either way, if the data is not in memory or an insufficient quantity is in memory, the SQL will actually flow through and be translated into the native node SQL query language on this end. The data will be returned to memory. The oldest existing data in memory will be expired if there's no space for it. And data from both memory and node SQL return to the call are typical latency less than 200 microseconds per end memory. Obviously if we have to penetrate to the node SQL layer, it's going to be bounded by the node SQL database itself. So do you guarantee consistency between the two data scores then? No, and that's an interesting point because it doesn't matter. Let's put it this way. There's a certain assumption here that we're accessing the data through the in-memory data grid. So clearly if you want the consistent view of data period, you have to go through that way. We're assuming also that we're not running a strong consistency mode on the node SQL tier. But if there's a miss on the memory cache and then you go to the node SQL store and another read hits the memory cache, you're going to get two different reads because you're looking at partial data, right? If I can't get two different reads because it wouldn't be a, it's not in memory to begin with. A portion of it quickly, right? Or did I misunderstand that? You said if some, I thought you said if some of the data, not all the data was in memory, so half of it was in memory. Right. And then when I went to do a read of that half, a rest of that half, I could get different reads on that. No, actually the read will be, well, let's see, the read in progress, I see what you're saying. The data from the cache in this that comes back, it could be, yes, that is quite possible that you would get for the data, the remaining data could be, if you weren't doing a key-based selection, it was a say a range-based selection. And there were multiple possible satisfies on the node SQL and you could get, the idea here though is that when you write, when you're writing into the data store, you could view the LRU memory storage as a queue to some extent. And reads that are against that store are going to be consistent. The only thing that the data durability in the cache has to surpass is the length of time it takes the underlying store to replicate, which is typically very fast anyway and we're talking sub-second issues. So these are for the strong guarantee. This is coming up pretty well. I think this is the key point I wanted to make here at this time. XAP really hides the lack of transactions and eventual consistency from client apps and frankly you just don't have to deal with it. If you're looking at taking, say, just replacing a relational database in an architecture, it's actually a possibility. You can eliminate the need, as I said here, but you can eliminate the need for many architectures, maybe perhaps not all, but for many. And of course you get XAP decorates node SQL with real-time event processing. So you get all of the benefits of an in-memory data storage and distributed RPC environment and a complete stack. The client apps experience and memory speed and the entire architecture scales horizontally. You could really almost visualize this as, I know the comment earlier was that we used to apply the node SQL, but these two are so complementary that you can almost imagine a product that had both, simultaneously because they are such natural matches for each other. And I think this is an important thing. This isn't just some idea I had, this is actually real. We have integrations currently with Sandro, MambaDB and HTFS as well. That's the Hadoop story, which is a different story. So if you want to see more about or look at some of my recent activity around this integration effort, check out the Gigaspaces blog. There are a couple of recent posts, Cassandra on Acid. You get the elephants and eyeballs. This is actually an integration with the Gigaspaces grid with both Cassandra and Hadoop simultaneously. It's kind of an interesting use case there. We're past time, but if you have any questions, thank you.


An armed man drove a car through a barrier onto the grounds of the Hamburg Airport on Saturday evening and shot a weapon twice in the air. A police spokesperson said, police said no one appeared to be injured, but the airport announced it was currently closed for takeoffs and landings. The event occurred around 8 p.m. local time, police said. After firing the shots, the person threw two burning bottles out of the vehicle. They added, the police spokesperson said a child was in the car, the police said separately on social media platform acts that they were conducting a large operation and were assuming a static hostage situation. A spokesperson for the airport said 27 flights had been affected.


I'm specialist Michael Vining. I'm a 240 gunner. I'm in 2502 Charger Company. We're doing a long-range, large-scale aerosol. It's just been a whole lot of prep. That's about it. A whole lot of prep to make sure the mission is successful and goes really smoothly. So as of right now, it's just me and my fire team. We've got four dudes. We have a 240, 249, 2M4s, one 320, and a Stinger. I am six generation of combat veterans. I grew up in the entirety of army, military, marines. Brother was a 275 Ranger, died was in Fort Bragg. Great-grandpa was a Marine, and great-great-grandpa fought in World War II. I'm the first one in my family to serve the hundred first. All right, my name is Sergeant Reeves Anthony. I am a wheeled vehicle mechanic. I'm a part of 2nd Brigade Strike, 526 Brigade Support Battalion Bravo Company. We are currently conducting a mission for PZOPS. I am the CAT team NCYC. I have PFC Johnson back there as my alternate for CAT teams, and I have other CAT teams throughout this airfield. And then I have one of our hooker teams behind us that is hooking up the bird as they fly over. If the load, when the hooker team hooks up the load to the bird, whether it's a Blackhawk or a Chinook, they hook it up, bird picks it up. If there is anything wrong with that load, there's a twist, there's a flip clevis, twisted the apex, any of that stuff, we will come back, the bird will lower the load. The CAT team will go out and respond by trying to fix the load with the hooker team, assess the situation, try to fix the problem there. Last night we only had three frustrated loads and we got them successfully up. So we are using CH47 Chinooks. We are currently slinging a 1097 Humvee. With all the training and the rehearsing we've done, I'm really confident in my team. All of my guys are aerosol qualified. My biggest advice would be stay warm and go aerosol. My name is Specialist Brian Klossin. I'm a Utilities Equipment Repairer. I'm from BECO 526 and I'm a team leader of a hooker team. We are hooking loads up to the birds tonight to send them out. We will be using the CH47 Chinooks and we are slinging Humvees and ISVs. Really we just made sure everyone was confident knowing that safety is important as well as being speedy and efficient and again just being confident with everything we do.


King Castle was started back in 1980 by Glenmwyllee. He formed a business in his bedroom and it's developed now into 22 million-pound business. I'm really pleased with how the Welsh Government interacts with Welsh producers. I attended the Taste Wales event in 2017. It's a great forum for everybody to meet and discuss opportunities. Clusters are a fantastic opportunity to bring a whole wide range of businesses together and they're all there to help each other and share experiences.


US Air Force, F-15E Strike Eagles aircraft pilots, assigned to the 335th Fighter Squadron and Tactical Air Control Party Specialist assigned, 14th Air Support Operations Squadron, conducted combined close air support training during Exercise Razor Talon 24-1 at dare bombing range, North Carolina. November 16, 2023, Razor Talon 24-1, Base Attack Training 24-1, Agile Combat Employment and Focused Exercise. Designed to test the 4th Fighter Wing's ability to operate as a lead wing and integrate with mobility air assets to deliver combat air power all while operating from austere environments. Juster 6, Echo 1, we got two, there's a gunner on the back of the vehicle and one in the driver's seat. You guys stay here. Can we get the guys to the remote? Move to the door. Do you want me to grab the remote real quick? Yeah, grab the remote. That's your one, everyone. Thank you, guys. Juster 6, EOD. Prepare for remote cut. Everybody, focus down. There she goes. Give it a second. Hey, you with me? Hey, you see me? Hey, how many? How many? Two. Okay. Well, I don't really shave this, just shave all this part off, right? All right, let's find this. All right. All right. Hey, take the rest. Okay? Yes, sir. Hey, use these to cut. You need to use it. You want this? All right, I'll see you. Yep. You want me to hold it? No, leave that there. Leave it here. You can cover it straight over with that. Yep. All right. There she goes. There she goes. There she goes. There she goes. There she goes. There she goes. There she goes.


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I think that just about everyone has their own definition of what a budget is. And there is a huge difference between living off of potatoes, rice and ramen, versus being a bit strict and just keeping track of your expenses. When you actually look at the average amount of money spent per week on food per person in America, it's around $120. And you might think that's a lot of money to spend on groceries, but we're not just talking about groceries here. The average person spends about that amount of money on all food in general. So if they get a $5 coffee every morning, if they go out to a restaurant once a week, their total food budget is $120 per week. And regardless of what diet you follow, going with that average food budget, it's pretty easy to follow even a carnivore diet, a keto diet, diets that are deemed to be more expensive because they are higher in quality foods, particularly animal foods. And can you do a carnivore or a keto or a paleo diet on an extremely strict budget? Yes, I guess you can. Maybe last year I did a video on how you can do the diet as cheaply as possible. You'd be buying conventionally raised ground beef, commercial eggs, super cheap stuff. So if you really want to buy cheap meat and low quality stuff, you can make this diet work for like $2 or $3 a day, but at that cost you're really losing a lot of health benefits and in the long run you're going to end up spending more on medical bills, you're not going to feel good, you're not going to have as much energy. Become a big believer in spend the money on the food, be an optimal version of yourself, and use that optimal version of yourself to make more money to be able to afford that quality diet. So all we're really going to do today is have some ground beef and some beef tallow. You can't get much simpler than that on a carnivore diet.  Do we need our omega-3s? Do we need our vitamin A from liver? Do we need vitamin D3? Frankie Boy just got some sun if you could not tell from my bronzed skin. I don't have liver today and I don't have any fish today, but it's really as simple as having like a cod liver supplement. I have one right here actually that I give to my family. This is Arctic cod liver oil. This is a range of 200 to 600 IU of vitamin A per serving. So you'd have to take like 15 to 20 cod liver oil pills to get the amount of vitamin A that's normally in liver. But the nice thing about cod liver is this has your omega-3s, this has your vitamin A, this has a lot of nutrients. So just by having something like cod liver a few times a week, having a serving of liver a few times a week, some fatty fish, you can easily get all the nutrients your body needs at a very affordable price. The bulk of the calories you're consuming, you know, 85% to 95% of them are really for energy. That other 5% to 10% is micronutrients, you know, focusing on specific foods to get you certain vitamins, minerals, elements, and fatty acids that your body needs. So I have some super fresh ground beef. This is actually the ground beef we are offering in our fresh beef pack on Frankie's Sweetrange Meat. I think we have a couple left. So if you guys want to jump on that fresh, never-frozen beef, I have about two pounds here that we're going to saute in a pan. And I got a little secret I'm going to show you guys today. This is a pot of beef tallow. But this is no ordinary beef tallow. This is fermented beef tallow. So what I did was I took some raw beef fat. I let it rot for a couple of weeks at room temperature. I would probably take about two months in the fridge. And then I rendered it down at a low temperature in the tallow. The reason people consume fermented foods and indigenous people, our hunter-gatherer ancestors used to consume fermented foods is not only for the flavor, it's for the vitamin K2 content. So if you have a dairy allergy, if you have an egg allergy like I do and you can't really tolerate high meat. Some people have a histamine intolerance. By rendering that fermented fat, I have a low histamine, low bacteria source of vitamin K2 that is hypoallergenic because it's not dairy, it's not eggs.   The raw fat was, oh man, that was pretty unbearable, especially when this was rendering. But the tallow itself is my little secret for vitamin K2. We might be selling this on Frankies for your age meat soon. Let me know if you guys would buy fermented tallow from us as a source of vitamin K2. And not only does this have vitamin K2, it has all of the fat-tival vitamins that would be present in beef fat with that added bonus of vitamin K2. And vitamins are synergistic. So when we're getting our vitamin A from liver, our vitamin D3 from the sun, we need to get vitamin K2 from some type of source. And it tends to be the vitamin that some people have a difficult time getting. So by combining that fermented beef tallow with our ground beef today, we're going to have a pretty close to nutritionally complete meal. I have a carbon steel pan here. This is similar to cast iron. It has to be seasoned. It retains heat very well. It heats up very quickly. Carbon steel is a little bit trickier to maintain, although it tends to be better as a nonstick surface. It's usually more expensive as well.  All we're really going to do is put the pan on high and we'll get the ground beef cooking. So I'm just going to put a little bit of the fermented tallow in the pan. And the one thing I've noticed about carbon steel over any other pan is it heats up incredibly quickly. It gets smoking hot in about 30 seconds. The tallow is starting to sizzle. I'm just going to put a pound of ground beef in the pan. And this is good for me. This is how I like my ground beef. You know, it's a little bit raw throughout, but most of it's cooked. So I'm going to cook about another half of a pound. I do have a bigger carbon steel pan, but I haven't seasoned it yet. So I'm just going to do two smaller batches of meat here. I think I'll go a bit more rare on this batch. So just warmed up a little bit. I'm sorry. I actually forgot to turn my microphone on earlier when I was filming the meal. And I normally only have one meal per day. It's now 11 p.m. We were going to have that meal at 2 p.m. I figured, you know what, let's do a throwback to my bodybuilding days. Let's do two meals. So I have my, I didn't comb my hair hat on. When girls wear this hat, I call it the Tarzan hat. You know those girls that like dress up and then go to the gym and they're half naked, but they wear a hat and they're like, it's like this and they don't want anyone to bother them. I'm kind of like, I feel like I'm the male equivalent of that. So we're going with the, I don't want you to bother me unless you look like Tarzan. Then you could spank me. Look, that's what we did today at the gym, but that's just my explanation for why I'm wearing the hat for you guys. So we do have the same identical meal that we had earlier. And the reason I say this is a throwback to my bodybuilding, you know, back in 2015 when I was training for a fitness competition, I would wake up and I would have a pound and a half of meat and some rendered fat. At the time it was clarified butter. Today I have the fermented beef tallow. So this is essentially the meal that I build a lot of my muscle on. The main thing is pound and a half of meat, some fat to satiation to appetite. This is an amount of meat and fat I found that I'm comfortable eating twice a day, once in the morning, once at night. It's a very easy meal to digest, you know, it's ground beef, you don't have to chew it a lot. You have the rendered fat. It's very available to the digestive system. Nothing stressful. Just add a little bit of salt. You know, this would be great with some organs here and there, but we are actually getting all of the nutrition we need just in the meat and the fat. So I'm going to put some salt on top. You guys can probably see by the color of this meat, like half of it's raw, half of it's cooked. And as I said earlier, this is the fresh ground beef that we're offering on frankiesfruityrangemeat.com in the Fresh Beef Package. So if you want some of Frankie's meat in your mouth, definitely check out frankiesfruityrangemeat.com. We will have the Fresh Beef Package available for about a week longer. I'm in like a love-having relationship with ground beef, like this is so good.  I did add some of that fermented tallow to the ground beef, so maybe that's helping it a bit.  Ground beef. Super tasty. I really like the contrast between raw and cooked meat. You know, I feel like at the beginning of the meal, eating the raw meat, and then as the meal goes on, I start craving the cooked meat more, I start picking out those pieces. Let's have some of the fermented tallow. So since I've had this before, I know what it tastes like, and if you guys are unfamiliar with high meat, high meat is essentially rotten meat, fermented meat, and every single hunter-gatherer group fermented meat because it gave the meat certain properties. The meat gets two things, beneficial bacteria and vitamin K2. By taking the raw fat that we fermented and rendering it, we're removing the beneficial bacteria, and this is good for people that have gut issues like SIBO, Candida, histamine intolerance. This lowers the histamine content of it, so those type of people can tolerate it and get their vitamin K2 in. What's really interesting though is this beef tallow tastes just like the high meat, the rotten meat, except it has the texture and consistency of tallow, not of rotten raw meat. Think of it like cheesy beef butter, that's exactly what it tastes like.  What's interesting about fat, if any of you old school Frank Tafano followers remember my food powder ability video, is when you eat a certain amount of fat, you'll get a slight feeling of nausea.  Your body is going to tell you it's not hungry anymore. And if that's not the case, if you have issues with hunger signals, you might have some sort of nutrient deficiency. Let's touch on the nutrient content of this meal. As hunger is divided into fat and protein components, so can nutrients for the most part.  So generally speaking, whenever we're talking about a muscle meat cut or a protein cut, there is fat contained in that muscle meat. And this is important because fat is where the nutrients are. The fact that the muscle meat, the more nutrients it's going to have. If a muscle meat is very lean, it will have, you know, the B vitamins, it will have vitamin C. Those are the two groups of water-soluble vitamins. And there will also be various minerals and elements in the meat. But in regards to actual fat-soluble vitamin content, there needs to be fat. So we can usually make those two discrepancies between the lean and the fat of the animal. So as I said, we have the B vitamins and vitamin C primarily in the protein. But then when we go to the fat, we really do have everything. You know, we have vitamin A in the form of retinol. We have small amounts of vitamin D3, although, you know, we're getting D3 from the sun, as we are meant to. We have vitamin E in the fat. All quality animal fat contains vitamin E. It's not something people talk a lot about as well as vitamin K2 because it is a fermented food. Omega 3 fatty acids. If does have fairly good amounts of alpha-linolenic acid, which is the precursor to EPA and DHA, and that can be converted if you have a good ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 in your body. The issue with most people when consuming alpha-linolenic acid precursors to EPA and DHA is that their diets are so high in omega-6 that the omega-6 inhibits the body's ability to utilize an enzyme called the 6th desaturase enzyme. This is the enzyme that converts alpha-linolenic acid into EPA and DHA. So when you overload the body with omega-6 fats, you can't convert alpha-linolenic acid into EPA and DHA efficiently. So the reality is, this meal is nutritionally complete. Yes, we could have eaten some liver for some more vitamin A. We could have had some fish for some more omega-3s, but just this, you could survive off of this for, you know, I don't know how long, really. If you want to do this and keep it affordable, you know, on Frank East Remain's meat, we do have cod liver for $2.99 a can, cheapest price I've seen online. You know, you can get cod liver oil itself. You could buy liver locally from a farmer's market. Liver, fish, especially wild fatty fish, are generally very affordable. So if you want to do add that extra nutrient content to your diet and supplement a little bit of those foods every week, it'll only be a few more dollars. The ground beef cost me about $5 a pound. So total cost for this meal is like $8 or less. And if you want to have two meals per day, it's like $15, $16 per week, that's what, like $105, $110. That's well below the average, you know, weekly grocery expenditure of $150. When you actually analyze the cost and see how much you're spending on food, it becomes very clear that a carnivore diet isn't more expensive than other diets. I personally do spend a little bit more than average, but that's because I buy a lot of really high quality food and I buy food for my family as well. So yeah, I spend $7, $800 a month on food when the average person spends $600.  So when that amount of money spent transitions directly to groceries, people sort of panic a little bit. I don't because I know I'm spending a similar amount of money to what other people are spending. It's just more of a direct investment in food from one source. So as I mentioned, you guys could check out, you know, the fresh beef box on Frankie's Fruange Meat. We are looking forward to offering the fermented beef tallow in the near future. As of right now, we just have regular beef tallow. Right now we also have a fat pack.  And towards the end of the summer, guys, we should have some beef belly. So guys, definitely let me know down in the comments below what other products you would like to see. If there's any other fat sources you guys would like us to have. We are looking into a grass-fed butter source as well. Might not have brought initially, but you know, the more support we get, the more orders we fill, the quicker we will be able to do the things you guys want us to do. So thank you guys for joining me today. If you could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon and share it if you can. I'm probably going to have a couple more bites. I really did enjoy this meal. The tallow is delicious. The ground beef is very good. It's super simple, cheap, affordable, goes down very easily. And for the next day, you know, I just take these leftovers, I leave them on the counter or throw them in the fridge, and then I'll do the same thing the next day. This to me is an example of a cheap, affordable meal in which you can be perfectly healthy with, and it tastes good because it's quality food. If you have high quality meat, high quality fat, and it's prepared adequately, it will always taste good. But you know, if the fat you rendered wasn't grass-fed, if the meat is great, you know, you can have issues depending on the food quality. So definitely keep that in mind. The reason this meal tastes good is because of the quality of the food, not so much the preparation. Thanks again for joining me today, guys. Let me know what videos you guys would like to see in the future. I'm looking forward to doing some more live streams, maybe, I don't know, out in nature at the park, and we could also do some more day in the life stuff, if you guys want to see that.