So, tell us a little bit about your growing up. Where did you come from? Well, I came out of the womb with my mother. As ever, I was a good pushy because my parents came from Scotland. My father died first because my father worked for shallow oil and so my eldest brother was 15 years older than me. I was born in Los Angeles, but they came back to eventually in the Depression. And then I came down from Scotland to Coventry because my father was offered a job. And my mother was pregnant, making my life three months early. And it was in 1936, the year that it was invaded by the Roar. I took over the Rhineland, and over the Eighth Duke Windsor Arcticated. So, quite a metaphor really. But he didn't get a job, so he went back to Scotland. And then, a couple of years later, he came back to the Works Manager at a factory in Coventry. And we were there to ask for international service at that school. I mean, it wasn't very clever at school, I'm afraid. Because any exam was something like that. So, rather possibly made up for later, but not at school. Well, you were a little boy during World War II. Tell us a little bit about that time for you. Well, of course, the actual time, of course, obviously, in 1939 and the Second World War started. And we lived in Coventry in 1940, Coventry in November, which was one of the first cities in Britain apart from London to be heavily bombed. And something like about 800 people died, unfortunately. There were many casualties. I don't remember much about it. My parents, looking back, my parents were very kindly sort of sheltered, I suppose. But I do remember after, when I was about four, after the bombing made, there was no water or electricity. And the police and emergency services came to see my mother. And we had a cold wane in the kitchen. And she was able to boil water and people queued up through the house. Remember, people doing that. But really, I was rather protected. I don't remember being affected by the war. Although I suppose all women, because it was very much sort of women, where they looked after the house in those days, I suppose that they must have had enormous problems feeding them, because of the versioning and that sort of thing. Absolutely. I should think so. But you began work at an early age as a retailer selling books in a stationery shop, magazines. You even worked at a London library. Tell us about your early days in your professional world. Well, as I said, I didn't have any qualification when I left school at 16. And so much gave my father's will. I went to work for a firm. This is the publicity plant, W.H. Smith. And I worked for the man-and-boy for 36 years. But I started delivering newspapers. And then gradually I moved to the other departments and was shot in the store in Coventry. And it was a slight incident which I'm only sure no one here will remember. Because they were actually closed about 1955, I often have to say. But both Smiths and Moons have lending libraries. And people could pay a yearly subscription. And the really superior people paid six guineas, six pounds, six shillings. And they could choose any book they liked. And obviously they had a preference for the latest title. And then there was the A for who paid three pounds. And then the Muckers who paid. The B tickets. And the theory was that people would walk, the libraries were always at the back of the store. And the theory was that people would walk through and they would see a book or a station of newspapers or whatever that they liked. And they would buy it. Well, in fact it was rubbish. People just walked in and chose the book. By about the mid fifties, in its real life, they weren't really attracting customers. So they would choose the spacemen more profitably. But my father went to see the manager and said, is there anything my son can study? And the upset was that I did books of his exams, which was literature and playing practice, which actually the university standard eventually. And so I passed. But I started in Smith's glorious son, working Monday to Saturday, sometimes Sunday, Thursday afternoon off, and I got paid one pound, twenty-five pence of cash. Wow. How did you survive? Well, I didn't. My father insisted. I gave a mother a pound on Friday, and by Tuesday she would slip me five shillings cash. I didn't have any. But it actually had a benefit in that when I did my national service, that all the boys in the billet smoked. I never earned enough money to buy cigarettes, so I didn't really smoke. So it wasn't a problem. Especially in the early days of the national service, you would go up on a Thursday, stand in front of the officer and salute him, stand in feet and say you're another mother, 272, the 671, and sir. And he would give you whatever money it was. But of course, a lot of the guys, they bought the best cigarettes on Thursday and Friday, and then it gradually descended, and I don't know if anyone here remembers, but there used to be cigarettes called woodbinds, and they were actually sold, they sold them in 2010 and five in a packet. Some of the guys by Tuesday were managing to get five packets, so it was hard to remember. So you know, it was an advantage that I didn't actually earn very much money. I actually went up, I think when I was 17, I went up to 30 shillings a week for one pound of 30 a day, but it actually was worse off because I had to pay national insurance then, when you were 17. So I actually got less money than I did when I was 16. Wow. Wow. Please give us some perspective. What would that equate roughly today in today's currency? What would you afford with that money? I haven't really had any idea of how much it equates. I'm sure there's probably someone here today that would be able to say, but I mean, when you did your national service, the last six months of the two years, you actually got regular pay. And I was getting, I was a senior air craftsman acting corporal. And people had something to call me, sir. Wow. And they, they, and I got six pounds a week and my key, and I went back to Smiths for about five pounds, ten shillings a week, and I had to give my mother four pounds and my father said, you must give your mother money. But it did, I would say that the company promoted me and I was able to advance. I've got to actually give them credit. And they were great. I have comments now about them, but I have to be very careful because I get a pension from them. And I don't want to accept anybody. But in those days, the Smith family were very dominant and, you know, the, the honorable mayor of Smith would come and visit them, that lady Helen Schmidt and so forth. And it, I know paternalism is often criticised nowadays, but a lot of us worked for the company for not very large wages because we enjoy the atmosphere, we enjoy working with the company. They had a very good welfare system. They had a convalescent home. And I know that it's called paternalism, but a slight hobby for us at mine is I hate the initial HR. It's not human relations with people. And I think that today people should be misferred. I think HR departments is totally wrong. And it's good that it's a hobby course at mine, so there you are. Well, okay. But your job took you to Belgium. Yeah. So tell us about going to Belgium and what happened to you there. Well, I went. By this time I was working in Birmingham, and I had my borsos exam. And in those days, we had a store in Paris and in Brussels and Amsterdam. Before the Second World War, there was one in Berlin, but Mr Hitler didn't like that. And so that was clear to him. Anyway, the gentleman who was in, it was thought that only British people actually buy books in English. So the book buyer in Belgium and France was always British in those days. And the book buyer, his wife had a baby, and the baby unfortunately died. And she believed that if she'd been in the bay, they would have lived. And so as a welfare thing, the company brought them back and they sent somebody. We had a customer called Countess Nippon who was the first woman to fly solo to the Belgian Congo. You know that she was rather gently in a refugee or a Belgian refugee with the Smith family in the First World War. And she rang up the chairman, the honoured David Smith, and said she didn't think this gentleman was really very good. So he was brought back to oblivion and I was asked to go for three weeks while I looked for someone better. And he said, and then I was asked to stay till Christmas. And then in January I was asked, well, the first week I went to something in the Grand Place and it was very crowded. And I filmed the gentleman leaning up against the front of me. I was standing there and he was pressing to my back or to my front. So anyway, we had a coffee a little later and we ended up being together 19 years or so. Because at the time I should say that I wasn't really quite sure of my sexuality. I like women, but I wasn't sure I actually wanted to go to bed with them. And indeed in Britain I had a girlfriend, Janet. She went on to marry somebody else and she had seven children. But anyway, Alexander and I got together. He was about seven years older than me and looking back on it he was very clever because he was very into being fisted. And me, I didn't know fisting even existed. In fact, when we biked up to Amsterdam one weekend and because we both worked shifts in our respective jobs it was difficult to actually get the weekend together. But we went up and down and we went to some, I think it was called the anchor. And in those days it really was a clean pit. And anyway, we went through our things and the rooms were about five people to five beds. And I don't think there was much furniture where you could put anything. But anyway, we went out on a night out in Amsterdam our big night out and we came back and there was this guy at the top of the stairs sobbing his heart out. And I went up to him and I said oh dear, what's wrong? And I felt it and I said I said you're all wet. Oh I said you must get out of those clothes. You're captured in the cold. Well of course he's been in some shadow of his seat. And all the time. And Aleksand leaning against the wall hysterical with laughter. Because I didn't know that people did that stuff. But he was very, very good because he led me gently into the letter of the fetish scene with love and it wasn't eternal. And so therefore I thank his memory and say thank you for the privilege of having known him and being with him for so long. Let's take a step back a little bit. It was glossed over a moment ago. During your time in the National Service you experienced the early days of Gave London. Tell us a bit about that. Ah well, of course we didn't get much money in National Service. And so sometimes you would get a pass. I was actually stationed near Dover. And in those days Dover was called the garrison town. And it was large, there were two army camps. There was a navy and there was a Royal Air Force. The Royal Air Force in those days we had underground, I don't know if we still have. In those days we had underground radar stations all around the coast. And the camp I was on. I was a cook in the Royal Air Force but only for officers. And so on a Friday the trains to London, say a Friday afternoon you get a 48 hour pass. Friday afternoon the trains to London would be packed with day and evening army and Air Force between the ages of 18 and 20. Because you could go to London and you could stay at the Union Chapter which still exists as I was there. Union Chapter for tensionings at night including breakfast. Well, and then you would perhaps the weather was quite nice and you could go to Speaker's Corner in High Park. Usually there were a number of gentlemen. Of course you'd be in uniform that was part of the attraction and sometimes very nice gentlemen would speak to you and he would say hello and then they might say would you like to have a coffee and then they might take a dinner and then they might say would you like to stay the night but there were also several pumps. I don't remember them all now but there were certain pumps for example with one near Night's Bridge bound which was where the army went and a lot of the guards soldiers went and of course we didn't find anything I'm afraid some people used to get arrested in High Park during that time but doing something they shouldn't do. Because of course it was all illegal in those days at 17th sex between same sexes totally illegal coming back to your Belgian days and to Alexander you too spent a lot of time in Amsterdam please tell us about the gay scene you experienced in Amsterdam at that time. Well I've got to be very honest we didn't because the work we both did Alexander was actually in the police force and how we solved it we found a lot of flackers that were being constructed in the Baselikian bustles and had to flat on each floor and so Alexander took one flat to manage it I can't say we went often to Amsterdam but of course it was it at the time was much more involved or much more as an overall gay scene not necessarily leather and fetish and I can be correct but there was quite a strong gay association the name of which I've escaped from at the moment I think it was called something like COC I'm not sure but they were actually organised and developed sometimes and so it was and I suppose to some extent the civilisation of the Netherlands and how the people Dutch people at all they were perhaps leading in that they were much more tolerant find it wasn't excessive much more tolerant in other places when I went to Belgium it was extremely Catholic and we weren't allowed to sell magazines like Penthouse or Playboy when they were banned my boss said if you and I get a subscription to it from New York then I can get it to my friends and we actually had a visit from the police and one time I don't know what it was that we were selling and we got a phone call from an MPP saying the police are here, they raided us and we went to wherever the section was and took all the stuff off and pretended we were rearranging the fixtures so when the police came my boss said afterwards where did you put it and I sent them in the drawers in your office you have seen an extraordinary evolution the gay scene, the king scene and BDSM scenes please tell us how you've seen those evolve over the years I think that I mean obviously to a certain extent part of the leather scene is concerned the big thing was I mean many of the original of my leather tops were originally by-products because it was a way of wearing leather which wouldn't attract untoward criticism or marks I'm not saying and I mean even in the 80s there were people who members of the then Manchester Superchain who were unhappy about actually walking in the streets of Manchester in leather so they would sometimes bring a bag or something with some of their leather items I think it took the question that slowly certainly large parts of the western Europe and the United States we've got to remember that so much of the world is whether they're behind or whether they're wrong or right I'm not going to get into it but there are so many countries that where people do have enormous problems on some aspect Gerald will refer to that but slowly it has sort of evolved that people the example the evolution of pride we get I remember when the first one too started in Manchester and it was a trustful table straight more or less but things like pride did begin to broaden people people sort of said oh but of course for us in Britain the United Kingdom 1967 and the legalisation of consenting said that meant sort of actually brought it out into the open that the world men who liked men and I think that was a real kind of breakthrough when that happened but it took a long time I mean the morphine from the pool which recommended that was 10 years earlier so these things it takes time I would say the question if you live long enough now what are your thoughts about the contemporary gay lesbian media sound king scenes oh I mean now I would have said gay we have the prefix of certain countries and certain I mean you know there are parts of the United States where gay people have a lot of problems but it's a great thing for me it took me quite a long time to actually come out and in a sense that it was an accident because the then man's super chain was hosted an ECMC European Group meeting in 1997 and I wasn't in well not a committee or anything like that but I helped welcome people at railway stations and unbeknownst to me I was being filmed by BBC and it appeared on television and I went home and there were some messages and one of them was from a friend of mine Paul Biorio and she said just seeing you on the television oh and I was in full leather in the cap and how the situation has evolved I was the token gay member of Rotary we actually had a gay accident in where I live but we had a member who was a senior police officer in a great match and I, to be quite honest I thought it was a right wing hermaphobic bastard wow but when this happened I went to the meeting and he came up to me and said he and I saw the television and I thought and he said just let me know if you have any problems let me know and I was astounded you know the person I had summoned as really being hermaphobic and I thought the world is evolving and therefore things will get better it's by no means over there are still many, many people who unfortunately cannot come to terms everybody is right with you to their own view but it has to be expressed in some right way a moment ago you mentioned the Manchester Superchain Motor Sports Club please tell us a bit about that and that started about 1983 there was a group met in a pub in Deansgate and sort of evolved and it was very, very flourishing at the time by sort of 1990 there was a bar nearby called the Homeo and we were able to use the subtle and it was rather discreet lighting and and I mean someone could actually touch you but we know what you did I was a bit less looking at the time but it was very good unfortunately in the late 90s there were some problems and so we had a rocky time and then about four years ago the then president died very suddenly and I was asked if I would be unfortunately a lot of the records and archives were lost from about 2000 to 2000 and so I said yes I would become president but we had to do things we had to either expand or close and then I knew Saxon a little bit and we got together and we chatted and we felt that we could I mean look at the full name of Manchester Superchain Manchester Superchain went to sports club which on all sorts of documents and things well never mind Facebook or Twitter or Instagram it's a mouthful so we came up with the idea of Manchester Leatherman and we had fallen behind the times and we weren't on Facebook we weren't on Twitter so we needed to modernise which is quite a lot of clubs do need to take a grip of and be aware of how people communicate today been a big learning curve I remember Danny Alkenberg what future did you see from Manchester? wow is that tempting fate I would like to think that I mean the biggest thing that I've got to say about Leatherman is that I think without exception every member that I have met has qualities that I can admire and I would like to think that I mean Manchester Leatherman has members not just in Manchester all the north west but in all parts of the country and indeed on several boards and I would like to think that we may have to recognise the dangers of perhaps being too big I hope that we would continue to have members who enjoy being together who were friendly who realised that we all have problems we all have something which at the bottom of our heart we perhaps don't want to talk about or we could I mean one of the wonderful things that happened is a group called Rowland and the Board of Leathermans which is helping hope tries to help people who have feel the pressure of modern day life and then there is of course looking which enables very new new people who think what is this leather thing what is this all about so I would like I do hope that we continue to flourish so many clubs have come and gone but I hope they will go on because there are so many great people one of those who have been said about clubs in the States in Europe I mean I have visited quite a few places and the world has been lovely and sometimes you can even have sex as well Well as a gentleman of a tender age how do you see the ageing in the Leatherman community Well I think the ageing in Leatherman and fetish in the community really depends on the individual a lot of people who get older such as my age or even getting to my age they sort of retreat there is no reason why you can't you don't have to go out every night or every week but you can maintain a link and so therefore I think there is a bit of a a little bit of a thing that the ageing world as a whole is something that sort of ends when you're 35 or 40 but it doesn't and I think it does depend on the individual You have been part of this community long enough to have seen AIDS come and go and the devastation that that created and then whatever followed it tell us a little bit about how you saw that unfold in the community Well until about 10 years ago I used to bike quite a lot and it was part of my work I came back after Alexandre I worked in Belgium and France for about 19 years and Alexandre was killed in the car crash and for various reasons I had to decide the longest time I spent was my time in Belgium and this is the coded reference my time in Belgium was seven super years and I had my arm twisted to go to France not because I wanted to go to France but because the boss in France that I was getting particular to had to involve private life which included three lady friends and his wife plus the business didn't make any money so it's rare why I didn't submit to the book anyway I eventually became the patron and then after Alexandre died for various reasons I came back to Britain and I was manager of the store in London for a couple of years and then I was asked to go to Cambridge not because we'd been known by grade but the business where it was owned at the time it was 400 years of selling books on that site not the same people but and so I was asked to go and give them a little bit of money to promote this thing so I invited the Duke of Edinburgh and there's a photograph somewhere of he and I together but we didn't go in the dark room and but in those days there was a group called the Istanbul Obankers and we had a party or a weekend or something and there were these two guys there from London and a few weeks later I was in London which was about 1981 I was in London and I bumped into one of them and I said oh hello, how are you how is whatever the guy's name was his partner and he said he's dead I believed that I said partner and he was the first person that I had heard about had died of AIDS because of course it was so bad with them there was no way and then and I think from the point of view of the game world, game fetish world AIDS was a trap not only a tragedy for the people that died and the people that cared for them but it was a tragedy because it was a setback and there were a lot of people who felt that you know it was judgement on gay people or and it was a bit of a setback and I know that it's not that I'm a great royal admirer but I mean I think it was about 88 or 89 Princess Diana went to one of the London hospitals and people were amazed she actually touched somebody who had AIDS and I mean I remember when I was a child when I worked in Smith's we only had a ladies toilet the manager and I were the only male staff we were given six minutes a week to go down to the toilets in very far as green in case we hadn't spent many years in case we hadn't spent four and and on the toilets in those days they used to be this enormous sign beware of syphilis and people thought you could catch syphilis by sitting on the toilet or something or people were like that with AIDS and the tragedy was two ways one was people were disowned by their families and the other one was I mean undertakers were refusing to actually you know bury or only do it in certain literally put them in people in a body bag and I used to I visited about by 83 or so I was in Manchester and I heard about well one of the Manchester Superchain members and he lived in Rochester and I heard that he was in the hospice in Rochester and I went to see him and he was at the time he was very old but he was fully complimented and I the nurse said I was the first person to visit him in the seven weeks that he had been there at the time and his family didn't want to know and I went back and the the second time he knew me and then the third time he was unconscious well he certainly wasn't conscious and I just stood there and held his hand and said a prayer but it really you know the fact that he had been disowned you know and a group two or three of us actually arranged a funeral because no one else wanted to know so it was a very traumatic time and a lot of people who were in there but in early careers were cut short and I know that some people have said oh well they were promiscuous and they were asking for it but there's not really a question not really as an assigned a friend of mine who died who died about six months ago he was actually pathologist in Greater Manchester and he claimed I mean I have no idea whether it's true or not but he claimed that he had done a pathology thing in France a man in 1957 who have symptoms veils you know whether I have no idea I mean the sentence here saying and the poor gentleman but there we are but no it was very traumatic but it's wonderful that in a sense a lot of people in United States in Europe by the later 80s we began to say we need to do something something has to be done and hopefully there will be a cure I hope there will be a cure before I die you can hope well unfortunately I didn't succumb to AIDS but I hope that I will live to see you see you cure one issue that we all face in the community is the inclusion of new people coming into the scene what advice have you for a new person entering the letter scene I think the inclusion of new people very much depends upon the other people who was around one of the things I personally think I'm sure there's a lot of people to say it's rubbish but I really am actually quite shy at times we know but I don't I mean I know some people don't want to be pressed there's a kind of balance but it does grieve me in many ways if someone has sort of perhaps comes to an event it could never be leather or fetish it could be anything and they're sort of standing there and the other one the other danger of course is in all kinds of groups whether they're gay or not you can sometimes get little gangs and they don't understand and a number of times over the years where I've heard someone say well I went but nobody spoke to me and I went and I left no one said how are you, or good morning or whatever so I think it does depend I mean because some people half of this most of us aren't quite served so I mean you're not wanting someone to be in the bellow you know and have them there is that other end isn't there where where you think somebody is so organizing that you think oh god I wish they'd piss off what's the biggest misconception about you that I'm shy I really am I mean I'm probably going to die to Gress but I have two claims to fail one is I was kissed by General de Gaulle so I were about 10,000 other people studying and the other one is I carried Margaret Thatcher's handbag wow de Gaulle's and no it was because when she ended being Prime Minister she wrote two volumes of memoirs but the first one was called A Downing Street Year and I opened Morestone in Manchester we also did a book shop called Sheridan Hughes which we had and so we had her sign in the evening we had a dinner and then she sort of signed more so that was how I carried her handbag but in actual fact we had quite a lot of signing sessions of various authors and people and so forth and I used to get quite worried every time I used to get worried before I mean one of the greatest things of this weekend for me is that Tony is the boss and last year I was very nervous about you know I was present and I was nervous and I I have to take a deep breath and the signing session before the act just started in thought of actually dealing with large members of the public and particularly authors I would really take a deep breath and think well the only thing to do is to go forth and do something but I do get or have got concerns you know before but I do I think the reverse is to try and be outgoing thank you for the amazing channel thank you for inviting me


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to the Cube, we are at the O'Reilly Fluent Conference, it's live, in San Francisco at the Hilton Hotel, so everybody's just finishing lunch, there's a lot of buzz and noise here in the background, but we're going to move on, and one of the things that we like to do on the Cube is we talk to the practitioners and we're excited about startups, right? Because startups is where innovation is happening, it's where people are doing new and exciting things and they actually had a startup competition here at the show, so we have with us here James Ferguson, the CEO of Quickly, which, if you can see on the screen, is spelled an interesting way. Well, that's quite easy, Jeff. Kilowatts, KW, IQ, Intelligence, Lee, Quickly, Fast. Oh, awesome, all right, great. So it spells energy intelligence. Okay, great, so welcome to the Cube. Thank you very much, great for you to have us here. Absolutely, and obviously you have an accent, so you came from far away. From Switzerland, actually. From Switzerland. Yeah, native to England, yeah. Okay, great, so what brought you, besides the competition, what brought you to Flune, what's the value of coming to something like this? First of all, if you can get in touch with the really top guys, with the technologies, you need help, they'll give it to you. It's very open, very friendly, very supportive. It also confirms that our infrastructure stack makes sense. We've got a great CTO, I'm a real rock star. Couldn't be here, sadly, but he actually put the application in so we've got to be there, and to then win is, that's for him, it's great affirmation, you know? What's his name? He's Andreas, Andreas Muller. Andreas, shout out for Andreas. Give him a wave to the camera, hopefully he's watching, is he in Switzerland also? Yeah, well, he's on the border off in Germany. Okay, great. So one of the big things we're talking about, obviously, is social and mobile and collaboration, all that stuff's going on, but the new thing, and we've talked a lot about here, is the internet of things and the industrial internet and having sensors on all these devices and this ubiquitous connected network and obviously a lot of horsepower in terms of the CPUs and the bandwidth and how that's changing the world. And you guys are right in the midst of that, so why don't you tell us a little bit about what's going on with quickly and what you guys are up to and what did you show here at the startup? Okay, a little bit of background. We've been doing consultancy in the energy game for a long time in buildings, so trying to help people save energy, that's simple. Commercial buildings. Yeah, big commercial buildings. Tower of London was our first client with a new product, which is fantastic. Interesting commercial application that happened in the Tower of London, I think, right? But our real audience is typically people like Honeywell, who've now signed us as a supplier, who they do energy performance contracting. There's a lot of the heavy lifting, number crunching that we can automate for them. That makes it easier rather than them spending days on spreadsheets. So they're not adding customer value if they're pouring over a spreadsheet, but it used to be have to develop applications and deliver them on a PC. But with the new technologies, you can really build real engineering products actually in the browser. And you can also use techniques like WebGL with the visualization tools. So I'm seeing stuff in data that I've not seen before, purely because I can see it better. So it's just a change of game in the last couple of years. So is your software, so you deliver software? Yep. And is it in the cloud? Yep, software as a service. Software as a service. And does it connect to devices? I mean, how does that work in terms of the energy management? Typically, bigger outfits have their meters managed. So basically, a utility company will be taking half the half alley reads, for example, and taking off into the cloud. So smart meters you may have heard of. It's the technology of reading things at high resolution. We then get independent weather data. It has to be independent because otherwise, if you're trying to diagnose the patient, the kid puts his thermometer in his own mouth. It's about it being independent. So independent data, bring the two together. And then anything that happens in the building, because it's an energetic process, running a boiler or a chiller or something like this, it's reflected almost like in ripples in this external fabric that you can think of encompassing the building, being the energy in and the weather, which determines the weather out. The energy out, if you like to say. It's pattern recognition basically. So what are the kind of ROI opportunities that this affords people? It can be crazy. We did some work with a supermarket chain where we were talking six-week payback, and I mean, that's just unheard of. And what are you doing for them? What's controlling thermostats?  Yeah, absolutely. It's the anomalies. There it doesn't make sense.  We were talking about VCRs earlier in the show, so flashing 12, 12, 12, 12. Yeah, exactly.  But somewhere up in the loft or down in the basement, there's an old water boiler there, and it's time clock stopped, and now it's heating at a wrong time a day, because it didn't get fixed. And more, I suppose, more relevant to big buildings is things like the daylight saving time change. All the control systems out there, there's great control equipment, but it's got to be programmed, and if people haven't specified it, it doesn't change. And so you're heating for nine hours instead of eight hours in the day, and that's like 7% saving off the bat for nothing. I mean, it's a few minutes' work to fix that. And does your software just collect the data and deliver back in an easily digestible or in a way to analyze it? Or do you guys also do the analysis and actually come back with suggestions on it? Absolutely. I mean, we're getting to a point now where we take this weather data and energy data, and that's all we know about the building, but we can identify the sorts of plant in there, how they're being controlled, algorithm problems with the controls.  Like, for example, a Starbucks or something like this, you've got thousands of outlets. You can't put an energy consultant on site in every one of those every day. Right, right. But what you can do is you can look for anomalies and say, okay, today we've got 10 sites that have gone crazy. Let's go fix those. Or we've got a problem with an external temperature sensor. Let's send a guy with a ladder. Rather than sending a consultant down and then he has to work out what's wrong and then send another, you're talking $2,000 bucks, whatever a day costs for no gain if you can actually brief them up front. So you're getting that information back to corporate to the facilities guys. You're giving them something to match on. Yeah, typically for the energy manager or facility manager will have that responsibility. Yeah, it's interesting. We were at the Splunk show last year and one of their funny examples of kind of intelligence in the industrial internet was apparently someone in Japan figured out that one of the ways to measure the health of a building was the data coming off the elevators. And you could tell whether people were getting ready to move out, you know, business was bad, not energy health, but you know, tenant health by the patterns that you could identify in these elevators. We'll see crazy stuff. I mean, in the simplest of cases, you're a pub in England, of course, we live in pubs very much. Yeah, we like pubs. There's a lot of beer drinking going on here too. Yeah, it's not bad either, great event, great things. But for example, you know, people will complain maybe in winter it's got a bit cold and just the bar manager will go and turn the thermostat out. And then same sort of time of year, but in the spring rather than, sorry, yeah, spring you call it rather in the fall. Right, right, right. People will open the door to get cold. They'll leave the heating on and the door's open and then some suddenly, you know, maybe June, July, someone will say, why is this radiator still hot? You know, we've got the door open and the windows open and this is still hot. Oh, I forgot. Right, right. And that forget, I forgot. It can be, you know, difference between profitability or loss. Right.  It can be straight on from bottom line, of course. Right, so talk a little about, right, where affluent software development, talk about, you said you were in consulting for many years, so you've been in the game. To my sins. How kind of the software development environment has changed as well as the infrastructure that actually I guess can help convince you to leave the consulting world and actually build a product because of this opportunity. So how has that changed and how has that affected your ability to really deliver value to your clients? Okay, I mean, there's a long back story and I don't want to bore people there. Well, it's all right. We've got a few minutes. Okay. You give us the medium version. Cambridge University, the government in the UK gave us a grant to see if it was possible to work out automatically what was wrong with control systems. And so we were going into the Cambridge colleges where we were given sample test sites to work on and literally walking around with floppy diskettes full of data and it got to the point where they were mailing us the diskettes and we were driving to look at the plant rooms and actually having looked at an on Excel spreadsheet or whatever, we realized that we knew what we were going to see because it obviously represents it. So, and this is the first step of pattern recognition. Right, right. And then we thought, well, most of these control systems then weren't connected to the net, so getting data was a problem. Ah, but okay, energy meter readings. Because it's a commercial contract with your utility company, everyone has it at some level and the resolution's been getting it better. We can get weather data anywhere in the world now. Any, you know, whether it's humidity in Singapore or then three year history or whether it's available now. So, if you like, the resources were always available but the technologies to make them happen were really, it was really hard work. But now with the new tool chains and that's the really big change, we can do the analytics in the background on a server using language call R. That's real pattern recognition. And then the wiring it together to get it to the client through the browser. It's all the guys here that are presenting on the tools. We're using those tools and they do most of the job for us. So, we're, you know, standing on the shoulders of giants if you know what I mean. Right, right. So, you touched on a little bit in, again, industrial internet that's coming in terms of big data. And, you know, how are you either using or planning to use a much larger array and quantity and frequency of data to really add more value into this opportunity? Actually, well, value is where it comes from. I mean, and people don't really think about this but if you think $1.5 trillion per year, that's our energy waste in buildings. And you and I, maybe it's a couple of hundred bucks but when you start looking at your schools, your universities, your public buildings, it's $1.5 trillion a year. The biggest player and arguably the most competent would be Honeywell. They're doing, in their energy performance contracting a hundred million turnover over 10 years. So, they're beginning to scratch the surface of the possibilities. They can only serve the big guys. Right, right. You know, the really big buildings. We feel that it should be that every coffee shop should be able to get good, timely, relevant advice that they can understand. They don't, not everyone's an energy manager. Right, right. But hey, go and adjust that, further start that time clock. That'll make you more comfortable and cost you less. Right. Performance goes up. Maybe you just answered this question, but you know, we're open source folks. You know, we love helping everybody out. So, just a little, it'll kill some of your business. But give the folks out there, just kind of what's the easiest, simplest, you know, take care of it right out of the gate. It sounds absolutely crazy, but check your time clocks. I mean, certainly after a daylight savings change, you know, spring and fall, just check you've moved your time clocks. If you're not there, a lot of people say, well, hang on, if I let it cool down then heat it up, won't that use more to let it cool down and heat up? If you can let it cool down and you're heating, let it cool down. If it's in summer and you can let it get hot because you're away on holiday, let it get hot and then cool it down. And we'll save energy that way. All right, good tip. It's good for the environment. It's good for the pocketbook, as they say in the ads. Well, James, thanks for coming along. So just one last final question. So where are you guys in the state of the company? What's happening next? Give you a little plug. Okay, that's great, thank you. We've, well, we were final at Loweb in Paris, which is great, and now we've just won here, which is... Did you win? Yeah. Oh, you're the winner. Hey, that's great. I should say we're one of the three winners. Okay, one of the three winners. So that's all right. That's a really great tech here. Kind of a democracy. That's all right. So that's good for credibility. Investors can see the risks are coming down and we're real, you know, incredible and so on. Right, right. But we're beginning to get to revenue with our bigger clients, some of the big utility companies in Europe. As I mentioned, Honeywell, we're a supplier now for them. And as we get to traction, we're going to be raising a seed round of about a million. Okay. And that should get us on that first step and hockey stick after that. Awesome, awesome. Hopefully there's some great investors out there or even more importantly, customers that take advantage. Again. Investors at quickly.com. Yeah, quickly.com, not spelled as we spell it. There you, he's got the T-shirt. All right, great. Well, James, thanks a lot for coming on theCUBE. Thanks for your time, Jeff. So again, we're at the O'Reilly Fluent Conference in San Francisco, the Hilton Hotel, taking you out to the conferences, finding the smart people, the winners of the start-up competition, ask them the questions that you would like to ask them and really help them bring the conference to you. We invite you to participate. Again, the hashtag for the confluent, for the conference. I'm having a hard time with that. It's fluid. Something in the lunch today. It's hashtag fluent conf, hashtag fluent conf. So join in on Twitter. We invite you to participate. We'll be back with our next guest after this short break. Thanks for being on theCUBE. Thank you.


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Hi everyone, I'm really happy to be here with Dorota Godby and we're going to be having a conversation today that's especially useful for those of us who consider ourselves sensitive and I'll have Dorota explain more How how she perceives that and for all of us, you know, we all know people in our lives who Have a more sensitive constitution and how can we help ourselves or help them be more successful in both life and work Dorota, it's really good to have you here. Oh, I'm really glad to have this conversation Yes, it's a new conversation to be having in the world and much needed. So I'm curious that we'll get up to Absolutely. Well, let me go and share your background with everyone first and then we'll get into the conversation So I'm just gonna read out your bio here Dorota Godby works with sensitive individuals and Professionals who have an additional challenge when when dealing with problems is how to adjust the best practices that are taught out there For their sensitive system Dorota has spent 20 years investigating multiple modalities And she has created a unique blend of gentleness and depth That sensitive people can thrive on She's an empathic multidimensional and practical ally who can help you to integrate your inner wisdom with external guidance and I've especially appreciated Dorota's Engagement her her discussion communication in the various Courses that she's been in with me and just on social media. I just always really value her her comments So Dorota Let's start with Talking about what it means to be a sensitive person. How do we know if they have a more sensitive constitution? Language is quite funny. So when people hear the word sensitive, there's a number of ways that you can hear This the way I use the word is pretty much What is that in the dictionary in terms of, you know It was sensitive system sensitive person set of sensitive organism Response to stimulation to the environment to what's going on to the quality of conversation or the situation That much more intensely that much more readily and of course Since the 90s we have now the research by Dr. Aaron that demonstrates that 20 percent of people have sensitive constitution as a natural healthy Treat natural healthy type of constitution In the way that some people have got petite bodies and some people are big boned or have blue eyes or green eyes and so on Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. I mean why wouldn't of course there's a diversity of human beings in all sorts of traits And of course, there's so-called average and then there are More sensitive and less sensitive, you know, so that makes a lot of sense I do find that I work well with a lot of Sensitive, I mean there are a lot of And maybe maybe that's something you can speak to a little bit is I do tend to draw Quite a number of sensitives into my audience. Why do you think that is? Ah, you see I'm not surprised at all. So if if the kind of statistical average is 20 percent in human population I imagine your statistics are my heart much higher And it's probably because of the values you carry, you know for authenticity for serving for Being um Interested in the quality of life in virtue, but also because this is my personal Appreciation of your of incredible Kindness and gentleness with which you offer those things and gentleness is a quality that Makes I suppose any hard thing, but sensitive system Requires that to function well and to thrive. So that is that combination of gentleness and depth that I love in your work And and I imagine that that's what draws Sensitives to you. There are some environments. For example, no one communication Which is one of my communities is like that as well because of the inherent deep values for compassion for humanity That that community tends to have higher percentages of sensitives than then, you know, average kind of randomly organized groups as well Yeah, thank you. That's that's that makes a lot of sense. And so um, you know sensitives, uh May feel more vulnerable also when they're asking For support, right? Um, and yet all of us need support Uh, talk to us about that. Um Oh my this is this is this is particularly tricky. You know, Dominic Bartek who's one of the NVC Uh, novel communication trainers that I respect says that you know, when we have a challenge or a problem It's never a question whether we can or cannot do something But it's a question of having sufficient support And so I think this is true deeply true for for human beings and for how we resolve problems and we are social beings as well But imagine having a sensitive organism, you know, a little bit like the hedgehogs who are my kind of companions and ambassadors of sensitivity that I use that things You that you are so, um affected by what happens, you know, for the stimulation even by sensory processing and bright lights louder sounds that Sometimes reaching out for support can be extra vulnerable because what if the support does is not gentle What if it's not extra conscious and kind of deep, which is how I make sense of the world it It sometimes leaves us with a Very painful choice to either be on our own When having a problem and struggling and being scared and not seeing the way forward Or reaching out for support and then maybe the the format in which support arrives Becomes a new problem on top of already scary problem and it quickly becomes overwhelming so it's it's such a tricky combination and yet because I am really biased here, but I I have a sense that That sensitive organism is one that processes everything that much more deeply is So so therefore notices things more deeply Learns more deeply and so when you find allies and supporters that work for you And you have a system that is an excellent system to navigate this world with Then sensitives really blossom and then it looks like You know a very surprising Quantum leap where you were where at first you were really drowning and maybe really Worrying about yourself and yet we're just a little bit of the gentle give support Things you know realign quickly and then your own intelligence There's the system and the care that you carry sees you through really really well Yeah, wow, it's beautiful And so how how can sensitives I guess find find the right kinds of support. Maybe you have any any tips for that Yeah, or what's what's helpful what's been helpful to you It's very interesting because Oftentimes people come to me Not thinking about the sensitive conversation, but because someone I had a acupuncture student who was overwhelmed with the coursework and And it was her mom who sent her to me because her mom could sense That I suppose that combination of Of gentleness and depth that that had author also carries naturally and also immediately must have seen me in a workshop somewhere And then of course immediately that that Relating to one's own system and the sensitivity becomes quickly A big part of the conversation. So so sometimes It's a question of being drawn To someone and feeling safe with them and and so that's where You really need to check people out To get a sense of them, you know, like I sometimes when I when I go to brand new, let's say A lecture presentation by an expert. I don't know yet I said really close them and almost I want to sniff the energy and in particular There is a kind of sense of running it by my body by my own Uh, you know, the things that I have learned to trust That the body knows much better than perhaps that that any sense of seduction or persuasion by the, you know, mesmerizing side of expertise So, yeah, but generally you will find that sensitive people are very Particular and very picky about who to choose because typically they You know, when I just chose the word multi-dimensional for my bio This was because of colleague who who recognizes in me and said, you know, this is exactly my another sensitive colleague that I need the person to be dimensional if they have a black and white simplistic worldview I know they are not going to be a good match for me because I naturally need to look at things deeply and and and deeply means Not just white perspective, but also perspective that Includes all sorts of layers of life or aspects of life that we're not really interested in and I have to have involved in the In the in the way we solve a problem or in the way we do things Otherwise, we just not connected not engaged enough Mmm. That makes sense and speaking of kind of solving issues How do sensitives adapt or need to adapt The solutions that they hear from experts, you know teachers coaches, etc To to a more sense it's to their own system. Yeah So it's it's a blessing if they know that they have a sensitive system because often people Don't relate to that aspect of themselves consciously, you know, the world doesn't exactly celebrate it at large So sometimes people are kind of the way that there are there are closet introverts For the same reason sometimes people, you know in the closet about the sensitivity. So if they know Then they already have some Criteria to look out for And they will look out for people who are at least aware of human sensitivity as a trait And if they don't know Then Actually, because you asked about about so is about customizing for sensitivity. So They they already would know because you cannot know. It's like the way you cannot be sensitive Have sensitive teeth and not know about it. You know that oftentimes Things look attractive and you want to do them in this way, but when you when you try it doesn't work for you And often people have that so they so they know that something something is something happens there with best practices with advice with expertise that It doesn't quite add up and of course very often they they have Sort of self-doubting Narrative about it. Maybe there is something wrong with me because you know, how how come I can't make this thing more Given though it looks good other people make it work. How come it doesn't work for me? But people who have you know, in fact, aging helps here because the longer you live the longer Stretch of data you've got About stuff that works for you and the stuff that didn't and and why and so you begin to figure out that actually even with the best findings you still have to customize them for Not only for how your system works in a way it's sensitive, but also what brings you to life And so so typically I I tell I say to people that actually really listen for the principle of what people are teaching and then Take the how that they recommend as an example, but customize it to make it your own And that that typically gives much more effectiveness as well as the ability in terms of strategies, you know new strategies to Yeah, that makes that makes a lot of sense. Thank you. And I'm curious if you have any kind of examples you want to share about how How, you know, either you or somebody, you know Sense of the person who's you know, kind of adjusting best practices to to one's own situation so um in the World of self-employed people in you know Who need we need to have some kind of sense of where going or making priorities And you know typically annual planning is something that people recommend And I have found that there is no way I can Do annual planning I I fail at annual planning and of course it took a while to figure out why and When I came across the 12th week planning It became much more doable and still needed to put a spin on it in terms of um, not so much picking goals for three months, but picking projects and then focusing not on Patrolling the projects and you know making things happen But kind of allowing things to have to imagine a little bit organically And then reviewing each three months deeply and learning from the review and course correcting and creating new choices Going forward based on What happened in the three months and this is quite amazing that where I used to fail at annual planning and The goals were hardly met and I felt like a failure With three months planning this way where the emphasis is on emergence reviewing and course correcting I always when I review I'm surprised That I've done more than I set out to do and this is the same for colleagues and for clients who are taking this on So this is one example. I mean another one your own very teaching about diligent um daily chipping at it, you know that that is a particular Particularly successful way that you have and you teach. I have a single mom. I had a single mom who was uh, um, you know with with son needing to become substitute teacher because of lockdown and she had three essays to run to write for her um, it was for her counseling a professional course And you know she there was no way that she could do it your way And even though I had the conversation about the discipline and about kind of you know doing that doing things daily is actually um It perhaps more easily easily achieved than getting around to it every now and then But still in her case we needed to it was not doable. And so we started in a very unexpected place of repurposing how she was using her rooms so that her son could have a messy room She would have an uninterrupted calm room That created the environment where she could write And then we talked about the childcare and how she could you know buy herself some time that she was alone with the writing and in the common And and so then it came together, but actually it wasn't um in a kind of linear everyday Um dedicated way, but it was when the childcare was available. And you know, so You really need to look at each person's situation as an individual and to be honest The society gives us blueprints teaches us, you know Courses and technologies and the methodologies, but I have a sense that to be honest everyone Is an individual and has unique ways of thriving and solving problems We just don't have enough interest in that conversation or at least Our systems are becoming more agile. You know, there's a whole agile Approach to working now that emerges through software developers that is that much more customizable and Shorter termed and based on reviews that are more frequent. So I think it's coming and and the sensitives are leading that conversation because we cannot Keep in step with the normal the old normal ways anyways So we have to customize innovate and then show others that it's actually more fun as well as more effective Yeah, that's a great example And I love that you're emphasizing that it's you know, every individual has I mean, I think a genius right to how to solve their own problem That an expert can't necessarily give them I really see advice and courses and trainings as sort of like Hey, here's something to experiment with This worked for me. Maybe it'll work for you. Who knows? Maybe it'll work for a few other people But you know, you need to experiment with it and then you're going to change it right to to make it work. So So, uh, let's kind of complete this conversation With You know, you said something about I love the adapting the annual plan to the 12 week plan and like not Like doing things to make sure we don't we feel progress and we feel Pride in our progress rather than Blaming ourselves for not living up to particular standards that other people think should should be ours so How does yeah, tell us about this kind of like How this how how can sense of this feel more successful or feel more? Like they yeah, you know proud of themselves and and their own You know abilities that it takes time. I guess, you know It takes time. Um I have noticed a very interesting pattern both in myself and in clients which I have Now kind of a short phrase that I describe it that we are late bloomers Kind of in that it can we can look like late bloomers and That's because the kind of normal unfoldment or How we go about things is that we experience prolonged incubation and then a quantum leap And so if you add anxiety or misunderstanding of sensitivity at that starting phase of that trajectory then then then that That quantum leap sometimes is interrupted and doesn't happen in in the same way but when you know And you will need allies to to encourage you and and to to help you trust Your own rhythms so that you don't give up and you don't mess up with a longer incubation yourself But when you do It is just amazing how you know looking back how worthwhile the whole trajectory was and actually do be satisfying because then you the quantum leap You know takes you perhaps even further than you would otherwise if you were Going at this in a linear way and especially if you were going at it in an inauthentic way So so that's kind of how the pattern I see and of course Then with clients I get them to you know try it out experiment and and prove it to themselves You know how that works or indeed whatever other quirky individual rhythm that works for them At the end of the day it has to be individual Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And so this is where You know coaching is so helpful working with an individual at a time I know that's one of the services you provide. Actually, I'd love for you to tell Share with the audience You've got you know one-on-one services. You've got a group program. You've got an online course Or multiple actually so However, wherever whichever direction you want to start Share with the audience how you how you work with people So one-to-one I work with quests where we take on one aspect of effectiveness or sensitivity and We upgrade the kind of how people do this and the habits and the kind of the approach I call it a quest because of that individual way means that we don't know what we'll discover But we know what the quest is about, right? But a particular way that I love supporting that individual discovery or tweaking of systems is through journaling Because journaling is you know If you are sensitive and affected by people's response and moods deeply Then again, there is a kind of vulnerability that you've got to go with trusted allies or all things can go Not so well. Whereas paper My god paper is so much more unconditionally present than people and so I teach a kind of Format that I call unity journaling because you can use journaling to both organize your thinking and You know think into a new problem as well as to listen to your heart and to express your heart and process your emotions And and to have fun also because the element of You know kind of more artistic or individual expression or call for expression comes into it as well So people having a lot of fun Leaning learning to get met every single day through journaling in this particular way And so these I run these courses periodically and we have support group to kind of encourage one another because It's it's funny. It's like in this anecdote About I don't know where I heard it that you know about seeking god and how there was this person who was Looking for god everywhere And they they you know and they just they would get some tips and they would discover No, that's not where god lived and that's not here and one day they got a completely reliable tip and they knew where god lived And they and they You know Rush there stood at the door Took one look and run like hell because actually Standing at the door of the possibility of meeting ourselves every single day Of being held of being welcomed of being appreciated single day is kind of Suddenly with all all we want and suddenly it's so hard to give it to ourselves. So so it takes a little bit of Encouragement and companionship from others To actually lean into the possibility of that of being met every single day. So that's one of the Support formats that I really really enjoy Because it's so doable. It's called unity journaling. I love that name and And you you have this online course and you have Sort of a group support group around that as well And you also of course, you know, you can work with people One to one but tell us more. Tell us what what else how else do you support your clients? um, so Thanks to actually your role modeling and courses. I am experimenting with new Topics to have the sensitive conversation in and so short three week courses One one course at a time Because the conversation about Sensitive thriving is still relatively new in the world And what and especially one of the topics I'm sitting on is how to Allow ourselves to think A little bit longer into the options. We are looking at Rather than be seduced by more is better or by a particular recommendation and lose again that opportunity to inquire what works and and um, what is um, sensitivity friendly for me But this requires going against the grain of what society teaches, you know, look busy If you are not busy enough, you will not succeed. So so it's it's very hard to allow this But through the staycation experiment that I conducted any fact the staycation how to create your own staycation it's another course that I recently released because Very important for our times, I guess from a holiday, but It was thanks to the staycation experiments where I you know, I couldn't work because it was a holiday I couldn't go away because pandemic This was for the first time I allowed myself prolonged Times for so, you know, what other people judge as Naval gazing, right? Like because there's there's only that much we can allow ourselves that and then it becomes selfish or whatever And actually my I'm amazed at after two months of part-time Um, staycations. I was still working a little bit every day, but took extra long time after two months of that My effectiveness and joy and attractiveness to clients skyrocketed, which I am really amazed, but you see It was so scary to allow this Because of the conditioning being so strong to kind of move into productivity that much sooner than than I think sensitive organism thrives on And so if you take that a little bit longer to choose You will choose better and you will have more effectiveness, but again, it looks different and Very much non-linear compared to a lot of other people who kind of can move themselves through choices and decision-making in a more you know, rhythmical regular way That's very interesting.  I hope everyone is feeling more understanding of themselves and of other people And of what's possible to thrive as a sensitive person.  It's gentlepower.co.uk I will of course put the link and you have two facebook pages I'll put the links in the notes of the video. So be sure to check out the the links to Dorota's website and pages. Anything else you want to share as we complete this conversation? It pays to be who you are. It pays to be authentic and I guess you and I colleagues in that conversation and it's a I have a sense that This is a big part of the new normal that we're all wondering about now. So I'm just really really grateful for this, you know, eliminating it together a little bit and for Having companionship in looking at that world a little bit more deeply and more gently that then what we inherited Before yeah, yeah me too. Thank you so much for your work Dorota and Those who are watching or listening I hope you'll reach out to her for to learn about the upcoming courses and the coaching that she does All right. Thank you. Okay. Thanks everyone. Thanks Dorota. Bye for now


Neither you nor I can say with any assurance How long it will take to achieve the final victory for which we all yearn All of us like to enjoy again the satisfaction of peacetime life So would our fighting men in the army the Navy and the Air Force So would the brave fellows who man our merchant ships and transport planes They once had private lives too And they would like to get back to their families and their peacetime work But they know and we know That the job is not yet finished as an American citizen and Particularly as one of America's war workers You have met your responsibilities splendidly so far You have electrified the world with your achievements At the beginning of 1942 When you began to get into action in earnest The United Nations were losing the war We were menaced on either side By the two most dangerous and treacherous nations in history The turning point came one morning long before daybreak not far from the Egyptian border until the battle of El Alamein We had had practically nothing but bad news Rama was poised to strike at Egypt and the Near East Had he succeeded Suez would have been lost and the Nazi armies might well have overrun all the near and Middle East But on October 22nd 1942 General Montgomery and his immortal 8th Army had accumulated all munitions and Supplies and equipment needed for their great African campaign and We're ready to go on the offensive at zero hour on that famous day The United Nations revealed their aggressive power for the first time and so did the enemy that future Generations will marvel at our good fortune in escaping Until that morning the Nazi armies were full of boastful confidence Never before had they been driven into headlong retreat. They were forced to retreat for 1,000 miles And at the end of those grim thousand miles, they were hurled off the continent of Africa Never to return That same autumn Hitler's armies in Russia smashed themselves against the unforgettable Russian defense at Stalingrad El Alamein and Stalingrad in those two great battles The enemy lost his most potent secret weapon The legend that he could not be beaten American industry and American labor Can be proud of their part in these momentous events At the famous Tehran conference Marshall Stalin declared without American production. The United Nations could never have won the war That record must not and I am sure it will not Be imperiled by any letdown due to overconfidence. I know that any job at a desk Or at a workbench cannot seem very important in comparison with the worldwide scope of this war Using a typewriter is certainly a long way from using a machine gun checking over papers May seem a petty business In comparison with piloting a flying fortress and the jobs you were doing in office or factory You will never get the purple heart for your wounds or the Medal of Honor for your valor But you can earn an invisible decoration That is no less worth winning the inner satisfaction The knowledge of true patriotism That comes to all faithful workers of the home front Who give their full energies and minds to their war jobs The machine guns could not be fired and the planes could not fly The bombs could not fall on our enemy without the painstaking effort of millions of desk workers and factory workers This war is one gigantic enterprise In which the work of each one of us plays an essential part Whether he be soldier or desk worker Employer or workman before the right weapons can get in the hands of our fighting men at the right places At the right times and in the right quantity Before that can happen Thousands of anonymous workers here at home must do their part. I Can safely say that you have helped to win many a battle perhaps without realizing it War production is the foundation of our war effort And by the same token What you do from day to day affects your country's success in this war never forget You are working for him For the youth of America For the boy next door On the last day of the last war Thousands of such boys were killed if the war had ended 24 hours earlier They would have returned What you do tomorrow today in the next hour Can help to bring the last day of this war closer and to save lives that would otherwise be lost We are all in this together You and I your own boy and the boy next door Our job is not finished Let's finish the job together press the urgent need For throwing ourselves again With renewed energy Into the task of winning this war. I want to make this point First with the employees of the war production board Whose loyal and hard work has meant so much to the country since the war began Second I am speaking to the men and women of American industry Whose amazing record of production has staggered the imagination of the world Third I should like to reach all my fellow countrymen Who have dedicated themselves to victory Under the utter destruction of the enemies of our democratic way of life Let me begin by showing you a familiar face Perhaps you cannot call him by name But you know him well enough He is the youth of America your boy the boy next door But he's grown up now He has the maturity which comes to a man when he goes out to fight for his people and to face death for his country He is the primary reason for your work and my work in this war We have a silent understanding with him He is out there fighting to protect us and we on our part are working to provide protection for him Perhaps at this very moment He is on a destroyer cutting its way through the North Atlantic Perhaps he is slogging through some treacherous jungle of the South Pacific Or perhaps he is fighting his way through the fortified Nazi lines in Europe Wherever he is He is keeping faith with his country and with the great fighting tradition of American manhood For us and all who will come after us That fighting man is doing the hard and dangerous job That has to be done to preserve freedom against the enemies of mankind On him depends every plan that we make for the future Every hope that we have for ourselves and for our country He will fight until his job is finished To the day of final victory And until his job is finished We on this side of the water Must carry on with our war jobs Every bit of energy determination and endurance we have Must be thrown into the fight to back him up For our best military and naval authorities tell us that the war is far from over In a recent official report to the nation they said The first fascist the weakest Axis partner is gone Still Germany or still Japan They don't consider themselves beaten Following Pearl Harbor Japan extended her empire with startling swiftness over the far east Burma Java Indochina now the Japanese dominator subject population of 385 million hard-working cheap labor that can be used in war production Although the Japanese have suffered severe losses in aircraft They have more first-line planes now than when they attack at Pearl Harbor She has spun around herself a web of powerful bases and major strongholds Every base is supported by the others This is what is meant by interlocking bases and interior lines of supply At any one point we attack we come up against the whole system So far we have only dented these defenses This system is defended to the death Task of destroying these fanatical warriors was not easy. It has just begun The destruction of Germany is further along But make no mistake that army today is still a powerful fighting machine well equipped highly trained battle-harden Germany has three times the combat divisions that had at the beginning of the war each division Comprises 15,000 men today. There are some 300 divisions You have heard how the Germans lost about 25 divisions at Stalingrad Tunisia and Sicily and More on the neaper and the Crimean front army intelligence reports That the Germans have meanwhile created or reformed 60 new divisions Each of these divisions was given more and better weapons than the divisions destroyed All this equipment was produced by increasing the number of war workers 50% Largely imported foreign labor This does not include the millions in conquered countries who have to work like it or not for their Nazi master Germany today is better fed than she was in 1918 Heavy workers and soldiers actually eat better today than at the start of the war The natural wealth of Europe is being looted Germany suffers no dangerous shortages in any basic war material whether coal steel oil or rubber With Nazi ruthlessness and German fairness Europe has been made into a national of fascism The enemy is exploring to the limit the most densely industrialized continent in the world To keep pace with the changing war and the Germans have had to stop some production and increase other as often and as drastically as we Have but these problems are common to all war economies the Germans have taken them in their stride Their films boast of their industrial strength They are making good their boats The conclusive proof of German strength is the quality of her weapons Plain production is up After the Luftwaffe was forced on the defensive it made fewer bombers But this made it possible to produce more fighter planes Deadly folk wolves deadly Messerschmitts every new model is better than the last Workers in the Ruhr in the arsenals of France and Czechoslovakia are forging huge coastal governors slave labor bills their emplacements Gigantic concrete structures They do not scorn to use such orthodox weapons on the other hand. They know the need for mobility and fire power They have developed this rocket gun with a firepower equal to six heavy howitzer Its mirage is devastating. We still lose ships and their precious cargo Every month replacements food and maintenance for each man require another ton of shipping For half a million men this means one half a million tons 50 Liberty ships a month From England our 8th Air Force is bombing Germany systematically But we will never have enough planes and bombs to wipe out so big an industrial nation Germany is fighting back with increased firepower Our gunners face vicious opposition Fortress is hit Another of our planes will not return In the outskirts of Berlin is this graveyard of smashed American bombers. We must replace this equipment These men can never be replaced The sea takes its toll in every amphibious operation Drowned vehicles swamp boats This is the price paid to the enemy This landing ship was hit at Jailer Her flaming deck full of half tracks Personnel carriers that will never carry a man These are some of the extra costs of successful amphibious assault The great loss of equipment the loss of lives


Vehicle architectures are evolving so fast, from distributed to sonal-based or centralized architectures and towards what we call software-defined vehicles. But what do you need to get there? Obviously, a much more powerful automotive microcontroller with larger memories and advanced communication peripherals, but containing real-time capabilities and embedded non-volatile memory. And this is exactly what the ST Stellar integration microcontrollers have been designed for, with up to 6 R52 plus cores running at 500 MHz, the highest levels of safety and security plus a lot of extra features such as extensible PCM memory. And of course, to meet the expectations of the new in vehicle networking solutions, including a very specific system, the DME, the data movement engine. This is a routine accelerator dedicated to optimized communication. Today, I'm very happy to talk to you about our collaboration with our partners GreenHeels and SETI Tech. You can see the demo behind me. We are developing a fully integrated and configurable in vehicle communications platform for automotive sonal controllers consisting of our STELLAR microcontroller platform, GreenHeels microvelocity real-time operating system and SETI Tech's advanced networking stacks. Just to give you a quick insight, we are running the Cortex M4 CPU of the STELLAR DME on GreenHeels safe microvelocity and the CAN communication is managed thanks to the efficient routing solution provided by SETI Tech, Universal Gateway and SETI Tech distributed communication framework software. What we are doing here essentially is offloading the main application core, which is the Cortex R52 plus, leading us to achieve a superfast in vehicle communication. Obviously, there are many more details that we can cover in this short video, so if you want to understand more about this solution, you can visit st.com slash STELLAR or contact your local ST representative. Thanks for watching.