Life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Psy Howard and starring that celebrated actor Mr. J Carol Nash with Alan Reed as Beswale. When Luigi Vasco left Italy to start his new life in America, he promised his mother that he would write and tell her about his adventures. So now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Mama Vasco in Italy.  Well in America when a business is not so good, people say is not so hot. To tell the truth to Mamma Mia, my business is not only not so hot, I think it's a frozen to that. And I'm a try so hard to be good American a business man. Last a month I'm even a join up with the best of a business a bureau, but still a business is no better. Then I'm a try to advertise like a store across the way. He's a run-and-a-half a price sale, I'm a run-and-a-half a price sale. He's a run-and-a-month sale, I'm a run-and-and-a-month sale. Then yesterday he's a run-and-a-fire sale and I'm stuck. He's my bad luck, I'm a god to no fire. But worst thing of all, I'm all my countrymen of Pasquale, 160 dollars for a month's rent. Most of the time I'm a kind of talk with a Pasquale and he's a given me time to pay. Even if this is a four month's rent, I'm all him a for the last eight months. But this morning I'm gonna receive a letter from him which is to say if I'm gonna pay, he's a kick me out.  It's no bother me. But when he's a spend of money on a three cent of stamp, I know he's a mean of business. Mamma mia, if a Pasquale is a throw me out of my store, where am I gonna go? What am I gonna do? Well, it's a time and how to go to my night to school or class. Maybe I'm a get advice from my friends or to my teacher Ms. Spaulding. Quiet class, class, attention. Now I'll call the roll. Mr. Vasco. Here. Mr. Howard. Here. Mr. Olsen. Here. Mr. Schultz. In the words of that Irishman, Winston Churchill, Lafayette, we are here. Mr. Schultz. In the first place, Winston Churchill is English, not Irish, and it may interest you to know Lafayette was a Frenchman, and that quotation was from General Pershing, an American. So please, Ms. Spaulding, what I started for a roll call, let's not build into an international situation. Thank you, fellow Ruben. Mr. Schultz, I'm getting tired of your antics. Out of the hundred times I've called the roll, you've answered correctly about five times. Ms. Spaulding, you are calling me a five-presenter? Me a man without a deep freeze to his name? Mr. Schultz, I've had enough out of you. For those remarks, you may consider yourself in the doghouse. Now, class, today's lesson concerns an era in American history known as westward expansion. Mr. Howard, can you tell me one cause of this westward expansion? Yes. The desire of the people in the east to expand to the best. Well, yes. Mr. Schultz, what can you add to that? Mr. Schultz, what's the idea? You said I was in the doghouse. Never mind.  I said, never mind. Now, class, around the middle of the 19th century, thousands of hardy pioneers faced the dangers of starvation, unmarked trails, and hostile Indians in order to brave a new life in the west. They did this at a terrible cost. Mr. Baskow, can you tell us at what cost? 160 dollars. Where did you get that figure? I'm no kind of garret, but if I'm a harrow to Pasquale, he wouldn't throw me out. You see, today I'm going to get a letter from a Pasquale. Mr. Baskow, please try to forget your personal problems and concentrate on our history lesson. All right, Ms. Spaulding, I try. Good. Now, Mr. Baskow, can you tell us the name of the man who said, go west, young man. Go west, the younger man? Yes. Come now. It was Horace. Horace? Was a Horace, I thought you said it was a man. The Luigi, I'm surprised that you, you should know the answer to a thimble question like that. Well, Mr. Schultz, suppose you tell him who said, go west, young man. Certainly, but Horace Hyde. Mr. Schultz, I didn't think I'd get an answer like that in a thousand years. To tell you the truth was a lucky guess. Ms. Baulding. Yes, Mr. Olsen. If I am a volunteer, I would like to give the correct answer. Go ahead, Mr. Olsen. The one who said, go west, young man. Oh, I would gladly go without food for three weeks if he would only make one mistake. The man's name was Horace Greeley. Correct. Past the salami, I'm putting on weight again. There was a period of western expansion was one of the most glorious in American history. There was a period of opportunity. Immigrants, many of them just like us, went looking for a new land. By covered wagon, by ox cart, by horse, by foot. Searching for a new life and a wonderful chance to start all over again. Start all over again. Mr. Olsen, I'm proud of you. I appreciate what you say, Ms. Baulding. I always thought the hard. In fact, last night, I spent six hours with my nose in a book.  Olsen. Olsen, I think it was wonderful what you just said. I think I'm going to go out to west. Mr. Basko, you're not serious. Yes, I'm very serious, Ms. Baulding. Bascuali is going to throw me out of the store and I'm going to go someplace. Luigi, that's a very big step to leave everything and everybody and go settle in a strange place. Well, I know Horace, but that's what I did the one I'm going to leave Italy a year and a half ago. I'm going to take a chance then and I'm going to take a chance now. Ah, Luigi, out west, I can't imagine you on a horse. What are you trying to be? Hop along, Basko? Luigi, why don't you go talk to Bascuali? You had trouble with him before? That's right, Mr. Basko, and you've always been able to work things out. Well, you really think I should have tried talking to Bascuali? Oh, sure, Luigi, and cheer up, smile. You shouldn't try to run away from troubles. Like we say in the delicatessen business, he who fights and runs away, we hold his coat till he decides to pay. Luigi, my friend. No, Luigi, I love, I love. Basko, aren't you angry at me? Me? Angry?  But there are a lot of you sent to me about the rent money. Oh, that, look a little, Cabbage Bus. Just because you owe me four months of rent and besides this, you don't want to marry my daughter so I decide to kick you out in the street. That don't mean I'm angry with you. No, then what's it mean?  If you don't pay me that $160, it's a goodbye, Luigi, don't care where you go. Basko, listen, I got a $50 in a banker that I was saving for rainy days. Too late, he was wiped out by a flood. Go, go, go, Luigi, pack your little suitcase and go sleep in a park with the birdies and go, go, go. All right, Pascuali. Well, what are you waiting for? I'm just want to thank you, Pascuali, for bringing me to this wonderful country and for helping me all the time and for everything. Well, goodbye, Pascuali. Wait. Luigi, if I wasn't to forget about the $160, you would have been very happy, wouldn't you? Oh, yes, Pascuali. You would have been so happy, you would have fainted. I thank you so, Pascuali. Well, Luigi, I'm going to let you off without a rent money. What? Pascuali, are you going to do this for me? Sure.  I'm going to show you Pascuali, what the favor you want I should have do. Why are you fainted? I wanted you should have married my daughter Rosa. Pascuali, you're just to get me smelling the sauce. Answer is no. I went to Luigi, don't talk so fast. No man has ever had the opportunity like I'm offering to you. Your own house, a car, rugs, a sterlet, a silver, refrigerator, toast, a television, a set. It's like a radio program. Yeah, but I'm going to marry Rosa to get all of that. That's right. No, Pascuali, keep you jack apart. All right, I'm going to keep her. I don't know why I never spent a one penny on you. I could have rent this store out a hundred times and make a big money with it. Pascuali, I'm sorry. Sorry is no putting money into my pocket. Pascuali, I was thinking there was more important things to you than money. Like love and a friendship. In all the country, we enjoy lots of things and we didn't need money. You've been reading too much about the Marshall Plan. Luigi, far as I'm concerned, money is everything. Money is a ticket and a blood. With the money, you're something. Without the money, you're just a boob of McNutton. Well, maybe you're right, Pascuali. Maybe money is everything. Well, I'm leaving the city and we're going to far away and make a lot of money. Then maybe you'll have a respect for me. Oh, big shots, eh? Where you going? I'm leaving to Chicago, Pascuali. I'm going to West. Going to West? Luigi, what are you going to do in New York? Pascuali, out to West is a California. Oh, a California, Luigi. Not that it's making any difference for me, but I think you're making a bigger mistake than going to California. That's India in the country, you know. I'm not afraid of Pascuali. Not afraid, a big hero.  I'm taking my chance, Pascuali. Another thing, before you get to California, you've got to cross with those bigger mountains, the Alps. Planet cold up there. I'm going to read once how a general of cluster, he's going to get attacked by the Indians. They let him freeze to death. That's the way we get the name, a frozen cluster. Pascuali, you can't be frightened of me. I'm still going to California. Miss Spaulding is the tallest in the school about the great Western expansion, and how people, they got a chance to make a new life for themselves in the West. Sophie, you're excusing me now. I'm going to pack my things. You've got your mind made up.  Pascuali would have to be something very big to stop me. All right, then I'm going to call her out. Rosa, Rosa, Rosa. Come here, my little darling. Rosa, say hello to Luigi. Rosa and a goodbye. He's going to a place where the Indians, they're going to scalp him. The death of the mountains, the dire thirst in the desert, and the vultures that they're going to pick as the bones. We're having a good time, Luigi. We turn to page two of his letter to his mother in Italy.  Today, I'm going to leave to Chicago where I was a big failure in the business and I'm going to California. There, I'm going to be much bigger. Maybe I'm going to discover a lot of oil.  I'm going to put all the oil in the little bottles and sell it to the people who's got a sauna machine. Also, in the West, they got a lot of gold. Maybe I find that. Maybe I discover gold first because it's easier to find that.  Well, my mania, I got my suitcase packed and I'm leaving now to buy a train ticket. But I'm all right till you're from the next. I'm a no-no. Luigi, my fellow poobies. Oh, Luigi, you're really leaving us? Sure, sir. Believe me, sure. Sinicide is a voice that's a say. Luigi, you don't go. But I want a Pascuali as a say. Money is a ticket and a blood. That's to give me a push. You mean Pascuali absolutely wouldn't listen about the rent money? That's right.  How could a man with such a soft brain have such a hard heart? Luigi, my best friend, tell me you ain't going. Sure, sir. Please don't stop me.  Luigi, did Pascuali tell you that? Yes, sir. Oh, he got you for shimmel. Now, Luigi, put down that suitcase you are staying right here. Well, it takes a short show, dear friend, but I'm already make up my mind. Oh, you thought it over.  Yes. Now I'm going to go to the station and buy a ticket for the eight o'clock train. The eight o'clock train? Goodbye, Schultz. Well? Luigi, you go on the way.  I don't want you to go. I'm not saying goodbye. He went... Luigi, you came back. No, no, Schultz. This underwear was a sticking out of my suitcase. Got caught in the door. Goodbye.  His underwear got caught in the door. No, you got to love a fella like that. One man leaves Chicago and the city is empty. Hello, it's Jagger. And Mr. Delicatessen, a man. What are you doing here in the dark? I'm planting mushrooms. What does it look like?  Ah, Luigi's are now labor Chicago. Chicago is just to make a big talk. And which? You're talking to the walls. Luigi's taking the 8 o'clock train to California. You don't believe he really went? Look around. Zutte is in here. The bureau draws empty. His sneaker's gone. He's arrived. The place is all cleaned up. Hey, my picture was on the wall. He's a god. What's the force to take my picture with him? To frighten the Indians. What do you think he did? You don't know, huh?  Your brain leaked out. I'm going to tell you why. So that little slump of he always looks up to you like a father. Like a father?  Like a father? Yeah. A little banana nose. Well, there's no place for sentiments in a business. A fellow can of pay is a rent. Howdy goes it.  I've got a constitutional right to be. I'm a landlord. And this the country of money is of money.  And that's what you got, a barrel of head. I know what I say is right. A man can't take care of himself. He shouldn't expect anybody else to. Even a friend. I wonder where he is now. If I've been walking around in the street to say to somebody, I'm just going to my master which way to the railroad station. Excuse me, Mr. Which way to the railroad station? Go two blocks up, turn right then to the left. Ask somebody for the penalty station. You can't miss it. Well, thank you, mister. Well, go go buy a Chicago. Maybe your city is a too big for me. But I'm going out to west. Hey, look out! What's with your car? I'm going to look for gold or for oil. I'm going to Little City. Maybe I'm going to start to my own the city. Yeah, my own the city. Fellow citizens, it is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to introduce to you the most illustrious citizen of our glorious town. That great billionaire Luigi Basko. The founder of Basko Bird. Well, thank you, fellow citizens. I remember when I first came here from Chicago way back in 1949. Mr. Basko, sir, if you please. Yes, sir? The Basko Bugle reports that they just discovered 500 more oil wells on your property. The stuff is gushing all over the place. What shall we do? Give the oil to the people and make the French fry the potatoes away. Mr. Basko. Yes? Sir, they just announced a mountain of gold was discovered on your property. Do you hear this? On station B-A-S-C-O. Sir, what shall we do with all that gold? If everybody in the country want a piece, they get a free filling. Mr. Basko, there's somebody who wants to see you very urgently. All right. So where is he? Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello, hello. Huh? Who are you? Don, do you remember me? For squalys and spaghetti parlors? Well, yes. You look familiar from about 50 years ago. I'm going to somebody here you're going to recognize very well. Rosa, Rosa, Rosa. Say hello to Luigi. Oh, wait. I'm going to recognize you now. For squalys, I'm going to know how to fill in for you. You was like a papa to me. You can now retire and deliver here with me and here's the 160 dollars I'm going to owe you. 160 dollars? Uh-huh. You made 160 trillion dollars. What's the squalys worth so much? The interest is a mount-up. A hand over your house. Your city. Your oil. Your gold. Your everything. I got to hold up the line. Oh, oh. Excuse me. I was asleep. Please, I'm going to like to go to California and at eight o'clock at train. All right. Would you like an upper or a lower? Yes, I'm a got the myonitate. No, no, I meant bird. Oh, bird. Yeah. I was aboard a September 21st. No, no. What ticket do you want? Well, I'm a got a 50 dollars. Okay. Here's the ticket on a coat. Pull up. Limited. Leave on track four in 15 minutes. Thank you. You better hurry up, Mr. if you don't want to miss your train. All right. And don't forget your suitcase. Oh, yes, sir. Thank you. Mama Mia. I'm really going. Where am I going? Well, what am I going to do? Who am I going to know? I thought a Pasquale would surely come and stop me, but... but I know he's not coming. Luigi. Sure, sir. Luigi, we've been waiting here for you. We have asked you. Well, I was walking around. Sure. We came to say goodbye to you. We? You came with somebody else? Luigi, it's me. Look. Oh, Horowitz. Anybody else? I am here. Olsen. Anybody else? The model? Who else do you want? Nobody. Horowitz!  Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Mama Mia. One minute on the train and it's already feeling like one a year. Well, maybe I'm going to try to go to sleep. I want to thank you so much. My head is aching. I'm awake. I'm hungry. I'm tired. I'm thirsty. Oh, here's your sign. If you want the porter, ring the bell. I ring for the porter. Maybe he's a help for me. Is it you all that's a ring for me, sir? Viscuali. Luigi. Viscuali, what are you doing on the train? You think I'm going to leave you gold in the pumpkin ahead? Who am I going to have at the holler out? That's right, Viscuali. Go ahead, the holler. See, I dare you leave me your star. But, Viscuali, you said money was a ticket and a blood. I said that, but there's something even a ticket in my head. Next stop for you getting off over to me. Viscuali, you wanted me to come back? Sure, I wanted you to come back. Then you're not the angry one. Sure I'm angry with you. You told Schultz I was a like of your papa. That's right. Viscuali, before we become friends again I'm going to take you home to the wood shed. I'm going to give you a good spanking for running away from home. What are you taking after, Viscuali? All right, the papa, all right. And so, Mamma Mia, I'm back into my store again. And it's a feel good to be homeless. You should see how nice a Viscuali is a treat to me now. Just like a little baby. Already today he's making me drink three bottles of milk. And when I went to sleep last night he's a tuck me in. And when I'm a tell him I'm a go for a walk, he's a say, Luigi, be careful. Don't take a candy from a stranger. Oh wait, here he comes now. Luigi? Here's another bottle of milk. Thank you, papa. Luigi, don't call me papa. Call me daddy. And as some of me I used to have a landlord. Now I'm a go to daddy. You're having a son, Luigi Basko, the little immigrant. Be sure to listen next week at the same time over most of these stations when Luigi Basko writes another letter to his mama Basko describing his adventures in America. Life with Luigi is a Sy Howard production and is written by Mack Benhoff and Lou Derman and directed by Mack Benhoff. J. Carol Nash is starred as Luigi Basko with Alan Reed as Viscuali, Hans Connery as Schultz, Mary Ship as Miss Faulding and Jodie Gilbert as Rosa. Music is under the direction of Lynn Murray, Bob Stephenson speaking. You've got a date with a beautiful blonde Monday night. She's my friend Irma, the comedy starring Marie Wilson returning to CBS for a sparkling new season of laughter. My friend Irma is one of the exciting lineup of Monday night shows you will hear over CBS this fall. Marie Wilson as the comic misadventurous will delight you with her brain in reverse with hilarious consequences for all concerned. Remember, my friend Irma returns tomorrow night the same night that Lux Radio Theatre comes back to CBS. Lux Radio Theatre will bring you Betty Davis and James Stewart co-starring in the delightful screen comedy, June Bride. You will find Lux Radio Theatre right in the same familiar Monday night hour you've heard it these many years. So join us on most of the same CBS stations tomorrow night for Betty Davis and James Stewart in June Bride when Lux presents Hollywood on CBS. Remember, my friend Irma returns tomorrow night the same night that Lux Radio Theatre comes back to Columbia over most of the same station. And now stay tuned for Carlos Archer which follows immediately over most of the same station. This is CBS and this fall you'll hear them all on the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hello, in this video I'm going to show how to download the SRTM 1 arc second DEM tiles. In the course data you can also find the tiles, but I will show you how to download them. You also have a bounding box for indicating the approximate area for which we are going to download the DEM tiles. After adding the bounding box to the map canvas, your project will be set to the projection of the bounding box. To have some more reference where this is, I'm going to load the OSM standard layer from the Quick Map Services plugin. Here you see where the area is and that's the area of the root catchment. I zoom in to the layer and I'm going to install the SRTM downloader plugin. After installation you will find a new icon in the toolbar and the first thing to do is set the canvas extent to indicate that it needs to download the tiles for the canvas. The first time you will get a link to register because you need an account. This is the same account that you use in Earth Explorer. After registration and logging in you will proceed with downloading the tiles. In this case there are six tiles. They have the file extension .hgt, which is a recognized format, a raster format for DEMs from SRTM. In the layer properties you can find more information, such as the data type and the statistics, the minimum maximum value, but also the projection and we see that the projection here is in EPSG 4326 latitude-longitude. So in this video you've learned how to download DEM tiles using the SRTM downloader plugin.


Walk with me I think That's something that's come up a number of times and the contrast between the the world's Monetary system and economics and so forth and the kingdom of heaven is enormous And I've said to people I said, you know If I turn over a table of Coins or money or even if there were animals in cages ready to be burnt and sacrificed, you know like the particular scene you're describing and I turned over a table can you turn over a table without being angry? That's really the thing and I say oh, yes, you can it can be interpreted through the ego's lens as as Anger but you can turn a table over and let the money spill and let the animals cages crash and everything like this without being Again, that's kind of an extreme Example, but look at the crucifixion. That's a pretty extreme Example to it to the world's eyes through the ego's lens that look like a bloody mess We actually a canvas it's about a week and a half ago. We watched the passion Some people hadn't seen it Makeup The cosmetics in that, you know, you'd almost look you might as well have dipped the body down in a pool of piranhas For about three hours Let's say chomp on away there and they will pull it out and we'll let him go out here and hang on the cross I mean, that's about how it looked. It was such a bloody mess you the body was so beaten that you couldn't have Found a place to put another lash on them by the end Mel gives him I Mean it's like on the grill that baby char broil, I mean and and yet It's only through the egos interpretation That that seems to be pain and punishment, you know, I had to go through these metaphysics over and over but But what we learn is we follow the metaphysics remember everything is mental So the mind tells the body what to feel The body doesn't feel In fact, if you go through and read the workbook if you really go through that workbook go through lesson like 136 He talks about releasing all plans and all attempts, you know to to kind of be in charge and Jesus puts in a line and you can tell You practice well by this The body should not feel at all He puts it right in his workbook The body should not feel at all Now he's given a hint about the crucifixion How could the crucifixion have only meant one lesson teach only Love or that is what you are. How do you get? How do you watch the passion of the Christ? With blood flying all over there and get teach only love for that is what you are the body Will not feel at all There's a beautiful part in the rancher book because you're actually kind of gives you more of a full-blown where Okay, they arrest Jesus they take him away. We do some of the beating and all the typical things and then you get there and he's in this room and Apostle John has followed along and He has got himself into the same room with the arrest of Jesus And it's so beautiful. I love that part of the rancher book because it's just at that moment where they are going to really start thrashing Jesus the body does not feel so to the Christ mind There's no problem with thrashing It's like threshing a rock going out and taking a hammer to the rocks is if the rocks like oh, ah, ooh No, you can get the rocks Love you want but the rock does not feel and the body does not feel when there's no guilt in the mind There's no experience of pain Why would love feel pain, you know just ask yourself that's bizarre, you know Jesus transcended Pain when he accepted the atonement So that's seen that seen it looks to the ego like a bloody mess. There was no pain involved in that at all Hence no sacrifice involved in it at all And that's why he could say the meaning of the crucifixion was teach only love It was an extreme example that you can't kill the Christ And you can't even make the Christ suffer that was a Teaching so I get to get back to my little scenario John follows. He's in the same room with Jesus and Jesus is about to be thrashed And he simply turns and looks at his beloved Apostle John and he nods That's about enough you need to leave the room now Like your the your ego is not going to be able to handle what's coming next Jesus had no problem with what was coming next because the Christ has no problem with the world That that it knows is not real. That's what forgiveness showed him that the images weren't real and Nothing can harm the Christ. Nothing can harm the spirit that knows itself as spirit. That's why you can be defenseless That's why he was completely Invulnerable though the appearances would seem to indicate otherwise those ego appearances of blood and whips and Thrashes and everything are all part of the ego system Jesus was above the battleground Jesus. We could say the Christ mind has transcended the possibility of pain of torture Punishment of all those false concepts that the ego made so it was so beautiful I remember when I first read that in your answer book. I just cried And how loving Jesus was to not to John Almost like I could save you a bit Needless suffering Not you can leave them and and that's what's so beautiful about this That's why we do the mind training. We do the mind training to come into the state of invulnerability We do the mind training to be lifted up, you know, remember the Joe Cocker song love lift us up where we belong You could say love lift us up to to where we are to where we live You know, lift us up to that transcendent state of mind It's interesting in this day and age because you watch people Actually walk across hot coals Without yelping and then they show their feet when they get across and the feet aren't burned Talk about mind over matter and this is Jesus Christ. This isn't a fire walker. We're talking about This is the way the truth in the life you know what's Some lashes what's some some nails piercing through arms and legs You know, this is the living Christ demonstrating the reality of eternity and The nothingness of time and space. That's exactly what this crucifixion is about Demonstrating what is real and true and what is not and the Holy Spirit use that little skit to Make that a teaching example and then he goes on to say that that was his part and You will not be given that part He even goes on to call it the last useless journey Hallelujah for that We don't need any sequels to the passion I Was gonna have to make some comedies with any lover or something Because we don't need a sequel there it's unnecessary that was the last useless journey and And what he's saying is follow him where I'm thinking think with me in my teachings in the course and yeah and see that this world is The last useless journey if you want to think of it from a reincarnational perspective How about making this your last lifetime? Wouldn't that be nice That's precisely what a course of miracles is all about It's not really I know with Gary's books It's all about the the next lifetime, but this they don't hang around me if you expect that stuff I'm not teaching about future lifetimes. I'm sorry. We aren't watching a movie like the island To talk about you want to go to your next life You will achieve enlightenment in your next life Go ahead squander this lifetime. You'll get it in the next life time You're not gonna find me teaching that because it's not about that you'll find more me Sharing be not content with future happiness for it is not your just reward for you have cause for freedom now We have to face the power of now. We have to face the immediacy of salvation That's a whole section in Jesus's book the immediacy of salvation Thank you for your courage


Ladies and gentlemen, DC awards. Good morning, DEF CON. I say that because probably half of you just got out of bed, didn't you? And the other half are going right back to bed once we've emptied the bottles. Bye. We miss you. All right. Welcome to DEF CON awards. I am Russ. This is Jericho. And over here we have the invisible dart tangent. He was here year one and has been missing in action since. So if you see him in the hallways, tell him we're here. So let's talk a little bit about what the awards are, how it works. So first slide is why. Why did we do the DEF CON awards? We have people that sit around and complain or brag about accomplishments, things like that. We wanted to recognize those things, but we wanted to be a little bit different. So it's important to note that we did not vote on this. We get up here, we get to talk about it. But people in the community nominated all these individuals or organizations for the categories. We didn't vote. We had organizational input only.  And that's why we're here. These are all public nominations. We opened this up to the entire world. We've been getting steadily more and more nominations over the last few years that we've done this. We opened it up via SurveyMonkey. Now we made a mistake the first year and we actually tried to do voting. Did you try my glasses on? Did it mess you up? Yeah. And DEF. This should be fun. We tried to take the votes on SurveyMonkey as well. And hackers do an amazing job of screwing with your numbers. So we do it a little differently now. Jericho bought a sound meter and we're going to do it here. You can actually vote.  You can crack the seal yourself if you want. I figured nobody's going to trust an already open bottle of alcohol at DEF CON, right? Just forget the whole tamper evident contest. Yeah, exactly. There is a board review. So it goes out. Everyone nominates everyone they want. Jericho and I will sit down with some other people and decide which ones are most relevant, which ones got the most votes, and which ones were just trolling us. And we'll remove all the trolls and that kind of stuff and bring you the absolute distilled best. And the public voting is done right here with the sound meter, like I said. Past years, we started this in 2011. It was a brainchild that has been slow to give birth simply because people would rather be drinking and hacking and breaking into stuff than sitting in here watching Jericho and I talk about this. It was originally called the DEF CON awards, which was slightly confusing since the closing ceremonies became the DEF CON awards. At some point when it started taking three and a half hours to close this conference down. So we renamed it to DEF CON recognize awards because we're trying to recognize people for either being douchebags or being awesome. Hi, Paul. Last two years, this was held on a Sunday and going to anything on Sunday after parties on Thursday, Friday and Saturday is probably not going to happen. So we had about a dozen people in the room the last couple years. So Brian and I spent a lot of our time drinking on our own. This year we moved it to Saturday. Everyone's awake, right? Yeah, we're all awake. So DEF CON 19, 2011, these were our categories. We had worst media coverage. We had most interesting malware, best privacy technology, best open source software response to an attacker method, best author or story that captures the hacker mindset and then we had the security charlatan of the year. As you know, Jericho may not know. If you don't know, it's sad. But Jericho does a blog and he does a lot of research and write ups on potential charlatans in the security community. And he's actually gotten a very big response. So we get a lot of input from other people around the industry, around the world that point people out that are doing a great job of trying to be something that they're not. And so that was really one of the main premises of the awards, was trying to get that information out so everyone would know who they could trust. And these were the winners. So we had Kingpin, the story by Kevin Paulson that won the best author in the story.   So what we've done with those in the past is just Jericho has taken those out and auctioned them off and collected the money and given it to EFF. Right? I think that was right. Yeah, so hackers for charity are EFF. So if a douche bag wins it, we still take the award out and auction it off and get the money to somebody that needs it. Yeah, we actually had trophies that year. This year you're getting inebriated. Next year we'll have trophies again, promise. All right, DEF CON 20, last year, our categories, worst media person or outlet. This was for print. We separated out the media that year and it was a mess. So we had worst media person or outlet for broadcast where we had no nominations at all. You all love Fox News, apparently. I got two laughs from that. Everyone else is like, what's a television? Best privacy enhancing technology, tour one, of course, your best sec or hack Twitter feed, your non-news, it's still very popular. We renamed the next award. No offense was intended by this originally. This was more of a European thing or we were calling somebody at Ding Dong. But we've renamed this award this year to the knit twit. We have a Captain Obvious Award for last year that General Alexander won and oddly here we are a year later and it's been proven. We have the security charlatan of the year for last year was Ankit Fadia. So I'm going to hand it off to Jericho to do what he does best and I'm going to interrupt and make fun of him and heckle him along with you as we go through these categories. So this is interactive. Please be involved and if you are in the room and you do want something and you either want to wash away the pain or share in the victory, please come up and have a shot or two. Cool, thanks. Yeah, like he says, interactive. Feel free to heckle him. So real quick, the categories. Best media coverage. This time we went back to any media. Best privacy enhancing tech since DEF CON 20. Notice that on a lot of these categories. We're not looking for the best in the world ever and some of the nominations we had to rule out because they were a lot older than some of you in the room. Worst privacy enhancing tech. Best security or hacker feed. Now the knit twit award. Best DEF CON group project that was approved and that was an interesting, we'll get to that anyway, sorry. Worst or most meaningless security buzzword. I'm sure we all know some of those. Biggest law enforcement blunder since DEF CON 20 once again. And the security charlatan of the year. So we'll start out with best media coverage. This is the only one where we'll really get to have some good visuals. There are quite a few nominations and by the way the slides for this will be up on attrition.org next week and it has the full list of nominations down in the notes below that you can't see on the screen. So you can look at our work and see which ones we decided to pick out of the list and put up and all that.  So the nominees are Brian Krebs, Glenn Greenwald, the Registrar of Security Week, RT.com and Kevin Poulsen. Actually it's the worst media coverage that we get the good visuals, not this one. So are any of these names new to anyone? Thank you. Okay. So based on that, let's see if I can make this damn thing work. Testing. That's probably good. So one at a time, based on their work in the past year or so, which of these people do you think deserve the award? Brian Krebs, I'll make sure you can see it. 83-2. That was pretty loud. Okay, how about Glenn Greenwald and from the Guardian.co.uk? He can see. That's cool. What? The Reg. It registered the same as me. The one thing I will give the Reg, though, they usually have some fun titles for all their articles. Even if the articles kind of limp, the titles are usually good. So, yeah, Masters of the Unverified Single Source News Story. Okay, so how about Security Week? Apparently I was a little less loud on that one. They didn't even register as much as the last. RT.com, specifically for their Snowden coverage. And then last we have some guy named Kevin Polson. I think he's been in the scene for a year or two. Yeah, he probably did some time. I don't know. His work at Wired, and this one was actually submitted by the guy that just told you we didn't vote. Anyway, yeah, someone's got a drink. So anyway, Kevin Polson. Weasel. You don't clap very loud. Okay, so based on that, RT.com. Yay. Is there anyone here from RT.com? He runs up with a camera.  I've got to assume you're with RT.com now. You've got to take a shot. For the next five minutes, you're with RT.com if you'd like a shot. And you can take a picture if you take a shot. Now while he's figuring out the tamper evidence seal over there, we'll go to the worst media coverage of hackers, and this is the one where we have some fun visuals. So the nominees are from Read-Write. They're an article titled World War III. Actually, we'll just go one at a time. So there we go. That's the visual we got with the article. And if you want to take a minute to read that top paragraph, every day the pentagon is attacked 3 million times. And that's kind of amusing because, Weasel, was that 95 or 96 we got the article about the pentagon being attacked 250,000 times? Yeah, because they were counting ping. Yeah. Okay. So anyway, we have that good visual that, you know, World War III is right here and we're already losing. I said, you get a shot. Oh yeah, solidarity. I'm good at something. Okay, so next up we have Marie Claire, when geeks attack. So look at that picture. Those are apparently programmers. Can anyone tell the difference between that and a DEFCON crowd? Yeah, there's females in that picture and there's no females at DEFCON. Yeah, good call. You want to take a sip so that you're more coherent? Next we have Meet the Press.  And he actually grills them. It was pretty embarrassing for Gregory. Man, I failed. I didn't even put the YouTube link down in there. If you don't have to Google it or something, I don't know. Next, the Maniche. Maniche? Okay, yeah. NPA. So there's a little backstory to this one. Yeah, they basically write an article and they didn't quite use the best wording so everyone thought that what they said was the law and that the law was going to do something and it ends up they didn't. And by the time they issued the retraction or apology, everyone was in a panic. So yeah, they really screwed the pooch on that one. Next we have Info World. Confessions of a Cyber Warrior. This is a very recent one. I don't know. Yeah. Who actually read this article? Who read this article and kept a straight face? Liar. Okay, yeah. So if you want a good, good laugh, grab a bottle, read this article. It's hilarious. What? Okay, so we're going to vote now. This time make some noise, bitches. Okay, read right World War III. Got triple digits on that one. Yeah. Marie Claire when geeks attack. Good effort, sir. No. Good effort, good effort. Meet the press, David Gregory. Yeah, so this is, this is revealing. Yeah, if any of you, if any of you are really wanting to vote, yeah, come up closer and you have more influence. That's how this works. And the only reason that someone's not stacking the vote is because he actually forgot his air horn. Sight your source. Yeah. Okay, the Maniche and the correction. Yeah, that was limp. Info world. Confessions of a cyber warrior. Yeah, who was that making most of the noise back there?  Who made all that noise back there? The harbor seal back there? Okay, so the winner, thanks to these two fine gentlemen is Read Right and World War III, which we are losing. It was in the print, it's fact. Yeah, so best privacy, do I skip one? No, okay. Best privacy enhancing technology since DEF CON 20. We actually had, I think we had more than that. Yeah, we had a lot of nominations, but only four of them count. So ghostry, anyone use that? One user. You better be loud. Disconnect two. Any users? Does anyone here care about privacy? No? Okay. Yeah. Twitter, two factor authentication, anyone actually use that on Twitter? Two people and we wouldn't want to hack your accounts anyway. Come on. It did. Yeah, okay. So, and who uses onion pie? The NSA thinks all of you. The reason the other products did not make it on the list are that they are not recent or new since DEF CON 20. And that's really the key. We need things that are new over the last 12, 14 months is kind of what we're using. Use the microphone. It's not on. It is now. What he said. Thank you. Anyway, since DEF CON 20, thank you esteemed. Yeah. Hat. Okay. So, ghostry.  And they don't care. See, next time you need to nominate whatever crappy tool you're using for privacy, you know, paper and pencil or something. Microsoft Word. Yeah. I hear that zip encryption is pretty strong. I love Jason Scott. Yeah. Disconnect two.  Twitter, two factor authentication. On two of you. Oh, none of that little UK golf clap. They had the most supporters in the room and is not winning.  You ready? They're getting ready. Okay. Onion pie. That was a noble effort while charging bear. That's officially the highest number we've ever seen in three years.  I heard it from right here. Neither is the rest of our industry. And we have alcohol. So anyway, we give you people many ways to influence this. We use Survey Monkey.  So if you want someone to win, next year you have some good guidance. Wasari Airhorn. Okay. So the winner on that one was the onion pie because of the esteemed gentleman down here. Since you are obviously users, I think you need to come up and partake. Designated drink or two shots. Good man. Worst privacy enhancing technology since DEVCON 20. Newly disclosed. It may be old but it's got a new name. It's got a fancy new power point I hear. So the first one is prism. If anyone's ever heard of prism, yeah, okay. Yeah. Good stuff. Cypher cloud. And these are the reasons we were given. I've never heard of this tool until the nomination. Bogus security claims abusing DMCA as a defense. That's interesting. I'll have to look into that one. Gmail. No reason given. I thought that was prism. Prism light. And last one is Wi-Fi sugar. Proof is in the website which I haven't read either. Anyone use Wi-Fi sugar? Any Wi-Fi sugar developers? Get a better name. Thank you. No. Wi-Fi sugar. I can get me some Wi-Fi sugar. I can see a bad SNL skid off that. Okay, so. Can you move to the other side of the stage? So they have to at least. Prism. Go for prism. No, no. Rules say I have to have it. Nope, nope. That was 10 less than you two actually making noise on your own. Serves. Serves, the fail panel was a few hours ago. Oh. Yeah, I got it. Yeah. Cipher cloud. If I can't be loud, I'll make the other fuckers be quiet. It doesn't go backwards, people. Okay. Gmail. I actually think that was the most popular. And it was actually quite nice. That was pretty swell. And I think we're going to just discount these fuckers down here in favor of that. Use the microphone. Okay. So if you want to keep prism, if you had brought your own microphone, that would be a different story. I like your style. Let's end up on that 89 5. Yeah, about 10 less now. And last, Wi-Fi sugar. Remember, it doesn't go backwards. Hey, somebody. That's the lowest number we've had today. All right. So we have prism. They'll be quiet. And we have Gmail. And we had more energy on Gmail. So if you want to vote for prism, use your voice right now. That's nice. All right. Gmail. Go. I think you went backwards. Yeah. You didn't even meet your previous one. Okay. So it's prism. Is General Alexander in the room to take this award? Shot, General. We didn't have to ask that question earlier. They knew. Yeah. Are there any feds to spot? No.  Yeah. That was actually planned before his talk ever. No, the eggs got confiscated before they made it to the room. Yeah. Yes, that happened. Brian sounds pissed. Jared goes like, I paid a lot of money for those eggs. Let the eggs through. Come on. Okay. So now we're getting into the fun stuff. You didn't tell them who won. Prism. Don't worry. They know they won. Where do you think this goes? So best Twitter feed. IO error. Make some noise right now if you follow these people. IO error. Moxie. Uranon news. Spaceroog. You want them to make noise on the next. You know, it's really hard. I just recognized him without the blue hair. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, dude. I haven't seen you in forever. So I apologize.  I was going to say now you're sporting the post office poster beard. Yeah. Have you seen me? $20,000 reward. It's good to see you, sir. Okay. So this is the one time I think that I had moderator influence. The hacker news was nominated. They're plagiarists. So they're not going to win in the story. And hacker huntress. Okay, other than Spaceroog, are any of you other nominees in the room? Yeah. 87% of the room is anonymous probably so, yeah. Okay. So can we mix it up a little bit? How many of you have actually been in this community and following DEF CON for at least 10 years? All right. So not even half the room. So here's the thing. If you know Spaceroog and you follow the hacker news network in the day, they were the... The hacker news network H&N is not the hacker news. Right.  So what I'm trying to do is draw, there's a line there. There was the original H&N, which was Spaceroog.  And so, yeah. Someone's going to win the arbitrary insult award. So I just want to draw that line. If you've been around for 10 years, it's not the same H&N. That's why. Okay. So now we're going to vote. IO error. It's better than nothing. No, it's not. Actually, it's not better than nothing. That was actually, I think a little quieter than the idle room is. Someone goes, oh. Sorry, Jacob. Now, Moxie. I forgot to hit a button. User incompetence, my fault. Anyway. You're paying on news. Hey, don't laugh at women right now. You're in. Someone's, we can have fun with this. Oh, yeah. Enos. Bactic drop table. We need an award for that. Absolutely awesome. Yeah. Designated drink or drink that. He's our designated drinker for the stage two. Okay. And last, hacker huntress. No one important. Okay, fine. Space rock. So by popular vote, the hacker news went, no. No, we're going to make you come up here and drink since you won. Are we close to end or did you guys get promised free shots? All of you that just came in? Free shots? Yeah? Well, your only chance of getting a free shot is to come down here and make noise when you're told to. So real quick, seriously, space rogue's been doing the hacker news for a long time. He would actually wake up at some obscene hour and I know because I was up from the night before. And there's something you need to know about him that my friend Carol and I, we would do editing for him. Caroline Mino? No. Okay. Different Carol. Yeah. So he has his own form of English called space Ronix. And every morning he would write these great articles minus the, I don't want to say clever use, I want to say fisting of the English language. But the content was there and that's what was important. And that's why Carol would be up and I would wake up early and I would be up from the night before and we would actually take the time to edit his crap. So anyway, thank you very much, space rogue. You've done a great thing for the community for a long time. So we just had the good. Now we need the bad. I forgot to change the title of that one. During Kino. Oh man. You don't get to designate that one either.   There's a celebrity on the front row too. Okay, so the nit-twit award because someone forgot to change the name on this slide. We're voting for the Twitter feed that is considered the worst. The first nominee is the jester. Who follows the jester? Who nominated the jester? Just one person. We only got IP addresses and last I heard they're a little untrustworthy. Yeah. Number two, white rabbit. Anyone follow him? It. There's a debate on the front row whether it has genitalia. Yeah. Third, Asher research. Anyone? No? Okay. Gregory D. Evans. I know most of you don't follow because his account's been locked for a long time because of me. Yeah. And last, Ada initiative. Hey, Val, you in the room? I want to talk to you about some dongle.  We did change that name, I swear. That's my mistake. It is the nit-twit award. I'll get in trouble for that. Okay, we got to speed this up a little bit too. Okay. So the jester. Make noise if you think it's the worst Twitter feed. He's getting louder. You want more? Asher research. I was wrong. You can't make it go backwards. Gregory Evans. White rabbit, thanks you. Everyone's still really confused about that one. Yeah. Ada initiative. You said you couldn't rig the votes. Alcohol will rig anything at DEF CON. Sorry, that was a little muscle spasm, nothing else. And then the side little, sorry. Yeah. Okay, so. It was Ada. Ada initiative. Val or the other chick, and you want to come up here and we can discuss your financials that have been leaked out? No? Ouch. Anyone? Anyone? Yeah. You can have a shot, too. Yeah. A shot. Consensual shot. Okay, fine. We'll send your award later.  Best project by an approved DEF CON group. We had two nominees. One of them had like 87 votes, and the other one had one. So honeypot that can bite. Anyone involved in that? Anyone hits free booze. Yeah. It's a DEF CON group something. I don't know. You're supposed to be here. Fuckers. You can lie. We don't have whiskey, though. Okay, yeah. So anyway, that one was an obvious rig to vote, but hey, we'll give it to them because they're spirited. Congrats. Worst security buzz word since DEF CON 20. I mean, it really took a hold of the news. Remember, some of these were nominated. It's not mine. It's the laptop owner drinks. Okay, so you're going to go down these real quick.  Security community, duh. Cloud. That one we probably shouldn't have included. Okay, I'll give you that. CEH, that's certified ethical hacker. That's a respectable number off laughs. I'll make sure I tell Jay Bavisi, head of the EC council about that one. No, I'm not. I'm not really missing it at all. Ada initiative. Damn, you're loud. Okay. Anonymous. That's another one we probably should have dropped since. Yeah. Okay, we'll skip that one. Cyber. For me, of course, is that all of you should be drinking for that.  China. That's all you got. Oh, yeah. Nice. Okay. And last, Snowden. So the award is cyber and we're all losers for that one. Everyone drink. Okay, we got, we got, we got five minutes. We got to really do this quick. Biggest law enforcement slash legal system blunder since DEF CON 20. We're not going to take votes. We're going to call all of these the winner on that one and how law enforcement fucked up in big ways. So real quick, unofficial awards. Best con award show, the ponies. If you missed them at the black hat, catch the video. They're funny. We're not. Most clever, some funniest security Twitter feed. Security humor. Really, really clever. Follow. Best book on freaking this year, exploding the phone. If any of you are interested in telephone and freaking history, get the book. Internet hacker security historian of the year. Jason Scott. By the way, if any of you use the Internet, go donate to archive.org. If you have any old hacker stuff sitting in your closet, old paperwork, whatever, work with Jason to make sure it gets into the right hands. While many people ship stuff to him, he also makes sure it goes to the right places. Certain museums or whatever initiatives that are dedicated to collecting that information. Awesome work. Yes. And most prolific Twitter that was most desperate for an award. So last, how much time do we have? Two minutes? Three? Hey, goon. You have 15. Russ said 15. I like his answer. I can roll it a little bit, probably. Who's going to pull somebody with free booze off the stage? I'll fight him. Come at me, bro. Okay, security charlots and award nominations. And once again, I did not nominate any of these, but I did note which ones I have worked with my team to publish information on. So first one is Anka Fadia. Anyone know of him? Yeah? Okay. Oh, no. What did he do this year? He gave the same presentation he's been giving for the past 13 years, where he still uses back orifice as his example for a remote access trojan. Okay. So on that note, is anybody, aside from space rogue, here that was involved in any of the back orifice stuff, because I'd like to give them a shot, too. Do we have dildog in here or death veggie? Any of you loft bitches, get up here. Okay. Rahul Tiagi. Anyone heard of him? He's kind of like a Fadia light. Yeah. Kim. Dot com, Schmitz. So yeah, most of you have heard the news about him for the last few years in his antics and mega this and mega fuckwad and all that. Right. So he's got a long history before that of fraud and all kinds of other interesting stuff. Make sure you read up on that. I do not know the story behind this one, but it got votes. Fortinet security. He just wants a shot. Yeah. Afterwards, if you know why they should be nominated, please let me know. And same with this one. Chris Russo. Anyone? Chris? Chris, are you in the room?  Bottle? Okay. So based on that, and I know it's a little blind, because if you did your homework, you would have read about all these people in advance. So on confadia, this thing is complicated. It is. Yeah, there's two items. Well, by that, I mean that it's not easy to reset. Thank you. Rahul Chagi. Yeah, I'll make sure to mail him and say he sucked it at this award to Kim dot com Schmitz. I don't care if he wins. Get another get another shot and designate his shot. Fortinet security. Yeah. Listen, people, if you're going to nominate someone, give us some details, some juicy dirt that I can spill on stage. Or at least show up so you can vote for him. Right. Yeah. And last, Chris Russo. I wish we had a cricket soundtrack. It'd be too loud. Okay, so we'll really test your interest in the community just for fun. Also nominated, but not on this list. Fernando Gaunt. That was intentional. I was just curious. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So Kim dot com Schmitz is the winner of the security charlatan of the award this year. So everyone, take this PowerPoint presentation. Highlight his name and upload it to his mega service. Next year we'll have more nominations. We'll have different categories maybe. We will actually have trophies and more booze and hopefully we'll have more people. All of you that came in for the free shots. Defconn parties is ready to give them to you later tonight. Thank you. Thanks, guys.


Hi, welcome everyone to this session and particular welcome to Shruti, really pleased that you're able to join us today. I'm going to briefly introduce you Shruti before we get into the conversation, which I'm really looking forward to. So Shruti is a professor of the professor of history and politics here at Cambridge and her work focuses on modern and contemporary India and global political thought. She's also co-director of the Global Humanities Initiative here at Cambridge and in that capacity works with seven universities in the global south with a focus there on the creation of new curriculum, new capabilities. She's also a regular commentator on Indian and global politics internationally and does that for the FT, the BBC, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg and a whole range of Indian media. On top of that, she undertakes advisory work and consultancy. She works with governments, financial institutions and think tanks. And last but by no means least, she's a senior associate with us here at the Institute and contrary to our attributes and that capacity to a number of our programs and convening activities. And the first thing I want to ask just back to your biography, your role here at Cambridge, given your professor of history and politics, I'm interested in how you see the academic disciplines of history and of politics as being relevant to international negotiations on climate change. Well, thank you Lindsay, it's a real privilege and honor to actually be in conversation with you to put it very simply, the kind of optimism that the world collectively had around globalization. And now no longer seems to be so sure footed partly that's about the change in politics globally with the rise of neo nationalism, but importantly, I think post the financial crisis of 2008 in the West, and the rise of China, you also got the other Asian economies, particularly in which grew at a, you know, very fast pace in the early, early decades of this century. And all of this to say that these countries now have acquired a greater say in in those global negotiations and the version of that actually in Paris, when particularly the Indian Indian delegation had succeeded in speaking about climate justice. And I think economy is central to it, because energy consumption and so on is very high now in places like China and because those countries and with billions of people living there to say that they cannot they do not have a right to prosperity, or to development finally to just say that in terms of my dual kind of disciplinary anchoring in history and politics. What is also clear is to me, particularly because I work in the realm of ideas, among other things, is that there is a very sophisticated set of ideas policies and indeed politics in places like India around environmentalism, and, and capabilities. And that's the first thing I can bring to the table here is that these societies and these policies have a very long history around the environment and human negotiation of the environment. And I think we need to kind of start attending to that a little bit. I think the dimensions that we really need to think about and consider that perhaps we have become more prominent or more significant than in the past we've been underserved in terms of the level of attention that they've had. But I'm keen to unpack that a little more and understand what that might mean for those of us who are working in support of progress. Are you optimistic, are you optimistic that in the context of these shifts that we are going to be able to make progress to achieve global goals and particularly global climate goals, recognizing that it will require global collaboration to achieve them. It's a very hard question. The optimism lies and the challenge also lies in how we are able to craft new, new discussions in, you know, incubate new ideas, which are actually also pragmatic, which can also, you know, be operationalized scaled up.  There's a fair amount of conflict and there's a fair amount of lack of understanding, if I can put it like that. You know, to not sort of beat around the bush. The question around sort of, you know, at the one level is are we living in a so called new bipolarity. Is there an American so called Western liberal international way of doing things and is there another way, which is either called multi polarity, or it's called the China led world, or you can say another world which is sort of global south oriented the ex colonized countries which are rising powers with China at the other end. So are we looking at a bipolarity, a multi polarity for all these discussions and a kind of very competitive economics fear. It is producing this paradox that where we are more in dialogue with each other. But perhaps there is more also friction conflict and also, you know, we're not being able to understand. So I think the challenge is going to be to create a certain set of like minimal goals, things that are very contextually specific for instance, in coming from India, the question of climate change is now we can unpack it a little bit more is increasingly going to have to be tied up with questions of not just economic development of which we know a fair bit, but also to food security and changes in the pattern and that's a phenomenon that is also common to say other African contexts and and indeed Latin America. I mean it is interesting that with the, you know, you've had a kind of slightly positive change a leading voice in say Brazil, the Brazilian leadership has come in favor of, you know, the protection of its environment, as a key issue. So I think the mistake, the fundamental mistake really, I think, without being too critical of the preceding discussions in global discussions. The mistake has been made that somehow these global goals, whether you know whether they are developmental goals or environmental goals can be set up from the West, and can somehow just be implemented elsewhere. I think that model is completely over, both in terms of just the power dynamics, but also a shift in discourses where political leaderships and also the populations of those countries are no longer willing to take these so called lectures from the West. So I think we need something more creative, something less antagonistic, but at the same time, something which, which emerges from these very vast societies, which are actually now the engines of global growth as well. Thank you a huge amount in there. And so I'm hearing that in practical terms, there's a need to move beyond Western framed approaches so more inclusive, less Western led approaches that are really linked to real world realities for many of the countries and quite tangible about what that means. And as you said, linked to some of the national international imperatives that governments are having to navigate. So I'm interested in practical terms of if there are things that you think that individuals as part of I'm going to call it a movement. Who should be doing differently. There's a kind of consciousness emerging consciousness amongst the young in particularly in the student body, which means that these sorts of, but this this kind of very important constituency, not simply the younger generations in India or China thinking about the environment, but how actually those societies have coped with or not coped with with it. And it would be that how do you now construct new institutional paradigms and narratives. So not simply that well, you know, I personally should not be eating meat because it's bad for the environment, which is all good or I should be recycling more. So there's a kind of kind of very individuated kind of response to environmental crisis in the West. Whereas actually if you look at the history of environmentalism in India, which is long standing, whether it is around big dams in the late 19 in the 1990s. For instance, or in the late 60s around forestry, like, you know, India of course has a very long history of civil disobedience thanks to Gandhi. So it has always taken the form of civil disobedience mass movements, yet there's another level, which I think is more relatable to CISL, which would be actually policy, policy thinking that has emerged in India around energy revolution. And as I said, it didn't come from nowhere. This idea of climate justice came from a long series of kind of embedded institutional practices in India which could then take to Paris and could become a global thing. Institutionally, I think, particularly something like your own, you know, CISL, which, you know, can network these very precise new console older and newer constellations of policy building. And here I actually think one of the ways to do it would be to triangulate the global south global south south dialogue. So for instance, you know, work that CISL does with South Africa. And how can that be linked up and how can these societies learn from each other with South Asia or India. So I see actually the work in two ways, one to kind of shift the narrative through, through a kind of creative exchange of policy and ideas across the global south, which then are not directed by the West as it were but CISL can convene it, CISL can find the strategic partnerships that will allow this to kind of scale up. Thank you. So you talked about some of the infrastructure or, you know, you talked about globalization, you talked about some of the multilateral infrastructure and what we might need in future. You also talked about the importance of narrative and encourage and looking at what language is being used in other economies. Is there any other narratives that you find that are really unhelpful and you think of getting in the way and that we need to let go of or perhaps not rely too heavily on. This is difficult and I don't want to sound judgy. The fact that there is a highly individuated language around environmental politics climate change consumers restraint that is emerging here. Absolutely fine no problem. That doesn't match on at all in a place like India, and which does not therefore mean that people are not doing this or the fact that there is no politics. Quite the opposite. There's a lot of politics around in around climate justice, as I said around ideas of food security around actually pollution, you know, air pollution in mega cities. You know, places like India have very different challenges at the moment. So let me just sort of say like, this is winter. You know, North India is particularly Delhi is engulfed with smog, you would have seen right. And this is not to say that people don't have a kind of consciousness around it how can you not you're living that toxic air. And this, but then this, it would not simply be about saying, well, people should not be using cars, how are you supposed to get around, you know, get around that city. So I think what is then required is because that smog is related to agriculture production in the north, the burning of stubble. There is a way in which a new discourse is emerging that perhaps the North Indian farmer should now not be producing paddy. It should not be you know it should move to Melettes or it should move to a different agrarian agrarian practice. So those things are emerging from those countries itself. And, and plus, there's a real issue of scale, and which I think you know we're not quite sensitive to in terms of the scale of the problem or the scale of the challenge itself. And I think the purists puritanism puritanism would have to go in terms of making simply climate as the ultimate thing, but actually to see how these three or four or five things are competing with each other, and producing a new set of policies and we are seeing that in India, you're seeing the emergence opening of coal mines, some not many, but, but you're also seeing this huge investment, eye watering amount of investment in solar energy. In terms of air pollution, I mean I've always been struck how recent it was that London was had very dirty air, I mean it's still not perfect. So what could places like London provide in terms of policy expertise. How is it that a political consensus was arrived at in Britain. So I think those sorts of conversations would be very, I think helpful and interesting. And I would say impactful. Absolutely. And specifically on that point we've had a number of government municipality delegations of leaders from a number of countries in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia come to us for what they've called London smart programs. How can they learn from what it took to achieve that cleaning up of the admittedly a huge amount still more to be done and not a thing that we by any means cracked. So I want to move from the kind of the diagnosis and commentary and that laying out the big context and come specifically then to COP 28 and move instead to prediction. So I want to ask you what you think the outcomes do you think we're likely to see from this forthcoming call. So I think, let me contextualize one thing I think the G 20 in India. So what is this parallel set of multilateral conversations going on. And I think it's really interesting that four major global South countries are were are convening the G 20 in succession. So it started with Indonesia, then India, then Brazil, and then South Africa in two years it'll be in South Africa. And the way in which that dialogue is getting it's getting a kind of institutional structure but it's also getting a momentum and where these countries have like really set the tone for for negotiation that this cannot simply be about Europe or it cannot simply be about you know, moving national as it were carbon one country to another or jurisdictions that you know, I mean the challenge around net zero, for instance, a that it has occupied a very central place in the discussions of COP. So what you see from the global South, the challenge is that when you have a net zero policy which says it will be met in 2070, which is an in there that's the claim. That's the kind of pledge, then there's a real problem of immediacy, or even the real problem of kind of, you know, making something actionable, giving it the urgency. So for me the success would be how debates around net zero energy transition are tied in more firmly with, as I said, development, and also justice around these. So that would be one touchstone the second touchstone would be whether the global south speaks in unison, or which which it did in in Paris, which is why it was a success relative. And, and thirdly, how receptive are as it were the, the leading economies like America is especially and the European Union are on these these these dialogues is the cop story, going to now match up with the G 20 story where the where as it emerging economies have had a bigger say than ever before. And so that's, that's for me the touchstone. And I don't mean simply China or I don't mean simply in there, but more connected global south Brazil, South Africa, particularly. I'm keen to turn now to the role of business and financial institutions. As you know, CISL works with business with finance with government around how we can support those institutions so that they're at core activities contributing to more sustainable outcomes And I know that your work is increasingly working with business and finance sector. And within this context in which you've outlined with very significant regional national interests and effectively what I'm hearing is that debates around climate change are becoming central to international politics trade negotiations and so on. I've seen a lack of government leadership over recent years on climate change we've seen commitments but not necessarily leadership and there's been a lot of focus there for on private sector to step up and show leadership because they have a vested interest in getting to a stable climate and thriving economies and so on. But in the context you've outlined I'm interested in what you now see as a role of business and financial institutions. Should they be stepping up and stepping into lead or is it on nation states on national governments now back in the driving seat given how politicized some of these these issues are But certainly in the West it's get a fair amount of discussion around climate emergency. And so I think there the work of the private sector can be productively used because it's you know they are driving much of the world economy. In the last 10 years you national governments have kind of, you know, reclaimed, I would say a little bit more power that they had begun to if not lose, but we're sharing with the world of business and finance in the early stages like earlier globalization. I think leadership of the young needs to be nurtured for sure. In India I mean just to bring it back, you have a very strong network of civil society action, very long standing civil society groups. These are mostly homegrown. They are not necessarily internationally funded. How do we learn from them and what are the challenges they are facing in terms of not just politics but say emerging disasters emerging climate emergencies. I think the baseline would have to be that the business world will have to see an incentive in it for them. And that would have to be, I said, you know, innovation led and but also I think a greater, a greater dialogue between politics and business, because at the moment you're getting like a kicking off the ball between the two sectors. And then you bring a third element as I said, off the politicians, which so I think joined up thinking with joined up sectors are very limited experience but that I was quite struck by profit incentive, which means that the work around energy transition will be very challenging. I mean, being a realist, I think the moral language doesn't work. And that's where I think the work of governments is important because it's the governments that can also create structures of incentive. I'm keen to move on to talk about the role that individuals and individual leaders within our network can play. I think individual capacities and individual leadership is incredibly important. And yet, what has happened is that we are, there's a scarcity of it. I can see that, you know, why politicians would be reticent because, you know, they need to win an election every five years. I mean, they're very accountable. It's a high risk job they are in, right? Is there any way in which we can begin to convince individual leaders who do not need to kind of work with such tight high risk stakes, and then they can be able to work with political leaders. I do think it's a matter of time framing of net zero to 2070 means that the immediacy is lost. The same problem is the opposite for politicians because they're in an immediate political cycle. They are not able to think of the midterm. And I think universities which have this, you know, unique position to think about the immediate and the long term can start bridging this gap between something which is so future oriented and something which is more immediate. And I therefore do think individual leaders but institutions like CSL incredibly important. I mean, you know, India's had major environmental leaders in the past and I can think of them some very inspiring women some inspiring older men, some of them are no longer leaders. But, you know, I don't see comparable. I don't see a comparable political comparable leadership emerging. And what is it that we can do to generate engender it, I think. Thank you. So you've talked about, given some examples of youth leadership, you've talked about the context within which leaders are operating that some of the constraining or enabling conditions and the journey of having to win votes on a regular level, being somewhat challenging there, and talked about a particular, I suppose, capability, the ability to both to be able to tell us there's right to horse at once that succeed in the short term but be navigating to a long term as a thing that effectively does many to do, given that we're a leadership institute and all of our workers in some way working to inspire support enable leaders. I'm interesting whether you think there are any other examples of capabilities or insights that the leaders should be nurturing themselves within their teams within this very influence to add to that sense of balancing managing both the short term long term is anything else that you encourage leaders to be nurturing. You know, I think what is desperately required is a kind of shift from this competitive story which has now become very ingrained that the West has consumed, it's now the turn of Asia to consume. For a rich versus poor or rising power story now needs a new framework for for for actually the sake of humanity to succeed. And this would obviously mean a certain relinquishing of very major frameworks of thinking in the West, and to simply think of those places as, you know, competitors or, you know, or antagonists or even pupils, you know that you know what. So I think, for me, the greatest challenges that having diagnosed that this is the this is the resetting the quiet. It can't be real leadership without new ideas. How do we kind of reset it. And for that I think, again, I mean not to sort of fly the flag of the university once more but I think that's where intellectual work intellectual leadership will will will produce will help produce the new political leadership. Yeah. Thank you. So back to the university and your role within that your day job as a historian with strong interest in politics. Are there any lessons from history that you would encourage us to take about how we can enable international collaboration on the scale we need to see for the urgency of the challenges the interconnected challenges that we're facing. Are there any lessons we can draw from history to inform us for the future. So what we are living in is unprecedented. You know, so I think there are, there are certain lessons to learn. Okay, so let me give the example of what happened to India's amazing forests in the 19th century, the story of empire is also the story of an environment, because in this forest it was kind of, you know, you know, depleted, precisely for the emerging global network around railways, and the most important work on environmental history actually, you know, 30 40 years ago came out of India, you know, and talking about that of course today we talk in terms of decolonization, but I think that my, my, my worry or my caution would be that how to prevent a colonization of the planet again, or colonization of vast numbers of people, whether they are by a small conglomerate. So I think the, the story of empire has come back in every way. And the lesson would be that how not to repeat that, and how to then make sure that there's an equitable, more just human Thank you very much. You provided us with a huge amount of food for thought and amazing building out a whole range of dimensions. We, and the organizations and individuals that we're working with are really being thoughtful about as we prepare for engage with COP, the COP has only one dimension of a huge landscape that we really need to engage with and some really powerful insights there, particularly around the need to really shift some of our world views, mindsets and be open to and be nurturing new ideas and new thinking. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you Lindsay.


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In my work I mainly look at maps of fuel condition, this is how dry the fuel is, how much fuel load is in a specific place and all these variables are important because they condition the flammability of the landscape and the potential of a fire to start. So we are at Namaji National Park, 80% of this park was burned a year ago. The fire started in the Oral Valley, that is not far from where we are at the moment. So last year towards October I already saw that the landscape was extremely dry, forests normally don't drop moisture content conditions much, but last year because we were having a very strong drought, the forest got stressed and the moisture conditions I was seeing in my maps in October for forest areas were unprecedented, so they were a lot lower than the average of the last 18 years. So if we combine dry fuels, high fuel loads with fire weather, this is high temperatures, low relative humidity and strong winds, that makes all the ingredients for a catastrophe fire season. When I started to see this evidence of the dryness of the landscape, I started to be very worried on what would come ahead. Seeing all these areas that I frequently visit with my family and friends and I enjoy, seeing these areas burning was quite sad and stressful, especially when I knew there was little to do to stop these fires, given the conditions at the time. So following the fires I came with my colleagues from ACT Parks and Conservation Service to do evaluation of the fire severity. We did that in an helicopter flying across the landscape. So what we show from the helicopter service was that 45% of the inspected plots were affected by high fire severity, and that indicates that the fire burned quite hot, so that may explain the lack of vegetation in some of the areas of Namaji, highly affected. So what I learned from 2020 is that we can make a better use of the data we currently have. We know that we will have more catastrophic fire seasons coming in the coming years. So what we want to make sure is that the data is fit for purpose and can be readily available for the fine managers to make the decisions.


Here's a schematic diagram of a cross section of the earth. You can see this tiny thin part here is the crest. From the base of the crest, all the way to this boundary is the mantle. And from this boundary all the way to the center of the earth is called the core. We also distinguish between the upper and lower mantle, that's this boundary right here, and between the inner and outer core. That's this boundary right here. So how do we decide where to actually place these boundaries? Well, that knowledge comes from observations of seismic waves. And in fact, we can use observations of seismic waves to tell us a lot of other things about the composition of the interior of the earth, such as its exact mineral agit composition, and the pressure, and the density, and the temperature.


Good day, film investors! If you are a long subscriber to the channel, you know that I have been following Facebook publicly, even invested in Facebook when it was 170, then bought more when it went to 136, I think, and then sold everything at 200. And I still keep following Facebook, keep looking at it, but as we also have a small Facebook group, Stock Market for Modern Value Investors, I see also Facebook from behind the scenes. And this is where what they report as numbers, as growth, as user growth really does not fit well with what I see going on on Facebook. And a lot of fake numbers there that might compromise Facebook's position from a mode perspective, from attractiveness of advertisement, etc. It's really difficult to manage what Facebook is managing. It's a great business, great people, the best engineers there, the best programmers, really testing everything, working hard to test and that. But I, as a value investor, I need a margin of safety. I need more and more, let's say, bottom line certainty, not the upside. Upside, I let, okay, whatever happens, if the environment is positive, that upside will be good. If not, there will be less upside. But I'm focusing on the downside, which means the social media life cycle is something we have to look. And I'll give you really behind the scenes, how does managing a Facebook group, Instagram account work, and how much fake there is. I think it will give you a good perspective on what's going on. And perhaps in the long term, we'll see how that evolves. Let's start with overview of what Facebook is selling, the investment thesis, and then what I see from behind the scenes. So Facebook, daily active users, monthly active users, growing strong. This is what Facebook shows at every earnings conference call. This translates into higher and higher revenues as advertisers are attracted to more and more people, more and more engagements, more and more tools to follow, to do better and better advertisement. And the average revenue per user is going as there is more and more interest. However, each social media has its life cycle from introduction, growth, majority, and then the inevitable decline. Where I see the inevitable decline coming for Facebook is within the fake accounts that are actually represented here. Facebook doesn't really control for fake accounts. And I'll show you in practice how does that look like. Okay, so this is the small stock market group we have for modern value investors. It has 2,367 members. And okay, 10 people want to join this group. And now, okay, Jan Mills, this is public data, 2007, 15 groups. So this looks like a legit request. Gary Hart, okay, legit request, that's to Jigar Mehta, okay, 2006 accounts, legit requests, 44 groups, okay, in 2009. Okay, those are all, let's say 1, 2, 3, 4 legit accounts out of the 10. Marvin J. Farmer, binary option trades, 49 groups, all option trading and traders, etc. This is a fake, this is a scam account. That's one. Jenny Wong, yes, seven groups, 2018. This is another fake account, probably some spam. Abba Khabibu Yakuru, also very famous value investor, joined a few days ago, 47 groups, Bitcoin, ICOs, fake, Salisu Aliyu, 10 groups, stock market tips, joined also a few months ago. Fatima Ula-Isach, joined a few months ago, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin and Lawson Jack, no public details, also joined a few years ago, but probably usually also selling something, so I don't know. So out of 10 requests here, I see that six are fake accounts, which really tells me how, okay, Facebook, yes, it's growing, but there is so much fake and I know to have days that I have 10 requests, 20 requests and only one or two of those requests is legit and there are all kinds of accounts, there are all kinds and if you block one, then you block tens of them that are related to those accounts. So this is really, really a concern because it's clear that those growth numbers that Facebook is showing are fake and then if we go on Instagram, I recently had a situation where someone made four or five accounts with my name, similar accounts that have my name, he just put a line next to it and they were following all the followers that follow me and then they were messaging them with selling some Bitcoins or things like that.  Okay, I reported it, they canceled it, but it's so easy to increase the number of users and Facebook is not really open and saying about how they deal with that because there is the revenue growth, there is the user's growth, that is a great selling point and I think they should disclose this better because it's clear that these numbers are fake, a lot of scammers there and when there is so much scamming, the group and everything doesn't become, doesn't remain attractive and people simply go for something else and that's the decline of social media platforms. So all that we have discussed, questions really the mode Facebook has, how long it can endure? I have no visibility whether in five to ten years we now see TikTok exploding, we have seen Snapchat doing really good and threatening Facebook. So I don't know where Facebook will be in the next five to ten years, which really is on the borderline or whether this is a value investment or not. How much money will Facebook have to spend to protect its position, to protect its mode? Yes, there is a lot of people but I don't trust in the growth and when a social media platform starts declining, those growth numbers I think are fake, the active of real users is declining. That's a given because I see so many fake accounts on Instagram, on Facebook that and they are not protecting, they are not telling me oh this is a fake account, if I don't block them permanently they simply come back, come back and come back. So that's something very different from, for example, YouTube. If somebody posts spam content on YouTube, the algorithm pushes this to me, I say it's spam and then I never see again that person, they never come back and YouTube simply filters those things much, much better than Facebook. It's also a different kind of platform but we will see which one will see declines or not. So perhaps if you want to invest in platforms, perhaps Google's YouTube is better than Facebook. We'll see, it's a lot of unchartered territory for me so I just wanted to share this behind the scenes.  I simply can't invest in something that's based on fake numbers. Of course 2.5 billion or let's say 2 billion real doesn't really make a difference but the half a billion of fake accounts really deters me from continuing to really focusing on this as a potential investment. Thank you for watching, looking forward to the comments. What is your opinion of this? This is a very, very hot topic especially if you're a Facebook investor so please share that in the comments and if you have received value from this please subscribe. If you want to see my other analysis of all the stocks that I own in a portfolio please check my stock market research platform. The link is in the description below. Thank you and I'll see you in the next video.


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