In the simple world of the climate alarmist, all you have to do to control the Earth's atmosphere is change the amount of CO2, increase the amount of CO2 and, well, hell breaks loose. So all we have to do to get back to peace and tranquility is reduce that CO2. Oh, if life was so simple, we'd have no ice ages, we'd have no change in climate, it's CO2, it's all that seems to matter. So what is this CO2? What is this powerful CO2? That only has 0.04% of the atmosphere. That is so powerful that it changes everything. Well, in this video, we're going to find out. But we'll start at the beginning. Well, we're going to talk about atoms and molecules, but don't worry, it's really simple. And we're not going to use any big words. CO2 consists of two oxygen atoms and, of course, a carbon atom. So the three atoms are joined together in what forms the CO2 molecule. You could reasonably ask, why am I telling you this? Well, bear with me for a moment and you'll understand why. So is CO2 a greenhouse gas, as claimed by the alarmists? Well, the answer is, yes it is.  And this boy in doing that is certainly getting warm. Molecules are just the same. The atoms of the molecule have to move to store the energy. So when the sun radiates on the CO2, it absorbs and holds the energy. The atoms in the CO2 molecule actually move in four planes. It gets quite complicated, but there's no need to understand all that now. All you have to understand is, in practice, they actually move very fast. And in practice, they hold the heat. As the molecule absorbs more and more radiation from the sun, either directly or indirectly, the radiation actually has less and less effect. Technically, that's called a logarithmic scale. But what it means is that as you keep on adding more radiation, the effect on the molecule is less and less. Just like the little boy on the trampoline, the molecule can only take so much before it says, I've had enough. It's worth listening to the world expert on the CO2 molecule, Professor William Harper, from Princeton University in the USA. And as far as CO2 is concerned, which is the major focus, that's probably more good than bad. Now I can hear people yelling at the screen right now, saying, what do you mean CO2 doesn't make much difference? Well, I know a lot about CO2 compared to most climate scientists, because we make CO2 lasers. And CO2 is a very interesting molecule. A particular mode of CO2 that contributes to global warming, a CO2 is a rod, and it bends like this, up and down, up and down. It's that bending motion that causes global warming. But that is such a strong absorption that it's saturated now. So as you add more CO2, most of what you can do has already been done. There's still a little addition, but not very much. Can you explain that to me in a little greater depth? What do you mean it's already been done? Well, if you have a barn and you want to paint it red, if you paint a red, paint it may not be quite red enough, if you put two or three, then it really looks red. After that, if you add more red, it doesn't make much difference. And so that's sort of what CO2 is doing now, that most of the easy absorption has been done. And so as you add more CO2, you get a little broadening, I don't want to get too technical. Well, no, I find this fascinating because, and the reason that I find it fascinating is that I hear that, okay, we've gone from about 320, 330 parts per million going back in the last 100 years now to just shy of 400 parts per million if we measure it in Hawaii. And along the way, we've heard predictions of different catastrophic outcomes as we push our way through different maximums. I haven't seen them happening, even though people will attribute some weather change to that. You're saying that if we push through 400 and get to 500, the difference between 350 and 400 is greater than that between 400 and 500. Yeah, there's an interesting thing about CO2, which is unique to CO2. It's not true, for example, of water, paper, or methane. And that is that if you get one degree of warming from doubling CO2, so going from say 400 parts per million for simplicity to 800, that doubles it. Suppose that causes one degree of warming, then to get another degree of warming, you have to double 800, so you have to go to 1600. So you have to double it again.  Technically, they call that the logarithmic dependence of temperature rise on CO2 concentration. It was first guessed at, really, by Sponte Arrhenius, who did some of the earliest work on global warming. He thought it was good. He was all for global warming. But he was the first one to point out this doubling property of CO2. Nobody quite knows how he guessed it. It's correct. Because he wasn't using computer models. I mean, it was before quantum mechanics. He didn't even know about spontaneous emission. It was before Planck. OK, the physics lesson is over. But now we will take a history lesson into the fascinating history of CO2 on planet Earth. And I will explain why we need more of it. Although it may come as a shock to some, the Earth has not always been like it is today. It was once a molten ball. A long time ago, yeah, but a molten ball. And at other times it's been an ice ball. Volcanic activity in the past was huge. And it contributed huge amounts of very noxious materials into the atmosphere, such as sulfur dioxide. But it also gave a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. And today, volcanoes maybe only represent a small amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere. But historically, a huge amount. So the Earth used to have many, many thousands of parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. The small amount of 400 parts per million that there is today. But coming from billions of years ago, we're now going to shoot forward in time to 540 million years ago, the start of the Cambrian period, the biggest explosion in life the world has ever seen. And that lasted for about 56 million years. But during that period, all the life forms we know today started and they started in the sea, not on land. CO2 levels then were of the order of 5,000 parts per million. That's 12 or 13 times what they are today. But something very important started to happen. And that was the formation of creatures with shells. And those creatures with shells, when they died, trapped the calcium, trapped the CO2 in their shell. That formed things like limestone, chalk and marble. Since that Cambrian period, 570 million years ago, life has trapped a lot of CO2 into rocks. Life has taken out of the atmosphere incredible amounts of CO2, gradually reducing it. You can see with the green line here how the CO2 has continually been taken out of the atmosphere until we reached current levels which are CO2 drought levels. With life not sustainable on Earth, with CO2 levels of 150 parts per million and below, because no plants could live. It's amazing how close we got. About 18,000 years ago, it actually reached 180 parts per million. Just 30 parts per million above the extinction of life on Earth. What saved the Earth from total disaster then was a quite a rapid warming period as we came out of the Ice Age. And that saved us, but it still only put CO2 to around about 280 parts per million, which was the pre-industrial level. In effect, mankind has saved the planet by putting CO2 into the atmosphere because it's now increased from that 280 to around about 400 parts per million. Had man not done that on the simple prediction here, in 2 million years, life on Earth would have ceased to exist as we reached the 150 parts per million level. Yet the entire thrust of the alarmist movement is to return to pre-industrial levels, i.e. 280 parts per million of CO2. Why? No one has ever defined what the right amount of CO2 is. There is just this wish to return to extreme drought levels for all our plants and hence the health of the world. Yet no climate scientist has ever defined what the right amount of CO2 is. It is totally illogical. But old honey, if what I'm saying is true, the extra CO2 that we pumped into the atmosphere should have produced healthier plants, should have produced more plants, should have produced bigger food crops throughout the world. So let's examine what's happened by mankind's contribution of CO2. Now it's here where I need you to use your imagination. I want you to imagine that I come along to the world from outer space, if you like, and I say to the world, I can do something. I can actually take a desert. Let's take the biggest desert there could be. Let's take the whole of the USA landmass and double it. Let's take that as a desert. And as a deal, I'm going to add that, not as a desert, but as lush vegetation. I'm going to add all that vegetation curing every square inch of the USA landmass, twice over, and I'm going to add that to the earth. That would be a fantastic deal, wouldn't it? It really would. Well, the news is that's what CO2 has done. 32 authors from 24 institutions from eight countries combined together to produce a report. They measured the extra vegetation on earth using satellite imagery, and NASA published the results, and the results were that the earth has produced an extra 14% extra vegetation in some 35 years. 70% of that extra growth they attribute to the increase in CO2. Just like you, vegetation has to breathe. When you look at a leaf, there are tiny microscopic holes in it that it breathes through, and it breathes in the carbon dioxide and gives off oxygen. Without the carbon dioxide, it wouldn't exist because the vegetation, just like us humans, is made of carbon. Now, because we're in a carbon dioxide drought, those holes have to be large to get as much carbon dioxide in as they can. But as you increase the carbon dioxide, the holes can become smaller. Why is that important? Well, the large holes let out more water from the plant, and the smaller the hole, the less water the plant needs. And this is one of the reasons why vegetation is encroaching on deserts in the world now. In many parts of the world, there are shortages of water, and the carbon dioxide is helping towards resolving that problem. And by the way, don't be confused by the hole in the centre of the leaf here. The holes we're talking about are microscopic. Of course, greenhouse owners have known about CO2 for years, and they've been pumping it into their greenhouses to make plants grow more. Now, the plant on the left is the ambient. That's what the current level of CO2 is, and that's the sort of growth you get. But when you increase the CO2, right up to another 450 parts per million, just over doubling, look at the growth you get. And really, we are truly in a CO2 drought. The earth needs much more CO2 than it now has. And do not forget, the greenhouse effect of extra CO2 becomes minimal, which is why in Cambrian times, you could have 5,000 parts per million or more and have no problem. Of course, crop yields per acre are increasing. And in fact, poor continents like Africa are now providing record crops. This fact would be humorous if it was not so sad and costly. This is the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and as you can see, it's continually growing. And no matter what conferences you have, Kyoto, Paris, Copenhagen, they make no difference at all. Because the countries that produce most CO2 by far are not controlled by them. For all the hot air you hear in the UK about zero targets, it is all meaningless. We have not achieved any saving in CO2 in any event. All we've managed to do is export our manufacturing abroad, where there are lower pollution standards, so we've increased pollution, and actually increased the amount of CO2. This is why this curve shows you, that no matter what conference you have, no matter what you do, the CO2 is going to rise anyway. It's an essential part of life. And you know, that is good news.


Like I'm literally obsessed. Okay, so you all know, or maybe not, but most of you know that I'm literally obsessed with pumpkin spice lattes specifically from Starbucks. Therefore, I don't feel like spending $7 on a drink every single day of my life during the fall season. So I was like, why don't I search up a recipe online because I feel like that's the T is when you can find like a good coffee recipe that literally tastes like Starbucks because I'm cracking Starbucks' code. I found the oat milk that they used and it makes my coffees 10 hundred times better. I'm really analyzing them and I'm going to be the new Starbucks. We're gonna make a pumpkin spice latte together and I'm gonna make it hot. I'm gonna make like one batch and it says to split it into two mugs. So I think it's technically like two cups of coffee. So we'll see how much it makes and if it makes too much, I'm just gonna like put the rest in the fridge and then make a nice coffee for tomorrow. But I do feel like a hot coffee today because the weather's kind of gloomy and you know what, when the weather's gloomy I feel like hot coffee. Not all the time actually that's kind of a lie but sometimes we're gonna start. I'm actually really excited. I really hope that this turns out good because if it does, if you already know, I'm gonna be making huge vats of this, okay? And storing it for the fall. Okay, let's start. This is my little saucepan. Hold on, I'll give you guys a different angle. Okay, I'm gonna be walking you guys through this whole process so that if you wanna make it, then you can just write it down or refer back to this video. But wait until I taste it before writing this down because if it's bad, then I don't want you guys to waste your time. Okay, so I'm gonna put two cups of milk in a little saucepan. If you guys didn't know, this is the literal best oat milk of all time to make coffees with. The one that Starbucks uses. I've raved about this in the past but just in case it's this one.  I'm gonna start heating the milk up and I need to add two tablespoons of pumpkin puree. So this is the can that I'm gonna be using. I just found it in my pantry so. Ooh, it smells very pumpkin-y. Gonna add that in here. So the recipe calls for two to three tablespoons of sugar but I sweetened my coffee with maple syrup so I'm just gonna do that. And usually I put two of these little spoons in my coffee so I'm just gonna put four in here because I'm pretty sure that this is double the recipe of what I would usually make. So I'm just gonna do a base off of what I already know. And then I'm just gonna take a whisker and whisk it up. Okay, so I think that that's hot. Yeah, that's definitely hot. So now it's telling me to whisk in the vanilla, pumpkin pie spice and the coffee. It says to add a half teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice but I don't have pumpkin pie spice so I kind of searched up what I can use for an alternative and it said like cinnamon and nutmeg so I'm just gonna do cinnamon and nutmeg I guess. I'm just gonna add that in now. And so now it looks something like that and we're just gonna mix it up. I don't know why but I'm like nervous to taste this because I'm just really hoping for the best. But I'm gonna taste it before I put it in a mug just because in case like I need to add sugar or whatever I just wanna make sure that I can do it. I'm so scared. Okay, we're gonna do it, we're gonna taste it. I'm so nervous, I don't know why I just really hope that this is good. Here we go. You know what? She's not Starbucks but it'll do, it'll do. I think I put too much nutmeg because I didn't have the pumpkin pie spices so I think that would have made it a lot better. I don't think I accidentally put too much nutmeg because I can taste it but it's not bad at all. Overall, I give it a seven and a half out of 10 I think is a good rating but I'm gonna like pour it into the mug and then like drink more of it to tickle my senses a little more to see how it sits with me. Yeah, it's definitely good actually. Like it's really good. Okay, so I just poured it into a mug and I'm gonna save that to make like an iced coffee tomorrow. It's actually really good. I actually really like it. I'm upgrading it to an eight.  And I will see you when I see you bitches.  It's called Jam. It's literally such a fricking bop.  Okay, so I'm currently in the car obviously and me and Joel are going to Fort Langley today which is like a bit away from my house and it's a really, really cute area just to like walk around and there's little shops there and it's by the water. So we're gonna have just like a cute afternoon slash evening there. I just kind of explore and have a fun day. We weren't gonna do anything today but Joel like needed to get a couple of stops done. He needed to go to a bike store. He had to pick some stuff up, drop something off. So I was like, why don't we just like make a day out of it since you're going out anyways. Let's do something cute and I can vlog up for you guys to show you guys around. Cause I feel like it's just so interesting to see other people's like cities and I don't know, cause every city is unique. I don't know, it's just really cool to see how like the different and unique aspects everywhere in the world. And that's why I literally love YouTube because it's like, you can get an insight on people's life, where they live and it's, I don't know, it's just really cool. It's getting stuff in here. I literally need to put the air conditioning on. It's kind of like a fall day where like it's sunny but it's not necessarily hot. I wouldn't say it's probably around like 20 degrees Celsius. Let me check for sure. Yeah, so apparently it's 18 degrees Celsius right now. So it's kind of like on the colder-ish side. It's not like too cold. So it's kind of like a perfect fall temperature. And I decided to whip out this outfit. So I'm wearing like the crew neck. So I'm like warmer on top. And then I'm wearing a skirt. I'll show you like a more in-depth fit when I stand up. But I got the inspo for this on Pinterest and it's literally the perfect outfit for this temperature because it's like kind of half wearing summer and you're kind of half wearing fall. And I paired it up with my jewelry from Ana Luisa. Thank you Ana Luisa for sponsoring this video.  Literally everything that they have is so cute and it's amazing quality. It's sustainable and their pieces are affordable. They started at $39, which is really good for like good quality jewelry.  I feel like it's just such a waste of money. Okay, so here's my in-depth fit over here. So here is this beautiful necklace. This green is just so beautiful. I honestly am more into gold jewelry than I am silver.   I honestly haven't worn earrings in so long because I bought like a fake pair of hoops but they irritate my ears to the point where like I can't wear them for too long or they'll literally start hurting my ear lobes. So I have to make sure that whatever kind of jewelry I put in my ears are like good quality so that they don't hurt my ears cause my ears are very sensitive but these literally are so perfect. These are gonna be my go-to earrings from now on.  And then I also got this ring. Like how beautiful is this ring? Like I'm literally obsessed. Like literally obsessed.  When I have jewelry on it literally just like puts me in this alter ego mode that I just feel like a higher version of myself and I just feel so, what's the word? I just feel so put together.  They have their life together. Jewelry is so simple and easy to just throw on but it can make any outfit a step up from what it is. Like I'm not kidding you. I admire girls that wear jewelry. So if you guys go click the link in the description you can shop their site and use my code Bento10 for 10% off. So take advantage of that. I know you guys will love their jewelry because I'm literally obsessed with it. So yeah, go click the links in the description. If you guys want to support me and shop in a Louisa. How cute is my jewelry? Like the ring especially. Right? Look at the earrings. Ooh. Are they cute? Yeah, those are really nice. Oh, I know. Are such creepy dolls. So we're just currently sitting down enjoying the view.  I think strawberry is like one of my number one favorite flavors for ice cream. What a beautiful day. We just got home. I'm tired. Every time I go out it takes it out of me. I swear COVID did this to me where like I'm so used to just being at home that like the second I step out of the house it's like I spill all my energy. Oh, but I'm definitely just going to go in have some dinner and I want to make peanut butter cookies today and not just peanut butter cookies but vegan healthy peanut butter cookies. I made them like a week ago maybe and they were so good. I mean, they really are not as good as like the unhealthy greasy ones that I used to make. But these ones it just like, you know you're putting better things into your body. So it's like I don't feel bad eating them. And they taste good. Oh, you like them? Oh my God. Are you joking? They're so good. They don't taste like a healthy cookie. Like I've had healthy cookies. They taste like basically like a real cookie. Like you can barely tell that they're healthy. They're not as good as like real peanut butter cookies that was sugar and stuff but like it doesn't taste like bland at all. Like they're good. They're good. Oh, craving them. And they're actually like really easy to make. They literally took me like 20 minutes, not even. I'm so excited. I'm like craving that. Oh, are you tired too? I'm so tired. I'm debating if I should do a little workout. I would not be able to work out right now. There's no way. Let me know if this happens to you as well going out of the house now ever since we were like in lockdown and had to stay home going out of the house. I get tired. I can take a nap right now. It's 6.25. So I'm not gonna take a nap because I'm going to bed soon but I'm definitely just gonna eat, make the cookies and then have a chill night. Oh, you guys also today felt like fall when I used to see the leaves on the ground and I'm like walking in like a cute fall outfit. I get the sensation. That's kind of like similar to like the Christmas vibe but it's like a fall vibe, you know what I mean? And it makes me so internally happy. You probably don't even get that right. You can't really relate. No, but I know what you mean but like I just don't really care. It's like Vibe. It's like, ooh, it's new. It's Vibe. It's fall, but I just felt that today. I felt the fall vibe. It's a perfect fall day today. So I'm so blessed.  Like, I'm gonna work out six days a week. At the same time, there's times where it's good to push yourself but there's also times where you just have to rest. I saw this thing today on somebody's Instagram story and I'm gonna read it to you guys. Every person I know is at great exhaustion right now. So let this be your motivational tweet. Don't do the thing today. Don't go out. Don't go get it. Stay in bed if you can and have a bowl of soup and nap. Rest isn't laziness. Rest isn't failure. Rest. Like so many people guilt trip themselves for resting. And like even sometimes when I rest, I think in my head like, oh shit, should I be doing work right now? Like, should I be doing something more productive? But it's like when your body needs rest, like it needs rest and that's okay. Like it's normal. It's not a bad thing. It's just neutral. It's equal. It's important to list your body and if you need rest, then you need rest. Don't feel guilty about it because people think of rest as a bad thing. Like people correlate it with like a bad thing. Usually it's like guilty, bad, lazy, but it's like just as neutral as being productive because your body needs it. Like you need to rest. Have yourself a spa day. I think I'm gonna do a video soon of like having a spa day. I kinda need a spa day. That would be fun. It's a busy day. Like I did a lot of stuff today. Oh my God, do you wanna make the video with me? We can do a spa day together. That'd be pretty nice. Let's do it. Comment down below if you wanna see that. Hello! Okay you guys. So now's the official time when I'm making the healthy peanut butter cookies. I'm not gonna like go in depth explain the recipe because I figured I can just link it down below for you guys instead of going into it. You know what I mean? So I'm just going to do like a montage of me doing it but check down below because it will be there. Oh, I'm so excited. And it's actually so like I said before, so we did make. And I use natural peanut butter. It would probably taste better with the unhealthy kind of peanut butter that has like added sugar and stuff. But at the end of the day, it's like way healthier so. My cookies were so good. I had three of them. I'm feeling it in my stomach like I really am but it was worth it because it was so good and all like that unhealthy is just like I think I ate too much and I was already full when I ate the cookies. So now I'm just feeling like if I close my eyes or not I swear I couldn't fall asleep standing up and it's literally not even 10 o'clock. Well, it's just hit 10 o'clock. So I don't know why I'm so tired. There's probably something in the moon today because I'm usually never this tired. Also if you guys hear something it's with my cats in here playing my clip. Yeah! I'm so tired.  That would literally be the best thing ever. Like I know such threshold problems but okay guys I did it. I got ready for bed. I'm so like the feeling of being in bed in comfortable face wash, teeth brush. Just feels so freaking good and it's the best feeling ever. Especially when you just showered and you have fresh clean sheets. Ugh! That's probably one of the top 10 best feelings in life. Anyways, before I go, I just wanted to say something real quick and I just wanted to say remember that everybody has their own unique journey in life. Yours is not gonna be the same as anyone else's at all. So your journey being unique is a good thing. It's far from being a bad thing because we are all unique peoples. Therefore our journeys are gonna be unique and don't ever put yourself down. If you feel like you're falling behind because you can't fall behind in your own journey, it's impossible. You can technically fall behind in society with society deans as this and that but you can't fall behind on your own journey and just remember that you're on your own path in life and you're exactly where you're meant to be. I know I say this a lot but it's just important to remind people about because I feel like it gets forgotten about a lot and we get so much like responsibilities, stress, put on our shoulders and sometimes it can be stressful thinking about the future and pondering whether you're in the right place in your life and if you're meant to be there and if something makes you happy, just know that that's a sign that you're on the right path and follow your intuition, follow your gut feeling ultimately the end of the day just know that your journey is special and if you're going through a tough time right now it's for a reason you're gonna come out stronger everything happens for a reason. I truly do believe in that and you may not see the reason right away but eventually down the line, you will figure it all out. Every part in your journey is crucial to experience and that might be a low, so just know that and enjoy your journey as well because I feel like people just wanna get to their destination but it's so important to enjoy your journey. Apparently that's the funnest part like I was watching this vlog and this girl finally bought her dream car after wanting it for her whole life. She's like, you know what? It was actually funner dreaming about having it rather than buying it like she had more fun dreaming of it, wanting it, than actually having it. So that just goes to show that sometimes gotta appreciate the journey because one day you're gonna be where you all always wanted to be and you might miss working towards it and being in that stage of life. So appreciate every moment. Just know that wherever you are in your life, it's okay and it's normal and you can get through it. It's part of your journey. Okay, I'm gonna end the video off here. I love you guys so much. Thank you for watching, especially for watching like up until this point right now like I'd really love you. Don't forget to check out Anna Louisa. I'll have the link down below for you guys. Yeah, thank you guys for all your support and your love and I'll see you guys in my next video. Peace out.


I want to show you a couple of tools that help me with malware analysis. So here I have a malicious Word document inside that zip file. It is protected by password, password infected as is usual for malware. Here you have the doc file. And a tool that I developed to analyze malicious Word documents in Excel. It's called OliDump because the file format here of those doc and XLS files is the Oli file format. So as you can see, OliDump can extract the malicious document from the zip file and then analyze this malicious Word document. And as you can see here, there's a macro in here. So we can have a look at this macro. We select stream 7 and we are going to decompress the macro because the macro text is compressed. And here you have the macro. And as you can see, it is obfuscated. So what I did, I developed a plugin that will help us to obfuscate this macro. It's called VBA Summary. Sorry, I forgot to provide the file. Here you go. Okay. So and again, it finds the streams and here then when it finds a macro, it will select all the lines that contain the word function, the word sub or a string. So code character. So and this is actually the same macro code, but it's already more of a summary. It's easier to see because a lot of the obfuscation and how it's gone, you can see here that you have an X or I function, an hex to string function, out to open, out to open word book open, and then here a function with a name that cannot be pronounced. And you can see open here with a call to X or string and things like that. So if you take a bit more time to analyze this, you will realize that the URL here is actually in this variable because we have this function here that is called with this variable and then environment and so on. This is actually the URL here, this hex string, which is encoded with this hex key. So you can, for example, decode this with the script that I wrote for the zero 10 editor by copying this hex string, pasting it in a zero 10 editor and then decode it with this key. So we are going to do that. And here in the command line, it's a bit difficult to copy. If we do, for example, this, you can see it does a block copy, so that's not very useful. Now I have also a special program, a tool, it's called sent to CLI, it's a GUI application that helps you launch command line applications. So when it works like this, you right click here on the file name, you do a send to and you send to CLI. And then this program here comes up that I developed. So here you have the file name on which we are going to work. This is the directory in which we are going to work, the working directory. And then you can select the command that you want to execute here from pull down script. So let's do this here, this command, this is our command. Run only dump the plugin VBS summary. And when you run it here, you saw Python briefly appearing. And then here now you have the output in this GUI application, which is much easier to copy. So let's do this. So as you can remember here, this is the name of the variable that contains URL. So let me select this, this hex text. And here in 010 editor, I'm going to paste this from hex text. Okay, so these bytes here are the encoded URL. This is the key. So let me copy the key like this. And then I will run my script XOR selection that allows you to XOR. So I provide the key. Since it's a X key, I start with 0X like this. Okay, and now here you can clearly see the decoded URL. Now you may remember that I also have a plugin with the HTTP heuristics. This plugin was not able to decode the string, but I also updated it so that now it also take into account that strings can be XOR encoded.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com with a solo pack break of 2019-2020 Panini Donners Optic Basketball with the chances of win spots in that $300 mixer that we have on the site right now. So we'll do the break itself first and then we'll re-randomize all of your names at the end of the break and then the top three names will be in that monster mixer that we have on the website. But let's do the pack break first. Big thanks all of these folks for getting in. There's all the teams right there. Thanks everybody for giving this a shot. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Five and a three. Eight times. One and eighth and final time. After eight times we've got Asa down to James. Five and a three. Eight times for the teams. Seven and eighth and final time. After eight times we got the Minnesota T-Wolves down to the clip show. Alright so there's the first half of the list right there. Thanks everyone. There's the second half of the list right there. Steven Schwartz with the Utah Jazz Last Spot Mojo. Let's order these by team. Trader window closed. Let's print and rip. Good luck. Oh let's show you the official printout right there. There they are. There it is. And let's see. Now there could be just a retail hanger pack so you can't really expect too much out of here but every once in a while we've been surprised and with the way hoops has been selling you know you if you get some cards out of this little pack break you may be able to grind it out for for some for some dollar dollar bills. The Matisse Tybal, Trey Young, RJ Barrett for sure. There's Kyle Lowry, Kasey O'Paula, Trey Young, Gerald Green, a little rough on the centering there but I'll go to Jonathan and the Knicks. And Brooke Lopez, Jordan Poole and Michael Bridges. So Jonathan L gets the Knicks there with the RJ Barrett. It's nothing super significant but there's a chance to win $300 mixer spots. The top three will after I do this randomizer we'll get it so let's copy everyone's names here. So the top three after 10. Five and a five 10 times and 10th and final time after 10 times. Would I say top top three after 10? So thanks everyone for giving this a shot. The top three gonna be TJ Leonard, Tony Barkie and Zach Paul. Congrats to the three of you. You are in that $300 mixer that's right that's currently on the side right now. jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Joe. I'll break that with you next time. Bye bye.


Hi there, my name is Jeremy Howard. I'm a research scientist at the University of San Francisco, and I'm a co-founder of Fast AI. I'm also on the Global AI Council at the World Economic Forum, and as you can see I'm doing today a crafting video. I think it's fair to say this will be the first and only crafting video I do. It's not exactly my area of focus, but I'm doing it because there's something really really important to know about. And the important thing is this. A bit of crafting could actually help you stop the spread of COVID-19 in your community. Here's what we know. See these regions here around they're all around China, the epicenter of the the regional epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. These areas are Mongolia, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. These areas have something in common. They have very very few deaths from COVID-19. Also, their economies are extraordinarily unimpacted. They're not exactly going around their daily business in the usual way. There's social distancing, but on the whole life is going on much as usual there, at least compared to many other parts of the world. But how are they doing this? How have they got deaths down so much without destroying their economy and day-to-day life as much as we are? Well, they're doing a lot of things right. They've got a fantastic testing in place, contact tracing, quarantine systems for those who might be infected. But there's one other thing that they all have in common. It's really interesting. They all have universal mask wearing amongst the general population in public. It's just totally normal for people to wear masks there in a situation like this. They've had pandemics before. They know how to deal with it. And for example, in Hong Kong, you are not allowed to enter a shop if you are not wearing a mask. So it's both socially expected and often legally required. Is this the reason that things are looking so much better in these countries? We don't know for sure. But what we do know is that they have a recipe for something that's working. So maybe we should follow that recipe. I'll tell you what else we've found. I've had a look at 38 scientific papers on this topic, which are related to the question of can wearing masks help delay, slow down, and maybe eventually stop transmission of COVID-19 in the community. And the answer is it sure looks like they can by 50 to 75 percent. Just an amazing difference. Now, there's a few differences though. If should we be wearing masks here in the US, where I am in Australia, where I'm from originally in the UK, where my family is from. Well, there's some problems. The first and biggest problem is there's a shortage of what's called N95 respirators, the hospital-specific masks that people might be most familiar with. There's not enough for people frontline medical workers in hospitals. This is a huge problem because Oxford University has put out advice that says in a hospital situation, when you're doing a procedure called an aerosol-generating procedure, it's really important you have an N95 respirator, a real proper hospital mask. Otherwise, you can get infected because there's kind of this spray of virus-infected droplets that hang in the air. Here's something else though that Oxford says. Even in a hospital situation, you don't really need to wear these N95 respirators. Just a regular cloth mask, in hospitals they call it a surgical mask, is quite enough. And the reason for this is that this illness seems to mainly be spread through droplets that fly out of our mouth when we're talking, just like this, or if we cough or if we yawn. And in fact, there's some research from Stanford and MIT which has been supported by the Nobel Prize-winning virologist Harold Varmus that actually is looked at in a machine like this where they look at a laser beam at what happens and they can actually watch these tiny droplets fly out of your mouth and go two meters or more, six feet to my American friends. So what can you do? Well, you can actually cover your mouth with pretty much any kind of cloth. Cambridge University has actually looked at this and they found that two layers of cotton work pretty well. And the scientists from Shenzhen Hospital have studied different types of material under an electron microscope and found that paper towel is actually perfect for this. So question number one, could we start wearing masks without taking them away from frontline medical staff? Yes, we could. We could make them at home using paper towels and or cotton material and sheets, t-shirts, so forth. Question number two, would we really do that in the West? Because in the West we don't have a culture of mask wearing. It turns out the answer is yes, we can. An absolutely amazing and inspiring campaign kicked off by a science communicator named Peter Ludwig in the Czech Republic proves this is true. He put out the word and he said, hey, places that are wearing masks have far less deaths. Maybe we should do it too. Here's some scientific research that shows this. Come on, let's make this happen. And it went viral. There was songs about it, videos about it, influencers showing themselves wearing homemade masks. Within three days, nearly everybody in the Czech Republic had a mask. It got to the point within days where if you went out without a mask, people in your community would look at you and think, what is this person's problem? Why are they going around my community without a mask putting me at risk? The message that was sent in the Czech Republic social media and amongst influencers was, my mask protects you. Your mask protects me. Well, this is super, super important. And so if you go out with your mask, eventually people in your community are going to know you're protecting them. You're helping them. And the science suggests you may well be helping yourself as well. But why don't we do this? Why don't we follow this established recipe that has worked in the Czech Republic? Slovakia went on to do it as well. In Austria now, as of today, there are laws that require you to wear a mask when you're shopping. Germany's peak medical body has just announced that they're recommending that everybody uses masks as well. So how do you make your own? Well, here's where the crafting comes in. Well, this is based on a recipe I found from a Czech video blogger. And what she did is she showed how to use a t-shirt. So if you start with a cotton t-shirt, then you're using the fabric that Cambridge University noticed worked so well. And specifically here, we've got two layers because it's a t-shirt, right? And so you can see what I've done here is I've drawn with chalk a line just underneath the armpits. And another line that goes from just inside the sleeve past the sleeve seam and back out again. Another line that goes along the top of the seam of the t-shirt underneath the neck to the other end. And then there's another one just here after this other arm. Well, of course, the wind would have to come start blowing just as I start doing this video. But of course, I can't do it inside because I have a four-year-old and wants to talk to me. And you don't want to hear what she thinks about this at the same time that I'm trying to talk to you. So we go ahead and cut from underneath here straight through all the way to the end. Go. And then for the arm, we'll cut... You see that there? So we'll cut... I hope it comes out okay on the video, but otherwise you can see where the cut is. So I'm just starting underneath the seam here or underneath the fold, I should say. And then I come all the way through this past this join in the fabric. And then I do the same on the other side, starting just above, coming through to the join in the fabric. And I can go ahead and make those join up. Just knot my forte. I'm getting there. There you go. So this is what the bit I've cut out looks like, right?  There's one that came out earlier. And here is what it looks like. Okay, so that's the mask, right? And you can see here, one other thing I've done is at the bottom is I've popped a little safety pin. Now why have I done that? That's because we're going to take advantage of that Schengen hospital research, electron microscope research that shows that a paper towel works so well. And what you do is I've got two pieces of cotton here, right? So you just pop a little piece of paper towel between those and it will just rest here against this safety pin. And here's how you put it on.   And it can be kind of low down. That's totally fine. And here's the other cool bit, right? The original Czech blogger that did this had a ponytail so it worked particularly well. I don't have a ponytail. But you just go up a little bit, right? And there's my mask. So when I head outside, I wear this in public, especially if there's any chance I might get within six feet of somebody, okay? And then at the end of the day, or at the end of my outing, I should say, come back, untie it, right? And then take out the piece of paper towel from between the two bits of t-shirt and throw it in the trash. And then wash this with soapy water. Because what we know, scientists have found is that soap destroys the lipid layer that protects the virus. So wash this with soap. Now, the other thing to realize is that as you've been breathing in and out, if you've come in contact with somebody who's infected or you're infected, there could now be virus particles in your mask or in that piece of paper we took out. So that means that as we took it off, so when you take it off, try not to touch more than you have to. And then make sure you wash your hands before you touch anything else, right?  But here's the thing, right? If there's virus particles on here after your outing, that means you came in contact with somebody in the virus. And that means that the virus is in here and not in your face. And this virus actually comes in through the eyes, the nose or the mouth and is expelled mainly through the mouth. So the mask will protect others from the saliva ejected from your mouth when you're talking. It'll protect your nose and mouth. And if you want to protect your eyes as well, you can pop on a pair of glasses or even goggles if you want to for that extra layer of protection. So that's what you need to do. It's not enough for you to do it. You need everybody in your community to do it. If you can get this up to 75% of your community, you will probably slash the transmission of the virus in your area, particularly when this is combined with social distancing and washing. And then something that needs support from, you know, a much wider group is then widespread testing, contact tracing, and quarantine of people who might be infected. This is the recipe we know works from these countries that surround China. So let's all get into it and remember, my mask protects you, your mask protects me.


Hi, Slash. Hi, Janne. Hi, Mika. Good to be with you here today. So over the next 30 minutes or so, we're going to dive into the tectonic shifts that are shaping venture capital in Europe. But maybe before we get into that, we could start with sort of a conversation starter. So perhaps you could share your story. How did you end up in the world of venture capital in the worst place, if you, Mika, want to start? I realized a few years ago that I really enjoy looking for talent and new ideas. My very first part of my career, I was in the music industry, and I signed artists. And so that was looking for talent and ideas then too. And then for the last 20 years, I was an entrepreneur. I was based in San Francisco. And that went well. But also on the side, I was an angel investor. And when I was being an angel investor, I realized also that it was like looking for talent and ideas. It was very similar to what I'd done most of my career in different jobs. And so then I thought, okay, maybe I should think about VC. I had a good track record. And when I decided I wanted to do VC, I actually moved to Europe to do it. And that's where I'm based. I'm based in Zurich for Lake Star. Yeah, thanks. How about you, Janne? My story is a lot less cooler than Mika's. So I spent 20 years in banking. And I spent... They hate banking here. Officially. Yeah, so I spent 20 years in banking. And then throughout the time I helped companies, essentially, when things were going wrong. And I spent a whole time interacting with regulators and compliance officers and everything. So when I left, I really wanted to kind of shift and change into actually helping companies at the beginning rather than trying to help them at the end. So I was lucky enough to join SoftBank. And I can tell you it's kind of been a complete kind of change for me. Meeting with founders and meeting with young people that want to change the world has an infectious optimism. So I go home a lot happier every day compared to like being at a bank where it has a kind of weight upon you on a daily basis. So for me it was kind of luck to be able to go to SoftBank after my banking career. But it's one that I've loved every minute of since I've been there. Yeah, kids is here. Okay. So 10 on the topic of venture capital in Europe. So once again, Europe is going to post a record year in tech investment. Actually it looks like we're going to cross 100 billion invested in a single year. That's a crazy figure. And Jan, it is clearly something that you're also contributed to SoftBank. So the VC fund one made only around seven investments in Europe. And the share number has been remarkably higher with your fund number two. So what has made Europe look so much more interesting in just a few years? Yeah, you're right. So our first fund that was invested between 17 and 19 only had like 8% of the fund invested in Europe. In our second fund that we've been investing since has 28% in Europe. So it's been, as you say, a big increase between, sorry, let me, let me, a big increase between fund one and fund two.  I think we'll discuss a lot of them during our conversation here. But I think it's a combination of where global valuations are. I do think Europe right now probably offers a lot of value compared to some of the other areas, particularly places like India, for example, which have valuations have gone through the roof. But more importantly, I think that the European ecosystem has really matured. I think one, you have companies that were founders in Europe have become a lot more ambitious and they're willing to stick with the company much longer than no longer sellers early. And that's created a number of mature companies that can be able to absorb that late-stage capital that we provide another investor to provide. So I think it really is a change in the European ecosystem that has allowed much more mature, larger companies to produce over the course of the last few years. Yeah, how about Mika? How do you see the development of the European activities? I completely agree with what you said there. And what's interesting is that in the past, if you had an idea in Europe, you would move to Silicon Valley. Or maybe you would move to Berlin or London. But now you can stay put. So I think there's been an incredible diversity of ideas coming from all over Europe. And I think it's just getting started. I really feel that, you know, I've been, especially in the Finnish ecosystem, I've been since the early 2000s, I've been involved in various startups here. And, you know, there's been some success stories, but really it's just getting started, I think, in terms of the startup world in Europe. But I like the diversity too. It's just so many different types of companies that are coming out. Yeah. Well, it's safe to assume that investors at large agree with you with the European attractiveness. The amount of money raised and available in Europe, especially in the crowd space, is something unheard of. And it might be difficult to even end up in any other conclusion that there is actually more money in the market than good companies to deploy it. Are you with me in this statement or not? Perhaps Miko, you can start. Say that again, the amount of money deployed. Yeah. So is there more money in the market than good companies to deploy it? Yes. You know, it's the number of quality companies has increased. It's not like there are a few companies in a lot of capital chasing it. And so I haven't seen, maybe I don't have soft bank has seen it, but we haven't seen a dearth of deals. It wasn't because, you know, there's not enough for us to deploy capital on. So there's plenty of companies. Yeah. How do you say? Yeah, I agree. I think there's a lot of great companies in Europe. I think part of what we discussed earlier becomes a bit of a virtuous circle. As you have capital come in, you also see companies that are being created and it takes a couple of years for that to happen. But importantly, I think as Miko mentioned, there is so much diversification out where the companies are. You can find great companies in areas of Europe that you didn't expect them before. So as you become localized and you look at the various kind of areas of Europe, you can find amazing companies away from the big kind of tech centers. And what's great is that those entrepreneurs and those founders in those countries where traditionally would you just sold early to some of the big companies from the value of London and now willing to stick with it and create a large company. So for me, it's not just kind of, there are great companies in Europe, but what's really heartening for me is those great companies all over Europe. And you can find great, great founders in a lot of weird locations. Yeah, so there are 27 countries in Europe, so that's incredible diversity. In the past, the criticism was that there are 27 countries that's fragmented, it's difficult to operate, how do you go across the borders and everything else. But with 27 countries, it means that there are 27 diverse views on how to solve problems. I mean way more than 27. I mean every city in those countries have different views. Because what really drives entrepreneurship is three things. It's ideas, which is what those 27 countries diversity provides, capital and talent. And these are now available. So the ideas were always there, but if you were actually going to start a company in your own country, you probably had to move to either a big center or to the U.S. or something, but now you can actually start it there. And I think there's a lot of reasons that's happening is that the not only is there talent that has scaled companies available in capital from people like us that are providing it, but a lot of these companies now have global ambitions from the beginning. What I didn't see 10 years ago or even five years ago sometimes in some countries is that everyone in these countries now, in these companies now, they all do their business in English. I think this is a big change. In Finland it's been English forever, but in a lot of countries it was in their local language and part of it was that they weren't thinking big enough, they weren't thinking global enough. So why English is important is that if you're in an era country and if you want to get the other things going, the talent and the capital, you need to maybe hire people from somewhere else. You might hire someone from Amsterdam or someone from London or someone from New York and English is going to be the language. If they're going to come to your company and you're speaking your local language, it becomes very alienating, it's very difficult then to scale and to have that talent. So, you know, the combination of the fact that there's just capital available, ideas are everywhere, very unique ideas, and then there's talent that's going to be available. And because it's being English, it actually works. I'm finding that Europe is becoming an incredibly robust, you know, 27 countries that are really spitting out really amazing companies. And it's just, I keep saying it, it's just getting started because this flywheel of these three things, ideas, talent and capital, it's just getting going. Yeah, that is definitely true. Okay, so when we think of this dynamic from the founder's perspective, so there is a lot of available capital, VCs are fighting for the best investment opportunities. How has it changed the dynamics for the founder? How have the fundraising processes developed? Janne. Yeah, so I think, you know, as you said, there is a lot of available capital, and founders can almost often get overwhelmed by that. But I think not all capital is the same. So I think, and I'm not saying some people are bad or good, like different founders and different companies require a different type of capital. So I think once you break it down that way, every one of us, when we compete for deals, we bring something different for the table. So the one thing that I do think that founders should look at is basically what are they looking for from their next capital partner, right? And I think that will kind of be able to narrow it down quite a bit. But from our perspective as we look at some of these deals, it's definitely a lot faster. You can no longer kind of wait around analysis, you know, paralysis by analysis. You kind of need to move quite fast.  You need to take some things on faith. Because if you wait around, you're just not going to be able to get it done. So for my side, the thing that's probably changed the most is the speed of these rounds and how quickly you need to be able to react. I would agree with that. Also that there's a lot more local capital available. So there are these seed funds have now sprouted up in every country in Europe. We talk to them a lot. In these seed funds, I think are kind of the first line. The first line actually is a lot of these angel investors, angel groups and such, so pre-seed. But because there's all these seed funds there, there is actual local capital available. So I think the question a founder has sometimes at the earliest stages is like, okay, do I go for my local person who is going to be maybe very helpful because they're local? Or do I go with maybe a Europe-wide one, like Lake Star? Or do I go with an international one from the US or something? And that at that early stage I think is kind of a, for me it's an obvious decision. You should go with as local as possible because you need to get help. But the challenge is that there's some big funds going earlier and earlier and so it's very alluring to take money maybe from international VC at the very earliest stages. But if I counsel a founder I say like, look, you can take that money later. So for me all this capital coming in also it matters which stage you are as a company. Are you seed? Are you series A? Series B? Do you need growth capital? I think that also matters what type of capital you want. I do think that the best companies have a lot of choices and I think the founders that have their feet on the ground are really thinking as Janne said is that they're thinking about the long term that then they will make the right decision but they have to really, they have to know what they're looking for at that time. I think that's the challenge. Yeah, that is definitely true. How about then if you think that from your perspective has your work as a VC investor changed when the kind of landscape has become so much more competitive? Well, you said it well. It's a move a lot faster. There's a lot more speed involved and so the challenge is that you know how can you have done enough research and have enough of relationship with a company so that you are ready to move when it's time to invest in them and so our strategy is that we try to get to know the companies as early as possible. We may not invest at pre-seed or seed or even series A but we will track the company be helpful to them in some ways and we just want to watch that company. So then when it's time for them to do a round we will know how they've navigated the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. It's very hard to look at a company for two weeks or three months even and really understand how good is that team at executing when the times get tough or what kind of decision have they made but if you watch them over time and then that then hopefully helps you then when it's time to do the investment like okay I know this company yeah maybe I don't have the deepest due diligence but I've been watching this company for a while I'm ready to do a check really fast or term sheet very quickly. That's been the way we've been trying to approach it because it is it's incredibly quick right now and there's just a lot of people just who you know five million out of a you know very large fund it's nothing and so they're placing bets left and right and we're a bit more thoughtful about each of those checks and so we have to have our own approach to make sure that we compete well in those situations. Yeah we're there's exactly the point that we made around kind of speed but we're lucky because we we essentially invest quite late so some of the analysis is going to be a bit easier because you can't see the company is actually there it has revenue you can see the product market fit you can see the customers so it allows us to go faster but the biggest thing for me is kind of away from kind of as you said founders are spoiled for choice right now so we can you need to do a bit of a sales job but also what we've done I think a good job over the course the last few years is also working very closely with some of these earlier-stage investors right because I think ultimately that is in my mind the best way to source opportunities for us at the stage where we play so that ability to create relationships with the earlier-stage investors I think is super important for us because that we don't compete with them we play at a different level and that's how you see the best companies and you're able to essentially share some of the learnings they have which helps accelerate your view on a company as well. We were talking about the backstage about the cooperation among the investors in Europe I think is quite good it's like in Silicon Valley you see a lot of what we call sharp elbows where people just push each other out of the way of deals and I think there's a lot more cooperation in Europe and I think partly it's because a lot of the investors are very local and so you want to work with them local level but I think also it's just a different mindset in a way what happens in Europe. We're just nicer in Europe. That's probably true. That's probably true yeah. Maybe if we still zoom out a bit so how do you see the transparency between available funding and then to cut out amount of good investment opportunities affecting VCS and asset plus so there are a growing number of LPs joining the space and many new many of them are trusting like a first fund managers so some of them might be left out unsatisfied so what will this mean for VCS in the future how about you Janne. Okay go first Janne. So look I think growth where we play and I won't speak for VCS but like growth where we play is now an established asset class like people view it and LPs allocated as an asset class now and I think it'll have it's probably one of the most popular ones and has been recently and you've seen an enormous amount of money come into the space I think when SoftBank raised its first fund was very very large was 100 billion at the time the next big fund was a couple of billion now you have a proliferation of 15 and 20 billion dollar funds so that's changed the growth asset class completely and I think one it'll change LP appetite but importantly it'll also affect valuations right ultimately rounds a matter of demand and supply and if you have this much money that's been raised and it's dry and sitting by the side looking to invest you will see a natural appreciation in prices because everyone's trying to get into the space so I think the increase in LP interest in growth is kind of creating a new asset class in my mind and that increase kind of a man that's been raised will pretty much dry valuations for the short term which I think is what we're seeing and what you will continue to see for a while I would agree that it's interesting that VC has become part of the world institutionalized but I remember because I raised my first round for my first company in 1998 I was lucky to have Sequoia Capital as my investor but then it still felt like a clubby thing it almost felt like there were a lot of VCs out there it was a hobby and it was a very risky asset class so you had a very certain type of person that would invest in VC firms and over the last five years plus it's really become institutionalized where it is a viable asset class and the growth it's got a very clear risk profile and so you're seeing people coming in who would never have invested before especially in Europe we're seeing pension funds and insurance companies they never would have invested so the amount of capital coming in from sources that never would have considered as a class of investing continues to increase I think it's because the returns are good and actually again it's institutionalized so they can look at it and go they know what they're doing it's not going to be a zero for me on this one I can project out there's still a challenge I think in VC that it's an illiquid asset and that's what you've seen whether it be Sequoia or a few others I've been trying to solve this liquidity question because when you invest in a VC fund you don't get any returns actually money back to you so five, seven, ten years down the road I think that is a bit of a challenge still for some investors but there's just enough money coming in that I'm not worried about what your question is like are people going to be worried about like oh they're going to dry up capital if things don't work out I think it's hit a totally different phase right now as an investment Thanks then maybe a bit of the topic of unicorns I think we're going to cross 300 European unicorns this year and as you alluded Mika earlier they're coming from various different cities 26 if I counted correctly and so we're not talking about just a few mega hubs when we're talking about Europe Mika what do you think this is? Is there something fundamentally different in Europe compared to for example US or Valley the epicenter of companies? Yeah I think we did the same study and it's amazing just because a year ago it was like 210 unicorns or something that was 300 and we looked up it was 26 countries but it was 65 cities 65 cities around and so there's so many different factors going on I think that there's just the fact that there's just enough capital and these companies are going global tech is taking over so many different industries so whether it be agriculture or logistics there's so many different industries that actually Europe has a lot of strength in so I just because the overall trend line is strong I'm not sure what the number for the US is but they've also had massive explosion in unicorns too so it's also probably driven by evaluations have also just jumped despite the fact that Europe I think is cheaper than a lot of the markets in the world it's still the valuations have jumped up and so unicorns have happened plus the rounds of financing have happened quicker and quicker so you're seeing people within two years become unicorns and so the speed has also changed Yeah I fully agree with that but I think what we're also seeing is I think you're seeing Europe catching up a bit I think it was where Europe was was unnatural just given the size of the market the availability of talent the great academic institutions the IP that was generated out of Europe it was unnatural how few of these companies were being built here so I think what's happened I think is Europe has caught up a bit to what's happened in the US and China in particular so I think what you're seeing is much of a natural balance I do think there's a lot more to go and I do think there's a lot more companies to actually be built out of here and what I love about European companies is if you look at them and I think the reason why they trade at a bit of a discount initially to US companies is once you have a great company in one of the European countries it's not a given that you'll be able to grow it to the other European countries as easy as if you have a great company in California and want to scale it across the US so I think some of that initial barrier to expansion exists and that's why they initially trade but once you achieve that and once you're able to then go across the full consumer spectrum in Europe then your moat is quite high because once you're able to take we're investing in a company called Auto One you combine seamlessly a car in Spain and sell it in France that's a difficult logistical operational exercise once you achieve that it's very hard for a new enter to come in so I think there are some natural barriers within Europe that create great entrepreneurs in that that thing you're going to see these people be able to compete very well globally but there is a bit of the beginning as to how can you scale a company from one country to the other yeah interesting maybe continuing on the topic there's some interesting ongoing development in many smaller European cities currently where the kind of first generation of success stories are starting to exit and distribute the kind of spillover effects to the local economies how do you see see the implications of that are we going to see the second generation of these smaller hubs around Europe or what's going to happen next Mika I'm having a hard time hearing so the second generation of founders you're saying yeah well those are I think as an investor some of our favorite kind of founders is the second third time founders I think they're they've gone through the exercise and especially the second or third time founders who maybe had mild success in the first time around but they're literally still hungry and they have a chip on their shoulder to really make sure that the next one's going to be bigger and bigger I you know that is in the past I felt like a European entrepreneur or someone who did well in their job they would just go they would just go down to the center pay and just hang out that was like a classic thing that I felt like when every time I met like someone fairly wealthy from Europe like yeah I made a lot of money and now I'm retired and in Silicon Valley people didn't ever be retired they would always stay in the system they stayed as they became investors, mentors started more companies they're on boards and so the kind of talent pool and the knowledge pool in Silicon Valley always stayed in the system and that's happening in Europe now where you're just you know you might have done very well with your previous business but now you're a VC or now you're an angel investor so I really am I've been very very happy to see that kind of trend that you don't see people leaving the kind of ecosystem they stay in in some capacity and they share their knowledge or their capital or their connections or whatever else be so that I think has gotten much much stronger because I can't tell you like in the 2000s I met many people who did well and they were just like I'm out of here and I was like what you know so much you got to be in you got to be in the game help us out here so yeah yeah I think I think that's absolutely right and you see countries that have had a one very very large exit you can see how quickly the ecosystem gets built around it whether it's because you know the founders are then some of the best angels in the country whether they have like teams of people that have seen that large exit you can hire talent now that's seen the ability to scale and a bit that you know the entrepreneurs in that country are now there to dream right if someone else made it I can make it as well in this country so I think there's a big emotional change when you have a very large exit in one of these countries and that's what we're seeing we're seeing kind of all these things crop up and suddenly you see within that ecosystem a huge increase from there I think we'll see more of that I'm still waiting I'm Greek so I'm still waiting for the big Greek exit and the system to happen there but I think I think it will happen across across Europe yeah you know in the US you had the PayPal mafia here you have the Skype mafia and I've heard about the transfer wise mafia now and you know there's all these little groups of you know people that have been done well one place and they're taking that skill and going on to the next spot so that's very fun to watch yeah how about the kind of future then can the number of European unicorns keep on growing like where are the bottlenecks if anywhere maybe you can start yeah I absolutely think it can keep growing I think I think there are whole sectors of industry that still have a lot of disruption to come like this so many things that frustrate us on a day-to-day basis as consumers there's so much to be done and what's happening across kind of consumer expectations technology in life sciences in fintech there's so much to come and I think Europe is ideally is ideally placed to create some of that some of that innovation we have great IP we have great talent we have great capital now so to make us point we have all the various kind of factors that contribute to to growth and great companies to come out of here so I'm incredibly bullish of Europe as an ecosystem and I think there's tons to come from here I was listening to Suje Tile earlier talk about Latin America and so what I've also found interesting is that I'm obviously I'm extremely bullish on Europe but I've seen actually there have been ecosystems now sprouting up all over the world and that I think that just shows to the power of tech and innovation it's just happening in every country I mean I think Europe is leading the pack in many ways because it was lagging in some ways and so it's really making leaps and bounds and I think what you've seen also is that universities and governments have now figured out oh wait a minute entrepreneurship is the future for us we need to really benefit from that so instead of spitting out engineers and designers and business people out of universities that go to work for big companies now they're all going to entrepreneurship and so the whole system is now starting to support it in Europe and so I think you know like I said all of the world is seeing these things but I think Europe has a system-wide effort to really help entrepreneurs which I think you know bows well for the future because I think I keep saying it just got started in the last three to five years especially in terms of like universities and everything all this stuff because we need more talent we need people being trained we feel excited about entrepreneurship we need more slushes basically so it's it's great I think there's just so many different factors that tell me that including what you said there's just so many different sectors that are just coming up strong yeah there's a lot of talk around change in European founder mentality I do agree or I do think that we all agree that the founder mentality has been changing but like what does it mean in practice how has it changed? I think it's a level of ambition I think to your point earlier like previously if you could have an exit early on and then retire to south France that was okay and I think the level of ambition has really changed the second thing is in my mind is the fear of failure right a lot of in Europe and society that I grew up you know if you had a company that failed that was terrible your parents were ashamed to discuss it with their friends right but in other particularly in the US having kind of a serial entrepreneur that's failed and tried was a badge of honor I think that's starting to change in Europe the fear of failure is starting to go away combine that with increased ambition and visible examples you can point to of other people that have done it I think I've created what we're seeing now which is entrepreneurs being a lot more both brave and ambitious and seeing some of the comps that we're seeing right now I don't know much to add to that because I'm glad to the last point there because I think also there's just so many examples in their local market there's somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody maybe three person people removed a thousand people and so you look at it and go that's how I got started I was a couple of my friends started companies and I saw how they started companies I'm like oh I could do that and it was really like for many years I thought it was a really distant very difficult thing to start a business but once I saw a couple of friends of mine do it so that was a very local thing I think it's a similar thing happening in different cities and countries people see they're in the news they see you know the office they're like oh wait I could probably do that so I think you know the first two factors for sure what you said and that third one that there is concrete examples of how to do it or at least inspiration why you should do it definitely can I agree with that okay maybe I say ending question we've been talking about the so called European flywheel what excites you the most personally and it what do you what are you waiting for in the European future well I think you know the flywheel for me like I said is is an idea the talent in the capital and those are all coming together in a great way what I really liked about seeing in Europe is the you know as long as it still remains the EU and I still count the UK as part of Europe the flow of these things is pretty amazing so we have quite a few companies that have engineering headquarters in different place from their HQ and so they have this flywheel spinning but not basically rooted to one geography it excites me a lot I think it's really cool and I think COVID has actually accelerated a lot of that because now you could work from home and so the idea that you don't have to be rooted somewhere to you know still take advantage of this flywheel spinning I think it's exciting yeah that's kind of what we discussed before for me like it's being European it's a huge pride thing like there's no reason why Europe should not compete equally and win in the international stage and I see kind of this happening now so for me it's with hope about the future it feels with hope that the great comes to come out of here you know I have three young kids and I don't want them to feel that they have to go to the US to become the next big entrepreneur I love the fact that being in Europe now you can do compete equally and have just as much of a future as you would have if you move the US so for me that's as a European it's a big thing that's an excellent note to end with yes thanks Janne, thanks Mika thank you very much, thank you


What's the fastest way to bring your product to millions of users? The web. And for CapCode, it's also about delivering a consistent and complete experience to their online users who access their advanced features through the browser. Let's hear more from James. Working with the Chrome team, we use WebAssembly and WebCodeX to efficiently port many of our critical features from the native code base to the web without compromising on performance or functionality. Our online users can preview the effects in real time during audio and video processing and can adjust and optimize as needed. It's an experience they expect from our product and the browser, it delivers. By giving their users the option to install their web app using PWA technologies, the team has been able to make the web a highly effective acquisition channel. It's a win for everyone.


The Eboni State Governor David Umahi on Tuesday declared his 2023 presidential ambition at the State House in Abuja. His declaration comes about 24 hours after former governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed also indicated an interest in the race. Both men are members of the APC.


Okay, so we're coming into a course. The first thing we're going to want to do is turn editing on, go to the topic concerned, add an activity. Let's choose a forum. We'll give the forum a name and an introduction. Now down at the bottom we will have common module settings. So if we've created groups, we want to select group mode. We've got two options here, separate or visible groups. So in this case, let's select separate groups, save and display. Now this remembering is all done through the eyes of an admin or an editing teacher. So there was just the advanced settings that I must have got there. So that's good. No worries. So we've got all participants and then we toggle to a given group and then we can post a topic for that particular group. So any members of this group will see this post and again we can attach a file if that's relevant as well.


This movie was kind of coined as sort of the answer to Jaws. Nowhere near like Jaws at all. No. I was expecting a huge Jaws ripoff. It's anything but. Whale is the good guy in this. The whale is the protagonist. Like you sympathize with the whale. Yeah.


Ladies and gentlemen, Prime Minister Bagan, it's a genuine pleasure to welcome you to the White House this evening. I should certainly welcome you back because Prime Minister is no stranger. There's room. As a matter of fact, I have a funny feeling that he may have dined here more often than I have. Be that as it may, once again, he's an honored guest. But this time, Nancy and I have the privilege and we're delighted. I'm not sure whether you saw it or not, Prime Minister, but in the play, it's fiddler on the roof. One of the crownspeople acts the rabbi if he has a proper blessing for the Tsar. And the rabbi says, why, of course, may God bless and keep the Tsar far away from us. Prime Minister Bagan, as you know, the Jewish people have never been far away from sorrow and depression. I don't believe your own influence on Jewish history goes as far back as the time with the Tsars. Now, you understand that there wouldn't be anything wrong with that. You hear no criticism of age tolerated in this house. I think I've been hard on to remember that Moses was 80 when God commissioned him for public service and he lived to be 120. And Abraham was 100 and his wife Sarah 90 when he did something truly amazing. He survived to be 175. So, Prime Minister, we haven't even met in our full stride yet. But to be serious, after our conversations today, very warm and productive, I'm convinced that we're on the road on the way to the right road. And we really get drawn closer to that golden age of each cross, everybody, and brotherly reason. I thought this was a critical time with two leaders. One is you and one agent. You're uniquely capable of the great decisions that Prime Minister Bagan, I remember, reading in your book quite nice. There was a young man being held inside Soviet prisons. You were long to return with your people to the Middle East. Even then you told your captors, plenty of room ever since to make that dream come true. Though trained as a lawyer, you passed off the quiet life of a private attorney. From your earliest days, the spirit of freedom burned within you, leading you to make both personal sacrifices for the Jewish people. As a political inmate in those Soviet dungeons, you learned the horrors of totality and abuse. You fought against Hitler, and you spent your early adult years who've been creating haven for your people in the New Israel. Devoted to democratic traditions, you served as leader of your country's law in the position for nearly 30 years. Consistent in your views and stillful in presenting, you were elected leaders of free people who recently reaffirmed their esteem for you. Called as a peacemaker, you boldly seized the opportunity for peace with Egypt and slowly proceeded to a successful conclusion. Minister, the commitment you're making is a commitment to future generations. In the Talmud, there is a story about a man, and I should have asked you whether the pronunciation was funny or not. One day he was walking along in a throng old man planting palm trees. It's sad that the character doesn't produce fruit for seven years, and commented to the old man, certainly you don't need to see the fruit from this tree. The old man answered, I can't think of this word. And people have planted trees for me. I am ready for those who will come after me, planting these seeds of peace for the Israeli people. I refer to that rabbi from Fidler on the roof once again. May the good Lord bless you. President, we are now first of all to take you for a good day. Your lives were harsh. Remember them, the calm them. You gave us today a good day, all of you. The warmth of your heart, your deep humility, your friendship, understanding. All my friends and colleagues here, join me in the expression of gratitude to you for a good day. Go to our nationals. Mr. President, built a vision. Vision is who you talk to. It is the prerequisite for changing reality. You're founding fathers. Express the vision as the foundation of independence made written by Jefferson. Proclaiming self-evident youths. But if they are self-evident, why proclaim? But that proclamation called the people to go into battle. Pulling out against professional soldiers. And does great suffering bring the day and create the greatest republic ever known in history. You're founding fathers. I would take constitution. Original. Unlearned industry. And it works for more than 200 years. There are some crimes from time to time. But out of every crisis democracy comes out stronger, deeper. And because the human works, the sovereign means. When you have the vision of building a real democracy, it is the greatest achievement of the Proving Canadian Century. It is not so that one man should inherit the throne.


Hello everybody, my name is Saskia, my name is Helena and welcome to the GCC 2021 training. So in this short welcome video we will guide you through what will happen this week and how everything works. So first, we will be using the galaxy training network training materials. In case you're new to this this is a collection of training materials around galaxy, made by hundreds of contributors around the globe. And they cover lots of different topics, and there are a lot of videos to choose from this week. And these are all also suitable for self study so after this week you can just keep working on them if you want. The website for this you can find at training.galaxyproject.org During this event we'll be following a code of conduct will be following one from the IB. If you have any issues. Please let us know please report them to the appropriate contacts are listed in the code of conduct and please read the code of conduct so you know what you've agreed to and that everyone has a safe and welcoming experience. So the program for this week. You can find it on the course website that is linked to here and you should have gotten an email with this to. We have three tracks, we have a science track, we have a developer tracks if you want to work on developing components for galaxy or tools for galaxy and administration track. So if you want to run your own galaxy server. It's a little bit like this, and each of these blue bars is a training session. And if you click on that you can see a little bit more information. So the course format is that you are in charge it's an asynchronous training, which means that all of the course content is prepared it's online it's ready. And you are completely in control the schedule this week, you'll be able to start when you want to breaks when you want and when you want it's a lot more convenient for you. There is no daily schedule for the science and developer tracks there are just modules so you can choose which modules might be interesting to you and just go straight to those you don't have to learn about other topics that aren't so interesting to you. If you don't have any time if you don't have enough time to finish everything, then you can always come back later all of the materials will stay online forever. And during this week, we will be using to slack, which we'll talk about in a minute. Here we'll talk about any questions you have or any help you need getting through the tutorials to get started. You will need the following things the course website to find the program and all the training sessions that are available for you to follow. You probably found this because that's why you're watching this video, but the link is galaxy project org slash events slash GCC 2021 slash training. The second thing you'll need is in galaxy account. So please make an account on one of the following servers. So we have galaxy main in the US, you can find us at use galaxy.org. You have the European galaxy server at use galaxy.eu, the Australian server at use galaxy.org.au, and also the Belgian server use galaxy.be. So please choose whichever one is close to you. They should all work and make an account there. And on each training session during this week we can show you okay the server support the session, but most of these support most of the trainings. Note that if you make an account here, you might get confirmation email, and you have to click the link in that email before you can start working. So click this email, and you can't work yet please let us know. And number three third thing you need is to join Slack. So this is a chat platform where you can ask your questions should have already received an invite link by an email. But if you did not please let us know and we will send it to you again. These are the training sessions that that we saw a little bit about earlier, the blue bars that you'll click on and they'll expand and they'll show you all the materials that are needed to do a single training session so you see here. We've got a video embedded we write a bit about the author, what the video is about who wrote the caption use all of our videos are captioned. So if you have trouble understanding the accent or you need to read what was written, then that's possible. Down below is the supported servers section. So, not as sauce we mentioned not every tutorial supports every is supported on every server because all the servers have different tools it's called on them right. So, if you need to use different server for specific tutorial you'll be able to find out which one here for work. And the bottom is the supporting materials. This is a very important section because it has a link to the slides or the video or the tutorial, as well as the FAQ document for any questions you might have that's the first place you should go to see if we've already addressed the common questions with the tutorial. And otherwise there is also the channel interested if you want to ask questions directly to all of the instructors. So, you can see here the link to slack. Please click on this link to go to the channel and then join the channel. And it'll be very nice if when you start say, say hi let us know that you're starting and then during the session you can ask your questions. And when you're done with the training session please let us know what you thought of it and did you enjoy it. And do you have any wishes for things that could have been added. And remember to thank also your instructors who worked very hard to get all these trainings ready for you. So the videos so most of these training sessions have video tutorials. And all these videos work a little bit differently so in some videos the instructor will take you through every step in Galaxy one by one tell you exactly where to click. You can start a little bit more like demos and you don't have to follow along you just watch. Other sessions are more you work through the materials on your own so you read the manual and you do it, and they can refer to the, to the videos if you get stuck or if you want to have like afterwards a little bit an overview of what she did. A little bit different to her session. Yeah, you really get this continuum of choice. Do you want to watch the video do you want to like just a little bit on the video and mostly on the training materials. A lot on the video a little bit on the training terms when you need copy and paste things or do you just want to skip the videos and go straight to the trial. You can really choose how best works for you to learn. So some important video settings, I think most people have used you to, but if you haven't, all videos have subtitles you'll find these in the gear menu at the bottom right. You can enable subtitles you can change the playback speed if some of us are talking too fast like I'm very guilty of, or you can also decrease or increase the quality depending on your internet connection. Now, like we said support will happen on slack. And just don't be shy, ask all your questions discussions if you're wondering about the science or about how to apply this to your own data all of this, we're here there are lots of instructors this week here, especially for you to answer your questions. So we would love to hear from you. That's what we're here for so please ask. Everybody here, lots of people are new to the galaxy so there are no, no dumb questions we're happy to answer anything. So, you can ask us in slack. You can also look at the FAQ documents that maybe the question has been answered before. If you see another participant ask a question that hey you just figured this out or you know the answer. Please feel free to answer the question as well and talk to them. So this is a little bit more on slack slack is our chat platform will be using to discuss all of the training discussion will be separated into different channels. We have a channel for each tutorial that you need to go through. This helps us keep the discussion very focused to that training session and nothing gets mixed up. We also have a social channel, if you just want to socialize and a couple of other channels like that that aren't tutorial focused, but most of them are in slack, there is threaded conversations as a feature. So when you ask your question can reply in a thread and this helps keep the chat very organized so when you want to reply to something someone said please try and reply in a thread. There's one on one calls but we'll also have remote for that if we need. And hopefully, because we're using slack we can have 24 seven support from instructors around the world we've got a whole wonderful team across the globe who's going to help out with this, and having an all on a slack on a chat platform is easier than like real time video makes a lot easier for instructors from all cross time zones to help out. Now to find the channel for your session. Please open the session on the website at the bottom you see this supporting materials section. And there is this, this one part where it shows you what's channel belongs to the session session has its own channel so we can keep things organized a little bit. So you can click on this link to go directly to that channel. And another way to find all the channels is in slack itself on the left side you see the list of channels. If you go to that word channel versus plus icon if you click on that you can go to browse channels and you see the whole list of all the channels and join lots of channels once. And when you open channel for the first time you'll see a button at the bottom like this join channel. So just click that to join and then you can follow the discussion you can ask your own questions. Things like that. And one last tip about slack so if you have joined a lot of sessions and it's a bit too much and you can't find your channels anymore you can start your favorites by right clicking on them and then they will be sorted to the top. So you can do the ones that you're working on or that you're most interested in following. So this is Rima. It looks a little bit different this year than it did last year that's been used for the rest of GCC and it'll already be open this week if you want to go play around and explore. This is a virtual conference hall we've created for the galaxy main event so that'll be the conference all the presentations. And as you see there are lots of different tables spread out across the floor, all of the little space man icons you can click on those, and that'll join a seat at a table. And then you can talk with each other Rima lets you do video conferencing as well as chat and or just audio discussions. I'd like to work together with other participants on a tutorial. Feel free to in Slack say hey I'm on table 38 anybody who's doing this tutorial please join me and then maybe you can talk a little bit together while you work on it and get to know each other. Another thing we have this week are icebreakers. So every day we have one fun little question. We would like you to answer in the social channel so this really helps us to sort of see how many people there are and get to know each other a little bit and just yeah have a good time together. So these are in the program as well. So at the top. There's this training session for icebreaker so it has a question per day and please try to answer this every day. And just interact with each other here and getting each other a little bit and definitely do this if you would like a certificate at the end. Yeah, definitely. There's also feedback, we love your feedback and we desperately need it so if you notice any typos to have any suggestions to have any compliments, did we do something right or complaints about the tutorial we didn't explain something clearly enough. So if the feedback is about the specific materials like the slides with manual, there is a feedback form at the end of every tutorial. You can click on this to fill it out and this will let you say all the things you need to tell us to fix or all the things you thought were wonderful. We'd love to hear the feedback. And if you have feedback about the course itself there is a Slack channel hashtag event GCC 2021. So here you can write any feedback you have about the event itself the organization things like this things that aren't clear or need more or need some more information from us.  If you have some more sessions and you can possibly finish in one week so don't feel like you have to do everything just focus on the things you like best, and you can come back forever basically after the course to keep working. If you want or need a certificate of attendance for this training week that is available upon request. You can create a form you can fill in after this week to request your certificate to qualify for certificate you have to have a ticket to GCC. You have to keep all the work you do so any galaxy histories or other things you might create will ask you to just send that to us, and also be active on Slack so make sure to follow to answer the icebreaker questions every day. If you have any questions join all the channels, let us know when you start give us feedback, and all that sort of things. And then we'll send you a personalized certificate of attendance we would want to know which training sessions you did, and we'll put those on the certificate so you don't have to. You can do as many or as few as you want you'll still get the certificate. The last thing I just want to emphasize this all is a community effort so the GTM materials are already a community effort made by almost 200 community members. This week also we have close to 100 volunteers helping out to answer your questions. And also people made videos and new training materials and updated existing training materials to make this as nice and experience for you this week, as can possibly be so like a big thank you. And if you enjoyed this week if you enjoyed certain training materials please let our community members know they're all volunteering their time, and I love to hear your feedback and your compliments. I'm really thankful for for this community. Yeah, it takes a village. So thank you so much for the analyze and have fun. That's it. Thank you so much. Hope to see you soon.