Hi, I'm Ken Chan from Silken Angle TV, and we're going to be setting up the Nexus Q from Google. So the Nexus Q is Google's first streaming media appliance. So let's just get to it. Coming out here, we have the Nexus Q's in this nice little box. It's a pretty well-designed box, not too bad. Let's just open up, slides out right here. Now I've already pre-cut the tapes on the side because it just makes it that much easier for me to do it. So let's open it up here. It's a pretty decent cut. So this is the Nexus Q itself right here. It's this little ball-shaped thing. You can see we have four speaker jacks here, basically two left and right parallel plus minus jacks, as well as network, power, HDMI, a USB port, and an optical out port for your digital stereo receivers. And furthermore in the box is basically a quick simple instruction manual. This is one little sheet here, a quick start guide, and an HDMI cable. Now the power cable actually came into a separate box, which I already pulled out, and we can take a look at when we're powering it on. So up next, let's power this guy up and see what we got. So now we have our monitor and our Q-Sep here. I've already hooked in the Q to the monitor using the included HDMI cable, so let's just power it up. So it's just a simple power plug here. We turn it on, it glows blue for a second as it spins around and gets configured. It should come up on the screen here in just a second. Now this has not been configured yet, so we're going to see how to configure this thing from the very, from when you open the box to when you actually hook it into your phone. So right now we have the welcome screen on this, on the TV here with the Nexus, with the welcome in a number of different languages. So using my Nexus Galaxy phone here, we use the Nexus Q app and look for new devices. Now make sure your Bluetooth is turned on on the phone. That way you can find the Nexus, unless you actually use a wired connection on the Nexus. But the Nexus Q here can use Bluetooth and wireless, so you don't need to have a hard line. So I've found the phone, the Blue Nexus Q, that hasn't been turned on yet. Let's assign this to the office and it's connecting. Just give it a second. Now it's going to ask me for a network connection because it's on wireless, so it needs a network connection. The phone knows that I'm on a specific network connection already and it just sends that information over to the Q. Connections are finished up and everything is good to go. Now the Q is pretty much powering up doing its final initializations. In the meantime, my setup is complete and I can start playing media here. Either play music or movies and TV from the Google Play Store, or I can play YouTube videos. So and that's all for the setup, so let's just play some video here. Let me pull up YouTube. Everything works pretty wirelessly and effortlessly and it's a pretty simple setup to deal with. And once you have the Q and the TV setup and once your phone is connected to it, all you have to do is send a YouTube video to it and just start playing it and it'll just play on the TV itself. You can learn more about the Nexus Q and read the full in-depth review at our website, silkenangle.com. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel here and give this video a thumbs up. My name is Kian Tran and thanks for watching.


Okay. So, I will talk about four per web service I wrote, and I hope you may like them. First, let me introduce myself. So, I'm Luc Dideris. I'm known as from a sky or just sky on the web. I'm a sysadmin, so I'm not, I don't develop for work. But, I am a pearl addict. I love pearl, I dream pearl, I eat pearl. Please excuse my accent. I'm French. And, yeah, I'm French. Since the beginning of my journey as a sysadmin, I developed a lot of software, scrapes, diamonds, some junk to do one thing and forget it. Not all of them are public because some are just for the work. Or not really useful and I'm not really proud of them, so not public. But, there are some I'm quite proud of. So, the four per web services are a new URL shortener, which is called LSTU. Images of hosting software, Lutin. A file hosting software, Luffy. And Doloman, quite complicated to explain just like that what it does. But, it's about statistics, about links. So, I never talk of those software in English. So, as you heard, LSTU, Lutin, Luffy, I just tell the name like French people would do. So, LSTU, I wrote it in 2013. It stands for Let's Shorten Virtual. It's quite simple because what does it do? It shortens URLs. I'm not really good at naming software. You will understand later. But, there is a lot of URL shortening service for why creating another one. Best reason in the world, the boredom. One evening, I was bored. But, I wanted to cut something.  I want to cut something. I want to cut. But what? No idea. So, it was an evening. It was, I thought, something with modular issues. Because I love modular issues. Because modular issues was a web framework I used at work on those times. It does a lot of things. It simplifies a lot of things. It contains a lot of features. So, I wanted to use modular issues because it's a great, great, great web framework. I wanted something fast to code because it was one evening. I wanted to have proof of concept. In one evening. So, URL shortener takes URL, gives URL. And when you go to the given URL, it redirects you to the first URL. What is simpler than that? Quite nothing. So, it was perfect just to have fun. The interface is really simple. You have one URL, one field. You give the original URL. You can choose to have a customized shortener text. Because group.gl.emv, capital W, et cetera, is quite helpful to give to people. But sometimes, and sometimes you want to have a very simple URL to give to people. For example, here is a talk about Android Sheet Tof, Sheet To. Is it a U or a V? So, you can want to have a simple URL, lstu.ifr slash Android Sheet Tof. Done. Something simple that you may put on Kakemono and Flyers, et cetera. So, a custom shortener, shorten URL is quite useful. So, it's really simple. You give an URL.  Lstu gives you an URL, obviously, and QR code. Because nowadays, you have QR code on Flyers and other communication stuff. And you simply use a new URL instead of the original one. The visitors are redirected with a permanent redirection to the original URL. And it increments visit culture on Lstu because it was simple to code. And I quite like to know if people go on my links. And that's it. It's really simple, basic, simple. You can obviously, you can see your statistics about your links. But it's only stored. The contours are server-side. But your shorten URL are stored in cookies. Because I wanted to, I didn't want to store who shorten that URL. This URL belongs to who? I don't know. I don't want to know. My software is quite privacy-oriented. So, the less I know, the better it is. Some tech details about Lstu. So, you choose a major issues framework. There is a Cpan file on the git repository. So, you can deploy in that preferred way to deploy Lstu. You can deploy it with carton. You install the dependencies in local. And you have all the things you need with the version I used to develop. So, better. Currently, it supports SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL. But any database can be used. You just have to code the connector. It's really simple. Since Lstu doesn't do much things, the operation of the database are simple. So, everyone can write a connector. I didn't write the MySQL connector. I just did the SQLite and the PostgreSQL. There is a theme system. So, the interface you saw previously is not the only one. I have two official themes, and anybody can write his own theme. And it's internationalized, and it supports four languages for now. Let's go to Lutin. I wrote that one one year after. Lutin stands for Let's Upload That Image. When I said I am bad at naming self-prayer, it's not a joke. So, you upload images, and you give the URL to your friends or use it in your website or do whatever you want with a new URL that's point to an image. The main goal was... It was an XMPP conversation with friends. I have a problem on that software. Can you send me a screenshot? XMPP is great, great, but sometimes it's quite hard to send files through XMPP. My server doesn't... My server is not configured for that, so I'm behind a proxy, et cetera, et cetera. So, simple things.  That was the main goal for what I wrote Lutin. Privacy. Images can be encrypted, server-side, because if you encrypt the images on client-side, you can choose the images on your website without some JavaScript. So, I wanted to make things simpler for the user. But still, the service provider can see them, but you just have to look at the access log in Enginix or Apache to see the decryption key. You have to have a trust in your Lutin provider or provide your hosting it yourself. It's fire and forget, so you can have an auto-destruction delay. So, for the screenshot to my friends, I don't want to put too much data on my Lutin server, so I just said in seven days it will be auto-destroyed. Or you can even have destroyed at first view. So, I give one to one friends, even if you give the URL to other people, other people can have the images. But, obviously, my friend can download the image and give the image to other people, but still. You can store the image in one place and use it everywhere, websites, social networks, et cetera. So, in diaspora network, there's some times when you are on multiple social networks, you may want to post the same image on diaspora and mastodon on this one and this one and this one. So, you may just upload it on Lutin and give a URL. There is a social integration for Twitter because I use Twitter on those times. And so, it's embedded in Twitter. VNTFS is less simple than LSTU because it does more things. So, you can see here, delete at first view. You can have a delete by default. You hit delete, exit tags on the images you sent. You can choose the deletion delay. You can even just put an image URL here and Lutin will fetch it for you. So, you choose your option, retention delay, exit tag, deletion, et cetera. You drop the image, you have an URL, you use it. And when somebody sees the image, a visit control. I like visit controls. And that's all. But you can do more. You can delete your own images. This time, the image property ownership is still not stored on the server. It's still on your browser. But that's not cookies this time. It's in local storage. Why local storage instead of cookies? Because cookies are more often deleted than local storage. And I already have JavaScript on Lutin for it to work. So, I can use the local storage and manipulating it with JavaScript. On LSTU, you can visit it without JavaScript. It works. Lutin, it works, but you don't have all the features. And you can create a gallery with your images. So, you upload 10 photos of your vacation and you have an URL with a gallery. So, hey grandma, I'm in Brussels right now and I took some photos. Here's the link. And she doesn't have to go on 10 links. She has her link to show, to see all your photos. Lutin was based on the LSTU code. It's quite similar on some aspects for the randomness of a URL. It grows, it grows, but it's still LSTU children. And I, when I, sometimes I introduce a feature in Lutin and I back part it to LSTU because it may be useful. Take details, quite similar. Modules issues, cartons, SQLite and PostgreSQL DB. Since I didn't wrote the MySQL DB connector on LSTU, I didn't, I don't want, I don't like MySQL so I don't write connector for them. It has the same system and it's just internalized too. Luffy. So, here after. Luffy stands for let's upload that file. You see the scheme in the naming, in the naming software. You upload files and you have an URL. Still a simple interface. Drop file. Delete that first download. Retention delete. What is that? Ah, you can add a password to Fox. This time the file is encrypted on client side with JavaScript and some JavaScript libraries I don't understand but they do some good crypto. Stanford, crypto, SCGL. Don't remember the acronym of the JavaScript library but it's a good encryption library. It's quite the only one you can use nowadays. So you choose the retention delete. You drop a file, file and you encrypted. You have an URL, you give a URL to your friend. The file is decrypted on the client side and a visit counter is incremented. And if the file is an image or a video it can be watched or viewed directly in the browser. So, decryption is done. And you have a video player appearing and you don't have to download to get the file on your disk to watch the video. Luffy used some code of Lutain and it's still a grad, still Lutain's children. And just like for Lutain and LSTU when I do something in Luffy that you can be useful for LSTU or Lutain I bypass the features. Take details. This time the encryption key is never sent to the server. The file hosters can never decrypt the file on the server. Modularized framework, Cartoon, SQLite, PostgreSQL, FIM system and internalized. Doloman. I began to work on Doloman in 2015 but the real first working version is from last year. It stands for download monitor. You see, I'm getting better at naming software. Simple links visit statistics. So, when you think about statistics, about analytics for websites you, whether you use Piwik, no Matomo or you use Google Analytics or some other shitty service you may use AWS state. I don't know how to spell it. But the thing is the softwares make great, great, great, great, great statistics. But sometimes you just want to know how many times somebody, how many people goes on my page. I don't want to know if they use Firefox, Chrome. I don't know if their screen resolution is 2000. I don't care. Sometimes I just want to have simple control. So, I wrote a software. What does that? The interface is quite complicated. So, you don't have just one page like the other softwares. The better thing to do is to test it because I will explain all of that but I can't show you exactly how it works. So, it's quite like an URL shortener.  It's not really shortened. But who said that a URL shortener has to be really shortened? When you go on Twitter, the links are transformed to t.co. The URL is shortened. Well, it's transformed. You can say it's short because it's long. So, you give your URL to the lowman. It gives you another URL. That I called a dolo. Just because I wanted to have a fun name. When people use the dolo URL, they are redirected to the target with a temporary redirect because unlike LSTU, in LSTU, when you create a short-term URL, you can't move it. You can delete it. You can change it. It's permanent. So, I permanently redirect the people that visit the links. In Dolemon, you can change the target link. So, it's a temporary redirection. And then, I increment contours but with a job queue. Why a job queue? Just because to be able to try to increment more contours, it's quite a complicated work to increment all the contours. It takes times. It calls the database multiple times. So, better if it's on a different job queue. If it's not down, just when people visit the link. In fact, I created Dolemon because of a friend that use WordPress. WordPress is quite good. But he use a plugin on WordPress that is called Donut Monitor. And the problem with that plugin, so it does quite the same thing as Dolemon. So, transform an URL in another URL and increment a counter. But that friend had a lot of visits and people used the watch links a lot. And WordPress as a Donut Monitor is synchronous. It took the database, look at the database. Okay. This is the URL. I will redirect the person too. And I increment and I redirect. And when you have a lot of visits, the increment puts the server down. Seriously. So, the seat was unusable. All the seats were frozen because the database access exploded. Just so that. So, first an external service. And then asynchronous, not synchronously, increments the contours. So, when you have time, you increments, if you have a lot of jobs, well, it's a job queue. I treat them back by back, four by four. And if I really want, I create another job queue process and it will work faster. So, this is why it's a job queue. The statistics are available in different granularities. Each visits are stored for three days. So, for three days, you can know at what time people click on the link. Visits per day are stored for 90 days, per default. All the periods of granularities are configurable in the configuration file. So, per default, by default, it's 90 days. Per week, 12 weeks. Per month, 36 months. And per year, they are stored forever. But one of the things I don't like about per week is that you can go really, really, really, really, really long in the past and have statistics. But do you really want to know on each day of the year 2000 what were the statistics in the year 2000 per day? If you're serious, first you store the reports and then you compare from the reports of the last year. You don't have to go to per week each year to compare on per week. So, that's why granularity is bad on the old days and good on the recently. And that's for having a database on the correct size. Per week just grows and grows and grows and grows. The size of the database of per week grows forever. Then you have lovely graph. And you can see for the three last days, last 90 days, last 12 weeks, et cetera. You can download the raw data. So, you can import them in LibreFiscal and do graph like you want. One thing, you can organize your dolo. So, I repeat, one dolo is one URL. So, you can organize your dolo in categories and you can add tags. So, that you can have aggregated statistics for one category for one tag. So, my friend who used the download monitor on WordPress, he now uses dolemon. Sorry. He has a category, hiphub. He's currently writing a novel. And you want to know how many people download the hiphub file of his novel. So, you have one URL per chapter. And with the categories system, you can just click on categories and have all the statistics for his novel. Dolemon, it's like LSTU in the core. It's like an URL shortener. So, he was inspired by LSTU. And my friend asked, can I have a good statistic in the LSTU? No. I will write another software because LSTU is simple and I want to keep it simple. The statistics are fully anonymous. No tracking is done. The only cookie Dolemon sent to the browser is a cookie to say which stays for three minutes by default. And to avoid to kunt people that click and click and click for the same link multiple times. There are people that click, click, click. Or if you want to falsify statistics, you click, click, click. If you have the cookie, you can't. But if there is a do not track header, I don't send the cookie. I developed, so it was for WordPress. So I developed a WordPress plugin to create dollars from WordPress. It's not on the WordPress plugin base, but it's on its way. Take details. What a surprise! Major issues. Carton. Only PostgreSQL, because I didn't want to bother with our database. And since you may have a lot of traffic on the public Dolemon instance you want to have PostgreSQL. Unlike Pwik that works and that uses MySQL and that's such a bad choice. So it has a theme system. It's internationalized. Two languages, English, French, of course. So from one evening of boredom, a family software is born. That's because I wanted to cut something. And people liked it. And well, I like coding. I like writing software. So it's a long and fun journey to write software. Lutin, LSTU, Luffy and Dolemon are used in production, are production-ready. They are used by Fromacev Test Association. It's a non-profit organization. And it's quite like, it's battle test. It's battle tested. On the official instance of Lutin, LUT.em, LUT.em I already have two millions or more images. I don't have two million images now. That's because they are self-destruct. But I already stored two million images. So we have to find the software. So it's always on fromagit.org slash luke slash the name of the software. LSTU, LUTIN, Luffy, Dolemon. LSTU, you can try and use it on LSTU.fr or froma.link. LUTIN, it's on LUT.em or fromapeak.org. For Luffy, there is no official instance. There is a demo instance on demo.luffy.io. Oh, a typo. It's not .org, it's .io. But you can use it for real on fromadop.org. Dolemon, no official instance. But you can use and try on froma.link.org. If you want to help for a translation, you can go on navartipo.trad.fromasaf.org. And you can download those slides on LSTU.fr slash firstdem dash 2018. Do you have any questions? No questions. I don't have modules. It's softwares and not modules. And it's quite complicated for me. I may be able to do it. But it's quite complicated. And I already have a problem on my own for meeting the softwares. And I didn't took the time. And because I use a carton, I don't know how to integrate carton in C-Pen release. So it may be a little bit complicated. But I developed some modules for those softwares, which I released on the C-Pen.


If you go back to marriage in the 40s, you did not get a diamond ring. The market was created, customer behaviour was changed, but you cannot get a gate without a diamond ring. Hello, John. Thanks for joining us. I did want to dig a little bit, maybe into sustainability first, because I think it probably sits in that space of purpose, which is kind of often a recurring theme. I'm always interested in organisations that have a purpose at the heart, but also how do you galvanise the whole organisation behind a purpose? Yes, I mean, EY is purpose-building a better working world and it's been a huge galvanising driving force. If you look at our overall growth, if you look at our people engagement, having a strong purpose is very powerful. We've got the data behind it to show its effect. I think it also ensures then that you're doing all the right things at the right time. So sustainability clearly is a massive issue alongside other things, social equity, all of the critical drivers of change essential to the world. I think sustainability, we went out about three years ago with a strong commitment from ourselves, but also building partnerships around the world in terms of how to effect change. We talk about value-led sustainability, the fact that at a business level, there's an imperative to do it for future generations, otherwise we will not have a planet to surf. Equally, future competitive advantage is going to come from those organisations that actually embrace it because we know from, I don't think we need the stats, we know from our own EY data, close to 70% of consumers are saying they want brands and businesses to do more. So it's a driver of future growth in the business as well as it will have to shift the way society operates. I guess it feels like it's something that's not just the sole responsibility of the marketing team, like it has to impact the whole business. How do you kind of spread it through the organisation? Yes, I mean, it's a good question about marketing. What's marketing's role? And I was at the WFA event a couple of few weeks ago where the question was posed, do you change the company or do you reframe the way customers think about it? And it was an interesting debate. I wish I'd asked that question. It was a great question.  You then go, a market was created, the customer behaviour was changed, that you cannot get engaged with that diamond. And if you apply that to sustainability, you go, how can marketers reframe the choices you make? How can you actually start making people make better choices? So there's undoubtedly an issue. Having said that, organisations, businesses have to create new solutions, new packaging solutions, new ways of engaging. And then you can go very macro around it, which is how do you chase value? What's future value? What's growth in the future? Is it the circular economy? I don't know if you've heard about the doughnut economics. Yes. Around moving from growth to thriving. So, you know, it's an end-to-end systemic shift in the world. And we kind of say it's everybody's business, OK? In the boardroom it's atop and it's going to come from the bottom up. Picking up on it, it's kind of connected. I sort of remember November 2022. I was mining my own business. Next thing, I'm on this thing called ChatGBT. And like, generative AI is the only thing that seems to be talked about. But I'm assuming, obviously, as EY, this is not a new thing to you as an organisation. AI is not new. You know, we spend, you know, millions have been invested in using AI across pretty much all of our services, all of our solutions. So AI is not the new thing. In fact, AI has been for many years. What is transformative is gen AI. It's a game changer. It's described to me from our chief technology officer. You're going from a predictive model that says this happens there to something that's actually, you know, you don't know always the answer, OK? And so it's a game changer. It's not a fad. I think, you know, it's not here this year and gone tomorrow. I think, you know, what we know is it's going to affect pretty much every business and every function within a business is going to change. Exponential transformation. So what do you do with that in every part of the business? And then I think the bit that we feel very strongly, which does go back to purpose is around human impact. And so when you have a strong purpose like building a better working world, you kind of go, how do we put humans at the center of this? It's a big part of our consulting practice. We know that we've done some research, actually, which says if you put humans at the center of transformation, real people at the center of it, your outcomes are better and your transformation is more successful.  It's interesting that that picks up on, I guess, a theme or a conversation of having people around Genital AI where it is the idea and the human aspect is the idea that it's, if we start to look at it as a tool for humans, then actually suddenly there's the fear disawares and it's something that you can use.  And yes, there is fear and clearly, you know, there is a need for regulation. There is a need to actually, you know, sort the copyright issues out, you know, all of those are real issues which will be sorted, I hope, fast, but it is about augmenting. You know, either at an efficiency level where you go from a talent point of view, you can actually be freed up to do some interesting part as opposed to not. And then, you know, in some ways, democratizing creativity isn't a bad thing. The creative economy, throwing it out there, you can have us all an amazing presentation today by a brand where they have actually thrown their brand out using Genital AI, people have created images and they've reused that content. So I think it's, you know, on a good day, this is going to unleash new ways of engaging, which is exciting. Clearly, there's a downside that has to be managed through. Now, partly connected to AI, and it'll make sense in a second, but I've always been at admirers professionally of your advertising and the line, better questions. And the reason I kind of bring it up in the AI, because obviously how we interact with the genital AI models is that we have to ask questions of it and make suggestions. So it feels like somehow you saw this coming. Yeah, I mean, I wish I could say I saw better questions in AI when first creating the Better Questions campaign. But, you know, fundamentally, in fact, I was on a call yesterday with our global head of talent and he said, isn't this the moment around better questions to double down on it? I said, absolutely, because the prompt, the way you ask a question will get a radically different answer. So we're all going to actually have to get even more skilled around the better question. And so, you know, in some ways, we've had the better the question, the better the answer, the better the world works. It's probably the better the question, the better the prompt, the better the outcome. So I think it's come a page. In fact, we just did a very interesting, it was published in Harvard between an MIT professor, Hal Grigason, who's written about the power of questions and we've collaborated on various things. And our chief technology officer, who basically, it was all about inquiry and how questions and AI are going to be deeply entwined in the future. So your question is great to hear about the advertising, but actually in a profound way, better questions is sort of come out, in some ways, come of age. I used to talk to junior strategists about the power of asking why. And like every time you ask why and you get deeper and deeper and it's the most simplest of questions, but yeah, it unlocks absolutely. It is, because most of us want to say what the answer is very quickly. In fact, Hal Grigason's got this thing about the questionverse where he forces you not to speak other than listen to the other person's question. There's only the questions you can do before you get to solving it. So drawing on that, I'm thinking about kind of a world powered by or driven by AI data and how we collect it, how we use it. I'm always fascinated about kind of how organizations are utilizing data. I mean, look, data is a primary source of what we do at EY. I think along with the data becomes all the protections and how we are responsible about it. I think as you know, one of the biggest challenges with sort of the open version of Generator AI is you're putting out your content into the world. So there will be a degree of complete open source and then people building their own platforms within using it so that you can actually protect your own data. So yeah, I mean, all of the old truths about data being the liquid gold or the liquid oil of the future, it absolutely is right. Exactly. The one thing I always wonder though is there a tension between sort of data and creativity? How do you kind of have the two live together? It's an interesting question. I raised it earlier saying I still think there's a data creativity gap in terms of understanding how to take the data and the insight and how that may lead to a creative solution. And I think for now, if you look at creativity being about making connections between different inputs, whether it's a data piece, whether it's a societal issue, your brand, somewhere the connection points to the need to a creative solution. That's the imagination. The data somehow can spark a thought.  And I think where AI will play a very powerful role, it's almost like a fast brainstorming. Certainly for now, who knows in the future, but for now it's a radically fast way of brainstorming ideas around and then the human mind can take it to the next level. Well, picking up on the theme of humans. I'm missing my very tenuous link here.  And so when you think about audiences, you obviously think about your audience who are very particular business lens. But I always find that there is a reality between there's people as business people and people as just humans. So how do you kind of go about thinking about your audience and finding opportunities to engage them? Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. Because I work at UI, I'm now seen as a B2B marketer. I mean, most of my life is consumer. And I often say the reason I probably was able to add new value into the system is because I don't think there's a separation. I think it's human to human, right? So B2B is human to human. And therefore, like anything, you are connecting with someone's emotions. So what's the value exchange? So if you look at it as a top level, a better question where your audience can't get to the answer is adding value. So if you think about the value exchange, the human beings, and by the way, we're all emotion, if there's a lot of data that says B2B is a far more emotive decision. If you pick a packet of detergent, if you get it wrong, it's okay. If you pick the wrong partner, your career is at stake, right? So it's a very, very powerfully emotive decision. So human to human is the way I look at it. And I don't see a separate... There are tactics that are different between B2C and B2B. But in terms of the way you think, so what's the insight behind the audience? What value can I create to them in the exchange? It's sort of like a... I like that human to human because B2B becomes kind of B2B to me, like the holistic me and my ambitions and all that. Yeah, that emotion and decision, right? It's wrapped up in hulkery.  Looking forward to the next two years, or even beyond, what are you excited about or maybe even nervous about? I have to say I'm excited by AI because it's a big meaty challenge, okay? It's complex. It's got legal frameworks, societal issues. It's got implications for people's roles at work. I mean, it's a profound shift. And having said that, I think probably people on the whole that go into marketing or advertising or any form of creative industry actually love meaty big problems to work through. And so I think that's exciting. It's a bit like sustainability, right? We need to do it. And I actually think this industry, this collection of people, actually holds a massive part of the answer. So in some ways it's a moment in time where you go creatively, the world needs us more than ever. And that's fun. I love that perspective of this idea that actually the problems, you run through the problem because that's where innovation lies and grows. Yeah, exactly. But it's not without its challenges for the world. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks a lot.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Vaccine maker BioNTech to construct mRNA factories in Africa. Sudan's revolutionary forces demand complete civilian rule. Cuba rejects U.S. interference after new evidence in right-wing 15N March. And Harvard University student workers go on strike for a fair contract. In our first story, German company BioNTech has signed an agreement to open Africa's first mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant. It will partner with the Rwandan government and Senegal's Institute Pasteur de Dakar. Construction will begin in 2022 with an annual production capacity of 50 million doses. Production capacity will be gradually expanded beyond COVID-19 to include vaccines for malaria and tuberculosis. According to the United Nations, African countries import 95% of the pharmaceutical and medicinal products. As of now, South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Senegal have varying production capabilities. Africa has received 128 million vaccine doses through COVAX so far. Only 5% of the population has been fully vaccinated. Recent reports have also shown that per capita vaccine supplies to the G20 countries has been 15 times higher than those to sub-Saharan Africa. The mRNA molecule for the COVID-19 is currently only being produced in the United States and Europe. BioNTech will install a containerised manufacturing unit in Rwanda. Moreover, the company has stated that it will transfer technical know-how and ownership of the site to local partners. Details regarding key issues such as regional regulatory frameworks and start of the production are still not known. In our next story, work stoppages, road blockage and protests against the military are continuing in Sudan. Workers across key sectors including healthcare, banking and oil have declared strikes. As of October 27, 10 protesters had been killed and over 140 have been injured by soldiers. Sudan's revolutionary forces have stated that the uprising will continue until a full civilian government is established. The Sudanese Professionals Association has also stated that a return to the civilian military transitional government will not be enough to end the mass protests. The body was a result of the compromises struck by the centre and right forces after June 3 massacre. The government would rule for a three-year interim period until elections in 2023. The sovereignty council, which was headed by General Burhan, was the highest body of the state. Burhan staged the coup just before he was supposed to hand over leadership to a civilian in November. He has stated that he will replace the civilian leaders with a technocratic government. Sudan has witnessed repeated protests against the dominance of the military in the government. People are still raising the slogan down with the bloodshed partnership. Meanwhile, Burhan is facing increasing international pressure. The United States and the World Bank have frozen a combined total of nearly $4 billion in foreign aid. The African Union has also suspended Sudan's membership on October 27. Meanwhile, Burhan has dismissed six of Sudan's ambassadors, including those to China, the US, Qatar and the European Union. In our next story, the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba has reiterated the demand for an end to the United States' blockade. The body also noted the United States' role in instigating, organizing and financing terrorist attacks against Cuba. According to the Cuba Money Project, the US Agency for International Development or the US-8 has spent over $6 million on subversive projects against Cuba. New evidence has also been uncovered about a supposed citizen march against violence on November 15. The Cuban government had already denied permission to hold the march. An official of the Communist Party of Cuba presented a leak recording of one of the march organizers, Junior Garcia, on October 26. In it, he was talking to Ramon Sol Sanchez, who is based in Miami in the United States. Sanchez is affiliated with terrorist groups responsible for over 90 attacks on Cuban facilities. He could be heard offering logistical support for the march and coverage in US media. The march also received support from US lawmakers and US funded groups. A top US official also threatened fresh sanctions if the organizers of the march were prosecuted. These would accompany the 243 unilateral coercive measures and 60-year blockade already imposed on Cuba. And finally, we look at the ongoing strike by 2,000 workers at Harvard University in the United States. The Harvard Graduate Students' Union began the three-day strike action on October 27. Among the demands raised is fair pay and third-party arbitration for harassment and discrimination complaints. Other issues include healthcare coverage and a union security clause. The strike action was approved with a majority of 91.7% at the end of September. The union is demanding a salary increase of 5.75%, 4.5%, and 3% in a three-year agreement. It has also called for a $21 an hour minimum wage for hourly student workers. This would be accompanied by a 50-cent increase in the next two years. Meanwhile, in the latest contract offer, Harvard offered a 3.5% pay increase in the first year. However, given the rate of inflation is around 5%, the union argued that this would still be a pay cut. Harvard has claimed financial distress due to COVID-19 as a way out of offering more substantial increases. However, while the university already has the world's largest college fund, its endowment increased by another $53 billion during the pandemic. It also reported a surplus operating budget of $283 million. That's all in today's episode of the International Daily Roundup. Visit our website on www.peoplesdispatch.org for more details and stories. And follow us on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. Thank you.


Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video Which is a video I did last year and I think you're probably gonna do every year And that is just a daily fall themed vlog. We will be going shopping for decorations. I will be getting books I will be baking some zucchini bread. I got just lots of things planned for today So I'm gonna take you along with me as I get ready for the new season So let's start off with that shopping From shopping and I use it. So I'm gonna start off with the decorations. I'm gonna start off with fall decorations So Brenna intends to prefer more harvest themed Decorations, so I got these cute little things for him. Me and my friends always go to Michael's For our decorations just because that was the one store that we all know of that has good Halloween decorations But I just got these little I got these two which are just kind of plain boxes with some pumpkins And then I also got this kind of more apple based one in a basket And I figured this is very harvest time. This is probably what he would like I think this looks so cute and you can put them all together or you can kind of spread them out So I'll figure out where I want to put those but then for Halloween decorations something that can hang Um It says boo It's got ghosts and a pumpkin. It says boo. I'll probably put it on a door I don't know if I'll put it on our door in or out or on our bedroom door not quite sure but It's so cute and then I also got I wasn't initially gonna get anything for the bookshelves because like I have Quite a few decorations for the shelves, but when I saw this I Wanted it so it's this little ghost That lights up. I mean how cute, right? Come on now It says so cute So those are the Halloween and fall decorations that I got.  So I have these which have like a little Little skeleton cat and then bats So I have these and then I also grabbed a pair of footy fuzzy socks that have a little pumpkin with a hat on So I thought those were really cute. So these will be really nice to wear for like nights reading or watching Halloween movies. I'm super excited now. I can move on to the books And this is where I truly went crazy like I went a little overboard with the decorations But this is the books is where truly unleashed my inner monster. I Went to three different places for this I went to Two half-priced books locations and then Goodwill. I didn't go to Goodwill for books But then I saw a book so the book I got on Goodwill was Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Arden I if you don't know I have been collecting the original covers for these because those are the books that I read from the library and then when they came out with all these different new covers when like movies were coming out and It was getting like really popular and blah blah blah. They I don't know if they just stopped selling these like they're out of print But I can't find them in any like new store like not in Barnes & Noble anywhere So I've been collecting them used off of like thrift books and now in Goodwill apparently So this is the fourth book I have the first four books so all I need is the last Olympian and I have all the Percy Jackson in the original covers for all the other recording series that I may want to purchase they don't need to be the original covers, but I Just wanted this original series in the original covers I'm so close you guys like I have the alert on thrift books for whenever one of them like becomes available in any condition So and this is actually really good condition like it's not perfect like it's been loved But like there's no markings no rips no Dog ears like the little yellow, but that's totally fine. So very happy about that My first trip to thrift books. I got the Groom Rose Girls By Laura pole. I read this actually this past like early summer. It's a dark academia That's based on fairy tales. The second book has come out I've yet to read it, but I really liked it and I just love dark academia and it's fairytale So I thought I should buy my own copy of it. I got in a dark dark wood by Ruth Ware I read her book one by one, and I really really really liked it And this one had a premise I thought sounded really good They're kind of trapped a group of people are trapped in a forest. They have their own secrets, but they're also not alone Hominus dark. Oh, so I got this one for that. I also have the woman in cabin 10 I got that this past spring So I've got a couple with where books to read the spooky season Super excited then the next one that I got is a very new thriller book And that is Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney. I haven't read any Alice Feeney books But this one like I said was a recent release. It sounded really good It's like this whole family is gathering on this island for Nana's 80th birthday. Nana ends up dead Someone has secrets or everyone has secrets and we got to figure out what's going on If more people are gonna die or if it was just Nana and why So it's giving me very like knives out kind of vibes And it's on an island. So it's like isolated as well, which was an element I really liked in the one by one by Ruth Ware. So I Decide to go with this one for that and then the last book I got in the first thrift books was The Dead from Antics. So this is a ghost story. It is about and this is by Ashley Poston Poston Ashley Poston Poston something and it's about this writer who her father Unexpectedly passes away. So she goes to the funeral and then she starts to see ghosts But she is about to lose like a writing contract like she's struggling, but also her new editor is a ghost So I did I was very intrigued about having like a live writer and a ghost editor So and I think this one also like just came out I love how bright the colors are for it being like a spooky book I'm excited to read that one. And then my second I Traveled 20 minutes to get to the next half price books because I had one book that I really wanted And that was white smoke by it's beneath the Jackson The only thing I really remember about being described this book is that it's a haunted house like a good true haunted house story and That's all I really needed to know because I I know that Tiffany D. Jackson has Like good writing and like she's well-known, but it's a haunted house story. So So I had to go and pick up that and then while I was there I got distracted and the final book that I purchased I've been anticipating this release. It again just came out I feel like everybody is buying it right now like I've seen it everywhere And that's Babel by RF Kwong So RF Kwong wrote the poppy war trilogy, which I have not read and I'm not super interested in reading But Babel from what I understand it is a dark academia with an emphasis on languages Which if you know me I love languages and I love dark academia This cover is beautiful. So I'm I'm fully Here for it like I'm trying to get a degree in translation. So the fact that this book Actually cares about like languages and things like that. It just it just warms my heart and it makes me so excited It's quite chunky. So I don't know if I'm gonna be able to read it with in Spooky season like I'm gonna obviously try and prioritize it soon But I obviously have a lot of books here that I want to read during spooky season And it's just gonna take me a little bit to get through a charm. So we'll see but oh my goodness I'm so excited for this one. I think this is the one that gets me most excited out of all the ones that I purchased Yeah, all right, I think next thing I need to do is bake the zucchini bars and then I'm gonna decorate the apartment I don't know how much I'll film the baking and the zucchini bars because I might go to my friend's apartment upstairs because they actually have a stand mixer I really want to use that because I'm lazy and I'm sick of mixing things by hand So I don't know how much that'll film we'll see but that is kind of on the docket for the rest of the day I'll bake Do the decorations and then I'm also going to an Irish kind of sing along thing in a pub So it's gonna be quite the full day, but it's gonna be so much fun as well Now I have to find space for all of these on my bookshelf That's a problem. I'm excited to have All right, the zucchini bread has been made I went to the singing thing at pub and now the only thing that's left to do Is to decorate the apartment autumn? It's dark outside. So the lighting is not super great We'll see what I can do about that, but I think it's time to decorate


Yeah, I mean that first game that's two weeks behind now, you know the next week I feel like I didn't play up to as good as I could have and then Obviously this pass game we lost so anytime you lose there's a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed So you don't lose the next time But again just for me, you know as young players gonna be the basic stuff the fundamentals and techniques For a long time, you know, so I get those up to the level they need to be to play in the NFL No expectations just to be ready Whether it was the whole game or it was 10 plays whatever it was to go out there and be ready and Go 100% and put my best foot forward every play Yeah, I got I got plenty of reps and I'm gonna, you know Dip my toe in it and kind of feel but you know once we get into the regular season Obviously with guys coming back that'll probably be limited and it's a better competition in the regular season So you got to be prepared for that. Oh, yeah, I think for me doing what I did well was just Playing hard and and Adapting to the game, you know, it's different than how college plays type of offenses. They run Personnel stuff like that, you know, that's a lot different in college college is a little more wild And then for me, it's gonna be the same answers for a while on what to work on just that pad level You know being a big guy It's easy for me to get up high and look in the backfield and not focus what's in front of me Especially, you know in college you can do that and get away with it out here You can end up in some bad positions if you don't you don't handle that Yeah They all transfer, you know, they do drills that we only do drills that they can show film of Like then those drills being applied in the game on film So if if they can't find that drill being applied in a game through film or something like that We wouldn't do it so all the drills we do apply directly into the way we play defense in games and stuff like that Oh, you know utilizing length, you know that long arm and Learning some new moves in there at three tech, you know, I never did it that much So just practicing in there everything happens quicker. You know, it's kind of the same game But you don't have as much time as much space. So for me it'd be that I Mean, that's what they've asked of me and that's where they put me So I'm if it that's where I'm at and I'm out on the field. I'll Do what I'm supposed to do out there and make something happen Make something shake you feel me at the end of the day.  You got to be able to do that I mean it would I got might have to start some guys because you're asking me and I haven't played a regular season game yet So I don't really know what to expect, you know, you could say it's like practice against the ones But practice and game speed are way different So I really don't know what to expect until I get that first rep or you know And people can try to explain to you what it is But it's the same way my first ever snap in college I was I was like practice is easy and then my first play I was like what the hell is going on Almost knocked me out of bounds the first play when I was a fresh out of high school. So I Don't really know what to expect, but you know, it'll be next level Intensity people playing for their livelihood their family stuff like that every week. So you got to come prepared. Oh You know, I think it's just coming to work every day, you know This isn't an off week or a week to be laxadaisical, you know, you start preparing It's extra week to prepare for the first game So then we're coming to work and do what we do every day and go out here practice hard Get a good day of working and get the film in and be ready and gain something from the day not just lose the day


Teachers in loop are presented with an empty loop course page for each of your modules for the upcoming academic year. These have been auto-created from information in ITS and Course Builder. You will need to manually import content from last year's course to the new one. It is a straightforward process that only requires a few clicks. Your new class of students will only have access to the new course, and last year's students will have access to last year's course. That is why you cannot use last year's courses for this year. You must import your content into your new empty courses. On your loop dashboard, find the new empty course for the upcoming year. Make sure your filter is set to All, except removed from View. Additionally, make sure you are viewing all courses, and not just 12. If you are having difficulty locating your new empty course, switch to List View, which might make it easier to find. If you still cannot find it, use the Course Search feature to see if it has been auto-created. If it appears in the search results, it means it is available on loop, but perhaps you are not enrolled as a teacher. However, if it does not appear in these search results, it means it has not been auto-created. Remember, if you have a module running for the first time in the upcoming academic year, or a module returning having been previously inactive, it won't have been auto-created on loop. If either of these situations apply, visit dcu.ie forward slash iss and log a ticket with the iss helpdesk. If you do already have access, go to your new empty loop course for the upcoming academic year. Remember to check the academic year is correct in the title. From the Actions menu gear icon on the right-hand side, choose Import. A list of courses appears. These courses are those that you are enrolled on as a teacher. It is not a list of every course on loop. You will only see those that you should have access to. Select last year's course from the list. If it is not there, use the search field to locate it.  In the search results, choose the radio button to select it. Then choose Continue. The default import settings on this screen should suit your needs, but do deselect anything else that you do not need to bring across. Choose Next. You are now presented with the list of all activities and resources from last year's course. It is a good idea to scan through the list and deselect all of the activities and resources you no longer need. Some resources may be out of date, or some files may no longer be relevant. Use this as an opportunity for a quick cleanup of your content. This means your students for the upcoming year will have a fresh lean loop course to access. Make sure to also deselect the items at the top of the list, because these will have already been added during the creation of the new empty course. You may also want to delete your assignments and quizzes and other continuous assessment items, and take the opportunity to design new ones, which is good for supporting students' academic integrity, and helps avoid confusion for yourself, not having old assignments mixed in with new ones. At the bottom of the screen, choose Next. You now need to confirm and review the content you wish to import. If you have left something out, you can go back and select it by using the previous button at the bottom of the screen. It's also important to note that you can import at any stage during the year, so if during the semester you realise something from last year's course is useful, you can use the Import function again to import it from last year to this year's course. Choose Perform Import when ready. Depending on how much content you have chosen to import, it might take a few minutes for the import to occur. Do not select anything on the page or navigate away from Loop. After some time has elapsed, you will receive a success message telling you that the import is complete, so choose Continue to return to your course. Scan through your course page, making sure the activities and resources are in the correct sections. You may need to move some of them around or retitle them and so on. You can make changes like that by turning on editing mode. There are a few other configurations you should make after importing your content and activities. You should configure the contacts block by putting in your name, your office hours and your contact details and your picture. With editing turned on, choose to configure the contacts block. Type your details directly into the text field. When updating your profile photo, you can either link to your photo on the DCU website if you have one, or directly upload a photo. Just make sure that the photo file is not too large, otherwise it will not display properly. Before uploading, resize it to make sure it is about 150 pixels wide. Choose the placeholder image, and then choose the image button on the toolbar. If linking to your DCU website photo, go to your profile page on the website, right-click on the photo, and then copy image address. Then, back in the loop window, paste the address in the URL field. Also be sure to update the alt text to describe the image. If you prefer to upload a photo from your computer, instead, choose browse repositories and upload a file. Then, choose an image file from where it is saved on your computer, and then upload the file. Whichever method you choose, make sure to choose save image to save your profile photo to the contacts block. When the contacts block is updated, choose save changes to return to the loop page. You might also want to edit the template module handbook here with your own modules details. With editing turned on, open the handbook. Use the cog icon in the table of contents block to edit a particular chapter in the handbook. For example, you might want to enter your learning outcomes, or your reading list. The default text in each of these chapters are instructions for you as the teacher, so be sure to check each chapter and edit appropriately so students don't see this instructional text. In particular, you should populate the assessment chapter of the handbook. Use the table to summarise the assessments on your module so that students can see all their assessment expectations in one place. After making changes to a chapter, use save changes and then use the breadcrumb trail to return to the loop module page. You might also want to set up any continuous assessment items at the start of the semester, such as loop assignments or quizzes. You don't necessarily have to have your quiz questions ready to go, for example, but even just setting up the activities and configuring the due date will be a big help for students. These due dates will appear in their loop calendars and their loop timelines, so it will help them in planning the semester ahead. Configuring these dates will also populate the multi-tag timeline report, which allows teachers across a programme to see upcoming deadlines for all modules associated with that programme. This is useful for you and colleagues to map assessment load and scheduling for all of your students. You can add assignments and quizzes by choosing add an activity or resource and selecting the one you wish. You can then populate the relevant details. Information on how to configure particular activities is available on the loop staff support page, which is accessible from the loop top menu. Another block on your loop page is the library guide block. Most pages will come with a link to a subject library guide, but if your block does not have a pre-populated link, you should insert it. The full list of library guides can be found on the library website. With editing turned on on your loop page, choose to configure the library guide block. Select the words school library guide and then choose the hyperlink icon. Copy and paste the subject guide URL from the library website. Choose create link and then choose save changes. The default loop module page template has been designed according to universal design for learning principles. You can find more information about this on the TEU website, dcu.ie forward slash teu under the learning design menu. Lastly, don't forget that you also need to set the start date and end date for your course and you can do that by going to the actions menu and choosing edit settings. Then select the start date, which should be from when the module commences and then enable the end date, which should be whenever the module concludes. This means that students will see their courses and their own dashboard as either in progress, future or past. It doesn't prevent access to the course, however, it just helps students to organize their dashboard. Save the changes at the bottom of the screen to return to your loop course. Full information on how to use loop to support teaching and learning is available on the loop staff support page. If you have any questions, please feel free to join one of our regular loop dropping clinics on Zoom, which are found in the TEU events calendar, which itself can be located on the loop staff support page. Alternatively, you can log a ticket at dcu.ie forward slash ISS.


Yeah, so my mandate is to scale up business and reach a 1k company soon. So, for which we have we have present the plan to board and just been approved. We are working on four SS, the first is simplification, the second is strengthen our board, third is synergy and fourth is scaling up. In terms of simplification, we are looking at our current processes, the way we are working, how can we simplify and can do more, because as we scale up our operation we need to have appetite to do more than what we have been doing. We are looking at strengthening our portfolio, focus on strengthening our brand in our core market and strengthening our talent. In terms of creating synergy, we are reviewing our processes, we are reviewing our portfolio, so that the brand is synergized and consumer find up USP compelling enough to try and scale oil to the brand. And we have worked on a scale up plan, we have significantly increasing our investments, we have already made investment in terms of infrastructure and also increasing our capability to take decision which is AI enabled or data driven decisions here. VeryMix has expanded its portfolio from a green classic soap which all of us know, it has moved up to a value added range where we have wide range of product like glycerine kumkumadi. We have expanded our soap portfolio to body washes, in fact our body wash range gets exported a larger portion of body wash contribution come from export markets. From a body wash to body care, we have launched VeryMix body lotion and we have launched face wash range. Our face wash anti pimple face wash is our cut selling product with because it provides relief in 3 day, it has been one of our success story in the extension of VeryMix. VeryMix is today providing Ayurvedic solution in various consumer products. Cuticular portfolio has expanded from our presence in TAL, now we are present in deodorant and also in soap. We are expanding our portfolio into various markets and I am very happy to let you know that our contribution from non TAL portfolio will very soon exceed our TAL contribution. Our organization has been growing with high double digit release in past. We have rolled out a 1K plan where we aspire to touch 1000 crore in the near future. We have identified portfolio, identified markets and key growth levers. So, with that plan being rolled out, we are looking at touching high double digit growth in the next 4-5 years and realize our dream to become 1000 crore in the future.