Well, hello, everyone. This is Byron King with the Critical Materials Corner with Investor Intel. I have Jack Lifton, who many of you I'm sure know. And today we have John Cash, who runs a company called Or Energy. UR Energy, trades on the New York Stock Exchange, URG, or Toronto, URE. He's in the, if you can't figure this out yet, Uranium Business, which is a hot, hot, hot business. My goodness. I'll even say a bad joke. It's getting radioactive. Terrible. John is a graduate of the University of Missouri at RALA with an undergrad and a master's degree. One of the great geology and mining schools of America. He knows a lot of things. John, you know, give us, give us really just a one or two minute shot about what is Or Energy doing, you know, Uranium in Wyoming, and what else do we need to know? Yeah, absolutely. And thank you for having me on. But yeah, UR Energy, we have two flagship projects that everyone should know about. First is our Lost Creek Mine. It's been up and running for over eight years. We've produced about 2.7 million pounds of U308 in that time period. It's been a prolific producer, fantastic recoveries in a very low cost. Our recovery rates are about 90%, which is setting records for the industry. Our second property is our Shirley Basin property. And we have all the permits in place for that. It's a brownfield project. So a lot of the infrastructure is there, but we still need to build out the plant when the market signal allows. So we're really excited about that. A lot going on in the nuclear industry, as you've indicated. And we're ready to ramp up both of those facilities and get them back into production. So with that, I'll turn it back to you, Byron. Okay, thanks. To listeners and viewers out there, Or Energy has an excellent website. They have a great presentation. It's nice and fresh. And they have a really nice video on how their process works. But real real quickly, I want to distinguish here that you're doing what's called insight to recovery, which is not strip mining, it's not underground mining, and it's not fracking like, you know, we're going to pump it down and pressure it up. You literally dissolve the uranium out of the rock. Can you expand on that a little bit? Yeah, you know, the environmental side of it went ahead. Yeah, absolutely. It's a Latin term called in situ, which means in the place. So yeah, Byron, as you said, we don't strip off the ground or overburden. All we do is we install wells, standard water wells, four and a half inch ID PVC casing. And in those wells, some of the wells we will inject a fairly benign solution of baking soda, a CO2 and oxygen, and it's an alkaline, a near neutral pH solution that dissolves the uranium minerals in the ground. And then we have an adjacent well about 100 feet away that has a pump in it. And it will create a negative pressure with that pump pull that's uranium latent solution up that well and send it to a processing plant. We remove the uranium and then pump the same solution right back out, recycle it right back out to the well field to continue to remove that uranium from the ore body. You know, if I sent you a picture of it right now, we've got deer and elk and antelope out playing out there. There's grass. You wouldn't even know that it's a mine. It just looks like little beehives about every 100 feet. And so the impact is absolutely minimal. And when we're done, the area is released. It can be used for a school, a hospital, free release. It can be used for anything. You can't even tell we've been there. So fantastic technology. So the ESG side is very positive and no toxic chemicals, no emissions of water, CO2, baking soda, which people brush their teeth with, stuff like that. And you're not going to create a superfund site, are you? No, absolutely not. Very benign process. Very good. Mr. Jack Lifton, you have been following metals and mines for a long time. I want to embarrass you and say how long, but I'm sure you have a question for Mr. Johnny Cash here. First, I want to make a point about perspective here. The world produces a couple of billion tons a year of ores and metals. That's true. Less than 1% of them comprise almost everything in our age of technology. And some of them have unique descriptions. Gold, silver, platinum, et cetera. Those are reported in troy ounces. Uranium is reported in pounds, not tons. It sounds very impressive, a million pounds, 500 tons, right? 500 tons is probably the daily production of copper to small copper mine. But the importance of uranium is outstanding. And what I'd like to ask you is, is the U.S. dependent on imports for our uranium needs? Because we do operate about 25% of the world's civilian power reactors. Yeah, unfortunately, the U.S. is nearly 100% reliant on imports of uranium. The reason for that, and we have a lot of resources here, we have over a billion pounds of known resources in the U.S., and we have mills we have in situ mines that are sitting by idly. The challenge is here in the U.S., we have trouble competing with state-owned enterprises, specifically in two countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. And those countries, they have relatively lax environmental standards. The government supports the mines. And we take those things into consideration. You know, also taking into consideration the currency devaluation that they have. For example, in Kazakhstan, they pay their employees in their currency of a tanga, and then they turn around and they sell the uranium and U.S. dollars to U.S. companies. It is very difficult to compete with companies like that. So that's put the U.S. and other Western allies, including Canada, at a distinct disadvantage when we're trying to compete with those entities. So is there any hope that the U.S. could ever become self-sufficient in uranium? Self-sufficient? Probably not. But could we dramatically increase our production in the U.S. and maybe get up to 30, 40, maybe even 50 percent of our needs here in the U.S.? Yeah, we could. Within a few years, we could do that because there is a lot of capacity out there. The resources are there and they're built out. A lot of that is ready to go into production within two or three, four years. So yeah, we could get there. We could take a big bite of it, but we would need to continue to rely on our Western allies, Australia and Canada in particular, to help us round out that demand. Isn't your increase in supply really price-driven at this point? Yeah, it really is. If I could, Jack, I'm going to go back to the cost competitiveness of U.S. versus state-owned enterprises. A few years ago, we submitted a section 232 petition to the Department of Commerce and asked them to investigate the impact of uranium imports on national security, and they did that and they came out with a positive report for us. But part of that report that we put together, we asked our lead engineer to assess the cost of production of our Lost Creek Mine if we uprooted it from the U.S. and we plunked it down in Kazakhstan with their environmental standards. He did that, and the analysis showed that our production cost would be reduced by $9.28 a pound, but simply by doing that. To put it into context, at that time, the price of uranium was only about $33 a pound. So you can see a major component of the cost in the U.S. is driven by EHS, Environmental Health and Safety. We're proud of that. We're not suggesting we should change that. But the challenge is our competitors don't live in that world. So that makes it almost impossible for us to compete. Along those lines of price, when we talk about uranium, most people, like virtually everybody, never buys uranium.  And in fact, even as I'm a mineral collector, it's very hard to get uranium minerals. I mean, they were tough to do. But the people who do buy it, there's really two prices. There's sort of that spot price that you mentioned. And then there's what these utilities pay. I mean, if you're an electric utility company, you're thinking 10 and 15 years out. And so there are two different prices. Can you explain that to the viewers out there? Why that's important? Why that matters? Right, absolutely. So the U.S. utilities that have nuclear power plants, those are massive capital expenditures. And they really need, from a business perspective, got to keep that energy flowing from those power plants. So security of supply to them is of paramount importance. The fuel only represents probably about six, seven, eight percent of their operating costs. It's a very small percentage. So they really need that fuel. And because of that, they're going to sign long term contracts to give them reliability of that supply. So they don't run out of material. And those long term contracts typically will be anywhere from three, maybe even up to as high as 10 years in length, because they want that security of supply. Most of the market trades in the long term. A small percentage trades on the spot where you do contracts for just, and you'll sell it within days or weeks or months to the buyer. And typically it's the traders that play in that field, just moving mobile inventories around in that respect. But yeah, the utilities and most of the market is in that long term basket. And that's what we as a company, we like to play in that basket. So can you expand on that a little bit in terms just more energy specifically? What are you trying to focus on? Or what are you focusing on now to really sort of generate some cash to turn this into a long term business? What's your strategy for selling the product here? Yeah, absolutely. So number one, we need to de-risk it for the utility customers. We want them to have confidence in us. And I think we've got a fantastic record shows that we can produce, but we want to continue to bolster that reputation. So we're out there now drilling, constructing, being ready, trying to de-risk the projects as much as we possibly can. And one of the things we're doing also to de-risk is we're not going to just sit here and wait for the price to come to us. We've got active research and development projects ongoing. We refer to those in our reports. We don't give much detail. We're keeping some things secret. But we're working on those projects to try to drive down our cost of production. We don't expect we're ever going to compete with Kazakhstan. But can we make it cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and get down to a price where the utilities feel that they can contract with us? Yeah, absolutely. We're working hard there. We're not going to sit on our laurels. We're going to try to get down to that price. But yeah, try to de-risk it. We want to sign long-term contracts. We don't want to put our capital at risk by selling into the spot market, which is very volatile. It's great one day and poor the next. So we don't want to risk the capital selling into that. We want those long-term contracts, four, five, six, seven, eight year contracts to be able to justify the expenditure of the capital. What's the cash position of the company right now in terms of your ability to move ahead and wait for your pitch, so to speak? Yeah, absolutely. Beginning of last month, we had over $44 million in cash. So we've got a good war chest there. In addition to that, we've got some inventory that we can sell, 284,000 pounds of drummed yellow cake sitting at the conversion facility. We would be tempted to sell that on the spot market if it got attractive enough. Otherwise, we're going to wait for the U.S. government. They're setting up a program to purchase uranium from domestic producers. And we feel we could probably get a little better price there than on the spot market. So that's our cash position. We do have an ATM in place. In the past, we've drawn down some on. In the future, we might continue to draw down on that a little bit. But our needs, our burn rate is small. So our needs are small going forward. What is the current uranium price versus what it was in the past? Yeah, you bet. So yesterday on trade tech, it closed at $61.25 on the spot. But do keep in mind that that's a very small percentage of the market, but it's kind of a leading indicator of where the long-term price is going to go. The long-term price is slow in keeping up with that. So the long-term price, we're still in the low to mid-40s on the long-term price. And we'll see if that eventually catches up with spot.  You know, U308, and it's in a certain form. Just to sort of enlighten the viewers out there in the listings. What happens to that stuff? How does that barrel of yellow stuff turn into electricity down at the nuclear power plant? I mean, we're not going to get into a whole engineering subject. What does your product get turned into? Yeah, so there are a few more steps after the mining process. So yeah, we ship it in drums. It's filled with this yellow powder called yellow cake. It's called yellow cake because it looks exactly like a yellow cake mix. And we'll send that to a conversion facility. Typically, our company, we've sent it to Converdyne in Metropolis, Illinois. So they take our product, yellow cake. The chemical form is U308, and they convert it to uranium hexafluoride, UF6. And then from there, they will send it on to Enrichment, typically down in New Mexico. Urenco has a plant down there. And at that point, we move transition from chemical processing to physical processing because at Enrichment, they are enhancing the ratio of uranium 235, that isotope, with respect to uranium 238. And once they've got that enriched between 4 and 5%, they'll send that on to fuel fabrication, which is where they make the pellets. And then from there, it'll go to a nuclear power plant to be burned to produce electricity. Well, Jack, did you have a last question? Yes. The supply chain you're talking about doesn't include the U.S. government. So what you're talking about, the capacity we have the United States to convert yellow cake to useful fuel for civilian reactors. Where are they getting, this is where, what are we buying from Kazakhstan, Russia, Canada? Are we buying yellow cake? So it comes in every form to the U.S. Every utility buys it in a different form. It can come in as yellow cake. It can come in as uranium hexafluoride in the converted stage. Or in the case of Russia, it generally comes in in the form of enriched product. So it comes across into the country in every form you can imagine for either to be used in the power plant fairly directly after fuel path or to jump into that chain of processing anywhere along the way. And that's my question. Is the processing supply chain in the United States have sufficient capacity to handle our needs or must we buy, for example, downstream product from Russia? Yeah, absolutely not. We don't have the supply chain here in the U.S. From the mining perspective, we talked about that a little bit earlier. We could probably get up to maybe 50% supply that to the U.S. Fill 50% of demand.  They are working on restarting that. They hope to restart it next year. But today, as we sit here right now, we have zero capacity for conversion in the U.S. Then you move on to the next stage, enrichment. Right now, there is only one enrichment plant in the U.S., down in New Mexico, and it's owned by Urenco. Urenco is not a U.S. company. It is a conglomerate of three countries, the Netherlands, Germany, and the U.K. that own Urenco. So they can produce uranium products for civilian use, but they are polluted from the Non-Proliferation Treaty from producing enriched material for defense needs. So we have limited capacity in the U.S. to fill our civilian needs. We have virtually no capacity in the U.S. today for defense needs. We have no conversion, and we have no enrichment, because all of that has to be U.S.-based, U.S.-owned, and today, we have none. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. We can talk about this all day, and maybe we will some other time, but for now, this was an investment discussion for readers and viewers out there. It's OR Energy, URG on the New York, URE on the Toronto. They're doing primary, uranium development in Wyoming in an environmentally benign way. Mr. John Cash was kind enough to give us some of his time, and certainly some of his knowledge, which obviously is quite deep and extensive to help us become better investors. And with that, thank you, Jack, and certainly thank you, John. We wish you well. All of your UR team and everyone with whom you work out in Wyoming. So roll on. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks.


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Good morning creative community and welcome back to Stanford University in beautiful Palo Alto, California My name is Savannah Peterson delighted to be here celebrating international women's day with you at the women in data science Worldwide annual event here on campus 400 fabulous attendees here with us in person today with thousands around the world in 57 different countries virtually But most importantly, I'm excited to introduce our third guest joining us here today from Lima Peru Mariana, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me Quite a journey for you coming up from South America our first South American guest on the show You've been a part of the Whits community now for three years You started as a volunteer as an usher. You were just telling me. Yeah, and now this year you get to come back as an ambassador What is what does that mean? What does the community mean to you? It act like if I can start by telling you like the story of how I ended up with Whits so I was like in the very start of my data science career at university and I heard about like the Whits community because my professors are also ambassadors So they were doing already like some events with Whits every single year and I wanted to like know more about it And I happened to have family that live close by so I was like like coincidentally close to the dates that they were having like one of their conferences and I wanted to be here, but like all the tickets were sold out and I asked if there was like some chance that I could come and Yeah, and they offered me this volunteering opportunity so I would be like an usher and also tend to the conference which was Amazing because I got to meet so many people that were already like ahead in their careers in data science And it was truly like an inflection point where I was like Oh, I really love this path and I love what I'm doing How important is it to meet people a few steps further down their journey in in data science But really for any woman in technology, I feel like it just gives you like Options of what you could do in the future like it shows you That maybe it's not that hard to go for that decision in one job or like aspiring at some like academic position like there are so many pasts and like it gives you like a range of things that you could do at some point and It's more about like what you want to try what you're more interested in so I think it really it's inspiring because you see other people doing it Yeah, and you see them applying data science in a lot of different verticals in a lot of different ways Every time I come to one of these shows I'm like you I see a new application or a different way that AI is going to change Our future and it's really it's really inspiring. It's super exciting You you seem so confident on your journey now When you were younger, how did you identify science as a path you wanted to take it was actually pretty tough thing for me Yeah, because Like at school like we have this regular test where you are like before going to uni decide like which major you're gonna be in Yeah, and I was very confused and I was like, oh, maybe I should do something like with letters because I'm really like Like always the social impact. It's always caught my attention. So I wanted to do something related to that and I didn't really know like where Which path because like there are many that kind of take you there But I wanted something at the same time that could be very practical, you know, like for example coding It's really direct and you can see like the results as you learn how to code as you learn how to apply certain techniques So I kind of find it through like while I was in uni I took some elective courses that allow me to see like the different courses that they were having in the like the Major and also something that I really like about my university is that they have As we are not that big of a class You always have the chance to talk with like graduates that already went through the whole program And you always have the chance to like contact them or talk with your professors and kind of see what you know Which path you could be yeah, and even though there's like a regular curriculum for everybody You could kind of go through the The directions that you like the most yeah, and do those life design interviews with folks to see how that hand out into their career You mentioned that the classroom was very intimate that helps your learning journey You also mentioned that your major is relatively new. Yeah Go on so this is a major that probably what is your major to speak? Oh, so in Spanish it's like the translation will be something like information engineering but we see a lot of like machine learning deep learning data science topics and It's a very small like I mean they're constantly having like new majors as well But like this one is one of the most recent compared to like the other old older majors last economics and administration and my university at its core it's like a business school and You know data is so important for any kind of business and even for like countries to like analyze them and get insights That could be helpful for making the shit decisions. That's exciting Just do you feel like there's a lot of support from your university? Yeah, because it is anyone there must there's got to be a lot of excitement Yeah, I mean you're studying something that's right at the peak of the hype curve. It's pretty awesome in addition to machine learning and data science you Also, well this involves that but you have a really interesting personal passion project that I want to bring up that matters Here on the cube We had the pleasure of interviewing the deaf and hard of hearing group at CNCF the cloud native foundation at KubeCon back in Chicago earlier this year and we'll hopefully again in Paris in the next couple of weeks Peruvian sign language is a project that you're building something around tell us about that Yes, so I as I was mentioning before I was always like brought up to like social you know problems that could be happening at a community and When we were having our decision for like our final project, this is a Paris Project, so I also have a teammate called Luis Las Arte and we are both doing this for our final project of our major Wow and you know we found in common that we really wanted to do something with social impact and We we having like a brainstorming of different ideas that we could do of like problems that are happening right now in Peru and Something that it's going on right now is that there's not that much accessibility for like deaf people and you know there are more than 30 300 like sign languages around the world, so like each country has its own and we decided to like go with it and Something that we also were really interested in it's not just like bringing a solution and you know just because we like to Code about it right but to understand and to have that empathy for the community from the deaf community and understanding if they actually need that and we kind of what what we have frame it is the system as Learning support for people that want to learn sign language Because you know when you're learning sign language is not like you can write notes about it and like okay You're gonna do the sign like this way like you have to practice it Right and because it's so be suggestive that you really have to be like actually like doing it and you know Having that feedback if it's correct or not, right, so we limited it to the Peruvian sign language alphabet because it's like an undergraduate project and It's also because we only have like a year for making the whole thing and we're in the last Mile almost we have the deadline for July, so we are working on that right now. That's so exciting What's the reception been like in the Peruvian deaf and hard of hearing community when you talk to them about this project? So we actually had an interview with Adelaida Riva de Neira. She's we have something I don't know if it applies also for the US, but we have something some term called like linguistic System and basically is a deaf person that also is in charge of teaching sign language So we had an interview with her and her interpreter Because we at this point we don't know how to communicate fluently in sign language So we got to understand like the pains that they have and how it is very hard to like go to a hospital or a bank and Having to communicate because people don't know Peruvian sign language and there's not always somebody that could be there for you Yeah, so and even for schools like even for like middle schools and high schools. There are not enough Professors and no sign language. So that's why we want something that could help But like from our side because it's like our commitment as community to also help others to feel more involved Absolutely, do you think that AI ML data science are gonna be tools that we can use for great improvements and accessibility over the next few years? Definitely, I feel like especially because for example having a person like Like for essential it's very hard like and you know for the number of people that need these kind of services like to be like Some kind of translator or like to have the accessibility. It's going to be hard to have it like one one one Yeah, so I'm in that case I feel like machine learning and artificial intelligence really helps to make it a little bit more massive and To reach out the communities that actually need it. Absolutely. Have you learned some Peruvian sign language as a result of this project? Yeah, I remember how to say um, I always remember show us So this is October and and it's really typical because it's like you're Like, you know taking something because in October we have this like party to senor de los milagros It's like religiously and it's kind of like mixed it up. So you can do like if you're like I don't know how to say it, but it's an Espanol Can I say in Spanish? Okay? I Una costumbre del señor de los milagros que hay una procesión entonces llevan el landa como si estuvieran Llevando la procesión del señor de los milagros. Oh, yeah, so yeah, you got some it's a beautiful parade It's a procession behind you. Yeah related to something from our country. Yeah, so that's what makes it unique And I love that too. Yeah, everyone would know. Yeah. Oh, that's so cute I'm gonna remember that and I'm in Peru and I need to do some sign language We learned no and I learned at our session in Chicago that this is cloud We were at a cloud conference obviously, so I had them teach a little cloud Hopefully the audience can see that as well Wow really fun and beautiful. What a beautiful example. Thank you for sharing that You brought up something really fun. You're very passionate about About mentoring the next generation the same way that you came here and got inspired I love that you're you're empowering high schoolers. You're working with undergrads. You're doing data thons You you said something when we were getting prepped that caught my attention. He used an interesting data set in this last data Time it was Harry Potter data What was that like? What did that look like so when we make the first Python workshop? We kind of like wanted to introduce people to the weights data set the health care the data set But we saw like the reception of some students was like, okay, this is a huge data set It has so many columns So it's kind of hard if you are just starting to learn like just like see this massive data set and don't really know Where to start so what we were thinking is okay, maybe we can make it a little bit simpler and You know something that people can relate to it's like Harry Potter I found that data set on Kaggle Yeah, so I just adapted some things like you know, it was a really good data set Like it had it was reviews from from Harry Potter movies So you could have the like prediction if whether somebody would like it or not, right? And I kind of adapted it so I has missing values and you know kind of make it similar to the case of the width Data set. Yeah, so people could understand what kind of challenges that could find in another data set Kind of make it a comparison of what they could do. So with that I was very happy because when I presented it to the high school students, they were like, okay Now it makes sense like now I understand why for example There's there are two data sets come the train and the test and they were asking me like Oh, but I don't know why like in the test There's a missing column and you know it part of like the the challenge is to predict that missing column Right, but like sometimes if it's something like like concepts and like different, you know Like I feel I felt like in that moment It was like they were having so many new concepts thrown at them that they were very confused so with this Harry Potter example kind of simplified things and Kind of make a roadmap for them Makes it easier to talk about the pieces of the puzzle so to speak in a way That's when the lexicon isn't all new. Oh, I think that's really great And I think I think that's exciting. I can imagine there were some silly conversations, too If you're just listening around. Oh, that's that's so fun And and so did you feel like did you could you tell that that made it easier to approach some of these new concepts? Yeah, definitely. It was like I love that. Yeah, that that is absolutely fantastic Whoo, okay, so so what's next for you? So actually this is my last semester undergraduate and I'm well we have to finish our project so far we've done the data set of actually for the data set as there is And any like recording of Peruvian sign language at that point we are yeah Because if you compare it for example with the American sign language There are many data sets that you know you have that Accessibility to like try on them and like try your model But in the case of Peruvian sign language there isn't anything so we had to made it from scratch And we asked our friends to make the sign language for us So in this case as it is the alphabet, it's not very much complicated. Of course if we wanted to make like Like more complex sentences, we will need like actual People from the deaf community to to help us right but at this first phase that we are just focusing on the alphabet We ask help for our friends We memorize the whole alphabet and you know make them make different repetitions of of the signs so that would feed our Model. Oh my gosh. I absolutely love that. So so you and your community have have learned Peruvian sign language to train your models So that you wow that is awesome and also probably really eye-opening for your friends in terms of how to be More inclusive. Yeah. So what are you gonna do after you graduate? I'm planning on continuing on my machine learning path because I'm really into that topic. Yeah, and I also like computer vision So maybe doing something but always as I was mentioning you the social impact. I'm I'm very like brought to Whatever I do I wanted to make it for good like, you know having tech for good And I'm really like that's my motto right now. I love that. Okay. I have three questions for you to close us out Hopefully pretty short and sweet because this has been absolutely fantastic You are an inspiring Woman, I'm sure there are and you interact with a lot of I mean that and you interact with a lot of young people And and people at different ages and I don't I actually Don't like when we're ages so we talk about someone early in their career Someone could be older in their career and decide that they want to get involved in data science and machine learning Never a better time than right now to be in the industry What would be your advice to someone curious about getting started or just getting started in our space You know something that really helps is like finding that topic that you are passionate about like it could it could be harry potter It could be sign language. It could be anything you you are really interested in And once you have that it's easier to like kind of see in okay What has been done in this field? What techniques have been applied and kind of going like step by step into understanding Why is it being applied to it? Because you know in the range of different techniques that are in data science like ones are better for certain topics So if you kind of limit and you know, you have your own like thing that passionates more than most It will help you to not feel like you know like overflow with information So you have like something that you like and something that will let would let you like learn easier I I love that advice and I am definitely going to clip that out as a soundbite for folks listening because that's just it If if you're not into what the thing is it's going to feel even more overwhelming than it is already If you're applying this To to a concept that you already really love or one of the things that actually the production team and I were doing earlier today Was asking various llms to explain extremely high Uh, uh extremely deep and complex technological concepts to us like we're five year olds And it was really cute and and kind of hilarious But I think it's just that find find the thing you don't mind learning a lot about so when you're Faced with that information repeatedly.  I think that's an absolutely outstanding point Since it is international women's day and we are all obviously celebrating ourselves I do know there are plenty of people in the audience who are looking to be better allies to women like us What would your advice be to the allies out there on how they can empower women in data science? I think um It would be mainly like listen like sometimes We could be even in the same room But we are not really paying attention and I think it's to like be present and actually like pay attention to what's going on Your surroundings because the answer is there. It's just sometimes we we probably are not very Like there in the moment And you'll you will get the answers as well I like that. There's a lot that can be learned from listening and and actually processing No pun intended maybe pun intended actually processing that data and and hearing a woman's turning I think that's fantastic. Mariana. I could talk to you all afternoon. I'm inspired How can people follow along with the work that you're already doing right now with Peruvian sign language and everything else at school in Lima as well as with your future journey So um in my LinkedIn we will be um putting like all the updates right now We're still at the dataset preprocessing so it will take a while But hopefully for july we'll have some more news Fantastic. Well, I personally will be staying tuned and I'm sure a lot of our guests are mariana. Thank you so much for being here Thank you for bringing the heat We're grateful you're a part of the widths community that you've spent all the time here and as an ambassador This time around very exciting Thank all of you for tuning in to this fabulous great start to our all day coverage here at in Palo Alto, california at stanford university For women in data science worldwide Annual event here on international women's day. My name's savannah peterson You're watching the cube the leading source for empowering baddies in tech


Most trends are gonna run about 45 to 60 days. That's the lifespan of a trend. And in that moment, you have the opportunity to turn that into a hit record. So what I realized working with artists from roundups is when they experience this big growth. Some of them actually get weird and step back from everything and just don't do anything like, I've heard people say stuff like, man, I kept getting all these collars on TikTok and I just stopped going on TikTok for a while. Like, oh, that's unfair. But the frustrating thing, let's just say I've never done 100K streams before. All of a sudden, this thing in my mind goes crazy and I'm in like two million streams on the song, right? But you, Jacory, are like, bro, this should be 50 million streams. But they don't know that in that window is the difference between it being at 50 million and maybe 10 million or 20 million. Like it's like being in the zone in sports.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com. We did it. We filled the Texans versus Panthers Bounty Promotion. Tonight only, we filled it by the deadline and we filled the requisite amount of breaks and there were a few props that happened as well. So let's dive into it. I'm sure everybody read all the details here. So thank you everybody. So we had to do, there's the props right there. We had to do five of the nine breaks that were listed right here, right? We ended up doing these five right here. We did the chrome filler, the archives, the gold rush, the prism team all, pick your team one and the hit parade dual case break. So we kept track of that in the Carolina at Houston Bounty tab right here. Scroll over to the side right there. So there is the autograph jerseys that we did. All right, gold rush jerseys. There's the team all, pick your team one. There's the original list for the SIG series, archive SIG series two. There's the hit parade dual case break and there was the 25 spot bowman chrome filler right there. So that's a total of 131 names. Now that we got this done, then we had to see which props were unlocked in this break and three ended up unlocking here. So McCaffrey actually was injured, was knocked out of the game early. Sam Darnall had two rushing touchdowns but not throwing touchdowns, right? Not passing touchdowns. Robbie Anderson only had one catch. I thought that was gonna be a lock. The total was actually under. So that under hit, which means $500 break credit being given away. The first touchdown was not McCaffrey, DJ Moore, Mark Ingram, I forgot who it was, but it wasn't those three. There was no defensive or special teams touchdown. There was no safety and it went under 38 points. 24 to nine, 33 total on that. So that's good. And the prop that did hit, believe it or not, Davis Mills did throw a touchdown in the game. That's $200 break credit. He had over 150 passing yards. I think he had 160 something. And then the total was under. So we're going, and so we're gonna go in order. We're gonna give away the break credit in order. So top name will get the 200. Second name will get 100. And the third name, because of the under, gets $500 break credit. So let's do that randomized. Let's go back to this list right here. Let's grab everybody's names. So it's a total of 131 names. New dice, new list. And it will be the, once again, the top three in that order, top three get break credit after six and a five, 11 times. So you have to sweat it out for 11 times on the randomizer. Good luck. One, two, three. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11th and final time. After 11, top three get money. In fact, number three, which is somewhat unusual when we do promos like this, but number three, this is the fun part about the bounties, gets the most break credit. But sad times for everybody here. Thanks everyone for giving this a shot. I appreciate everybody getting in. Hopefully we got you some hits instead. But thank you. Now the worst one is number four. That's the close but no cigar spot. Oh Brody, very close, no cigar. Thank you though. Thanks everybody. Appreciate everybody getting in. Congrats to the spot three, $500 of break credit. That's Nick Stover. Congrats to you. More money. And Karen, you get some money. Thanks to that allure spot that you won a spot that got you into that hit parade hockey break. And Mike Tower. So congrats to the top three, Mike, Karen and Nick. There you go, Mike, and we'll email this to you. Mike, you'll get $200 of break credit. You can thank Davis Mills for throwing a touchdown. Karen, you're gonna get $100 break credit. You can thank Davis Mills for throwing over 150 passing yards. And Nick, you can thank both the Texans and the Panthers for not scoring more than 38 points. They ended up scoring only 33. So $500 break credit going your way. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for participating in this promo. It's football season. Some of you may remember us doing these bounty promos last year. So I think we're gonna start, you're gonna start seeing more of these, maybe not every Thursday, but a number of Thursdays. I think we're gonna start to see more of these fun little bounty promos to help fill breaks, to give away some money, to watch the game together at the same time, and see what props hit. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Now, I am going to tell you the how to troubleshoot our clicker software ok, already we have explained two session the same session was happen how to configure clicker software in your server I am correct I think we have send you the form regarding how many of them they have installed properly how many of them having a error to install our software, but according to that of the people they have still they have a facing problem to troubleshoot some errors like proper way of connecting a database connections creating a database and putting a dump into the server. So, I like to explain some way what are the errors most of the people getting and then how to solve that error ok, the first one most of the people getting the problem with HTTP status 500 actually it is a problem because of whatever request you are giving it is not able to respond that is the main problem it mean that when you are goes to that co-read a registration link. So, what will happen you are not properly configure the database. So, that is a problem it shows it is not able to response the your request. So, what you have to do first step you have to just you have to properly configure the database connection that is a very important and one more thing I like to tell you sure you have to use database username and password as clicker underscore ui everything is small it is very much it is very carefully you have to note it down and one more thing first you have to go to terminal and you have to check whether you have properly created the username clicker underscore ui as less you have given the password as clicker underscore ui. So, for checking that one just you give the command as mysql space hyphen u space clicker ui space hyphen p. So, it will ask you a password try to give the same password clicker underscore ui if it shows error it mean that you have wrongly created the username or password. So, what you have to do again you log in with root so, you have to drop the username already if exist ok. So, what you have to do drop user clicker underscore ui at local host. So, what it will do if you have wrongly created username as clicker underscore ui it will drop the username again you can go for creating the same with correct password ok. Then you have to create a new the same username password with clicker underscore ui create user clicker underscore ui the same command you have to use it will it will help you to create a username clicker underscore ui it is a main thing you have to create the username as clicker underscore ui and another one after that then please try to check you have properly dump the database for command my sql the from root only you have to dump the our sql dump. So, it is a very important you have you have the database remote aka clicker it is carrying all your coordinated details and your institute details. So, you supposed to have this database then after that give a privileges it is very important. So, many people what they are doing they have dump your my sql after they are forgot to give the privileges without privileges you cannot able to access any data inside the database. So, what it will do after when you going to registration page in a drop down it will never come your remote center name and ID. So, it will not proper registration will not happen.  Then after database dump and then privileges given you have to yeah fine sorry ok. These are the steps when the username and password is incorrect in my sql ok if it is login successfully. So, it mean that you have already created a username and password correctly, but you may miss something what is that that is a giving a dump as well as privileges the same step 2 a3 that this one ok. This two step you have to follow if you have login successfully with clicker underscore ui username as well as password ok if it is not you have to create drop the user then create a user then you have to dump then give a privileges if login successful with the same username password then you have to create a dump then you go for giving a privileges. Is the first error you are facing when you get the error HTTP status 500 no second way what is happening some people is properly able to go to this page it will give a error when you are it will not pop up the remote center from the remote center name whatever you are typing it will automatically come it will be popped down from that only you have to select. So, if it is not coming it mean that you are not giving a privileges for your database. So, if you are not given a privileges so it you never get the data from your database. So, it will never get pop up here then so for that what you have to do the simple thing you have to give a privileges so it if it goes that page it mean that you properly created a database and properly you have dumped everything only the missing thing is you are not given a privileges then you have to restart the MySQL server then next is a when only very few people will get this kind of error ok. So, actually what what happened first of all I I want to ask you sorry for this one it is because of our side. So, what happened you have downloaded the our war file at 11 o'clock I am correct at the time of presentation at Friday I think so that time what happened at 10 o'clock 10 30 we have uploaded on war that was some error who are all downloaded that war file that people only will face this kind of error. So, if you are facing this this error it mean that you have downloaded the world war try to replace with new war before session itself we have we have tell them to replace the war who are all downloaded previously. So, if you are if you are not if you are not forgot to change the dump just please try to use the new war still it is available in moodling. So, what you have to do simple all the steps you have to follow first you have to remove the x already available in available war ok. So, for that simply you have to go to the command term and then you have to remove the war file as well as folder which was created when you are starting the Tomcat. After removing the war file you have to copy the new war file first we have to go to the folder where you are where the current the new war is available ok after that from that just go to the just you have to copy war into the web apps folder which is available in Tomcat. Then simply you have to restart the Tomcat after that it will work fine after when you are replacing only war it will work fine ok ok. Some people will get everything will work fine so, here you can see the message waiting for main center instructor so, if you are getting it mean that you are properly connected with our main IIT server ok. Some people will get the error like you are not connection refused you are not problem with your internet or IIT server is down. If you are getting that error it is a problem with your side of connecting with IIT server you have to check your internet connection that is the only problem. Some people will not get the institute name it is very much mandatory you supposed to get your institute name here if you are not getting the institute name it mean that what you will get that quiz when you are launching here you can able to answer the response will send to IIT we can collect the response, but in response we does not know it is responses from which remote center it is will be unknown remote center so, please avoid that one for that you have it will problem will come when there will be when you are selecting a remote center pop down will come, but some people what they are doing instead of selecting from that one they are type they are manually so, what will happen it will not match with the data it is a present in database so, what you have to do you have to the two cases are there one is manually you are typing the remote center another one some people already using existing one the world war which one we have uploaded 10 30 year around so, that people also some people will login successfully, but they will not get the remote center name so, same you have to replace the war the same steps you have to delete the existing war then you have to copy the new wars then one more thing you have to do that is you have to remove the coordinator already we have strictly followed that only one person can login for your our application currently we are not giving a more people to login so, for that already you was login so, we you suppose to delete that entry in your database so, for that you have to go to MySQL with the same database same username click underscore UI then you have to choose our database remote aka slicker after that you have to delete the coordinator table simple steps if you are follow this full line of code it will drop the entries which is available already you have registered so, again so, I tell you what will happen in our coordinator table we will have a one feel like matching with your institute ID so, it will be 0 so, that is why it shows nothing in the institute ID so, you if you are dropping that data only you will get go for press registration so, what you have to do you have to delete the coordinator table then you have just restart the server after that that one will do that is it then you can go for registration again these are the three problem the people almost facing another one problem people what is that that is that connection is not happened with IIT that is the it will not get the message like waiting for main center instructor if you are not get you are not getting this message it mean that you are not connect your internet connection is problem with your side in our side all in 24 into 7 our server will be in run mode only so, only few time when we are restarting and when we are changing our application that time only it will be it will be in a just block mode so, every time we will be in running mode only so, we our side we will not get any problem so, check your net connection and one more thing some people you are using proxy getting lot of problem still I am actually I have send you the form out of that form I getting 150 responses in this 150 off of the people they are using proxy, but it is working properly, but when I am getting call from the people technical people they are telling we are using proxy it is not working when you are removed when you are bypassing the proxy it is working fine with connected with IIT so, that one we are resolving that problem in next version sure we will get back with get back with you with proxy also that is the only thing it was happen then at almost people they are using proxy it work fine also it was connected with our IIT server.


Ukraine urgently redeploying Air Force fleet and personnel after Russian strikes. Kyiv urgently transports military equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian Air Force against the backdrop of Moscow strikes on Ukrainian military facilities, the Financial Times reported. According to the newspaper, Russia's increased attacks on targets deep within Ukraine appear to have one goal above all, destroying Kyiv's ability to launch the long-range missiles it is receiving from Western allies. Among other weapons, these include British storm shadow and French scalp missiles. Therefore, the publication writes, Ukrainian pilots are constantly shuttling around dozens of domestic air bases and commercial airports. It is noted that Moscow launched dozens of missiles this week, far into western Ukraine, targeting air bases, airstrips and a pilot training facility that are up to 1,000 km from the front line. Ukrainian officials said 28 cruise missiles were fired on the 15th of August alone, 16 of which were intercepted. The strikes are seen by Kyiv and its allies as part of a weeks-long effort to shatter Ukraine's runways and the fleet of bombers used to fire British storm shadow and French scalp missiles, according to people familiar with the matter. To avoid being hit, Ukraine is now racing to move around crucial weaponry and its skilled personnel officials said. Ukrainian pilots are constantly shuttling around dozens of domestic air bases and commercial airports.


So, welcome to LibreOffice Conference 2021. I'm really honored and it's a great pleasure to introduce this conference this year. Unfortunately, it is still online, and not in person, but as we were saying before, we hope to be able to have an in-person meeting next year. Let's hope so. In the meanwhile, I just wish you all to enjoy this conference, even if online. I can't say good morning because worldwide it's not morning everywhere. So, by the way, the very first session is the opening session. And I see all the speakers are connected and online. So, it's my, again, a pleasure to hand over to Italo Vignole, who is going to introduce the LibreOffice Conference 2021. Thank you. Morning, or have a nice day, everyone. Welcome to the LibreOffice Conference. Hopefully, your language is in this slide. Welcome, everyone, for three days with a lot of presentation. First, thanks to conference sponsors, Collabora and Allotropia, who are the two main sponsors, Linux Professional Institute. We will announce later the starting of a collaboration with Linux Professional Institute about certification and then Omnis Cloud and Carbone Io, who are also sponsoring the event. Thanks to them, although it's a virtual event, it is important to be backed by companies in any case. About the schedule, a few housekeeping information about the schedule, you can find the schedule at those links. At that link, you can download the mobile application for Android. To find the links, you can go to our blog during the last couple of days. We have published a post about the conference. You can find the active links there. In terms of streaming, we are streaming on YouTube and the conference website. The YouTube links are provided just before the starting of the conference. Please check them regularly and at least once a day as they might change. The current GC version does not work. This is for Mac OS users. It does not work with Safari. So if you have a Mac, you should use Firefox and Chrome. We have also discussion channels. The room channels are supposed to ask questions and comment the presentations. Then we have a main chat and we have a broadcast channel for the conference. The broadcast channel is only on Telegram, while the discussion channels are on Matrix, RLC, on Liberachat and Telegram. And now, switching to the information, a couple of numbers. There will be a session about the state of the project with more numbers tomorrow. This slide is from Statista. It's based on Analyst number. We are in 2021. As you see, our office with market is just over $25 billion. The estimate is that it will reach over $31 billion by 2025. It is this shows that it is a dynamic market. The growth is not huge, but is solid. And in any case, $30 billion is a quite significant figure. This slide is from September 2017 from a SpiceWork report. But Analyst numbers are more or less unchanged since then. As you can see, Open Source Productivity Suite have around 16% of market share. Of course, the numbers are higher than 100, because several users are using more than one software. But what is important is that the Open Source has quite an insizable market share. And based on recent discussion with Microsoft people, they have told, and this of course is not official, but it's just verbal, that LibreOffice is the most requested Open Source application from Windows 10 users. So this gives a good idea and a good perception of our positioning. And now let's talk about the project and the community. We had a last year, we had a rather large discussion about how the project is structured, managed, how it is sustained. So we have a big community and the community that are volunteers and there are ecosystem companies. Everyone, I would say that we are all important. Ecosystem companies are important because they allow LibreOffice to be in the enterprise world. Volunteers are important because they, and of course, by providing ecosystem companies, by providing features to the enterprise world also provide features to LibreOffice because their development is integrated into the master source code. Volunteers are extremely important because they are the active community of people contributing to LibreOffice. We have a large number of volunteers contributing to localizations. LibreOffice is the software that is localizing more languages worldwide, 119 available languages. We have volunteers contributing to documentation and documentation at the moment is following closely the announcement. We already have a couple of seven or two guys available just one or two months after the announcement and there is a large number of volunteers contributing to the user interface to graphic and doing marketing, doing advocacy at local level. Volunteers are key for the project and these are the numbers of the community based on our dashboard. So everyone can check these numbers over the last five years. As you, the blue bars are casual contributors, the purple bars are the regular contributors and the, I would say, reddish bars are the core contributors. As you can see, although there are seasonal variations, our community is rather stable. We have a number of regular and core contributors. We have a number of casual contributors that in some cases become regular or core in some cases do not but this is what is it with open source software. Some numbers to add that based on data from Git, ecosystem company sponsor developers provide 68% of activity on the source code and volunteers 28%. This is just quantity, it's not quality of course, the quality is outstanding for all contribution. Based on donation numbers, 90% are from individuals and 10% from small and medium businesses. This means that we don't have donations from large enterprise users and based on the data that we have, only less than 5% of all LibreOffice enterprise users and it looks like there are quite many are contributing back to the project and to contribute, they could donate, they could buy product or services from ecosystem companies and certified professionals. This does not happen as frequently as it should and this is one of the issue that we are facing and we are trying to overcome with actions in the marketing in the marketing plan. Again, these actions will be explained during tomorrow session. So who pays for LibreOffice development? 68% is paid by customers of ecosystem companies. These are enterprise customers but they are not as many as they should be. We know that there are banks and governments and other large institutions worldwide or an organization worldwide using LibreOffice. We do not expect all of them to pay for some development, to pay for some activities but we expect some of them doing this. 28% of development is provided by volunteers and paid by their own time. This is absolutely key. Here I mentioned just the UX localization and documentation but as I said, there are volunteers active in many other areas which are as key as these three areas. So this is just a hint of the data that will be shared tomorrow and now it's my pleasure to call Lothar Becker, the chairman of the Document Foundation for the opening address of the conference. Yeah, thank you. It's a lot. Let me switch on quickly the camera. I hope you can hear me and see me. Thanks to it. Hello, dear participants of our LibreOffice conference this year. My name is Lothar Becker and as chairman of the Document Foundation, it is a real pleasure for me to warmly welcome you all wherever you are participating in this conference. The most of you know that we normally do our conference as an in-person meeting but as we all discover another year of the worldwide pandemic, we decided once more to have an online version of the conference this year again after the one last year. I think we all miss hardly the opportunity to meet each other in person. Even if the possibility of the video conferencing are widely established now in the meantime, perhaps with this establishment even more. Because also with all the possibilities of virtual meetings, it is my impression that a personal handshake with another participant, a private talk about know-how or experience with LibreOffice or a spontaneous round of people about any common topic which arise during the conference or just a beer or a coke with an old good friend in our community is missed very hard. Besides the missing of all these in-person even local community activities, it was also hard for example for the board to have no opportunity in the whole term to meet in person and to be honest not every interpersonal effect could be covered by it but I think the annual report of the year 2020, our Jubilee year showed a variety of activities and contributions and as Italo showed in the numbers which filled the year instead of personal meetings and nevertheless it shows that it was one of the most successful year for the foundation and with that in the last year so also the organizers of this conference hardly worked again on all possibilities to have opportunities for joining virtually here here and in all talks and I want to encourage you not just to participate in the talks within a great and packed schedule but also to use the different opportunities to communicate with each other beside of the talks. There are possibilities we are chats via longs or asking questions during and after the talks to get in contact so for this let me thank the ORGA team here which is working for month to bring this on stage within all these circumstances. Sorry for not mentioning all of you with names which I probably do not know all so thanks to all of you for your passion to have this conference nevertheless online again. The team have also made some great videos of the main sponsors and there is a separate opportunity to meet them in private rooms for getting in contact. By the way also from my side let me say a huge thank you to our sponsors this year who made it possible again to join in this setting for the conference. Thank you to Collaborer, thank you to Allotropia, thank you to Linux Professional Institute and thank you Omnis Cloud and thanks to Carbon IO. Please visit their websites and get in contact with them for more information on the products and services or even for open job opportunities but let's also see the good side of such an online event. We have around 200 pre-registrated participants from all over the world even from time zones where the sessions now are held during the night. The amount of participants is probably the highest we ever have with our LibreOffice conference and this is a good sign. A good sign that we as an international community survive this really hard time of the pandemic and it will be a great basis for having in-person meetings again whenever this will be possible and wherever we will do it but all online? No, as a well-known saying of a tale, asterisks and obelisks there's a little resistant group of well-known community members who are meeting in person in Hamburg, the place where our roots of our beloved software were made. So best greetings to all participants in Hamburg. I tried also to come to Hamburg but out of private reasons I was not able to join. So I hope you enjoy also in Hamburg the conference and the personal meetup in Hamburg as well. Have a great time all of you at the conference. Thanks for taking part and now let the show begin. See you in the different sessions in the different rooms. Come together, have fun, be proactive and contribute. You all will rock it. Thanks and back to Ithalo. Okay thank you and I have the last announcement of the opening session. The opening session it's we promised to have logos for the LibreOffice technology and the LibreOffice ecosystem as part of our marketing plan and now you can see both of them. The author is the same is Elisa de Castro Guerra. I think she made a couple of proposals and other people made proposals and of course we thank you, we thank all of them for investing their time in developing these logos but I think that Elisa was able to really summarize the concept in one image using the LibreOffice icon and using it to represent the concept of technology which is unique to LibreOffice is the tight integration of the LibreOffice engine in every LibreOffice flavor. So we have the same engine on the desktop, on the cloud, mobile and different platforms and the fact that we have an ecosystem of equals which are represented here by the different number of LibreOffice logos but each one with its own characteristic as underlined by the different color of the triangle. Again thank you to all the people that have contributed to this logo contest. Thank you to Elisa. I sent a message to Elisa 10 minutes before starting the session because we really wanted to have this as a surprise to everyone. We will work during next week to produce the different version of the logo which are necessary to use the logo and we will announce it with a blog post where we also will explain how to use the logo and where to use the logo and of course everyone in the community is invited to use the LibreOffice technology logo while the LibreOffice ecosystem logo will be more for the ecosystem companies so companies that add value to LibreOffice by providing value-added services on top of it but trainers, migrators, developers, support organizations and there are quite many that will be able and invited to use this logo. Thank you again everyone for listening to this to this starting opening session.


Hey everybody, so I thought that I would show you what I've been playing with lately. I've been taking photos that I take with my iPhone, like the one I'm showing here, and borrowing my husband's iPad Pro Mini while he's gone and at work, and his Apple Pen. And there's an app on his iPad Pro called Procreate, which is what I'm using here. And it's a drawing app, and I've been using it to create different designs in the app for making stencils. And when these kind of apps first came out, I didn't really see the necessity of them. Like when computers first came out, I thought, I actually said to my husband, I remember, why do we need a computer? And then the internet came out, and I said, why do we need the internet? I don't understand the point. Well, every time I've been wrong and I should know better, that's the lesson in that story. So this is no different, and Procreate is a really fun app. This is not a sponsored video, this is just my opinion. And I love creating these stencil designs in Procreate, and it sure does save a lot of steps because in the past when I've done designs for my stencils, or when I'm designing for my rubber stamp line, I do it the old fashioned way. I create them on paper with ink and a pen, and then I scan them into the computer, turn them into something digital, clean them up with a photo application or a photo editing program, and then send them off to be published or be cut. And that's the hard way, it really is the hard way, this is so much easier. So I can use the Procreate app and the Apple Pen to create designs in the application, obviously as you see, erased very easily. There's lots of different settings for what kind of brush or pen or pencil stroke that you want, what color you want. I'm just doing black and white right now, and erasing is very easy without wasting a lot of paper. I can go back and forth with the design as much as I want to, and it is just saving a lot of time. I can't even tell you. So starting in September, I'm going to come out with some JPEGs of some of these designs that are going to be available for download. You can use them of course as a digi image if you want, but they're intended to be used as a stencil design. So if you have a silhouette or other stencil cutting system that allows you to import and trace JPEGs, that's what these are created for. You can import, you can buy these and download them into your system and then trace them and cut them out and make stencils out of them. So here I'm working on one of these flower designs. There's a few different ones. I'm not going to show them all here, but based on these flowers that I saw at a party recently when I was out with my husband and some friends, and then I realized that we have the same flower in a different color in our front yard. I'm so observant sometimes. So I thought it would make a really cute stencil, and so I decided to play with it here and create a stencil. Now this is in real time. I haven't sped it up. It just really just takes a few minutes. It's just me going back and forth until I get the basic shape to be exactly the way I want it. And if I don't, then I just hit the little eraser and I just erase those lines and go back in and hit the pen again. And I just love it. Now the pen does have to be charged up. You charge it up by actually plugging it into the iPad, but it's a handy little tool and I can see me at some point saving up to get the larger iPad Pro and my own Apple Pen just for use in my studio. I don't think I will be carrying it around anywhere. I have an iPad error for that, but I think for studio work this is very, very handy and so, so easy. I can't even tell you and getting the image to your computer is I can't even tell you how easy that is. And if I had all Apple computer stuff, it would be even easier. I don't. I have a PC still saving up for an Apple desktop. Don't have it yet. So as I'm creating the design and looking at the flower in my photo and drawing out the basic outline on my iPad, on the Procreate app, here I'm fussing with finding a pen mark that I want to use to fill in when it's nice and dark. And I end up going back to the same pen style on ink color that I used to draw the picture to begin with, which is a studio pen. I think it's the name of it, and I don't know why it's called that, but they have interesting names for things in the app. And I just, once I have that outline that I like, then I just color it in with, so it's all black. And that gives me a better idea than just having the outline of the shapes and what they're going to look like in a stencil. You want to make sure when you're doing this kind of thing, however you're doing it, even if you're doing it the old fashioned way, that you leave enough space between your shapes that they'll cut out easily on home stencil cutting systems. If you have the spaces too thin and narrow, it's really difficult to get them to cut properly. I know from experience. I guess I might know that.   So these center of these flowers were kind of really hairy and I wanted to give some indication or hint of that. So I just put these little hairs sticking off the top of the center of that flower. And then I just went around and cleaned up the edges. Now I'm going to fill in all the petals and the stem. And I will refine shapes as I need to as I'm going around. If I find that I need to change the shape of something. I do end up creating three of these flower shapes. I don't film them all, but I do end up creating three of these flower shapes the day that I'm working on this. And I've added those to a small library of stencil designs that will come out September 1st in my Etsy shop, again as JPEGs. If you have a silhouette system, then I have been using dollar store plastic file folders to cut my stencils. And I use the vinyl setting. I set my blade depth at five. And I set my speed at three, no, four, four. And the thickness is 33. And don't forget to hit double cut. I'll have directions for that in the description below in case I got one of those numbers wrong. I'll have the specifics for that in the description below. And in all the Etsy listings in case some of you have silhouettes and in case I got any of those numbers wrong just now, because it's first thing in the morning and I've barely had my coffee, to be honest with you. I still have a cup here, but I don't think drinking coffee is going to sound great over the microphone. So here we're going around and we're just coloring in. And once you start coloring in your shapes in black, then you can really get a great idea of what it's going to look like as a stencil. And if you're going to like it or not, and if you don't like it, then this is really easy to change it on here.  And then when you go to scan it, it's not going to scan properly. And there'd be a lot of things to clean up. You'd almost have to go to a clean piece of paper. And believe me, I've done plenty of that. This is so much easier. It takes you literally just a few minutes and you've got your design done and you can download it to your computer and print it or scan it with your cutting software and cut it out. And it's just so much easier. I was completely wrong when I said, why do we need that? I, yes, I want more, please I want more. So right now I'm saving up for an Apple desktop and my own iPad Pro. So here we go. We're going to color the last petal, but first I'm going to change, yeah, see, so I was doing some erasing because I didn't like, there were some little tiny fine pen marks, little hairs that I wasn't happy with. I wanted it to be a little smoother. So I'm going to go back in. And depending on how hard I push on the pen gives me a thicker line. So if I want a very light thin line, then I just don't press very hard and I get a thin, a thin line. So here we go. We're going to color in the last one. And then I'm going to completely change my mind about the flower center, although there's nothing wrong with the way it looks right now. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for, at least not in this instance. So I'm taking a look at it and I'm thinking, hmm, it's not exactly what I want. I click on the eraser, I do something drastic. Yeah, and erase a big blob in the center of a flower. I know, I know. You'll like the way it turns out, trust me. And there's a couple. Like I said, there's a few other versions of it. You may like one of the other versions of this flower or the flower seed head thing that I did from the same photo. Go look in my Etsy shop. If when you see this, the listings are live. I will post the links in the description below. If the links are not there, it's because it's not live yet. And then I just clean up my lines and I'm just turning it around. So I'm hopefully not getting my hand on the surface of the iPad Pro too much because you can see the little black dot that's off by itself on the left side there of the screen. If I hit it the right way, then I can make a dot just like with paper and pen when you smudge it. Yes, see, there I go. I'm going to erase it. I'm adding more of the little hairs to the flower center. And I just kind of like the abstract, suggestive shape of having a center of that flower head like cut out like that. I really like that. So there we go. So now I am going to forget exactly how it is that I want to save it. Well, after I fixed the stem, I forgot I did that. I decided the stem was too thick. I wanted something thinner and more delicate. So I redrew the stem. I forgot about that. There we have it. That's the finished design. So before I do anything, I'm going to just really take a good hard look at it. And you can, of course, save this at any stage that you decide works for you. And if that way you have a progression. So say that you'd go too far and you decide you like an older version better. That works.  And I forget how I'm trying to figure out or remember how it is that I send it to myself from my husband's iPad. And I'm constantly forgetting. First, I'm taking a look at it and deciding if I like it or not. And I do. And that is fine. And I really end up deciding that what I just said, that I really want to save this version before I go on and change it at all. And so I'm going to do that. But to do that, I'm actually going to need my iPad. So I go walk out into the living room really quick and I grab my iPad. Which is just an iPad air. And I turn it on off camera. So that hopefully you guys don't see my password. Although I think I've shown it by accident on camera before. There we go. So there's my iPad. And I open up my photos on the iPad. Sorry about the glare from the overhead light. Then I click on the corner. And that's wrong. So then I click on the image again. I click on the wrench. And then I was like, OK, wait. What do I click on to save the photo? I forget. Nope. I can't keep clicking on that. What is it? It's a save artwork. It's right underneath my hand. I just don't even see it. It was like I didn't have all my coffee this morning. I don't know. So there we go. Save artwork. So then I hit JPEG. And then I give it a minute. And I'm going to air drop it to my iPad by hitting the GA. And then it shows up on my iPad. And I hit accept. And there you go. From there, I can put it into Dropbox. And once it's in Dropbox, I have access to it everywhere. So I hope this gives you some ideas of what you can do. And that you have some fun with it. And if you have some kind of drawing app, give it a shot and see if you can come up with some stencil designs. I'd love to see what you do. Don't forget the most important thing.  Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'll talk to you later. Bye.


folks. This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We have five days a week. We go seven hours a day. We go 24 hours a day on the Internet at TFNN.com. Always remember, folks, if you think about you bring about whatever you focus on grows. Great day. Safe day. We're going to great night, folks. We're kicking into December tomorrow. You have the power to create. Your power is so strong that whatever you believe comes true. You are that way because that is what you believe about yourself.  That's a... I'm on this program, folks. Mockin' wise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the dial industry is up 364 and Aztec down 97. S&P's off two and a half. Gold. Gold contract down $11.90 straight into 2055 an ounce. You get silver up 19 cents, $25.63 an ounce, a light-sweet crew down $1.84. $76.00, two cents, a barrel, notes and bonds. Ten-year note. Down 16 ticks, trading 109.26, the 30-year offer for a point plus two ticks at 116.12 and $king dollar. $king dollar's up by 767 ticks, trading at 103.535. The year is at 108. The end is trading at 148. The British pound is at $126.00 to $1.00, U.S. dollar. Our phone number's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call, folks. I know it's going on in your world. In the world of the S&P's, let's take a look at them. What do you have? Well, we're still dealing with this ABC structure up, folks. You get a 462. That's the number. Right now, we hit 457 yesterday, 458. And I expect we're going to get it. Why particularly here? I was here today because you rejected the 453.34 here. And now you're at 454.51. Bottom line, as you can see, this is the sideways to lower move today, and you're going to have the contraction of volume. That's in your spy. We go to the NDX100. Now, we take a look at the NDX. It's going to get interesting in the NDX because you haven't had a rejection of lower price, number one, and you have an expansion of volume. So we get 36 million shares traded. You're down $2, $2.98, actually. And now you're going into, here we go, we gapped higher. You're going into the gap. So it's going to get interesting, the top of the gap. So how we come into this close is going to be a huge deal because the top of the gap, folks, is 386.26. Now we've hit 385.82. Now, what a rejection would be is that number one, we're going to have lighter volume because that's 67 million. But what would also need is that you need the queues to go up like another point or something. It's not a rejection right now. It is coming into that. It does have lighter volume, but if it basically, if the price gets into it, then there will be some divergence out here because what you will have, that is one huge gap that's open. There's no two ways about that. Notes and bonds. Take a look at the note and bond market what you have inside the note and bond market. You're pulling back 14 ticks today, 17 ticks inside the 10. You get 2 million contracts traded, but guess what? That's light contract volume compared to how we made this run. What you're doing, let me pull this here so you can see there's a couple of different things. Last few days, we had 3.7 million contracts. Now that price point there is the 109.13, and right now we're at 109.25. We go up a little bit higher, what it's going into right now, and that's still 2.9 million. We're only at 2 million and 900,000 shot. So bottom line, you got a huge amount of support right here. You're pulling back with light volume, which would make sense. Can't go up forever. Can't get out forever either. We go into the gold contract. We take a look at gold. Gold contract out here. It's going to be the same kind of set. Gold is actually a sideways move out here today more than anything. So you guys, you're down 12 bucks. You get 139,000 contracts and you see this man. This is crazy because this is the same type of deal. All one higher price. You're coming into 139,000 coming into 190,000 and 198,000. So bottom line, you're pulling back with light volume, and then we go, now this is the intriguing one to me. Well, they both, the note spawns and the doll. So the doll's got a counter trend move happening. That's why price spread. So you basically, let's see what kind of retracement we made on this one. So from the lows to the highs, oh, look at that. That's amazing, actually. You got to love Fibonacci, man. This is crazy. So look at this. From the low of July to the high of September to the low of yesterday, it was exactly a .618. Now the cool thing about a .618, folks, is that a .618 says you don't break the highs that were generated out here two or three months ago. So we'll see where this thing wants to bounce. Let me do this another way. We'll do it this way. And I'll put a .382 on the bounce and see what we get there. So a .382 in the bounce is saying you can do a 104, like 300. And that would make sense because this is where we broke down in a monster way. That's where that huge bar is. So we'll see where that shakes out. Shopify. We got a couple of tigers that want to take a look at Shopify. Oh, I know. Dow Industries. We're going to do the Dow first. Dow Industries, folks, finished in ABC Structure Up was $35,784. You're at $35,797 right now. That being said, guess what? My take is that number one, the S&Ps are going to finish this ABC Structure Up. The S&Ps finished the ABC Structure Up. You have Microsoft that's in an ABC Structure Up. That tells me that the Dow Industries is going to go for all-time highs. Now let's go to Shopify. So we take a look at Shopify. And we have a Shopify. One of the tigers has this from one of these lows, which is awesome. You're at $72. Now this is an ABC Structure Up to $80. And the way to trade Shopify, the way to trade equities, folks, when you're in winning positions too, particularly if they're not coming out with earnings, is you don't have to just sell it. In this case, you got an ABC Structure Up to $80. What you can do is you put a stop in and you're just raising that stop every day and you almost let the market stop you out. Because you can see this four days ago, that was Monday. It took the B pointing out, took it out with volume, the small ABC, $80 is the number, man. So I'd say right where you are. Dow. Dow Industries right now, $361. Nasdaq's down $100. S&P's down $3. Stay right there, folks. We'll come right back.


Welcome to my Tantric Winter Meditation Journey. There's an ancient Tantric text called Svarodya, where Lord Shiva teaches the Goddess Parvati all about breath because he says that if you know your breath, you know the secrets of the entire universe. And it is from here that we learn about the technique of first breath. First breath is literally what the name suggests. It's the first set of breathing cycles that you do. First thing in the morning before you do anything else in order to open up your channels of breath. We have 52 Shaktis in our body. Each one is different and each one has to be awakened in a different way. And so people practice lots of different types of breathing cycles, breathing routines. But for any of these meditations to be effective, you have to begin the day with your first breath. The first breath has made up of three different types of breathing cycles and they have to be repeated three times each. First one, breathe in very deeply and very slowly. Exhale long and hard. Hard enough so that you can hear the whooshing of the breath as it comes out. In through one nostril, out through the other. And then in through the other nostril, out through the other. That makes up one cycle. You have to repeat this three times. Second one, breathe in very deeply and very slowly. Exhale short and hard in little tiny spurts. Short and hard till you have emptied your lungs of all the air. Again, breathing in through one nostril, out through the other, then in through this nostril, out through the other. And finally, number three, where you breathe in and out through both nostrils at the same time, deeply and slowly in, deeply and slowly out. Now a couple of important things to remember when you do this exercise.  So breathe in really deeply, fill your lungs with air so that you can feel your chest growing outwards. And when you exhale, push from your lower diaphragm upwards so that you empty your lungs of all the air. And during meditation, you never block the nostril from the outside. It's always blocked from underneath because there are some very fine, very subtle channels of breath on the outside of your nose. And if you push in from the outside, you actually can injure them. So press your thumbs to the base of your third finger. You know, this is where we believe our demonic energy rises from. That's why we press against this part always to inhibit this particular energy. Press your thumb into the base of the third finger, curl your other three fingers over and then use your finger to inhibit your nostril. Practice each of these breaths three times each, first thing in the morning when you wake up. And if you do it correctly, you'll find that any other exercise that you do will become more effective. But I'm going to give you an even better way to measure the benefits that you're going to get from practicing first breath. You'll find, if you do it correctly, that your hands and feet don't get as cold as they did before. And with winter coming on, I think that's definitely something to work towards. Remember to like, comment, subscribe. See you on the next one.


Nice All snap We can see where this is going guys Damn water What it oh no, no, no No, not my peanut weenie. This is Chris Pike my friends call me big C. I'm back again guys today We got some more featured on freedom. That's right today We've got a Witcher 3 edition Witcher 3 for those of you that don't know and that's probably not too many of you Just launched like two days ago and yesterday I made a video saying hey guys submit your content If you're playing the Witcher 3, I want to see it. Let's do this.   They were good They're on point and I decided to feature three Witcher 3 guys today now this game is huge when I say huge I'm talking massive. So there's gonna be many Witcher 3 Montages there's gonna be Witcher 3 as featured on freedom So please keep submitting your links guys if your videos not here it might be on the next one I've got a few more to go through but anyways, I've selected three, but before I get into today's featured partners I want to show you This stuff unicorn see now. This is not suitable for work if you are under the age of 18 Please come back or just click off the video now But this video kind of sums up the Witcher 3 and it's kind of yeah, it's it's different whatever just whatever chew the tape When are you gonna finally burn this piece of junk my heart couldn't take it So many memories Dammit Geralt, do you have any idea how much they cost come here? Yeah, guys this game features a stuffed unicorn very very Very much so in fact there are people that are saying that they were canceling their pre-orders of the game And then they're like well wait, there's a stuffed unicorn scene Cancel that I want that game anyways guys this game is very very awesome The reviews are coming in it's getting it got 10 out of 10 from GameSpot. I got 9.3 from IGN Metacritic is scoring at 93 or 94 out of 100 last time I checked. It's pretty much Amazing, so if you're an RPG fan, I definitely recommend picking it up. I'm playing it's pretty awesome Now with that out of the way guys, let's get into today's featured partners Like I said, we've got three people so we're gonna get into this and let's go. All right first one is All right guys the first partner is Ribbonhead Ribbonhead Excuse me. Yes Ribbonhead is partner number one. That's an interesting name for a channel I dig it guys Ribbonhead of course submitted his video there in the last one He submitted it as a link and guess what I watched it. I liked it and I'm gonna feature it nice and simple That's how we work here Ribbonhead besides playing Witcher 3 also plays Cube World He plays a few other kind of quirky games that you don't probably see too much. Oh and goat Z The goat simulator with day of the dead or zombies and stuff like that whatever good stuff He's got a good channel. His video is very clear. He pronounces his words very clearly He annunciates and he does the tutorial section here And he really teaches you not only how to play the game But he teaches you a bit about the back history because he played with your one and with your two And he's got a very good insight into that so without any further ado guys this roll the clip Let's roll the montage of Ribbonhead cue the tape Hey guys Ribbonhead here and welcome to Witcher 3 Anybody that's been around my channel for a while knows that I love RPGs Was doing a bunch of them earlier and I stopped because I was waiting for this game I've played the first two through love them all Can't wait to see this now. There's a lot of hoopla about this game. I Don't care about drama hoopla none of that stuff all I care about Gaming and this game looks amazing About that it does smell of lilac and gooseberries. I love gooseberries. We did not sniff it They must meet soon Will it be near the Zeema? Nothing else to guide us there. What's this post script? I still have the unicorn I'm gonna stick with private War lays waste to the land and those it spares war not war good lord War lays waste to the land and those it spares live in fear of the countless monsters lurking outside every town and village Die already, would you? Holy cow. I'm face wrecking and another pretty game So yeah, I wanted to check out how the settings how everything works with my Recording and then we will do this on a regular basis. I'm not too sure on On how often it would be but this is gonna become a regular series for me All right guys the second channel is Brewer gaming really announce it He says it in his channel, but I can't pronounce it Brewer gaming.  He's got a pretty cool chill laid-back style He's got his green screen in the back there with his picture and picture going on And you know what I just dig his style he plays all types of different games his channel is fun He's got Call of Duty Montages or Funtages as he calls them. Yeah, Funtages I mean, he's got Resident Evil revelations up in there and he's got a whole bunch of other games Most of them are recent and it's a lot of fun guys So enjoy the clip by Brewer gaming and then we'll get back to number three Clutie clip crappy climbing Oh Things young folk get up to does somebody in it? Yeah The last channel is Rod strike Rod stripe, of course submitted a link. I liked his Witcher 3 content He's just starting out just like all of us. So he's he's rolling through He's making this into like a series from what I can tell and I just really dig his stuff He's got a really cool person-to-person interaction style where he not just plays the game But he talks to you his subscribers his fans and he talks to you like one-to-one And I really like it also. He does some cool picture-in-picture stuff with some he's got his mic set up there But he's all purple including his face, which is either, you know On purpose or not. I'm not sure But I dig it. It's all good. But yeah, Rod strike rolls through Witcher 3 He actually has a whole bunch of videos on his channel not only talking about Witcher 3 But what he likes and he doesn't like about it in a kind of V-log Style and guess what he played the game. It's pretty good guys So cue the clip and before I go remember guys The only way to get featured on freedom is to submit your links in the comment section below Leave a comment put a link to a video that you want us to watch it could be on any topic It could be anything that you've done or that you want us to look at and we will look at it And we will feature it on our Monday to Friday Show if it's you know worth featuring so please keep submitting them guys We'd like promoting you we like getting you more subs more views I'll be back later today with a freedom online update and that's it for now and a cue the clip to check it out Your boy big see we can see where this is going guys Them water fakes yo them water What it oh no, no, no, no not my peanut weenie. Oh It actually grabbed me there You know I don't find that amusing God get out of here That's disgusting It wasn't meant to amuse but to prod you to hurry. It's midday You promised Siri you train with her oh You know what she actually kind of looks like the girl from Mass Effect 2 I Forgot her name. I Literally forgot her name. What do you think? You better get me a flip girl All right, take off the blindfold She was doing that blindfolded. Holy you got work to do.  I'm still slow Oh, oh My god, leave me a lot. Oh, yes. She's my lord. I can't see my heart. This guy's what's a killing


Bio-inspired structural design has been widely adopted in various engineering fields, but it is often limited to biomimetic forms, shapes, and materials. Nature is rarely considered as a source of structural design philosophy. This paper reviews existing bio-inspired solutions for structural robustness design, categorizing them into two main classes, compartmentalization and complexity. Examples of each are provided with mechanisms discussed in detail. Several existing ideas are revisited and scrutinized from a bio-inspired perspective with suggestions made for improvement. Additionally, novel bio-inspired concepts such as delayed compartmentalization, active compartmentalization, compartmentalization and intact parts and structural complexity are proposed for structural design under extreme loading conditions. This article was authored by Fawad Kiakajuri, Valerio De Biagi and Lorenza Abracciavento.