Using blockchain on logistics and business animation and our presentation today, business automation in the new economy of movement. I'm going to stop sharing now and give the meeting over to Tram. I believe you have a deck, so excellent. You're able to share. Welcome. Thank you. I came from an art background, so I always have to have something visual. So thank you for having me here. A slight correction. I haven't spoke to supply chain before. I spoke to the social impact group, but not supply. That's right. Not yet. Today is the first. So good to see everyone. My, I think my colleague did. Rajat spoke with. Yes, so he was here. I think you maybe. Hello everyone. So during my talk, it's very informal. If you have questions, stop me anytime and you can answer or you can wait until they are entirely up to you. My name is Tram Bo. I am CEO and co-founder of Moby. Full disclaimer, as you can tell, I'm not a technologist. So this talk is not very techy at all, but it's more like the high level overview of what we're trying to do and what we've done so far. I started out in chemistry and then I went on to art conservation. And for a couple decades, work on heritage preservation and conservation projects around the world for organization like UNESCO and the Getty here, based in Los Angeles. And in May of 2018, along with Chris Ballinger, my co-founder, we launched Moby. We are also married, so that was a lot of togetherness during the pandemic shutdown. So a little bit of history about Moby. We launched in 2018, but our history went back a couple of years before that. Many of our Moby members were very excited about blockchain and experimented with many proof of concepts. They all found that putting a vehicle, data or service onto a chain, that was easy, but these applications weren't able to scale. And there were a couple of reasons for that. One, the industry needs standards, standards on like how to identify a vehicle, people, things, trips. One does a trip begin, one does it end, how to connect the whole trip, how to transfer and share data and how to settle transactions. All those needs standards so that we can communicate at the same level. And then two companies were using decentralized technologies, blockchain, but they were building centralized blockchain platforms and were not able to get others to go onto them. For example, we have one OEM that built a mass multimodal platform, but couldn't convince others to go on to the mass multimodal platform. We have another OEM, spent a lot of money building a supply chain platform. But again, it was their platform and couldn't convince other automakers to go on to them. We have a logistic company. When I spent $54 million building a logistic platform, again, couldn't convince others to go on to them. So what we learn, of course, is that centralized platforms don't scale. And this is why Moby was launched in 2018. Longer numbers, we are creating standards and building web-free infrastructure for industry-wide business automation. So why is industry-wide business automation important? Most of the productivity that we have gained within the last 50 years or so came from business automation enabled by digitization of internal processes only. Very little was from the automation of extended value chain involving unrelated untrusted parties. And even when those attempts happen, they tend to be with a couple or a very small group of organizations. So they're not really scalable to industry-wide. And from the beginning, the big picture for Moby has been this, and it's still the same, is that the convergence of all the technologies that you see here will permit any connected entity, a person, a vehicle, a device, a piece of infrastructure to have a trusted identity that can directly communicate and securely transact with another connected entity. And in doing so, not having to go through someone else's centralized platform. And once you have a trusted identity that you can link with location into a verifiable trip, then you have the pay-per-use economy, which we call the new economy of movement. So when it's trusted identity important for business automation, 60 to 65 percent of internet traffic is from bots, and 40 percent of total internet traffic is from malicious bots. And we have 15 billion connected things today. That number will double every three years. So how do you do business with something if you don't know who or what it is? And then the arrival of genitive AI will make this problem dramatically more important. And this cartoon was from 1997, I think. I can't remember now. And I think many of you have seen it. But I think the problem is still true today. So across any connected ecosystem, mobility, telecom, insurance, and we're working with those as well, including semiconductor chips and all that, they have hundreds, if not thousands of connected stakeholders. And they all have not just private but public as well. And they all have unique databases. They all have unique processes. They all have regulation on how to handle business and customer data. And these databases don't talk to each other. They do. It's a risk for the business. So currently, it is impossible to automate business processes without opening up your own databases. So for industry-wide business automation to happen, the solution needs to have the five things that you see here on the screen. One is zero trust authentication. So that means every entity must be identified and authenticated for every transaction. And then all the data or the claims must be non-repeatable. The second thing is data privacy. That is regulatory compliant. Of course, GDPR and non-interstate, I think we have four or five states that have similar regulations as well. And the ability to limit access to intended recipients only. And the third thing is data security and selective disclosure. So instead of connecting to databases and doing business, we want to be able to push the data to the edge and do the transaction at the edge. And the ability to selectively disclose and verify information at the moment of transaction without having to store the data before, during, or after the transaction is extremely important. And then the solution has to be affordable, interoperable, scalable, and extensible. So that means the solution has to be standard-based, platform-agnostic, and that would have to work with any legacy system so that the mom and pop shop can do it in the supply chain. And there's no costly new infrastructure that they have to build. They don't have to pay for integration and they don't have to pay for maintenance every couple of years or so. And last but not least, of course, is that we have to have a solution that is not a centralized platform that is owned by one. It has to be community-owned and operated and open-source. Trian, can I ask a question? Yes, please. Back on the standards item that you mentioned there. How did you decide what standards to use to leverage there and when do you need new ones there? And if that's something later on, great. It just seems to be an eternal problem within blockchain. Yes. So we are, well, there's a couple of things. I'm going to, the next couple of slides, I can talk about them. Is that okay? Sure thing. Yep. So I do have one question around. Oh, sorry. Back to the slide again. Apologize. And the decentralization. Can you expand on that just a tiny bit? Are you talking about the node operators, the validators of a blockchain would own, those are what you meant by owned infrastructure. So if they used, if their node somehow was on Microsoft Cloud, you're not talking about that, are you? A little bit of that, but mainly for here is about centralized platforms. We all know about centralized platform like Google, Google, Facebook, and all that. And then the three example I gave earlier, I didn't give name, but one of the major OEM built a mass multimodal platform. It is a centralized platform. And so the automakers, why would we go on to that? It belongs to you. It's behind your firewall. And then another one built a supply chain platform using blockchain. And also it is a centralized platform. They control it. It's behind a firewall. And so nobody else would go into it. And this is really important message to our members is that you can't build a platform and say that this is yours and then what are those to go on to it? Any other questions on this? Okay. Okay. So keeping all these requirements in mind, we come up with a solution that we call self-solving digital twins or SSDTs in the U.S. I've seen a comedian recently that made fun of the fact that there's so many acronyms on everything. And he did a whole segment on it, which is true because I see a lot of acronyms on my slide there. So self-solving digital twins, the concept of digital twins was generated by NASA back in the 1960s. Essentially, it is a digital representation of an object or a system that captures static and near real-time data throughout the host lifecycle of the object. And for us, self-solving digital twins are digital twins that can self-generate verifiable credentials so that they can identify, they have the ability to authenticate identity and selectively disclose pertinent information at the moment of transaction and ability to verify the data that's given to them. So that means, again, they don't have to connect to centralized databases. They can do transaction at the edge. They are universal translated and encrypted log data. Well, so this is really important. Only the controller or the owner of the SSDTs, self-solving digital twins, has access to it and nobody else does. And the SSDTs are standard-based. This is the first standard that we are talking about for the ecosystem. We use W3C standards, the World Wide Web Consortium, which produce standards for the Internet. And the standards we've been using here are the DIT and the VC standard, decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials. So the VC standard was approved a few years ago. The DIT standard was approved last year in August, I think. And it's been worked on for many, many years. And actually, Moby's first standard ever in 2019 was the ID, Moby vehicle identity. And that standard was based on using decentralized identifiers. So we were using W3C DIT standard before it became a formal standard. We were working with them to understand. And I think many of you know this already, but it took a while. When it was first voted on, everybody voted yes for the standard. There were three organizations that didn't like the standard and objected to it. And of course, I think you can take a wild guess as who they are. They were Google, Apple and Mozilla. So these are the two standards that we use for the ecosystem on identity. So if you look at these things that are listed here for the self-sorbent digital twins, they fulfill most of these requirements. They are essentially zero trust authentication. They use, they enable data privacy, security and selectively disclose information. They are standard based for interoperability, scalability and extendability. They are affordable because users don't have to build new infrastructure. SSDTs can be an app that you download to the device of your choice. And it can be stored in the cloud of your choice, of course. And the last thing we need to address is how do we make sure that it's not one entity that owns the infrastructure? So to do that, this is, I think you've seen, many of you probably have seen this DIT and VC and this whole verifiable credential ecosystem. So Mobi is a technology agnostic. So we don't endorse any specific blockchain. Ten years from now, we don't know which blockchains we'll still be around. So that's not our job. Our job is to work with blockchain because we see the potential of blockchain and we love all the capabilities of blockchain. But we leave it to the expert to build out that. So what we instead, we are building a layer two, which is think of it as a trust layer that is enable us to anchor the DIT to decentralize, identify onto blockchain. So and then the third layer on top is Cetopia, which is where the self-sustained digital twins reside. And this is where they transact with each other. So the POC of 2016 and 17 that I mentioned has proven to our ecosystem that blockchain works. That's not that important. What is important is how blockchain is being used. I've always said there's the 200 ways of cooking chicken and rice. If you look up on the internet, every culture has a chicken and rice dish. It's how you make it that's important. So within Mobi, how we use blockchain is very specific and we only use it doing it to have DIT registry and that's it. We're not storing any data or any PII one chain. We don't recommend it and our members in this ecosystem does not do that. And right now, the two blockchains that we anchoring to is fabric and Ideria. So every DIT that we create is deposit onto the 15 nodes that we have so far in fabric and then also onto Ideria as well. So I think I do I need to go into this whole ecosystem at all what's going on here or should I skip that? Well, you can spend like an hour on it. I think it could be interesting just to hear a couple of minutes on it. Okay. All right. So come on. Thank you. Really in simple term, the way I describe the IT and integrated just network here is like a phone book. It's been a while since many of us have seen a phone book. I'm old enough to remember when they dropped the white pages and the yellow pages at the front porch. And so now Google has become the de facto phone book. We Google everything. But we're trying, this ecosystem is going to try to get us away from that. So this is the public communication channel. You deposit the DIT and then once you look up the services of a business like in the yellow pages, you can usually see an ad, you see a business and they list all the services that they do. And then there's a phone number that you can pick up the phone and contact them. So essentially, this is the same thing is a public publication. You can look up services. And then once you find a business you want to do a business with, you pick up the phone and call them. And when you pick up the phone and call them, you communicate in a private communication channel. And that's up here and we use verifiable potential to do that. And usually when you see this whole ecosystem is being built by one organization, one company, and we think that is way too much power for one organization to have because you have the agreement, the transaction, and then you have the DIT, the signature that's in them. So that's way too many things that one company have. So we actually even split this up to two and these are two legal entities that we register and they are separate companies. All Movi members in good standing have a little bit of shares in both of these companies, but we will soon also reach out to VC, all of our members and external to invest in it because we can't do this based on just membership fees alone. We are a non-profit startup, so it's like a double whammy, no money and no money. So the next, I have I think two more slides of something to this, which explain exactly how we do the verifiable corrential and you don't need to read this, please. I'm just gonna walk through it really quick. So this is a battery birth certificate verification. I think some of you might have heard of the battery passport, correct? So the EU Commission has written a regulation, it hasn't been signed yet, but it's been drafted and the second draft was earlier this year released. Essentially it requires that if anybody produce a battery greater than two, and I think you have to have a battery passport, which means pretty much every battery except for the little ones. And the battery password, you don't have it, you cannot sell it in Europe. So that is really a big worry for auto manufacture and the battery manufacturers in our ecosystem. So this is an example of how a verifiable corrential works in our ecosystem. Let's say we have battery manufacturers, we have OEM, which is stand for just vehicle manufacturers, and we have let's say a couple here, and they all have their own legacy system and databases, and none of them are connected or want to connect each other to do transactions. So how do we make it so that they interoperable and can send messages that everybody can understand? So that means everybody would self-create a self-solving digital twin. And then once they generate that, they can do this kind of messaging. So the battery manufacturer creates a battery and then also create a battery self-solving digital twin. Then the manufacturer will send a message to its own SSDT and say, hey, can you get a DIT, a decentralized identifier created for this battery, please? Then that message gets translated into a accepted protocol and send that message to a Cytopia node. Cytopia node then send a message to the ITN, and the ITN's job again is only to create DIT and anchor them onto blockchain. So then ask the ITN, please create a DIT for this battery. The ITN creates it, deposit it onto blockchain, then sending the message back to the Cytopia node and say, hey, this is the DIT you requested. Cytopia then send that message back to the battery manufacturer SSDT and give it to it. Then the manufacturer SSDT will send the DIT to the battery SSDT and now the battery has that store in the battery. The second thing is the battery birth certificate. The battery birth certificate is just like yours and my birth certificate is static information. It's kind of boring, you know. Where were you born? Which hospital? How big were you? Who were your parents? But those are all needed to be able to trace back to the manufacturer. It's the whole lifetime of it. How many auto credentials that they received as the important thing. So then they create the battery birth certificate with all the data scheme items required. And this is a Moby standard. So earlier, I forgot, I'm sorry, who asked me about which standard you decide. So we use W3C standard for this implementation of the ecosystem. But within the business processes, we have members sit down and walk through what would a battery birth certificate look like, what kind of information should be in there. And so this is that standard, a Moby standard that we use. So once the battery birth certificate as a verifiable credential has been created, then it gets sent to the battery SSDT and deposit in there as well. So now the battery has the DIT and the battery birth certificate. Let's say an OEM come along, let's say BMW comes along and say, I need to install this battery in my vehicle. How do I verify that this battery has that history and the passport that's required? And how do I authenticate it? So then BMW will send a message to the battery SSDT and say, hey, can you give me your credentials so I can verify you? The battery present the DIT, the battery birth certificate, instead of trusting the battery, you need to verify and validate it in this zero trust ecosystem. Then BMW will send a message to Zootopia and say, hey, can you verify this for me, please? Zootopia send a message to the ITN to verify it. Make sure the digits and signatures are correct. The ITN said, yep, you save, you can proceed. Zootopia node then send a message back to BMW and say, you can proceed, battery saved, install it. And then let's say we in a shared economy and a couple of automakers have agreement to use the same battery and let's say Daimler came along and used the same battery and they need to install it now. They can do the same authentication messaging again. And so in our ecosystem, this is how we verify and validate all the transaction without having to really pass messages, I mean, passing data, you pass a verification. Any questions on this before I move on to the next or the last slide? Is this already being used and so by how many companies and approximately how many BBCs have been issued and have any of the companies given feedback on the impacts it's had to their operations? So we are in the pilot trial right now. It's recently we've had two major OEM major vehicle manufacturers that did this pilot. And this is pretty historic because usually they don't speak to each other. And for them to be able to sit down and do this pilot and finish this, it was pretty fantastic. And now we are having more of our members joining this pilot. So it's going to take a little time. But as you know, R&D takes a little while. We can't use it right away yet. So any other questions on this? One question I had was, this follows along, I just keep the hyperlinker thing, but when you ask for verification, it just gives back a, it doesn't give back data does, it just gives back a verifier, I don't know if it's a hash signature. It doesn't really, it doesn't have to give out all this information just gives an okay. Correct. And the next slide I have another example with some code in it as well, which I don't know how to code, but I can show it to you. Any other questions on this slide? Daniela, I see a hand up. I don't know this old or new. I think that's been up for a while. I'm not sure. Yeah, I think that's been up for a little while. Okay. All right. Let me go to the next slide. So this is an example of a zero knowledge proof that we've been looking on. So one another pilot which is recently completed is called the dealer floor plan audit. For those of you who don't know, there are dealerships that sells vehicles, right? And those dealerships, they don't buy the vehicles with their own money. Maybe the little ones do, but the really big ones that have hundreds of vehicles, they have a bank that they work with and the bank lend them money to pay the auto manufacturer to purchase these these cars. So then the bank wants to make sure the cars are still on the lot and not sold yet because under the agreement, when you sell a vehicle, you have to return the money immediately so the bank can use that money for something else and make more money. But there are a few dealerships that don't disclose right away that they have sold the vehicle so that they can keep the money in their book in the bank and do some something else with it. So the lenders need to go physically right now onto the dealership lot. Somebody with a paperclip and they hand and check out the vehicle. And it's a really labor-intensive process and it's a slow process and you can't do it, you know, all the time, right? So according to Accenture, if you can automate this process within the U.S. alone, you can save four to five hundred million dollars a year. So it's a big problem. We did the pilot on how do you verify that the vehicles are on the lot when we know that location is PIR. You can't store location. So what we did for this pilot was that we used zero knowledge proof service offered by Zootopia inside a verifiable credential. So let's say you are the lender, the bank. You have an SSDT and then you ping the vehicle SSDT to ask the vehicle, are you in this geofence location? And the geofence location is the dealership. And then the vehicle then would answer back, would approve, let's say yes or no in this location or not. And if they say yes, fantastic. If the vehicle say no, I'm not in that geofence location, that means it's out, it's been driven around, it could be driven around by a customer and you don't want to know. That's PII. So let's say you ping, the lender ping the vehicle once an hour for 24 hours straight for three days straight or continuously all the time while the vehicle is not being sold yet. And if the answer is mostly yes, unless once in a while it goes out for a test drive or in the service department, then that's fine. But if it's saying no a lot, especially 3 a.m. in the morning and if it's 3 a.m. in the morning, everybody's sleeping if the vehicle is not in the maybe there's an issue. So then the lender needs to have a procedure on how to follow up on this. So as I mentioned, VIN number is PII, location is PII, how do you do this proof without storing that? So the proof that the vehicle sent back first, the input into the zero-knowledge proof, you have the VIN number here, you have the latitude, you have the longitude, and this is the approved latitude and longitude, which means this is the geofence location of the dealership. And then it goes through the zero-knowledge proof. And as you can see, when it sent back a verifiable credential would approve, there's no clear text of the VIN number or the location. And that's how we also do data privacy in a verifiable credential as well. Any questions on that? Yeah, just one. So that JSON file you've got over here, is that format coming off of some standard or is there some way that another system can retrieve that format to understand what they need to, but JSON format they need to send over to the credential, the verification? So let me see if I got your question correctly, because I'm not a technologist, so you might have to send a question later, and I send it to our tech team. So this will be a somewhat of a standard for Mobi members. And then we also, this is a service of Cetopia, so the zero-knowledge proof services is a service that Cetopia will offer to members so that they can do the extra layer of data privacy as well. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. And this is my last slide. We are doing many pilots with our members and these pilots, we are not building these products. This is just to demonstrate the infrastructure, Cetopia and the ITN to our members so that they see it, they see how to use it, and then they need to go in and run a node on the ITN, they need to run a node in Cetopia, and then they need to build the application on top of Cetopia. So we have been tracked, essentially they are Cetopia, they all track and trace and either track a vehicle. And then once you do registration and titling a vehicle, you can do other things like floor plan audit, which I just mentioned.  And vehicle repair maintenance tracking and mission tracking, we did that pilot with the EU Commission, JRC, last year. They want to see the vehicle can self-report a mission. And then you have usage-based insurance you can build on top and many, many more use cases. These are just the ones that our members said are important and we're working on them. And of course, the battery passport, we're working with our members on the standards for that and how to report it out using a decentralized method. And next week, we're pushing out a standard actually on the guideline on how to create a battery, global battery passport in a decentralized implementation ecosystem. And then we have one that's mass multimodal so that the user can plan, reserve and pay for a multimodal trip on one place, instead of having many apps and platforms. So I will stop here, seeing any questions. Thank you, Tram. This has been great. For that last, if you could go back to that last slide, the pilot you mentioned with the EU on emissions tracking, have there been any results on that yet? Yes, we have a report. Let me see. I can go on to a website and deposit this here. Great. Yes, let me see. Too many screen now, let me. And the pilot is, so if you go to this link, here's where's the report? Let me link it real quick. Okay, here is the page for it. And then go directly to the report, if you scroll down on the page, you can see the icon for the report. I see it. Perfect. Thank you so much. And this is a report written by JRC. Okay. Oh, excellent. Thank you. This looks like a really good resource. A lot of details. Yeah. Including hyperledger fabric. I see hyperledger fabric down under section four. Any other questions? Yeah, Tram, this is Tom Klein. Thank you very much for sharing the overall picture of Moby. Good stuff. And I got the picture of standards plus web three infrastructures where you guys are focusing. So the question is around governance. And how does it work? What do you get for your money if you join? Right? And how do you get to have your influence or decisions made? Those kind of things. Since one of my intentions is blockchain, one of the reasons why things have not taken up quite as fast is how do you get people to work together? Right? So it'd be interesting to hear your experiences on, you know, here's some things that we tried that didn't work and here's some things that have worked here. Here's what we're not sure about still. Yes. So let me see if I can like think of everything. It doesn't need to be everything. Yeah, in the past five years, but essentially moving Moby, we are a democracy, we have a voting system, but it's only a democracy if you actually show up and vote, right? If you don't show up and vote, then you can't complain. And so that's how we choose, you know, the use cases and all that. And then if you decide to run a node on the ITN as a topia, which we recommend, so don't just use the service, you actually run the node, then you can make money later on when we're in production. So within them, we would have two types of shareholders. The class A shares are the node operators and they are the governance body of the networks, the two networks. And they get to vote, they get to decide, they get to do all that. And they also have a board of directors and be able to hire an executive team. And then the B shares are the ones that get dividends. If there is, of course, any revenue, any gains, the B shares will get dividends. And those don't get to participate in the governance unless they also run a node. And the one major vote that they get to do is if all the class A shares decided to say that, okay, we're just going to give only ourself all the money and the B shares forget about it, then they can rise up and revolt and say, no, you can't do that. So within Mobi membership, you can run a node and have an A share. And then you can also get incentive to come in early as an early adopter, you get a little bit of the B share as well. And that your VC arm decide to also invest more than you get more of the B share. And then outside investor gets it as well. Okay, good. Yes, what you're saying here is democracy is basically a voting system modeled on democracy here, I have class A and class B shares here, one, you got to be a node operator to be a class A, and then you can participate in the governance and be your kind of a passive party here, if you're class B. Okay, got it. Yeah. And then education I find is extremely important. So essentially, this is a new way of doing things. And you need to learn the language. So before you can write poetry, all that, you need to learn the alphabet. And we see that at first, we say, okay, here is the direction and how to run a node. And we heard crickets, maybe one or two companies and get it. So now this year has been about education to our members, about what did VCR and then walk through the code.  So all that needs a lot of education to be able to explain this whole new way of doing things. And I think that's really important in any consortium is education to be able to produce these kind of classes so our members get it. And then the tech team can get it. And then you need the business people and the tech people to have the same language. Because the business people can get excited.  And the tech team will be what? And vice versa. So you can teach the tech team the language as well. Then they consult the business people, hey, you want to do this. There's a way to do this now that we couldn't do before. So they really do need to be on the same page as well. How incentivize are people to, actually, like you said, you need to show up to vote, right? Are you finding that I need to give them extra incentives or just by them paying, hey, they're motivated enough or I mean, there's always the politics, somebody might sponsor it and say, you know, they got moved on to a different part of the organization and then some of the momentum gets lost there. So interested in what you've done about that. Yes, I totally agree. Moby's been around for five years. We launched in May. And so there were the early adopters and now there's a current adopter, which is later than them. And how do you keep them all engaged? That is the hard part, I agree. Because early adopter might get frustrated and say, doesn't get too slow. And then later adopters don't know the language yet. So this is like we constantly having to educate and having to get the ecosystem come in and do pilots. Recently, as I mentioned, there's two auto manufacturers that did a pilot and it was exciting for the ecosystem to see. So now more people want to do it. And so it's constant. It's a little bit exhausting, to be honest. But, you know, I have to say, as long as I feel like I'm learning something new every day, which I do, then I can wake up the next day, even though the day before I was exhausted and say, forget it. So it's a constant thing. And I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm hoping it won't take five more years. But it's a slow process to move all the industry players along. And I think the reason why crypto, you know, it moved fast is because they're not really industry, right? They individual organization that can make decisions really fast. They all started a startup not too long ago. Industry are much slower. They're much more conservative. They have rules, regulation, the const department can stop anything. The legal department can stop anything if they don't understand it. So it takes a lot of education to move them. But the most important thing is government buy-in. From the beginning, I've always said if we can think of what we're doing so cool, government doesn't buy in on it. It's not going to go very far. And there's a reason why crypto is still in the billion dollar industry. And then other organization within Moby coming together is a multi trillion dollar industry. It's because you need standards, you need government buy-in, you need structure on how to do things. And then everybody need to agree on that before we can move forward. Good. Thank you. It's very, very helpful. So you have just one question on your business model. So if I'm a Moby customer, do I pay a license over some time or do I pay for transactions, some small fraction? So they're not going to be Moby customer because Cytopia and ITN are separate. I'm hoping in a year or so, they will become their own entities. And then Moby will continue to do the data standard for other use cases. And then Cytopia and ITN business model is really simple. API call charges and that's it. Okay. Does anyone else here have any other questions right now? I want to be mindful of time. It is 1258. So I don't hear in eastern time zone. Tram, this has been very illuminating. You have grown so much as a company since the last time I saw you present. The amount of work you've gotten done is really impressive. And so many different pilots. It seems so slow, but thank you for saying that. Because I think the last time when you came in to speak to the social impact stick, I believe that was summer of 2020. Oh, okay. And what I remember from that mainly was the battery passport. And now talking about the Vintrack and the different pilots there and Cytopia Mass, you have gotten so much done on this time. And it's really exciting to see the amount of partnerships you've been able to create and the standards you're developing. So I want to really thank you for coming and sharing this with us. Yes, it was excellent. Thank you. That's it. Does anyone have any last minute questions? Okay. Tram, will you be able to share your deck with the group? Let me look through it. Is that okay? And then I can put watermark or something on it and then send it to you. If you send it to me and let me know if I can share it, then I can share it. Then I can send it out with the group and also post it to the agenda for this meeting. Thank you. Great. Thank you so much. With that said, I'm going to let everybody go. Our next meeting is on June 29th. Same time, same place. And we'll be doing more work on the e-book. Bye. That was good. Thank you so much, Tram. And to everybody else. Hey, everybody. Thank you, Tram. Have a great day. Bye-bye.


So, NATIS-21 of the Over-the-Wire Wargame starts us off with the same kind of notification as earlier. Your login is a regular user, login is admin to retrieve credentials for the next level. They give us a note here, though. They say the website is co-located with another URL, NATIS-21 Experimenter. And that's peculiar. We'll have to note that, and we'll check out what the source code is. Before I do that, I want to snag that experimenter. Just that URL. It doesn't look like it needs a username in there at all, but let's actually check out the source code for this original page before we move on. Let's go ahead and de-entitize that and remove all the break tags, just like usual, so we can pretty much see the source code and let's put it in a new page. So it's easy to see here. So it doesn't look like there's anything interesting in this page, other than it just gives us... Here's the function source code for the print credentials thing, determines whether or not we're a user and would give us the flag or the password for the next level, and that's all it does. So looks like that experimenter link is where we have to go next to be able to move on. So let's head over there. I'm going to just copy this and let's change the get URL to experimenter. Check out that web page and source code. So that is 21 CSS style experimenter. This website is co-located with the original page. That's fine. Example, background color yellow, blah, blah, blah. Looks like you can change the colors of the page here supposedly in this form. That's the functionality of this web page. Whatever. We care about the vulnerabilities. So let's go ahead and take a look at the index source code here and see if we can read how that may have a vulnerability. Index source.html, just add it to the link here. Let's also de-entitize this, kill all the breaks and store this in another pane in case we need it again. So PHP code here, a little bit more active than the previous page. We have a session that we're working with. If update was submitted, store it. So if array key exists, submit request. So essentially, if they submit to the page, every single key in the request is actually stored in session. That's awesome. That is probably how we're going to be able to become admin. Looks like that's pretty much a vulnerability. Whatever we request to it, we'll just store in a session. And if we're using session to determine whether or not we're going to get the password, then that's it. Looks like that a bug messages go through. If we include that. This code looks like it's trying to filter keys down here. There's a loop that determines whether or not it is inside the valid keys, and then it will add it to the session key, but it looks like that already happens. This exact line is already being ran up here. Okay, whatever. Looks like we can still take advantage of that. So let's see if we can get the session admin variable updated. Look like we could run with debug source, debug true being set. We can go ahead and run the get statement here. And we see the debug notifications, okay, session contents array, they're not set to anything, but since they're testing through the request, we don't have the request associated array or that note, that global in PHP. That's either PHP post or get. So we could just try submit equals one and see what happens here, right? Yep. Okay, looks like it's going to read the get variables just as well as it would have read the post variable. So we don't have to change the Python function that we're trying to run with requests. Now let's go ahead and set admin equal to one because we can do that just as easily. And now we have a session variable for admin being one. Perfect. So I'm going to assume if these websites are co located, looks like the session variables are probably just going to be, they're going to stay intact. So let's check out what our session cookie is in this website in the experimenter. And then let's try and use that as the string for our PHP session in the original page and see if we can actually log in as as admin in that. Let's try this. I'm just going to note that there. But let's change this back to URL. So we go to the original page and let's try with a cookie PHP session ID set to that same string. And let's check out what we get. Looks like I put that to the source. Let's go to the original page and this website is co located, blah, blah, blah, you're logged in as a regular user. Okay. So no dice on that one. Log in as admin to retrieve credentials for Natus 22. Do we need the same session already occurring? Let's comment that out and make sure that all happens. I would think maybe you need the session already occurring. No. Having equals one, debugging equals one, blah, blah, blah. Let's set a post request and make sure that actually happens, I guess. Let's post to experimenter and let's let's do this with post variables. If we need to whatever ways will double them up. There's nothing wrong with that. So data will equal that and submit can equal whatever admin can equal one. Let's try that. Let's try old session being set here because that's not going to let us in, is it? No. Okay. Let's grab that text then or whatever it did. Did I print it out in here? I did. So whatever that PHP session ID might be, we can pass that along to the original page, old session, and let's see if it runs. There we go. Cool. The way that I did that was I got the original session set up. Maybe we may not even need this post since we were doing with get earlier. Let's try that. Nope. Looks like we don't need to do it in post because again that request global in PHP will work just fine. It'll take either get or post variables. It includes them all. So after I've got that session already set up, I'm able to just steal the cookie from the original page, the experimenter, bring that over to the real level page, pass that along with the cookies, and it will say, okay, great, you're authenticated, you're logged in with that admin credential. Your admin, the credentials for the next level are Natus 22, and we'll keep moving. Save this as Natus 22, let's get the password in here. We don't need the experimenter variable anymore. Probably just use that and don't need the others, but that is that. That is Natus level 21. An interesting trick with an external page, hmm, don't know what this is doing. Looks like we'll check out Natus 22 in the next video, but hey, if you did like this video, please do press that like button. Maybe leave me a comment. Let me know what you think, what else you'd like to see, what else I could do better with how you solve this. 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Alright, I decided I'm going to swim in my undies because it's such a nice day. Much better than I thought it would be. Where are my pants, Rebecca? On the beach, she said. Covet and sand. Soaking wet. Nice. A dripping wet. Just like me. Guess I'm walking around in my undies for a while. Hey, so remember these guys? Those potatoes we planted a while ago. So they come in through pretty well. So I want to top the soil up. When I was at a garden the other day, they were selling a few. So I picked up some of these small ones. Just started harvesting those today. So you can see. Potatoes I got out of them. And then I'm going to replant those small ones. And use the soil to top up these other ones. So that's what I'm doing now. Do you remember these guys? The little experiment, I don't know. So I decided I would do an experiment with an experiment. And notice the tops there. One of them I decided I'd leave the lid on. The other one obviously took it off. And as you notice there's a lot of condensation in this one. There's still air flow around the edge. Whereas this one doesn't have the condensation. So let's have a look at how they're going. So some pretty good growth here. Where's this one? Not doing that good. That's my little experiment. So obviously as a result of that I'm going to open the lid on the other one. And see if they can catch up. So I'm going to make dinner. And when it comes to making dinner for me. I'm not that creative. I just look at what's in the fridge. What's lying around and trying to come up with it. A healthy sort of tasty dish. So we've got some leftover rum steak. That needs eating. We've got a couple cups of bone broth left. And then some vegetables. Tomatoes and some onions. And the spice of the day. Is this Chinese five spice. I love this stuff. So usually I would use pork or chicken. When using this spice. But we don't have that. We've got beef instead. So I'm going to give it a go. I'm going to add the onions first. I've got the broth. And I've got the rum. The New Zealand rum. And I'm just going to slice that up. And add it to the pot as well. Onion. Vegetables. Asian veggies. Tapskin. Pepper. Slicering. Salt. Seasoning. And then the secret ingredient. The five spice. Clearly took me ten minutes to flip that. To give it a seasoning like that. And that's just one of my typical meals. So it's been a few hours. And dinner is ready. Doesn't look very pretty. But it smells good. And once it cools down I'm sure it will taste good as well. So it's the end of the day. And I'm here in my reading chair. You may have noticed I have ice. No I didn't hurt myself training. This is actually a computer related injury. I know it sounds kind of dodgy. But for me like I'm spending ten hours a day. If not more. I'm sitting on my computer desk. With my hand in that position. And I noticed that about a week ago. It was just starting to get a bit tight. At the end of the day. So here I am. I see my wrist. From the computer. Which means I'm going to have to look into. I get an ergonomic mouse. You know where your hand is more in a neutral position. And then while I'm here. I also wanted to show you this. The human charger. I actually got sent this. I'm going to take my hand out here. So what it is.  And it literally spits out light. Instead of music.  Now I've heard very good things about this. And very bad things about this. So I'm a bit of a skeptic. Because if there's really bad things. You know you have to ask why. But the idea behind it is. It's very important that the body gets. Bright light. Or blue light. And natural light in the morning. And avoids blue light. You know in the evening. And again you can read all my articles on blue light. And red light and stuff about that. But the idea is this. Is a way to help get some of that. Bright light in the morning. And then the slogan here is sun in your pocket. So yeah. I mean that's what I'm going to be experimenting with. But yeah if you've used one of these as well. Let me know. So it's time for a quality update. It has been three weeks. Maybe four weeks now. That I've been experimenting with this. Pretty much I think I found the sweet spot. Three. A full dose is too much for me. So what I am doing is. Using. Alternated between one third dose. And two third. So I found. One third. It's very very mild. Like. It's even hard to tell. Hard to even know. That you've taken it. When I go over to two thirds. I definitely notice it. There's definitely that little kick. Like the turbine sort of kick in. You know the afterburners. However I do notice with the two third dosage. That I feel a little bit. Of a low period in the afternoon. I spoke to the guys. The R&D guys around this. And they said that happens to a few people. Some people just embrace it. They'll just take ten minutes to go chill. And meditate. Just lie down. I don't really like those afternoon slumps. But some. They also said that it might just. You know. You might move on from it. It may disappear over time. But when you look at some of the ingredients in here. I mean it's pretty impressive. So it is a pretty good supplement. Like it is a pretty good stack. So yeah. That's my take on qualia after a couple of weeks now. So yeah. That's me. So the sun's finally out. Here in New Zealand. Which has been nice. So instead of reading inside of my chair. I've been sitting outside in the sun. Getting some vitamin D. And yeah. This week's book is. Entrepreneur Roller Coaster. By Darren Hardy. I think this is the. Second or maybe third time that I've read it. It's kind of my go-to business book. And I really like it. It's changed the way I run my business. And my goals. That I worked towards. And how I implement systems and procedures. When it comes to hiring. It's been good as well. So check it out. If you are an entrepreneur. Or thinking of getting into.  Then yeah. This is my book of the week. Enjoy. So it's time for training. This week's the short of week. As we're going away. Thursday night. So I'm not going to be able to do my usual. Thursday or Friday night training session. I thought you know what. It's a nice evening. Let's do a little kettlebell workout outside. So I've got my kettlebells out here. And yeah. There's no plan for this. I'm just going to throw in. Some swings. Maybe some get ups. Some push ups. Maybe some kettlebell snatches. Some pressing. Do some weighters carry. One arm weighty carry. Total random stuff today. Do some higher up stuff. Some super sets. Some strength stuff. A little bit of skill stuff as well. So yeah. I'm just going to put this on tap time lapse. And you can sit back and enjoy. And if you've got any questions afterwards. What I actually did. Just let me know. So today's Thursday. And we're meant to be going up north. In a few minutes. I'm running around like a Hitler's trigger. And I just realized I cut myself.  And I'm also... Swimming. Because it's really hot. But yeah. We are heading north today. All the way up to a place called Kirikiri. Which is like the top of the... North Island. Alright. I'm just getting a brain right now. Because we're going to go up there to check out a... A place. Ecovillage is such. We've got our seedlings in here. We're going to stop off at the beach. And we've got a few... At my parents' beach place. And we've got a few seedlings. So we're going to plant them out up there. Yeah. So we're heading way, way up north. Hopefully we get up there. And we like what we see. So I have a great weekend. But that's all for me for now. And I've got to keep packing. So we're here. This is where we're staying tonight. As you can see, we started down here in Yoplameth. We ended up here in Aukinoa tonight. 90Ks of... This is my family's beach place. This is where we live for a couple of months. When we left Australia, moved to New Zealand. Rebecca's already out in the garden. Looking at old gardens. And that's a big silver... Silver big. I didn't realize they got that big. What have you found? Oh, I'm just picking the silver big leaves that are a bit smaller. And feel like they'll be a bit smaller. It's a bit of a construction site at the moment. But the view is pretty good. Depending on when this video goes out, this might be a part one of this road trip north. And part two might be coming in next week's video. Depending on when I edit this and ship it all out and everything. Either way, see you when I see you.


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Zodiac prediction from Liam Montier. What is this? It is basically, Liam has taken the idea of the Zodiac, the birthday that your spectator has, and then combined it with the clock wheel effect, applying a different astrological sign to each card, and then using your spectator's birthday to arrive at their lucky card, and it's a three-stage climax where their lucky card is also your prediction. You want to see the trailer? This is it. Hello Trinnell, how are you doing? I'm good, thanks. Excellent. I've got a little card trick for you. Now, I don't know, have you seen many card tricks before? A couple. A couple of card tricks, that makes sense. Well, before people did card tricks with cards, they were actually used for sort of fortune telling before, even before tarot cards were used for fortune telling. And this is because playing cards have a lot of similarities with the calendar, I guess you would say, in that there's four suits and there's four seasons, and there's 52 cards in a deck, and 52 weeks in a year. And if you add up all the numbers on the deck of cards, it adds up to 365, which is the days in a year. So it's all kind of tied together with the whole calendar and your star sign and that kind of thing. So that's what we're going to try and do a little trick with that. So we'll start off by just, well, I'll leave them here. And I've also got a little handy card here with your star signs on there. So what I'd like you to do is to have a look for your star sign on the list.  And I want you to take that number of cards off the top of the deck. So I'm Gemini, so I would take five cards. And you can hide them in the card box if you like. But I'll turn away while you do that. And I'll try not to listen very hard as well, just so I can't hear how many cards you take. And then just tuck them into the card box or into a pocket, anything you like, and give me a shout when you're ready to rock and roll. Ready to rock and roll. All right, perfect. There we go. So I'm going to give these a little cut. Now, obviously, we don't need an entire pack for this. But what we're going to basically do is now use your number to find your lucky card. Have you ever had a lucky card before? Yeah. Now, so this is a new experience. All right, awesome. So we're going to need 12 cards, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, and 12. And what will happen is we're going to deal them out into a little chart. So this would be number one. This would be number two. This would be number three. We're going to do it like a clock, basically. Four. That would be five. That would be six. And seven here. That would be eight. This would be nine, 10, 11, and 12. So what we're going to do is count round to find out where your lucky card is. Now, obviously, we've not met before, but I would have, and I'm not very good at all this kind of thing normally, but I would have said you struck me as a sort of Virgo. I just said you were Virgo. Is that right? It is. Okay.  So we would count around as if this was a clock to the eighth card. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight would take us here, right? So your lucky card from now for all time is, in this case, the seven of clubs. I had a feeling it would be the seven of clubs. I had a feeling I'd meet a Virgo today and I had a feeling that the lucky card would be the seven of clubs because this isn't just a little card, it's actually an envelope. And inside the envelope is a single card from a different deck. Could you take it out for me and show everybody at home? It is your lucky card, the seven of clubs. Well, that was a fate, but you say, you know, you've had to say that some things are written in the stars and that means that they're fated and they're always going to come true. That was true of your lucky card because it was the only result you could have had. It was all written in the stars from before we began. All right. So that was the zodiac prediction from Liam Montier. A couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get the written instructions and within those written instructions, there is also a download code so you can also download a 12 minute instructional video. There's the little black envelope with the zodiac signs on it that you saw in the commercial and then there's the necessary gaff cards that you will need. How are the angles on this? They are really clean. There's really no angle issues to worry about. It's a straightforward card trick. I don't think you would run the risk of exposing anything if performed correctly. Can it be inspected? No. These cards, there are some gaff cards to this and I only say that because there's just one element that they might want to examine and then you would have to do some dodgy. There's a beginning part where you have the spectator count off a stack of cards and they put those in the card box. If they ask to go back and look at those cards, you wouldn't be able to allow them to do that because they are also gaffs and so there's a little bit of audience management there but for the most part they should end happy and shouldn't even ask. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Big Blind Media makes really good videos. It's only 12 minutes long and so the majority of the video, all of it, is really Liam at the Big Blind Media library set prop with all the books behind him in the Boa Fett mask and he has one spectator that does the trick for her and then runs you through the setup, runs you through the presentation. It's all well-miked and it looks clean. Is it well made? It's all given to you on traditional Riderback 808 stock. How much practice does it require? Very little. This is at its core a deck stack and so if you can do a false shuffle or a false cut and retain your stack, you're good and then pretty much the stack and the pattern, the presentation moves the trick along. If you watch the trick in its entirety from beginning to end, there's really no other secretness to it so it's pretty much just following the deck stack and yeah it's easy. How much setup and reset is there? It is a deck stack like I said at the beginning so this is a great trick to use as an opener or maybe as a closer. The downside is of course with all the gas in it you aren't able to do any other effects with this deck. Positives, what are the positives to Zodiac prediction? Liam has once again created a very fun powerhouse card trick that is not only easy to do but it has the potential to hit hard. Negatives, you know like we say around here there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see.  Just like I said it's a one hit wonder and when you have a deck stack like that with as many gas cards in it as you do, you're just not able to use your deck of cards for anything else. So this would be a good card trick to do maybe in a routine that involves other things like coins or writing down or mentalism or predictions so maybe not a good trick to do in connection with other card tricks. Is it worth your money? It's 25 bucks, it's 25 dollars and I think personally big blind media always goes out of their way to give you more bang for your buck and so just to get the instructions, all the gas cards, the envelope, everything pre-pinted, the video, Liam's teaching definitely worth their money. If this trick appeals to you I would pick it up. Who would like this? People that like card tricks, people that like the clock force or Zodiacs or the mentalism or if that you know fits in your wheelhouse of predicting somebody's star sign, I think if that's your thing this is a great card trick to add to your routine. Alright so that is my review of the Zodiac prediction from Liam Montier and Big Blind Media. As always I want to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this trick for me so that I can do the review for you and if you would like to purchase this trick for yourself you can find it from your favorite Murphy's Magic retailer. Thanks, bye.


I would like to know if you forecast a moment when there will be a passage between fiat currency and cryptocurrency in the world that it's so fast that will be bloods and revolution or will be smooth these passages between the two different systems? That's a great question. History doesn't do smooth. History does punctuated equilibrium. Spurts of innovation, disruption, and chaos, followed by centuries of plateau, followed by spurts of innovation. I think it was Nicolas Negroponte from the MIT Media Club who said, The future is here today. It's just distributed unevenly. The passage from fiat to digital currencies or cryptocurrencies won't happen everywhere. It will happen in the places where the price of remaining with a currency is to lose the generational wealth of your children, where the penalty of pushing against your government is violence. This gives you a mechanism to opt out, where your government has taken you hostage together with the rest of the population in an economically disruptive spiral. I don't know what will happen, but I think in 10 or 15 years we will see moments where governments will try to take their populations hostage. Very large numbers of that population will go, I don't think so. Argentina, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, and many other countries have faced currency challenges, and economic depression because of currency challenges. There is enormous interest in Bitcoin in Argentina, for example. In Venezuela, where they arrested two miners to make an example of them after flooding the media with stories about how Bitcoin is for terrorists, criminals, pedophiles, drug dealers. The problem is that that message doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin doesn't have 550% inflation. When you are faced with that balance, sometimes you say, well, I am going to get out. Today, a tiny portion of the population has the means, education, technical infrastructure, skills, and capital to escape that trap, but one day it will be a big chunk of the population. Then things will happen very rapidly. We will see that. I hope in my lifetime.


Greek philosopher and polymath, Aristotel once said, knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Self-awareness is an essential part of life because the more you know about yourself, the more the tendency to become successful. In this video, I will share with you nine things you need to know about yourself to be successful. 1. What are your strengths? Your strengths are not limited to your physical ability. Strengths are things that come naturally to you, physically, mentally, and in any form. For example, the ability to network with people and build strong teams, or to be able to think of quick solutions in a tense environment is strength. Understanding your strengths keeps you ahead in a lot of things. For instance, if you are looking at career options, you will be able to narrow down specific job scopes based on the items you know you are good at. It also helps you to invest more in personal development. Knowing what you can excel at gives you confidence, which enables you to aim higher and achieve much more. 2. What are your weaknesses? Success in life does not only come from being aware of your strengths, you also ought to know your weaknesses. Weaknesses are areas of your life that you cannot correctly handle. It can be as subtle as not being able to say no, or as direct as being a control freak. Knowing your weaknesses is as important as knowing your strengths. These weaknesses that you often try to leave aside can limit you from chasing after your dreams and achieving many great things in your life. Even though you try to make everyone else believe that you don't have flaws, be careful not to lie to yourself that you are perfect. Knowing your weaknesses gives you a clearer understanding of things that may be holding you back, so you can work around finding ways not to let those weaknesses pull you behind. The good thing about weaknesses is that you can improve on them if you can discover and accept them. 3. What drives you? Do you know how it feels to work on a project that does not excite you? Carrying out a task without having a drive is draining. Chances are you may not be able to complete the job, and even if you do with the help of other people, there will be no sense of fulfillment or satisfaction. Your passion will invigorate you and give life to the things you choose to do. It is what gets you up in the morning and allows you to do what you love. Determining what's driving you forward and what you're busting the gut for will help you set more achievable and meaningful goals. Whereas misinterpreting your motivating factors means that you'll fail to progress. If you want to be successful in life, it is needful for you to answer questions such as where does my passion lie? How can I start getting into doing what I love? 4. What makes you happy? If someone asks you the question, what makes you happy? How would you answer it? Do you know a list of things you can do to pull yourself out of a rut? Things you can do to brighten your day when you're not feeling overwhelmed? Often, we go through our days without actually consciously thinking about our happiness. We'll fail to notice the moments in our days that make us happy. We assume the satisfaction is the big end goal that we are always working our way towards. But the truth is that getting our desired results is much dependent on the mood we are in when we carry our tasks. What makes you happy may be something as simple as a walk on the beach, a freshly brewed pot of tea or being with people you love. If you must reach the peak of your aspirations, you must find out the things that make you happy and apply them along the way. Then and only then will you be fulfilled. 5. Your stressors and healers A lot of individuals do not even know that there is a term called stressors. Whatever can trigger stress or strain you or make you tensed is a stressor. Yes, nobody likes to pass through stress. Its effects are always adverse. Although stress is normal in life, too much of it leads to both physical and mental problems. Thus, it is paramount for you to know what activities stress you and try your best to abstain from them. Apart from your stressors, one thing you should know as well are your healers. Healers are also termed stress responses. These are things that can help reduce stress. Knowing how you respond to stress can help you identify highly stressful situations. Create healthier stress coping habits and help you keep calm and cope better with unavoidable stressful situations. 6. Family medical history Out of personal experience, American self-help author asserted we are what our genetics say we are. A family medical history is a record of health information about a person and his or her close relatives. You can investigate your family's medical history by talking to relatives, beginning with those closest to you, such as your parents, children and brothers and sisters. Although a family medical history shows information about the risks of specific health concerns, having relatives with a medical condition does not mean that an individual will develop that condition. But then, a person with no family history or a disorder may still be at risk of developing that disorder. Even though knowing one's family medical history is vital and allows a person to take steps to reduce his or her risks, it guides you in making changes that will benefit your long-term health. 7. Know your life's purpose An anonymous quote says if you don't know where you are going, you can end up anywhere. Having a goal makes it impossible to exist merely. When you have a definite reason for living or why behind every action, your passions and talents will drive you towards a happy, fulfilling destination. Create a compelling vision and practice daily to see beyond your struggles. Use positive thinking to help you stay on track and take action so you can see your vision come to life. Day by day, you create your future. Make one that you love, one where you can look back and be proud of your story. In the words of a Russian novelist, philosopher and journalist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for. 8. Your love language Everyone speaks different languages to communicate love. Unfortunately, many individuals are oblivious towards understanding the love language they speak. Love language is a term used to describe the way people speak and understand emotional love. Marriage counselor Gary Chapman developed the concept of love languages. Chapman stated that there are five primary love languages in numerous variations. The languages mentioned by Chapman are acts of service, physical touch, quality time, receiving gifts and words of affirmation. Knowing your primary emotional language helps you identify your needs in a relationship and also puts some sense around why partners misinterpreed one another's intentions. 9. Your short-term goal Having a long-term life purpose is not enough. You should know the steps you need to achieve your life's purpose. If you don't have any goals in life, other people will create them for you. It's not enough to know your purpose. You must take the necessary steps to make them a reality. Setting and achieving your sub-goals gives you the motivation needed to reach your long-term vision. There is a need for you to go back to the drawing board to review your already known purpose so that you can know what your short-term goals are at any given time. We should be the ones that know ourselves the best but often it seems like our loved ones know us more than we do. Self-reflection and self-discovery are a huge part of personal development that everyone ought to partake in.


Ahead of the Committee of the Regents' Plenary Session, the EPP Group are meeting to define their priorities. And showing their part of a larger EPP family, they've invited the Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, and the President of the Wilfred Martin Centre for European Studies, Mikolas Zurindas. Together they'll see how local and regional authorities can have an impact on EU policy. Well, the Regents in the European Union are the other Fundament of Europe. There are the citizens, there is a link to the citizens. And for me as Group Leader of the European People's Party in the European Parliament, it's important to profit from the knowledge and from the expertise of the colleagues. So that's why we are working on a strong cooperation. And for the EPP, the Regents are really the Fundament, and that's why we are working on this. No doubt about the reality that local and regional authorities have a significant role in the work of the EPP Group. Management based on multi-level governance increases ownership at the local and regional level. And this is fantastic.


The main feature of those days was the fact that the millennium development goals were sort of central to the discussion. So Ilri had already started looking more at poverty, but during my tenure, we revised the strategy and put a strong emphasis on livestock as a pathway out of poverty. And I think that was one of the major emphasis of the day, very logical with insight. I think the real surprise event for us was avian flu in those days. This we never had in a strategic plan or so, but suddenly avian flu appeared and became a huge challenge to developing countries. And suddenly we got more and more involved in research on avian flu and more broadly on zoonosis. That was, as I say, a complete outlier, which I think at one point probably was about a third of our budget. So it became really important. I think the other thing which was part of the shift during my tenure, I really was very keen to encourage the CGR to think in terms of innovation and innovation systems. And so we established a theme around innovation and hired Jerome Deitman in those days as head of that theme. We had a huge amount of discussion, which I think reflected the science concept of the day. This was seen as too far down the development path, and it was seen as not really core science, which the CGR should be undertaking. So we were I think the first CG center to put it explicitly on the program with a lot of difficulty and also difficulty to fund it. And I mean, I'm pleased to see now that innovation is sort of standard jargon in the CGR system. One of the central tenets of the CG system is that you want to produce global public goods, sort of technology which has broad spillovers widely in the developing world. And sort of the global mandate of Illry helps in that sense to sort of share experiences and knowledge across different parts of the world. But the downside of that is that in reality, agriculture and livestock within agriculture is quite location specific. And that means that you can as a global institute, not be present and actively engaged everywhere. And thus the central issue becomes your partnerships and how you engage NARS, NGOs, ARRIs, advanced research institutes, and also the private sector. And that has always been a challenge for the CG in general, I think, and particularly also for Illry. Livestock is basically private sector and we need a lot more interaction. And in all fairness also the private sector is these days much more interested in investing and involving getting involved in developing country. I think that timing is much more appropriate right now than it was some years back. We have I think learned that the science is just one piece of the process of change of social change and that these are political processes. Winners and losers about every technology, every innovation, every change. And you need to be a much more considerate about the limited role of science in the totality of change. I thought that one of the things which was most interesting therefore many reasons was Iblee, the index based livestock insurance. I think the concept had been around for quite some time. But Illry and with the partnership with Cornell, with Chris Barrett, and other people really put enormous effort over a long period of time into this. I must say I'm impressed that this is one of the innovations which has been most seriously analyzed from a socio-economic and impact point of view. And I think that shows sort of the type of effort it takes to bring about these complex innovation. Another interesting Illry innovation I thought and described in that publication is the issue of master plans for livestock development. I think we tend to think generally as researchers in terms of very specific intervention points. And yes, it's our dream to find a tipping point you can push with one innovation and suddenly create the whole change. The reality is that you need to make many different changes at the same time. I think particularly the present issues like climate change show the complexity of addressing things. These master plans are, as far as I know, a first very serious effort to bring together all range of actors, dimensions which have to be brought in with the leadership of the government in driving this. Large scale innovation like the way crop centers think about it clearly in the livestock sector. The biggest success story is the African brachiaria grasses being developed by Seat in Colombia with very close interaction with Embrapa in Brazil. Basically now covering hundreds of millions of hectares in Latin America and also in other parts of the world. I think that is really the biggest story of also very long term persistent effort very much linked in a way to crop breeding. Now after many years I understand Ilri and Beka are actively promoting these forages in East Africa. The world has changed a lot over this last decade and in many ways livestock has moved from a very peripheral part of the development debate into a very central part of the discussion, particularly around the issues of climate change but also pandemics about nutrition. In many many aspects livestock now is seen as very important dimension to tackle. So I think that the climate change one captures this whole complexity very nicely. If you think of it we now more and more think that you do need to bring down the consumption of red meat in developed countries. There you bring in the whole issue of demand of influencing consumers of nudging them. It's a huge area we see a lot more interest in the developed world in tackling these issues and also in the private sector in investing in addressing this because livestock is big business. So clearly there's a lot more investment there's a lot more activity. And I think the challenge is for the CGR to identify where its contribution at this point in time is. And I think that's a real challenge to figure out in this new world where people really care about climate change about nutrition about food systems. What are the things which international organization of the type of the CGR can really add most value.


Hey you all, welcome back to the channel, Amanda here. Today's topic needs not much introduction, as this has been a stabilization tool using the filmmaking world for decades and beyond, and it's still one of the prominently used gears in the visual creative space, popularly known as the Steadicam. This is a highly specialized mounting device for the camera, with a body mounted vest that is worn by a Steadicam operator. The vest distributes the weight of the camera rig across the body and allows for smoother and more stable movement, giving you the ability to move through scenes and follow actors smoothly, placing the audience in the center of the on-screen activity. The Steadicam was invented by Gary Brown with a groundbreaking debut in 1975 on the set of Bound for Glory. Since the Steadicam was first introduced to the film industry, it has gone through many changes. There have been many different models of the system and brands, and also there have been support stabilization gears to ease the operation for the Steadicam operators. The role of the Steadicam operator requires deep technical knowledge and proficiency, as well as theoretical knowledge on how to move the camera and how to frame shots and how to be able to use the Steadicam properly. Many Steadicam operators attend special training classes to be certified to use the gear. And today we'll be looking at a variety of film tools and work out how to use the Steadicam effectively as a full-body rig, which consists of the vest, arm, and sled, and how to achieve attaching a full Steadicam build on a rickshaw. And as a Steadicam operator myself, I thrive in the possibilities this method presents. So here we are, and we've got a rickshaw with the head mountainous, with the smooth ties, and then I've got my Steadicam sled here with my top monitor and my lower monitor all width balanced. So now I'm going to take my camera, which I told you has my lens on it, my transmitter, which will be sending signal to my monitor. You can see I have from my SDI to my HDMI from my top monitor, my SDI which will be transmitted from here on the body of the Steadicam sled to my down monitor, giving me feed for if I have to go top mode or low mode. So now I'm putting in all of my cords from my monitor to my battery, to my SDI cords, my HDMI to the monitor and both the camera as well. And then I'm going to put on my V-LOG battery that I'll be powering the camera. I really have, we have a power station down here as well. I'll be powering my monitor and my sled. Okay, so now that has been done. I have my camera on my sled. I have it powered. I've got feed on my top mode monitor on my low mode monitor. For a lot of Steadicam operators, they don't put a top monitor on their camera. It's enlightening the weight of their gear on their body. But for me today, since this is a light weighted camera built up, I'm going to have this and the option of both my top and my low monitor.  I need the top forward straight to me and my dynamic balance good. And I need to achieve a three-drop time to be able to do my pan and tilt smoothly for all of my shots. So now from the look of it, I'm not balanced entirely. You can see that my camera is falling forward and I have the back of my camera falling backward, meaning my front load is way much more than what I have at the back of my post. So let's do this. So what I'm going to adjust since I don't have too much, will most likely be my battery down here just for a slight relief for you to stay steady. A lot of times you might not have an assistant. You also have to ensure that you are not too far away from your post. For accident purposes, yes, have a stand back on your combo stand for safety, but as well, do not go far from your post. Do not, I repeat, go far from your post. So now it looks like I have my balance here and I need to check by standing in front of it and also here. So now let's check our drop time because that can really mess you up. Oh, 1,002, 1,003. Oh yes, I have three. So now what's going to happen is I'm going to take off my gimbal from my ducking bracket and safely hang it back while I wear my vest and we get to practice one or two things, one or two shots and see how it is. So now I already have my vest on with my arm. We have camera rigs that can go as high as a 20 kg, like on your sled. It could be way heavier. So having your arm being powered up enough to carry heavy weights, you also have to be very careful of that because if your arm is not carrying, you have your body carrying and that's very, very dangerous for yourself as a steadicam operator if you want to go a long way in the job. This total rig is about 25 kg or a little bit more. My vest and my arm is about 10 kg. This is 5.5, this is a 4.5 and this compensates for why I said it's 24 or 25 kg. So let's do this. So I already have mine and you can see this. Yes. So even if I leave it and I'm just holding this, you can see how balanced I am and I can jump and dance. So it stays. And that's why you should have your balance pose because if you have sets where you have run to catch your cast or catch your actor, then you would need that happening. So that way this is like your only hold and this is just touches to bring back your pose to position. There you have it. Normally this is done on sides by the first camera assistant but I love doing my steadicam build up sometimes with little on assistance. I definitely don't feel like I'm a master by any stretch but I do feel confident about offering up my services professionally. But like any movements get, it is an ongoing thought process and learning curve. Now this speaks for the rickshaw. A large camera setup works with different rigs but how do you achieve this kind of shots? Keeping pace with the action. That's where a rickshaw comes in handy.  So now for the tyres, you will notice that these are like the small tyres and they could work on smooth floors, floorings like this, a studio setup, somewhere without bumpiness and all of that. And then there's also a sand tyre. It's quite big and they would work for you in forest settings, in rough brown settings. Like I said earlier, the rickshaw is versatile too and it just makes operating the steadicam easy because there are shots where you don't necessarily have to wear your vest and walk on the road and all of that when you can have your rickshaw do it. It just makes it easier for all steadicam operators when it comes to situations where we don't have to abuse our body or abuse the usage of the steadicam with our vest on. So now we have two positioning for this sled. There is this side, could be used for different shots. For steadicam operators, you know how this works.  So for comfort, you have this here and then you can turn your post in a way that suits you as convenient for you that your steadicam gimbal could sit on your arm with and then that way it's just your grip guide pushing and pulling and you have your shots in place. So with that being done, voila, I do have this. So what we're going to do is the steadicam will come up here and then it's high right now because there's no load on my arm. But once the steadicam comes here, it drops down. So let me show you what it looks like. And you see, I could decide I want it this way and if I was to turn my, now you see why I said you can't have shots like this facing forward. Like you have a shot in front of you or this is like a side track, this wouldn't work. So that would be a case where you have to readjust your sockets, your head wound to this direction, enough to have your arm here and your post or a steadicam facing in this direction. But in times where you have shots that has to be like forward or in this direction you could have your post in this triangular bracket you see down here. But is it comfort for a shot that I'm going straight? Like I have a shot I'm tracking in front of me. This is great because all I need to do is maintain my position make sure my steadicam is straight and balanced and my grip guide just does pulling and pushing and that's all that needs to be done. So here, you're going to see a shot that was done with a rig shot on this. There's a smooth shot, there's a bumpy shot. There are many examples. I could pull off a movie scenes and set scenes and you'll see how versatile this tool is. Using a steadicam with a rig shot can add dynamic movement and cinematic flair to your shots. This is an awesome tool for sharing the load of camera movement. It is incredibly versatile. This platform can be configured for different camera builds. You can build it with your steadicam, your small rig, your gamebal can also work for you if you're sitting on a rig shot over the shoulder rig or sometimes unheld, which I wouldn't advise for safety purposes except you've got on your safety strap on. The rig shot allows you to move the camera in new and more convenient ways, which can also sit the operator. Special credit to the grip guides who control the motor wheels by pushing, pulling, rotating or moving the rig shot in various direction as required. The rig shot gear is built for different terrain with all sorts of vibration isolators as they come with different tires fit for different terrains. It's truly a versatile gear which requires practice and coordination. Thank you for your audience and for joining on this practical. If you enjoyed this video on county education now, give us a thumbs up, hit that subscribe button, share and don't forget to ring notification bell, which will invite you to our upcoming content. Until next time, improvise, adapt and overcome and I'll see you soon. Bye.