Well, good morning and welcome to the First Unitarian Society. My name is Kelly Aspreuth Jackson and I am one of the ministers here. Today I am joined by my colleague, our affiliated community minister and our guest worship leader for today, the Reverend Andy Carlson, and by the worship team of Linda Warren, Drew Collins and Stephen Gregorius and with special thanks to our guest musician, Brian Rainey. At First Unitarian Society, we question boldly, listen humbly, grow spiritually, act courageously, and love unapologetically. If you are visiting us today, welcome. We are so glad that you are with us. If you would like more information about First Unitarian Society, please stop by the welcome table that's located in the Commons. We hope that you will be able to stay and join us for coffee hour immediately following the service also in the Commons. If you don't know where that is, it's out those doors and to the left. For those of you joining us virtually, welcome to you as well. We are so very glad that you are with us. We hope you will take a moment to watch the announcement slides shown immediately after today's service to learn more about upcoming programs and events. And now I invite you to join me in a moment of silence to center ourselves and bring ourselves fully into this time as we join together once again in community. Just a little less than 20 years ago in a lecture given here in Madison, the author and Unitarian Universalist, Kurt Vonnegut, said a good number of things to his audience and this is one of them. And now I want to tell you about my late Uncle Alex. He was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, among almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, if this isn't nice, I don't know what is. So I do the same now and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn't nice, I don't know what is. Life isn't always easy. And the world isn't always nice. As we gather at this hour, some of us are glad for the gift of existing. And some of us are weary from the trials of living. Some of us, perhaps all of us, are struggling with how to resolve the dynamic tension between the pleasure and the panic of having been born onto this round, wet, crowded earth. But now we get to share in this time together our states of sorrow and joy and uncertainty. If that isn't nice, I don't know what is. I'll invite you to rise in body and or spirit and join me in the words for the kindling of our chalice flame. With the kindling of this flame, we reaffirm our commitment to accept life's gifts with grace and gratitude, and to use them to bless the world in the spirit of love. Now let's sing together our opening hymn, the lone wild bird number 15 in your gray hymn. All right. Well, I'd like to invite anyone who would like to come and join me on the carpet up here to come and join me on the carpet up here. Hello. Good morning. It is very nice to see you. I missed your faces for a couple of weeks. And I am very glad to be back to see them. Hello. Come on down. Yes. Howdy. So, who remembers being born? Yeah? Yeah? A couple of us? Okay. All of us did it, but I know not all of us remember it. So my question to you about being born is, when you were born, what did you believe? Nothing? We got one bid for nothing. Anybody else? We got one bid for argument for nothing. Yes, yes, yes, clear. Food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food. Okay, so I want to make space for the idea that the determination to eat, to consume, to survive is in itself a form of belief. Yeah, I want to make space for that. But it sounds like not a lot of other things going on. Nothing about the transmigration of souls. Nothing about substitutionary atonement. No. Square area of the circle. Square area of the circle, yes. So I think that for the most part, we don't start out with beliefs, but we gain them over time. There are things that we acquire in the course of our lives. Maybe because we get taught them by people in our family or we hear them from other people or maybe we develop them sometimes from experiences that we have that are entirely our own. We have to figure out how to make sense out of them. So here's a thought that I want to share with you which is that the way that we hold the things that we do believe, that we come to believe over time is sort of like we have a bag to put the things we believe in it, all right? So yeah, okay. So there are different ways to hold the bag though, right? Because we could hold the bag, we could put the beliefs that we have in the bag, we could hold the bag, we could crumple up the top of it real tight so that nothing new can get inside. That would be one way to hold the bag from... I see that it's not a popular attitude with this crowd, yes. I'm pleased by that, I will say. So if we like tear a hole in the side of... Okay, well that's a strategy. We could also just open the bag, I mean it's still openable. So it sounds like as a community we have a bias against closing the top of the bag, yes. Okay, cheese, quesadilla, sure. Different metaphor but I accept it. Well the calzone is closed all around there. So, all right, so first option, closed top of the bag, closed minded, cut off from new beliefs, maybe not the way we want to go. What's another way we could do it? Well we could open the bag, all right, we could keep the top open, sounds like we don't really like the closing the top part, but what if I hold it like this? It's not really going to hold anything that way, right? It's just going to be like I'll put something in it and then I just... Well it stands up pretty well that way. But I'm not quite sure what to do with that in the metaphor, I'll be honest with you. So the upside down bag, we're not really feeling that one either. Now what if I take this bag, all right, and instead of opening it up and putting anything inside it, I can make it into a pretty good stick, right? Because I think that's an approach too, right, let's focus on what's in the bag, then I'm telling other people that they're wrong on the basis of what's in your bag. But I think maybe we don't like that one either. So that's the third option. And then the fourth option would be I open the bag, oh I forgot to take the receipt out of that one. I open the bag and I put it in front of me where I can see where it is and I can see what's going into it or what I'm taking out of it and I keep it open but still upright so it can hold new thoughts, new ideas, new beliefs. How do we feel about that one? Bad idea. Bad idea, huh? I'm worried that I've set a pattern and we're not going to be able to pull out it. But you tell me why it's a bad idea. It's a bad idea. A filter. I think the filter is us because we can take ideas out, like the receipt that I forgot to take out. Yeah. I mean it was useful at the time but its utility is over now. And we can choose what to put in and we can choose what to take out. So here's what I want to suggest. It matters what we believe, it matters what each of you believe, right now and in the fullness of your life. The beliefs that we have, they shape the choices we make, they shape the lives that we lead but at least as important, at least as important as what we believe is the way that we believe and what we, yes, Cleo. No but that doesn't have to stop you from doing it. I think we have some outside. Alright so in conclusion, bag better open than closed, bag better right side up than upside down. Also don't hit people with bags. That's an important take away from this lesson. Right now, we're going to send our children to their activities. Friends I invite you now into this time of giving and receiving where we give freely and generously to this offering which sustains and strengthens the work of our community. You will see on the screen that you can donate directly from our website, fussmedicine.org. You'll also see our text to give information there as well. We thank you for your generosity and your faith in this life we create together. Good morning. Good morning. It is awfully good to be here this morning, to be in this community, to have a chance to listen, to hear the joy and the laughter and the obstreperous insights of some of our younger folks and to share this time. So I am just awfully glad to see everyone and to be able to be here with you. I am the Reverend Andy Carlson, I serve as a spiritual care manager and hospital chaplain for UW Health and as Kelly said, I'm the affiliated community minister here. So I'm just hitting my second year at the hospital and I'm hoping to be able to be more engaged with this community in the years to come. So we live in a culture and a society that loves and prioritizes straight lines and linear thinking which promises implicitly and sometimes explicitly that there is a correct way to come to an understanding of a thing and an even more correct way to express how you came to that understanding. But there is more than one valid path towards knowledge and my hope for our time this morning is that in sharing a little piece of my own path and sharing a little about how I have come to a place of peace and trust that my sometimes magpie-like mind is following a deeper pattern as I gradually assemble these bits and oddments, sayings and small epiphanies that become almost like little mantras that taken together help reveal to me a picture of the world and of my place in it. I used to think that I was a math whiz. I had been in accelerated math classes all through elementary and middle school and even though I sometimes got dinged for not showing my work, I felt sure that my aptitude with numbers would someday lead me into a career in science or technology. I could envision myself doing work that I enjoyed that would be a contribution to society in which I thought I would probably make a pretty good living at. I had it all figured out back when I thought I was a math whiz. And then I ran straight into a cognitive brick wall named freshman year geometry class. I spent that year in a fog of baffled and ashamed frustration as my tendency to lean on my intuition and to not worry about showing my work turned every quiz and test into an ordeal. After all, showing one's work is the whole name of the game at that level of geometry. And no matter how much I studied, no matter how many extra credit sheets I turned in, by the end of the year I considered myself lucky to have escaped with a C minus. This is an important story for me for a number of reasons. For one thing, as I was selecting my classes for the next year and agonizing over my fears of taking another math class, my beloved mother Trudy said, well, why don't you take that drawing class you were talking about instead? There's no law that you have to take math every single year. That moment was one of the hinge points of my life. That motherly wisdom set me on a completely different trajectory. And as a plus, I had an absolutely amazing time that year making art instead of struggling through proofs. More pertinent to my topic this morning, that experience taught me so much about how my brain and how my spirit work together. The big picture for me comes so much more quickly and with so much less effort than its constituent parts. And often it happens without much or any conscious thought. The author M. John Harrison once referred to this intuitive unconscious part of his own mind as the deep pilot. And that captures so much of my experience of thought. The other part that I like to think of in my mind is the deep butler who uncomplainingly fetches the odds and ends of information that my magpie mind has squirreled away in the corners and crevices of my mental attic. While I've tried and struggled to strengthen my ability to think in more straightforward, linear, conventional ways, I've also learned to trust the deep pilot because as Harrison says, it is seldom wrong. Even though it can feel scary to trust the outputs of an operating system whose code is unknowable to me, and even though it is a way of thinking that is not seen as valid by our culture's evaluative structures, learning to trust the way my mind and spirit work has been for me an important act of self-love. And as a bonus, a handy side-effect of a mind that automatically picks up factoids like a magnet, picks up scattered nails and screws around a construction site is that I am, as my in-laws can attest, obnoxiously good at trivial pursuit. I am grateful to have been raised, Unitarian Universalist, and to have been raised in this community for so many reasons. And perhaps chief among them is that growing up in a faith where I would have had to start from a creed and set state of beliefs would have been, it's hard for me to imagine what that would have been like to start from a certain point of belief and have everything proceed from there is so backwards to the way that my mind operates, to the way that I experience the world and am in community with others. This faith prioritizes how each of us cares for one another and how we extend that caring into how we are in community with one another. As a worldview, it was so evident, it made sense so naturally and easily to me that I never gave any thought to those in-between steps to the work that I wasn't showing. The whole thing had been set in front of me and it was sufficient and it shaped my life and my choices. And then I found myself in seminary and I found myself applying for chaplain residencies and parish ministry internships and I found myself in the ministerial fellowshiping process and I found myself writing board certification essays and I can tell you with total confidence that there are a lot of processes in becoming a minister and proceeding down that path that don't take, it's just evident for a sufficient answer. Oh boy. I spent a lot of time really kind of questioning, why don't I have a theology? Why doesn't this make sense to me? It was awfully easy to pick up a scorching case of imposter syndrome in the face of all those expectations of a rigorously thought through and expressed systematic theology. I brought that concern to my academic advisor at Star King School for the Ministry, the wonderful institution of which Reverend Kelly and I are both proud graduates. I brought that to my academic advisor, Dr. Gabriela Latini one day and her words were another one of those hinge points in my life. She said lots of these people who can express their theology in very thorough and academic ways, they don't always live out what they say and you are someone who has a lived theology, a lived theology. Thank you. And those words were so life giving to me. They gave me the confidence to keep jumping through the many hoops of ministerial formation as I reverse engineered how I was living into committee friendly language. And they gave me the insight that the deep pilot wasn't just aimlessly storing random strings of words away in my mind, rather that I could trust these things that I've picked up without quite knowing why, that I could trust that they are pieces of a larger picture, that they are tiles of a mosaic whose full image has always been present in my heart and whose details are becoming incrementally more clear and defined. I'll share with you some of my favorites of these pieces that come up most often in my life and in my work as a hospital chaplain. And to be clear I'm not offering these as a prescriptive or proscriptive with either those sentiments but rather as examples that might provoke reflection on what some of your mosaic tiles might be and that might encourage openness to the unlooked for wisdom to which your own deep pilot may be steering you in no particular order. If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. I don't know, well first has everyone seen the new animated Spider-Man movie across the Spider-Verse? And I know some of us have seen it twice. So I don't know if this particular line jumped out on anyone else, but at a certain point early in the movie, Miles Morales, Spider-Man, is having a conversation with his father who's a police officer. He's in his Spider-Man costume so they're incognito to one another. But Miles Morales says to him, if this isn't nice what is? And I almost jumped out of my seat in the movie theater. We heard earlier the story behind this particular piece of wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Uncle Alex who thought that the big problem with people is that we don't often recognize enough when we are happy. To see those words pop out on the big screen was such a delightful surprise to me. I first read them in Vonnegut's very odd novel slash memoir Time Quake. And over the years they've become almost a mindfulness mantra for me, a reminder to attend to the beauty present in each moment. The next little piece, in other words, I don't know, it's a mystery. In the 1998 romance comedy Shakespeare in Love, Jeffrey Rush plays theater owner Phillip Henslow who frequently expresses confidence that things will work out with the beleaguered production that they are struggling to pull off. When pressed as to how exactly things will work out, he invariably replies, I don't know, it's a mystery. And to me that while I, my next point, we'll talk a little bit more about this, while we do have power and choice and agency in our lives, there are also things that just work out sometimes. And there are moments when we can lean back into the divine, into God, into however you name that which is more than all of us, that we can lean back and trust that something will guide us through this moment. Too often we think about faith as synonymous with certainty. And in my experience faith is much more closely tied with doubt because faith is knowing that no matter what the circumstances are there will be some way to make it through and you will not have to do it alone. And that's what comes up for me in those words, I don't know, it's a mystery. So from that to a place of more agency and power, one of the most important tools in my chaplaincy toolkit is the serenity prayer. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. I came to these words as so many others do through the 12-step work of Alcoholics Anonymous. As I was first getting sober, I would recite the serenity prayer over and over as I wrote the waves of anxiety that were the byproduct of my body finding a new chemical equilibrium. Later I would recite the serenity prayer as I wrote out the waves of anxiety that were the byproduct of being in an educational program that I was poorly suited for and that was just absolutely sucking my soul out through my nose. In any case, the words have been significant for me in terms of a tool that helps me center myself but that also remind me that there's no moment in life when we are without choice. And as a chaplain, I can be part of someone finding a place of acceptance, or courage, or even to be a channel of needed but unlooked for wisdom. Another piece that I pull out that somehow has connected itself to the serenity prayer in a true synthesis of the sacred and the profane are the words there is no knowledge that is not power. These words were inscribed on the side of a video game cabinet in the tiny Oberlin College Student Union arcade. That video game was Mortal Combat 3. I have no idea what art designer connected the dots between fatality moves and frantic button mashing but there they were all the same in big yellow letters there is no knowledge that is not power. Along with another phrase from the Spider-Man movies, with great power must come great responsibility. These thoughts remind me that we have the tools we need to make decisions, we have the agency to do it, and that we are held in community with one another, and that we are obliged to use what we have in accountability with our fellow humans. I will share two more little, almost smooth, small stones that I keep in my pocket as part of this mosaic. You can't fix other people's messy lives. This is a line from the 2001 romantic comedy Amelie, which is a story about an extremely shy young woman in Paris who takes up the hobby of trying to improve what she sees as the places of deficiency in the lives of her neighbors. Near the end of the film, one of her targets admonishes her with these words, you can't fix other people's messy lives. Working in the hospital as a chaplain, they have become a reminder for me of the limits of my work, that I am positioned and empowered to accompany and support, to guide at times, but that the lives and decisions of my patients are their own, and that I am not put in their lives to impose what I see as more as necessary. And finally, as a chaplain, I'm often asked to pray with my patients, and particularly to be with them and their families as they die, as they approach the ends of their lives, as the breathing tube is, as they are extubated, as they are taken off life support measures. And over the years, as I've been called to pray extemporaneously with folks, a phrase has kind of crept its way into those end-of-life prayers. Often I'll say, you know, we pray that this beloved grandfather who is returning to you now, God, we pray that his journey home be as natural and as effortless as a river that flows downhill to meet the ocean, and that those of us who are walking or moving with him along that journey, that you help us to care for one another as we journey with him as far as we are able. And it wasn't until last year when we got out our Christmas ornaments and decorations for the season, and I got out the special box of Christmas vinyl records that I realized that those words come from a song in a treasured album in our family, The Muppets' Christmas with John Denver. And I encourage you to track down that album. There's a beautiful song called When the River Meets the Sea. It's written by Paul Williams, the great songwriter who wrote so many of the classic Muppets' songs, and that image of the river that flows downhill to meet the ocean, without even me realizing it, became the core of my wishes for my patients as I walked with them and their families as they breathed their last. You just never know. And so as I draw to a close, I do want to, I don't want to be a downer, but I do want to offer some cautions and some caveats. I'm thinking of another story about intuition, about that act of impulsively or without clear thought, acting on what seemed to be the voice of necessity in the moment. But this is a more recent and destructive story. Now, you may have read about this a few days ago. A young man who was overcome with a spirit of love as he toured the Colosseum in Rome and was moved to carve his and his fiance's name in those ancient Travertine blocks. And I'm sure that in that moment, that act felt like an entirely congruent addition to his life's mosaic. But in context, in context it was clearly an act of solipsistic self-focus, an expression of meaning-making at the expense of a historic architectural treasure and at the expense, even in a small way, at the expense of every future visitor to that place. In all my talk about intuition and the deep pilot and theology, I hope that it's clear that even though this is a story of how I came to better understand myself, that this did not happen in a vacuum. Relying solely on one's own intuitions is a recipe for catastrophe, for inscribing your preconceptions and biases and prejudices into the network of mutuality within which we are all held. Keeping in relationship with one another as we grow, as we discover new details in the mosaics of our lives, we share with others what new small, smooth stone we found to hold in our pockets. Keeping in relationship enriches our understanding of the world and our place in it, helps us to navigate issues of appropriation and patterns of colonialism, and helps us to better know and connect with others. After all, as the old man in the cave at the start of the original Nintendo Entertainment System game Legend of Zelda reminds us, it's dangerous to go alone. Take what you're offered, but hold it and evaluate it in good company as you continue to piece things together. We gather each week carrying with us all the joys, the losses, the celebrations and sorrows of our days. We bring them here knowing they are held in love and in support. We light a candle in mind of the wildfires that continue to burn the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. We think with gratitude of those working and in some cases risking their lives to confront the blaze, with concern for those whose health has been put at risk by their far-ranging smoke, and with grief for the countless non-human animals at hazard from the fires. Making our home together all on the same world, we bear witness to the hardship of its heating. We light a memorial candle for Bonnie Anderson, grandmother of Logan Walsh, who passed from life this past week at the age of 95. Logan tells us that Bonnie was a lifelong Unitarian Universalist and a ferocious free thinker, the person that Logan wanted to be when they grew up. Our hearts go out to them and to all who knew and loved Bonnie. May her memory be for a blessing. We light a candle to mourn the violence in our world, here in our nation and around the globe. We know there are never enough candles to symbolize the pain, hold the anger, and cradle the tears. May this light fuel our passion for change and our hunger for justice. I invite you now to turn both inward and outward and join me in an attitude of meditation and of prayer. 93 million miles, that is the rough average distance that the light from the nearest star, our sun, must cover in order to fall upon the earth through the windows over and around us and onto each of us below. 93 million miles that light has yet to travel to make the conditions for life here possible. To allow a world on which trees can blossom and rain can fall and you and I may live. And the trip it takes across the gulf of space to reach us lasts about eight and a half minutes. 93 million miles seems like an impossible distance to beings such as ourselves with bodies that are infinitely heavier than light and dramatically more slow. But eight and a half minutes is a unit of measure we ourselves can make use of. It is time enough to break a heart with careless cruelty to ruin someone's week or shatter someone's dreams. And it is also long enough to write an email to an old friend or to lose a game of checkers to your seven year old child. In that time you could sing three songs, walk down the hall and introduce yourself to your neighbors in the next apartment or call up your brother and tell him you're sorry. Eight and a half minutes might not be enough time to say everything we want to say but it is enough to start the conversation. It might not be enough to do everything we want to do but it is long enough to begin to do what we must. With the same seconds it takes for the sun's light to reach us. We give the world or some small piece of it a new chance to flourish and grow. In every moment, day and night, light from the sun touches somewhere on the earth. Our world depends on this. We could not be here without it. We could not be here without the moments of kindness and mercy on which our world also depends. Now let's rise and body into our spirit to sing our closing hymn together. Number 22, Dear Weaver of Our Lives Design. Our closing words today come from Dr. Rachel Naomi Rehman. Here's learning how to fix life only to discover at the end of the day that life is not broken. There is a hidden seed of greater wholeness in everyone and everything. And we serve life best when we water it and befriend it. When we listen before we act. In befriending life we do not make things happen according to our own design. We uncover something that is already happening in us and around us and create conditions that enable it. Everything is moving toward its place of wholeness, always struggling against the odds. Everything has a deep dream of itself and its fulfillment. Blessed be. Go in peace and please be seated for the postlude.


Having gone through the exhibition, two things strike me about this event. The first is the deliberate attempt to engage younger Nigerians on the issue of developing national unity. And secondly, the very idea of casting a vision by reflecting our history in a series of photographs that tells our national story as the victories of unity despite diversities and dissension. Some of the pictures I've seen today include the photograph of how the Shita Bay Mosque, the opening event in Lagos, was headlined by Christian leaders who were gradually invited by Muslim leaders to the mosque. Or the other one where Christians formed a protective shield around Muslims at prayer. What these images tell us is that at the core, we Nigerians share the same day. We are exuberant, we are self assured, we are warm and we are fair-minded.


Having discussed lot of things regarding environmental geomechanics, now this is the time to start formally the concepts which are picking up in this domain and I will start discussion on soil-water environment interaction, this is a very contemporary topic which is being studied by lot of people all over the world, until now you have discussed mostly soil-water interaction in your undergraduate course. Remember whatever experiments you have done, you have created an interaction between soil and water starting from the hydrometer test where you allowed water to interact with the soil and then you try to analyze how this interaction occurs and you know how the settlement of the grains of the soils takes place. Beautiful example of soil-water interaction is the Atterbug limits, when soil comes in contact with water, whether it loses its shear strength or not is a very interesting philosophy. Similarly, the plastic limit, shrinkage limit indirectly these are the philosophies which deal with interaction of soils with water and then we have hypothesized liquid limit, plastic limit, shrinkage limit and so on to characterize the soil in a better manner. Similarly compaction characteristics, you know how soil and water when they react with each other, interact with each other and when external stresses, the impact loading comes on them and what happens when the material gets compacted is another interesting example of you know how compaction characteristics can be utilized to define soil-water interaction. So if you look at the compaction curve on the y-axis we plot gamma dry, though we have added water but mathematically we have filtered out the water to convert it into gamma D and we plot gamma D with respect to moisture content. This is also a good example of how soil-water interaction occurs, consolidation is another interesting example you know where soils are saturated and then you are interested in knowing how the pore-water pressure develops when the soil in the saturated state is externally loaded and of course the shear strand theory which all of you are aware of dry soils won't have much shear strength of course you can have shear strength provided they are OC materials, over consolidated materials. Now what I am going to do is I am going to superimpose on soil-water interaction the influence of environment and you must have realized the way I have defined environment is or the attributes of the environment are the nature mostly you know solar cycle, humidity, temperature, pressure, different type of environmental conditions which can be replicated. So now we want to study how soil-water environment interaction occurs and this is you know more comprehensive as compared to the soil-water interaction which you have studied until now. So with this in view to deal with the first of all the definition of soil-water interaction, environment interaction, the natural environment all of you are aware of this how human activities have modified this to man-made environment, we will try to understand what are the components of these two. Then of course what is the response of the soil to environment, different types of environments elevated temperatures, high pressures, low pressures, low temperatures you know different types of chemicals you know coming in contact with the soil in a saturated dry or a semi-saturated form and so on. Then of course we will be talking about the basic concepts, analysis of geomechanics problems. You know how geomechanics, conventional geomechanics deals with the issues what are the basic concepts and after having done all these things we will bulldoze the conventional geomechanics. So we will find out what are the flaws in conventional classical geomechanics which have to be rectified if we want to study soil-water environment interaction in a better manner. I hope by this time must have been clear to you that the conventional subject is not very you know complete, there are a lot of loopholes and I have been specifying and trying to highlight this concept until now so that you assimilate this thought. So let us start with this. Now this is the matrix which I would like to share with you that what is the genesis of soil-water environment interaction. So on one hand we have natural environment and on the second hand we have man-made environment and both of these are influencing the geomicro biosphere if you remember sometime back I had used this word geomicro biosphere which is the complete sphere you know the sustenance occurs in this, geo is something which comes out of the ground, micro biosphere is the one which constitutes most of the processes or most of the mechanisms or the soil mass itself. So if you remember the weathering process of the soils itself could be microbial alright and so this is a genesis of the material. Now what we are trying to understand is that how natural environment and man-made environment influence the geomicro biosphere and to quantify this concept because until now I think we have spoken a lot everything was abstract we have not used any sort of a hypothesis or a theory. People have proposed the particle energy field theory and the pronunciator of this theory was Professor H. Y. Fang who has considered the geometrical the particle which is sitting in an energy field alright. So for a quick example I am sure you must have realized you know how a charge sitting inside a parallel plate capacitor behaves you must have done in your 10 plus 2 physics for that matter even in X-ray cathode tube you know the X-ray beams are traveling and then you have electromagnetic force or electromagnetic field and you have electric field and magnetic field. So this is the electromagnetic field and then you want to find out what is the path traversed by the electron alright these are beautiful examples. So similarly this concept we will now extend to the soils or the geomaterials this could be rocks this could be soils this could be ground water and we want to see what is influence of different types of energy fields and energy fields are going to depict environment alright. And the whole idea is that we would like to use this concept to solve the problems of the environmental geotechnical engineering or geo environmental issues which are bothering the society. Now if you want to deal with this theory basically we have to understand the response of the geomaterials in two forms one is the short term or another one is a long term. So most of the practices of conventional geomechanics were shorter you know the consolidation also was completed within few days but suppose if I want to study in a prolonged manner what is happening after let us say one year of testing of the soil sample in a falling head per meter alright and particularly when the permeant permeant means the fluid which is passing through the soils is not pure water it might be having contaminants and if you remember the attributes of the contaminants which we have defined are elevated temperature very high concentration of chemicals very high radioactivity microbial activity you know it could be charges also electrical charges. So all these things constitute to the a contaminant so imagine a fluid which is having all these attributes is now passing through the porous media and I want to understand the short term and long term behavior of the permeation. So I am sure now with this concept and whatever background I have given to you you can realize this is going to be a very intricate subject to study. So the challenge is how to model the behavior in the short term and long term to by using the particle energy field theory to get the solutions to the problems which we are talking about. Now it so happens that when you are dealing with this particle energy field theory you will realize that the background from different subjects is required you must have got a feel of this the way I have been discussing it is a multidisciplinary subject alright it is not confined to a particular stream as such. So to my knowledge when you deal with particle energy field theory the knowledge of bacteriology we were talking about how bacteria migrate from one place to another place in the porous media and just now I gave you an idea that the fluid which is passing through the porous media in a falling head testing device might be containing pathogens might be containing bacteria might be containing microbes whatever. So I want to see how the concentration the microbes is changing in the porous system with respect to time and with respect to the distance alright. So bacteriology biology chemical engineering climatology, geohydrology geophysics geochemistry hydrogeology mechanics of course you cannot be forgotten microgeology physical chemistry and soil sensors and soil engineering and toxicology. So these are the subjects which have to be you know dealt with when you are talking about the application of particle energy field theory. So this is what explains you know or with this what I am trying to do is I am just trying to set the tone for the discussion on soil water environment interaction. If you try to understand what is meant by the natural environment I think we can define it easily whatever nature had given us a beautiful you know stream of water. If you go about 10, 20, 40 kilometers away from Bombay city you will find very serene environment particularly when it rains it looks so beautiful. And so this type of serenity is getting lost alright because of the whatever genesis we have talked about of the environmental geomechanics. Now this is what we say is atmosphere so atoms you know atmosphere with the vapors or the dust atmosphere consists of the vapors and the dust and we talk about the biosphere. So biosphere is the one in which the flora and fauna survives and this survives because of the oxygen nitrogen and carbon cycle and these cycles are basically the cycle of the nature.  So then we talk about the hydrosphere hydro is water and you know the water is present in different forms and these forms are it could be in the oceans, it could be in the lakes, it could be in the aquifers, it could be in the form of the ice or it could be in the form of the clouds. So if you remember we have talked about all these things frozen state geomechanics deals with the water in different states you know in the geomaterials. We talk about the lithosphere, lithos is the stone alright. So we talk about stones, rocks, soils and hence the natural environment consists of atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and geomicrobiosphere. So what is geomicrobiosphere? This is basically ecosphere which consists of the entire thing. Now what we would like to do is this is something which is of interest to the climatologist those who talk about the climate sciences. Now we are more interested in starting from this as a benchmark you know what has happened because of industrialization, because of overpopulation, because of land you know scarcity, because of the resource scarcity and so on. We would like to understand first what are the natural components, what are the components of the natural environment and then we will try to see how these natural components have got shifted or changed because of the present day civilization. So geomicrobiosphere or the ecosphere talks about the trees, vegetation, roots, bacterial activities in the soils and water and overall response. So sometime back I was citing here that the contemporary geomechanics deals with the soil, root zone, microbes, environment interaction. So if you have studied this editorial which I wrote, you must have realized that this is where the more emphasis is right now and people are trying to understand how vegetation can be utilized for stabilization of the slopes alright, these are bio inspired geotechnical engineering practices. So if roots can you know stabilize the soil and if the soil cover stabilizes the slope can I use this concept to do reverse engineering or bioengineering to make the system stable. So coming to the manmade environment you know what human activities have done, sorry before that I will discuss the cycle of the nature which I am sure you must be aware of. Oxygen cycle is something which is the genesis of the oxides you know which are present in the soils or for that matter in any matter. So most of the time as a geotechnologist we are interested in oxides of silica and alumina and iron and you know magnesium and sodium and potassium and so on. And this is what is analyzed by using XRD analysis, I will talk about this X-ray deflection analysis. So most of the silicates, aluminates, metallic oxides, carbonates, sulphates, nitrates and phosphates which we are using these days in the name of fertilizers or discharges which are coming out of the industries are a good example of oxygen cycle alright. So these materials or the metals got oxygenated, oxidized and hence these oxides are formed. The second thing is nitrogen cycle. So nitrogen is also an element which is useful for the survival of flora and fauna. So this is how we talk about the transfer of nitrogen between the atmosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere in different forms alright. So we use the examples of nitrogen fixation alright. You must have talked about eutrophication of the lakes and the water bodies. Then comes the carbon cycle. So oxidation of the carbon which is present in the material. So carbon dioxide formation and this requires photosynthesis. So this is the natural cycle and I hope you can realize that as a geotechnologist, environmental geotechnologist we try to utilize these cycles in a better manner alright. Just as a refresher I thought I will just discuss these things with you. Now if you take the manmade environment this is quite alarming. So first of all this is the picture you know a dire contrast against what I showed to you sometime back, later, later everywhere and this is how most of the cities can be defined right now. You know in the heart of the city we will have landfills and landfills are the place where the people survive and so on. So what are the components of the manmade environment? You normally talk about the solid phase and the liquid phase alright, gaseous phase as I said we normally do not consider in our subject and this is something which we leave for the environmental scientist or maybe the second logic could be whatever goes in the gaseous phase will come back you know once the precipitation occurs, not a bad idea. So this is the list of you know manmade environment. We have different types of agricultural ways, agriculture was supposed to be a very neat and clean activity but no more because of the dumping of lot of you know manure or the fertilizers. We are over fertilizing the land, we discussed this sometime back you know and what are the social consequences alright, this is shown very well depicted in some of the movies that now nobody is interested in agricultural practices and hence what is happening this so there is a disorder in the society. So any type of agricultural remains create manmade environment, human and animal based I think I gave you ample examples of biosolids the sludges which are coming out of different treatment plants, water treatment plant, sludge treatment plant and I think I cited these examples that the big question is if you do not clean up your lagoons or the septic tanks or the water holding ponds or sewage holding ponds you know you cannot sustain the processes, sustain the society. So sewage has to be treated, water has to be treated and these are the places where the sediments which get deposited in the lagoons or in the ponds are having pathogenic activity, microbial activity, bacterial activity alright. So the question is if I have to clean up these lagoons or the ponds how and where I should dispose the sediments. So this becomes a manmade system I think I cited one example and one of my PhD scholars also worked on this topic Dr. Sushmita Sharma she is presently faculty member at NIT Meghalaya. So we coined this term as SEGS socio economically generated sediments alright there is something interesting which flashed our in our mind let us talk about SEGS SEGS that is socio economically generated sediments. So every country because of its socio economical condition produces the sediments clear and now the big question is where to dispose them. Similarly another example would be biosolids. So biosolids see again the question is they are pathogenic in it. So another issue is you know the biosolids where you are going to dispose them how you are going to handle. So I think I asked you to search on the Google also what is being done with the biosolids particularly in countries like Australia and India we do not have any clues and again these are the sediments which are to be handled by geo technical engineers environmental geo technologies. Like if you go to an STB like today sir they have like all the facilities to treat the sludge and the this biosolids they make like anaerobic like anaerobic processes they do to dewater the sludge and then they make cakes out of it and sell it to people that I have. Everything is confined to the books the fact is this and the treatment also aerobic anaerobic treatment also requires time. Do you think that in our society we have so much time to wait for anything to happen. Imagine the tons and the millions of tons of the discharge which is being done every hour alright. So the ground realities are different you should if you are very serious you should be looking on the net what is happening with these materials and why they are becoming a big issue. So animal waste is also becoming a very big problem particularly related to the agricultural sectors particularly the animal caracas you know after they die what to do with the dead bodies in flash floods particularly there was a situation like this which happened in Bombay a few years back I hope you are aware of this and then the biggest issue was that the lot of animals died and what to do with their caracas. Then of course industrial waste which will be handling separately because this is beyond imagination and the volumes are so big that cannot be discussed in just as a passing remarks. So we will be talking about this separately. Mine waste you must have heard about the acid mine drainage on which jasmine is working. So the acids which comes out of the coal mines and the type of hazard which it creates and the reason is known that most of the time the coal has Fe2S sorry FeS2 iron sulphide and this gets converted to H2SO4 or this could be pyrite also. So these two things might get converted into acids and these acids drain out and they form draining acid draining mines a big problem you cannot leave the mines unattended. Is it possible to collect it and commercially use that acid? Well you can but the biggest question is most of these mines are in remote areas. So that is what the first question is that people like you should be going there or not. You know where the most of the mining is being done in Kokraja district of Asaf. So the volumes of the acids which are getting discharged how to pack them and concentration is a big question. And then purity then the question is somebody has to run an industry to maybe you know create concentrated acids and then use them but again the purity is going to be a big question alright. Your idea is good. So maybe you can think of some startup and you try to convert acid mine drains into acids it can be of some commercial application. What we are trying to do is we are trying to marry the acids which come out of the mines and you want to neutralize some industrial waste by using this concept. This is possible that is the whole concept on which Ghanaraj is working and Jasmine is working. Then comes the nuclear waste of different types I think we have discussed a lot about this and I will not touch upon this now much more because except for citing some examples of what has been done by us in the past and to show how you know guidelines can be developed by scientists to safeguard the geo environment against radio nucleates impregnation. And of course the construction effects you know blasting when you do a lot of destruction occurs tremors micro tremors get produced you do dewatering for different projects and the construction and demolition debris are a very big issue what to do with this city like Bombay. How many multi story buildings you will be having and what is the life of the concrete in city like Bombay you know because of heavy chloride impregnation. So this is the corrosivity of the concrete which I am referring to and every 15th year the building requires refurbishing so the volumes of C and D waste which you are creating or what formative earthquake comes and the buildings get uprooted alright. So how would you handle the C and D waste is a very big question. Now these are the issues which people never thought about earlier but now I am sure that you know society is forcing her to think like this.


Lars Rosen from Hewlett Packer, a distinguished technologist and chief architect of the IT for IT initiative, which is an architecture for IT management. Well, there's a number of things behind it really, why it's different. It's true that I've tried to do this a number of times before, and I was also involved in a previous, more specialized initiative in the telecoms industry called E-TOP, and really we see that there is a parallel, we need the same thing in general IT management. But what is happening right now is this digital IT or new style of IT that is coming to bear because of the big data, the cloud, the mobility, internet of things, etc. And as a consequence of that, the market for management solution needs to address a multi-supplier scenarios, etc. Which is really much more difficult. You can't just buy a best of suite solution that do everything you need to do. It needs to be a lot about having different products working together in different ways. And so there is a sense of urgency in the industry now, which really implies that we can have this consortium of people working together to tackle it. You can't have a single wind attack. And so that's what's different this time around. It stops being a single window that's great, a good architecture, to being something that really the industry needs as a common architectural framework for all things to interoperate on. Well, for sure, I'm employed by Ible Packard and we see an opportunity in doing this. So, I mean, one thing is that if I look at our own product and suite up, and we have a fairly comprehensive suite of products in this area, but as we're working with the industry, with the big consumers of our product, we realize various things about what really needs to change in product suites. In particular, we have a concept in IT for IT called the IT service backbone. And implementing that backbone and being a first mobile or implementing such a thing certainly can be a different shader for HP. So, we have an advantage of working closely with this and really understanding what is needed that can drive our product portfolio. So, yes, absolutely, it's to our own advantage of doing this. But that being said, we also like to contribute to the industry in general that's been part of HP's way of working for many years. We used to call our suite for OpenView, which is an openness. And this is all about being open to interoperability.


Hello everyone, and thank you for being here at this presentation today. We've had two days of our summit right now, we are at the peak, and today is still to come.  We'll talk today about the case of Messina, which is a smart city. I'm Cristiano, product manager at Fujitsu, and I will tell you about the product part And the business side of this case study. Together with me there is Giovanni, researcher at the University of Messina. And he will take care of infrastructure and the demo. So we'll try to have quick demo to show you what we're doing in Messina, and Vitec, senior software engineer at Fujitsu, he will explain the architecture and some challenges we found during the project. So we are talking about Smart City, je taj nekaj internetne vse sprav. Vse, kaj je taj internetne vse, je to, kako se v sekrem se na internetu zavobila. Tukaj, zato nekaj, ko vsi vse internetne vse sreče, nekaj ne bo? Vsi, zelo nekaj. Vsak, da smo, gre prijezno, se vse. Zato, da smo taj nekaj, da se vse internetne vse sprav, zato, na zelo, internetne vse sprav, Kaj je resultat? Zdaj je nekaj idej? Zdaj je biti drge. Zdaj, kako smo povedali, povedali smo iluminacje Tanateros, ko je globalna organizacija in internečno-alusijanica organizacija. Zdaj, kako smo povedali povedali, in tudi je vzveč vzvečanje. Zdaj je vzvečanje, da smo povedali, V 2014, kako se je poživala na vsega zpronovacija, v tudi in kako je inočniko namašnja, je to vso vseza, da si zelo vzajmo in zelo vzajmo, da je to, da neče možemo spruniti ozvodno, na stavnih zelo. Vsek je zelo načo, da je tudi krat, ko se si izvedilo, da smo se videli na kajovar postupno, Kako prizvane potrebe, načinja, krati, nekaj nebezavima, nekaj počke, nekaj nebezavima in tako. Zato včasila prišta vših prizvane potrebe in zelo počke. Načinja prišta in počke izgleda vzelo in tudi začel načinje. Kako počke, nekaj nebezavima, nekaj nebezavima, z tem ještavite na smarstosti, a PayPal je poživljen, tako prindu na tjeovih projektu. M展em z pristrija, kaj podišel se dici zvah. Načal do spremarjosti je glednje, začal se egzitere zaživljenje, da se je poslujeva počet, da��o osredno. Res učliram, je wstajšnja, da je zelo jaz načinje. Se je vzivak, da je inša vzivak, in v sej i do zelo v Sej, izgleda, da je svetne energije, in da je zelo vzivak. In sej sej, da je zelo vse zelo vzivak, in da je nekaj začin, je občanč, da je zelo vzivak, z časem, da smo imeli informacij do vseh vysnev, zelo se podnevna in pošli v eni unifičnej pojanti. This is the goal of stack for things, the second layer that we have. Indeed stack for things serve to connect the devices with the underlying cloud. We are talking about Messina crowdfunding action community, therefore the natural choice for the cloud is open stack. Naredno izprončilo, da smo však odpoljali internet, všeč da se dobro izprončilo, je, da se begražajo o tem, da se dobro izprončilo. Naredno izprončilo, da se dobro izprončilo, je, da se učinimo z sedim informacijem, tukaj analizim večo in tukaj prav, in prišli, da so prišli, da se dobro izprončilo, da bi ne začeli anomali. To je počet, da se početimo Monaska. Se pa najša česká odpunčila, je to, kjer smo v OpenNationala statu začeljene in inenacimente. Preživno je življenje, nekaj nekaj nekaj projče vrte. Vznikam, da je vznik v Missina.  Tako, da je to, da je zelo vse, da se zelo vse za tudi, da je tudi projekte, ko se je zelo vse. Uživljamo mobilitve in turizme. Vse je, da je to projekte, zelo vse, je vse, da se zelo vse. Zdaj značimo, da se v Jovani, kaj prič nekaj izgleda o infrastruktučnih, zelo da bomo izgleda demo. Tako, prvič, če je tudi izgleda, da je Kristjano, tudi je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi zgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgleda, če je tudi izgled Notevision twentyman delun, če je toveno kratil, finšquer damov, čekaj extra roz Шild, da obaj sm�anti prokrichten i.o. the pins available on the system, so being able really to attach any kind of sensor very easily because it's really a plug-and-play experience and in this case we are talking about thermistors, about brightness sensors, about sensors for noise, environmental noise and so on. But this is just the first kind of devices involved. We are expanding on to different, other, more powerful systems. We already have used in the field Raspberry Pi and other systems which are, let's say, under the single board computer category. But we are also expanding on the mobiles, in the sense that the mobiles are meant to be part of the infrastructures we'll see in a moment. So, in terms of the architecture, this is the board-side architecture, so we have really what is called the lightning rod, which is really the agent on the board, which is its main goal, of course, is to interconnect the device with the cloud. What it does is it is able to, of course, receive and send data, comments, streams. It's also able to instantiate virtual networks, but this is something more advanced than at the moment is prototypical and it's only available on a special flavor of this environment, which is not JS-based prototype. But the main goal, especially talking today, is about being able to really change at runtime the purpose of the device, so having a plugin loading system. So really what we call a Stack for Things plugin is just a way to really have user-level business logic, which can be deployed, we say, injected at runtime on these devices. And, of course, okay, we'll skip the lower layers, because they are dependent, of course, on the particular system we are talking about. In this case, there is an abstraction layer, which is file system-based, and it is based on a kernel module for Linux, which exposes GPIO, really, as virtual files on a sys.fsp. So this is the cloud-side architecture. This is the architecture of what we call Iotronic. Sorry for the pun, but it was not really intended. It was a sort of a code name for the project. It got stuck. But anyway, the idea was exactly that, in the sense that we wanted to have these devices as bare metal of the infrastructure. Of course, distributed infrastructure. And so we really modelled that after, of course, an open stack service, so it's really defined as such. We have, of course, the APIs, which are available through a command line client, and through a dashboard we'll see now. So through the web browser. We have the conductor, which is really the core of the system. So, really, what is tasked with ingesting, of course, API calls to dispatch really messages among different components. We'll see now in a moment. And, of course, to persist on the database all the information concerning the metadata concerning the IoT devices. So, really, the identifiers and other metadata, which is useful for the user. In this diagram, there's a part, which is already available in the open stack compliant service, which is the one page agent, which is tasked with the data and command stream, as we have said in the previous slide. And the part, the tunnel agent, which is really meant for the networking part, the more advanced tunneling system. Both are based on web sockets technology. In fact, it's WS tunnel. And WAMP, which is really a sub-protocol of web sockets. And its purpose is to provide, publish, subscribe system, and also root at RPC. And so, now we get to the demo. Hopefully. I hope everything goes well. OK. Not now, I'll tell you. OK. First of all, let's see if we have devices already available. OK. Let's first switch then on the dashboards. OK. First of all, the interaction on the dashboard we just mentioned. We have a new panel, which is called IoT. This is where we can see information concerning the boards, as we have seen. So, as we have said, so we have here Boston 6, 11, 39, and 48. At the moment, we see that they are offline, but because they didn't connect, now it's in a moment. But anyway, here we have the descriptions of metadata about the system, like the kind of device or a unit. We have the location. And then we have a list of plugins we'll see in a moment. What we can do here is, of course, OK, also looking up the information for the geolocation. And we can create a new board in the sense that we can really put up a new board, which is meant to be an instance of a board, which will get really populated when the board really gets switched on and registers to the cloud. We can delete boards. We can remove plugins from the board. And now we switch to the plugin list. Here we see the plugins. We have the owners of the plugin, in this case, for instance, the admin, public if they can be visible for all the users. Callable means that the kind of plugins, which really are callable, so true, are those, which are really sort of an RPC. So we really have to inject that kind of plugin, and then call and receive the response back. Whereas we have what we call asynchronous plugins, where we can inject the plugin, we can start, stop that. And, of course, for any plugin we can remove from the board. And we can click on a plugin and see the information about the plugin, including, of course, the code. And the user, of course, this is user level code. So as a user, I can create a plugin and copy-paste the code I have. OK. And in terms of identity, as well, we have a project, which is called Boston. We have users, including one under my name. But what I want to see is that we have new roles, which are especially meant for this kind of treatment. So we have an admin of an IoT project and a manager of an IoT project. Then we get to the monitoring part. This is really the monaska panel integrated in Horizon. And here we have the links to the metrics, the board's health, the monaska health and the log management. And here the services should appear. Can we switch on the clips? No. No, as we switch on the clips. Because it is not working. Where is the clip? No, as we switch on the clip. The offline. No, it is not working. OK. This is not working. OK. Sorry. It was just a network problem. A network problem, but it's no way. OK. So just leave us. We saw something similar this morning during the keynote. OK. So just a few seconds. OK. Anyway, good we can at least see it live. We'll see now in the monitoring section the boards coming up. Of course, let's give them some time. Just to give some perspective while we wait for this kind of devices. OK. Here, look, there we have a way to see. These are what are called linino boards, because there is really a linino environment, which is really a sort of a flavor of a minimal Linux distro. In particular, it is derived from OpenWRT, which is famous for routers. But maybe it's because we need to. OK. OK. Now we are injecting the monaska plugin. Let's see the boards first. OK. The boards are still not connected. Let's switch to the clips. OK. Let's switch to the clips that we have recorded, because problems happen. So anyway, you can see here, I'll try to skim through the parts. OK. Here I'm doing what I was expected to be doing. So I inject the monaska plugin, which is really a plugin meant for, as you can see, sending metrics, and we have a polling time. It is meant to be different for each board in order to have, let's say, different timings, because it's a part of the demo, as we'll see in a moment. So 25, 20, 15, 10 seconds. OK. Then here we have the graphs. OK. Here we have, for instance, OK. What was called the boards health. So also the monitoring with respect to the resources. So in this case, CPU load run pressure. And, OK. Here we see, OK. What we would have, OK, is this. We would have this one. So you see that we have really the green ones, which are the ones which are online and are monitored. So then we can see that we have arms. And you can see that the status is OK. Alarms which are custom configurable, in particular configured for a certain threshold over, for instance, temperature, which was the reason for the lighter. And, OK. Here we get also to the visualization stages. So back to Grafana. So, OK. Here we have some heat maps. We also have the real time graphs. We can't see them because they are not in the recorded video. You have the monaska health. Monaska health is really the health of the monaska system, really the monaska service in the cloud. And, OK. Here we have, sorry, we have Kibana, which was the log management part. In the log management part we can filter, for instance, the kind of device by log level, for instance, and then as we can see by host name. And so have a look at a specific board where we also have encoded as messages the measurements to have another avenue to really have data streamed and persisted. And, OK. Let's go bit forward. And, OK. OK. The ultimate goal also on the Kibana side in terms of visualization was having a look at the four boards all over Boston with different kind of dimension of the circles and of the shade. And, meaning, of course, the count, the number of samples arriving. So the idea is, as we can see now, with the lighter part of the limo, that we, OK. So just to give an explanation here we have also the logs in real time over the shell to look at them. What happens is, OK. I light one of the temperature sensor. Light just put near the temperature sensor. But the idea is that one of these really upon triggering of a certain event in this case a threshold over 30 degrees, for instance. Just in a moment. The logic in the plugin was, OK. Please restart, reload the plugin in the other nodes in the area with a different polling time. Really a quicker frequency because we are talking about a critical event. It could be a sort of, let's say, a fire incident. And so we want to be sure that we are tracking really the phenomenon. OK. And so we can see that there is a rebooting you can see. I will stop at a moment just to have you look. And so we are restarting the plugins in the other systems. And so, OK. We can also see that there is the alarm. We can see that there are spikes over the whole graphs. And we can see also that the count increases more quickly in the boards and they tend to be more leveled. Of course, it's not that dramatic this way, but you get the idea. OK. Then, OK. The counter, we have shown that. So we can skip this one. So this was just to give a bit of a context from where we started. Cristiano told you that we had this smart microfunding initiative. What we had is, OK, we have at least issues with visualization because we have a sort of built-in solution. Solution we built, we developed in-house. And so we wanted really to have something more powerful. This is really the kind of dashboard that we built on our own. And so we have, of course, the measurements. We have the historical data. We have ways also to see. Let me check here again. OK, that was to... Have you seen that also on our map we had the update of the data? But what I wanted to really show you was that really we have... OK, here maybe, yeah. Here is again our home page and the dashboard we have for SmartMe. But here we can really zoom in, have the data. We have the last sample. We have historical data. We have some grafing also here. But it's not real time. This is just, OK, this is connected to an open data system in order at least to have a way to really make it public for government and other interested citizens. OK, and that's it for this one. Just a quick... OK, not here. Let me have a look here. Just a quick look at the other system that I told you before, the standalone version of Iotronic. This one has some more advanced functionalities. Just to know about, we, for instance, have the possibility to put this H in the system through the cloud by attaining the system. And we have sort of a very little version of network management system resembling, in a sense, neutron, in a sense that we put up virtual lines among this system over WAN and so we are able really to interconnect these systems and think it's done with them, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, so in case of smart city implementations, I think it's quite obvious that with time your environment will grow. You will get more objects to observe, you will have more devices for measurements. So you need a solution, a scalable solution to collect all this data, to organize it, analyze it, and visualize. Because stack for things already integrates with open stack, Monaska is a natural choice to achieve these tasks. And Monaska stands for monitoring and logging as a service at scale. And indeed we put this on high performance, scalability and thought tolerance. We achieve it by design. Monaska follows microservice message queue architecture. We have a number of big data technologies which we use, like for example Apache Kafka massively scalable message queue well established in big data projects. It is highly performance. It can handle millions of messages per second. Then we have threshold engine, which uses Apache storm. It is distributed streaming processing calculation framework. We use it to evaluate alarm expressions in the threshold engine. And then we have inflex DB to start the measurements. It is at the moment one of the most performance open source time series databases. Last year, end of last year, they published the results of the benchmarks. On single AWS instance, they measured 900,000 values per second right throughput. I will not go into detail to all the components. In this diagram, we can see at the top that the agent is in that case a custom agent because of the resources which are on the board. It is installed on the device. It collects the measurements and also monitors the healthiness of the system. We also have at the top left the dashboard which you have seen and we integrate with Grafana dashboard so you can visualize your data. One feature I would like to focus a little on is that in the context of IoT measurements the measurements they are different from when you are monitoring an open stack system for example so they don't come in regular periods of time you have long periods when you get just a few measurements, you have other periods where you get many measurements and with the traditional aggregation functions which we use in monoscolic average some min max you also need a constant evaluation period to evaluate the alarm expression and to handle this sporadic occasional metrics we use the last function we just we don't need then this evaluation period we just take the last measurement which is known and it also has the advantage that the transition if the threshold is exceeded occurs immediately the measurement comes in alright, that's all for me alright so then for next time we take care that all the cables are flagged in advance so we will try next time to the weather I want to tell you about the current status and the next steps of this project we are working on 6 projects European projects for about 60 billion dollars and we will do that for the next following months we see that there are more and more projects and products that we want to integrate so we are growing there are more use cases, more challenges that are arising and therefore we think that combining our projects with other open stack projects could be a good solution for us also in the next future what we want to do is one of the issues that we see is deploying applications in the devices and in the cloud so what we want to do is to monitoring all this information so from the application point of view that leads us to the end of this presentation just wrapping up we have seen the case study architecture, sort of demo and the next steps and right now I think we have a little bit time for questions and answers if you want, if you have any questions could you please speak to the microphone Yuri Kutan, I'm just wondering what did you exactly use for the threshold processing? as I said we use Apache Storm so the component we use is called monaska threshold and it uses Apache Storm and it's just some sort of straight forward linear threshold setting not like correlation or whatever no so you can create compound alarms defining alarm expressions for different metrics you can do that combine them with logical operators but we don't do really correlation ok, thank you one of the example of what we do is complex event processing where we combine different types of metrics different types of logs all together and create an alarm on top of that good question on the monaska how it is different than cilometer? I'm just trying to figure out what it is collecting and cilometer also kind of similar style so what would be the difference between cilometer and monaska? technically with monaska you are able to have much finer granularity of your measurements you can collect like every 5 seconds measurement over a long period of time and you can store all this data the system is really performant so you cannot achieve this with cilometer another question we are good and great thank you very much


All right, I don't think I have time to read all of them, so I'm just going to go ahead. So I'm here to announce the birth of a new conference called ITC or Information Threaty Cryptography. So this is a conference that's dedicated to studying security for computationally unbounded adversary, so either techniques that deal with computationally unbounded adversaries or security properties that can handle computationally unbounded adversaries. We really think about this in a very broad sense, so any work that has some interesting information theoretic component, even if the final result is computational, is definitely within scope and we're interested. So the first conference will be held in 2020 in Boston in June and the submission is on December 16. I really encourage you to submit your best work and come and attend the conference. Just a little bit more information. So here's some topics, example topics that would be appropriate, that we're looking for. Things like randomness extraction, privacy amplification, secret sharing, private information retrieval, locality codeable codes, party computation, proof systems, etc. Here's the steering committee, which is also the set of authors on the talks. You can see it on the printed sheet and I said before ITC 2020 will be in Boston. I'm the program chair in the IL and NNM are the general chairs. And what they want to tell you about the conference, the structure of the conference, the program will actually consist of two tracks. So there's the usual conference paper track, which will consist of accepted papers that will be published in proceedings or the usual thing that you expect conferences, but in addition we'll have a lot of invited talks that are meant to represent the greatest hits results in the area and these will be selected by the program committee, but we're encouraging the community to nominate topics, to nominate results for these greatest hits talks. So please send in your nominations as well, thank you.