Okay. Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming. So we are the people from Nouveau who are actually at FOSDEM today. So there's Carol Herp, the new hire from Red Hat, working full-time on Nouveau. Then there's Pierre Moro, who is also working on Nouveau, but from the community aspect. I mean, as a community member, it doesn't get paid for it, but it's something that he's been doing also related to his PhD in graphics, ish. And I'm Martin Perez. I'm an Intel developer, but I also am allowed to work on my spare time on Nouveau. So this work has nothing to do with Intel. So this is the legal disclaimer. I'm safe now. Okay. And I'm going to hand over the mic to Carol. So, yeah, short summary about what we want to talk about. First, I will give a short summary introduction about Nouveau. Then I will head on to talk about Pascal support and what we were working on regarding power management. Pierre wants to talk about users-based stuff like graphics and compute and so on. And then Martin wants to finish up with community stuff and the conclusion we have about things. Yeah, so Nouveau is like the open-source driver for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux. And because it's usually used as a default driver for NVIDIA GPUs, we want to provide a good out-of-box experience for the end-user using their machines. And what we actually also want to have is that users are able to use it for games and also compute workloads, which sometimes works and for some games it doesn't work out so well. We want to work on this. So we support most of the NVIDIA GPUs since all of those since 1998. We have 2D and 3D acceleration working on GPUs since 2003. And non-officially we support up to OpenGL 4.5. There are some trademark issues so we aren't able to expose this yet. And there's also like the work, somebody worked on DirectX9 support through Wine. So it's also nice. And we are able to do accelerated video decoding on GPUs between 2004 and 2013. So talking about Pascal now, it's like the current generation of desktop GPUs which were released 2 years ago. And it's so far the most locked down NVIDIA GPUs. So we really can't do much on those because you need sign from a sign stuff or lots of stuff. So what we currently support thing is mode setting which you kind of need for display stuff and all the basic graphics to get something on the screen. So this is nice that this works. We also have 2D and 3D acceleration. But we kind of had to wait for one year or more for this because we need signed firmware to really do it in efficient enough way so users can actually use this. And we are also able to read out like the temperature on those GPUs. Just one thing. The reason why we have to wait is because they are signed PMOS so only NVIDIA can put them out. So that is why. Yeah. Otherwise on GPUs before that we wrote the firmware ourselves and we can just use our firmware but not on Pascal and also not on Maxwell. But those issues now are more likely now. They are more related to Pascal in general. We can't change the fan speeds. We can't reclock the GPUs. We can't change the video bias which we need to figure out what the bits and the video bias are there for. So we basically just switch something and see what difference it makes for the NVIDIA driver so we can't do this. And we are also not able to read out the current power consumption which we need for power capping stuff like this. So adding on to power management. Ludpaul from where it was working on clock gating which is kind of a feature to turn off certain parts of the GPU to reduce the power consumption which is a nice thing for laptops which is also a little bit important for performance because you can have higher clocks and more performance this way. We hope to get it landed for Kepler in a few weeks or days. Martin was working on fan management stuff over the last years. Kind of like obviously we needed to have higher fan speeds on temperature. It supported pretty well on most GPUs and there were those kind of rare GPUs where there's a weird fan calibration we have to do and since now we don't really were able to figure it out Martin did some good work on this but he says it makes no sense. But it's important because there are some users with really loud fans and it's super annoying. And we hope that NVIDIA is about to release some documentation on this so maybe we get with a working solution for this soon. Ben, Roy and I were working on the clocking stuff. We supported for Tesla and Kepler GPUs pretty well and there's some ongoing work on Fermi which I hope will be visible to users this year. There was some pretty good stuff done this year so it's nice. I was also working on thermal throttling which is kind of needed like if we come to a good performance on GPUs it might be that the GPU is getting pretty hot so it's nice to be able to reduce the clocks in those cases and for on-demand clocking we also need to figure out on the GPU how much of the GPUs you use and what loads there are so I was also working on this. Power monitoring is important in case you have like your self-built system or whatever and you really have to be aware of the power consumption of the GPU so what we have to do is we have to figure out what it's like the official power consumption on the GPU and we have to be like kept us that we don't go above this so I was also working on this. So now I'll be talking about user space and mainly the graphics part and OpenCL as well what's been happening in the past year or so. So I'm not going to talk about Tesla because Tesla hardware was released in 2007-2009 and is only capable of OpenGL 3.3 so there has been no progress to higher version of OpenGL because of that but on the other hand, Fermi hardware and more recent hardware they can handle higher versions of OpenGL and OpenGL 4.1, 4.3 and 4.5 have been landing in the past years. However, since OpenGL 4.4 to advertise their support you need to pass the conformance test use from Kronos and you need to submit results from that conformance in order to advertise 4.4 and that hasn't been done for Nouveau so we don't advertise 4.4 and 4.5 so by default you will get OpenGL 4.3. Just on this topic there's been a collaboration between Kronos and Exor foundation so as open source drivers could submit conformance tests or results without paying because usually you would be paying thousands of dollars which we do not have as well we're just open source developers so this is a good shout out to Kronos because that's very appreciated and that's it. And conformance test use is also now open source so we can run it. So most of it at least should be open source. Regarding Vulkan so Carol has been working on the NERD2 NVIRA transition pass which so Intel has been working on SPERV to NERD so if we can get NERD2 NVIRA which is the intermediate representation we use in Nouveau then we'll be able to invest SPERV which is needed for Vulkan support and also for OpenGL 4.6 before you could use SPERV through an extension but in 4.6 it's a core feature so we need that support and hopefully there might be some basic Vulkan driver this year there is some work that needs to be done in the kernel part and then it's implementing the API. So now on to computers we're going to talk a bit more about SPERV so as I said SPERV is being used in Vulkan and OpenGL but it's also now used in OpenCL so before in OpenCL 1.2 and 2.0 you have to use an extension to use it but in 2.1 it's now a core feature so I've been working on adding SPERV support to Clover which is the OpenCL implementation in MESA so if currently there is only one driver with which you can use Clover which is the Radian driver possibly Radian SI as well which is currently using the LLVM Intermediate representation for representing the kernels but I've been switching it to SPERV so that makes interesting SPERV directly also easier so if you want to test that out there are two versions to the mailing list already and there is a third version that's been working on you will need those softwares on the slide and I'll put a more detailed explanation on how to do things and add the link to the event webpage so you can more easily get that working on your computer if you want to try it out but I've also been working on OpenCL support for Nuvo through SPERV as well so instead of going from SPERV to NER and then to NVIR I've been working on translating SPERV directly to NVIR so what's the current status for that so most arithmetic relation bits operations are supported as well as atomics and conversions operations you can call functions and you can use basic control flow like if, else, statements and loops ImageReport is a work in progress it's not there yet but getting there there's some more memory operations that need to be implemented and what's still missing it's mainly group operations and a lot of OpenCL specific operations even though Carol already implemented a few of them so OpenCL also has conformance testutes which is open source so currently I've been running the test basic which test basic operations you can do in OpenCL try to have a broad of a view of what's possible and you have 36 out of 95 tests that passes but 27 of the failing ones are image related so once the image supports lands the passing rate should get improved by quite a bit and if you want to try that out it's about the same prerequisite as for the pervy stuff in Clover with difference on the branch which isn't pushed out yet but I'll do that soon and regarding hardware status Tesla needs some more love on the memory management but otherwise other families should work Maxwell and Pascal might need a little bit more tweaking but basic stuff should work there and now I'll let Martin talk about the community okay I'm surprised that we are really on the time that we are expecting surprising so yeah, well I'm going to talk about the current members and the history that we've had with NVIDIA which is very interesting so right now we have three Red Hat developers working on Nouveau it's a huge improvement we used to have only Benskegs working on it for I don't know the past 10 years and then Liudpol got hired I think it was last year he's been working not full-time on Nouveau but he's been helping quite oh yeah she, sorry and yeah there's been well good work there and then Carol has been hired this year last year oh yes you're right darn it it's 2018 now okay last year a couple of months ago yeah so now he's working full-time on reclocking, MESA or computer related stuff it's not super clear it's generally working on what is needed to be worked on which is good it's exactly what we need but we also have community members so not everyone is listed but that's the main ones so RISCid, I'm not sure how to pronounce this it's Australian so he's been working on the tooling so IGT or ShaderDB so that's pretty good hopefully Nouveau is going to get yeah IGT working quite well on it and he's been also working on thermal management he really wants to get he has a laptop with a Pascal GPU and he would like to get it to work as well as possible then Ilia American is a top star MESA developer he's been working on the hardest features for OpenGL and he's really doing an excellent job unfortunately we had Samuel Pitoise last year or two years ago working and doing a lot of development for Nouveau but he got hired by Valve and he's not working mostly on Radeon but he's still here for reviews and things like this so it's still nice to have him so there's Pierre Moro me, I'm doing mostly fan management and power management that's what I've been doing for the past eight years but fan management is the only thing that actually works the rest is well not even for everyone but yeah so I mean that's unfortunate but this is what fan management and power management is how many ways do you need to dig a hole well apparently for fan management about ten ways in ten years that would be good Roy Split is also working on DVFS or reclocking related stuff and compile optimizations so yeah Roy started at the same time as me so in 2010 still working on it and well maybe you someone in the room would be interested in the stream to join us but I'm going to talk a bit later about this so now on to the relationship we have with NVIDIA so in 2013 we had the first real contact really for Nouveau the first real real contact was when they said that they would not hand the rest but not help us but in 2013 which is already good in 2013 they brought some documentation with them at XDC and yeah it was NDA free so we could just use it any way we want and we got an email contact with email questions and it's been working it's not fast but it's been working so that is nice and they are willing to improve the out-of-the-box experience on Nouveau which is the same objective that we have in 2015 they had a new NVIDIA developer who got hired just to work on Nouveau or most of it, most of his time and he had his support for the Tegra K1 X1 and X2 in Nouveau which is really nice because it even led to a product that was based on Nouveau that I don't think a lot of people know and that is very interesting because we would not have thought about this but good and he also wrote the Secure Boot for Maxwell which is all this Firmware signed Firmware procedure how to upload it and how to get everything ready it's black magic of course and it's highly un-debuggable for the right information so that was very valuable unfortunately he left last year the company and since then the contributions have been way lower I mean it's to be expected as the organization reorganizes to provide the same output but apparently 2018 is a new hope because we started by getting a new documentation done for the VBIOS table and I'm going to talk about this a bit after yeah so this is going to be very useful and I also asked them for help on the weird fan management issue because I just couldn't figure it out it really is nuts okay so about almost the last slide Maxwell two GPUs are Pascal are the most locked GPUs that you can think of probably you can't do anything without a Firmware so accelerated graphics it takes us about about a year to get so when you've got a release of a certain GPU it's going to take about a year for us to get the Firmware ready and that's consistent throughout the last three years so hopefully it's going to improve then the fan management well really we can't do anything unless the Firmware is provided there's multiple engines and one of them is really crucial for power management and this crucial Firmware we do not have except for a couple of platforms, the Tegra ones so we are pretty much stuck for fan management reclocking, power reading and then the last one is really important the VBIOS reverse engineering we cannot do if the way we've been doing reverse engineering of these VBIOS is by as Carol said we just change bits in 64 kilobyte binary we just look at what output we get and so that's what we've been doing since forever to reverse engineer what the BIOS was about and well we can't do that anymore starting from Maxwell too so how do we add support? so luckily they don't change a lot of things so you can start guessing things you can look at numbers like this 3000 here looks like the clock it could be a clock but then we can't verify what is going to be the limits and if it really is that and nothing else so that's why we really need documentation from NVIDIA now on the BIOS like full documentation of the BIOS it's not going to be perfect because of course documentation is never but at least we will have a better clue of what is going on but related to the BIOS documentation they release the website that allows you to sign your Firmware and apparently even some NVIDIA developers didn't even know about it and we heard about it last week so there's something going on it looks like in July 2017 so it's not new it's not new okay so what Arthur said that six months ago the website got introduced and it doesn't know what it is about I think it's mostly used by overclockers and stuff like this just changing the video bias to get higher clocks and so on so I think that's the main reason yeah so for us it still is going to be a pain because we used to test I mean I have scripts that automatically change numbers and then update I mean and reload the BIOS and then reload the driver and start X again and get some values and then go down and I do this like every four seconds for weeks at a time so if I need to ask the system to sign stuff all the time there's no way it's going to work but anyway, no way is improving it's still the default driver on all distributions the GL driver is in pretty good shape with OpenGL 4.4 and 4.5 coming as soon as we can get the CTS failures down to zero performance need to improve for 4K displays and it's unfortunate without reclocking it's not going to be possible so we have a lot of work there but the power efficiency for laptop users is going to improve thanks to the reclock gating patches that I reviewed last week so hopefully they're going to land and yeah so please join the fun because we are an interesting team distributed everywhere there's a lot of challenges in basically every aspect and if you're a student then you could join us through the Google server of code for the Xorg foundation and less vacation of code and yeah we'll make sure that we have products for projects for you see the corporate guy here now then that is it any question I want to tell a little bit about the g-talk stuff I took some time and I just I think throw out like 10 project ideas on the website so if somebody is interested look there there are lots of ideas so we are quite sure it is it is possible to extract a firmware from the binary driver but I think the people who was looking into this was like yeah I don't like no idea where it is and it's like stored in a way it's not fun to extract so there are ways but and even if we do extract it in a hacky way we can't redistribute it so that's a problem we cannot redistribute the binary so what are you saying is that we could have a script that extracts it from the proprietary driver and then deploys it on your yeah exactly so we actually have this for video decoding and unfortunately it's not easy to generalize it for these PMOS they are not stored in the same way and obviously they've been trying to hide it it may even be not signed encrypted but the key somewhere else the thing is it's obfuscated that's for sure any other question ask us later yeah you can come to us and we'll stay outside so you can answer your question


So we are here on the OpenSUSE Estall and who are you? I'm Douglas DeMiles. And what are you showing on the SUSE Estall today? So basically with the SUSE booth here we've brought a various collection of our projects. We have the OBS OpenBuild service, someone made that and so we thought it'd be pretty cool to just support that creativity and made a sticker to go along with it. We also have tumbleweed which is our rolling release and that's been successful, very successful and moving forward with the newest packages and opposite of that we have leap. So leap is more of a made for endurance you could say. It's more of a well-established, long-term support but it's more older packages that people don't want the newest stuff. Well it is long-term support because Antonio you made a comment during your keynote this morning about how you work successfully with Plasma. Can you tell us about that? For leap we are using the LTS support of Plasma and that includes always the latest LTS support, the latest LTS packages and then in tumbleweed we have the latest packages practically released the same day or maybe the next day after they are released by upstream. And then in package hub we also have packages from the community which are released for the French version of Plasma and then we also have the LTS version of Plasma here on Candy Packages, here on Package Hub. And another great project that's come from OpenSUSA is OpenQA, can you tell us about that? Yeah, well I'll go ahead and touch on it briefly. OpenQA was a project established during our hack week and so basically people can benefit from working at SUSA but being part of the OpenSUSA project is that you'll get paid for a week to do whatever you want to do. So that was developed and OpenQA is a moderated testing system and it's being used by OpenSUSA and Fedora as well as many other projects that are around and it's very beneficial to testing and testing a lot of different things and collaborating with different communities on tests. Do you want to expand on that a little? No, I mean we can maybe add that we are testing all the packages every day and everything that gets in the tumble with which is a rolling release so we have the latest packages of every application there. It's tested before it's released for our users so even if it's a rolling release it's quite stable thanks to OpenQA. And I know from working with the Plasma team that there are people from SUSA who come into the Plasma channels and say hang on this isn't working today and we've got cracked Plasma developers who've got good catch we'll get on and fix that so that works really well. You gave the keynote this morning Antonio, what did you talk about? I talked about the KD community and the KD community is around us and the systems that we have and how we should collaborate together even more than we are doing right now which I think is really quite good but I think we have to collaborate more. Well, thank you very much. Any other questions? Go ahead. These questions for Douglas. I know that SUSA actually is closed by default, no. What do we have to do in the KD community to change that? Well, I think keep doing what you're doing right now and it will lead to greater achievement. I mean things like this take time, right? And I think package up is a good start for that. But all I can really say from that perspective is keep going down the path that they're going down which seems to be very positive. Okay, thanks. So thank you for coming and thanks for your support for KD. Thank you.


Oh, yeah, we were definitely hitting on all cylinders as just credit that everybody on the offense You know, it's cute in their job and just playing a four-quarter game Yeah Ain't no quitting to me, you know My leg would have to be halfway on for me to stop so I'm gonna go out there and help my team, you know, win games and you know, play through it and You know, it's a great team win for us today Yeah, just trying to stay warm, you know on the sideline or the defense is on the field Just so when I go in there, you know, it's not stiff, but you know, I'm just glad that we played Play great as a team, you know, be the great team, you know in the hostile environment Me as compensation, maybe just checking make sure I'm I'm good and being smart, you know about everything But you know, I live enough and if I feel, you know, like I couldn't go but I felt good I think just the will to finish, you know, us is not Taking off off the pedal, you know, just keep going and going and keep keep finishing Keep trying to be explosive, you know throughout the plays executing the plays play after play drive after drive And I think that's just the finishing us Exactly, you know, hit it right on the head, you know, they do a lot of dirty work and then we get it Supposed to plays get big plays in the game You know, happy for those guys and hopefully just they can keep it going I'm just just coming in in the short time and just you know Picking up the offense very well, you know coughing in his play on these physical You can see it, you know, when he's when he's coming out of the backfield trying to catch the ball made big plays today You know, that's just just credit to him type of play.    So, you know, you know a couple weeks don't define, you know Your whole season you just got to keep believing each other keep working, you know, everything to play off I think we just try to let us I play speak for itself not really getting on what is team doing We just you know, believe in each other the child that I play speak for itself We got the week, you know, and we're out there. We got to make the play. So that's what we try to do I mean, yeah, he's right. I mean we can't focus on that. I mean The league, you know, every week is different and like coach said this past week, you know, that was last week, you know Last week's out the picture. We got another week ahead of us and you know, that's how we're gonna participate this week is past We are pretty great team now. We got focus on another business opponent big game at home, you know, so Yeah, I'm glad you asked a question.   So we hope everybody's there.  I'm entirely I gotta go


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Hello, hello, writers! I'm Kristin Kiefer, author of fantasy fiction and creative writing resources, and you are listening to the Well-Sturried podcast, where I share insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help you craft sensational novels and build your best writing life. Always in 30 minutes or less, so you can get back to writing, of course. Ready for the show? Let's get talking. Welcome once again, writers! It's so good to be back and chatting with you today. Today's episode of the podcast translates the latest article from the Well-Sturried blog into audio. Titled How to Utilize Motifs in Your Fiction, you can find the article that also serves as the episode transcript at www.well-sturried.com slash motifs. Now let's dive in. How to Utilize Motifs in Your Fiction? Motifs can serve several powerful purposes in storytelling. Yet because motifs are often discussed in literary and academic circles, many genre fiction writers fail to explore the potential of this powerful literary device. But literary devices aren't for literary writers alone. Flashbacks, foreshadowing, mood, imagery, metaphor, and suspense are all literary devices that, among other examples, are commonly employed by genre and literary writers alike. How then can all writers utilize motifs to strengthen the quality of their storytelling? Let's dive deep into this topic today, writers. Beginning with the question of what exactly is a motif? A motif is any central recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. A common example lies in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, in which the green light represents Gatsby's hope and desire, but also the artificial and unrealistic nature of that desire, a concept that is integral to Gatsby's relationship with Daisy throughout the story. Motifs are powerful literary devices because of how they help to deepen theme and to evoke mood. In the example above, the green light captures the essence of one of Fitzgerald's core themes, the American dream. It's a beacon of hope in the dark, tinted green by its relationship to wealth and worldly possessions, but artificial in its nature. Combined with the distance between Gatsby and the green light, this highlights the hollow yearning with which Fitzgerald views the American dream. Is this getting a bit literary for your tastes? Have no fear. As I mentioned a moment ago, motifs don't appear in literary classics alone. Take George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, for example. Martin's work is threaded with motifs, with one of the most prominent being the Iron Throne. While any throne represents power and governance, there is indeed an extra layer of symbolism and significance to be found in Martin's Iron Throne, which was forged from the blades of a thousand enemies and frequently cuts its seated roller. In A Game of Thrones, those blades represent not only the dangers it takes to win a throne, but the dangers found in holding it. This is a central theme in the book series, which sees the Iron Throne pass from one ill-suited leader to the next, with a bevy of characters vying for control. The desire for power cuts away at what each claimant holds dear, honor, duty, freedom, dominance, loyalty, and trust. The subject of a chosen motif can be almost anything, an object, a sound, an image, a feeling, a figure, a color, or even a combination of several subjects, as we see in Fitzgerald's Green Light and Martin's Sharp-Edged Throne. What differentiates a motif from a symbol or theme? These three literary devices are similar in nature, but mistaking one for another can lead to a lack of clarity and purpose in your storytelling. To better understand what differentiates a motif, let's first define these additional literary terms. A theme is a central topic discussed in a story, and a thematic statement is the author's stance on that theme. They are message. I've linked for you in today's episode transcript at www.well-storied.com slash motif, an article that links to way more information about themes if you would like to check that out. I'll try to remember to include it in today's episode description as well. But back to our definitions. A symbol is an element, often an image or a tangible object, that represents a larger concept or theme. So therefore, a motif is symbolic, but it's not just any symbol. It recurs frequently throughout a story and highlights at least one of the story's central themes. Because of this, motifs should be pretty readily apparent. In Bridge to Terabithia by Catherine Patterson, the two main characters, Jess and Leslie, must swing over a creek to bridge the gap between their real world and the make-believe world of Terabithia. The creek then becomes a motif throughout the novel, representing the gap between fear and courage, reality and freedom, and even adolescence and adulthood, all themes that Patterson discusses throughout the book. How can you utilize motifs to evoke mood? Motifs are primarily used to deepen theme, but they can also serve to conjure a particular mood. Also called atmosphere, mood is a literary device that creates an emotional setting, encouraging readers to feel a particular way as they approach the scene to come. Authors often use objects and symbols to set the mood. Just think of how a ticking clock or the sudden appearance of a crow can instill apprehension, or how soft candlelight and roses builds a warm and intimate environment. In this same way, motifs can be used to instill and re-instill a central mood throughout a story. This is a purpose that I personally employ heavily in my current work in progress, a medieval fantasy novel called Lady Legacy. For Cleonagogic, my protagonist, heat and warmth represent emotional turmoil, with the motif as a whole creating an unsettled atmosphere for readers. Cleona's story begins in a cold environment, where the heat of bonfires and other bodies arise in scenes in which she's experiencing internal conflict. As Cleona's story progresses and her inner turmoil grows, she gradually moves into warmer and warmer physical environments, with momentary interactions with the cold representing mental and spiritual clarity for Cleona, and moments of reprieve for readers. How can you incorporate motifs in your own stories? There's actually a good chance that motifs may already appear in your work. Like many other literary devices, such as characterization, story structure, theme and foreshadowing, most readers internalize the concept of motifs as they consume stories without making an active effort to study them. And because of this, many writers utilize literary devices without consciously deciding to do so. That said, motifs aren't as vital a story element as other literary devices. There's no particular need to include motifs in your work if they don't already exist or if you don't feel strongly about incorporating them. I'd also discourage you from utilizing motifs simply to appear more intellectual in your writing, as doing so will always ring false and pretentious on the page. If you're interested in including motifs in your stories, remember that motifs exist to ground readers in a larger truth. Take a look at your story's themes and major atmospheres. Can you distill that mood or theme into a specific motif? And if so, can you work that motif into your story without forcing it onto the page? When I was in school, classmates often joked that our English literature teachers put more thought into literary works than their authors did. And that's a probable reality. Motifs can serve as powerful literary devices when there's a natural place for them in the framework of a story. But if they're a burden on the author, they'll be a burden on readers as well. In your own work, focus instead on crafting stories that readers will love. If that includes motifs from the start, fantastic. Or if you notice that motifs arise naturally as you draft, great, don't hesitate to hone them in revision. This is exactly what I'm doing with the fourth draft of my manuscript, and it's been exciting to see how refining Lady Legacy's organic motifs has strengthened the quality of my storytelling overall. I hope you'll give your own stories motifs the same opportunity writer. Thank you for listening to today's episode of the podcast writer. I hope you found it helpful to your writing journey. If so, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss a new episode. And to give the podcast a quick rating and review. Doing so goes a long way toward helping the podcast reach new writers and lets me know that you're enjoying what I'm creating. You can also give me a shout out directly on Twitter at christen underscore keeper. For additional guidance as you work to craft sensational novels and build your best writing light, be sure to head on over to www.well-storied.com where I share blog posts, workbooks, e-courses, and other helpful resources for writers. Again, that's w-e-l-l-s-t-o-r-i-e-d dot com. Thank you again for tuning into today's episode my friend. Until next time, happy writing!


We have our noisemakers, those on the corner are not our fault. So it doesn't mean you're going to go time-on-time or anything. All right, next up, we have kind of children, Marius, who will go to G-Line and speak as fast as you can. Seek as long as the talk of people is dispensable by thought. So I want to start with the story, as you might have heard. It involves the FBI and an hour. So the FBI is the FBI, whatever it is, and the Apple produces smartphones. At some point, if I go to the Apple, and there's the battery on your phone, so that it's on the ground, it says no, no way. I don't understand. This creates a big dispute. The Apple ends up explaining, because if I link the backdoor to you, then anyone who gets it will be able to unlock all my phones. And that's a disaster. I cannot take the risk. And the question is, can this be avoided? So if you watch James Bond movies, you might think, yeah, of course, this guy knows how to do it, right? That's how. Very simple. Write your backdoor in one of those self-destruct machines. Only James Bond can hear it. The problem is that not only James Bond can hear it. Everyone and his cat can hear this tape before it's distracted. And then it's the same disaster. He has the backdoor. And I should say already that this image of a cat, I used the learning app with Mark Karsten from before. It works. That's evidence. Right? So the Apple has a solution, because next to the pit, it has actually an Intel SGX processor. Right? What can it do? It can store pairs, key, and phone ID. And then upon receiving a message, here is my phone ID. It can spit out the key and stop responding. Fantastic solution. Right next to the pit. So if the Apple does that and produces such a smartphone, then locking is very simple. Just use that key to encrypt your state and throw the key away. Every phone does that. Only one phone can be unlocked. And what this gives us is effectively encryption, where we have a single backdoor, many keys. We can actually learn only one key and decrypt whatever is encrypted with it. And nothing else. The security of any other encryption is preserved. And in some sense it's like a scratch-off card backdoor, dispensable backdoor. All right. What's the problem with that? The problem is that this guy might get his hands on this Intel SGX. A knife next to the pit is not that hard. And then he can start doing all sorts of things, like freeze it, microwave it, disconnect the electricity, you know, roast it, put it in a washing machine, have Daniel listen to it until he figures out something. He can do many things. This means that he might be able to reset it. He might be able to get another key out of it. So we'd prefer to be able to do it from state to state. So now the Apple has a problem, right? The Apple needs a way to create some information that cannot be copied or duplicated, because otherwise I can just use it twice, can encode a bunch of keys and can only be used once for one key and then it self-destructs. Which clearly is more than z-diagmatic. Or is it? There is actually something that has exactly these properties and it's called a qubit. And if you want to find out how this qubit is used for dispensable backdoors, there are papers on the aprons, and it will make this guy obsolete. Again, this picture is from Carsten's Learning algorithm. Thank you.


Hello there and welcome on Biproctor. Do you know in 2006 when the secret hit the street? It went all over the world. A half a billion people have been impacted by that movie and the book. Ron DeBern made up her mind. She wanted to change a billion lives. Well, she's well on her way to doing that. A half a billion that we know of have been impacted by the secret. And the base of the secret or the essence behind the secret was the law of attraction. After the secret come out, there was books written on the law of attraction. People were speaking on the law of attraction as if it had never been heard of before. But the law of attraction goes a long ways back. Do you know, Andrew Carnegie talked about the law of attraction in 1908 when he was mentoring Napoleon Hill? I started to study this information in 1961. 25 years later, I wrote the book, You Were Born Rich. You can go on to our site, go to ProctorGallagher.com and you can download this book for absolutely nothing. We don't charge in. I want everybody to understand this information. But on page 109 in that book was the law of vibration and attraction. You see, vibration and attraction go together. Attraction is a secondary law. Vibration is a primary law. Everything vibrates. The law of vibration decrees that nothing rests. Everything moves. We literally live in an ocean of motion. So over the next 30 or 40 minutes, I'm going to go through what I understand about the law of attraction. It has changed my life like night and day and I believe it'll change yours. A lot of people that are talking about the law of attraction don't understand it in any depth. They may have a shallow understanding of it. But I think you want to know it and know it well. Well, I've been studying it for a long, long time. And I have found that understanding this law will definitely change your life. And by the way, you can go and download the book, Cost You Nothing. Just go to our site and download You Were Born Rich because the truth is, you were born rich. Most people are just a little short of money, but we all have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within us. The Proctor Gallagher Institute is all over the world. You see my globe here? It just keeps moving. Well, we do too. And we have people that represent our company all over the world. You see, it was way back in 1961 that I actually started to study then. That was 55 years ago. And I've never stopped studying it. I have found this information to be absolutely fascinating. Now, over the next 30 minutes, I'm going to ask you to really think. And why should you? Well, because you can have virtually anything you want. Now, before we get into the law of attraction in any depth, I want you to stop and think about the goals that you're working on. See, most people are involved in A-type goals. A-type goals are going after what you already know how to do. You'll often hear a person say they've got a goal to get a new car. Well, you might ask them, have you ever had a new car? Oh, yeah, I've had two or three of them. See, they've known for a long time how to get a new car. That is not a goal. That may be something they want to do, and they certainly should if that's what they want. A goal is something that we set that's going to draw the best out of us. Goals are not to get. That's a side benefit. Goals are to grow. Well, generally, if a person graduates from going after what they know how to do, they go after what they think they can do. I call that a B-type goal. Now, doing what you think you can do, there's no inspiration in it. There's no real growth to it. It's sort of a little game of manipulation. If she does this, if he does that, if I can get this, then I could reach this goal. I want you to really understand this law. And when you understand it, you're going to start to operate on a totally different vibration. You're going to move into a whole new world. You're going to start stretching. And that's what you really want to do. You see, you are God's highest form of creation. You have been built with mental tools that enable you to create. That's the C-type goal, a creative goal. This is going after what you really want. You don't know how to get it, but you know you're going to get it. Now, stop and think in history. The Wright brothers didn't know how to get the plane in the ground, but they knew they were going to get it in the ground. Ed Hilary did not know how he was going to get to the top of the mountain, but he knew he was going to the top of the mountain. What do you really want? Now, think. Just come along with me and daydream for a few minutes. And then I'm going to show you some of the rules that you can follow. Stop and think of this. You think Steve Jobs knew how to do this before he did it? No. He couldn't tell you how he did this until after he did it. And that's the same with anything in life. People that have done great work didn't know how they were going to do it. Roger Bannister didn't know how to run the four-minute mile until after he had run a four-minute mile. And you know the strange thing about it? Within months, somebody else was running a four-minute mile. And I believe now we're running the Boston Marathon in under a five-minute mile. So pretty soon they'll be doing that in a four-minute mile. What do you really want? I want you to think about the dream home. I was talking to a young lady in our company, Lisa. And she was telling me, I said, Lisa, what do you really want? And she was telling me about the home. She started to describe it. I said, go after it. Lisa, go after it. How about the trip you want to take? Or maybe the business you want to build. You see, I remember my brother-in-law and sister in their early 50s, he had built a safety supply company for three other people. He had run them and built them, but it was a job. And an opportunity come up to buy a small safety supply company. He was very nervous. He was in his early 50s. But you know, they hawked their house. They borrowed money. They took everything they had and plotted into this company. Today, they're multimillionaires. They're virtually retired. They still work at it. But their son and grandsons run that business. And it's grown into a beautifully big business. It would never have happened if they hadn't followed their dream. I want you to follow yours. Understand this, if you can see it, you don't have to know how to get it. Your life will change. You see, you're a whole lot more than what you appear to be on the surface. Now that would be a photograph of you if it was taken with a Kurlyan camera. Semyon Kurlyan perfected a form of photography where he photographs the body. And you look so much different than in just in regular life. You see, you're so much more than you appear to be or even think you are. You already have within all it's required to attract literally.  Now I want you to think of this before we go any further. There's only two sources of reference to go to to find out about yourself. One science and the other's theology. Both of them clearly indicate nothing is created or destroyed. If nothing's created or destroyed then everything's already here if not in one state and another.  The plastic used to be oil. The water used to be Aretha gas. I could take and I'd boil that water and it would go right back to where it came from. Now think about that for a moment. The water, the bottle and my body are all made from the same thing. It's energy. My body is energy.  Do you know that hand is changing at the rate of millions of cells per second? Just like that, it's changing. How is yours changing? You cast off millions of cells, 40, 50 million cells per second and you recreate more. Well do you know that we can create the life we want? We can put ourself into the vibration that we have to be in to attract what we want to attract. Think of this.  The message would be on your phone. How's that happening? It's happening through vibration. That's really how it's happening. Well you know, our whole world operates that way. It's so phenomenal. Now I've put this together. This is sort of an overview of what I'm gonna do. I think it's kind of cute and I put it together for you. I want you to keep your eye on the ball. Keep your eye on the ball. Understand this, you're dealing with the mind. Nobody's ever seen the mind. No one has ever seen the mind. The mind and the law of vibration are two things. When you start to understand them, everything starts to improve. When you really understand them, you take control of your life. You've been given the ability to do that. All you have to do is learn how. And I'm gonna show you how here in the next 30 minutes. Let that drawing, that circle represent your mind. There's two parts to it. If you notice that, there's a horizontal line right through the center. Let's put a body on it. We'll say that's the body and the top half is the mind. And we'll bring it down here to work with it. See, there you've got your conscious mind. Then you have your subconscious mind and then the instrument of the mind because that's what the body is. And the body moves into action and produces results. See, the body acts according to the vibration it's in. Now, this may sound a little out of the box, but stay with me and I guarantee you'll understand it. If I can learn it, you certainly can. Now, not only are we getting the results but we also have a picture in our mind, a dream. We've got this beautiful star that we wanna shoot at. And you see, that dream is up there, but it's up there and it's on a different level. It's an invisible world. It's where only one person can see it, you. Only one person can see it, me. Earl Nightingale put it very well. I spent five years working with Earl. It was a marvelous experience. He said, this great dream, this surging dynamic thing invisible to all the world except to the person who holds it is responsible for every great advance of humankind. Now, you see, this is the world we relate to down here. This is the visible world, the physical world. And we live to our senses. We go by what we see here, smell, taste, touch. We get a report card and we let the report card tell us what kind of students we are. We graduate from school and the report card becomes the balance sheet or the bank account. Let's understand that anything we see outside was originated inside. That's right. Now, it's the space here that we want to close. We want to understand how to close that space. How do we go from where we are to where we want to be? That's rather an interesting question. You see, this is where the attraction starts. It starts here in the non-physical world. Now, this is a mind game. You must understand the mind if you're really going to make it happen. And when you study this and start to understand it, then you attract according to the vibration you're in and you'll start to understand that. You control the vibration.   As you alter the vibration, you alter what you attract into your life. So you see, you've got to understand how to control the vibration and you can do that. And I'm going to show you. I'm going to give you a quick lesson in it. And when you get it, everything will change. Way back in 1934, the same year that Simeon Curley and perfected the form of photography where you can photograph mass and photograph the energy leaving the body, there was a doctor down in San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Thurman Fleet. He wanted to understand the mind. And he wanted to understand paradigm. See, paradigm is a mind program. It's a program in your subconscious mind that's controlling your behavior. Think of this for a moment. You already know how to do better than you're doing, but you're not doing it. Everybody does. See, the part of our mind that knows things and the part that controls our behavior, two different parts, that's right. So let's talk about your part, your mind and your paradigm. The paradigm is the programming in the subconscious mind that controls our behavior. Now, Fleet understood this. And he was very much into holistic health and very much into metaphysics. And he said, nobody's ever seen the mind. The mind is an activity. It's not a thing. And no one's ever seen it. He said, I am going to eliminate confusion. I'm gonna make a picture of the mind. And he drew a picture. He says, just use your imagination and this becomes the mind. Now, look at that. Do you know that this is the most magnificent idea I've ever come across in 55 years of studying ideas? I've got a beautiful library here. I have another one in the house. I'm in my studio right now. And we take, we take that circle and we draw a line across. And then we say, that's the conscious mind. That's the subconscious mind. And then there's the body. Now, I want you to really play with this. That is without question, the most valuable idea I've ever learned. Leland Valvandoval, who's gone now, God bless him. He shared that with me. See, I had been studying with no formal education, no business experience. My income went from nothing to over a million dollars a year. I was cleaning offices. I just wanted to earn some extra money. But I started to use this information and the business started to grow. I was living in England and I wondered, how did I do this? I knew that I wasn't that smart. I'd been raised to believe, if you're gonna earn a lot of money, you gotta be really smart. I wasn't that smart, but I was earning a lot of money. I was raised to believe, if you don't have a good formal education, you'll never get a good job. Well, I didn't have any formal education. I had two months high school. I didn't have a good job. I owned the company. I did not believe that there was an emotional capricious God that reached out and blessed me. And I didn't think I was lucky. So I made up my mind. I was gonna figure out why I changed when I started to study and I never stopped. I was living in Chicago. I left my business and I went to work with Earl Nightingale and Lloyd Conant because I knew that they knew something I wanted to know. And I was working there and somebody told me about a guy in Vancouver, British Columbia. So I jumped on a plane and off I went. Soon as he opened his mouth like that, I knew he knew what he was talking about. When the meeting was over, it was a couple of days, I went and asked him. I said, could I spend a couple of hours with you? And I remember him looking at his watch and he said, I like spend a couple of hours with you but I gotta catch a plane. I said, I gotta catch a plane too. I don't mean right now. He's where are you going? I said, I'm going home. He said, where do you live? And I said, Chicago. Well, he said, what are you doing out here? I said, I come out here, you speak. I think it was impressed that I flew so far to listen to him. He said, I'm not gonna be in Chicago anytime in the near future but I'm going to be in Toronto. And I said, I'm actually from Toronto. I'll come over there and see you. It's only an hour away. And so I flew over. The two of us sat down, which was gonna be for a couple hours. We were there for about three days. And he started to show me things about the mind. Everything I had studied for over 10 years was all coming together.  So let's take a look at this. There's the drawing and we'll say, there's the conscious, the subconscious and the body. Now, the conscious mind is your thinking mind. That's the part of you that thinks. That's also what we call the educated mind, okay? This is where the intellect is resonant. Now the intellect is something most people really don't understand. We should, but we don't. We've got intellectual factors. We have these higher faculties. I'll talk about them in a minute. We are not taught to use them. We are taught to go about what we see, hear, smell, taste and touch. We are trained, literally trained, as little kids at home and then in school to let the outside world control us. We are programmed genetically at the moment of conception. See all mom's DNA and all dad's DNA comes together. It becomes your DNA, my DNA. And then 280 days later, we make our debut on the planet and we're programmed from outside. Now listen, our subconscious works quite different than the conscious mind. The subconscious is our emotional mind. Now you're gonna wanna learn more about this and we certainly teach a lot about it. I'm just going over this so you'll understand this law of attraction. Now we've got the ability to think we can think anything we want. Every great leader that has ever lived has been in complete unanimous agreement on this one point. You and I become what we think about. They've disagreed on virtually everything else. Because we have that ability to think, we can choose. Now go back to the thinking for a minute. Victor Frankel wrote a marvelous book, Man's Search for Meaning. He was a Jewish psychiatrist that spent war years in a concentration camp. He said that no one, regardless of the intellectual or physical abuse he subjected to, no one could cause him to think something he didn't wanna think. See, that's where we have the ability to choose. We have the ability to accept or reject everything we hear. Everything we hear on TV, on the newspapers or everything you over here or something somebody tells us. And if we reject the information, we have the ability within us to originate new information. Now all that is true in the conscious mind, except to reject, not on the subconscious. Your subconscious mind must accept everything that's given to it. And that's the universal mind. That's what controls the vibration you're in. Whatever information you impress, you must accept it has no ability to reject. Now think of this. Your subconscious mind cannot differentiate between what's real and what's imagined. Whatever you impress, whether you imagine it, whether you hear it, read it, if you get emotionally involved in it, it's real. Now that's pretty wild when you think about it. You see, it's what you impress upon the subconscious that controls the vibration you're in. The vibration you're in is the frequency that you're operating on. If you are operating on a negative frequency, you're gonna feel bad. Feeling is a word we invented to describe our conscious awareness of the vibration we're in. We all vibrate. We're on a level of vibration. Become tuned into your own feelings. Become aware of what is happening. If you don't feel good, you have the ability just like that to alter the vibration you're in. You can change the ideas in your mind and when you do that, everything in your life changes. Now let's look at this for a moment. This is rather interesting. Albert Einstein said something pretty interesting. He said that everything is energy and that's all there is to it. He said, match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not a philosophy. This is physics. Match the frequency of the reality you want. Now what does science and theology teach us? Nothing's created or destroyed. So everything's already here. You see, Jobs and his engineers just had to get on the frequency that this was on and we haven't. Look at what I'm doing right now. You know, I am here in my studio and the studio is something that I built in my mind. It was a dream I had. I was sitting out under a number L one summer day and I looked into my backyard and I started to build a picture of this studio. Well, you know, today I have a studio here where I can operate four cameras at the same time. Everything that I'm recording is streaming into a computer in another room, different room than I'm in. I have all the lights here. I have everything I want. The man that's running this computer right now for me is in Phoenix, Arizona, Joshua Carr. He's our IT guy. He's a genius when it comes to this stuff, but he's in Phoenix. We have a lady that is watching me do this on her computer in Dallas, Texas. Mikey Stellar, who's in charge of Creative is in Dallas, Texas and she's watching me do this. Now I had done this yesterday. I've actually done it twice, but she made some suggestions of alterations that I make making the presentation that would help you understand this better. And so I rewrote it. I changed it, didn't rewrite it. I just altered the whole plan and I said I'll do it over again because I liked her suggestions. She's watching this in Dallas, Texas. There's just a little, I don't know, 10 second delay on it, but she's in Dallas watching it. Josh is in Phoenix watching it. And I believe Sandy Gallagher, my business partner, is in Sun Valley, Idaho in her condo and she's watching me do this here. We will take when this is finished and distribute it all over the world.  Now there's a train not too far from here. I didn't want any sound. I didn't want a train or something outside a plane going over interrupt what I was doing. So this is what we call a floating cell. They built the building and then they built a building inside the building. The building is soundproof. It's all built, it was an image I had in my mind. I found the people to do it. What did we do? We changed energy into energy. Now I want you to think, match the frequency of the good you desire. Remember I said, build the dream in your mind? Well now we're gonna get a little more serious about this. Let's look at this.  You are literally a mass of energy.  Now I want you to let lines, horizontal lines, represent the frequency. That represents you and you're in a high speed of vibration. Now think of this for a moment. A frequency is the level of vibration. Okay, let's go back. There you are, you're in a high speed of vibration. Now you change your vibration and the color and the density of that energy leaving your body will change. You can cause it to change color and it will go a long way out if the energy's strong, okay? A frequency is a level of vibration. The good that you desire is on a frequency. That's what Einstein said, match the frequency of the reality you want. Now think of this for a moment. There are literally an infinite number of frequencies. There are no end to them. So look at it here. We see all of these lines and we're gonna say they all represent frequencies, okay? There's an infinite number. Just stop and think of the number of frequencies we got. That's what a phone number is. It's a frequency. It's how you tune in on their frequency. You have to have my number to tune in on my frequency. This is being broadcast on a frequency. Now here's something we really wanna understand. Every frequency or everyone is connected to the one above and the one below. They're connected like the colors of a rainbow. There's no line of demarcation where one stops and the other starts. Now you may be saying, well, what's this got to do with my dream?  If you have been stuck, if you have had a difficult time altering your income, if you had a difficult time attracting into your life the relationship or the business that you want, it's because you're on the wrong frequency and you're using the wrong tools. You're going by what you see here, smell, taste, touch. Look at what Einstein said. He said, the intuitive mind is a sacred gift. The rational mind is a faithful servant. This is so true. We've created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. What is the gift? You're higher faculties. You have perception, memory, imagination, reason, intuition and the will. These are all high mental tools. Through imagination, we can zip ourselves onto a higher frequency. We just use our imagination and build the picture of the good we want. And then we hold that picture with our will. The will is what gives us the idea to focus, to concentrate. When President John Kennedy asked Dr. Warner Von Braun what it would take to build a rocket that would carry man to the moon and bring him back safely to earth, Von Braun said the will to do it. In other words, you've got to see it and hold the picture in your mind. You will attract everything you need. That's just the way it works. You've got these higher faculties. We want to learn how to use them, okay? It's a beautiful concept. It's an absolutely beautiful concept. I want you to let that X represent where you are. The X represents where you are in your life, okay? Take an honest look at where you are in your life and you can see how you got there. Take a look at the income you earn. Now you know people that are earning a lot more money than you and they're nowhere near as bright as you. You know them. You know people that have built very successful businesses and they don't seem anywhere near as smart as you. I was talking to Brian Sidorski on the phone. He has built a very multimillion dollar business and he wants me to work with him to go to the world through junior achievement, the JCs. They're all over the world. And I said, I'd be glad to. We're gonna share this information. Now think, let's think of this for a moment.  You can connect the dots looking back. Let each one of those line represent levels of vibration or levels of awareness. And you know how you got there. You can just see all the footsteps that took you from one place to the other. You know how you got there. Then you think of your dream and the dream is out there in space. And you have no idea how you're gonna get there. Now when we were little kids, we'd go to our parents or our guardians, mommy, daddy, I want, and they were busy and they'd say, how are you gonna get that? Well, of course we didn't know how we were gonna get it. Why don't you be satisfied with what you've got? You should never be satisfied. Disatisfaction is a creative state. It was dissatisfaction that gave us the incandescent light. It was dissatisfaction that gave us this means of communication. But we grew up with the idea if you can't get it, forget it. And so 90 some percent of the population have forgotten it. And we just let the dream go. But here's what you wanna know. If you can see it in your head, you can hold it in your hand because that is the frequency. Match the frequency of the good you desire. Now stay with me. You may wanna watch this videotape a hundred times until this really sinks in. And through repetition you'll say, oh now I see. Now stay with me. Look here for a moment. The moment your belief matches with any state, you fuse with it. And this union results in the activation, projection of the plots and plans and conditions and circumstance. The moment your belief, when you understand this, our belief system is based upon our evaluation of something. And frequently if we reevaluate a situation, our belief about a little change. Through watching this, through the repetition of watching what I'm going through here, you change your belief about yourself. That's how I change my belief. I've never stopped studying for 55 years. The moment your belief matches with any state, you fuse with it. Well, there's the state you wanna fuse with. That's where the dream is. That's a frequency. There is a place. You can use that. You can get your imagination. You can go there. You see? The moment your belief matches with any state, you fuse with it. You become one within it, becomes one with you. And this union results in the activation and projection of its plots, plans, conditions and circumstances. When you change your vibration, everything in your world changes. This new state of conscious awareness becomes your home from which you view the world. This new state of conscious awareness becomes your home from which you view the world. You're there in your imagination and that's how you see it. That's how you see it. It's such a beautiful concept. In your workshop and if you're observant, you will see outer reality shaping itself upon the model of your imagination. Isn't that beautiful? It is your workshop. That's where it is. This new state of consciousness becomes your home from which you view the world. It is your workshop. And if you're observant, you'll see the outer reality shaping itself upon the model of your imagination. Now watch. This is so important. Just stay with me. Stay with me. When you move on to a higher frequency, you will be communicating with the world totally foreign to and beyond the reach of your five senses. It's a different world. You cannot communicate there with your sensory factors. Nobody's ever done it before. You're dealing with the unseen. You're dealing in a creative level. You're not gonna figure this out with your intellect.  You're gonna have to follow your feeling. See, intuition is that mental faculty that picks up vibration. You have to question the answers there. That's a law of clarity. This whole universe operates by law. On page 109 that I told you to download, download the book and read it, there's a quote there by Warner Von Braun. I quoted him in the secret. He said, the natural laws of this universe are so precise we don't have any difficulty building spaceships, sending people in the moon, and we can time the landing with the precision of a fraction of a second. See? When you move on to a higher frequency, you're dealing in a different world. The people you're mixing with don't understand you. They're gonna tell you you're crazy. See? Do you know if you go back far enough, I think it was Samuel Morris was taken before the United States Congress by some of his good supporters and they tried to get $30,000 for him to build some wires down around Maryland where he could stop and start the flow of energy and he was gonna show how you could communicate through wires, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Don't, Morris Code helped win the Second World War, by the way. He had a Senator stand up in Congress and say they'd be further ahead to give someone $30,000 to build a railroad to the moon. He got more support than Sam Morris got. People didn't understand. Didn't understand, what was the problem? Ignorance, not knowing. Now, Sam Morris did a little better than Marconi. When Marconi suggests he was gonna send a message from one place to the other, he wasn't even gonna use any wires. He was gonna send it through the medium of the molecule on a frequency they had him checked out in a mental institution. Now, both of them did better than Gordy Anna Bruno, who back around 1600, he was spurtin' Copernicus theory who said that this ball wasn't the center of the whole scene of things. They burned poor old Gordy at the stake. Listen, all down through history, whenever a person makes a breakthrough in their immediate environment, the people think they've gone crazy. Well, let's look here for a moment, okay? There you are there, there's the conscious mind, the subconscious, that's where your intellect is, that's where you get what you want. And then you have the subconscious mind, and the subconscious mind you must understand is where the paradigm is. And of course you have the body, which is the instrument of the mind, okay? Now, the law of attraction is always working. It's always working. The law of attraction, though, responds to the paradigm. What do we mean by that? Well, the paradigm, the program, is what controls the vibration that your mind bodies in. And it's the vibration you're in that dictates what you attract. What we have to do, if we wanna change things, we've gotta take and make a new paradigm. We've gotta shift the paradigm. I've written a book right now with Sandy Gallagher on changing paradigms, paradigm shift. When you do that, then the whole world changes, then you're operating with new paradigm and you start to attract new things. Now look here for a moment. This is rather interesting. There's the drawing, okay? There's the drawing. We'll put the horizontal line across, okay? And we've got the body, okay? Now the body is really the instrument. Here on the conscious level, at your imaginative mind, that's where the imagination, that's where you go onto that higher frequency, okay? It's beautiful the way it happens. Here you have the universal mind. That's your subconscious mind. The conscious mind is the imaginative mind. The subconscious is the universal mind. Now the body is the instrument of the mind. It is actually the instrument of the mind. And we've gotta understand that. Now, our imagination, there's a power flowing into our consciousness. And through our imagination, we build the image of what we want. This is the dream. I see what I want. And I've got this beautiful dream. I impress it upon the subconscious and it turns into a desire. See, you don't get what you want, you get what you desire. Waddles pointed out in the science of getting rights, the desire is the effort of the unexpressed possibility within, seeking expression without, through your actions. Well, that desire is expressed through the instrument of the body because the changes the vibration of the body's in. The vibration causes you to act and the action sets up an attraction. And it's the action attraction that alters the results. Now think what we're saying here. The desire alters the vibration. The vibration changes the action. The action sets up an attraction. And that's what changes the results. You see, the law of attraction works intellectually. Your intellectual mind, you start thinking, you'll start tracking more thoughts on that frequency. It operates on an emotional level. You'll start to attract more energy. You move into a higher vibration. And of course, it changes everything on the physical level. It's pretty interesting, isn't it? Now, remember what we said? Don't go for that goal. Get up here, okay? Build a picture, build a big picture. Now let's go back where we left off. Remember when we let that go? We don't want to let it go. Because we can fill it in. We can literally fill it in. Now the man that made these iPhones and their Steve Jobs, he was pretty tuned in, okay? He was pretty tuned in. He had a big goal and he said, look at this. You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future. And if you understand the law of vibration, if you stay on the frequency, if you hold the dream in your mind and you don't let the outside world control you, you will contract everything that you need and that space will fill in the way it will be shown. I believe that was written in the Bible. And when you get there, here's what you want to understand. It could have gone there. And that a beautiful concept. You could have gone there. You see, you and I only have one problem. Ignorance. We don't understand. You watch this often enough.  It put me in this studio. It's helped me earn millions of dollars. I'll be 82 a man next birthday. I got more energy than most people, 22. I have no intentions of slowing down. I've got this globe in front of me to remind me we are building an organization all over the world. And if you want to work with us, if you want to do what we're doing, you just let us know because we got a great business opportunity. We are teaching and facilitating this all over the world. Do you know that the only thing that slows us down we're only limited by weakness of attention and poverty of imagination. Wow, that is so good. Weakness of attention, poverty of imagination. Subscribe to YouTube where we are because we're gonna make a lot of these videos and we'll send them to you. If you're on our list like that, when you get them, they'll come to you. 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Hello everybody good evening and welcome to tonight's webcast from North Hampton black stars HQ I'm Steve the product trainer with black star and tonight We've got some stuff to show you with the ID series Mainly the ID 260 which I have here and also we've got an ID core setup now What we're going to look at tonight is there's been a recent firmware and software update for the insider software And the firmware on the amplifier has been turned into super wide stereo Capabilities now if you don't know what that is Earlier on this year. We released a product called ID core which is Behind me here. It was a small range of amplifiers and there was three in the range and they featured super wide stereo Now if that sounds like a little bit of a gimmick and you've not tried these you need to get into your stores to try them They sound amazing. They give you the Essence that you're surrounded by the effects and the delays and the reverbs Almost as if you're in a stadium and for such a small inexpensive product It really sets a new bar for home practice amplifiers Recently we did hear of a very very popular guitar hero actually actually purchasing one of the ID cores for his tour on The bus just to jam with to play music through the speakers are stereo So each each amplifier has two speakers and it's full range flat response So it sounds great for audio and we'll look at that in a bit. So the ID range Which is the bigger brother and the more professional digital range that we do Consists of a 15 watt a 30 watt right up to the 60 watts the 2 by 12 to 60 here And then we have a 60 head and 100 head as well, which is more for the live application now the ID series didn't have super wide stereo, but Recently because of the reaction To that 3d type sound and everybody blowing their minds around the world The guys here at Blackstar have been very very clever and working very hard to achieve it in these amps now I must stress The only amplifier physically that has the capabilities of super wide stereo in person when you try it when you gig with it Is the ID 2 by 12 the ID 260 the other amplifiers do have the super wide stereo facility But it's only available from the USB output for recording or the emulated line out for direct recording or direct into a mixer So you do have those capabilities there even on the 15 watt, which is amazing now I've set up about four patches on here. So I'm going to do a little bit of playing And it really is a very inspirational sound I've been obviously obviously for my job product training. I watch a lot of online videos and YouTube clips and Gear rundowns from artists and some of my favorite guitarists myself like you guys and girls, but More recently, I've seen stuff where people are talking a lot about the digital side of things and That's that can be quite expensive for the working Musician not all of us have got thousands and thousands of pounds to spend on that kind of gear But the ID series is in that same ballpark You can profile the amplifiers if you know their history. For example, if you don't if you're not familiar with the amps We've got six power tubes to choose from and we've got six voices and using black stars Patent ISF feature where you can shape the American or or British tone stack. You can really create Anything from history. If you know the valve that was in there and the six Power tubes that are on there. The choices are the most used most obvious things like 6R6, EL-84, EL-34 Even some intricate stuff like 6P6 and KT-66 Which you don't see that much of these days But it's a really interesting prospect To be able to go out to a gig You can use a MIDI controller on these so it's a pro in that sense But also we do an FS10 foot switch which you can use which is an optional extra boot Which is quite inexpensive and you can have all your presets on the floor a chromatic tuner You can store on the fly as well While you're at a show and you can change banks and patches as you would expect So I've got patches one to four set up. So let's just play around with my first patch and what I've done here is Just get quite a nice clean tone, but Quite ambient just to play around with some blues and some some slow picking and stuff now You can probably hopefully see we've got a couple of mics in front of the ID 260 here And that's picking up the super wide stereo sound so for best results if you're watching on YouTube at a later point Welcome if you're watching live now, maybe use some headphones or crank those stereo Monitors if you're using them, which will give you the best experience. So let's let's do some playing and this is a rather nice clean tone Lovely sound very inspirational to play around with that and just being next to the amplifier really Feels like you're in the stadium atmosphere. It surrounds you The the effects don't sound like they're coming from the two cones if you will And it really the amplifier is such a beautiful thing to play. It's very transparent Very natural if you fire just just play softly Really reacts to the way you feel, you know, if you want to play harder it really comes through that way So on to another sound This is my second patch, which is a very kind of similar tone as right as far as effects go But I've added some delay and this is really where the super wide stereo comes into effect the most I think So for now, I'm just gonna just mute my Reverb for the moment. So all you can hear is the delay and hopefully you'll get that really nice super wide stereo sound Reverb off then so Minimal in the mix It's astonishing. You need to hear this so get into your stores and try them So, let's just add the reverb back I just added a little bit more gain and it kind of put me in mind of a very subtle kind of Jeff Beck sound Which inspired me a few weeks ago just to try and learn that style Nobody's ever gonna get close to Jeff, of course, but that kind of subtle Overdrive with some nice ambient stuff coming on Really nice inspirational tone there just to work around with that Jeff Beck feel Mistakes are free remember, especially when it's live like this, but you know, you get that really nice Cursive sound very useful The next sound I've done Let's see Nice kind of multi-tap delay So to get that really nice kind of So kind of the edge style sound you can get some really nice kind of If you play the same time as a lick that will fit the tempo you can get some really interesting things going on there But having that super wide stereo included is just astonishing for feel as a guitarist, you know Really quite cool The second sorry the fourth patch I've done is more of a kind of garage style punk sound So I've used a room reverb Even in such a small studio room like this, it really feels like you're in a garage Sounds great for that old-school kind of really cool man. It's a great punk sound and Same rules apply as everything else. You've probably seen on the net about ID series You can store up to 128 presets. That means 128 profiles of the your favorite amps Amps that you design as well. For example, you could have a really high gain sound with a very very compressed 6v6 Power tube That would normally only appear in a small American combo So you can really get some versatile things going on and really create the sound in your head that you're after for the recording or the live show More recently, I've gone on to the insider Community and created some newer patches I did a whole bunch of patches that are up there and if you search for black star product trainer You should find all of my patches and they've had thousands of downloads, which is really really cool And there's all sorts of stuff on there but more recently I've looked a little bit closer to some of our Indoor C's who have used our gear and are using black star live And they've used it in the past and it was really an interesting journey to kind of Look into some of the biggest hits and their songs and just get the lick down Try and match the amplifier that they would have been using and get that kind of tone and it's worked really really well It was quite a nice journey. I'm just going to show you a few now and scroll through on the on the laptop here Just bear with me a second and I'll see what crops up So we've got something like The very very cool cat Mr. Huey Morgan. I hope you're watching brother. Hey, hey So I've done like a patch called fun loving criminals if you want to search for it. This is the vibe I was going for So bear with me a second I'm just gonna get my FS 10 into effects mode and this will allow me to turn the tremolo that I've set on the patch on And off so if I just play I But simply I can Just turn it off like that. It's a really really nice tremolo Track see if you recognize it Cigar in there as well if you want, you know the song let's look at Some other stuff we've done so Steve Craddock good old Steve Craddock fellow Brummie like myself I've called the patch ocean color scene steves a massive fan and used artisan for a long long time with weller as well But a really nice big EL 84 tone So you get that real feel of that classic ocean color scene sound, you know That's kind of cool. I was happy with that one Let's see. What else we've got here Richie Sambora 80s guitar hero. I've called it Sambora when wet so it really looks at that kind of 80s 90s period of Sambora's tone That's really big delay there to kind of carry those big guitars. So is through What else we've got here? Tesla mr. Frank Hannon again another kind of 80s guy, but a real nice subtle series one type sound that he's currently using with Tesla To back it off and do some clean Great tone I saw those guys at download 2014 and that was really cool moments I love the band years ago, but that really big 80s kind of rock smooth distortion Mr. Gaskooms from Supergrass if I remember the lick a couple of weeks ago I did these patches so I I learned the licks at the time, but We are young we are free that kind of sound But check them out there's tons of stuff on there and I've recently uploaded so just look for black star product trainer Or look for those some of some of those patches I've just mentioned and you'll find me there, but there's some really interesting tones and they're all free of course the insider software Let's you have a log in on the online community and you can share and download patches for free as well as download official artist patches as well For example, let me show you something that I downloaded from mr. Tommy Henrickson is Alice Cooper's guitar player As well as the lovely neater, but this is kind of one that the schools out is done You know Downloaded that learnt the lick the intro lick anyway, and it was it was there So yeah, make sure you check them out and Please be aware that all the amplifiers that we have do constantly need to be looked at as regards firmware and software updates If you go into a store tomorrow, and I haven't got there yet I can't be everywhere at the same time and haven't updated the amp You might try an ID 260 and it might not quite be super wide stereo yet So that's important for you guys to know as well And I'll try and get everywhere I can in the UK especially And if any staff guys are watching any guys that work in stores Make sure you get insider on a laptop in the store on your own laptop And make sure the amps are up to date because it's really important to get those features across to people Because it really is a new level this amplifier was fantastic before it's even more fantastic now with the super wide stereo feature Okay, so Let me just show you briefly the the FS 10 Really sturdy unit Very very cheap for a night you for the cost of a night out less than night out You can get a really sturdy solid pedal to use with your ID series You can use a midi board as well as I mentioned earlier connected by a single jack to the rear of the amp This will give you your patch mode chromatic tuner all the rest of the stuff we discussed earlier. Very cool Okay, so onto the ID series the core You can probably see we've got my iPad here Now you can download an application on the iPad called garage band you've probably heard of it more than likely If you pay for the full version, which I think it's around about five five pounds In British sterling you get all the really clever Smart instruments so you get things like smart guitar smart bass smart drums importantly so you get a whole ton of drums to choose from and you can simply Select a kit that you like the sound of roll the dice And it will give you some different styles and you can copy and paste those parts Do some fills and you can instantly get a very very quick drum pattern to record with now Recently we did an experiment here at Blackstar By using the camera connection kit which gives the iPad a USB so my iPad at the moment has got the lightning connection Into the USB out there, which I've connected into the ID amplifier. So that's as easy as that is We've currently using the emulated line out as well, which will be the headphones out Just so you guys get a really good Imagery of the sound of what's going on. So if I just open garage band I've already pre-loaded a drum track Which I'll show you briefly Hopefully we'll get some some level Yes, that is coming from this small amplifier that sound They're amazing. You got to go to check them out and this is where super wide stereo Was born and now it's in the the big brother So I've selected a brief small drum pattern and this evening we're going to attempt to just jam over it and try and record Something I've got a couple of ideas that I want to I want to lay down. So we'll see how it goes But it's only a small small segment. So let me just show you the drum sound that I chose just to jam along with Nice and easy just a standard kind of rock rhythm if you like I'm going to choose One of my presets you can store up to six presets on ID core. I've got a really nice kind of ambient ambient sound there So I'm going to record with that first. I think Idea so we need to select a new recording tracks, which I'm going to do now Bear with me a moment Audio recorder, I'm going to select it to stereo. So we get the full range the amp and Then we're ready to go. So I'm just going to track some things to what happens That went pretty well just a little idea that I had so let's make sure it's down and it's it's happy with it And this is how easy is to just listen back through your core amp I'm going to choose a different preset now something with a little bit more crunch We need to select another track now. It's nice and easy. Just Open up another audio recorder Again select stereo So I've got my tone ready now. We're going to record along Okay, so I was happy with that just a couple of chord changes Now I'm going to play something over the top. Hopefully a bit of a lead break and we'll see what we can come up with So again, we need to add a new track This is all coming through the ID core garage band. Remember garage bands only around about five pounds lesson lesson some fishing chips and the ID core is very inexpensive for a small practice amp, but The super wide stereo the recording facilities the insider software Start to think about that and how much you know, you get a lot for your money Okay, so again select stereo so you want to hear how good the amp sounds and Let's get a little tone So I'm happy with that and we'll see what we can come up with lead-wise Let's listen to a full mix that was good enough good enough for rock and roll And we can get all the track up and Let's see how it sounds what we've recorded in the moment tonight. Okay, so I don't know about that last bit But certainly the rest sounded pretty musical to me. It was just a little idea. I put down So this is capable, you know a very very low-cost to get some demos down and some ideas So look into it. It's a really really great bit of fun to have So that's really it for this evening. Thank you very much for tuning in And if you're watching on YouTube at a later point remember to follow us on all the usual social media channels Subscribe to the YouTube channel to find out all up to the information Twitter Facebook Instagram and all the usual things if you need any help any further advice as regarding black star amps, whether it's our HT range of pedals right through to Artisan you can email me on steve.marks at blackstaramps.com And also if you want to just a general inquiry, it's inquiries at blackstaramps.com So we're going to leave you with a really new exclusive Product that is coming out for November and you don't need to be a guitarist to benefit from it So I'll leave you with that and we'll see you next time. Thank you very much for watching Keep it loud keep using amplifiers and write some new music and bring new bands out and keep rocking and rolling Cheers. Thank you


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