Okay, so what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to talk about the exchange for ERC20 tokens, which are ERC tokens on Ethereum that we developed at NOSIS. So we call it the NOSIS Dutch Exchange and it's a decentralized exchange for Ethereum tokens using the Dutch auction mechanism to determine a fair value of tokens to determine what that means in a second. So first of all, a small disclaimer, I did not make this presentation. I kind of read through it and I'm pretty sure that I understand everything. So I do understand everything on the technical side and the finance stuff. It shouldn't be very difficult. So let's start with an introduction of a traditional exchange that uses an order book and a continuous auction or a continuous exchange. So you can either do limit orders whereby they get placed on an order book. They can either be bids, which means that you will buy it at a specific price or they can be asks, which means that you will sell it at a specific price. And you have the spread, which is the difference between the bid and ask, and you can also do market orders, which are basically limit orders with the value being the current lowest or highest value respectively so that the order is immediately executed. So market order is as a result immediately executed. So that's why it's called a continuous exchange, is there is a serial processing of orders one by one. And also on a different note, I think it could be also termed a continuous exchange because the order can be fulfilled as soon as it comes through. And orders matched using pay as bid, actually. So that's that. So the problem we see with that is manyfold. So the biggest problem of all is the possibility to front run. And that means, so, okay, so for example, if you have a centralized exchange, then if you submit an order, then the exchange knows about this order before it broadcasts it, right? So it can actually act on that order, act on the information before it broadcasts it. So it gives it an unfair advantage. And in the case of decentralized exchanges, like other ones than ours, a lot of them use a centralized order book. So that still means that the exchange even theoretically has the possibility to act on the order before it fulfills it, right? So that's a problem. With our exchange, it's fully decentralized, so it's fully on chain. So nobody has any more information than other people. Yeah, anyways. So other disadvantages of order books include like you can have a high spread for like illiquid auctions, so they're not ideal for those either. And like for example, if you have a illiquid pair, then if the size of the order book on either side is not that large and if you make an order, it can push the price, right? So you will actually get a different price for every part of the order. Yeah, that's basically that. So like I guess it can be summarized by the paragraph or by the statement that applying a continuous mechanism to the blockchain doesn't make a lot of sense because in the blockchain, there's a discrete time obviously. And yeah, that creates all of these problems. Cool. So instead, what we decided to go for is something more appropriate for the blockchain, which is a batch auction system. And in particular, we basically collect all the orders at once and then we auction them off all at once, right? So we batch many orders together and we sell them all at once. Does that make sense? Cool. So in particular, we use a mechanism of the Dutch auction, which is like kind of the opposite of an English auction. So in an English auction, that's the regular auction people bid and every bid has to have a higher price than the previous one, right? For it to make any sense. So in a Dutch auction, it's the exact opposite. The price is like falling and the first person to like take that price means the thing. So that's like if you're auctioning off one item. For our purposes, we have to auction off tokens. So it's many, many, many. And hence, we adapted it for it to be usable for many, not just one thing at a time. And in particular, the way that works is, I think there's a graph that explains it the best. Yeah. So on the x-axis, you can view time. And on the y-axis, you can view the value, right? So we start off with a constant like sell volume, so constant amount of tokens to be sold. And we always multiply it by the price to get its value, right? So, yeah. So as a result, okay. So we have two expressions, right? We have the sell volume and we have the price. And what's crucial in this is that the price is decreasing. And if you have a constant sell volume and you have a decreasing price, then the value would be decreasing as well, right? So that's what we can see in the graph. Can you guys see it? It's the line in red. Is it visible? Somewhat? Okay. So the line in red is the value of the sell volume. And then what you have underneath is the kind of like the buy volume, right? So, right, right, okay. Okay, okay. So the price is like the sell volume in terms of the buy volume. So it's kind of like a conversion price between the two tokens, right? So as it's decreasing, the value of the sell volume is decreasing. And then you have the blue thingy, which is the buy volume. And that's increasing and at some point it will match, right? So a necessary and sufficient condition for that is that there's at least one buy order. And as long as there's at least one buy order, then, you know, at some point in the worst case in a really long time, those will intersect. In fact, even if there isn't any buy order, they will intersect because the way our price function works is that it actually reaches zero after 24 hours. Does that make sense? So basically, they will intersect at some point always. And that's when we close the auction. What happens then? The bidders, or in other words, the buyers, they can claim the tokens that are being auctioned off. And the sellers, they can claim the tokens that the buyers sent as well. So, yeah, does that make sense? I think that makes sense. So let's see. Right, so what's actually very crucial here is that the price is the same for all the bidders, right? So it actually doesn't matter if you participated, let me show you the graph again. Like at the very beginning or at the very end, say, the buy volume is always increasing and when they intersect, all the bidders get that price. Okay, so everybody gets the same price at the end. Okay, right, right. So actually, this is a very good illustration for understanding how it works. So you have a 2x2 diagram and you have, so prior to the auction, the sellers, they deposit the tokens and then the auction starts and then the bidders bid for them, right? So that's a very good summary of kind of the mechanism that I explained. Great. So, yeah, okay, I'm going to say it. So also notice that there's two possibilities. The buyer side can either intersect the seller side like buy with a buy order if it goes up or it can intersect it by the seller side going like for a long time and intersecting it from the top down, right? So basically there's like two possibilities. Either a buy order can clear the auction or it can be cleared what we say like with time. So yeah, that's that. So the way it works is we have like, for example, Ether and token A and there's always two symmetric auctions running at the same time. So there's going to be one where Ether is being the sell token and the token A is being like the token that's bidded and you have the opposite symmetric one where it's token A that's being the sell one and Ether is being bidded. So we always run these symmetric auctions and they always start at the same time and when the second one closes of the symmetric pair then after 10 minutes we initiate the next pair. So that's kind of how the mechanism works. And there's a condition which is that the next auction pair received a combined value of at least $1,000 worth of sell volume. So that could have, or sorry, it's not combined, it's like an OR. So either auction must have received at least $1,000 worth of sell volume. And I guess I haven't explained the price function so kind of hinted to it. So the way the price function works is we always start at two times the closing price of the last auctions and it decreases. And after six hours it reaches the past closing price, the previous closing price. And then after 24 hours it reaches zero. So I don't know, maybe it's better if I just really simply. So we have, it starts at like two times the previous closing price and then after maybe something like this. So it's a reciprocal function. Cool. Right, so yeah, I mean this diagram just summarizes what I explained except for multiple auctions, for multiple things after one another in sequence. Cool, so now I'm going to get into like the more interesting stuff apart from like the basic mechanism. So you don't need any tokens obviously to participate in the exchange and in particular, noses tokens are not required. And so at noses we have this thing where like you stake noses tokens and they generate these things called owl tokens and then those are used to pay fees. So the owl tokens you do not need them to participate in the exchange but if you have them then like it's worth it to use them basically. So then we have a token which is intrinsic to the Dutch exchange and that's what we call a magnolia token and it is used to decrease your fees. So there are fees in the exchange and they, let me just, I remember there was a slide, yep. So there's 0.5% for both the seller side and the buyer side but they do not go to us. So it's a fully decentralized platform. The fees, they are put back into the system. However, you can also decide to spend up to half of your fee in like the equivalent amount of like owl tokens. Does that make sense? I think so. So that's pretty much it. And how do you actually get the magnolia tokens for every ether worth of tokens that you traded on the exchange? You're going to get one magnolia token. So it's like a constantly inflating supply of tokens based on how much value was traded on the exchange and there is a specific function that determines the transaction fee that you have to pay. So when I say pay, if you also participate in the next auction you will very likely get some of it back because it does, since it goes back into the ecosystem, in particular, it always goes to the next auction. So that's kind of a way to incentivize people to participate in succeeding auctions. And yeah, the graph is a, you can see it on the thing hopefully. It's a step function and it's kind of very like social I would say because it works in like a log 10 manner. So yeah, as long as you have, what is this, 0.001%. So I guess that would be one, that would be like 100,000 of all the magnolia tokens in supply then your fee is reduced to 0.4%. It does say tulip, so there's been a rename and now they're called magnolia. Cool. So I'm just going to quickly finish off by, yeah, summarizing. So what are the multiple advantages? So there's, since everything is on chain there's no front running by any party apart from like, I mean this is with respect to the underlying technology that we're using, which is Ethereum. So Ethereum itself might have front running issues and we can't deal, we can't do anything about that but it doesn't introduce any new ones because there's no centralization involved at all. Right. So yeah, I mean, I think it's like kind of a summary of what I said. So we think this also will like make it easier to determine a fair price because it's an auction mechanism and auctions are very well known to be very good at determining prices of goods. So I mean, this is kind of like financial stuff but it's, yeah. And a huge advantage, we think we worked very hard on this is to make it very like gas efficient. So to make it very efficient. And yeah, it actually turns out that it's, that we did a good job. That it's very, very efficient. So one point to note is that, for example, Ether Delta. So if you or other order book exchanges if you post an order then it's very likely that multiple people will try to fulfill it at the same time but only one of them or there's a chance that only one of them will be able to fulfill it. Obviously it can be partially fulfilled but there is a chance that some of the orders or some of the transactions will not be able to fulfill the order they wanted to in which case there's a lot of gas wastage. So there's even a graph here, right here, which shows, I'm not sure which exchange this is but in any case it shows how many transactions are failing because they're trying to fulfill an order that isn't available anymore. It's 4 out of like 8 or something like that. Yeah, I mean as for the gas cost so it's pretty good that, for example, sellers they can choose a really low gas price because it doesn't matter when they submit it and the similar thing could be said for the buyers, the bidders as well. Oh yeah, and two more huge advantages that we see of this model is that it allows smart contracts to use the platform and the reason for that is that, for example, with EtherDelta you have to sign the order and then it goes into a centralized order book and smart contracts, they can't sign stuff because they don't have a private key. So in this model even smart contracts can participate because they just have to call a function of our exchange. So we think that's really powerful and it kind of changes the concept of an exchange. It doesn't have to be just an exchange, it can be a platform where some contract might want to sell or exchange tokens so they can do that using this as well. It means you can pay in one token and the person can get paid in another token if it is in the process exchanged on the Dutch exchange. And last of all, there's an on-chain price oracle which is actually one of the reasons, main reasons why we developed this is to have a reliable on-chain price oracle for all the tokens because with order books you can always sequence the transaction so that you post a really, for example, high limit order and then you fulfill it immediately yourself which means that for a very short time you will change the market price of the token and if you sequence your transactions in the right way then you can take advantage of that for your gain which means that the price oracle isn't reliable. Well in this case, you can do the thinking yourself, there's no way to do that. And yeah, so we have a front-end as well so it looks quite slick. So you choose, yeah, I think it's pretty straightforward, self-explanatory and you can use MetaMask or Gnosis Safe in the future and you submit your order and you can see the status. And let's see, so yeah, I mean, there's a lot of potential audiences for this right now we're actively looking for market makers which are professional traders so if anybody is into that business and you feel like you want to trade on this exchange please get in touch. So yeah, and last thing I'm going to kind of an offer so we developed this exchange we're also doing many other projects at Gnosis one of the other ones we're doing is GnosisX which is a competition for you to think and develop of prediction market use cases and yeah, so there's currently three categories and they all have a deadline in August and September and if you feel like you fit one of the categories I don't, yeah, I mean, you can access the information about the GnosisX which you can find for example on Medium and you can find the categories there and if you feel like you have an idea for one of the categories, you can apply and you can win up to $100,000 worth of Gino tokens and support with developing the application so that's kind of an offer that I wanted to make and with that, so yeah, GnosisX ID8 that's kind of the logo and oh, okay, so the three categories are Science and R&D Token Diligence and Blockchain Project Integration and we have an SDK that will allow you to do that in a better way cool and yeah, you can use this email address to get more information anyways, great, so that's it thank you very much yes, that's exactly what I'm here for use the mic this time when you have questions because it's much better finally for the live stream yeah thank you how do you get liquidity into the market? so you post the sell order okay, so the question is how do you get liquidity into the market and the answer is very simple you post the sell order that's that so the sell order will include the information of which auction you want to participate in and how many tokens and that's that you can either participate using the front end actually right now or in the first version there will only be a sell side front end so when you're participating through this you will always be selling and in the future you will also have a possibility to use a graphic user interface for the buyer side and yeah or you can just use the smart contract directly does that answer the question? cool yes, so the security audit should end next week I believe and it's deployed on test network on coven but mainly on a rinkeby and it should be live I guess within a month or a month and a half on mainnet yeah recently there's been a thanks for that yeah, so yeah, so recently there's been quite a few price fluctuation or large influences that people are selling off in large amounts influencing markets if you're selling in batches wouldn't there be a higher risk at that? would there be a would there be a higher risk of what? what's the question? higher volatility? yeah, exactly yeah I mean I don't see why so for example if there was stock involved if you did that markets would be quite effective if I'm not saying you have a batch mechanism in which she stops yeah so in fact I think the opposite is true so the reason is that let's say you have an order book I guess I'll just use a diagram it's the easiest so you have an order book and it looks something like like this whatever and so suddenly when you start selling a lot then this stuff always will move to the right it will move very fast you know this is very steep then it will move very fast and the price will change a lot right? well here if you sell a lot then it will not necessarily change the market price do you see that? so if you sell a lot in an order book it will necessarily change the market price but if you sell a lot in a batch then it will not necessarily change the market price because you will just have a larger sell volume this X will just be a much larger number and but there can still be sufficiently many buy volume so that the market price in theory could stay the same yeah cool yes I have two questions the first one is probably the most important is why you decided to rename from Tudip to Magnolia I mean sorry the second one is just out of interest how do you how do you model these things or do you model these things economically like how do you basically form an opinion of whether this model what effect this will have on a bigger scale if it becomes very popular okay so yeah I'm going to start with the first question I mean I don't know I guess the reason was that Tudip has a connotation of a bubble and we didn't want that the second question was how do you model this economically what effect would this have on the financial system if this takes off and if this model becomes really really prevalent well I think it will have huge advantages right one of them we just discussed yeah yeah I mean yeah you can just say at the comparison the disadvantages versus or the advantages they will be multiplied right if this is much more prevalent so yeah any other questions yeah thanks for the talk my question is if I was at the Dutch auction model correctly you choose this to reduce on-chain events and also to have avoid this concurrent transactions and waste of gas have you ever studied the possibility to use a lightning or raiden and completely go off-chain and do a matching engine off-chain and only when people go in and go out they sign on-chain so in this version it we did not use raiden but it is something that we are looking into so yeah this does have the advantage of even further reducing gas fees doesn't it yeah maybe totally eliminate those and it would allow a traditional exchange I think 99% of users now traditional exchanges much more so maybe they are more used to the conventional order books so I see a small risk for you that mainstream adoption will be hindered by this new kind of matching engine yeah well I mean so it's a new model and we'll see if it takes off we believe in that there's huge advantages and that it's more suited for blockchain than the traditional but you know you know the market has to decide on that yeah that's that cool any other questions yeah one more question by gentlemen in the third row as an auction maker as I understand if I want to sell I don't know my 100 ETH or what can I set the properties of the auction like for example the time no that's fixed that's fixed that's always 24 hours that's right so in order to aggregate all the liquidity we don't divide it by having everybody start their own auction everybody just all they do is they post the seller order and we aggregate all the liquidity and we have a uniform rules of the game that all the liquidity follows cool one more question over there yeah absolutely I mean yeah totally so there I mean there is a possibility for arbitrage right so in particular if the price ever goes below the market price in other exchanges then the auction will be closed because all the bidders will buy up that at that price because they can get it at a lower price than at other exchanges so that means that the sellers will actually never get a worse price than the market price at that point after the 6 hours so yeah I mean as a buyer or as a seller you can decide which exchange you want to use whether this one or different one so inherently there is always going to be arbitrage between the exchanges which is good because as a trader you should get the same price on all the exchanges and arbitrage works to achieve that not really here it doesn't matter what the market price is the world could be burning over here and that doesn't matter but what matters is once we get close to the closing I mean unless the so there is like two mechanisms going on there is time going on and there is price which reaches the market price that's very likely to happen after after 6 hours rather than sooner than that does that make sense or yeah so basically what I was trying to say is that the only time arbitrage can happen is at the closing point which obviously that varies where that is but as soon as the price drops to the market price elsewhere is when arbitrage happens before that it can happen because yeah I mean the bidders would just go buy it somewhere else yeah you said basically the price the option is the price is double the closing price that's right so the starting price of this auction is double of the closing price of the previous one what if that's already below market price what if that's what already below market price so that that would mean that the auction closes instantly or what so okay I'm going to see two things so yes in theory yes so if X is still smaller than or equal to the market price at this point then yeah it will close instantly and the second thing is it can't happen like from an economic point of view because previously if like as kind of my answer to the previous question if the price had gone below the market price in the previous auction then the economy the traders would close it then so prices will never go below the market price because otherwise bidders are incentivized to actually bid and buy them up right so or are you saying like the time difference will make the the price will change right okay that's a very good point so there's actually only 10 minutes usually between the two auctions so that is it's very unlikely that the price doubles or halves in 10 minutes what do you mean what do you mean the 10 minutes that's a very good question so the reason we put the 10 minutes there is like if you want to be if you want to claim the tokens like here right and then you want to participate in the next auction immediately so then we have time where you can like claim them and you can also sell them in the next auction immediately yeah yes other sellers like exposed to some kind of like volatility risk because they kind of lock that tokens up in this auction mechanism if the price moves a lot up or down then that could kind of be undesirable for them to have so they might want to not sell them anymore yes I mean obviously so there are many many advantages to this model one of the possible disadvantages is so let me start with the bidders so the bidders or the buyers they actually are like really well off right because they they come in like at the last whatever and they get the tokens very very soon so very very low lag and low volatility risk the sellers on the other hand you are right they will get their the tokens on average in 6 hours so yeah that's that we are aware of that like that is one of the disadvantage why should the sellers participate if they have this kind of risk or the incentives for the sellers so it's like it's all the other things together right so you have a smaller chance for the exchange to front run so basically this mechanism allows you to get the fair value of the tokens because there is no trust needed the miners yeah so there's no trust with respect to the protocol yeah any other questions no more questions cool so thank you very much Dominic thank you very much all for this great evening thank you very much the live peer team thanks many thanks to the Lavalra team many thanks to all our health groups for organizing this event next month there will be another meetup of course it will be more aim for beginners so a lower technical level I hope to see you next month thank you


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greetings and salutations and welcome back to good old lastria and I actually have a question for you all how is the audio is the audio the greatest audio of all time or is it at least perhaps the greatest audio you've heard on this channel yet I have made some upgrades to my audio system so I hope that translate well into the videos because I'm gonna start making more videos and more voiceovers and more commentary and perhaps participate in more podcasts etc so I invested in any new setup or parts of a setup at least so hopefully it it sounds that way now that being said we have to illuminate some heretics who are currently occupying kayaks who this settlement obviously belongs to the Krakenlord himself so without further ado I will just charge in right there and get a good action-oriented episode on its way boom there we go and now I see that I can't charge quite yet there is still a thing we need to do obviously we need to get Admiral Barzatar into range so he can support with our magics here so and you see here the circle that is what we have to get into position and I got a question in the last episode on what difficulty level I recommend I usually play on either very hard and I've played some campaigns on legendary and I prefer this a bit higher difficulty because that forces you to think more basically I like Total War because it is a lot of thinking it is a lot of strategy and you get punished quite quickly for it if you make strategic mistakes in in Total War so obviously it can be nice with more action-oriented games such as I don't have Skyrim or Assassin's Creed or more story-oriented games such as The Witcher but for the sake of having a strategy game where you enjoy the thinking aspect and you know you get to to think in terms of strategy and tactics I definitely prefer to play it on a bit harder so that you have to think about all the different game mechanics so for example the income of each settlement how do you optimize that and how do you optimize the public order how do you optimize your characters so basically the more things you have to think about the more fun the game becomes so yeah that is that is good indeed so yeah I like Total War because of those aspects and might say this again and I might have said it before I don't like Total War so much for the war aspect it's more the overall management of of your nation that is fun now I have ramble on enough about that let's let's fight this should obviously not be all too much of a problem they have untrained spearmen just two units of Lord and Seaguard and we have a full stack of experienced mad cunts so time to feed a kraken so we can see yet again on the units here also we have the missile advantage and they have to come to us otherwise they will just just get shot two bits so I do believe that this battle will be very very easy indeed to to say the least so and also we can see that we have the experienced advantage with you know some decent ranks on on these lads all right we are in the battle and without further ado we're just gonna start it setting these two multi-shot round because that's the best option against infantry and we're gonna locate our local fell hard right there he is always gonna go straight for their general because when you kill their general they will suffer a would rather they can't use his leadership so they will become demoralized so yeah we're just gonna keep our ranks tidy and neat and let them come at us now then there we have their general so boom ready to duelist one this looks this looks absolutely glorious we're gonna do a cool thing here absolutely aesthetic if anything now obviously I have plenty of magic things to play with and this is obviously a huge asset for for the dark elves and having this sort of combinations with a land army and a and a fleet is definitely something that you can utilize strategically if you decide to play some total war in the autumn darkness and as my man LSR commented the the other day on our video he said you can game when you have been to the gym lads and that's obviously what is up you need to go to the gym otherwise you you can't game that's the absolutely the absolute minimum to get your things have your things done and then you game as either stress relief or just because it's fun but it can never be at the expense of productive endeavors so we're gonna try to do one of these cool things again from here and then we're just gonna magnificent might get a cool thumbnail here as well there maybe glorious anyway where do you even have anything yeah they do have some some unit that needs to be that needs to be taught a lesson I'm gonna speed up this battle because it wasn't overly it wasn't overly exciting to be honest since I kind of knew beforehand that we would that we would take them and there we are victory as always and a good amount of loot and yet again as I said last episode is our guys sorry it's gonna occupy boom and weapon gained Caledron's bane how absolutely joyous and look at a lot of leveling has been done what I will do right now is as usual I'm gonna take a few turns and see what the crack is so be right back all right I am back and I have a plan so we're gonna sail out and see what this remnants of battle might contain if they contain something fun perhaps some pirates that we can steal from and this is what I yet again love with this game the aesthetics and the field to it absolutely epic after that we will head up here to bolster the jury on and the the lads up here because we have a little rebellion on our hands so we're gonna do that but first the tower of blessed dread aha attribute to the sea gods your followers have come upon two shipwrecks battle at sea places not just the guards of war but the gods of the sea as well salvage from such vicious battle is possible but the sea gods demand their tribute so only a quarter of the cardio should be taken and we're gonna go with fell cargo okay so we have a trunk of maps magic item drop chance plus 25% and campaign line of sight plus 50% more over we have an armor of silvered steel so some good stuff and I will take a few turns yet again so that we can get get to this battle so be right back and I am back so the settlement has been besieged and it's just loyal again jury on her loyalty is wavering a bit absolutely blasphemous she she has not taken the glory spill if you have taken the glory spill you are always supremely loyal and we have a research we have our technology researched driven by vengeance and that's a yeah the a bit cheaper recruitment costs so what we can do now is simply to much these lads there I suppose and either wait for them to attack us or they can attack or we can attack them yeah this is always in range so I didn't even need to move him right there right so the question remains and this is what I'm talking about in regards to strategy etc we could probably just attack them cause yeah we have our supremely experienced army of mad cons right there as we're gonna take this battle I'm just going to do the following research something fun so we have this tree to choose from and recruitment rank for dread spirits dark charge and bleak swords or ascension true battles as leadership for black arc corsairs that is what I want most of all because our main our main unit is corsairs so this is also good speed but we're gonna go with ascension true battle because leadership is always good when we want a good firm that line that does not break under the pressure so Julian you will have to oh that's a bit the one I did not expect it to be that easy to be honest so yeah balance power as usual okay we had quite the arm quite good settlement garrison so that explains what so such an easy battle so I will yet again take another turn and see what what fun things we might do alright I am back I have taken a good few turns just to get some more action into the episode and I thought we could actually declare war on these vampires these creatures of the night I'm sorry Luther Harkon this was the only reason because of action what I mean you will not you can of course attack him maybe next and then okay that was a bit of a fail it was supposed to be a spectacular charge but I suppose we can do it next and then now let us see if this is possible to attack they were and another quite easy victory we're gonna occupy these hovels and then I suppose we can go down to take a lot I might have butchered that pronunciation but you never know and also we have a good few cool things here that we can research or level up I mean so all good all good slaver those unfortunate those unfortunate captured during a scrap will serve the dread fleet one way or another casualties captured post battle plus 12% that is really good and upkeep minus 5% for all units that's an absolutely epic thing and you will be in dread expansion so that we can build fun things such as about war of cane that is definitely good stuff and we're gonna see how the people fare down here the city of dusk they are well not happy at all but I have a good few turns until they will revolt at least so I could do is actually I can march down Jordan to restore some order and see what how they will react to that the elves of citadel dusk moreover we can research something else here can't afford this one yet so we're gonna go with the speed that's also a good thing so anyway I'll take one more turn in this episode and see if we can lay siege to this fine place right here we are let us see if this is if this is doable to take axlotl look at that it actually is it is indeed I don't even need to take that but we lost to a good units unfortunately we're gonna occupy and we're gonna dedicate this place to math land we secure this province that is very nice indeed and what will we go with growth is definitely my favorite edict definitely indeed and that obviously will be our topic for a coming video regarding growth for the sake of growth I saw a really fun I don't know who commented it but it was on Twitter and he said growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell I thought that was an apt metaphor but economic growth can be good of course it can be bad if it's taken its toll on on modern earth so if you have economic growth that consists in cutting down all of these forests to make room for grace lands for cattle for example then obviously this this dinosaurs in this example will not have any place to live or like I said in a recent video regarding Oreo and their practices of buying palm oil from from companies that cut down rainforests and then the tigers and elephants and orangutans from this area will be without the home because that is now a plantation for palm oil but anyway that is at least my thoughts on what a good edict for for this is so I will call this a episode I'm just gonna build something fun woodlands hot timber log resource production and some income there and what more fun things can be built we can build a slave pen always a good idea we can all also will dark elf manners so we get some more growth and obviously same thing here we want to get this settlement to an as high level as possible then we can also build something here if we want that so that is extremely good a slavehold income from post-battle loot 20% plus for armies within the sphere of influence that is absolutely great so that's obviously the sphere of influence is this line that goes here so yeah thank you for watching and comment below glory to mathlan and deadlifts for Thor xxO boom


Tack så mycket. Excellensis. Secretary-general. President. Distinguished ministers. Ambassadors. Delegates. Först på min egen behåll. Och också på behalf av Sverige. Jag skulle vilja tacka på det. Det är regeringen av Rumania. Men också den internationella telekommunikationen. För att bringa oss ihop och preparera den här fantastiska konferensen. The organisation is excellent. But also the warm hospitality of the Romanian people greatly contributes to our common efforts of having a successful Plenipotentiary conference here today and in the coming weeks. The importance of digitalisation is as we all know growing. Today it is a prerequisite for being able to interact fully with society. Today we have challenges not only of building connectivity but also of maintaining it. We feel strongly for the Ukraine which is suffering daily cyber attacks and whose telecommunication sector is under enormous pressure. On behalf of Sweden I would like to express our full solidarity with the Ukraine. Sweden is convinced that the global digital divide must be bridged to realise the full potential of digital transformation. This is an important step towards global equality. A strong and active ITU is vital to addressing these challenges together. Sweden already contributes to this work in several areas and now we wish to do so in the coming period within the council. We are dedicated to continuing to contribute to an increased focus within the ITU on connectivity. Digital skills, transparent, equitable and effective governance and flexibility and effective use of radio spectrum. The global digital divide must be bridged in order to realise the full potential of digital transformation. An important step towards global equality and cohesion that benefits at the end of the day everyone. Over the past six years Sweden has through the regulator PTS and SPIDER a project from the Stockholm University contributed to capacity building peer review projects within more than 30 countries in Africa. The project with resources from my organisation the PTS has been supporting regulators in that area in developing and implementing their own strategic priorities and individual strategic targets. But at the same time engaging in discussions on joint challenges we currently work on scaling up this project and the program to have a broader outreach if possible. Again a strong and active ITU is a vital tool to addressing these challenges together ensuring that no one is left behind in the digital world. Sweden is highly committed to continued engagement in the ITU. Sweden has been successful in strengthening connectivity on a national, regional and international level and now we wish to bring this experience and knowledge to the ITU council. We look forward to work with all of you to bring successful outcomes of this conference and I thank you all and multumesk to our Romanian host. Thank you.


Hey, this is Brett with Summit Auto and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and use Jeep and Jeep Grand Cherokee Headquarters, and today I'm excited to show you this extremely good looking 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo X package. This vehicle has the award-winning 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 motor, paired up with the 8-speed automatic transmission. It's going to get you 25 miles per gallon on the Highway 18 city for a combined total of 21 average. Diamond black pearl coat is the color, and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now, because it is definitely your best way to check out the looks and styling and color of the vehicle before seeing it in person. This one does have the HID, or premium lighting group, with the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, and LED fog lamps. This is kind of a higher-end Laredo package, and it's really nicely done. It's got a lot of nice features, and I think if you were going to get a Laredo, you may want to check this one out, because it's only a little bit more, a couple thousand dollars more than just the base ones, so you get a lot extra with it for the price you pay for that Laredo X package, which we'll check out in just a second. Comes with the 18-inch painted alloy rims, and it has Michelin Premier LTX 26560 R18 tires, they definitely have kind of a highway tread pattern to them. Diamond black, one of my favorite black colors, it's got just a little bit of metal flake in it, kind of hard to see, if we can get it to focus in here on the paint. There we go, you can see just a little bit of metal flake to that paint. The premium lighting group gives you those HID headlamps, the LED fog lamps, and those LED running lights. You get the chrome trimmed grille and Jeep logo with the Laredo X package. We're going to check out the original window sticker here, and you can feel free to pause this at any point in the video here, so you can check out all the options and everything. I'm not going to go through everything, but just kind of a quick overview. You can see it is a Laredo X based on the Laredo platform. Diamond black, black interior has suede and leather seats. 3.6 liter 8-speed automatic transmission. You get the Jeep wave standard with all the Jeeps now, which is really nice, gives you oil changes and tire rotations. And then everything on the left standard, and then your optional equipment includes that diamond black pearl coat, which is $245. The customer preferred package is $4,850.  And then you get the Sirius Guardian for a year, traffic plus and travel link for five years from Sirius. You get the 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot that you connect 4C with navigation, which is a really nice feature, 115 volt auxiliary power outlet. 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We actually did a demo on Android Auto if you wanna check that out, it's in the upper right hand part of the screen. So check out that video there.  You get more tactile controls here, including your dual climb controls, volume and tune controls as well.  You do get two USBs and an aux jack and a 12 volt PowerPoint down here. Your keyless entry, pretty standard Jeep stuff, remote start, entering ghost system, just have to have this key fob in your pocket. You'll be able to open your vehicle, start your vehicle without even touching your keys. Eight speed automatic transmission with a mechanical shifter. That wood grain trim wraps around the dash and door nicely. And then you get your whole link buttons with your garage door security systems and lane systems capabilities and your map lights up there. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then I'll show you the LED and premium lighting group. Back seats, plenty of room back here. 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Today I'm happy to announce new funding of $40 million to our clean energy vehicle program. 27 million of that will support the continued incentives for people to buy or lease the new zero emissions vehicle. Rebates of $5,000 are available for an electric vehicle and up to $6,000 for a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Well today's announcement is a pretty significant step in reinforcing sort of the government's leadership on climate matters particularly around the automotive sector. We have to address the impact of the transportation sector as part of the climate leadership plan and this is an integral part of doing that and we're working hand in glove with new car dealers and the electric vehicle association and all the other stakeholders. So today's announcement of $40 million is a solid commitment to encourage British Columbia to make those cleaner greener choices as we all look for new vehicles electric vehicles are real it's a real choice we intend to make it a preferred choice. I bought a Tucson fuel cell hydrogen vehicle so we've had it now for two years this month. We're seeing more and more of our friends move to electric vehicles and if they have the charging infrastructure either at their house or close you know my group of friends is is starting to move in that direction. So if you're thinking about considering one of these well now is the time to get really serious about it because we've got strong incentives government's made a long-term commitment for another three years of sufficient funding so it's a great time to check one of these out. I'm kind of charged up about it.


The government in Burma is taking steps to reduce its controls over media and the arts. The musician who calls himself Darko C says he is pleased with the action but unsure of the new limits. Yeah, it's going to take some time to really change, you know what. So now they reduce the rules a bit, but there's some, yeah, some lame rules about censorship still. Burma's Ministry of Information inspects the words of songs. In the past, officials banned songs about politics, alcohol use, or kissing. Darko C says the process can be unpredictable. To be honest, I think it depends on their mood. They have their personalities, right? Different people doing this job. So it depends on the person and who censoring your lyrics. If you pray to the Buddha, please don't let them read my lyrics. Darko C says his rock band does not have political goals. But he says the group still wants to test its listeners. Pushing the limit is good. I mean, not only to push the government or the authority, but to push the people's belief and thoughts. Darko C says it is a strange time in Burma because of the changes, but he is enjoying it. We are not sure that we are really free and that we really, I mean, like freedom of what? Freedom to express, right? So we're still not sure. His band is on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. It looks forward to performing Burmese rock for foreigners. I'm Kelly Knuxall.


Welcome once again to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. Final conversation this morning is of course with the new Inspector General of Police and is directive to suspend the tinted glass permits for vehicles across Nigeria. This morning we are speaking with Femi Larsen, a public affairs analyst. Good morning. Thanks for joining us sir. Good morning. Good morning. Good to see you. All right. Good to hear from you. I said this a couple of days ago, it's like clockwork for every new Inspector General of Police, either banning tinted permits or banning roadblocks or withdrawing policemen from VIPs across the country. It happens with every new IG, but it doesn't seem like a lot changes. So what's your reaction to this new order? Is it going to be in any way different from the last one? I would not even want to call this a new order. We can only say, you can best describe this as a repeat of an existing manuscript that has actually been permanently placed on the table of every Inspector General of Police that has been positioned in Nigeria. I now recall that for a very long time before now, every Inspector General of Police that has been positioned and withdrew police ugly from politicians and VIPs, they all withdrew spy number plates and they all banned the usage of tinted glasses. So I think this is about a new order. But why we have continued to have successive leadership of the police coming to re-treat this position is because the police as an institution have continued to fail in enforcing the laws as a law enforcement organization. I can tell you that the IG should be more worried about the conduct of policemen in the police force rather than the use of tinted glasses, spy number plates and the line. But I can tell you for free this morning that if you drive a well-tinted, very dark vehicle across any checkpoint today, there are 10 days that you will receive more salute, there are no questioning from policemen who have been deployed on the road because of the culture of bread taking and inefficiency. So I think the IGP should be more interested in maintaining discipline and training in the police force rather than the repeat of this order by the juniors of the area. Alright so Mr. Lawson, to the bone of contention here regarding the IGP order to ban or suspend the issuance of tinted glasses permits, how have tinted glasses been abused in Nigeria? Or how does it in any way inhibit the work of law enforcement officers? This is what the IGP said as his reason for banning them. That's the fact, you understand that many people have used the cover provided by this tinted glasses to perpetrate crime, order of crime, to beat security checks over the time. But the question is, efficient security is not guaranteed by our well-converged perpetrators or not. Security is more of intelligence, is more information gathering. It's not just about being able to unravel actions that are taking place in that spot or that tinted glasses. But I think the police should be more interested in intelligence gathering and how we can curb crimes in the form of criminality in this country by working with the citizens, by gathering information from the citizens and by doing standard spitting practices, rather than limiting our focus on tinted glasses and the police point of our place. Do you think there's ever going to be an answer to a problem that you mentioned? You said the IGF police should be more focused on the attitude of the police towards their work and bribery and corruption and some of all of that. Do you believe that there would ever be a time when that is, you know, fixed? Well, the truth is that until not only the police have an institution, but the government itself is ready to reform what is called the policing system in Nigeria. You see, all these five big, good approach and shortcut attempts will lead us to no way. They will lead us to no way in finding solutions to the myriad of insecurities that are confronting us as a nation today. So it requires more than, you know, this, what I've described, as far as we get approached by the police or other security agencies to tackle the question of institutions in the land. It's a systemic issue. It's an institutional issue. And it is not what one man decrees, you know, or how that can solve. That is the reality.  It says anyone who has tinted permits, who has tinted glasses on their cars, should be arrested. But this is a law or an order he just gave a deal to ago. Don't you think that it should have been time to, you know, sensitize Nigerians? Because I don't think it's everyone who's aware about this. Don't you think they should have given time, you know, notified Nigerians, given them time to change their glasses, instead of ordering them to be immediately arrested? Because, you know, this will definitely breed the corruption we're talking about, you know, stopping them at police checkpoints. That is why I described this as a far as we get approach. Let me tell you one thing for free. The police are not going to arrest a good number of people for using tinted glasses. Tinted glasses, people without money. As I speak to you, there are a lot of people who have been using these tinted glasses even without police service. Where, even when the law enforcement will be killed, you know, and the various police formations try to capture barbecues to, you know, to get these tinted glasses, I mean, of vehicles that have come with tinted glasses that we're going to process. But the question is this. The idea is that, as only opened another window of opportunity for the rank and file of the police, to extort other Nigerians, you know, who are far to the use of tinted glasses. I can tell you that nobody will be prosecuted for this deal going by the accusers of oppression of Nigerian police. The blame on these roadblocks across the Islamic, is going to become a war for you now, to travel between Lagos and the South East. Why you have to come across tens of numbers of, you know, of checkpoints? Because you have to pay price in all these checkpoints because you do not have a tinted glass on your vehicle without police service. So it's just another function of opening a window of bribe for people because police have not demonstrated any student's message in France, you know, to prosecute people who are violating this so-called order. I must also remember, as often the IG order, police order are not laws. People can only be prosecuted on the basis of laws that are existing in our paper. It is not enough. Anybody can just re-compine people and order. But we must look at how we can put every of these aspirations of orders of the police, or of prejudices into a law so that people can listen to the violating existing law, not violating IG's order. That is the truth. Oh well, I think this is a good point that you just moved into now. So what it means is that you cannot really be arrested for having tinted glasses because there's no actual law against it. You can't be charged, you know, for that. But can your vehicle be impounded? The vehicle, if a lot of times it has a challenge in court, not only against the police, it's not against neurotic people or other IG's. So it requires not of the court. So it will see the mobile phone.  For the citizens, we are not in a banana republic.  If you are going to be impounding vehicles, are you willing to approach the court to get an order of the magistrate or the icon whatever, or whatever, to impound these vehicles? Look at what has become of vehicles that have been impounded by police positions across the country to the past. They are all here roasting, roasting because no other either by, you know, marketing the world that was given if I thought anyone was given stupidly property. And policemen don't, you know, option is all of them are ridiculous, right? Some get to roasting the police formations without being able to, with owners being able to recover it. So we must continue to impart on the needs of our institutions to oppress by law, not by the wishes or aspirations of the leader, be it the governor, the president, the secretary of police, manager, director or whoever, we must oppress this country under law, not under the wishes or feelings of the individual. Okay, so back to the matter, the IGP is saying he's ordering the suspension of, you know, tinted glasses permits and saying Nigerians should not do this for security reasons. But you mentioned also that there should be a focus on intelligence, because when we try to look at the other side of the coin, there's actually benefits to using tinted glasses, you know, it makes your car cool, protects the upholstery, just prevents you from, you know, getting exposed to direct sunlight and all of that. So should the F, should the focus now not be on intelligence gathering and not just, you know, saying tinted permits are suspended and... Yeah, that is what security should be about. Security should not be about the number of guns or ammunition. You know, if the situation should be determined by the number of mines, you know, military mines or fire arms that a country, you know, can procure or force it, I think Nigerians should be one of the most secured countries today. This is a country where you can hardly work on any street, without being one policeman, one soldier or whoever, carry rifles, they want to go to cycles. But today we live in one of the most insecure, you know, societies in the world. Only yesterday, there was a report, you know, equating leaders to Damascus as one of the most unsafe places to live on head. And I think many leaders are going to have enough number of policemen. Is there about top a street that gets to a leader today that you don't find the presence of the police? But the question is that, we have been investing little or nothing in intelligence gathering, which is key to nipping crime in the boss. In this case, we're always waiting for crime to be perpetrated. But before you find out, will this man running off and out? No. What are we doing to ensure that these crimes are not perpetrated? And that is the work ethic of intelligence gathering. Are we able to nip these criminals before they strike? That is the essence of intelligence gathering. And I think our institutions must begin to invest more in intelligence gathering and cooperation with the 50B.  In order to address our disability challenges, I can assure you that no number of amateurs, girls or whatever this country can procure can solve this problem if we don't begin to invest in the mental capacity, in the intelligence capacity of our spiritual prejudice. It is not like going around with girls and amateurs. All right. So from what you've said, does it mean that Nigerians should resist any questioning or harassment with regards to tinted glasses? Simply because there's no actual law that is made available to prosecute them or prosecute Nigerians for using tinted glasses. What should be the response of a Nigerian who is accosted by the police at a checkpoint for having tinted glasses? My first advice is that we can base on our experience and if you look at the issues of major police that are going to do with human rights violations and police brutality, I would encourage Nigerians wherever they come across police, whether at checkpoints or wherever to always listen and respond to their questions. What I'm opposed to is anybody telling bright other any guys to anybody other any guys are wanting to enforce the police order on tinted glasses. I also want to encourage the police organization to do more in legitimizing some of these orders where they get more crazy and not in the military room. And when these are done this must be brought to the cautiousness of the citizens as much as possible. We must understand that this you are in position today because of the citizens. You are responsible for the citizens and you should also yourself have lost over the citizens because where you are paying your salaries and wages after fear. Yep, Mr. Lawson. I think I would not say citizens should be dead yet but because it was a civil citizen was a civil and almost followed due process. Yeah, so what would you say Yeah, so what would you say is this due process? If you're driving, for example if you're driving in a friend's car tomorrow or your car sometime today and you know you're stopped by the police and questioned about tinted glasses what would your response be? Before this time after an order has been given after the deal that order was given I can tell you for free that people were seen at the various police command no finding application for the use of tinted permit you understand that if you go to the little police command in the KJIA you can find this after almost every hour people find it in a request. Most of the vehicles that are brought into this country today particularly the sport utility vehicles group up with factory fitted tinted glasses. So by implication are you saying if I purchase a car that is brought into Nigeria today with factory fitted in a tinted glassy will I have to stop using the car because of the police order? So no so there was a window given for people to who have to use their vehicles and that when the property is done and the deal process is laid like I did that promise that people they should go and apply you know for the use of this glassy but it cannot be treat people from moving you know with the country's right of movement it's a culturally guaranteed right because you think there are not any vehicles in tinted glasses I don't think that's the advantage I didn't have the advantage of of the construction rights of the people. All right Femi Larson thank you very much for your time this morning thanks for you know on bundling this conversation for us. Thank you. Good morning to you once again. You know and you know I personally never even thought about it that way you know it's no it's not law you know there's no actual law. Just like the Twitter ban it was just a declaration. You know so anybody can wake up tomorrow morning and say no more pepe in your stew. That's what that's it's pretty much similar yes I understand you know the security implications for you know these pronouncements by the IGP. So police will come check your stew. Yeah so they might wake up anybody it's pretty much the same with anybody waking up to say you know oh you know pepper is no longer good for Nigerians so you know use only tomato so it makes stew and then it automatically doesn't become law you can't be arrested for that because there's no law with which you be charged. But you know that most times when you when you listen to all real statements from press releases from the police you hear the IGP has ordered the state commanders ordered ordered ordered there was actually no law but you know the kind of country you live in just like he said that he would have given so much advice but when he takes into consideration the human rights violations by the Nigerian police force what really can you say at the point of altercation they can pull out a gun and just shoot you dead this is Nigeria. That's why I had to ask the question what should be the response of a Nigerian when your axe questions concerning your comply to do what exactly now to take the tinting off because but at that point he said it already this is just an avenue for all really it opens up an avenue for police officers to extort Nigerians because when you see when the police officers see some of the tinted glass I mean just like I mentioned no time was given they didn't say Nigerians are given the next 30 days 60 days to make sure that they get permits or if it's possible to change the glass you know nothing the statement from the IGP says immediate clamp down so if I have a tinted glass what do I do I shouldn't drive I should take an Uber or what do I do so it's just it's just like he says opens up an avenue for the police to begin to extort Nigeria best case scenario can you actually be taken to court can you actually be charged with thank god Justin Justin's trek is over so maybe but that's it here on the breakfast join us and contribute your quarter on Facebook and Instagram you can also comment in the comment section of our YouTube channel at plus TV Africa everywhere my name is Anita Felix thank you for joining us this morning and I am Osaugi Ogbonga see you at nine


Hello, I am Magda. I'm talking about my personal projects and it's the major part of my project personal and graphic, graphic, okay, relationship with graphic design. Okay, first of all, in my work, okay, begins in my diaries, okay, the first my, I have two lines, okay, two kind of diaries. First are my gifts, okay, well, I worked it for two years, more or less, okay, and now, okay, when do you like, okay, you see this, and now I am working more from this work, okay, I work with, directly with code, with processing. It's changed, okay, before, I worked only with draw, with line, black and white, and now I work with images, okay, and I create compositions using type, typo, okay, and introduce the time, okay, it's, it was a change, okay, in my work, because I can combine, I can create another sensations, okay, with the same image and combination with the blend, okay, with the blend and the minimum values, okay, I give and combine, okay, sensation with color, okay, that, before I, I didn't work, okay, okay, for me, this three, okay, kind of works, some typo, in this case, 3D, okay, and, okay, animate, okay, with photography, it's a value to, to, to, to try to, to aim a aesthetic, apply it, okay, object, apply it in the, in the, in the project that I, I'm going to show, okay, well, I don't know if it's right, okay, yes, for example, and this is a simple, a simple project, but it was shown, was shown in, in a space that people is, well, walking around it and the name, it's the name of a composition that it's like a muslim, muslim songs, okay, with, with the popular, okay, festivities, and the, the, this, this, this screener or, or it was displayed on the screen, and people walk, walk around, then the tempo is so slow, it's slow, and this project is, what I hope, what I hope is, I, I work in, I work in a final school of art, okay, and my partners, okay, request all the years, some, some of us, okay, to give a present to the rest of the, of the partners, okay, and I design it, okay, a piece, a piece of, a shape, okay, a shape is, is this, a shape that the, the aim was created with, with the references, with the building, okay, the building and a folder, let's see, folded, folded paper, okay, the, the part, okay, we are, represent the part, we represent the part of the, of, of, of, of, of, of all of us, okay, yes, and finally, okay, with the last cut, okay, and the, the most funny is where people is going to, to, to pick the present, okay, and they, they trying, okay, they trying and select what, which, which, okay, they like it, okay, and select it and they sign, okay, they sign in the shape where, the shape which they left with him, okay, with them, okay, and another, okay, project is a common design for a routine life because it's the idea, it's a very, okay, silly idea, it's how with the minimum rotated, okay, you can't create a more, more a graphic, graphic design, okay, all of these things, okay, are created with, with processing and maybe this can, can do with inkscape, okay, but I try to do things with, with the minimum resources and the minimum code is in, try to extract the, the principal idea, flocking, okay, was a, was a collaboration, okay, with an artist, Rosa Nantoli and she invited artists to project in her room what we wanted, okay, and I created some, some forms, okay, shapes using the flocking because she works with dance and move of the dance and the, the results of the dance, okay, make a drawing, so make a shapes and it was the idea, the idea, and this project, okay, is, is, is alive, it's beginning to, okay, and it was the design, the completely design, the vinyl, CD, visuals, banners, okay, to, to, to this group is a couple, couple of girls that, they are friends too, at least, okay, we create, okay, 50, 500, 500 CD, well, later I show how, how, how we made it, and at first we, we believe that it's a good idea, but we pass a lot of, I don't, I don't remember how many hours, okay, pass, but more or less 15, 20 minutes for every, okay, every CD, the idea was created vinyl and CDs, but when we, we, we were meeting, okay, said, okay, it's the vinyl, maybe it's a good idea, go to, to the industry, okay, and this is the, the result, okay, more or less, and finally we said that it's a good idea to CD, okay, go by hand, made by hand, because it's CD vinyl, it's a collection, okay, from them, themselves, okay, so on, but CD it's an object that I think it's, people doesn't use, okay, and the, the visuals, okay, everybody wants, to the visuals, okay, we want to to see some visuals. The same shapes that, and the design, not only, okay, but we use it like in the concerts, and then in every concert, the graphic is, okay, it's different, it's different. Record? No, the disc is a proximare, okay, proximare is a planet that it has two, two faces, one lighter and one darker, and the design is to, to terrain, okay, and it was, was detailed, this is the same with the face, with the, it is all, okay, thanks. Some question or do you want to tell me something? Okay, yes, okay, yes, there are only two songs that were recorded, okay, and, but don't, don't usually record it all the, all the, all the lives, okay, because there are some lives that we don't, we don't show the, the visuals because there are open spaces and have a little light, and it's, and it's difficult, okay, and I like it and go to the concert because it's, I feel that I am one, one piece more of the, the group and it's, I, I, I like to work, to work with it. What's your projects? I, I, I, the god, I, now, no, no, it's in Agitini and, but I show, I show and give, I'm going to, to, to put it, to, to get it, but I don't yet, okay, not, but yes, I'm going to, to it, okay, yes, because I, in the first time, okay, if you see the first video, okay, the, the graphics don't, don't work well, okay, and I am but I know that it's not okay, but I think I'm going to stop it and okay, it's okay here, yeah, it's not, not finished, okay. Any sketches? Yes. Ah, my sketches. I, if I, I, no, I only show, I, I, okay, it's a good idea. I don't, I only, I use, for example, Instagram and hello, hello.co and I show, yeah, but the code, no, but I, I think it's good, a good idea that I, I have to do it, okay, don't, okay. Yes. I use, no, Marx. In the escape, for example, to, to, to do the, the graphic and put it and connect with the machine, I used, in the escape and before, I used to commercial, yes, I think the, the, the beginning was difficult because I, I only see numbers and it's, for me, were difficult to, to, to see the, the shapes and the sensitivity shapes and the code, okay, was, was, and now we are happy because I, I understand everything and I, I can sense the, the, the, the, the pixels, okay, because at, at first of all, I, I only make things with a lot of mathematics, but the machine doesn't, doesn't run with a, with a static form, from, from a point of view. Some question? Did you also teach? Yes. Yes, I teach. Yeah.  Yes, yes, we work, we work with in, at school, okay, we work with processing and we work with, with process, with processing and a little bit with Arduino, okay, but it's, it's a group of students, okay, that there are at least four years, okay, in the first year, okay, they feel not, they, at first time, they don't like it, they don't like it because, okay, I, they, they learn, okay, with commercial, with commercial software, okay, and work with, we have a lot of relations, relations with, with the enterprises and then work for a lot of projects for, for, for them, okay, and to break this rhythm, okay, to create only for, for the commercial and create another kind of project. At first they said, well, some people, no, okay, they said, oh, it's more difficult to create something we don't control, we don't know what we are going to do and, but at least they, they, they feel free, okay, because they can see some things that they don't believe in it and at least they, they like it very much, some people, but, but I think it's okay because it's all, all things are, uh, order it, okay, order it in the studies, no, I don't know what first you made this, secondly, no, thirdly, I have an order and this, okay, it's more friendly and I think people like, okay, so another, another kind of work, another kind to create, it's possible okay, we use in class, uh, a wiki, uh, Arduino dot, well, no, Compartase.net and, uh, people, um, um, well, documentate the project and, and put it


The 1999 playoff win over Buffalo was the Music City Miracle Game. The 99 AFC Championship win was about beating Jacksonville for a third time. The win in between those two at Indianapolis, that was Blaine Bishop's game. Blaine Bishop had already made three Pro Bowls when the 1999 playoffs arrived. He was established, he was respected. But when January 16, 2000 arrived, all he could feel was the need to prove himself one more time. As Blaine went home to Indianapolis, he was filled with memories from his Cathedral High School days, winning a state championship, seeing family and friends who knew him by his nickname Woody, seeing Father Patrick Kelly. It brought a lot of excitement and it brought a lot of memories. So I got to the stadium and I walked around it, nobody was hardly on the field, and I see Father Kelly who was our principal at my high school. You know, we were just going back and forth and he said, man, who would have thought that the guy we called Woody in high school would be in the National Football League? And I said, well, I've been on this field a lot. He said, yeah, we probably should have won twice, right? I said, yeah. And I said, this feels like home, I'm pretty comfortable. It's going to be a great day. It was beyond a great day. It was a dominant day. He was in the zone. And when the guy is in the zone, you just watch and marvel at what he's able to accomplish. Blaine blew up plays in the backfield and he made sure that Indy's receivers heard footsteps down the field. As the game went on, it became obvious Blaine Bishop was on a mission. He was taking over this game from safety spot. Wow. There's a side in this game that I've never done ever in a game. And that was when my chin strap got knocked off. I think he was throwing to the tight end and I made the PBU. I should have picked it, but I ran so fast and I didn't know I was going to get there that quick.  So I took it off and I said, I am the best. I had never done that in a game. I don't even know why. But the reason why I did that. The only reason why I did that is because for whatever reason, I knew Father Kelly was standing right there where I was. And I turned around and said to him, I am the best. 11 tackles and two passes defenced. The stats didn't tell the story. One of the NFL's most dominant offenses was stymied by the presence of number 23.  Marvin Harrison, Edwin James, Peyton Matty. And they had the buy-in. They had a great year. So, you know, we were supposed to, I guess, lose that game by, what, 10 points or more. But he was a fighter. We felt every play that he made. And we responded to that.  And I found a way to win that ball. Blaine Bishop has had a lot of great days for this franchise, but this was the best. It was one of the best defensive performances in Titans history. It was Blaine's game.


So what were some of your motivations in joining the military? Quite frankly to this day I'm still not sure why I did that and I joined to be in the infantry. I actually asked for that. I still don't know why but I do it again. Anything in your upbringing that made you want to join the Army? Well basically my dad always kind of wanted me to join the military. The culture of our community was to go if you were asked to serve. We didn't have any war protesters, nobody fled to Canada to get away from it. We did what they asked us to do. Did you join thinking that you would eventually end up in Vietnam? I joined to go to Vietnam with the intent. I asked for that. When did you learn that you were going to Vietnam and what was your initial reaction? Oh I can't remember when I learned. I knew I was going to go. It was just a matter of what date. I felt that it would be a war and I didn't know what that meant and I just know that I was going to go over and I was going to try to do my best and do the best I knew how, do the best job I could. I said what's the chances of me being able to walk in if you're sleeping and traveling in there? I said 50-50. I said that's a lot better odds. And said nobody walks the point their last day in the field in Vietnam. I said I understand that sir but I'm doing it for a reason. So he said well I'm thinking about ordering you not to walk it and I said captain please don't do that. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't do that out of professional courtesy and let me do my thing it's going to work out fine.  It is often said that there are no atheists in the foxhole how accurate a statement do you think it is? Yeah, absolutely. Just to get to some larger questions about the first division itself did you find that there's a high level of camaraderie, esprit de corps? Yes, yes, very high, very high.  I knew the longer I was with it the prouder I was. You try to look out for your buddies the guys you serve with and there are standard and usual tensions that happen but I think by and large we tended to look out for each other. What is the most important thing you learned from serving in Vietnam? As I said before if you want to do what you want to do you got to earn the right to do it personal discipline, attitude about teamwork, have being together with folks you got to rely on. I'll be a big red one till I die thank you for the interview and thank you for your service to the country. You're welcome.


Today I want to talk to you guys about what makes a high impact software engineer at Facebook and I want you guys to imagine that you guys are in a forest and there are multiple targets in front of you with different values and you have some raw material to build the equipment to hit those targets but your eyes are closed so I want to ask you guys what do you do anyone okay so that's the first thing you do open your eyes okay what's next okay look for your target okay anything else come on how do you how will you hit your target sorry yes figure out which one should be a target okay what else once you figured out your target how do you actually hit your target you don't have such engine unfortunately again yes exactly so that three things so that three things right so you to open your eyes you need to plan which target you will hit and then actually need to build the machine or the equipment to hit the target so let's let's open our eyes right and this is really about communicating so when you are an engineer you are not you're not you're sitting at your desk and you're not really close to your customers your customers are you out in the wild and you're not you're just sitting at your desk and you're you're so far away from them so you really have to collaborate with your sort of stakeholders or the product managers or whoever is closest who gets you closest to the customers to really understand to really understand and this helps you basically this helps you see and understand so if you're in the forest you really are seeing and understanding the value targets right so you need to you need to have these meetings of course like it should not be a waste but you should it should not be wasting times by having these like unnecessary meetings but you need to optimize your time of course but make sure you're collaborating with the stakeholders the next thing is really about unblocking yourself so when you are communicating with people you need to make sure that like whatever you need is there ready for you so they're like 10th you need to do you need to make sure that like whatever you need to do you're not blocked on somebody else waiting for them to do something right so this is like let's say there's a target but there's a rock in front of you so but that's a very very high value target so need to work towards removing that rock first to make sure you can hit that target of course you're not alone in that forest there are other people and you need to work with those people to make sure that you need to help each other basically get better so you need to also be learning and this is like you learn by communicating so you have to of course learn how to ask for help so at Facebook we have like we use workplace and they're like teams with workplace groups where you can literally like we have to use a lot of different tools from our teams so there's the you frame your question very well in a way that they can understand you provide the context and then you are able to learn on how your tool can best be utilized by by the tool you can how best you can utilize their tool for your product right and learning also means like getting feedback from your colleagues and peers to move and adapt quickly so the next step is really planning which target to hit and this is really really important right like if you're if you're just doing your work and you're not spending time week by week or even long term if you're not thinking like what I am what am I going to work on for the next this week and what I'm going to work on that for the next six months you are missing out you're really missing out on on on your career development right so if you are not thinking like this is what I want to do for the next six months like it's super important to plan like thinking also means like creative ideas like planning this tech talk for example hackathon ideas what do you want to it's a cool feature you want to build that's important like because if you don't think of like cool things to do like how are you gonna like knock it out of the park so it's it's all about like what target do you want to hit then the next thing is also like whiteboarding you want to usually it's not like you are drawing like super sci-fi kind of like complicated diagrams but it's like simple diagrams communicate you might do this with a peer so this is about designing the machine which you sort of want to hit your target with right and you want to think about business needs you want to think about edge cases you want to think about trade-offs of different designs why you want to build a certain machine or an equipment to to hit that certain target and Facebook writes a amazing infrastructure to support whiteboarding like almost every meeting room we have has a whiteboard code reviews again you are not alone so you need to help others be better it's a team effort so like code reviews is not like you just need to sign off on on like this you really need to think through in detail on what people are doing like if you look at a code you can actually like think from a from a different perspective you can look at like what is the design that person is trying to communicate to you and what is the how does that fit into the overall strategy of the team and the product and you can give that feedback to that person so usually you would work on a different part of the code base so like code reviews requires a lot of thinking and effort to give like proper constructive feedback to the author of that of that diff review the last part is actually designing that machine to hit that target and I think like people enjoy this part the most right like people love coding as engineers like we all enjoy this is the most fun part like you want to build you want to write an algorithm to solve the problem you want to you but like you also want to make sure that you are building the right machine so like you want to focus on better engineering you want to you want to write sort of test cases you want to make sure that it's the right design so if you build the wrong tool in the long run like that will not be the right sort of if it's not the right design the machine will probably collapse so it's it's important to design the right machine to hit the target as well this is again like this like people underestimate the time it takes to actually like compile and land the code because like code review process is also part of like actually shipping the code there is like also you want like sometimes I think in other companies it might take actually time to compile at Facebook is pretty fast usually it's instantaneous compilation there's also like you want to run test cases with the code base of any test cases that you have written or existing test cases still time is spent on landing code solving merge conflicts and unbreaking developer environments but usually that's pretty fast so this is really about like hitting those targets and getting those well-deserved points so the last step is like rolling out like once you have deployed your code your role doesn't end like you really need to roll this out to a broader set of audience like you would generally not just deploy your code and be like okay I'm done you need to make sure that like you generally be very careful like okay you start with like 1% rollout and then you would really roll this out to like the 100% of your customers and make sure that like with the rollout you'd also test that okay this is actually working as expected maintenance also comes into the picture so you when you have designed that machine you want to make sure that as you're testing the road like will be surface so you also want to like incorporate those bugs and like fix those bugs so like rolling out also is work right and like like you should not underestimate the work that goes there and reserve some time for that so I think the key thing is like now that you have all these three activities like how do you balance the communication thinking and shipping and how do you maximize so if it was a game and you wanted to maximize the value you get like how do you be the the highest impact engineer and how do you get the maximum points so I have I tried an animation for this so let's imagine these red boxes are un unresolved tasks which which are like you don't know the requirements they are sort of like and there can be many of them so you don't know what are the requirements of these tasks you don't know you just know that you can probably guess the relative importance of some of these tasks but you probably don't know what exactly are they you just know that they are going to be sometime in the future that you know that you have to do this kind of thing the green ones are already in your queue so the green ones are the tasks that are figured out and you know that like you can you can do that given enough time that you can always get them done so the process is generally like so come with communication you're trying to sort of make the red sort of boxes green right so you put the red ones in your queue right and this is like sort of you build your queue and your queue should be big enough that you can plan and always make sure the highest impact tasks are going first so you think okay now I have these many tasks so how can I make sure the highest impact task goes first so you think and you realize okay this probably this task can go first so the so you try to make sure that like higher in higher value tasks are going first and then like as you are doing this simultaneously you're also coding and you're trying to sort of get the highest value tasks out of your way to make sure that like you're always continuously working so you're using communication in the background to keep building your queue so this is super important that you have always have an eye out to make sure that the highest value tasks are like in your eye and like it's it's very easy for us engineers to be just focused on the interesting work like this is interesting this is what I want to do and get distracted by that and just be focused okay I want to work on that and like lose sight of the bigger picture which is why like we can lose sight of the impact that we can have as engineers and the broader picture of why we are actually doing this so with that I think the key thing I think the if there is one thing one message I would want you guys to take away just open your eyes any questions at this point yeah you mentioned you need to plan right agree on you on that because first of all I will deal with the mess so let's say you didn't plan for the app you built and you keep powering up my then in that situation what you do can you repeat so I'm just saying that you the one of the key thing is planning right agree on you on that factor but what if you do not why if someone did not plan and they make a mess out of the machine and it's a concrete or mass then what will you advise us to do that if you are to fix that machine you get it working and make it better so I think like you always can replan based on the current state right so whenever you plan you look at the current state of things so now you have some mess which according to use a mess but it's for me it's like the way I look at it is like some metric is down or some some perhaps the design is that not as appropriate as it should be so maybe it's because of the time constraints that we were forced to possibly like push the wrong design so now the next step is to plan and say okay allocate time to improve the design or perhaps allocate time to push that metric up right so I think like planning is like you would plan to improve that over time I think in terms of prioritization of like individual like as an individual as an engineer it's usually so if if I have like for example 10 different things I want to do I would usually be like okay they would usually be a variety of tasks out of this so couple of them would be like okay I need to improve on the code base quality right couple of them would be like I need to deliver this project feature couple of them and they will have their own sort of delivery date which you would have negotiated with like certain people and then couple of them would be more around like a certain tooling that we have to build certain around our internal support like to help our team move better right so then like we have tasks around this so then we have to prioritize based on when where are we in in the sort of the cycle so if you are very close to the due date of the future we would prioritize a feature work hire but if we are like if the feature is already delivered and we have space and time to work on like for example improving the team's code base then we would prioritize that hire so I think it depends on and also depends on what work I think they're like a lot of different factors like I think I'm trying to give a generic answer but I think it there are like so many subjective questions that you can ask at that point like what is the engineer want to do what is their interest what is the business situation at that point and like what is the code like how much impact can you have from each of those sort of different tasks so if you actually give me like 10 different tasks I can help you sort of like prioritize that better but like I hope I was able to answer from from an abstract point of view yeah thank you