Okay, and now Holger will talk about pure parts another quality assurance effort of him after the Jenkins yesterday and Yeah, enjoy Hello, good morning Thank you. I Will talk about pure parts what pure parts is the development status and plans for the future Are you I'm Maintaining pure parts since 2006 or rather 2007. I was root on the pure parts WNORC machine before I was a DD So in case I just tell this as an example the DSA is quite more flexible than it seems How many of you had bucks filed by pure parts against your package how many of you had received false positives only Okay Quite some how many of you have filed bucks against pure parts Okay, cool. Thank you So Debbie and is defined by the Debbie in policy which describes what is expected from and pure parts test against the policy Lindsay just looks at the sources and Find problems from there and you parts actually installs the packets Finds Problems during installation Sorry, we gave you the one with it, which is apparently a bit broken. Okay That was actually a good one, but now it's pretty This has prefer the other Mick we are so have better Peoparts is working Peopart is short for package installation upgrading and removal testing suit and That's what it does now since a month it also runs adequate at the end of the installation so it finds all issues reported by adequate as well if You don't know adequate adequate is from Jacob work it's he introduced us half a year first to find Something wrong with pison libraries, I think and he added other tests also to find Wrongly linked libraries missing copyright and other stuff Also new since Three months is the support for multiple slaves Peopart says this master slave architecture in the past we only run one slave, but since Debian has received this bike mark cluster Peopart has moved there from a very old machine and it's the slave is now running with four cores and lots of rum so there's nothing happening on the files is on the disc anymore and Peopart is now I think 15 to 20 times faster than the machine So it's really possible now to test one suit in four days or something Well, it used to take two weeks and one suit while they're still uploads are happening So we used to test just sit testing to sit wheezy squeeze to wheezy and squeeze Nowadays, we test a lot more like we also test whatever we see to backpots to Jesse and squeeze to backpots sloppy What we don't test is Wheezy proposed because we test upgrades from wheezy to wheezy proposed There's some wish list bugs for other combinations, but I'm not sure if that is the right way forward There were one million Peopart's test run in the last four years, I think Um was almost two thousand bucks filed and only about three hundred are still open For RC bucks, it's almost one thousand four hundred RC bucks filed most of them are fixed and that's really just serious bucks for the numbers here and also care about important bucks and In average, it means there has been zero point eight six RC bucks filed per day in the last four and a half years since 2009 I think that's pretty impressive and Also impressive is the current status of Jesse, which is So this is There is up in the right corner 37,000 packages up past the test only 43 failures and This is with this Purple background means that about these failures. No bugs have been filed So all except for file your failures have been bucks filed, which is mostly the work of Andreas Beckman the last Year or something he has by now Andreas has overtaken last and me was filing Peopart's buck. I think I filed over 400 last has filed 200 and Andreas over thousand So he's really super active and for the VZ. It looks even while that is easy proposed so this is VZ where basically all green and only six failed locks in VZ We see proposed looks completely green because we only started it testing after VZ was released and There are eight failures instead of six in VZ Sit looks a bit worse. There's some bucks not filed and there's a total 200 failures That's because we are test more things and sit To use Peopart is really super easy. Just install it and run it against the Debian package or Run it against the changes file since I don't know since this year probably Peopart's also probably supports you're having your own archive and Getting some packages from the Debian archive and others from a local archive and There's another way to test PO cards, of course, which is not the recommended way Just uploading the package and wait for Peopart's to test it And I think everybody has done that including me. It's not recommended, but that's just life. So Originally Peopart's was written by Lars Wittzenius, but he's dropped out of six years ago Now it's mostly Andreas Beckmann Dave Steele and myself There's not been many committers like eight in total since 2010 and there was a new committer yesterday and Hopefully you will be the next I really like to take patches There are many wishlist bugs which are rather easy to implement because that's for example, we have a test not testing User share doc that user share doc is not writable according to policy that should be possible That test we have another test. We don't have is the same with user local So if you're interested in that to test how packages behave as low user local is not writable You can learn from this user share doc test We have a mailing list Peopart's list on alias. I also read Debbie in QA So in principle, I don't care on which list it is sometimes it's better on the QA list Because it might be more suitable for Lindsay and tests or other tools Or just use the Q W and QA C channel Peopart's is maintained in git If you want to work on it check out a feature branch, please or create a feature branch based on develop and Make your changes and send a pull request or file a buck we use master for releases develop for the daily development and the Peopart's Debbie and org instance usually runs the same code as developed just when some Big edge code code reorganization happens I switch off in the bike set branch and use that for the Debbie and org setup But normally it's really same as develop the road map is not really a road map there is a huge to do with ideas in git and We look at important or higher bugs But in general wish list bugs are really ignored because there's other stuff to do and There's some wish list bugs I really would like to see fixed like Peopart's used to have a unit test suit and it has rotten So it's just disabled at the moment. So if someone of you is into unit tests, I would be very happy to have this brought up Usable state again The other thing is have an archive with known good and bad packages which Peopart can test and so we can Confirm that it still detects the same failures it used to detect Someone is interested in keeping broken packages. This is a good opportunity There are some things wish list bugs Which I don't care about but I know other people care about There's The extra test for in its scripts. I'm personally not interested in testing in its grip or spending time on it Because I think they need to go away But I happily take the patch of someone wants this Cow builder support. I've also not implemented because running on it temp file system and run is fast enough for me LVM support the same What are the other bug I really would like to see is this make Peopart's run without root privileges That's possible with currents sch root tool The DSA has done a similar thing with their ch root set up on Porter machines And in fact this LVM support has been fixed in 2009. I just keep thinking it's not implemented So if you care for your stuff, please submit patches During this step conf and before there has been talks about having Peopart's run before accepting a package in the archive The other option would be to run pu parts or to use pu parts to event testing migration I think it would be better to run it before accepting a package in the archive But maybe it's easier Politically to get it and inside the testing migration Then the other thing pu parts currently only tests AMD 64 I don't think it's feasible At the moment maybe later with more hardware I'm to run it on the whole archive for all the suits at the first start I would like just like to test those packages which are not available on AMD 64 and other architectures Which are just a few packages And there are these Some errors detected by pu parts which not cause of pu parts failure Like broken sim links is one and also some adequate issues Which I think should be promoted to pu parts failure status But I don't think the debian the debian the pu parts maintainer should decide that themselves But rather The debian community must define what's a critical error Unless it's obvious from policy or from the behavior What do you want? And in the long run, I would like to go to automated bug filing for some issues But Partly Andreas has been too too productive in filing bugs And partly I fear the problems was having automated bugs And I'm overworked That was it about Thank you for running pu parts and for caring about the results And I'd like to hear some feedbacks ideas comments Everybody just sleepy so for In dev scripts, you can configure the build to always run lynching after building a package Is it possible to do the same with pu parts? I didn't get the beginning for what okay? In the dev scripts configuration file, you can tell the build To always run lynching after you finish a build Is it possible to do the same with pu parts? No at the moment not But that should not be too hard Just running against the produce changes for I'm not sure whether you've mentioned auto package test and whether it will ever be part of pu parts I don't I don't think pu parts is the right tool for this Because the auto package test are just in a few packages And you need to have several setups like auto packages can destroy the environment And pu parts is currently only testing in ch root And I would like to have it outside also to keep the scope of pu parts smaller And just rather run Auto package tester Somewhere else Have you ever thought about running pu parts as a Jenkins shop? I've thought about it and came to the conclusion. It's not useful Like they're at the moment 250,000 active locks And I don't the way pu parts is set up Is that you can Scroll them by source packages and you have all these packages and I would don't really know how to Map this in a Jenkins shop so There is pts integration. So the results that is played in the pts Um, yeah I think it's a danger like there's many Good tools and often people try how we try need to get everything in this tool And I think it's good to have several tools doing several jobs Uh about the pts integration Do you have a json dump or something that we could import in udd? Um at the moment, it's just a txt file with um all packages. There's a wishlist bug to improve that Um for all the suites, but there's no json Just now in the design. I could give you the number the bug number where we discuss this Are there complaints about pu parts? Okay So I must admit I'm one of the guys who's just uploading and then checking pyro parts afterwards um, how how much do lynchion and pyro parts overlap Or or do completely different things. I'm not quite clear on that already They overlap a little like lynchion also detects missing copyright files and pu parts detect them but there are many are P lynchion just looks at the source code And some problems are not cannot be as well detected by just installing it and comparing the system before and after So they complement each other Okay, thanks And sometimes it's also more effective to it's more effective if you can test it with lynxion It's better because lynxion is run by more people. It runs faster Um, so it's better to have the test on lynxion if possible So so yes, but what also happens is that? Well, I got bug reports for lynching clean packages from pyro parts So there are definitely things that are not detected quite a lot actually by lynxion The question is that I have um Is it is it possible to join efforts more for these two project projects Or is the design so different it is different? I know but is it it's so different that it actually Targets as some completely different part of the packaging workflow and the installation workflow They really work completely differently because lynxion is in effect unpacking a source package and looking at Its contents and doing pattern matching sort of analysis to look for The presence or absence of various things combinations of things that should or shouldn't exist Whereas pu parts is is actually sort of taking complete packages and installing them and looking at the consequences on a system So it's actually very different machinery I suppose in theory pu parts could run lynxion as part of its process But since it's really focusing on the installation or removal Characteristics of binary packages It's sort of a different data set and it makes sense to me at least conceptually that they're Separate efforts and while there are some things as holger says where they they overlap a little bit in what they can detect Um, I that's never actually bothered me. I mean I've never sort of had Different people complaining about the same problem in the same package at the same time Perhaps because I am much more careful about running linty and on all my packages before uploading them in pu parts, but We could add more patterns to lynxion to try to detect more things But I think that's for some problems. It's very difficult And if there's another solution to test these things, we can also use them and improve lynxion in other ways And also was now is the new third tool adequate adequate also looks at the package after it's installed Um, so that's different from that what lynxion does again So and I like these three tools and I also like pu parts to Keep only detecting serious problems or important issues so that you can always say pu parts failure is always a real at least important problem um, and Other tool pu parts should also find other problems but not fail because of this So I have this distinction between failure really and just complaining about minor stuff But pu parts should never fail about minor stuff Well, if there are no more questions We can go out in the sun or something Yeah, thank you holger


Over the past month one of the biggest sexual assault scandals in the political world has been appending the organization Young Americans for Liberty and there are potentially more allegations to come in other organizations involved too like Turning Point USA. Before we go any further I want to make it very clear that everything in this video is alleged. I'm simply reporting on sexual allegations I've been seeing publicly on Twitter and the news and giving my take on it. Again these are all just allegations. This whole thing started on January 8th when Edison Ray Garner posted on Twitter a thread detailing stories of rape, sexual assault, and harassment from girls including herself in the organization Young Americans for Liberty.  If you've heard of Turning Point USA, which we'll talk about at the end of this video, YOW is basically the libertarian version of TPUSA. They're a 501C4 which basically means they void federal income taxes and as an organization they basically table on college campuses to recruit people to chapter meetings where they discuss current events and activism. The two main forms of activism they have are YOWCon and Operation Win at the Door. YOWCon is basically the libertarian version of SAS, Turning Points Conference or CPAC. It's a big convention in a major city with speakers, vendors, and networking. And Win at the Door is YOW's nationwide canvassing operation where they go door to door, campaigning for libertarian candidates, and by libertarian the types of people there the face of YOW are people like Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, Joseph Napolitano, and Dave Rubin. YOW has been around since 2008, but the many allegations I'm about to go through mostly happened over the past five years. Basically women are accusing president of YOW Cliff Maloney of threatening them with losing their careers if they don't sleep with him.  There are many allegations of sexual assault by students, staffers, and higher-ups at YOW. The YOW house, which is a place where Maloney and other staff stayed, and Operation Win at the Door canvassing trips. Many of these women would file complaints to HR and they almost always went nowhere or offenders would even get promoted. Others that did get fired would actually get rehired eventually. Women that spoke out usually got harassed, sociostracized, and even some cases fired from other political organizations that they had moved on to after YOW. Sexual assault aside, there are also many stories of simply a toxic work culture all throughout the organization. Like I said earlier, this all started when Asim Ray Garner tweeted about a number of stories from women in YOW. One woman alleges that Maloney asked her to get him food after a conference and once alone he quote extorted her for sex at the expense of her good standing within the organization.  One person even allegedly saw Maloney assault a YOW member and had to pull him away. Maloney then laughed and walked away to find other victims. Men have even come forward alleging countless incidents when Maloney was alone with them and he would ask them which women are you going after. Additionally, Garner posted numerous allegations against Vice President of YOW, Justin Grease. Grease has been seen by multiple witnesses trying to take a blackout drunk girl to his hotel room at a YOW con and was only stopped when attendees physically intervened. Another girl says the same thing happened to her with Grease and he also pulled her dress down a hotel bar to see if she was wearing a bra.  And Grease even had a girlfriend at the time. Other women alleged that Grease's behavior during the 2016 election night was by legal definition of sexual battery and that he bragged at the YOW HQ about having a sex tape he made with a state rep. The allegations don't stop at the higher ups. Garner alleges a campaign coroner sexually harassed girls on door knocking deployments where these offenders only got changed to different roles.  Even Garner herself alleges a state chair groped her. He was later endorsed for state office and YOW even sent students to door knock for him. When Garner messaged Melanie about the situation, he blocked her. And when her husband tweeted the organization about, they blocked him as well.  YOW HR did nothing about anything and YOW even sent her gropes to table with her for an event after knowing what he did to her. Since speaking out, Garner has received DMs of stories of sexual assault, physically abusive interns, a guy looting a girl into his room under false pretenses, and a girl running away from a guy taking no for an answer and then she got socially and professionally ostracized from YOW hyrups afterwards. There's also a door knocker that followed a girl to her car and tried to sexually assault her. He actually kept his job after internal investigations. And many victims say that their sexual sounds and harassers still work at YOW. One woman in particular actually lived in Iowa with Melanie and the other YOW guys at the YOW house. Melanie hit on her during the first day at lunch, reprimanded her for not smiling enough during a Rand Paul for President phone bank, and even made her stand her in places during a meeting in the office. It got so bad when she found out that staffers could unlock her room. She put a chair with a necklace in front of her room to wake her up if someone tried to get in. Other women have also said that they would see young women frequently go into Melanie's room at the YOW house. Once going reposted her tweet, the hashtag YOW2 started blowing up as more women started to speak out. Maggie alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a YOW co-worker who was eventually terminated after a third party investigation. And she has since been socially ostracized and harassed by YOW members and staff since. Lexi alleges that her operation went at the door boss sexually harassed her. And when after complaining, her hyrups bought her co-worker's stakes and told them not to talk to her ever again. Her abuser was fired, but later rehired, which you'll start to notice is a common pattern with YOW. One intern, Kelly, alleges that a YOW staffer tried to get women blackout drunk at a party and in at least one instance succeeded. She had to nurse another intern suffering from alcohol poisoning herself. She even alleges that YOW defended a dozen state chairs who brought White National's Richard Spencer to a partner organization's conference. After she organized a mass email campaign to get YOW to condemn Spencer and the state chairs, Maloney had her fired at the partner organization. Taylor has similar experiences as other women with Maloney at YOWCon, where he even went as far to make sexually demeaning remarks at her as she tearfully refused to sleep with him. The next day, Maloney even introduced his fiance to her. She told her RFD and Vice President of YOW, Justin Grease, and a board member of YOW, Jeff Frazy, about it and nothing was done. Frazy just said thanks in an email. Jesse alleges that Maloney aggressively asked her multiple times to go with him to his office alone at a party. She told someone about it who complained to Jeff Frazy and he put Jesse in contact with a lawyer. But once again, nothing was done. Said alleges that YOW staffer tried to get an underage girl at the time and a friend at a conference drunk. He then harassed and stalked her for the rest of the conference. Other women have claimed that they saw a drink spiking at various YOW events. Zuri alleges she was pressured into giving nudes to a students for ran staffer for a job. She ended up sending the nudes and this staffer shared them in the YOW office. The person who told Zuri this was happening got fired. And when Zuri complained to Cliff Maloney about nothing happened except the staffer who shared her nudes got promoted and still works at YOW HQ. Lexi alleges a YOW direct supervisor tried to have an unwanted sexual relationship with her co-worker who became outcasted in YOW once she spoke up to the higher ups about it. This all happened under Justin Grease's watch. And the direct supervisor would also enter girl's rooms unannounced and drunk. He was later assigned as Lexi's boss in a YOW spin off organization called mobilize the message. Despite after complaints about his behavior to the higher ups. Well none of this user even alleges that she got drunk at a YOW event and a drunk guy started making advances on her not taking no for an answer and eventually started to touch her all over. He also drunkenly said that he wanted to make her present and serve in her cabinet. She helped him locate his room and end up going inside with him. But when she wouldn't satisfy him he left leaving her alone with his two roommates. Then when she eventually completely blacked out she briefly woke up to someone in her mouth and another place. Later when she fully woke up she was naked and one roommate was apologizing about what he did to her. There are also many allegations of other unprofessional unethical and potentially illegal behavior in YOW. Grease alleges as a state chair of 501C3 she was required to do work for 501C4.    He also threatened to fire an autistic state chair which gave this state chair an anxiety attack and then he told him that he wanted him to be anxious. Cale alleges that YOW lied to donors about how they spend their millions of dollars has illegal partnerships with YOW, Grease and Maloney's consulting firms and employees were being threatened to do illegal activities or else they would be fired. When these allegations started coming out Maloney denied the allegations and said that character assassinations against a team of Liberty advocates who work around the clock for our cause must stop. YOW chapters around the country though began to condemn the lack of action from the national organization and demanded an investigation. YOW nationals then released a statement saying a full independent investigation was underway and that Maloney and Grease were put on administrative leave. Some non-clibers with YOW like Hunter Avalon have cut ties with the organization and Justin Amash has actually supported the woman speaking out. Eventually the YOW board terminated Maloney but they were yet to terminate Grease. Some chapters start to demand that YOW take further action with Grease or they would break away from the national organization. About a month after Asin Ray Garner made her first allegations, Jeff Frazee announced an email that Justin Grease would no longer be working with YOW. One soon has even taken action in her own hands and is suing YOW for sexual harassment, wrongful termination and retaliation from President Cliff Maloney himself. Now I understand that many people will question the legitimacy of these sexual assault allegations especially in the political world where let's be honest there are lots of sociopathic clout chasers and grifters but for starters these women didn't wait 30 years to speak out against someone until their assailant was being coincidentally nominated to Supreme Court and most of these women seem to have gone through the proper HR channels at YOW and it didn't go anywhere for years so they went public with it but someone who has actually had some experience with YOW I personally was not surprised at all to hear about these allegations once they surfaced. Recently I was a student at Penn State University for four years where I was a Turning Point USA chapter president. We actually had a YOW chapter that got restarted during the last year I was on campus and I attended a few of their meetings with my friends. Through the people I talked to on my campus and others across the country I can tell you that they have a major gender ratio problem at YOW. Their conventions are just one big sausage fest with 90% men and very few women and they're 99% white men and I'm not trying to sound like an SJW or anything but if you're an organization and it's almost all white men there's a problem here. While I did not hear any sexual assault or harassment stories myself I have heard from friends that YOW has a creeper-terrient problem. Yes as comical as that term sounds it is a real thing. The guys in YOW tend to be very nerdy, social awkward kind of types that do not really understand how to probably interact with women and most of the ones I've talked to have given me bad vibes frankly but I have heard stories of creeper-terrient following women around at conventions and awkwardly touching and interacting with them in ways that just scare women away. Many women that enter YOW end up leaving because of an interaction with a creeper-terrient or others simply just treating them terribly. Honestly I get the vibe that a lot of weirdos and creeps get into YOW and those are the types of people that tend to stay. And this is not to mention all of the emotionally abusive and simply unethical stories I've heard from YOW. I've heard everything from YOW pressuring someone to drop out of college in order to stay with them. Pressuring a student wheelchair to fly out of state from Florida all the way to Idaho to knock doors for them and doing nothing about cruel board members and even pressuring a girl that got into a car crash during an outstayed door knock to keep knocking doors for them if she really wanted liberty to win. Look I'm not saying all this to mock YOWs or anything but for the sake of context for people not involved with YOW they need to understand the types of people that go into YOW. Say what you about Turing Point USA but they have a way better gender ratio than YOW. Like anything political it's going to be mostly guys but there's still a good number of women at their chapters and their conventions and I'm not trying to prop up Turing Point USA or anything I've actually come to load the national organization but TPUSA students on the ground give you a good overall representation of what a political organization should look like. With that said I would not be surprised if a hashtag TPUSA2 scandal starts up real soon or at some point some are even hinting that this will be next. TPUSA they have massive conventions all across the country specifically their student action summit in West Palm Beach Florida which are known to be major drinking and hookup scenes. Bring a few thousand male college students to Florida no adult supervision lots of alcohol lots of drugs hot college girls and unfortunately you're bound to have a few bad apples. Take advantage of the situation do something bad. At the time of posting this video I've been researching and work on hashtag YAL2 for over a month and as I added this video the first allegation against turning point has been posted on Twitter. I don't think TPUSA2 will be as bad at YAL2 but I have a feeling that it could blow up with more allegations of sexual assault and harassment and allegations of turning point doing nothing about it and that's the bigger picture here. YAL is a dying organization but turning point and college republicans are massive organizations with lots of influence and connections. Say what you about Charlie Kirk but his organization was able to get at the time President Trump to speak at his event. Massive sexual assault scandals will not only take out some major influencers in these organizations but they could kill the reputation of these organizations. Bad management creates these toxic cultures that can destroy an organization overnight. The downfall of a major right-wing organization can change the landscape of the right-wing movement for better or worse. The right specifically has lost to the left in terms of attracting women and minorities to their movement and there are many reasons for this as to why but when major right-wing organizations do nothing about sexual assault or other things you're going to scare women and minorities away. It happened with YAL and it could easily happen at turning point as well. Things like this are going to happen almost anywhere unfortunately but if you do nothing to punish it and prevent it it's going to happen again and again and again.  Most college campuses are actually one of the safest places you can be. Penn State for all of its partying is still a very safe campus. Yes the top administration has covered up some sexual assault scales in the past like Sandusky but at least the overwhelming majority of staff and students actually care or trying to do something about sexual assault. I've known frat boys that have reported sexual assault and have actively taken measures to prevent it. Believe me sexual assault is something that's not tolerated by students and staff at all.  Look at their YAL house it's just as bad as one of those so-called rapey frats on campus not the normal frat houses but the ones that everyone tells you stay away from and it has multiple grown adults living in there with young girls. If the YAL two allegations are true I hope that those who assault these women are punished. I hope the women abuse get the justice and help that they deserve. This is an absolutely disgusting scandal that has honestly been uncomfortable to research. I can handle a lot and I know the political world is really dirty but behavior like this is simply unacceptable anywhere and more likely need to be shined on it to prevent it from happening again. People need to know about these incidents before getting involved with any of these organizations so that we are not only aware but so that we also don't support these disgusting people and unintentionally fueled the awful toxic culture they've created. So please share this video with anyone you know involved with politics and please subscribe to the channel so that you can see our TPUSA2 video potentially coming out in the future.


As the world progressively divides itself into two camps, the Free and the Communist dominated, the northernmost part of the globe becomes increasingly important, for the shortest route from one camp to the other lies across the pole. Today, Greenland, Canada and Alaska form a geographic cordon of security, guarding the Western Hemisphere against the possibility of aggression across the top of the world. Army presents picture. An official report produced for the armed forces and the American people. Alaska. The Eskimo word has a magnetic ring to it. It means the Great Land. And this is justified, for there are more than half a million square miles of it. In 1867, at the urging of Secretary of State William H. Seward, we bought the territory from Russia for a little more than seven million dollars. Seward's folly, the American public called it then. It was a lot closer to Russia than it was to us, and the general feeling was they can have it. Seldom in history has a nation's attitude changed so totally or so abruptly. It was in the 1890s that gold became an epidemic fever in the North Country, and the Alaska gold rush was on. Of course, even in those hectic days, there was time for the cultural side of life. And on occasion, exuberant outbursts of good-natured high spirits. Alaska today is not much like the Alaska the storytellers remember, but then it never was. Still, even allowing for exaggeration, the change is rather startling. Anchorage is the largest city and looks very much like any other progressive, fast-growing American town. Other centers like Juneau, Fairbanks, and Ketchikan are coming along rapidly too. The neat streets, lawns, and homes of suburban living are like those you'd find anywhere. Still, many of Alaska's original citizens live as they have for generations. It's a busy life and a happy one, and the Eskimo has taken the changes in his country as he has always taken what life has brought him with a quiet and rather amazing adaptability. So no one is surprised, least of all the Eskimo himself, to find that the skills of the 20th century come as easily to the new generations as hunting and trapping did to their grandfathers. In this transition, the excellent state vocational schools have played an important part. Gold mining is still big business in Alaska, but today most of the paydirt is moved, washed, and processed by giant machines. Ironically, gold mining alone has brought in more than a hundred times the $7 million we paid for the land in 1876. Alaska's biggest gold mine, however, has turned out to be the sea. Her fishing industry brings $70 million a year into the state, and her canneries provide two-thirds of all the canned salmon in the world. During the summer, when sunlight is nearly endless on the fertile valleys, the growth of Alaskan farm vegetables is almost unbelievable. Cabbage is, for example, come one to the bushel, it seems. Even so, the growing season is short, and 95% of Alaska's food must be brought in. Winter, of course, means snow and plenty of it, but nothing much worse than you'd see in our northern Midwest and mountain country. The loosening of winter's grip with the coming of spring makes the country seem, if that's possible, even more beautiful than before. It's in spring that the salmon make their yearly and miraculous pilgrimage up the rushing streams to spawn. As the trees put out their new leaves, wildlife of all kinds is abundant. The Americans stationed in Alaska need never go far to see nature's citizens, serenely undisturbed by the odd preoccupations of humankind. The present is booming, but the future of Alaska holds even wider promise of greatness, and the young people of the state are preparing for it. In this, the schools at their disposal as well as the instruction are of the finest quality. Even in the remotest reaches of the state, no child need lack the growth and guidance which formal education can give him. After high school, many go to the excellent University of Alaska at Fairbanks. At Fort Greeley, another and vastly different kind of school has its headquarters. Formal classroom lectures are part of the school's work to be sure. Orientation, technical background. But the real classroom of the cold weather and mountain school is the Alaskan wilderness itself, some of the most beautiful but challenging country in the world. Here, the student learns the precise, sure methods of movement on sheer rock, which are the life insurance of the mountaineer. He learns to put his confidence in the nylon ropes, which are essential to troop movement in this kind of perpendicular country. And he keeps at it until repelling down a sheer cliff seems as natural as crossing the street. Each year, the Army's cold weather and mountain school graduates men who will take back to their units a mastery of terrain beyond anything they had thought possible to them. This kind of skill, confidence and ability will keep our ground forces ready to operate any time and any place the need may arise. The Army in Alaska is not restricted to the wilderness, however. Fort Richardson, for example, is home to many of the Army personnel stationed here. At Elmendorf Air Force Base, the mission of keeping our hemisphere safe from air attack takes precedence over everything, which means that the aircraft of the Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command must be ready any time, all the time. In Alaska, too, is the western anchor of Dewline, the distant early warning system which keeps watch over the skies of the polar area. The stations of Dewline are manned by the Army, but security is a job for all the services. Air Force radar planes patrol the flanks of Dewline, and the offshore waters are crisscrossed by Navy radar picket ships. An additional safety factor is provided by the stationery offshore radar stations of the Air Force. All services working together to give full effectiveness to the line of radar sentry posts, which stretches from its western anchor in Alaska eastward across the top of the world. As you move eastward into northwest Canada, the change is not visually noticeable. That is to say you are still surrounded by some of the most breathtakingly majestic country on earth. This part of Canada still looks just as it did when the first rugged trappers and hunters and later the gold prospectors came into it. For Canada as a whole, however, today is busier, more fruitful, more full of promise than any time has ever been. The Canadians, some 18 million of them, have in their hands the second largest country on earth. The potential for development is almost limitless, and so it seems is the energy of the Canadian people. Montreal is Canada's largest city, and the vitality one senses here is typical of the open throttle attitude which obtains throughout this fast changing nation. Even in the picturesque and traditional atmosphere of Quebec, there is the undertone of change, of growth, and looking to the future. The shaping of that future is entrusted to the man who make up the Canadian Central Government in Ottawa. Elements of both the British and American governments combine in the Canadian Parliament. It is under the titular leadership of the Queen, but with the actual responsibility and power in the hands of the leader of the majority party, the Prime Minister. Canada covers an area one-fifth again as large as all the United States together, and if its beauty and promise give rise to a certain pride, that is not surprising. Certainly Americans should understand it, for Canadians and Americans are so much alike in their way of life and their outlook upon it. In some respects, Canada's basic industries parallel those of Alaska. In 1497, John Cabot reported that the sea off Newfoundland was covered with fishes which were taken not only with the net, but with baskets. The fish are still there, still plentiful, about two billion pounds a year the present day catches run. In the great forests which cover nearly half of Canada's land area, softwoods predominate. So in addition to her massive lumbering operation, Canada produces more than half of the world's total supply of newspaper. Her best customer, the United States, provides a market for 80% of this huge output. In the western interior lowlands, an extension of our own great prairie country, you find the wheat fields stretching from horizon to horizon. From here come harvests which are matched nowhere on earth except in the United States. Wheat is Canada's second leading export with more than two and a half million bushels going overseas every year. But wheat is not the only rich harvest in the Alberta, Saskatchewan area. Huge reserves of oil and natural gas have been discovered and their productivity is growing daily. Fineries are going up and plans for the full realization of Canada's petroleum potential are being pushed toward completion. Across what was once wilderness, great pipelines now stretch their way to bring all of Canada within quick reach of petroleum products and the power for production that goes with them. Nothing is allowed to stand in the way. There are two prime keys to industrial capacity, water and power. Canada has one third of the fresh water in the world. Huge dams have harnessed only a small part of the nation's potential, yet Canada already ranks second in the world in terms of hydroelectric power. Canadian heavy industries are on the move as the nation looks toward and works toward a position of ever greater strength and usefulness in the community of free nations. The St. Lawrence Seaway is surely one of the most impressive examples of large-scale thinking and accomplishment in any nation's history. Studded with huge power dams and locks for ocean-going ships, the Seaway stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. In effect, it has added 8,000 miles of coastline to both our countries and made seaports out of Midwestern cities like Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago. Canadians are justly proud of the long and rich tradition of their military heritage. The garrison troops at the Citadel in Quebec personify the military pageantry of that old world tradition. The Canadian armed forces are not just for show, however. Their level of combat readiness is as high as that of any troops on Earth, and their battle records in World War I, World War II and in Korea give ample proof of their professional abilities. Canadian ground troops and air forces are now serving with NATO in Europe, and the troops at home are kept ready to meet the obligations of a free nation in the cause of freedom. In the far north, specially-organized units are equipped and trained for highly-mobile Arctic operations, for in their keeping is the ground security of the Canadian portion of Dueline. Dueline itself was built by the United States. South of this, at the 55th parallel, Canada built the Mid-Canada Line, and near the U.S.-Canada border, a third rank is formed by the Pine Tree Line, which was jointly financed by our two countries. All three keep constant radar watch to the north. As well as our own are always ready to check up on any radar image which doesn't look precisely right to the man at the radar scope. Both this radar-centric duty and the job of keeping aircraft and pilots ready to go are part of a joint Canadian-American operation, NORAD. The initial stand for North American Air Defense Command, which is headed by an American Air Force General with a Canadian air-martial as his vice-commanding. Thus, the two nations work as one to make certain that aggression by air across the polar route will remain highly improbable. Between the United States and Canada, history has forged a bond of common ideals and common interests. So today, Americans and Canadians look to one another for support in the age-old struggle to establish beyond any hope of tyranny to overthrow the concept of individual liberty. Still farther to the east and north is the world's largest island, Greenland. It's a territory of Denmark and one of the most desolate areas on earth. It lies almost entirely inside the Arctic Circle and its main feature is an ice cap whose proportions stagger the imagination. 1600 miles long, it is nearly two miles deep. Eric the Red, the Icelander who named this Greenland about a thousand years ago, must have had a peculiar sense of humor. Despite its inhospitable climate, Greenland has been inhabited, though sparsely, for centuries. Until recent years, however, the methods of movement available to ice cap travelers were extremely limited. In the past decade, however, Greenland has become a major center for Arctic research and the testing of Arctic equipment. So today, massive vehicles developed through years of testing on the ice cap enable man to take with them into nature's howling deep freeze, the warmth and comfort of his native climate. The only refuge from the wind and cold is beneath the surface. And here in recent years, man has begun to master this hostile environment. The success of this work is a joint accomplishment. Greenland is Danish soil. And since 1951, American bases have been established here by treaty with Denmark and built through joint efforts by both our countries. During the past 10 years of research and testing, many possibilities were explored. Here, the snow cap underwent extensive field tests of its potential as an agile ice cap vehicle. There were also such exotic concepts as the roller-gon, which ballooned along on huge, softly-inflated rollers. Every potentiality was put to the test. One imaginative example was the propeller-driven snow scout which skimmed the frozen surface at a nimble 35 miles an hour. Existing maps of the area were checked and corrected and weather research became a prime concern for scientists of all services. Atmospheric conditions generated in the ice cap area determined much of the weather of continental Europe. So the collection and evaluation of weather information became a continuing priority project. Here, too, the electronic arm of Dewline has been extended. American and Danish crews labored around the clock to build the four Greenland stations. And the ingenious, high-strength form known as the geodesic dome proved dramatically practical. The housings for the Dewline radar antennas went up in a matter of hours. The stations were completed on schedule in the summer of 1960, filling out a roster of 60 such stations stretching from Alaska to Iceland. In winter, the transportation of materials and supplies needed on the ice cap depends almost entirely on cargo planes. From bases at Tule and Sundestrum, everything from sea rations to steel girders is moved by the workhorse C-130 cargo aircraft. Nevertheless, overland transport on the ice cap remains the subject of intensive study in constant experimentation. In 1960, an Army ice cap expedition under the codename Leak Dog set out to do what no such group had ever done before, that is to cross the entire northern ice cap and return 600 frozen miles each way without a road map or a road either for that matter. Thanks to the decade of testing which had gone before, this ice cap convoy was well equipped for its adventure. Blinding fog so common over the ice was a nuisance, but no serious problem as radar took over the job of guiding the expedition. The crossing itself, however, was only part of the Leak Dog mission. Along the way, scientists made detailed tests. Continuing the long-range ice cap research program begun years earlier. At varying levels, ice and snow density, temperature and precipitation rates were recorded as well as radiation levels at the surface. The caravans work schedule of 12 hours on and 12 hours off left ample time for relaxation inside the steam-heated wanigans as the mammoth tractors pulled them mile after mile across the vast white desert. In July of 1960, elements of the main Leak Dog party reached the northernmost point of land in the world. Highlight of an expedition unmatched in the history of ice cap exploration. At Tully, further evidence of our intent to deny the element of surprise to any possible aggressor dominates the local scenery. Bemuse, the ballistic missile early warning system, is radar sentry work on a grand scale indeed. Each of the huge antennas can spot an approaching missile 3,000 miles away. Thus, the Tully station, with its counterparts at Clear Alaska and in the British Isles, will give us an unbroken radar screen against surprise attack by missiles from across the pole. Vital as such security installations may be, the spotlight in recent months has been elsewhere on the ice cap. Here, beneath the snow is a scientific research community like nothing the world has seen before. This is Camp Century, the U.S. Army built atomic-powered city under the ice. No doubt there were moments when the builders of Camp Century felt a certain amazement at what they were doing and where, but the work was done and done extremely well. Inside the man-made snow caves, the foundations of the living quarters were quickly constructed. Then in rapid succession, the walls were put up in prefabricated sections. Roof beneath a roof was set into place, completing a structure which would hold its inner heat and repel the cold outside. In effect, a house-sized thermos bottle. For breaking up around the entranceways, no finer or more plentiful material could be wanted than blocks of snow cut from the ice cap itself. The heart of this unique Arctic Research Center is an atomic reactor which provides it with power, heat, light. This critical mass of fissionable material is a nearly inexhaustible source of controlled energy for all the needs of this ice-caverned city. And it is a city with streets brightly lit both day and night, though the terms have little meaning down here. There are plenty of exits to the surface, of course, but emergency escape hatches like this one ensure that no blizzard could ever trap the citizens of Camp Century beneath a sudden pile-up of snow. Everything needed to make this research center virtually self-sufficient has been provided, either through the meticulous foresight of the planners or by nature herself, as in the case of this huge deep freeze which costs nothing at all to run and will keep food fresh almost forever. Fresh water is no problem and is not ever likely to be with millions of cubic feet of it all around ready to be melted and used as it's needed. A modern, spotless kitchen provides food that is plentiful, skillfully prepared and attractively served. And if one can judge from its reception, it is thoroughly enjoyed by all. In fact, aside from having no windows to look out of, the resident of Camp Century has all the comforts of home. Of course, much of the research mission of Camp Century is carried on beneath the ice, but much more remains to be learned upon and about the hostile surface of the Great Ice Cap. Thus, constant exploration and testing goes on topside as well, to collect and codify information that will someday make the vast frozen wastes less of a mystery to mankind. This research is paying off, but despite the constant mapping and research and the establishment of warning systems which scan the polar sky for the approach of hostile aircraft or missiles, a full understanding of the secrets which lie frozen in the vastness of the Greenland Ice Cap remains for the future to reveal. So today, a chain of common purpose unbroken by national boundaries stretches from Alaska in the West across the wide reaches of Canada and on to Greenland in the East. Denmark, Canada and America working together to form a cordon of united strength across the top of the world.


hey good morning welcome to morning prayer from the radiant city center we're gonna begin in Psalm 96 starting in verse one it says oh sing to the Lord a new song sing to the Lord all the earth sing to the Lord and bless his name proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day declare his glory among the nations and his wonders among the people for the Lord is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods for all the gods of the people are idols but the Lord made the heavens honor and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary let's go before the Lord I love this last phrase this honor and majesty are before him and strength and beauty are in the sanctuary I don't know about you but I need to experience and encounter that strength and beauty this morning I need to encounter the way that he reveals himself to his people in his sanctuary as strength and as beauty so Jesus this is why we approach you because the beauty of your holiness because the honor and majesty that are before you and Lord we we ask for you to reveal your strength and your beauty this morning Lord we want to see your mighty right arm we want to see your power Lord and we also want to see your beauty Lord the the revelation of your emotions Lord the the beauty of your glory and who you really are and so we enter into the gates with thanksgiving in our hearts Lord no matter what we have going on no matter what lack of strength we feel Lord we we still enter in with thanksgiving and into your courts with praise so let's just begin just as the singers are already started leading us and singing let's just begin offering praises of thankfulness and gratitude welcoming the king of kings the lord of lords declare the has said constant loving kindness of the Lord the covenantal loving kindness that you have set your love upon us have placed your holy spirit within us you have sealed us with your great love Lord we rest confident this morning in your goodness and your faithfulness you are the only constant you are the only one to cling to you are the only guaranteed steadfast love and your grace and your mercy this morning i want to pray for the church the church in america this morning of Ephesians three it's a prayer that paul prayed for the church in Ephesus primarily to be strengthened with might this is an hour where the knees and many at the knees of the church are tempted to buckle where many hearts are growing faint for fear i want to pray this prayer that paul prayed for the church in Ephesus Ephesians 3 14 for this reason i bow my knee to the father of our lord jesus christ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth his name that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit and the inner man that christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of christ with the passage of knowledge that you may be filled with the fullness of god lord we lift before you your bride in this nation lord we lift lord radiant church alongside the church of kalamazoo lord the church in the us and god the reason that we bow our knee in full submission is that we ask that you would grant to us according to the riches of your glory to be strengthened with might through your spirit in the inner man oh god we are in need of strength lord the picture of of daniel fasting on the side of the river completely lost losing all strength lord in his body and his spirit lord it is a picture lord of the church that has that is weary lord from these past years in the seasons coming out of coven and and turmoil lord and and race riots and and and division lord and now war and and and the the war in israel and gaza lord and there is division and there is tiredness and there is weariness but god this morning we ask that you would look down from heaven that you would look on your your church and that you would grant us to be filled and strengthen with might according to your spirit in the inner man that christ may dwell in our hearts through faith lord i i thank you as hard as it is to even say it i thank you that you are shaking everything that can be shaken lord every foundation that is not built upon christ is being shaken and although it's painful and although it's unsettling and although it's fearful i thank you that you are shaking everything that is not built on you and so lord i ask lord that christ would dwell in our hearts through faith lord we ask that you would be the only one that dwells in our hearts lord our faith would not be in our own form of christianity lord our faith would not be in our programs lord our faith would not be in our messaging and our winsomeness and our anointing and our gifts but lord that our strength and our faith would be solely placed in you and lord i ask that you do continue to shake everything that can be shaken lord we don't want a false strength lord we don't want a strength to be added to us according to our own strength lord so we can continue doing things partly on you and partly on our own lord we want everything to be shaken so that you can strengthen what remains so that we can anchor ourselves to jesus the head of the church the cornerstone the cheese cornerstone of the church lord we want to be anchored we want to be tethered we want to be tied we want to be hidden in christ in god but this is our cry and our desire and so we need we need strength to stand on the firm foundation of christ we need strength to stand in this hour and in this moment with and on and within jesus so i ask for the church and america lord that you would strengthen us with might by your spirit and the inner man we will comprehend with all the saints the width the length and depth and height to know the love of christ that passes knowledge for this is why we want you to shake everything that can be shaken because we want to be rooted and grounded in love lord we want to be what david declared in someone like a righteous oak that is by a river lord this is our desire that our roots would go down deep but we want this personally in our lives but we want this in our families lord we want this in our churches and our communities lord root systems in place to withstand the storm and lord the only thing to be rooted and grounded on is your love lord we've been declaring it all morning lord your love never fails it doesn't give up your love your mercy endures forever your has said your loving kindness is a covenantal love that you have have put upon us and within us and lord this is our desire to be rooted and grounded in love god i ask specifically for your church your bride for us personally lord that our love would not grow cold and our hearts would not grow cold lord many hearts are fainting for fear they're closing up they're becoming hard they're becoming isolated they're pushing people away community away church away and hiding in isolation lord hiding in fear hiding in sin and lord we we want our the church to be rooted and grounded and confident in the love of god and in the love of christ and you you you pray that we all would all of the saints would comprehend together god your desire isn't just for us to have individual private relationships with you but but you actually want to reveal your love corporately you want all of the saints lord and this is our desire lord god would you reveal your beauty and your love and your presence in such a way lord that everyone would see lord it would not be for the elite few god but that our churches our prayer rooms lord our sanctuaries our place would be places with your manifest glory where your love and your presence is revealed god we ask for the fire to return upon the altar lord we ask for the fire of your presence god like it was here during the first great awakening and the second great awakening like you've done in the revivals of history lord where all of the saints got to witness a move of your spirit and a move of your love and lord i ask that on the heels of this moment where you have been purifying your church where the refiner's fire has been turned up lord and you have been burning away the chaff oh god we ask that you would temper the fire lord that that fire would not destroy your church but it would purify us and that we would emerge lord as a bride ready to receive the revelation of your glory and your power among all of the saints so god we ask for that lord when many hearts are growing cold or many hearts are firing off opinions on facebook but hiding their their vulnerability and staying closed off and closed off to the world because of fear because of fear of government lord because of fear of finances because fear of things changing lord we ask that your perfect love would cast out all fear lord that your church would be known as a courageous church in this hour because we're rooted and grounded in the love of christ and that we know with all of the saints the width the length the depth and height so lord we ask for a revelation and a revealing of your love to your church in this hour in the name of jesus go back into worship keep declaring the the love and the grace and the mercy of the lord so we continue to worship and then we're gonna close out strong with more intercession and of sarah sun your stripes king jesus glory to god in heaven still reaching all praise king jesus our eyes on you there is no one like you eyes on this beautiful man christ jesus declare your glory we declare your worth time of intercession now continuing just to stand in the gap this morning on behalf of the church of christ jesus in our land i'm gonna pray this morning just right in agreement with where pastor caliph was i'm gonna pray from revelation chapter four so if you have it you can turn there revelation four beginning in verse one and after these things i looked and behold a door was standing open in heaven and the first voice which i had heard like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me said will show you what must take place after these things and immediately i was in the spirit and behold a throne was standing in heaven and one sitting on the throne who was sitting was like a jasper stone in a sardis in appearance and there was a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance and around the throne were 24 thrones upon the thrones i saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white garments golden crowns on their heads and lord i thank you that as everything shakes and as the world quakes god i thank you that there is a throne in heaven even now and that you are upon the throne unmoved unshaking your rulership remaining your dominion sure and secure and so lord we're asking right now on behalf of our own hearts our families and your people got throughout this land in this present context god where everything is shaking i'm asking holy spirit that you would open up a door of revelation fresh revelation that you would call the gaze of your people upward that you would lift our hearts god through a spirit of revelation above the fray god above the confusion above the fear above the offense and the division and lord i'm asking that you would set all eyes on jesus in this hour that there would be a grace god for a corporate gaze to be lifted an individual gazes to be lifted on this beautiful jasper like sardis like god upon the throne holy spirit we just cry out to you we need you we need you helper would you open a door of revelation would you let us hear your voice come up here into an eternal perspective into your frames and your interpretations lord lift us up in your grace we pray in jesus name your church in this hour would you show us a new jesus that you would lift us up in your grace god those that are weighed down with confusion heaviness would you lift us up above the fray above the feelings and the emotions god would you lift us up into this realm of beauty lord those that are fearful and anxious in this hour those that are offended lord and withdrawing those that are broken hearted and crushed in spirit lord i'm asking that you would open up the door and in your kindness and tenderness you would call us up you would grace us god to lift our hearts to you again to set our eyes on you again to receive lord that eternal perspective from you holy spirit lift us up in the spirit of revelation show us jesus again show us your surety god show us your throne lord that you are unmoved unshaken faithful in all of your ways by the power of your word would you lift your people up again jesus name on your beauty who sits upon the throne holy spirit do it again come up in your church with revelation of jesus as with might as we gaze upon your throne our living hope today it's you jesus jesus eternal perspective my heart dear beloved we say yes lord morning we say yes to your invitation ascent by a spirit of revelation the realm of your beauty and glory and majesty to hear what it is that you're saying holy spirit to be strengthened in your presence lord we say no to remaining in our fear and anxiety we say no to remaining down below in natural perspective in natural offenses isolation confusion say yes to your invitation to come up here to be with you where you are to behold your glory in this hour worship you to praise you this morning to declare who you are and lord i ask all that is transpired this hour lord that it would be all in this place and across the city the cities of our land and the nations of the world lord that there would be friend ministering to your heart agreeing with you in prayer as the world shakes jesus joining us on the live stream we're gonna be


Hello, everyone. Today I'm going to be interviewing Matthew Zeph, he's an accounting student, a junior at St. Joseph University in the Philadelphia area. He is one of the scholarship recipient of the PICPA foundation, which is I am a board member of. And today Matthew's going to talk to us about the scholarship, and he is also a supplemental instructor, which is very, very interesting. And I want him to talk a little bit more about that later on, but first about the scholarship Matthew, how did you hear about the scholarship. So I heard about the scholarship through my school St. Joseph's University. They've reached out with an email. And then I started receiving more emails from the PICPA about how to apply what I had to do and stuff along those lines. So it was very easy. It was very easy for me to apply and I found it very easily. And are you a student member of the PICPA now? I am, I am. Okay, so you do receive update on regular basis. Tons of updates, tons of good stuff that really has gotten my foot in the door for the accounting world. Excellent. And I encourage everyone who's listening. If you're not a student member, it's free. You just have to enroll with the PICPA. And you'll have opportunities for scholarship, connect with employers, having professional activities, so on and so forth. Can you tell us about the process? What was the most challenging thing in the scholarship and, you know, based on your experience. So for me, the scholarship was very just asking about why I think I was worthy of the scholarship, what my plans were for, or what plans I had in the accounting world once I graduated. And it also asked for a letter of recommendation from me, but I got a professor at my school to do that. So that was very straightforward. I was very happy with the process that the PICPA made it out to be because it was very straightforward for me. And yes, yes, a very easy process. Excellent.  Could you tell us why you chose accounting? Yes. So I actually chose accounting. There's numerous people in my family, uncles, grandfather, grandfather that went into the accounting world. So I was always kind of, I went into college not knowing quite what I wanted to do, but I was also, I was always getting pushed to be accounting. And the main reason I chose accounting is probably the opportunities I heard it presents itself with. Just so much you can do with an accounting major. Like, I don't know if I want to be an auditor, go into accounting right away, or if I want to go into industry, something like that. It's just accounting leave so many doors open for me, which is what I really am excited for being an accounting major. 100% Matthew. And this is what I hear from all accounting students and you would learn this as you progress as you become a senior, as you graduate as you start to sit for your CPA exam. You will notice the various opportunities, the wide range of opportunities that you have, whether you go into public accounting, or in any particular industry.  That's very interesting. Could you tell us a little bit more about that? Yes. So I became a supplemental instructor after my freshman year where I completed accounting 101 and accounting 102. So I completed both those courses with a pretty successful grade. So I was asked to be a supplemental instructor. And what I do is I just provide assistance twice a week for accounting 101 and accounting 102 courses. So I'll sit in on the classes. I'll see what they're I'll see in here what they're learning about. And then like, I'd say like 10 to 15 students come each session and review the material. And I think it really does help the students. And that helps you too, Matthew, as a as a supplemental instructor, it's going to develop a better understanding of accounting. Yes, it's going to improve your communication skills, your presentation skills. So that's a great opportunity supplemental instructor. You guys heard it from Matthew Ziff, future CPA. I'm going to say future CPA and I'm pretty good. You're going to have those letters behind your name, Matthew. It's just a matter of time. Again, to summarize, if you're not a member, if you're not a student member of the PI CPA, you should be to network with others have benefits like a scholarship, interviews, interview opportunities like for example, soon we're going to have another job fair, virtual job fair. If you are a member, you will receive those emails, check those emails connect with other students and accounting is a great major. Matthew, thank you so much for your time. I greatly appreciate it and keep teaching those students 101 and 102. Those are the two most important courses that's going to set the foundation and they're always going to remember you. You know that even after one year, they will remember that you help them in that course. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much. Thank you, Matt. You have a good one. Bye bye. You as well.


Hi, welcome. First good question. Everybody asks, what is kernel CI and why does it matter? Well, Jim, I guess, started it. But the main thing is kernel CI is a project for testing the kernel, and it's a project that started, what, I guess, six or seven years ago now, mostly among a few kernel maintainers, that we're recognizing that, well, like Jim said, Linux runs everywhere, it runs on so many different pieces of hardware. But the testing on that hardware was very minimal. A lot of people, most people were just testing on the few things that they cared about. So as maintainers, we wanted to test it on as much hardware as we could to make sure that we're actually supporting all the hardware that we claim we're supporting. So that's kind of how it began in the kernel community. So it's just collecting a bunch of hardware and running the kernel on as much of this hardware as possible is kind of where the project began. So that, yeah, we had the maintainers summit for the kernel a couple weeks ago, and one of the big problems that we have now is we have six or seven different projects that are sending kernel developers and maintainers bug reports saying they're doing kernel, they're doing testing, whatnot, and so much so that they find the same problems and we're getting really annoyed. So we came together and said, pick one and do that. And so we've agreed on this one, right? Everybody, all the companies finally agreed we're all going to work together, not do duplicated work. Yeah, so we went from a problem of having not very much testing to in the last two years, maybe we've seen a lot more CI efforts and a lot more testing efforts on the kernel, but they've been kind of fragmented. And so, yeah, we've been a lot of different projects are sending doing different types of testing on different types of hardware. And so, yeah, the idea behind kernel CI is let's collaborate on that stuff. Let's work together. I mean, we have open source software for the kernel, but we're, we don't really, we haven't taken the open source approach to our testing efforts. So kernel CI wants to kind of collect that and let's start sharing our testing software, just like we're sharing the rest of our code. Yeah, because all those other testing efforts were actually closed source. So people weren't opening their tests or the test infrastructure. So people couldn't duplicate it. So we get a bug and we couldn't maintainers couldn't duplicate it whatnot. And now we're finally solving that problem, hopefully we're creating a place that we can hopefully solve that problem where we can share our share more testing and share more infrastructure work. And yeah. And as part of the plumbers conference, you guys all all those different projects got together and had a day and talk. And what did you guys decide? Well, we did. Well, first of all, we just decided that this is a this is the right thing to do. Okay. But I think that the impetus behind that at plumbers, especially, was there was several other discussions at plumbers that were basically around we're finding bugs way quicker than we can actually fix them. So because of these testing efforts and particularly some of the kernel fuzzing efforts, the ability for us to find bugs and and well, yeah, find and track bugs is actually increased outpaced our ability to actually fix them and track them. And so we need to in, you know, not only do better testing, but do better tracking and fixing and making sure that we can actually do these things in the kernel. Yeah, like S Y Z bot has finally started tracking things and they're working with you guys on that, right? That's good. So of all these individual things, so why is it important that we now have a formal governance and founding of a project for it? Well, I think that the governance helps because it gives a place where we can actually share companies are generally reluctant to share. I'm not sure why testing testing software is considered secret sauce, but a lot of companies consider it secret. So or or at least special or something. So having this Linux Foundation project is a is kind of a neutral place where we can share start collaborating on some of that stuff. And hopefully realize pretty quickly that most people are doing the same thing. There's a lot of stuff we can collaborate on, a lot of data that we can share. So I think just having that that neutral place at the Linux Foundation is going to provide that. So we won't create yet another testing. Yeah, I hope we don't create yet another testing framework. Yeah, we probably will. But I hope at least we can do more yelling now. So along those lines, what can we expect? I mean, what is your roadmap for the future? I know you've had wishlist in the past. Now that we have a formal organization and everybody's working together, what can we expect to see? Yeah, so we have actually each of these each of the projects that have been collaborating have a wishlist. So we're getting together and kind of putting our wishlist together. I think while the first thing on the wishlist is to just start sharing our code and sharing our test results and collaborating on kind of the basic infrastructure pieces. But then the probably the the next biggest item on the wishlist is better reporting and better like better visualizing. The several of these projects have been running tests for years and collecting a lot of data. We're not doing anything with that data at the moment. So we've got actually quite a bit of data on the historical testing of the kernel that we could be mining and actually doing some interesting things with. So I think there's collaborating on that, you know, only sending one or two one or two males to you instead of ten, right? That'd be good. Or just send me something that I can understand. That's hard. You get these reports and it's buried way in the middle. We want to send you a happy face or a frowning face and that's it. Some people start using the emojis for checkboxes. That'd be good. And you're okay with that? I'm okay with that. I can handle emojis. Cool. So what else? Anything else? That's just better collaboration and better, I mean, yeah, all the big data stuff. There's actually quite a bit of data we could start mining. So I'm looking forward to bringing some skills outside the kernel community to help us start looking at all this data and doing some analysis. There's probably some pretty interesting trends and stuff we could mine from this historical data as well. So that's another thing on my list. Okay. So it's part of the long-term kernel and the stable kernels I do. KernelCI runs all this stuff all the time. And it's really important to me to make sure that things don't regress and people can rely on this stuff. Is this important or I know you wanted to talk about that? What about that? Yeah, so that's important for a few reasons. One, for you just to be able to help you and Sasha decide when stuff is stable and when it's not stable and to give you kind of a path to what's kind of a baseline for what's a stable kernel. But it's also really helpful for companies that are shipping products on stable kernels. I mean, my company, Bay Libre, we work with a lot of companies shipping Linux products. And when they're looking at like a next generation product, they want to move to the latest kernel and having some sort of kernel testing infrastructure that they can look at and say, okay, we're going to move to the next kernel. And all these tests have already run on that kernel. I think it's like having this database of what stable kernels are already out there, what they've already run, what they're past, what the tests they've been running and so on. I think it's a really good resource for people to rely on to be able to decide what kernel they're going to ship in the next product. And people can take kernelsCI and run it on their internal boards because I know a lot of companies don't like publishing things before hardware comes out, before products come out. And that's a big thing about kernelCI. That's much different from other stuff. Yeah. So kernelCI, we have a service at kernelCI.org that we run for all the community stuff, but all the software behind that service is open source. So you can take it in your inside a company and run it as well on your own hardware if you don't want to share tests. And if you don't want to share the new hardware that's not quite out yet, that type of thing. And then you can flip a switch and start publishing results to the community when the hardware is available or when the things aren't secret anymore. And you can test your three million lines of code you've added to the kernel. Make sure nothing regressed. Well, actually, it's really important because a lot of embedded devices are that way. Most, yeah, a lot of products still have a lot of stuff. It's not upstream. Oh, still out of tree. That's a different... That's a different argument. That's a different chat. Yeah. Anything else you want to talk about? No, I think that covers it, yeah. Okay. How can people get involved? KernelCI.org. It's up there. We have a mailing list. We have IRC. Come talk to me in the hallway. I'm here all week. Yeah, that's it. Great. Well, thank you very much. Thanks. All right.