No, no, no, no, no, no. Just be sure. You're moving to the other side. No, no, no, no. I think it's great to move that. Yeah, that's the same. Yeah, that's the same. Yeah, that's the same. Yeah. Yeah. I like it too. Some of this, like the shoulder. Yeah.  It's my good hand. Well, that's my favorite. It's good to have one good hand. It's because it's relaxed. Because it's not strong. It's strong head. But it's straight. Cause it's tension. It frees up on me. This is so loose. That's it. You're right. That's the best way out. That's the best way out. That's your hand. All right. All right. This is worse. Like you do this. So, let's talk a little bit about how you're going to solve the problem, how you're going to solve the problem, how you're going to solve the problem. I don't know why I have to get out of this. I don't know why I have to get out of this. So, let's talk a little bit about how you're going to solve the problem, how you're going to solve the problem. So, let's talk a little bit about how you're going to solve the problem. So, let's talk a little bit about how you're going to solve the problem. So, let's talk a little bit about how you're going to solve the problem. Please join me in a few moments of centering silence. Let's remain seated and join in singing our in-gathering hymn, number 188, Words Found in Your Order of Service. Good morning and welcome to the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Madison. In this community, curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to become a force for good in the world. You know me as Carlos Moser, a decades long standing and faithful member of this congregation. On behalf of which, I wish to extend a special welcome to visitors. We consider ourselves a welcoming congregation, so however you identify yourself and wherever you find yourself on your life's journey, we celebrate your presence among us. We encourage newcomers to stay for our fellowship hour after the service and to visit the library which is directly across the center doors of this auditorium. Bring your drinks and your questions. You will find members of our staff and lay ministry on hand to welcome you. You may also look for persons holding teal colored stoneware coffee mugs if you ask members knowledgeable about our faith community who would love to visit with you. And there are many delights to this building and the previous building, which I hope you will be interested in. If we have someone in the congregation who would be willing to be a tour guide, please let me know and no one seems to wish to take that burden on them. So come again and you can find out more about our building. We welcome children to stay for the service, but if the child needs to talk or move around, we recommend the child haven just behind you on the left or the commons as good places to visit where you can still hear and see the service. And speaking of noise, please now all go into airplane mode so that you will not disturb your neighbors with your electronic devices. Now I take pleasure in acknowledging the following individuals who help our service run smoothly. Hospitality for your drinks after the service are Jean Hills and Sharon Scratish. Three ushers, Dorit Bergen, actually four, and Smiley Paula Alt and Karen Jager. Our greeter this morning was Hannah Pinkerton and on sound we have Mark Schultz. Some announcements. Contemplative gathering for healing and hope. In these times of challenge and difficulty in our lives and in our world, we invite you to join Reverend Kelly and our FUS slave ministers on Tuesday, February 13th from 6 to 645 in the landmark auditorium for a time of quiet candlelighting music and reflection. Find a place to be with others to support and nurture your heart and soul. And on a more active note now I invite Jenna to tell you some more opportunities. FUS Youth Group is hosting a personal care items drive for Briar Patch Youth Services the weekends of February 17th and 18th and February 24th and 25th. Briar Patch provides services to the areas at risk, runaway and homeless youth. It is estimated that every night 300 youth go to bed homeless in Dane County. The following hygiene items are currently needed. Feminine hygiene products, chapstick in the balm, hand sanitizer, new men and women socks, t-shirts, hats, underwear. Look for the collection boxes as you enter the building. Thank you. Again, a very warm welcome.  It is for the gathering of struggle. It is a house of freedom guarding the dignity and worth of every person. It offers a platform for free voice for declaring both in times of security and danger the full and undivided conflict of opinion. It is a house of truth seeking where scientists can encourage devotion to their quest, where mystics can abide in the company of searchers. It is a house of art adorning its celebrations with melodies and handiworks. It is a house of prophecy outrunning times past and times present in visions of growth and progress. This house is a cradle for our dreams, the workshop of our common endeavor. Please rise now in body or in spirit and join with me in our words of chalice lighting. We come together this morning to remind one another to rest for a moment on the forming edge of our lives, to resist the headlong tumble into the next moment, until we claim for ourselves awareness and gratitude, taking the time to look into one another's faces and see their communion, the reflection of our own eyes. This house of laughter and silence, memory and hope is hallowed by our presence together. And now take that time to look into one another's eyes and experience that moment of connection. In the order of service, that pack left the station, but this is a great story. It's a story called Let's Be Friends Again. This is a story about my little sister and me. Anybody in here got a little sister? A little brother maybe? Well, usually we got along well together, but sometimes my little sister was a real pest, particularly when I had to babysit. But she was a good listener when I told her bedtime stories. Sometimes I hated having to share things with her, but she was a great pirate. One day my little sister did a terrible thing. She thought that my pet turtle needed more exercise, so she decided to set it free in the pond. When I saw what she had done, I was madder than I had ever been before. I could have killed her right then and there. But my parents didn't exactly like that idea, and they separated us very quickly. My sister said that she was sorry, but I felt that was not enough. I was very. She even offered to buy me a new turtle with her pocket money, but I didn't want a new one. I wanted my turtle back. My parents didn't say much. They seemed to be on her side. I went to my room and I slammed the door as loud as I could. I thought of many ways to punish my little sister, and if you look at the pictures you see putting her in jail, or wrapping her up in a boa constrictor, I tried to get some sleep, but it didn't work. I began to feel sick. I was convinced I even had a temperature. I was too upset to get out of bed. Meanwhile my sister was singing and dancing in the garden. She seemed to be having the best time of her life. I was the one who was upset, and my little sister didn't seem to care at all. My turtle was gone. How could she forget all about it so easily? I was mad, mad, mad. I punched my pillows a few times as hard as I could. I let go of an awful scream. And then I felt a lot better. I knew what I had to do. I got up and put on my shoes, and then I went outside to where my sister was feeding the dog. I said to her, I'll help you do that. And she smiled. By the way, I said after a little while, the thing about the turtle is okay. I'm not angry anymore. Does that mean we're friends again? Asked my sister. Yes, I said, we're friends again. I was surprised at how easy it was to say that. I asked her, do you want me to come to the pet store with me to buy a new turtle? No, I said, and I smiled. We're going to buy a couple of hamsters. I said one for you and one for me. We can keep them in the old aquarium. My sister took my hand and off we went together. So I want to tell you why I like this story. Something really bad happened for that little guy, didn't it? I mean, he lost his sister, thought she was doing a good thing. And so he was feeling really bad and really angry. And I know that in my life, sometimes when bad things happen, I feel really mad and really angry. And so I really kind of knew what he felt like. But the feelings were really big feels, weren't they? Really, really big feelings. So instead of doing the things that he thought of at the time when he was feeling really angry, he waited and he found other ways to let his feelings out and then he was able to be friends again. And sometimes that's the way this works for me. Sometimes when I'm really, really feeling angry, it's good to find some way to deal with those before I do something that I'll be sorry for. So let's now have a little music and thank you for being here with me. I'm very happy to be here with you, so we'll see you a little bit. I'm not going. I'm actually printed on your order of service. Change, he says, is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. The second reading comes from his book, Transition, Making Sense of Life's Changes. He refers in this work to three stages in a transition. The first is an ending. The second is a neutral zone, and the third is the new beginning. So here he talks about the neutral zone. The neutral zone is the time when the real business of transition takes place. It is a time when the inner reorientation and realignment are occurring, a time when we are making the all-but-imperceptible shift from one season of life to another. Although such shifts can occur without an ending and although they cannot bear fruit without a new beginning, it is the neutral zone that the real work of transformation takes place. Looking back, people often say that everything happened back then, even though at that time I didn't know what was going on. Also in retrospect, they will tell you that it was in the neutral zone, though they usually lack a name for it, that they felt not only least sure what was going to happen, but also most who they really were. Or they will tell you that these things, if they have a way of making sense of what they are, feeling and doing during the time, is an in-between time. That is why it is such a misfortune that so few people can make sense out of the lostness and confusion that they encounter when they have passed through those processes that start with disengagement, dismantling and disidentification. Without a key to that state, the resulting disorientation is viewed as no more than confusion. And confused people imagine that they need to be straightened out or fixed. Without such a key, people in transition are like Alice at the bottom of the rabbit hole, muttering, it will be no use they are putting their heads down and saying, come up against, dear, I shall only look up and say, who am I then? Tell me, tell me that first, and then if I like that person, I will come up. I will not, I will stay down until I am somebody else. But, oh dear, cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears, I do wish that they would put their heads down. I am so very tired of being all alone here. It is lonely down there, except that there are more people down there than you may realize. Well, in short, after 21 years, the minister at the first, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth, Minnesota, I came here in 7 to be an associate minister. I served here until the spring of 2013 when I retired from settled ministry, and at that time the position I had occupied was eliminated and FUS became a teaching congregation where intern ministers could serve and could benefit from the rich learning environment here at FUS. During my tenure in Duluth, the congregation had navigated the rocky waters of many transitions, many of them related to having a beautiful little building long since made obsolete by the emerging hopes of the congregation. They tried on many spaces, borrowed and rented, had capital fund drives, purchased land, and in 2007, having moved with them to the edge of the promised land, I left them with a hole in the ground and joined FUS at the edge of its own giant hole in the ground, which came in time to be the space that we are occupying right now. I can only speculate that part of the motivation to bring me here at that time was that I seemed to know a bit about how congregations can manage change and could bring some perspective to the process of transition. In the 20 years that I was in Duluth, the congregation occupied four different spaces. Together we shared the pain of leaving the much beloved charming little tutor-style building that had been built as a unitarian church in 1910, limited only by no parking lot and sufficient meeting space, insufficient office and RE space and sanctuary that was bursting at the seams. We tried out first a church share with an Episcopal church, then the auditorium of the YWCA, that was a church in a box, we set up and took down the space every week. A Methodist church that was left by a merger of two churches, and finally to the beautiful new building constructed after my departure about the same time as this addition to the Frank Lloyd Wright Meeting House. And here's what I know. In every move, the easy part was physical. Stuff got moved. Himnals and chairs and tables and RE supplies, computers and desks and paper, adaptations were made to accommodate new coffee service and name tags, Sunday services resumed. And it was the experience of transition, the emotional and psychological aspects of the change that permeated the culture. I had had the good fortune of discovering the work of William Bridges in the early 1980s when I was in the midst of a cluster of my own personal transitions and found it to be a frame that made sense of so much of what I was feeling then as well as what was happening as the congregation went through each new move. Here in a nutshell is that frame. The first frame, the first phase of a transition is an ending. At the very least, it involves a loss of the familiar. We have a list of culturally recognized endings, death, divorce, emptiness, retirement, graduations of all kinds, and they contend that the emphasis in most of these recognitions is upon how to get on with what's next. Next, much of what we understand as grief is associated with death, crying at memorial services, the acceptance and encouragement of ritual, that ritual of grief is known to be acceptable, and weren't it even. Most of us understand that grieving following a death takes time, takes many forms, is not even finite perhaps. In the poem, Joy, Carl Sandberg admonishes us to keep away from the little deaths. I would say, in contrast, to embrace them. Not to have and to hold, but to acknowledge and let go. How hard it is to embrace the idea that it is okay to feel sad. Even as our little boy in the story today needed to know that it was okay to feel angry, to openly admit discomfort about the prospect of something new, to share the vulnerability that we feel when facing ambiguity. This is especially hard for leaders. So often this awkwardness or discomfort is seen as whining or complaining. And sometimes I suppose it is. But we learned from the many transitions in Duluth to help one another deal with our losses. To distinguish between passing frustration and paralyzing grief. The challenge in a community is that each person has his or her own style of dealing with transition and comes into the process at a different point. For one who had for decades adapted to the lack of parking by coming early or planning for a three-block hike, the idea that parking would be a factor that would lead to moving to a new space seemed outrageous. For those who resisted coming for years because they could not find a parking place, the idea of the move seemed completely self-evident. When the distant parkers mourned the loss of the pretty and intimate worship space, the newcomers looked forward to both better parking and more spacious worship. Some folks left at each of the changes, unwilling to or unable to hold the tension of what Joan Broschenko calls the no longer, not yet. They were there for what had always been, not for what could be. Many stayed and the ones came drawn by the excitement generated by the possibility of newness itself that is fully present in that second phase of the transition, the in-between time when the old is gone but the new isn't fully operational. Bridges, as we heard earlier, calls this the neutral zone. It's when the critical psychological realignment and repatterning takes place. This phase, acknowledged or not, is critical in the healthy move towards new beginnings, which is the final stage in the transition process. The neutral zone is what I have come to understand and actually refer to sometimes as the Krabby Fades. This is where the structures and patterns that we have come to rely on, that comfort and sustain us, that require little thinking or analysis or engagement begin to require just that. This happens to us in settings mundane as well as grand. This week, for example, I have been house-sitting for the jewelers. I am happy for these commodious accommodations and all such new surroundings require adaptation. It is a change. Things are not where they are at home. This is to be expected. My rational being made a study of the spaces the first day and I found what I needed to make dinner, identified a workspace, figured out the garage door. But in the night, when I got up to use the bathroom, it was an entirely the wrong place. I figured it out, of course, but I found myself to be disproportionately frustrated and angry. I missed my husband, I missed my own bed, 11 days away from home started to feel like a terrible idea. I went back to bed and then went to sleep and in the morning returned to sanity, welcomed the day, forgave the architect who had in fact positioned the bathroom in exactly the right place. So what, am I losing my grip? Not at all. What I recognized here was that neutral zone kind of feeling. They are real feelings. They are important reminders about my own vulnerability and the necessary unease that accompanies change. When changes come institutionally the disorientation and reactions tend to be more communal and public. If we are not careful, we begin to create a narrative that would suggest that someone really ought to move the darn bathroom. With nowhere to take my anxious reactivity in the middle of the night I found the familiar comfort of sleep and the feelings past. And I shared those feelings with an also anxious other or others anxious not even about the bathroom but about the location of the vacuum cleaner or the operation of the washing machine. I can imagine a full on reorganization of the household before breakfast. It's what we do when we combine our anxiety. Anxiety often begets reactivity. This is where Bridges reminds us not to confuse a reaction to an ending with a new beginning which is that third stage in the process. The neutral zone is that time when we get to act or create or question without permanent consequences. When we get to examine ourselves for signs of apathy or complacency where we get to miss what has been lost and live in a space that is at once uncomfortable and filled with possibility and challenge. It is a place at best it is a place at best where we hold ourselves and one another in a place of deeper community. Creating a culture of curiosity in place of judgment of discernment in a place of certainty of vulnerability and trust of being informed and engaged in the process of transformation. During the past decade of FUS history there has been a good deal of significant change. In the ten years prior to my start here that started by tenure here a careful discernment process culminated in a major capital campaign and a completed plan calling for significant renovation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Meeting House and the construction of the atrium auditorium. When I arrived the previous edition a previous edition of the meeting house had been demolished. What are now new offices along the loge were under construction and the space in front of the meeting house was filled with portable structures that house temporary offices and classrooms. In the fall the staff moved into the new office space and there was much shuffling and accommodation in this time of no longer, not yet. By the fall of 2008 the construction was completed and the move into the new space happened. Over the next few years there were multiple staff changes a new governance model was adopted but I think it could be said that there was in all of that as we neutral zoned our way along a sense of the new beginning that has become in modern parlance the new normal. There has been amidst all of this change a high degree of equanimity and stability. In large part this has been due to the long and stable leadership of Michael Schuler, senior minister and Dan Broner, director of music. Those ministries are now coming to a close with well earned retirements. These transitions have in some ways upped the ante from other transitions of recent past. There has been fair warning there has been planning and conversations and decisions about temporary structures. There are task forces of wise and thoughtful folks who are tending to the shape that will hold the emerging future. There will be endings. You already know that. There will be endings that for some of you will trigger old losses. The grief will be complicated because it will be both personal and institutional. Michael Schuler is a wise and gracious human being whose presence in the life of this congregation has been a continuing gift for three decades. Moreover, he has been a grounding and consistent presence in this pulpit, a respected public presence in Madison, a comforting pastor and a spiritual leader. These are things that you will see in the future and continuing ministry. You have opportunities to celebrate his ministry, to say goodbye. There will be an ending. And knowing that this ending is the first stage in the process of transition has the potential for making what follows richer and more meaningful. Martin Luther King Jr. said one of the greatest liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake during periods of great social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolution. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. Bridges puts it in a slightly different way when he says Odysseus failed to see and treat the problem why life was presenting as a significant signal and a gift rather than a difficulty to be overcome are not at the edge of an abyss but at the threshold of a neutral sound. You are the keepers of a legacy that is bigger than Frank Lloyd Wright or Max Gabler or Michael Shuler or really any of those you would hold as heroes or saviors. You and they together are part of something larger and more life affirming than you can even imagine. I offer this invitation to you. In the time ahead may you face the challenges and one another with curiosity and trust to keep informed about the governance of FUS to engage and participate in the rituals of ending. To engage the interim and ministerial search process with open minds and open hearts to stay informed and respond when asked to support the ministry of Kelly Crocker and the rest of the FUS staff through your gifts of time and talent and treasure and hold one another gently in the places of grief and crabbiness the continuing narrative of this wonderful community be informed by your better angels. We will continue our service now with the receiving of gifts it is through our gifts that we support the work of this beloved community. It's canceled because of snow and also concerned for their dear friend and former colleague who is beginning chemo for stage 3 and sorrows that we're holding in our hearts today as we join in a time of silence and experience the gift of being together through our inter connections may our joys be expanded and our burdens lightened. Now let us join together in our closing hymn number 34 though I may speak with bravest to fight be seated for our closing words and our closed loop we receive fragments of holiness of eternity brief moments of insight let us gather them into the precious up for the precious gifts that they are given by their grace move boldly into the unknown go in peace


hi everyone the back can hear me from the back okay so first of all thank I said for inviting me for the today's talk like it's it's nice to speak in the first I was meet up in Singapore power so my topic is today is about like the diversity in the absolute we all building apps and but sometimes we just trying to be cool so then we forget some segments of the other user base you only focus on like a similar mindset people but that's not the way a real audience is so yeah so I'm going to talk about how to reach a more diverse user base in your apps so a little bit about myself my name is Maudhushan I'm currently working in graph as in iOS team and also focusing on accessibility at graph yeah so the outline of the talk is like first is about that how diverse the iOS user basis and how we can find out like different segments of user base and how we can cater to them and next I'm trying to focus on like some stuff that built into the iOS that supports more customization so it fits different segments of the users so if you if you compare the iOS and Android like ours has been supporting these set of features from the very beginning like accessibility and the dynamic contents and the localization these kind of things they have been supporting from the very beginning they have done a very impressive jobs in that terms yeah so I'll try doing clean is keep the implementation part like so I'm not going to have some live demo coding demo I'll put some samples in the guitar so that you guys can prefer later if you want yeah so I'll try to go this presentation very quickly so first is like so as you all know user base speak different languages so but in what we need to think is like only giving English app is never going to be enough because now the user base is more diverse than ever so you will find more shiny speaking users more like Hindi speaking users and more Arabic yeah so the idea is like you need to localize your app no excuse then abilities so abilities are different among different users like for example some users are visually impact some uses are colorblind some uses are physically disabled some uses are hearing disabled so how we can get at these set of users without apps without I mean only without only focusing on a typical user so to give you some numbers about the some disabilities around the world so if you talk about the color blindness one in 12 man is colorblind so this is like a huge number if you like so so one in 12 so you can do the math for say around 7 billion population so it's a huge number so you need to think about these people so if the point is if you use color alone represent to any kind of state that's not good not going to be enough so you need to give some additional parameter that differentiate two status rather than the color and yeah so women is yeah surprisingly we may get clear vision that meant so it's number is one 200 yeah so if there's some genetic reason behind that yeah I'm not going to explain that you can just go go and find out why this happens and then region is region and the culture so when you're using colors yeah for I mean focus your target audience and use color in a more appropriate way one example is so if you think about the Chinese culture red is some a very good like yeah so they like this red color it's a lucky color something like this so if you if you see the Apple stock the trading app like so for English users a decrease of a stock value indicated in red but if you set your localizations to Chinese so you see the increase of the stock price in red decrease in green so that means that they they're thinking about this the different cultures and use color appropriately so you should I mean you should take this stuff and next is cognitive ability so everyone is not familiar with these devices as us so we think like okay this is this feature is supposed to be figured out very easily by user but that's not the real case but they're not familiar with these devices you need to I mean you need to provide your UI in a way that's very inclusive and very intuitive yeah in for for new apps so my suggestion is like so take some apps like users are mostly familiar with for example iPhone call app it's it's kind of up that everyone is using so if you if you check that up so you can swipe I mean swipe left in a contact to delete so users know that that user interaction so then I mean if you trying to use a different thing to delete so they will they will find a hard time to figuring out so but if you use that the same US behavior that users are familiar with they will very easily figure out when you have more users like when when you are preach millions audience then then you can start customizing your apps in a your own way so it starts with something that don't don't go against the default use of areas yeah so we that some context about how diverse the user base is so is one app enough for everyone yeah probably not but can we can we build different apps for different audience we can't even if we can Apple won't want us to do that because they won't like that same app in different players appears in the app store like in different names but yeah but instead of doing that they give was worried of options to do that like so they I mean we can use many settings and many APIs to customize our one app that that can cater many audiences yeah this this is very good example so if you this is actually today's we get for the weather so if you take this is the same app and it appears this is example of four different status the first one is the default and if you compare the first one to second one second one is the iPhone settings have some settings called reduced transparency so this usually some users they don't like the transparency at all so the reason is one is can be their personal like preference and and the second thing can be some something to do with their vision capabilities they might find it hard to read content in the transparent content so if if you enable that settings this is how the same app looks in the in the second screenshot and if you check that this one so this is how the same thing so if you change your localization to a right to left language like this is Hebrew the Israeli language so the content line automatically from right to left so how you can do that so in order to do this you need to use the API properly if you use for example if you use auto layout properly you will have it for free otherwise if you if you try to implement the UI using code like without using auto layout like fix margins and fix alignments then you have to implement this from the scratch so that's that's something very important that you need to keep in mind and when you are beginning your app so if you if you decide not to go with auto layout so later when you reach a more global audience you will have to take care of these things so that's very important you keep it mine at the beginning to these kind of things yeah the the fourth one is like so you can enable some settings in the apps like it's called ball text enable so it's a system-wide setting so if you enable that all fonts that support the dynamic font in font dynamic typing well give you the ball text through art your device so this is yeah I can't read you the example so the the idea behind those four screen short is that you need to you need to support the dynamic content and the adaptive layout so adaptive layout means like so if you for example say you're you're writing universal app that works both on iPhone and Android so if you use adaptive layout properly so when when a user rotate the device and also when comes from the iPhone to iPad you are feel looks looks looks very appealing throughout the ecosystem okay so when it comes to localization so there's a very important class in the foundation library called ns formatter there are several subclasses that's inherited from this ns formatter class that that will give you these many localizations and the regional preferences UI for free so yeah so this is one example so if you use this NS date formatter which is subclass now it's not ns so with the sift 3 it's no longer next so it's date formatter so if you use this class for instance so you have two choices you can have a fixed date format like the first one is a fixed string that we can use or you can use the the API provided styles so assume that you do in the first in the first way so if you do that way this is not the result you will end up so in the Chinese localization so if you use this one these two Chinese characters will appear there so that's not the correct way I think the chance people agree so the correct way is that these the these two characters should come first in the in Chinese language so if you use this style industry so you will get that for free so always try to use these instances from inherit classes from the the format a class so this will give a lot of features like this for example currency in some languages the currency symbol comes first in some languages currency will come after the digits so if you use proper formatter classes you need you don't need to take care of them the system frameworks will take you that for free yeah so you need to do this internationalization internationalization for right and otherwise you in your code you have to you have to implement this in the as like checking the language if the language is this do this if otherwise do this okay for when it comes to language so this is very important like user can have in in the system settings one is that they can give a default language for example I I give English and also they can do a preferred language in order they prefer so this is important for apps like this will allow apps to localize in languages that that are not even available in the system language yeah for example that the preferred language list has a lot more languages than the languages available in the in the default language so this will give apps the chance to localize in many more languages and so how this works is like and also this also has a region part so these three are really important so the here user define like how he likes to see you up so we need to read these settings and give a UI that match these settings so and if the one example if I say that my preferred region in Singapore I I'm saying that the currencies in apps I would like to be in Singapore dollars like and also the date format I would like to be in a Singapore standard format so yes so in in your localization files so when you're going to localize so you have these yeah for example let's say Chinese so you have many different options like here is the main settings that here are the traditional settings so this is for the simplified and the traditional Chinese and what are these like so if this is the traditional Chinese but there are some special two characters after the language code yeah that is actually the regional code so and if you check each yeah so there's a single function as well so so when you're localizing so you first need to localize in the general language in the Chinese traditional Chinese and the simplified Chinese then if you want to have some special cases like for example if you want to have the Singapore flavored singly stuff so you can assign in this file so it will give more personal like more personalized more regionalized experience to your app like if a user specified his is his region is Singapore he will see some some like more customized stuff in the app yeah so when okay so this thing is about when it comes to localization how how to handle the plural plural and singly cases like for example I assume that you have some label that that that a sign that says the number of friends online so it can be one friend is online or two friends online so usually how we in the localization like so we have some formatted text that we can assign and assign this one or two value dynamically but how we're going to handle these things these are and this case in the plural case we need to add x-rays here so one case one way of doing this is like check the number of friends so if it's a plural assign different string and if it's singular sign a different string but you don't need to do that really because the there's a way that the upper sticky provided that we can use to handle this situation very easily yeah this in you can you can have a file called localizable string drift and in this is actually the list file so in this file so you can say that how you how it should look like for the plural singular and the plural cases so I'm saying that this is my string key the this number of friends online so this is the actual key for the string and here is how you sign variables in the playlist and here I mentioned that in the singular case this should be this and in the plural case which would be this so then it will automatically based on the number you are giving it if you do one it will use this format if you give a number more than one if you use this format so it's very important to use this file if you have such cases in your apps and it's more than that because some languages handle these various cases differently like some languages handle in case of zero it can be really different in case of few some languages can handle this case differently than others so you can use this set of keys to assign a value that that will automatically fetch based on the number and yeah so when you are localizing for right to left languages it's important to use auto layer so otherwise you have to lay out you had to recalculate your layout and do it in the cord that if the language is Hebrew or Arabic align my UI in this way otherwise this way but if you use auto layer properly you will get this for free like so when when a user set the language to right to left languages it will automatically turn around the UI and it will see in the right to left manner and when it comes to the abilities so yeah there are many features that you need to care about money's voice over so actually I covered some stuff about the voice over in my previous talk in the in the same day of start so maybe if anyone interested about supporting the voice over users like visually impaired users you can check that talk it's it should be available in the ingenious G website yeah and other things are visual accommodation these are like so enable system wide ball settings or reduced transparency or and also there's settings called radius motion so this is for like okay so here's a worry it is a very interesting use case like so if some user enable the reduced motion one thing that user can be some user that hate these animations and or maybe he wants to save the battery life from the animation or or this can be a user who suffered from epilepsy so if someone suffered from epilepsy if you give some animations with the high rate high frame rate this use it can trigger this epilepsy in a few seconds time so that's that's I mean that's something that you need to take in mind that if you have I mean worry moving animations so you need to check that settings the radio if the radio transparency enabled you you need to reduce the animation rates and maybe avoid the animation at all okay for the demo I'm not going to do some code here so I have some results screenshots from the demo app I created to showcase these stuffs so I'll show the screenshots now because the time is running and I'll share the code in the GitHub so and I'll share the link in the in the Facebook group or the meetup website yeah so he is very small demo app I created so this is how it looks like in English language and the region is Singapore the first case I'm using the fixed format today so yeah it's it's very usual so the second one is the date field I assigned from the date style not a fixed format and okay the the third row is just just I'm using some image icon in the column and the the next two I'm you as this this is the subtitle this is the title so I'm using the same string here in both locations so it's supposed to get handle this grammar correctly for me if I'm using the the correct API and the the next one is the decimal form and so this also can be different based on the language for example if you if you take the Swedish and some other languages so they use comma here instead of the dot so you need to you need to handle these situations and also for the currency some currencies use this the currency format at the beginning and sometimes it is at the end yeah so this is the how it looks like when I said the language is the simplified Chinese and the region is China so as you can see the fixed form at a date so it still use these two characters at the end but when I use that style instead it gives me that the proper localization for free so yeah that's a very cool feature and yeah the rest of the things are the same yeah so this is also the currency symbol this is not something that I'm hard-coding it I'm using the current number four matter use with the currency style it will give you the appropriate see appropriate currency symbol for free so you that's that's very easy to use these features and this is how it looks like in the Hebrew the Israeli language so here the most interesting case yeah of course it's aligned because okay the first case why you see these strings still in English because I haven't localized these things I only I mean I'm trying to demo only the subtitle case because if I if I use the proper is localized files this should be I mean they should be in the Hebrew language but here the interesting part is if you check with the previous image if you pay attention to this image yeah you can see that actually the image also flipped over so the book binding is in the left side in this image and when it goes to the right to left language it goes to the left so how you can handle these things so this is very very easy to do like so in the in the images you can give extra options that you can give two images the in the right to left languages use this image and left to right languages use this image that's it like the apple will know what's left to right language what's the right to left language and keep the right image for you and okay this is how it looks like in the Swedish so if you check here instead of George it is comma and also the car symbol goes at the end and also if you if you know about the date format so the Swedish people like so instead of the date they I think they prefer to use the 24 o'clock so instead of using MPM so it use simply 24 o'clock time format yeah so that's roughly about it like so the so here are the things that we didn't cover but important to mention that you can look out the apple has this new measurement and units API I think only I stand on words this this super cool like so you can use like energy conversions and yeah temperature conversions yeah all those are features it's a really good library to look at and also we didn't cover all aspect of accessible the accessibility is very white topic that like there are many areas that you need to think about and and yeah so it's I mean when it comes to accessibility don't don't think like so will there be enough users with visual impairment that who will use my service no do it at the service the people will allow to use the technology as us so it's it's take it as a responsibility of yours that give the same experience or almost the same experience to everyone regardless of their accessibility yeah so I have one of my colleague working yeah a few dex next to me who's visually impaired and is still a developer that yeah when I work on some stuff some feature like in our app that improved accessibility that it's really impressive that how much it allows it so yeah so you you'll never know that simple enhancement you do for in terms of accessibility will be agreed I mean great for these users so think about accessibility don't skip a yeah so the we didn't we didn't cover the power for to layout how to use that or they are propelled to support this right to left cases and also testing and auditing for internalization so you can simply yeah these things I mean WBC got great videos for these cases so these things are the stuff we didn't cover but still important to know it that you guys can check later yeah so that's it from me basically so I want to the message I want you guys to take out it's like so let's make these apps and the experience we are creating better for everyone don't focus on it on the small set of users the I mean care about this why diverse user base and do something for everyone so I want to thank okay to a Singapore power for hosting me up and also a special thanks to the engineering ST there guys are recording most of the tech videos in Singapore if you check the website it's it's it's full of very good content so I know these guys looking for volunteers I was also trying to but I couldn't find much time to do that but if anyone willing to volunteer put their first these guys like yeah feel free to contact here's the guy started it Mike yeah special thanks to these guys and yeah so I would happy to take any questions if you guys got any okay I was okay but so I haven't because if you are supporting your apps I was 8 ton words the most of the things are there but these special cases like measurement and units yeah unfortunately it's I was 10 or not so in that case yeah you had to feel that pain there's no choice like some libraries already down the guitar that cover this case for us so you can simply use them but you are almost fine if you use if you have targets I would I use a 8 ton words yeah I think you fine but most of the cases I think that's the case because in that case I think we are very lucky because if you if you check the Android user base yeah they still have to support the very old versions so I get this complaint from my wife she's doing Android yeah like so yeah so in this case we really like it because if you check the charts for the iOS adaptation I think I was 8 is it's a very good minimum version you can use yeah any more questions yeah that the image just image is just about the asset catalog so if you use these yeah so okay you mean this yeah oh it's it's something that the iOS frameworks will give you a free if you have to use the hotel a arc and I mean you have to you have to keep in mind this this that's going to be a case for the right to left language but if you align using a toilet from left to right so then you need to do you don't need to think about left right to left because it first perhaps for you yeah sorry it's console free but in case you're using a toilet but another case is like I think so when you are using a toilet you can there's a tick called the relative to margin you remember that yeah so that's also very important that some that's also something that developers skip so that that's becomes very important when you when you're writing universal apps like if you use the margin so when you open your apps in the iPad it use a very bit wider margin than the iPhone so it's very important when it comes to when when you have some long paragraph so it's it's hard for users to if you are lying if your paragraph lying length is very long it's hard for users so users prefer a bit short line length paragraph so it will give that for free if you if you take that the relative to margin tip okay any more questions image according to region how you look like a stream okay that's yeah but but okay when you're using the image like okay so assume that you are having the image in the project by itself so you there's options to look like so it's what usually if assume that there's a string file and also if you take a storyboard so when you localized it it will create a string file separate string files for the language so I haven't tried that but I think you can do the same thing for the image but you cannot do this in when you imagine that asset catalog so that's a special case that I need to check that out maybe I'll I'll try and put that in the source code in the GitHub yeah yeah so you have to localize I mean you had to have separate images if your image contains text so that's something that better to avoid because your text get I mean this I mean fix elated sometime so better to put text in the labels as much as possible yeah but if you have edge case that you had to put a text in the image yeah then you have to give a separate image for each language yeah any more questions from the audience okay if not yeah I'll wind up and finally some message for my employer like this some of my manager requested me to food here so if you are finding jobs like we are aggressively these days so feel free to go and apply yeah thank you


Hey investor Intel, I'm here today with Dr. Ian Flint, who is among many things, but he's also a writer for investor Intel. So Ian, I thought we should just jump right into it. Can you tell me what's going on in the graphene market today? Well, the graphene market is a number of applications that are developing, developed in graphene, for example, into plastics as a composite. So everyone, well not everyone, but there's now, you can buy graphene hockey sticks for example. It's also being put into a lot of events, that's working done putting on in paints for corrosion resistance. And it's also, there's also work being done putting it into things like energy storage and things like that. The same problem that has been plaguing the graphene industry for many years still exists, which is quality control and a supply of reliable inexpensive graphene. And until those are solved, the applications will be slow. And what about the graphite market? Like what's going on in that market right now? Well, I assume the question is directed towards the junior mining space. Exactly. What's going on? Tell us what's going on. The junior companies are slowly learning that to be into the graphite, you don't, you're not a miner.  The classic model in which sort of geologists and accountants get together and make a company and sell it to a senior and graphite just doesn't work. What you need in graphite is to identify the application you're going to sell it to, then find the graphene graphite source for that. You have to be prepared to start an operating company. And you have to have a team together to do that. And I think that the junior mining space is recognizing that fact. And there's been a number of strides forward in the industry. So I think it's a positive. Perfect, which brings me to my next question. What is the difference for those of us who don't know between synthetic graphite and real graphite? They're both graphite. Okay, there's, there's, synthetic graphite is made by taking petroleum coke and putting a high temperature furnace for a period of time, which basically converts the carbon to graphite. However, it's very fine graphite, very small size. Not all of it is converted, which means you still have some carbon left over. And the orientation of it is not as, not the orientation, but the stacking between the crystals isn't as tight as it is in natural graphite. And of course the big difference is price. Because if you're starting off with a really cheap source of carbon in synthetic graphite, which is great, but then you've got the energy costs. Don't expect to pay less than $15,000 to $20,000 in American pun for synthetic graphite. What do you think is better, like if you had to pick one, or does it just not matter at all? Natural graphite has, in terms of batteries, as much for their characteristics as cheaper, you go with natural graphite.  If you want control, if you want to know exactly what you're getting, synthetic. Oh, perfect. And then I guess that brings us to battery. I know everyone's super hot and like buzzing right now around batteries, batteries, lithium ion batteries. Can you like comment on how graphene or graphite comes into play in that process? Well, the graphite is in the annals. And what happens is the lithium ions get put in between the graphite, the layers between the graphite, not between the flakes, but it actually was in the flake. Okay. It's all intercalation. And it takes six carbon atoms to store one lithium ion. So there's a very distinctive amount of graphite that is needed in your battery to make it perform. Okay. That there's a whole process that you go through in order to get that graphite. It has to have a proper surface area. It has to be able to actually intercalate that stuff. That's going to be the right particle size in order to get it to form the annals properly. And there's a lot of test work involved in order to prove your product to the battery company. So if you're in your mining company, it has to have you spend a lot of time and effort in order to prove that to the battery industry. The battery industry does not just buy off the shelf because it takes a lot of for them to change the process from one graphite to another because they are small differences that can affect the performance of the battery. So it's about an 18 month period between when you start testing on the battery company and you can actually sell them stuff. Oh my goodness. That's quite the process. My word. It has to be in a specific particle size range. Yeah. What is that size? Can you like comment on that? Can you let us know? The best size is between 30 and 70 microns. It can take a large and they reduce it using Gepno. So it all comes down to cost. Most things do come down to cost if you all know. But it also has purity. It also has no purity because they want 99.9% graphite and the very few graphites can make that great. Perfect. And like as I mentioned earlier Ian is many things and one of the other things that you do work with, Guyanani Metals, who's one of our investor Intel members as well as CKR Carbon, which is another investor Intel member. Can you just share a bit what you do with each company? Well, to start with CKR, my involvement with CKR goes back long before CKR. It's a project in Namibia called the Occam deposit, which I actually found about eight years ago. That's so my involvement with that company is that I found a property, got people in Namibia involved. The current CEO, Arnold, is a good friend of mine. And so he's now running that. And it's that project of mine. I've got lots of graphites sitting on the ground and it's relatively easy to process. So it's a project of mine that I want to see both. Perfect. And it's a good one. And that's how I've been involved in the third world. So I'm very curious. Oh, perfect. I wonder about Guyanani Metals. I know you're on the board for them, or you're the metal, metal, or I can't, I never get that right. Metalurgist?  Metalurgist. Guyanani is a manganese play out of Botswana. Now the manganese is one of the metals that's used in lithium-ion rubbers. Colt lithium is questionable. Lithium is a metal that's in there, but so is manganese in one of the formulations, or nickel in another formulation. The Botswana manganese was mine for many years, then was sought due to some sort of a war with South Africa, I believe. But it is an extension of the manganese deposits that are found in South Africa. And South Africa has about 70% of the world's marketing in manganese. So it's a significant extension of those manganese deposits, and it goes for columners and columners. I spent a long time walking those properties. It's an exciting play. And manganese is found in nodules, or it's found in veins, which makes it an interesting metal to process. That's not hard, it's just interesting. I like manganese, so I'm actually happy to be involved in that project. It's a good change from Graphite. Well, thank you very much, Ian, for joining us today. It was great speaking with you. And if for our investor intel readers and watchers, please comment below in the comment section, and let us know your thoughts. Thanks. Thank you very much, and anytime.


If you're now currently going through something that is difficult, that is a setback, a mistake, a failure, a tragedy, a sadness, it is weather. But faith and strength and resilience and belief and positivity is climate. So don't ever mistake a current weather situation in your life, over which sometimes you have no control. After you may have no control over weather. Weather can come from other people, can come from other situations and events and because you're attached to the people who are going through inclement weather, it can affect the weather in your life. Sometimes we can't control the weather, but we can always control the climate. So I want to encourage you guys today that are going through a difficult weather front. It may last a while, but don't mistake it for, don't read it as the new climate in your life. It's not, it's weather. It's seasonal, it's passing, but the climate is always going to return if you don't park up in a current rainstorm or thunderstorm or autumn or winter season in your life or organization, whatever it may be. Weather is passing, climate is permanent. Don't confuse the two today in your life or in someone else's. Alright, love you guys from a cold and frosty morning in the Shire.


The Perseus Pisces supercluster is a long, dense wall of galaxies with a length of almost 300 million light-years that is around 250 million light-years away. It is one of the largest known structures in the universe. This plot of the brightest galaxies in the supercluster show how prominent it is. At the left end of the supercluster is the massive Perseus cluster, one of the most massive clusters of galaxies within 500 million light-years.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. After being ruled by a non-elected government for almost a year, Bolivia is set to have elections on October 18th. These are the first elections that will be held since former President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup on November 10th last year. A U.S.-backed government with Ginny Nanyas as interim president was installed in place of Morales' administration. In the upcoming elections, Luis Arce is contending for the post of President from Movement towards Socialism, or MAS, which is the party of Morales. His main opponent is Carlos Misa from the center-right civic community, followed by Luis Fernando Camacho from the We Believe Party. She and Chan from Front for Victory and Pilaciano Mamani from Bolivian National Action Party are also contending for the presidency. Most opinion polls, however, have declared Arce as the favorite and likely to win in the first round of polling. Because of his popularity, many of his opponents have dropped from the race so that votes can consolidate behind the more popular right-wing candidates. This includes Ginny Nanyas who pulled out of the race in September. Despite what opinion polls suggest about Arce's popularity, the Bolivian right will not let MAS get elected again so easily. Nanyas and the oligarchy whose interest her administration represents is unwilling to relinquish power and allow for the return of democracy. Elections have been postponed multiple times and there has even been an attempt to annul the legal status of MAS in order to ban it from participating in the upcoming elections. This appeal made by far-right senator Carmen Eva Gonzalez was rejected by a Bolivian court. However, fears of interference in the election process are still strong. In the past few weeks, far-right paramilitary groups have carried out violent attacks against MAS supporters in different parts of the country. Luis Arce wrote in a statement, Recent statements by de facto government authorities show that they won't give up on their attempts to obstruct the electoral process to try to generate fear and are now threatening the use of military force. I repeat, what other provocations are they willing to generate to derail the elections? Arce has issued a call to the international community to observe the electoral process and the days following the elections in order to monitor the activities of the Bolivian right. The people of Bolivia fear that the ruling party will make use of all kinds of dirty tricks in order to steal the election from them, including blackouts during the count of her Moreover, the ballots will be guarded by the same armed forces that supported the coup. Five of the largest international admissions that have been approved for election observation by Bolivian authorities include the European Union, the Carter Center, the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organisations, the Association of Electoral Organisations of South America and the Organization of American States or the OAS. It was the OAS and the EU which contributed significantly in the unleashing of the coup in Bolivia last year. Political scientists from the U.S. closely studied the allegations of fraud in the elections made by OAS last year. They concluded that there was no fraud. Despite various flaws in the report from last year, the OAS has been given accreditation for observing the elections. Meanwhile, progressive observers including elected lawmakers such as Jeremy Corbyn faced many difficulties before getting accredited. Solidarity activists who have applied for observer status are also facing many hurdles. The people of Bolivia are prepared to take to the streets in case of any interference in the election process. Social movements and trade unions associated with the OAS have announced that they will mobilise if there is an electoral fraud.


CHAPTER 17 Why the Sea Moans Once upon a time there was a little princess who lived in a magnificent royal palace. All around the palace there was a beautiful garden full of lovely flowers and rare shrubs and trees. The part of the garden which the princess liked most of all was a corner of it which ran down to the sea. She was a very lonely little princess, and she loved to sit and watch the changing beauty of the sea. The name of the little princess was Dionysia, and it often seemed to her that the sea said, as it rushed against the shore, Dionysia, Dionysia. One day when the little princess was sitting all alone by the sea, she said to herself, Oh, I am so lonely, I do so wish that I had somebody to play with. When I ride out in the royal chariot I see little girls who have other little boys and girls to play with them. As I am the royal princess, I never have anybody to play with me. If I have to be the royal princess and not play with other children, I do think I might have some sort of live thing to play with me. Then a most remarkable thing happened. The sea said very slowly and distinctly, and over and over again, so there couldn't be any mistake about it. Dionysia, Dionysia. The little princess walked up close to the sea, just as close as she dared to go without danger of getting her royal shoes and stockings wet. Straight out of the biggest wave of all there came a sea serpent to meet her. She knew that it was a sea serpent from the pictures in her royal story books, even though she had never seen a sea serpent before. But somehow this sea serpent looked different than the pictures. Instead of being a fierce monster, it looked kind and gentle and good. She held out her arms to it right away. Come play with me, said Dionysia. I am Labismena, and I have come to play with you, replied the sea serpent. After that the little princess was very much happier. The sea serpent came out of the sea to play with her every day when she was alone. If anyone else came near, Labismena would disappear into the sea, so no one but Dionysia ever saw her. The years passed rapidly, and each year the little princess grew to be a larger and larger princess. At last she was sixteen years old, and a very grown up princess indeed. She still enjoyed her old playmate, Labismena, and they were often together on the seashore. One day, when they were walking up and down together beside the sea, the sea serpent looked at Dionysia with sad eyes and said, I too have been growing older all these years, dear Dionysia. Now the time has come that we can no longer play together. I shall never come out of the sea to play with you any more, but I shall never forget you and I shall always be your friend. I hope that you will never have any trouble, but if you ever should, call my name, and I will come to help you. Then the sea serpent disappeared into the sea. About this time, the wife of a neighboring king died, and as she lay upon her deathbed, she gave the king a jeweled ring. When the time comes when you wish to wed again, she said, I ask you to marry a princess upon whose finger this ring shall be neither too tight nor too loose. After a while, the king began to look about for a princess to be his bride. He visited many royal palaces and tried the ring upon the finger of many royal princesses. Upon some the ring was too tight, and upon others it was too loose. There was no princess whose finger it fitted perfectly. At last in his search the king came to the royal palace where the princess Dionysia lived. The princess had dreams of her own of a young and charming prince who would someday come to wed her, so she was not pleased at all. The king was old and no longer handsome, and when he tried the ring upon Dionysia's finger, she hoped with all her heart that it would not fit. It fitted perfectly. The princess Dionysia was frightened nearly to death. Will I really have to marry him? She asked her royal father. Her father told her when a very wealthy king he was, with a great kingdom and a wonderful royal palace, ever so much more wonderful and grand than the palace the princess Dionysia had always had for her home. Her father had no patience at all with her for not being happy about it. You ought to consider yourself the most fortunate princess in all the world, he said. Dionysia spent her days and nights weeping. Her father was afraid that she would grow so thin that the ring would no longer fit her finger, so he hastened the plans for the wedding. One day Dionysia walked up and down beside the sea, crying as if her heart would break. All at once she stopped crying.  My old playmate, Labismena, told me that if ever I was in trouble she would come back and help me. With all my silly crying I had forgotten about it. Dionysia walked up close to the sea and called softly, Labismena, Labismena! Out of the sea came the sea serpent, just as she used to come. The princess told the sea serpent all about the dreadful trouble which was threatening to spoil her life. Have no fear, said Labismena, tell your father that you will marry the king when the king presents you with a dress, the color of the fields and all their flowers, and that you will not marry him until he gives it to you. Then the sea serpent disappeared again into the sea. Dionysia sent word through her father to her royal suitor that she would wed him only when he procured her, address the color of the fields and all their flowers. The king was very much in love with Dionysia, so he was secretly filled with joy at this request. He searched everywhere for address the color of the fields and all their flowers. It was a very difficult thing to find, but at last he procured one. He sent it to Dionysia at once. When Dionysia saw that the king had really found the dress for her, she was filled with grief. She thought that there was no escape and that she would have to marry the king after all. As soon as she could get away from the palace without being noticed, she ran down to the sea and again called Labismena, Labismena! The sea serpent at once came out of the sea. Do not fear, she said to Dionysia. Go back and say that you will not wed the king until he gives you address the color of the sea and all its fishes. When the king heard this new request of Dionysia's, he was rather discouraged. However, he searched for the dress, and, at last, after expending a great sum of money, he procured such a gown. When Dionysia saw that a dress the color of the sea and all its fishes had been found for her, she again went to seek counsel from her old playmate. Do not be afraid, Labismena again said to her. This time you must ask the king to get you address the color of the sky and all its stars. You may also tell him that this is the last present you will ask him to make you. When the king heard about the demand for a dress the color of the sky and all its stars, he was completely disheartened. But when he heard that Dionysia had promised that this would be the last present she would ask, he decided that it might be a good investment after all. He set out to procure the dress with all possible speed. At last he found one. When Dionysia saw the dress the color of the sky and all its stars, she thought that this time there was no escape from marrying the king. She called the sea serpent with an anxious heart, for she was afraid that now even Labismena could do nothing to help her. Labismena came out of the sea and answered to her call. Go home to the palace and get your dress the color of the field and all its flowers, said the sea serpent, and your dress the color of the sea and all its fishes, and your dress the color of the sky and all its stars. Then hurry back here to the sea, for I have been preparing a surprise for you. All the time the king had been procuring the wonderful gowns for Dionysia, the sea serpent had been building a ship for her. When Dionysia returned from the royal palace, with her lovely dresses all carefully packed in a box, there was a queer little boat awaiting her. It was not at all like any other boat she had ever seen, and she was almost afraid to get into it when Labismena asked her to try it. This little ship which I have built for you, said Labismena, will carry you far away over the sea to the kingdom of a prince who is the most charming prince in all the world. When you see him, you will want to marry him above all others. Oh, Labismena, how can I ever thank you for all you have done for me? cried Dionysia. You can do the greatest thing in the world for me, said Labismena. Though I have never told you, and I do not believe that you have ever suspected it, I am really an enchanted princess. I shall have to remain in the form of a sea serpent until the happiest maiden in all the world, at the hour of her greatest happiness, calls my name three times. You will be the very happiest girl in all the world on the day of your marriage, and if you will remember to call my name three times, then you will break my enchantment, and I shall once more be a lovely princess instead of a sea serpent. Dionysia promised her friend that she would remember to do this. The sea serpent asked her to promise three times to make sure. When Dionysia had promised three times and again embraced her old playmate and thanked her for all that she had done, she sailed away in the little ship. The sea serpent disappeared into the sea. Dionysia sailed and sailed in the little ship, and at last it bore her to a lovely island. She thought that she had reached her destination, so she stepped out of the boat, not forgetting to take her box of dresses with her. As soon as she was out of the boat, it sailed away. Now what shall I ever do? said Dionysia. The ship has gone away and left me, and how shall I ever earn my living? I have never done anything useful in all my life. Dionysia surely had to do something to earn her living immediately, so she at once set out to see what she could find to do. She went from house to house asking for food and work. At last she came to the royal palace. Here at the royal palace they told her that they had great need of a maid to take care of the hens. Dionysia thought that this was something which she could do, so she accepted the position at once. It was, of course, very different work from being a princess in a royal palace, but it provided her with food and shelter, and when Dionysia thought of having to marry the old king, she was never sorry that she had left home. Then passed, and at last there was a great feast day celebrated in the city. Everybody in the palace went, except the little maid who minded the hens. After everybody had gone away, Dionysia decided that she would go to the festa, too. She combed her hair and put on her gown which was the color of the fields and their flowers. In this wonderful gown she was sure nobody would ever guess that she was the little maid who had been left at home to mind the hens. She did want to go to the festa. She hurried there as fast as she could and arrived just in time for the dances. Everybody at the festa noticed the beautiful maiden in her gown the color of the fields and all their flowers. The prince fell madly in love with her. Nobody had ever seen her before, and nobody could find out who the beautiful stranger was or where she came from. Before the festa was over, Dionysia slipped away, and when the rest of the royal household returned home, there was the little maid minding the hens just as they had left her. The second day of the festa, everybody went early except the little maid who looked after the hens. When the others had gone, she put on her dress the color of the sea and all its fishes, and went to the festa. She attracted even more attention than she had the day before. When the festa was over and the royal household had returned to the royal palace, the prince remarked to his mother, Don't you think that the beautiful stranger at the festa looks like the little maid who minds our hens? What nonsense! replied his mother. How could the little maid who minds our hens ever get such wonderful gowns to wear? Just to make sure, however, the prince told the royal counselor to find out if the little maid who minds the royal hens had been to the festa. All the servants told about leaving her at home with the hens, and coming back and finding her just as they had left her. Whoever the beautiful stranger at the festa may be, said the prince, she is the one above all others whom I want for my wife. I shall find her some way. The third day of the festa, Dionysia went attired in her gown the color of the sky and all its stars. The prince fell more madly in love with her than ever. He could not get her to tell him who she was or where she lived, but he gave her a beautiful jewel. When the prince returned home, he would not eat any food. He grew thin and pale. Everyone around the palace tried his best to invent some dish which would tempt the prince's appetite. Finally, the little maid who took care of the hens said that she thought she could prepare a dish which the prince would eat. Accordingly, she made a dish of broth for the prince, and in the bottom of the dish she dropped the jewel which the prince had given her. When the broth was set before the prince, he was about to send it away untouched, just as he did everything else, but the sparkling jewel attracted his attention. Who made this dish of broth? He asked as soon as he could speak. It was made by the little maid who mined the hens, replied his mother. Send for the little maid to come to me at once, cried the prince. I knew that the beautiful stranger at the festa looked like our little maid who mined the hens. The prince married Dionysia the very next day, and Dionysia was the very happiest girl in all the world, for from the first moment that she had seen the prince, she had known that he was the one above all others whom she wished to marry. Alas, in Dionysia's excitement she forgot all about calling the name of her old playmate, Lobby Smenna, at the hour of her marriage as she had promised to do. She thought of nothing but the prince. There was no escape for Lobby Smenna. She had to remain in the form of a sea serpent because of Dionysia's neglect. She had lost her chance to come out of the sea and become a lovely princess herself and find a charming prince of her own. For this reason her sad moan is heard in the sea until this very day. Perhaps you have noticed it. You will often hear the call come from the sea as it breaks against the shore. Dionysia. Dionysia. No wonder that the sea moans. It is enough to make a sea serpent sad to be forgotten by the very person one has done most to help. End of Chapter 17. Chapter 18 of Fairy Tales from Brazil. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org recording by David Stryker. Fairy Tales from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eales. Chapter 18. How the Brazilian beetles got their gorgeous coats. In Brazil the beetles have such beautifully colored hard-shelled coats upon their backs that they are often set in pins and necklaces like precious stones. Once upon a time, years and years ago, they had ordinary plain brown coats. This is how it happened that the Brazilian beetle earned a new coat.  Oh, he said to the beetle, how slowly you crawl along. You'll never get anywhere in the world. Just look at me and see how fast I can run. The big gray rat ran to the end of the wall, wheeled around, and came back to the place where the little beetle was slowly crawling along, at only a tiny distance from where that rat had left her. Don't you wish that you could run like that? Said the big gray rat to the little brown beetle. You're surely a fast runner, replied the little brown beetle politely. Her mother had taught her always to be polite, and had often said to her that a really polite beetle never boasts about her own accomplishments. The little brown beetle never boasted a single boast about things she could do. She just went on slowly crawling along the wall. A bright green and gold parrot in the mango tree over the wall had heard the conversation. How would you like to race with the beetle? He asked the big gray rat. I lived next door to the tailor bird, he added. And just to make the race exciting, I'll offer a bright colored coat as a prize to the one who wins the race. You may choose it for any color you like, and I'll have it made to order. I'd like a yellow coat with stripes like the tigers, said the big gray rat, looking over his shoulder at the gaunt gray sides as if he were already admiring his new coat. I'd like a beautiful bright colored new coat too, said the little brown beetle. The big gray rat laughed long and loud until his gaunt gray sides were shaking. Why, you talk just as if you thought you had a chance to win the race, he said, when you could speak. The bright green and gold parrot set the royal palm tree at the top of the cliff as the goal of the race. He gave the signal to start, and then he flew away to the royal palm tree to watch for the end of the race. The big gray rat ran as fast as he could. Then he thought how very tired he was getting. What was the use of hurrying, he said to himself. The little brown beetle cannot possibly win. If I were racing with somebody who could really run, it'd be very different. Then he started to run more slowly, but every time his heart beat it said, hurry up, hurry up. The big gray rat decided that it was time best to obey the little voice in his heart, so he hurried just as fast as he could. When he reached the royal palm tree at the top of the cliff, he could hardly believe his eyes. He thought he must be having a bad dream. There was a little brown beetle sitting quietly beside the bright green and gold parrot.   He asked the little brown beetle as soon as he could catch his breath. The little brown beetle drew out tiny wings from her sides. Nobody said anything about having to run to win the race, she replied. So I flew and said, I did not know that you could fly, said the big gray rat and sub-dude little voice. After this, said the bright green and gold parrot, never judged anyone by his looks alone. You never can tell how often or where you might find concealed wings. You've lost the prize. Until this day, even in Brazil where the flowers and birds and bee-sind insects have such gorgeous coloring, the rat wears a plain, dull gray coat. When the parrot turned to the little brown beetle who was waiting quietly at his side, what color do you want your new coat to be? He asked. The little brown beetle looked up at the bright green and gold parrot at the green and gold palm trees above their heads and the green mangoes and with golden flushes on their cheeks laying on the ground under the mango trees, the golden sunshine upon the distant green hills. I choose a coat of green and gold, she said. From that day to this, the Brazilian beetle has worn a coat of green with golden lights upon it. For years and years, the Brazilian beetles were all very proud to wear green and gold coats like that of the beetle who raced with the rat. Then, once upon a time, it happened that there was a little beetle who grew discontented with her coat of green and gold. She looked up at the blue sky and out at the blue sea and wished she had a blue coat instead.  You may change your coat for a blue one, said the parrot, but if you change, you'll have to give up something. Oh, I'll gladly give up anything if I only may have a blue coat instead of a green and gold one, said the discontented little beetle. When she received her new coat, she thought it was very beautiful. It was a lovely shade of blue and had silvery white lights upon it like the light of the stars. When she put it on, however, she discovered it's not hard like the green and gold one. From that day to this, the blue beetles coats have not been hard and firm. That is the reason why the jewelers have difficulty in using them in pins and necklaces like the other beetles. From the moment that the little beetle put on her new blue coat, she never grew again. From that day to this, the blue beetles have been much smaller than the green and gold ones. When the Brazilians made their flag, they took it for a square of green, the color of the green beetle's coat. Within the square, they placed a diamond of gold like the golden lights which play upon the green beetle's back. Then within the diamond, they drew a circle to represent the round earth and they colored it blue like the coat of blue beetle. Upon the blue circle, they placed stars of silvery white like the silvery white lights on the back of the blue beetle. About the blue circle of the earth, which they thus pictured, they drew a band of white and upon this band, they wrote the motto of their country. Ordem a progresso, order and progress. End of chapter 18, recording by David Stryker. End of Fairy Tales from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eales.


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We got Michael D with the Reds Mike Mike D has the Tigers We got Robert L with the Giants Tom C with the Yankees Wayne P with the Rays Rockies Yuki has the Red Sox and Zach M has the Braves and Cardinals Alrighty guys, let's do it tops finest eight bucks case number 69 I don't have a breakers the light case tonight, Michael. It might be tomorrow tomorrow night with Forrest We don't have a breakers the light case tonight. What's up, Mill? Hey, good luck, Joshua What we got Jacob answer your question. It's kind of hard not to say hurts right now. Yeah That's probably a lot of Eagles fans. Yeah, if you're gonna say all-time probably probably Dawkins, but hurts is definitely Welcome to take that over. Good luck box one Going good, Mill. How you doing tonight? Did some platinum anniversary earlier? Did some tops chrome? I'm gonna keep the baseball going excited for NT tonight as well. We got a bunch of different styles Be the first NT I rip of this new new year got some mixers We got some tiered random. We got some random team and we got the visions at the end of the night So we got just a little bit of everything Kodai Senga first auto is Alec Burleson for the Cardinals on the rookie auto Bale and Michael Harris. I got you, Mill And me too, man. Kimonero is gonna be good. I'm excited Logan. Oh, hoppy refractor rookie I don't know if it's gonna be this year Garrett Mitchell Langlears, but I'm excited for man Kid seems to be a beast made its Durham quick Volpe rookie There's a Nolan Gorman rookie insert Devers and trout last spot mojo on the select an NT mixer It's gonna close it out for us.  Ooh, nice one. Here's refractor rookie auto Josh Young Nice one there Rangers snuck up on me there. They go Keith Keith with the Josh Young refractor rookie auto. There's a green lava to 99 Shane Bieber Nolan Gorman Julio. There's a gold It is gold headliners Derek Jeter nice one there the captain That one is Tom with the Yankees Nice Jeter golds of 50 23 of 50.  There's a headliners of Tony Fujinami Waldechuck headliners Harper Paraza Crawford. Yeah, I'm down mill That kid is a beast man. I'm down. I'm down and collected Adley Rushman their rookie refractor nice Adley Gunner right behind it Contreras There's a Jordan Walker rookie refractor Vladdy. I had a couple of cowman's Ardo cards, but he got traded So I might have to sell those Now that he's on a different team This one is the 75 Raffy Devers Nice one there rose gold part my favorite refractor Tatis wander there's a blue Shay Langler is the 150 ace Wheeler and web box one box two I don't have it. I don't have any yet mill I don't have any Caminero. I should have grabbed some the very beginning when he was a little bit cheaper But now that uh Now they already got promoted so fast see his price went up pretty quick I should have grabbed some by now Ronda, there's a masataka. This one's Mike Piazza rivalry's Mets Right the green rookie Gonzalez. Yeah, I should have grabbed some Same thing happened with wander. There's a world's finest Tim Anderson Price Harper won Soto. I like thought about collecting wander and then his prices went astronomical when the first bowman came out And then they said a little bit should have bought again and then didn't Cal Mitchell refractor rookie Otto Lenin Sosa refractor rookie Lenin Sosa Prado Correa Yeah, there's probably a few different times I should have bought some wander cards There's Derek Jeter on the Kinso Corey short print there we go Tom. We're hitting the Jeter's right now man Kinso Corey on these short print rivalries Derek Jeter Nice one there Yankees there we go Tom The gold Jeter and a short print one about one per case There's gunner rookies insert Bayo Michael Harris So headliners Winfield Mitchell and Langlears. There's a refractor rookie Simeon Woods Richardson Gorman Julio and football Can't believe it Donny. I know there's football on Love it. It's a 300. We got light blue Julio. It's not a report. Parazza Crawford. No The real thing I do splashing water on his face. He's he's given effort. Whoa. It's real Headliners Nato. There's a refractor rookie Otto can wall the truck Ace got Josh young base a menace us Yeah, keep turning like that Should have brought the TV The mobile TV. There's a nice one to 250 bread baby Mets on the purple Soto gold Schmidt. There's a Jordan Walker refractor rookie. What's up Antoine? How we doing? Doing good over here. Yes. Yes. Let's see some Dodgers. I'm down max. My refractor rookie There's Randy Johnson headliners and Prado Nick Prado Box three who's rapping on that one? There you are go for it It's preseason go for it. Yeah, no, no, this matters Well, I guess a preseason start that means hard knocks probably starting with uh Brodgers if they don't say you watch they're using a lot Or yeah, you watch you start watching Yeah, I think they usually do one before the first game and then they have one during the game and all that Bobby Whit world's finest Jordan Cabrera Yeah, I don't think you'll I don't think you'll regret that too much. Um, he's a good player I think he'll be on the team for a while, but he's not a superstar. I don't think to 99. We got freddy freeman Um, and auto is gonna be michael grove rookie auto for the Dodgers michael grove pitcher Game arena Yeah, we got a lot of infield. Um talent coming up too. I don't know that shame beaver. Um refractor I don't know that um Bruhan will beat out some of those guys. I don't know He could he could prove me wrong I would be I would be happy about that when it's so so refractor rookie Conforto another gold Got bell tray and gold is Caleb killian on the rookie auto cubs number 250 Caleb killian gold rookie auto boat nailer This one is 2175 tray turner for the Phillies and the aqua shimmer saw Lorenzen through that uh no hitter yesterday and vans Some vans cleats Headliners soto Ramirez devours It's pretty chill Right. Yeah, I think you can just like put studs on anything really I guess Turan There's baio to 125 nice one there red socks on the green speckle starting pitcher for the red socks kodaisanga refractor shohei bobby wit tovar the refractor hobby bias game arena There's the 250 aqua gold uh goldschmidt Cardinals Puginami wall the chuck Right you guys box number four James taking an ntn select mixer and a hybrid select basketball spot And nico grabbing a full random team spot Appreciate you guys Keep on moving here. He's max starting in qb. Oh, no bailey bailey zacky. There's purple anil cruza 250 And auto to 25 for the angels.  I haven't seen any of those. That is a nice one, man Go team usa too for alcantara and a ronda is going to be our rookie base auto For the race Manasas that was sweet, man I think sam hit one. It was the other type of insert here Moments or something like that. Who do you Rodriguez? And josh young rookie Nice sprout, man There's 250 purple cow rolly mariners soda It's a mookie bets Wander Yeah, I've got a few Curtis me cards too mill Got a few of his Brett Beatty. We've got rafi headliners rookie cabrera Yeah, I like Curtis me. Like I said, we got a lot of infield talent coming up. I'm uh, I'm interested to see how it all plays out This one is machado five out of 10 on the black and red That's a sick one as well Padres slow numbered machado Seya Suzuki's a nice box here Um, well mar probably back up jacob. I don't know. I feel like the the established veterans like that sometimes don't play Um, Guerrero, he might he might start a series or two though. I wouldn't be surprised I Maybe like yeah, I wouldn't expect him for a lot though. Yeah Talk to me on the rookie refractor. He might start though. I'm not expecting her to get any point Yeah Maybe like the drive. Maybe like the second to last and last game. Nolan Gorman Get a little bit Michael Harris just to get them into the season mode or whatever. But yeah, I don't expect too much out of the Most of the starting quarterbacks in the first couple games headliners tatis Senga braggman. I will say it's happy using the pad.  Ooh nice one here to 199. We got aqua jordan walker Nice one there cards and blue to 150 is linen sosa white socks That's gotta be like one of the biggest struggles in the quarterbacks is they don't accept that. There's nothing there. Yeah Yep Yeah, especially guys who like killed it in college and I really had like yeah Like extended plays a lot and that kind of thing like not always the same opportunities in the NFL to do that Got some better defenders Nice Michael Harris the 125 on the green speckle We go braves Suzuki akunya There's an adley This one is the 251 soda Padres Corbin and Francisco There's a refractor rookie masataka Yoshida And rookie to 99. We got Miguel Vargas for the Dodgers Go Antoinette with the Dodgers So 99 green wave Austin Riley Fractor Contreras Vado masataka Kunya refractor Gonzalez and green Pascatino got kodaisanga braggman to 199 max my aqua There you go bring in davis mills There's a jeter on the headliners It's a good call. It's a good call. I'm paying. Uh, I'm paying four percent or six percent Gotta go one higher There's a a ronda refractor rookie Manasas yellich There's a vulpie There's a refractor rookie gunner hinderson It might be good. Just get the first one out of the way, you know first series of the of the season Just get it out of the way. Got an orange Got worlds finest Kyle Tucker and orange is jordan grochens on the rookie auto marlins Orange wade to 25 Devers and trout That's hilarious chris That's hilarious Cal ripkin and josh young kind of like the uh wimby the other day I guess a couple months ago now, but his first uh summer league game didn't go too well, but Then the second one he uh Turned it on a little bit People kind of had to walk it back Good luck. Nice josh young now to 250 on the aqua Rangers hit some nice color on the rookies. We're looking for Nice one there rangers got an auto as well This one is sammy sosa on the rivalries and to 300 garret mitral rookie Thank you tyler taking a spot in the select h2 Appreciate that masataka base rookie There's a refractor rookie as well the cabrera zahles Down to eight on that one guys select h2 Appreciate that first basketball spot with uh spots or break with spots to fill Jordan walker. We've got a refractor rookie langleers and auto to 99. We got green auto orials cal stowers Only true green to 99 and still got 22 to go guys on crown royale timo Check that one out as well. Logan ohapi moe revero. That's the last um basketball break of the night alvarez We got some spots on nt as well. I've got a couple different um kept different styles gold It is dylan carlson number to 54 the cardinals Carlson on the gold Yellich freddy masataka throwback or uh insert Corbin carol Headliners natto. We got josh young rookie manasas refractor rookie garret mitral brew group Hunter green redemption Redemption uh oh donnie. Uh oh your don refractor Who do we have? Finest moments autograph goal It is Miguel cabrera a nice one there dodgers Finest moments autograph to 50 Or not dodgers uh tigers tigers. Sorry about that. Miguel cabrera Nice miggy there finest moments to 50 for the tigers Very nice uh redemption there I feel like if you get redemption in this product, it's usually pretty good man from what I've seen It's been some pretty good stuff. I think francisco alvarez is one of them Um, I think show hay is one of them got a lob at a 100 riley green Harper and soto some masataka base rookie yellow triley green No, yeah, that's my bad my bad man Dodgers, I don't know how I miss that up I do say a lot of words in a night.  He can still hit he could still I think he's average in 250 still Nice show hay to 150 there we go angels angels killing it Show hay in a trout auto aqua to 199 natto Tatis and wander proffered refractor gorman refractor vato cabrera headliners king griffin Contreras paraza Yeah, it's tough chris. You gotta you got to make sure not to go too loud for sure You can lose your voice there 175 al tuve Force had a little bit of a scratchy voice after the national just because he had to talk over a 100,000 people in a building Libertor rookie insert Acunia refractor rookie paraza cabrera Come on.  Good luck here guys Box number eight. This is tops finest number 69 pick your team style Good luck guys box number eight rookie of 300 shea langliers and john carlo There's lubeb number to 175 aqua shimmer Logan web so adley rookie and gay marino rookie refractor francisco alvarez The mccordy cast Is that what's going on here? It looks like it the mccordy cast interesting There's a wander refractor wander bobby witt headliners pooholts This card's like miscut.  We're not going to send a box or anything with that. Just thought it was weird There's a throwback rookie of gazales corbin carroll rookie masataka rookie Coonia this one is rookie auto matthew batten Padres That's a green refractor conforte Riley green oscar gonzales There's uh, jordan walker This one is green nice one here green lava adley ruchman There we go aureals On the green lava to 99 adley Very nice one there logan web and sayang shane Hey, thank you austin and dean grabbing spots in almanac for this weekend Appreciate you guys. It's filling up nicely. It'd be saturday night and sunday night the forest and sam francisco rookie Zach wheeler and two packs left each row headliners and rookie auto estuary rewies for the eights And corbin carroll last pack We have mad max of 250 max scherzer and freddy freeman interesting guys All right, let's do a hit recap This is finest eight box number 69. We had a refractor rookie auto matthew batten drew waters for the royals. Um, gonzales guardians We had a ronda for the rates. Um, this one is michael grove rookie dodgers ken walde chuck rookie a's got lennon sosa white socks josh yung on the base rookie auto Nice one there. Uh, texas got alec burleson auto There's estuary rewies on the base auto To 150 linen sosa white socks. We had green to 99 call stowers um green to 99, um Miguel vargas on the green weight We have finest moments gold the refractor auto of miguel cabrera tigers Nice one there gold keel of keelium cubs to 25 grosians and nice one here to 25 We had world's finest mike trout On the auto there nice one for the um angels Alrighty guys, that'll do it for finest um eight box case number 69 got some top chrome sapphire coming up next