All right, what's up guys I'm back with a new video and today our friend who is we're gonna remain anonymous has sent in a question saying when you meditate What do you think about? Okay, so he's obviously asking when I practice my meditation? What am I supposed to actually focus on? Internally in my mind whilst I'm doing my meditation and this is a great question because sometimes when you start to meditate You don't really know what you're supposed to do You just sort of sit there Maybe you practice deep breathing or you start focusing on something and then all these thoughts start coming into your mind from all Over the place and you don't know what you're supposed to focus on you don't know what you're supposed to think Okay, so this video is gonna. Hopefully explain that to you the goal of meditation is not really a tangible Setting stone thing it really depends on what you want to get out of it and what you hope to achieve So for example with lucid dreaming the goal of meditation would be to be more self-aware To be more focused on your surroundings and to be more grounded in the moment, okay? So I know this is like a sort of cliche answer But it's true and when I murder when I meditate for lucid dreaming and I'm not really focused on a particular thing or an idea Unless I've got for example a particular lucid dreaming goal that I want to achieve that night But if I'm just meditating in the morning, I'll just focus on my breath So I'll do the the basic meditation where you count from one to ten You count one with the in-breath and two with the out-breath up to the when you get to ten and you start again at one and This is the the most basic meditation. I've found and it's very effective as well But in terms of having something to think about It's a good idea to explain this so when you meditate, especially if you're a beginner You're you'll sit down and you'll maybe you've read an article saying to deep breathe breathe deeply And to focus on something maybe set a timer for 10 20 minutes and then that's that and you'll find that when you start this One of the first things that will happen is you'll start thinking about everything. You won't be able to keep your mind still As Alan Watts described it. It seems to be like a monkey always jumping up and down and jabbering and so the goal at the start is to sort of quiet that monkey and to sort of Not think about anything or if you do think about things not to focus on and this is really important So when all these thoughts are coming into your mind Don't interact with them, but rather just sort of imagine yourself sitting back and observing them Without any sort of judgment at all. So say if you have a thought about oh, I need to make so-and-so for dinner I need to go and meet my friend later on Observe these thoughts in your mind, but don't interact with them Don't stress about them. Don't think oh, what am I gonna wear? Where am I gonna go? What time do I need to leave and get ready? What do I need to cook? How do I need to prepare the food? Don't think about any of that stuff. Just in just be How to describe it a Watchful observer. Just just look at the thoughts happening in your mind And don't interact with them in any way. Just let them happen. Just let them sort of wash over you And this is the best way to start and then once you get more Once you've had more practice in it once you've done meditation for a few weeks You can then start to focus on particular things so you can for example think about your goals in life You can focus on your emotions. You can focus on you know Think things like you can do body scanning Okay, and body scanning is actually a great one for lucid dreaming Especially if you do this right before you go to sleep and it's basically a waking juice lucid dream That's the basis of the technique.  This is essentially a wake back a waking juice lucid dream So in terms of what to think about when you meditate There isn't really a set in stone answer for that because it's different for everyone and it's different depending on what you want to do So I hope this is answer your question And It's not a great answer But it's kind of a difficult question to answer because meditation is different for everyone So at the start I would advise not to really focus on thinking about anything in particular Just let the thoughts happen and they will because you know, you can't really silence your mind Especially the star it's difficult to do your mind is constantly used to having lots of thoughts coming into it and interacting with those thoughts But the goal of meditation at the start And for me in general actually is to just let these thoughts happen And not interact with them. Just let them happen and just that's that And you'll find that after doing this for a few days a few weeks You won't be as caught up in things as you used to be things that would normally have stressed you will just be okay You'll just be absolutely fine with them, you know, you could for example, you could lose a job and If you've been practicing meditation it really won't affect you as much as it might have done if you didn't practice meditation Because you're just more aware of the big picture You're more aware of how important this will be in five years time, you know and you can just let these things wash over you and Choose this is the important thing you can choose what you let affect you and where to spend your emotional energy So I hope this is answered your question If you have a question, please go ahead and email it to your contact at howtolucid.com If you enjoy these videos, please go ahead and support me on patreon. You can go to patreon.com forward slash howtolucid There is also a link in the description here And yeah, I'll see you in the next video All right, what's up guys? I'm back with a new video and today our friend who is we're gonna remain anonymous Has sent in a question saying when you meditate, what do you think about? Okay, so he's obviously asking when I practice my meditation What am I supposed to actually focus on? Internally in my mind whilst I'm doing my meditation and this is a great question because sometimes when you start to meditate You don't really know what you're supposed to do you just sort of sit there Maybe you practice deep breathing or you start focusing on something and then all these thoughts start coming into your mind from all Over the place and you don't know what you're supposed to focus on you don't know what you're supposed to think Okay, so this video is gonna hopefully explain that to you the goal of meditation is not really a tangible Setting stone thing it really depends on what you want to get out of it and what you hope to achieve So for example with lucid dreaming the goal of meditation would be to more to be more self-aware To be more focused on your surroundings and to be more grounded in the moment. Okay, so I know this is like a sort of cliche answer But it's true and when I murder when I meditate for lucid dreaming and I'm not really focused on a particular thing or an idea Unless I've got for example a particular lucid dreaming goal that I want to achieve that night But if I'm just meditating in the morning, I'll just focus on my breath So I'll do the the basic meditation where you count from one to ten You count one with the in breath and then two with the out breath up to the when you get to ten and you start again at one and This is the the most basic meditation I've found and it's very effective as well But in terms of having something to think about It's a good idea to explain this so when you meditate, especially if you're a beginner You're you'll sit down and you'll maybe you've read an article saying to deep breath breathe deeply And to focus on something maybe set a timer for 10 20 minutes And then that's that and you'll find that when you start this One of the first things that will happen is you'll start thinking about everything. You won't be able to keep your mind still As Alan Watts described it It seems to be like a monkey always jumping up and down and jabbering and so the goal at the start is to sort of quiet that monkey and to sort of Not think about anything or if you do think about things not to focus on them and this is really important So when all these thoughts are coming into your mind Don't interact with them But rather just sort of imagine yourself sitting back and observing them Without any sort of judgment at all So say if you have a thought about oh, I need to make so and so for dinner. I need to go and meet my friend later on Observe these thoughts in your mind, but don't interact with them. Don't don't stress about them Don't think oh, what am I gonna wear? Where am I gonna go? What time do I need to leave and get ready? What do I need to cook? How do I need to prepare the food?  Just let them sort of wash over you And this is the best way to start and then once you get more Once you've had more practice in it once you've done meditation for a few weeks You can then start to focus on particular things so you can for example think about your goals in life You can focus on your emotions You can focus on you know Think things like you can do body scanning Okay, and body scanning is actually a great one for lucid dreaming Especially if you do this right before you go to sleep and it's basically a waking juice lucid dream That's the basis of the technique.  This is essentially a wake back a waking juice lucid dream So in terms of what to think about when you meditate There isn't really a set in stone answer for that because it's different for everyone and it's different depending on what you want to do So I hope this is an answer your question It's not a great answer But it's kind of a difficult question to answer because meditation is different for everyone So at the start I would advise not to really focus on thinking about anything in particular Just let the thoughts happen and they will because you know, you can't really silence your mind Especially at the start it's difficult to do your mind is constantly used to having lots of thoughts coming into it and interacting with those thoughts But the goal of meditation at the start And for me in general actually is to just let these thoughts happen And not interact with them. Just let them happen. I'm just that's that And you'll find that after doing this for a few days a few weeks You won't be as caught up in things as you used to be things that would normally have stressed you Will just be okay. You'll just be absolutely fine with them you know, you could for example, you could lose a job and If you've been practicing meditation, it really won't affect you as much as it might have done if you didn't practice meditation Because you're just more aware of the big picture. You're more aware of how important this will be in five years time you know, and you can just let these things wash over you and Choose this is the important thing you can choose what you let affect you and where to spend your emotional energy So I hope this is answered your question If you have a question, please go ahead and email it to contact at how to lucid.com if you enjoy these videos Please go ahead and support me on patreon. You can go to patreon.com forward slash how to lucid There is also a link in the description here And yeah, I'll see you in the next video


So, I think, man, like I said, with all the rap, they don't, there ain't no alarming how many different situations all together is always happening around the rap world. I don't want no more rappers as beefing. But you done said a lot of times, like who want to be a rapper, put their kids to this. Yeah, you don't want to be a rapper, that's why I don't want to be no rapper, you know, rapping as beefing. They don't start off beefing. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. And I ain't gonna even ask, cause I didn't ask you about takeoff and all that stuff cause you ain't been on here since then, but so many times people ask about that stuff, man. But I can say the guy that they done picked up when it did happen, I wouldn't have never, ain't he a DJ or something? Yeah, DJ, that's my partner. So you know the dude. How long you've known him? I like Popeye, he's the first person to brought Moe 3 to Houston. He's the first person to interviewed Moe 3 in Houston on 93.7, the radio, the box with OG Run C. So you know, know him. I know him, know him. Do you think he's capable of doing what they said he did? I know he is, but I know he gonna do it for a reason. So you don't, oh, I get it. One guy came in the club and I think they was trying to shoot him and he ended up killing him. He already got a murder, had a murder. He already caught a body. Damn. And he beat George. So you think his life was, cause he was more self-defense? I know. I could see the look on his face. It looked like he not worried. Then they came and said he need a private investigator. Another question, who shot first? So you think he gonna get off? Yeah. Pass more. Pat wouldn't just do that. Wow. So I think, man, like I said, with all the rap, they don't have an alarm in how many different situations altogether is always happening around the rap world. I don't want no more rappers as beefing. But you don't say it a lot of times, like who want to be a rapper, put their kids or is. Yeah, you don't want to be a rapper. I don't want to be no rapping as beefing. They don't start off beefing. It's like they're doing good and as you rise up, the beef comes. So you can't say that. But you just got to know how to conduct yourself in. And you say you can't control them? You got to know how to conduct yourself and then you got to understand what a rapper want and what they surround themselves into around. What they surround themselves with. So, you know, at the end of the day, you're upcoming rappers. If you involved in beefs, you can't go to no club promoter. You can't go to no album release parties. You can't go talk to no DJ. I don't want them type of rappers. You know, I don't want to have to do it. And I know you ain't gonna do it for yourself. Would you ever drift out of the genre of rap and, you know, deal with more. Maybe country or R&B or... I'm kind of understanding. I'm understanding now. I understand the bigger picture. When you get a little money, you know, everything is going to change. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.


Wel, gymraterfwy TV, nes yw ddweud o ddweud ar Eiferson 1. Manchester United won a Gullwyrn Park yn y Priemio Lleid. Dyna, unrhyw pwys. Eiferson yna os yna oedd eich pwys. Wrth gwrs, mae'n dweud ymddangos, rwy'n deall, mae'n gweithio bod unitio yn y ffordd o'r gwaith, wrth gwrs mae'n gwybod eich gweld hwnnw i chi'n eithaf, oherwydd mae'n gwybod eich gweld. ac rwyfannawn hefyd byw bydd hefyd o'n masonol â'r pethau救u fewn i'w gwaith yn ysgol. Bydd mewn cyfynol ar y stori, rydyn ni rwy'n mynd i'r rydyn ni chymnwys i mewn gwirionedd, ac yn dweud hynny ym ni, llwyso'r gwirionedd, yn y arferwyr am gweithio at y cyd-hwyr. Mae gynnal isfelly a dyda i gael ei wneud. Mae ydw i'r meddylai arall yn elu wneud.iód yw hwnnw ei wneud rydyn ni bod yn ei wneud yn y fethaf. First thing I'm going to talk about is Leighton Baines, thought he was absolutely brilliant today, obviously Luca Deane was missing last week, Baines played the rascal and I think in the early part of the week I didn't expect the Deane to be fifth for this, he's got a slight muscle, a calf, a slight calf injury and he's been having sweet control week, but Baines played today and rolled back the years, thought he was magnificent. There's a toss-up really between him and Domino Calvert-Loone, probably for man of the match for Evan today, but I just thought he was brilliant, a lot of good things we did came from Leighton Baines, but a wonderful crossing for Richard Allison right on off time that he should have scored from head of it wide. I wish he'd have been allowed to take the second free kick, we had to get you to push Guilfee well away from that, but I just thought he was brilliant. He made one fantastic clearance about five minutes ago which would have been a shaking goal for Agarlo, I think it was on his own in the box if he'd have got a cross he'd have had a tap, so massive clearance. I just thought he was brilliant, really was brilliant today, so it just shows how good a footballer he is, even at his age. I don't know whether Everton will extend his contract for next season and beat a back-up left back again, I don't know, but today he was absolutely magnificent. I just thought he was worth talking about. The second point I want to talk about is VAR, or VIG, as I call it. I was in favour of VAR, as was PED, because I thought it would remove ridiculous decisions that referees make. I thought it would make them have more responsibility, or more culpability rather than responsibility, more culpability over the decisions they make, more scrutiny, and therefore it would make the game a little bit more pure than perhaps what I think it is. I think it's actually somehow gone the other way. Last week we saw localso for Tottenham with an awful stamp which was a straight red card which wasn't given when VAR looked at it. Referee Michael Oliver missed it, VAR didn't give it. Everton, that's just one. I'm just picking that one up because it was there. There was stuff yesterday that went on that when you look at the VAR you're just like, what is going on? How are referees and people who are doing it? Referee's in Stockley Park, Interbritten, stuff that is there for them to see, rewind and have a look at it. Everton has been punished heavily this season by VAR, brightening away. At Leicester we had one decision go for us and then one go against us, Tottenham at home. There's been loads, there's been lots where we haven't been given what we should have been given and it's just almost like a recurring theme. And today, funnily enough, I got to see the referee and the who's on VAR and the referee from Manchester, which is a bit mad, but when I see John Moss on VAR I just thought we've got no chance because he never gives us anything anyway and he's that incompetent and he knew that we were never getting anything today. But when you see what's happening again today, it's absolutely bizarre and they've got the benefit of VAR. The goal or the non-goal is mad because, okay, letter of the law states that player in the line of sight is offside if he's interfering. Now, if David the Hayat is diving to where Guilfee Sigarton is and he can't see because he's unsighted because Sigarton in a way isn't fair enough, you could probably argue that that was offside.  But the Hayat can see the shot and it's Harry Maguire and go, he's already his body, I've seen the stills, I've seen the video, his weight of his body is over to the right, he's got no chance of getting the ball, Guilfee Sigarton's there or nobody's there, he's got no chance of getting the ball, doesn't change the way he's diving. So that's not offside but VAR is supposed to be there to look at everything and in that, do you have to ask yourself why, why is Guilfee Sigarton where he is on the floor and he's on the floor because Whambersacker, I think it is, or Fred, I think it's Whambersacker, takes him out in the box so it's a penalty and he rolls into that position. The ball breaks Calvert Luminity, it goes in, we thought we'd won the game and so Everton had been done twice because the action was before Calvert Luminity so when they checked VAR they should have said, John Moss should have said, the goal doesn't count because it's offside, everything's offside however there's a penalty for Everton because Sigarton is fouled in the build up to where it led and it's not even close. The lad doesn't make contact with the ball at all and he takes Sigarton out so it's a penalty and Everton have been done twice over the decision that there's no way they should have been done and it makes you think that if it had been at the other end United would have been giving the penalty, Liverpool would get it and things like that. And you don't want to think like that about football because you'd like to think it was all honest and above board and it was just, you get two teams turning up but the more you see, the more you do realise that it probably is scripted. I mean that's what I've heard from managers saying it in the hand of our ways, it's almost as if it's been decided what's happening so when you're on the end of it, your paranoia goes into that and you think it must be because that, how they've come up with that decision at the end is beserch but what can you do? What can you do? That is football and this season's been crap for all of that. It's been an unmitigated disaster VAR because you're allowing people like John Moss to make decisions. It shouldn't be any referees, Premier League referees shouldn't be anywhere near it. We had that situation last week I think it was where David Coop, yeah it was, David Coop was the VAR for Tottenham and Chelsea and he missed the local show thing and then he was the VAR in the night for Leicester Man City. How does that work? How's he doing two games in a day? And in the Leicester Man City game he didn't give a penalty for Leicester and he'd give one for Man City for the same offence in the same show. That's just one of those things.  Final points, let's finish on a positive, Dominic Aldertlun. Obviously Garret Selgate was there today to watch him. I'm not really that bothered whether he plays for England I think. For a person I like a little bit, for him it's brilliant and really bothered about everything he plays for England if I'm honest. But he was brilliant today. The goal, he's done well, he's charged down the clearance and it's gone in the net, had a little bit of luck there which is fine. All round play was fantastic, his touch was excellent, he was good in the air, he got involved, he done all the dirty bits as well. I just thought he was magnificent and deserved, he would have deserved that goal at the end which was choked off. Absolutely brilliant. I gave him a bit of stick last week because I thought he'd miss and the chances he missed last week cost us a result and it did because he's a forward who missed opportunities. If we're going to blame Pickford or a defender for giving goals away then you have to flip that to the strikers who missed good opportunities and I thought he did last week. But today he was fantastic for everything today he really was and we've got some players on our hands if he keeps developing the way he is. He's absolutely brilliant and I thought today he was fantastic and like I said it was a flip of a coin between him and Leighton Bains who were man of the match. But don was brilliant and let's hope that continues and let's continue to keep making chances for him. That's it, there my three points, agree, disagree, do whatever. Subscribe if you haven't, give the video a thumbs up if you want more videos, join us on Patreon. Check out Paired's Matri action and his ratings and things like that. Otherwise, have a great evening, see you later.


Hello, I'm gonna talk about something that we call it Intel software defined everything and I know this is embedded conference and software defined networking software defined compute is historically a data center thing and because this is an embedded conference I want to at least touch a few things on this. Software defined compute we all know what it is it's about virtualization containers isolation performance those kind of things it's about slicing a system into something that is dynamic that you can run by the second that you can spin up spin down software defined networking well it avoids having to run a wire somewhere I get you want to change your world you want to change an application you don't have to call the network guy to run a wire from building a to building b software defined storage same concept you you you turn something physical into something more fungible and this has driven the data center this has driven the cloud and as Jim talked earlier about cloud native computing it's all it's enabled a whole new world on top of this sort of software defined infrastructure you have dynamic capacity you have flexibility and that allowed a new class of applications you have machine learning all at scale you have hadoop you have spark you have many of these applications that are no longer a small little thing in a box but they're actually based on scaling infrastructure scaling up scaling down this was cloud and if you there's almost a slide I could have put on the on the on the screen two years ago five years ago and this was cloud now software defined everything is basically admitting that the software defined data architecture data center architecture is becoming the architecture of everything it's a dominant design pattern that really is going to dominate every single industry where software is running today we know the cloud but it's also taking over iot your nest thermal stat is just an example of software defined everything half the application of your thermal status running in the cloud half of your light bulbs if you don't think about it half of what's making your light bulb smart is actually not in your house it's somewhere else and that's something that everybody keeps talking about edge what is edge well edge is a cloud distributed or it is your home to the cloud all of these industries and is are taking over the pattern of software defined everything industrial is an example of the next generation of evolution and I was in China a few weeks ago where they really were manufacturing is fundamentally changing rather than building a factory for building one specific product really they make a more generic factory that they with software can define at the time of production production what they want to do rather than retooling for four weeks to change products they can retool in minutes to a new to building a new new device after that the hardest part that we haven't conquered yet is automotive and Jim talked about automotive linux earlier but a car is hard if you buy a car today and you go you or you see one outside here a typical modern car has about a hundred microcontrollers someone in control your brakes your tire pressure has a hundred what about a hundred little CPUs doing things these CPUs run about eight operating systems um there's about a hundred million lines of car in a code in a car from the dashboard to your brakes to the aneroid for the kids in the back it's all complicated and complicated systems that are fixed are rigid are sort of the the past so the car is becoming a data center and when you go to a cell driving car it's even more obvious you have a stunning amount of machine learning you have a stunning amount of map data that all makes that car a data center so what makes cars hard what makes cars hard is safety um if you run your amazon machine and once a while you have a little stutter for 10 milliseconds 100 milliseconds and it's back to business you don't notice if your braking system at 100 millisecond delay you kind of notice um so the car is a little has a has a set of constraints that are a little harder than the data center and functionally safe and Jim mentioned it earlier functional safety is actually the next barrier for software to find everything how do you do software to find everything in a world where functionally safe matters and then again safety is about not dying when you when you push a brake pad at Intel we look at this in a sort of an architecture where you have a system where parts of the system is functional safe but parts of the system run more generic applications and they have to interact together in a way that is still safe but you have flexibility for the application and I'll that's a bunch of logos on the slide and I'll cover some more them a little bit later um in this software defined world one thing we were really realizing is the old paradigm of hey we add a feature over here we add a feature over there that's kind of breaking down in that if you have very complex technology set that touch many pieces of the software stack you really have to build the whole stack and test it and optimize it to make sure that you don't miss a little piece here or that it all works together well at Intel we care about performance we add features to our CPUs when we add a new instruction like let's say AVX 512 it turns out that the the pieces of software you have to touch to make this work all the way to the end user is a stunning amount yeah sure we have a kernel patch which is 10 lines that's easy you have a compiler change you have a gdc change it turns out you have to hit touch kvm you have to touch Kubernetes you have to touch your whole open stack whatever orchestration layer you put below or above it you have to touch all the frameworks in the middle the math libraries all the way to the machine learning frameworks and even above that just for one little feature and the only chance you have to get that to work is to actually build what we end up calling a reference stack build it open source the stack even though it's just mostly configuration build it show it measure the performance analyze it and actually allow and the user to verify and see what it what it is doing machine learning is the sort of the obvious candidate there but we're looking at database as a server we're looking at all kinds of ad use cases where this sort of vertical stack integration is actually needed and actually it's hard and good I like hard problems like Jim said so that's okay at the basis of these stacks is an operating system the kernel Linux or as plugging my hobby project or my my my sort of passion project the clear Linux project is a is a distribution we make an intel for for the last four or five years where we really want to sort of change a little bit how operating systems are built but also have a place where we can actually innovate make sure all the pieces work together very well in order to sort of be the foundation of those vertical use cases if you look at any use case in the cloud Linux is at the bottom and earlier Jim talked about Linux is everywhere yeah it is so it starts with a Linux layer it's up the Linux is for obviously optimized for the hardware functional safety is important because it starts at the bottom you need to have that layer where the foundation is can be functionally safe and that's as much as people here in the room like to write software functionally safe is a lot about pro-center paperwork so there's a lot of that on there you need to be able to update you need to be able to write the modern software with using CI CD it's all of those kind of things are part of how you build an operating system on top of that you have what you can call the isolation layer and some people like VM some people like container some people like a little bit of both but for a lot of the isolation layers people use virtual machines especially in a world where you need to be functionally safe and the Linux foundation project called acorn is a very lightweight hypervisor what is really trying to be simple and small so that you could actually make safety claims about it some of that is about paperwork but some of that is about showing that no there aren't memory allocations that can fail and then that your brakes don't work right you want to make sure that everything is configured up front you know that nothing is going to fail randomly on you so that if you hit the brake pedal you actually slow down the car that is actually hard and a simple hypervisor underneath allows you to partition a physical system in a part where you can make these kind of assumptions and claims and a part where you don't need to do that where you can run more fancy software and some of it is you also have to figure out how do you do graphics because it turns out by regulation your speedometer in your car is actually safety critical thing if your speedometer doesn't work anymore you're you're not allowed to drive your car and sure so you have to have graphics that actually show the speedometer and guarantee that it is there so graphics have to be shared you have to have real time you can't be big and small footprint is not an optimization statement small footprint is really a statement about can we do enough paperwork and analysis to prove that my brakes will work and if you have a million lines of code you're not going to get there if you have 20 30,000 lines of code you have maybe a chance to be able to show that this code path cannot fail because there isn't there aren't constructs in a code that can fail so that's this acorn the second layer of up is about the trade-off between speed and security and Jim talked about containers versus virtual machines a little bit it's historically people consider virtual machines secure containers they're fast they're sort of secure depending on your security pattern of your threat model can we do security and speed I've talked many times before about a project we call clear containers that shows that a you can use a hypervisor as a backbone of your container infrastructure so that you use container infrastructure for deploying the software but you can use the security of a virtual machine as for the isolation part we've partnered with hyper to run through a project called kata containers which is really about making building an industry base between a series of partner companies that are and community contributors so that we have one container infrastructure based on virtualization and the end result is you have something live because it's containers but at the same time it's it's secure because the isolation is done using the virtualization hardware of your system okay so that's half of it we've been if you look at a traditional hypervisor setup you have kvm in the kernel you have qmu on top and then you're doing your your guest or as in the in the vm it turns out that qmu is kind of big qmu does many many many things including emulating a floppy drive including a floppy drive controller and emulating a cable between the floppy drive controller and a floppy and all of those kind of things you don't need in a cloud setup and from a security perspective you don't want if you have and we looked at it a typical hypervisor setup has about two three hundred um device emulation models running at any point in time any of those device emulation models is a place that is code that runs on the hypervisor side that the guest can talk to which by definition becomes the security exposure we started looking at okay do we need that we don't need a floppy controller anymore because if i hire a new employee today they don't even know what the floppy looked like so we started saying okay how much can we remove from a emulation hypervisor layer to still run all linux and maybe some windows without without losing any of and it's a project called nimu and we sort of managed to reduce the code footprint of an active qmu by 10 times instead of two million lines of code you have about 200 000 lines of code running at in reality it saves memory it's a startup time and it reduces your security exposure okay so we talked i talked earlier about exposing hardware features you have to do the os you have to do the kernel you have to do um the hypervisor and you have to do the run times all these kind of things if you do it if you do that right across all these pieces of the stack you can actually get very very significant performance increases we've noticed that if you take it out of the box sort of an optimized stack and you spend a week or two fixing the right operating system making sure all the pieces are there you can get sometimes an eight times 10 times performance 15 times performance increase just by changing a few software things so getting it wrong versus getting it right is a very very significant amount of performance and performance is cost performance is power it's all the same kind of thing um so we're free as a as a from an Intel perspective we're trying really hard to make sure all of this just works for you um that and that means that we have to optimize not just the kernel not just the hypervisor but also the layer on above it um the eigen libraries if you want to do tensorflow the how doob layer if you want to do big data um tensorflow itself of course zlib there's a lot of um libraries that we're now really working on making sure all the little pieces of optimization are there and in a don't in a way that you can actually consume and use um and the last thing is I need to plug our booth if you want to see anything I talked about today we have a series of demos in our booth in the show floor a few floors down um so if you want to talk to us I'll be there all day several of our our engineers are going to be there okay and with that thank you for listening and back to Jim. Thank you Ari.


Our next guest is in the studio and he goes by the name of Gordon from Semanami Organization. He'll be telling us more about the organization, what it does, how it's helping young people out here and other people as well. Kaibusana kwenyesho? Santsana Eve, first of all thank you for hosting me this morning. I'm really delighted. You're welcome. Santsana. So kindly introduce yourself and tell us a bit about Semanami Organization. My name is Gordon Uduwar, just as Eve has just said, from Semanami Organization I'm actually the founder. Semanami was founded three years back and it is a brainchild of a need because by then I was a high school teacher, Barron Voluntarily Papas. When you started the organization? Yeah when I started the organization and I realized that as I was a teacher, there's so many things that really made a lot of impact that really pushed me to start this organization because at first we realized most students were into drugs, some students were dropping out of school, others were in teenage pregnancy, others were actually just truants. So when I sat down I thought to myself how best can I help these students, especially these students in formal settlement because I believe they are the ones that are hardly hit by this. So when you were teaching, what classes were you teaching so that you can tell us which group is mostly affected, maybe which age group is mostly affected by these things? Okay I used to teach across from one all the way to from four because it was a new school, it was hardly two years old. But again I realized that in my encounter with the classes that I was teaching, I could realize there were really lots of problems, especially teaching teenagers in school, especially a teenager who really doesn't know herself or himself or hasn't really reinvented or identified who he or she is. Okay teaching these students and finding out these things, that is when you started Semanami organization. So what was your particular goal at that point? What was my particular goal at that point, I realized that most of these students, they were the way they were because they lacked what called exposure. So they needed exposure and also they needed a platform whereby they could express themselves and also a platform whereby they could find some sort of help. That is why we started off Semanami. In short Semanami simply means Semanami me talk to me, I help you out. What are maybe some of the major problems that you encountered from these young people that you thought that Semanami can actually deal with. You know there are problems that you identify but you know there's nothing I can do about this. Maybe if I do something kidogo sana. So one of the things I realized that when these students sit their final exams most of them don't really do well and when they don't do well they lose hope. So one of the first steps that we did as Semanami organization is to create what is called school conferences. Now in school conferences they come, they get mentored on matters career so that at least at a kwa shule, like if you score your D, it's not the end of the world. If you score your E, if you score your D minus it's not the end of the world. At least those courses that you can do that can help you uplift yourself from one level to the other. So that is one need that really invested on in most of our high school conferences. And also another thing that you also realized that most of these young girls in school they suffer because there are certain needs that cannot be met at home that maybe can only be met if they get into relationships or something like a good example, the sanitary towels. I know it's not a shame to mention it on national TV but you realize that most of these girls they indulge in relationships just because they cannot afford that. So when we create such kind of conferences we donate free sanitary towels to the girls. We also support them in stationary but stationary cutters are cross and also we make it a bit enjoyable for them by giving them an opportunity to be able to express and expose their talent and also get like mandate organizations or studios which come on board just as a way of supporting them in recording their works and also shooting their works. How hard was it for you three years back trying to get these children in the right direction? Being in informal settlements people or just maybe any settlement it's hard sometimes it can be hard to reach out to the young people especially teenagers. How hard was it for you and how did you go about it? In initial stages it was really not easy for us to really run seminar conferences because at first you know most youth they prefer coming at a place whereby watakuja wa kulengoma but when they realize kulengoma is not the main reason as in realize that people tend not to show up. So what we did is that I remember those time we had a conference our first conference actually and our conference used to start from all the way from 2 to around 5pm it was a one week conference at Shalom House actually Shalom House has been our major supporters in this they've been providing venues for us actually for free. Now when we used to have that conference realize that most of these youth could not come at that time when there was mentorship programs because we used to start with mentorship then entertainment at around 4pm. So you'll be surprised at around 4pm wange kuja kuwa me ja ja kwazo Debe, you call it Debe. So wange ja sana and it was a bit of a challenge so what we did was we tried to really fuse it in the essence that we could come up with a program whereby in between the program we interchange speakers and also entertainment and also give them an opportunity to showcase their talent. So they could find a whole package at once. Like you have a speaker then you have some music then you have that was a good idea kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa What kind of talents do you mostly see from those young people and how have you continued to help them up to this point? If one thing I can say and this something that as I answer your question I realise that we are living in a society whereby the youths have got a lot of potential these people have got potential. The only thing that is lacking is that they are lacking somebody to hold them up. Somebody to give them that exposure. Somebody to give them that interview the way you are now doing it to me. It's a form of exposure to them. That is why you realise that for us what we have been able to do in most of our events if we realise you are good in music we give them that platform for free. We tell them if you are good in music come and showcase. If you are good in modelling come and showcase. If you are good in drama and theatre come and showcase it. But after doing so we also identify those organizations that are really into different sectors because not all organizations support drama not all organizations support music and the rest. So we tend to make them compete favourably whereby those whose performances are outstanding we give them an opportunity to be able to move a notch higher. But that doesn't mean that we also do away we also not support those who are upcoming of course we also give upcoming opportunities to also continue expressing themselves and also connect them to the right avenues. And I will say for sure and with a lot of confidence that our conferences have been able to support most of these youths record their music for free. A good example is Shujya Records. There are major sponsors as far as recording is concerned they identify a talent they record the music and they also shoot the music and many of them have really benefitted out of this. Have you followed up with some of these people who or maybe some of these young people that you've supported to get their talents out there or maybe just tell us some of your success stories from Semenami Organization. When it comes to success stories I have many but I'll just share a few. Number one out of Semenami we've had one of our own artists a boy who really couldn't imagine one day he could be out there recording his music and doing so well. But currently though it's not a household name at the moment but I believe in future it will be a household name. There have also been some models I remember there's a case of a lady who came in one of our contests she was so sorry I will say she was so young in modeling and she kept telling me God don't want to compete in modeling but I used to tell with your age and experience she could keep praising me God don't give me this opportunity. Now when I get the lady an opportunity interestingly enough out of 30 models that competed in our 2018 Youth League Conference the lady in my position 3 beating of I don't know 20 something ladies because of that courage and that push who are older than her so these are one of our success stories and also another success story that I will also highlight here those are times we had a conference and one of the boys just came to me and told me God don't you know what I'm having some difficulty paying my fees and keeping up to myself can you give me much information about your details where you come from interestingly enough it really paid me that these are students who use a school the school is home and at the same time the school is a schooling environment so during school time he uses school as an education center but when everyone has gone home that is the home we decided to push through this story and it was aired on TV I think last 2019 the story of the boy was aired and the boy managed to get some support from Meshimiwa Manje from Kajiyadu North who took the boy and decided to sponsor the boy so that is also one of my major success stories that I'm really really proud of other than mentoring young people helping them push their talents out there you also do business trainings to support young artists no not young artists but young business people to push their businesses forward and just educating them more about running their businesses talk to us about that as far as impacting on the young generation and the youth in general we usually organize what we call youth exhibition day that is sometimes it's marked by youth conference youth and opportunity to showcase the different businesses that they do from artwork display sales of sales of shoes clothes or any business that youth is engaging why do we do so? we do so because we believe for you to impact someone it's not about theory it has to go practically so that is why we give them such an opportunity to be able to showcase whatever they have to showcase for possible sales and also three to get that exposure for their businesses so you had planned a conference the next conference for 2021 right but it got cancelled unfortunately due to there is restrictions that have been introduced yesterday talk to us a bit about that and maybe when you plan it next and what you are hoping out of that conference that you had planned one thing just to make clarification we do organize what we call youth conference that is an annual event except for last year because of how the covid cases were now the main essence why we came up with such kind of forums is so that at least we enlighten the youths like we were supposed to do our event on 17th of April but we were forced to push it forward because of the restrictions that were there and one of the major push power that really pushes us to have such conferences is when they come to such kind of conferences number one they don't get back the same they get back with opportunities they get back feeling at least their needs have been met and also they get back at least feeling a bit rejuvenated because for example someone might come to our conference because most of our conferences we include career guidance because we invite to universities and colleges it includes legal clinic we invite legal firms we also include medical clinic because we invite medical institutions to be able to at least address some of the issues that are health related so when we have such kind of when we have such kind of congregations at least when any youth attends the congregation at least he or she comes out somebody totally a whole packet and we really believe if everything went as per we had planned then we believe this conference could have really impacted as many youth out there as it has been doing yearly in our annual youth conferences but we haven't lost hope still we have rescheduled it to 15th of May and we believe by then most of these cases shall have dropped by a minimal percentage and we also believe maybe it was just another way of getting back to the drawing board and seeing what was it that we need to put in order as far as the next one is coming on forth and how if someone wanted to work with semanami organization maybe Ayang Pason who wants their talent pushed forward or maybe struggling somewhere that needs your help how can they reach out to you okay one way you can reach out to us as semanamis through official numbers that I think if you probably will display or have it our number is 0718 18 again 76, 73 that's one way of reaching out to us then you can also reach out to us 0718 18 76, 73 you can also reach out to us through our social media handles Facebook semanami initiatives and also on Instagram semanami underscore semanami organization you can also reach out to us at our physical offices at Shalom House that's where we are located on weekdays and also on weekends okay just awards to the young people who are watching the show right now maybe just give them award of encouragement as you wind up before I do that will you allow me to say something yes please do I feel our leadership as I will say it's not attacking our young leadership but I feel the young leaders that we have are really not doing enough to be able to support or push some bills that can support the youth because I feel that as far as we have so many goodies in our BBI document but I feel no BBI is just a document but more needs to be done because you realize that today Eva as we speak if you are to hire K&T to probably do a play or do a show you will depress your child 20,000 or even on minimum 10,000 but how many youths are really passionate about their talents and they really want such kind of avenues to be able to create some sort of income so I think this is one of the areas that our leadership really needs to look into as a genuine way of supporting the youth but not necessarily by just creating some documentation that sounds good in the year of our youth but really in real sense in practical terms it's really not but as a summary I will encourage the youth to be able to reinvent in yourself discover yourself reinvent yourself and connect yourself to the right places when you connect yourself to the right places you will not remain the same and also if you feel you have a situation that needs some sort of mentorship we have so many mentors who will be able to work with you, take you through and support you thank you so much for coming through we appreciate your time so much and just one last question today we were asking our fans what profession do you think has the most liars? the profession that has got the most liars in your opinion in my opinion is media why media? because so many people feel that when you're on media you're on TV, you're getting the likes you're getting the exposure you're getting that's why most people are really really struggling up to be able to protect these causes that are media related because they have this mentality that in the media industry but that's not being alive no, I don't think you understood the question sorry what you're saying is those people think that being in the media is where you live that good life but what we're asking is for example umenda kwa fundiwa kwa angu umenda pelikiwa angu na tskanshone kwa have an location to go to tomorrow ana kwa ambia sawa baisana ne, come, I'll be done unenda sana ne bado ni ni ni ni ni ni those are the kind of lies you're talking about you know let's say for example, DJs ana se matak chezea satin so umenda kwa patapale kwa butiakia club I'll play you, ni chezea, ni chezea you'll never see it, that is what you're talking about you get it I get you, pardon me for that because I really didn't ask but anyway I think one profession that is really affiliated to what you're trying to say it's the law okay, yes now you're on the right track because lawyers sometimes they will tell you this you'll book an appointment with them they'll tell you this, come this but again something just changes all over but it's something that has really happened to me actually out of experience whereby someone tells you come at this time I'll be having a meeting with you or you'll be my client at this particular time but again when you show up you're like okay wait for another 2 hours the 2 hours turns out to be a whole day so I think according to my according to me I think law is lawyers talk to us what profession do you think has the most layers talk to us on our social media platforms Y254 channel across all platforms once again Goddon thank you so much for coming through we appreciate the work you're doing keep pushing these young people they need a push, they need some help so keep doing it thank you so much if you're out there and you feel you want to support our initiatives our numbers are there you can always partner with us but they will like partnering with organizations it's one thing that also helps us meet some of the budgets as we run these events anything else you want to say anything else kutuma salamu anyway na tumu salamu kwa watua sermanami theater k과akugi kwa ranana theater production yavorwa 50 youth ka bianima na kwa blushu saymanami tespians bina priendazana hacerp šozei subima kwa give mwa m吗 mimi mehwa�� MIC We are taking a short commercial break A short musical break Don't you go anywhere We'll be back


Hi, I'm Melissa Secora, NDSU Extension Agent, Agriculture and Natural Resources for Sargent County. Today I'm going to be preparing my garden for the growing season with a few simple steps. If you haven't taken a soil sample in a few years, it's recommended that you do so so you know your available nutrient levels in your soils. NDSU Extension has a video available that walks you through the process of taking a soil sample if you have questions. Once you have your soil test results, you'll be able to determine if a fertilizer application is needed or not. When preparing my garden, I want to make sure to remove any old plant materials from the soil surface. Removing these plant materials will help reduce my chances of spreading diseases that may have overwintered in the material. When determining if my garden soil is ready to be worked or not, I'm going to look at the soil moisture about two to three inches deep. So now I'm going to take a sample of my soil to look at the moisture. The soil here is easily crumbling apart, then it's ready to be worked. If it stays in a ball and doesn't fall apart easily, you'll want to wait a few days for the soil to dry out. If you work your soil when it's too wet, it's going to form clumps and it's going to be really hard for those seeds to germinate and establish in that soil. Before working your soil, you may choose to add compost or peat moss, which will help with nutrient and water holding capabilities. If your soil is ready to be worked, you can till your garden to provide for a nice seed bed. Perhaps you have a smaller garden area or a raised bed, then you can also use your shovel and rig to provide a nice seed bed for it to grow. Many gardeners are also choosing no till as an option. When planting for my gardening season, I want to make sure I have enough space between rows so I can till throughout the growing season to kill the weeds if needed. I also want to make sure I plant enough space between my plants for them to have adequate room to grow. And I want to plan for my crop rotations so I'm not planting my tomatoes in the same spot every year. I like to use a garden journal when planning for the season. That way I can plan my rotations, my available space, and I can also make notes in my journal throughout the growing season on which varieties I liked and didn't like and reference it from year to year. If you have any questions about preparing and planning your garden, contact your local NDSU Extension agent and they'll be happy to help you.


Welcome to the bookmap platform details webinar. This is Bruce at bookmap risk disclaimer Trading equities and futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results For more information go to bookmap.com. There is a free bookmap trial for 14 days. It comes with education Okay, you get the bookmap educational course As well as access to the live Order flow advanced Analysis webinars that start in about a half hour. Okay, there are other resources that you get as well And if you have any questions you can reach out to us at support at bookmap.com Let's take a quick look at bookmap.com and just get familiar with it here There's an intro video here as you scroll down and then just some general information about bookmap here and A bit further down there is bookmap for equities as well as for futures. So for equities You can read more about it here. It's with Nasdaq total view. It's an excellent data feed With a variety of advantages and then other ways to connect bookmap Bookmap is a true platform just like Ninja trader is or TTX trader pro or Interactive brokers trader workstation. Hey, we also connect to the API of those three platforms However, we're a platform just like they are so you can connect your CQG rhythmic gain capital IQ feed Etc all through directly into bookmap Okay a Bit further down This is where you can find the free trial It's 40. There's 49 per month and 99 per month after the 14 days if you choose to stick with bookmap The they are billed quarterly here, so you get it for three months and The difference between these two are the the add-ons. 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Okay, so a 14-day trial of bookmap and if you aren't sure which Version you are interested in here basic or advanced or quant you can click here for the complete list and comparison All right, some of our partners and contact information down here as well Okay Let's see here Social media if you want to follow us on Twitter at bookmap underscore pro and get the most up-to-date information and you could also subscribe to our YouTube page and There's some playlists here on the front page Intro videos if you're new here, so just get familiar with what bookmap is Features and components get more into the user interface and all the different features and how to use them And then the order flow video snippets. Okay, these very short concise videos go through What bookmap is visualizing and how to identify it and take advantage of it? Okay, so these concise videos Are much more in line with what we go through in the advanced order flow webinars That start at 11 Eastern. Okay, we'll just go through those some of these concepts here in a lot more detail All right Let's take a look at bookmap We had oil inventories This morning and just five or six minutes ago. So you can see the volatility here I might want to check that out or maybe we'll take a look at the Nasdaq which we've been covering for quite a while here Well, let's jump over to oil. Just I want to show you guys something Okay, and crude Okay, and I'm zoomed out here And let me play around with the heat map settings a bit. Okay. I want to make this point Because you can see it very clearly here in bookmap Okay Now I made the settings here a bit more Stark so that we can see the difference here, but Notice these little pockets here at 830. Look at the yeah, this was a fundamental economic release Hey at 830 a.m. And Look how it got dark here. Let's zoom into that area. Okay It's just fascinating to see this. This is just how these markets operate. Okay Here's our 830 time and here's at 829 and a little afterwards. Look how all the liquidity dried up Okay, this these the heat the heat map the grayscale here is look the Historical Evolution of that limit order book. So these are areas where people are offering up here and bidding down here And they pulled a lot of that Liquidity because they don't want the risk. Okay, so there's going to be volatility during these releases and We got a little bit of volatility not much But the larger players are the players where they stay in the book Those become the attractive levels Where the market knows it can trade and get filled So we see a lot of little trades at back here Back and forth, but the larger look where we count we come up to these areas did not pull Okay, they pulled a little bit here right at the release, but then you can see that They they stayed in the book here and we trade right up into it a little bit beyond it And then we reverse at that at that point. Okay, so just very simply We can understand higher longer-term liquidity and how It it has an effect on the on price. Okay, we try to write up into it and a little bit through it, but it was there was not enough buying pressure to continue on upwards all right, so We reverse down and and you can see that they pulled quite a bit of liquidity But they stayed kind of in this area here Around 5748 Okay Right, so when you notice this kind of behavior You know, there might be Not a scheduled economic release like at 830 here It might be just some geopolitical event. For example, Trump is going to be speaking today about tax reform For sure, there's going to be some volatility Okay, so Those are a lot harder to gauge because it's not at a specific time or we don't know exactly when the news is What is newsworthy and when he might say something or Janet Yellen might say something or whomever it might be a press releases or maybe some sort of geopolitical tensions like war or terrorist attack etc You can see here the 1030 open or release as well same thing and the volatility for oil inventories And you can see how it got dark in this area here and there's still kind of out of the market at the moment I mean they come back in, you know, 1010 40. It's almost 1040. So I'm sorry just past 1040 So we can see it. Okay. So now for those of you who are new here I'm covering a lot of things very quickly, but The point the main point here is to understand these markets and how liquidity Plays in these markets. So look at how they stayed up here at 5740. It's exactly where it came to All right, that's because they're you know market knows that there are sellers here It almost came down to the these guys at 5705 and then they actually pulled as you can see All right, so what do I mean by some of these concepts? liquidity adding pulling Reading all of this that looks a rather complex It's actually very straightforward and objective and rather simple So I'm gonna close up the indicator sub panel that we have that looks at the CVD Accumulative volume Delta and I'm going to take off and strip off all of these layers of Data and we're gonna make this really simple Okay, we're just gonna start with a basic candlestick chart Okay, open high low close of a five minute period. Okay, so here's the volatility that we can see back and forth and just after 1030 and So This is a view we're all accustomed to okay There's really It's very opaque view of what's going on here though because we don't know all sorts of other information There's very little understanding of volume here We don't know where the volume traded How much and what type? Okay, and there's going to be microstructures here because this is a five minute period of time And it's just open high low close of that five minute period We have no clue about some of the structure that happened within this area because that time period is aggregated Okay, so the first thing that we can do is look at microstructure just by simply looking at the best bid and offer Okay, so that's all I've added on here to the chart is historical best bid and offer All right, and we can see some of these little microstructural areas Okay, there's one up here is it was broken and came back down and you can see we kind of you know We're maybe trying to base down here a little bit, but Came right back up to where it broke from here And then we see the volatility okay We can see here another microstructure and here as well and actually because this consolidated for 15 minutes as you can see we can we can actually see in the candlesticks a bit of that microstructure as well but and and here as well because it it went it went by for 15 minutes, but we still have no clue Where the volume traded here and that gives us a lot of insight to Understanding the possible future price movement. So let's turn on the volume dots Okay, and and now I know exactly where The trades took place and what type where how much and when Okay, so let's let's look into this structural area here Let's click on that move tool hover over this area and I'm gonna zoom in very quickly with my center mouse wheel Okay, so what's going on here? All right, the majority of that volume here it broke from this structural area as you can see pretty quickly All right, and this is typical in our educational process, this is called a Sweep of the book Okay, they we were going sideways here for a bit and then the sellers came in aggressively hit the bid And took liquidity from each level as it quickly moved down It buyer stepped right back in and then we can see that we move back up kind of based sideways here for a bit and then Kind of started to drop down a little bit and then and then we see another sweep Well, there's many sweeps in here. There's another little sweep in here. There's just another little sweep in here okay, that dropped us down to a new level, so there's micro structures in here and That's where You know, we can gain a lot more insight Okay, so for example these three candles here Here's a five-minute period. Okay, and this is what actually occurred within this candle right here between this vertical dotted line and this line Okay, and we get some insight here with this move to the downside Okay, because this is where they swept the book lower and we stayed lower Okay, so now we understand that there's there might be an opportunity if we can trade back up into this level That we're probably going to exhaust out it's not we're not going to find buyers and we'll probably find sellers and Indeed we did look at these areas right here Okay, a lot of selling took place Okay, this area here as well. We see there's red dots. Okay, so And then look at these little areas up here these little retest to the to the high side Okay, we're making a lower high But there's no there's no buying up here. There's none Okay, so we're exhausting out and we rotate lower and we continue to discover lower prices All right, so very very insightful information here and Let me zoom into this area and I just want to show you Exactly what what we're looking at here on the bookmap chart because it's very simple data Okay, we're looking at historical best bid with the green line historical best offer with the red line. That's it Okay, now these dots are the transactions that took place on the best bidder offer Okay, now we use the aggressor classification of volume Okay, so this dot here is an aggressive market buy. That's why it's green It crossed the spread and it took liquidity off of the best offer And if I hover over using this data tip tool, I get the date the time What was on the ask at this price level and the volume at this price level? So this this was a one lot that traded at 57 35 okay at 9 30 and 28 seconds and 178 thousands Okay, we can continue to zoom in To this level now this is a one lot, so it's not going to be that interesting actually Let me zoom out a bit and let's zoom into maybe this level because you're going to note Really what occurred here? Okay, this is what occurred. We have actually a little bit of lag as well little bit of latency between the best offer and the traded volume, but you can see some mechanical action here Okay, this is an algo Okay, look how it's trying to lift the offer and it actually did lift the offer one tick Okay, so we see very quickly that We trade here in a couple of tranches for in fact And then we get a bit of a pause and then again here. Okay. Now. We're just down at microsecond level We can continue to zoom in here And we can look down at nanosecond level as you can see so we're looking at billions of seconds Okay, book map can handle all of that data very quickly Because we have a very powerful complex event processor Okay, now note how We've recorded Every single market event that has taken place here But as I zoom back out We consolidate that information And just aggregate it just graphically because it's all still here Is but how does that help us like we don't really need to see all of that data unless you want to see Exactly where your algos are getting filled. Well, that's that's originally what book map was designed to do and then we Thought this was a pretty good idea for a product And Improved on it. Okay, so now we know exactly what occurred here But we're giving you the overall shape of this volume with one big dot Okay, so if I hover over this dot here, let's zoom in just a bit. Okay And it's gonna give me the the volume here, which was 80 okay So we know exactly what traded here and and how much All right, so That's how we're visually just visually aggregating this as you can see We can zoom right back in and get all of the data if you want Now as I zoom out Now we're looking at just all of these all of these trade events that took place on historical best bid and offer Okay, and as they continue to zoom out we continue to aggregate just graphically this data and At a certain point you get these pie displays here because there's so much volume that took place here like here if I hover over this area of volume of Over 1,700 contracts here. That's a lot in in crude all right and We can see exactly what the overall shape of that volume is Okay, we can see that the majority of it was selling. Okay a slight majority Anyway, so that's the volume. That's the microstructure. That's what these candlesticks look like Okay, we're showing you exactly where that volume traded now You're not even going to get this view on a footprint chart because a footprint chart is still going to aggregate that data within a bar All right, so we have all of the data here and the microstructure and we can see who's winning the battles here and that's the advantage of the Being able to show just that historical best bid and offer Okay, and the volume on it now. There's another part of this That's really important and that is to understand the book. Okay, where are they bidding an offering? All right, that data is not present here Okay, I think I take the candlestick off at this point And I can actually put on our indicator Indicator and our heat map Okay, and let me adjust this heat map quickly Okay, actually that's a little much all right, so Now the grayscale we've shown two elements here on this chart historical best bid and offer and volume and that's been it so far Okay, now we just added our third element, which is the heat map Now the heat map what it's showing you is the history Of the limit order book so if I zoom in and let's look at the price ladder over here And this is our depth of market this c o b column So here I can see the depth here on the offer and the depth here on the bid All right, and you can see the areas of of high liquidity here at 57 15 And at 5708 Okay 144 contracts and we're one tick away from it Okay, and you can see the high liquidity though in this window here. This is the current market as well This is best bid and offer and last traded volume All right, you can still you can see the high liquidity here because we give it a graphical representation So these 166 contracts are painted bright white because it's a high area of liquidity Okay, so when you see the numbers change here in the liquidity heat map you're going to see the heat map change to reflect the large and small liquidity where this Really comes together is we take that data and then project it on the chart historically So you can see exactly the behavior Of the of the auction Okay, so down in these areas here. They came into the book and they wanted to be buyers down here and here Okay, and we came right into them and and traded through them here at 05 right down to the figure at 57 All right, we can see a little retest here And a little bit of exhaustion on the sell side We'll rotate back up and then we find buyers who stepped in All right, and they pulled the market up out of this little range here. So microstructurally we are now bullish Okay, because we are above this structure here now if we were going to continue on up to 57 30 What we're looking for is more volumes to start trading up here like this over here Okay, and this is going to be a change in the order flow Okay, a distribution of the uh from the sell side to the buy side now. We need to see continuation on this though Okay, uh, we need to uh at this point here. We need to break through 57 15 and we want to see high liquidity or high volume trade up here And here we go. We're testing it right now And let's zoom in here a bit and get a feel for it Okay, now let's let's uh View the intent of these traders here at at 15 Okay, they stayed in the book up here So we just made a distinction between real and fake liquidity Okay, they stayed here. Okay, it did not pull some of it some of it pulled But the majority of it stayed and we traded right into it these traders up here at 57 15 They want to trade okay, so uh A lot of traders will say that well, you know, I don't really access the limit order book because all of the liquidity is fake anyway Well, we're able to show you what is fake and what is not Okay, look at the look at the liquidity down here. This is high liquidity, but it's very and it's pretty far away from the market Okay, uh, but um, uh, did they have any intent to trade here? Well, it's it's a little too far away, but um, uh, it's very short term. Okay, they jumped in and they jumped out Okay, so, um, uh, the answer is no, uh, they did not Nor did these guys here know this is more aggressive Okay, liquidity here and you can see how they pulled at the last minute here or last last second See this is that little area right here of high liquidity and then and then they pulled Okay here And you can see it got dark as soon as it came up and tested here right, uh, and uh, and then the the volume traded and up up to uh, just shy of this 57 15 Okay, so now we're starting to understand, um, Many many aspects in context of the auction and where people are positioning themselves Uh with their transactions Okay, we're also able to start to, um understand fake liquidity and maybe, um nefarious activity of spoofing uh, or, um, um, you know a flip of the, uh, order book or Ignition algo, uh, all sorts of, uh, uh, things that occur in this, uh, High frequency environment Okay, now Uh, you can see that, uh, look look how we're rotating back from 57 15 Okay, because no one wants to take these guys on they did here This is where the battle took place And look at the bind that took place up here. It's very little Here's our here's our retest and we don't even get up there Okay, we come too tick shy of it The sellers read that And it's in this area here where the sellers, uh We're exhausting out on the buy side the sellers read it and they drive price lower Okay, and we're back down to the bottom of this range So understanding the context of this auction understanding the context of this liquidity Uh, and the traded volume we're able to piece together and understand this move to the downside Okay, and uh, we can start to target Okay, some of these areas as well. So we're back at the fit 57 figure here Okay, and uh, let's see if now these guys they've been kind of jumping in and out and they they did get filled over here previously Okay, but they're they're they're back in here for more Okay, so if the sellers want to take them on they've got to trade through Or into these 146 contracts here. All right, so um, anyway, uh, really starting to understand the market uh, and um How it moves and how it behaves within the auction and it's contextual This is not an indicator It's not some sort of mac d crossover. Therefore you buy or sell You know it it is it is an auction And we want to understand the context of that auction to look for an advantage for those of you who trade the, um Volume profile for example, uh, you're gonna have a better understanding of context just because of that's the way it works with volume profile I and understanding the liquidity context Is uh, maybe a bit easier Okay to understand the auction here And and put those pieces together Okay, so um, you can see that we're just range bound here now Okay, but when we come up to these areas here, we want to understand, uh, really what's going on here now Is this guy here at 57 15? Is he back? He's not he's starting to show maybe uh, maybe a tick higher here or maybe, uh, maybe they're getting more aggressive here You can see Right, so uh, there's going to be another battle that kind of occurs here. There's a lot of interest Okay, so far, I don't we're not getting a lot of context here. We're looking for maybe, uh, flurries of activity and volume that Show a lot of buying interest that will take these guys on at 57 15 And you can see that we we didn't really get that so we're rotating back into the range Anyway, these are concepts we go through in the advanced order flow webinars Um, and um, let's jump over to that if you guys are in trial, then you'll have the link to it Otherwise, uh, I see a lot of you guys who are in uh trial or uh current customers. So I'll see you guys over there Okay, bye


This is large two-piece knife edge. This is a piece that Moore worked on over the years through the 60s. It worked on many things that Moore was doing at the time, organic objects. There were pieces that were enlarged from flints and bits and bones. You've got sort of the sharp edges of the bones, sort of cut bones. This piece is about two and three-quarter tons of bronze. It's not massive, you know, it's hollow, but it's a fair weight. Siting this work in such a prominent spot for Moore was hugely important, as it was having major pieces or any of his work in major sites around Britain, and especially London. It was about making the almost unapproachable work approachable for the public, and there's no more approachable place than outside the House of Parliament. For him, it was hugely important. The statue was gifted to the Nation. The Minister, at the time, accepted it on behalf of the Nation, the donation, and it was installed. And the maintenance instructions were to wash it occasionally with fairy snow. That's in the file. But unfortunately, over time, the Ministry of Works changed and, of course, became partially the Department of Environment. Responsibility just disappeared, really. And so the sculpture sat here, but nobody really cared for it at all, as this became known, really, as the most damaged, the most badly presented sculpture in central London. It's pretty horrendous, actually. I mean, we're now looking at a surface which is two-thirds green. It's naturally oxidised, but there's graffiti over the entire surface. More put in his own texture, we've now got other people putting in their own texture. It's lost that beautiful gold quality that had the subtlety of the shading in there. All of that has been lost because it's naturally done what it wanted to do itself. The lacquer itself has broken down. It's peeled. I've not seen one quite this bad for a very long time, actually. Eventually, Frank Doran MP, who chairs the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art in the House of Commons, laid a question to the Minister for DCMS, asking who was going to care for this statue. And the Minister replied that would the House of Commons be willing to take on ownership of the sculpture and take on its care? And we were delighted when the House of Commons agreed to do that and it entered the Works of Art collection, which means that we can now care for this sculpture. To conserve a piece like this, we basically have to get back to the bare metal. Unfortunately, because of the damage that has been done to the surface, it's not something that you can do selectively. Bronze being what it is, it's started to corrode, turning darker browns, going through to green. So as now it's got a very almost camouflage appearance to the surface where it should be quite an even, rich, golden, yellow, honey colour. There's slight variations into the textured surfaces. It was very sensitive about the surface coatings of his sculptures. He not only was interested in the form, he was actually interested in the colour. The colour on this one has gone completely. Our approach would be to remove all the protective coatings, what's left of them, remove the wax, remove the lacquer, and get back to what remnants are of the original patina on the surface. As you can see, the surface of the bronze has got all this graffiti, which, as you can, it's not done with a green pen. What has happened here is people have scratched their names into the surface. This has actually gone through the lacquer and we're getting preferential corrosion. This is copper corrosion here. The processes for cleaning the sculpture, initially we will remove the wax. That's removed with a steam cleaner. The wax is this dark area here, which has got the black colouring in it. The steam cleaner will remove all of that. Then, once that's actually gone, we're going to remove the lacquer, which is in these yellow areas, by applying... It's a water-based paint stripper, basically, friendly to the environment, may I add. Then, once that's actually been removed, that will be removed by hand. Then, when we've got it right back to body's bare metal, we will start to resurface the metal to remove the graffiti and any other marks on it. The emphasis is going to be on minimum intervention. We want to remove as little of the original metalwork as possible while getting rid of all this graffiti, which is actually its way into the surface. The process that they're carrying out at the moment is the removal of the lacquer. The green on the surface there is a water-based varnish remover, which has been on the surface for around 36 hours. We're just scraping off the surface now, and it should be taking 99% of the lacquer with it. And then, after this process has been carried out, we'll steam clean the surface. They're all unique. There might be three of these in the world, but there's only one in London. And they've all got different surface coatings. They've all been put out here at different times and different conditions. Well, it's very exciting to see what's being revealed beneath and beginning to get an idea of the colours that it will end up with. But also, you can see the challenge ahead. So you're never really sure what you're going to find underneath. As you can see already, there's quite a marked difference between the area that hasn't been worked on and the area that has. You're starting to get that luscious luster of the original patina that Henry Moore intended. I'm hoping that when the holding comes down, people will be actually really quite surprised as to how the sculpture looks. Striking, hopefully very lush, and people will be sort of shocked in some way. This work really is quite iconic, I think, within this area of parliament. Everybody is aware of this sculpture. To an extent, it's become part of the landscape, but I think once it's been conserved, people will be very positively surprised and will hopefully start to really appreciate what they've got here.