talking about energy today energy 808 the cutting edge with Guillermo Sabatier who joins us from where are you Guillermo in Florida with it? I am in Coral Springs Florida which is just in uh just west or Fort Lauderdale. Ah good okay um you're an energy man you have a career in energy tell me about your career so I can try to get your job you know. Oh you know it's uh we definitely need the help so uh I am an electrical engineer I've I've been in the industry 29 well 30 years now I um spend most of that time working for Florida Power and Light which is a subsidiary of Next Era Energy. Oh we know that name here in Hawaii yeah we know. Well I I had a I had a hand in supporting some of the folks that were great bunch of folks that are busy uh doing that project during the they try to do the acquisition so a lot of great people work around that project I mean we all have a regrets that it didn't work out but we can talk some more about that later but yeah I spent 29 years with them uh electrical engineers spent a lot of that in system operations and uh did it worked almost at every point of the utility because it was a vertically integrated utility so I worked all the way from meter reading all the way up to system operations and even the nuclear plants. So quite a bit of experience um towards the very end though I did a lot of regulatory compliance and also training of us of the personnel and then I went to work for for uh had a great opportunity to go work for SOS International at the time which is one of our training support providers and then SOS became HSI now we're part of the greater HSI organization and our group is called industrial skills so and then what we do go ahead I'm sorry what we do is it provide training services for the electric utility industry not just in operations but pretty much anything from utility to health and safety to tracking OSHA and even doing some of the regulatory compliance consulting and quite a whole lot of host of uh of um support roles that we can do for them so so you're part of your you're a part of um HSI what is HSI how big is it what does it do in general as a corporation well HSI is the health and safety institute and and uh there they operate globally they um they have a large number of different subsidiaries or family of companies uh they're about close to like 500 employees but what they do mostly is they provide a lot of like OSHA health related training they train first responders they do there's a number of companies in there that battle for example where they do OSHA compliance tracking but what I'm really familiar with and in my realm is is uh the industrial skills where we focus more on the training utility personnel and also industrial any kind of industry that we can think of the required safety or operating heavy equipment a sort of thing we have our hand in that so my particular expertise though is in electric utility norc regulation and system operations for training personnel so that's okay let me let me get some of that uh you know uh defined when you say compliance what do you mean compliance with what regular regulatory uh you know requirements yes well in the mainland the U.S. and Canada uh we are all subject to norc north american electric reliability corporation and they they they are acting on behalf of FERC the federal energy regulatory commission right now in hawai you may not be subject to the same standards or or requirements that the rest of the mainland is and and the main purpose of those requirements is to maintain reliability right and a lot of those standards have evolved in response to different disturbances meaning blackouts uh the really big one was back in 2003 in the northeast and then we've had a few other disturbances since then and the standards and policies you know evolve uh through time given you know different challenges that happen uh one of the new ones that we're seeing now is is they're they're perhaps putting in some new standards and reaction to what happened in texas last year right with the whole supply shortfall and that sort of thing so there's another one coming up that may have to do with distributed energy resources so we'll talk some more of that in our discussion today I think on I'm thinking of um you know Puerto Rico and texas too I suppose um so these standards would be calculated and um promulgated to prevent those kinds of disasters right absolutely and that's a those are federal agencies FERC and NERC um and they and they operate federal agencies part of what the Department of Energy I suppose right um so how much power do they have that's a that's a play on words actually Guillermo uh well it's um the uh NERC is is the one that does enforcement right and they they act on behalf of FERC and the way that works in NERC is really it's it's by the member companies right and and every company has a hand in developing these standards but the regions which are made up of the utilities but the regions themselves will run an audit and when I talk about compliance basically is there's over like 275 requirements and these and these standards right now just to make something you know like stand out is if you have a violation some of these standards some of these requirements you can get as much as a one million dollars per infraction per day so if you have an ongoing problem that isn't addressed for you know for a period of time you know that could be some you know significant fine now you know those fines don't happen often the industry has gotten pretty good about you know maintaining compliance showing evidence you know hey uh this is what I do but here's evidence showing that I do what I say I do and and then the audits usually happen every three years and other places they happen almost every 18 months and it's got to be a pretty pretty fluid process right when it comes to they announce an audit's coming you prepare and you get all your evidence ready and and that's already at the point of an audit but you know every the operations you just you just shape your entire operation is to make sure that you're operating within that compliance parameter so it must be changing though I mean for example the two examples I mentioned Puerto Rico and Texas Puerto Rico bad storm to my mind maybe in the minds of some of the climate scientists that's a climate change storm and what happened what happened in Texas the same thing you could connect that easily with climate change and the weather and all so NERC must be interested and FERC must be interested in in being as dynamic as the environment in other words if I have a greater risk of extreme weather if I have a greater risk because of environmental changes I have to change my standards to avoid the kinds of things that happen am I right right and they they they usually change uh to in the best case they change in anticipation of what's coming sometimes they change as a reaction to it's not always quick and there's always like a a process where there's voting by the utilities now ultimately it is the utilities best interest is the utilities themselves that come up with a lot of these requirements of standards that's where they have the standards drafting teams but in the end it's a lengthy process and and it's not always as as as quick as we you know we wanted to be but that's also not a bug there's a feature because it's sometimes it takes a lot of time to gear up and get ready to be able to meet those new requirements fortunately there there's a lot of there's a lot of you know smart folks a lot smarter than I am looking ahead and figuring out what's coming up next and you know how to write standards and how to prepare for those standards so HSI as part of this mission would go to its utility clients I guess it's a client tell a client arrangement and say look here's some advice for you you better be careful about this that and the other thing you better right comply with these standards or else you'll get fined or who knows what right and so that's pretty valuable to utility what happens if they don't take your advice though Guillermo well that that's that's usually I'm going to get a few examples right of course without naming names but we have utilities that have asked tape in the very beginning just help us come up with this with this program and we've helped them develop the program from scratch and then really it's us running the program for them the compliance program and they've been pretty successful we've had all the utilities where they've had a turnover personnel retire they don't replace them right away and then they've had a gap and they've come to us all not at the last minute but but we're not with a lot of time left to prepare because they've had an audit coming and we've managed to help them and we've had a pretty good successful track record but the challenges are always different right some of them give you enough time others come at you with a pretty bad emergency and when you do you do your best to help them and and that you know luckily we've done a good job about that but yeah it's it's always it's always um usually it's uh staff augmentation it's just what we're providing a lot of times and the majority of us subject matter experts are you know have been in the utility industry already in that capacity so we bring that knowledge here and help them out yeah like you well let's talk let's shift a little bit to safety and training um seems to me that um you know if you are handling heavy equipment uh equipment which has fuel involved of some kind um equipment that handles a lot of electrical energy right uh these this danger in all sides of that absolutely moving it and operating it and connecting it and so forth um so how do you make it safe and what do you focus on in the training you give them for operating it and and achieving some level of safety well that's a that's a very important point when it comes to industrial skills an example is a personnel that operate a refinery or personnel that operate a power generating facility right but there's a lot of that training begins to happen online uh self-paced and then once you get back on the soil COVID situation we'll have more of the in-person training but we've been very fortunate where we have a lot of like initial training for new personnel to get them at least going in that particular aspect of their of their career or their job function where they're at least familiar with the equipment the dangers and how they operate uh in my particular side uh you safe safe handling of equipment in a substation for example we have a few training modules that deal into that and a lot of the basic issues for example stored energy right like don't stick your hands somewhere where there's like you know a charged spring or compressed gas a sort of thing that that would be just one example many that we have um and and you know usually the delivery medium is is evolving and it's changing and and we look at the possibility of um coming into the whole virtual reality realm of being able to deliver training in that way where you never even have to set foot in this in a facility or a substation and and you get to avoid their risk altogether but that's still the development stages you know but we'll have either eventually. Well you talk about um you know virtual reality or virtual in general and I would imagine in the past two now going on three years a lot of the training you would HSI would offer would be virtual would be on zoom and the like am I right? It's not there yet we're trying to look into that and to develop that uh we'd like to get there one day uh there there's still a lot of material needs to be developed and then the the initial upfront effort and cost is significant but but yeah that that's something that we like to do at some points. And this again is for clientele and the clientele could be in the US it could be in North America um I suppose it could be anywhere and I'm thinking of some of the um utility installations and developing countries must be well below the standard of safety that you would like to see um you know they may have a different approach to safety and training how do you how do you handle the situation um where you know this is a country for example where the utility is really rough at the edges how do you make that safe? Well that a lot of times is it has to be up to them to approach you uh and them wanting to actually take that kind of advice and that kind of guidance and and invest in that kind of training I mean you can't really force them to do anything you know whenever it's outside of this nation but but it's ideally you would hope that that would they would approach and and and invest in that kind of training for their for the personnel it's not always the case but um so far we've had a pretty good track record of being able to present that that particular case and they go ahead and invest in get that training and we've had quite a few countries that that have taken advantage of that and and and their overall operations have improved because of that training and safety training yeah and the training has to follow the technology I mean so if you look 20 or 30 years ago that was one kind of technology and in many cases the technology was delivered to the hinterland um you know on on barges and and and the like and uh who knows how long it would last or how whether it was being maintained and so forth but now the technology is electronic the technology has built in safeguards the technology is is um as you say you know virtual in many cases and so um if you're going to train somebody it's sort of like the military if you're going to train somebody you have to you have to train them on the latest equipment that means you have to follow the latest equipment wherever it is made or deployed how do you keep up that is uh a lot of fresh SMEs and always staying in touch and up to speed with the changes of technology luckily for us we we stay in contact with a lot of folks in the in the industry and of course you know like anybody else attend the shows attend the the white papers publish you read the published papers and just you know work with manufacturers right and what they're doing and that usually you know keeps you pretty current with what's happening in the industry but you know they're and our material we're you know we're constantly inspecting it and kind of trying to keep it up you know up to date and updating it or changing certain things about it and no longer apply right and especially with when we see images in some in some cases that are pretty old so we will go ahead and change those of you know the side to be recommending changes to the utility I suppose say look if you want to be safe you can't use this kind of thing anymore right well there are definitely changes that that a lot of that is driven by OSHA and and you see a lot of that happening I should believe another one and then the utilities themselves at least here in the US and Canada are pretty good about staying up to date with safety practices and then of course a lot of that is the IBW as well as greatly involved in that so you have to stay in touch with them read their pubs see what they're working on and where they are warning you that you can in turn warn your your clients now when you talk about the equipment and all that you're not just talking about generators and you know connection points and stations and substations you're talking about all the equipment for all kinds of energy resources I suppose including wind turbines and solar and what have you whatever whatever works whatever is generating or distributing electricity right that's a lot of stuff to keep track of them yeah yeah and it goes from the generator to the transmission system all the way down to a distribution and we've been all the way down to the customer's meter and a lot of different topics and areas of of education and safety that are involved so that's a lot of things to cover yeah and it's changing so that must be very interesting and what what it leads that leads to my next area of inquiry Guillermo and that is jobs you know that there's so many people say hey this is a very profitable area because there's so much money passing hands because so many people need energy and because of the appliances we have and the electronics we use at the consumer level we need more and more energy all the time there's more of a demand on utilities and other sources of energy and therefore lots and lots and lots of jobs and so the training you're talking about has to apply to the the newbies as well right they have to be trained to get into it and be experienced on a rapid basis am I right absolutely and just one example of the many things NERC itself just for the operators of the electric system these system operators have to be certified it's kind of like a license right and and just to get that certification it's it's usually a pretty big intimidating exam so we provide the test preparation training which is online and then we have the actual instructor led training and we provide a lot of support for a lot of these new operators and and it's the one thing they need to be able to work on the system we also provide some training for distribution operations personnel right so that is also gaining a little bit of popularity because now it's NERC maybe getting into that realm when it comes to regulation so so you know getting ready for that change as well but then that's just one example there there's other opportunities right for just the the trades working well there's working in the in the industry working in in in power plants that's just one example line workers I mean there's a serious gap in the amount of available line workers in this country both distribution and transmission and and it's interesting because like like a lot of the trades right now they they have a definite you know a personnel shortfall so a lot of opportunities I mean if somebody doesn't really want to go to college but they want to you know start working and earning some good money right away that's that's a one option for them to actually look at I know I took a tour of the IBEW here and other other such unions and they have programs to teach you energy to make you competent in installing for example solar energy because there are there are dangers and there's a need to understand and I suppose that makes an electrical energy degree all the more valuable with a school like you did would be in great demand right now wouldn't it yeah yeah and and I've such as that it's the it's the the very different opportunities that you have but just by understanding this industry and this science there's so many different opportunities from design to science and even and then not even getting into the business side of it right where you have all these different investments and and and I myself have an MBA so so so you know I joined the dark side long ago and I looked at the business side of this of this industry and and you know you ultimately see you know the costs and the operating dynamics of the sort of thing and and even the the challenges that you're facing as the science changes right so so many different opportunities right that that we can look at especially now and we're at a great time where things are definitely changing so well let's talk about the MBA side of thing you've been writing articles what is the focus of your you know professional image interest and and what are the articles you've been writing about what are you covering what are you talking to the community about well I've I've talked a little bit about the opportunity of like meshing this new technology where it's we've all seen peer to peer business right where it's like uber or or right sharing or the gig economy or you're selling things you know at the very granular level but in in the massive quantities right where it's like an example would be this peer to peer energy marketing right so as more and more people develop and they get into the whole producing their own energy whereas solar panels or storage or batteries or even their EVs eventually we're going to get to the point where we can actually sell power at the distribution level to our neighbors to folks that are on the same feeder in the same substation and never getting into the the transmission system so ultimately that'll present the opportunities and also a lot of challenges for utilities right part of that being now you're going to have power flowing the opposite direction right from from we should be the and consumer analysis a producer or prosumer so that'll change the way the system behaves dynamically but you know given what with AI and the way we're developing our technology and our smart systems you know that can definitely be managed and I see a lot of opportunities there so some of my articles you know I have to do with that it's very exciting I mean I remember reading that in Texas back years ago there was a law that was unique to Texas where you could sell power to your neighbor across the street right in other states the utility laws would not let you do that they would require that you qualify for the regulators as as a utility which is not easy so now this peer to peer thing could be a statement of the future I suspect it is a statement of the future and they will have everybody connected with everybody else everybody distributing to everyone else all participating in this kind of mesh of electrical energy how do you see that unfolding I mean I see it unfolding over time it's already being piloted in a few regions I mean California is one of them they're doing that in Europe as well one of the big concerns is cybersecurity as you can imagine you know the one big dominant provider has an app and they managed to hack that then you can imagine how that can lead to certain reliability issues right that that's one aspect of it the other one really is from a utility standpoint right it's it's they can they could probably take advantage of that in the sense that now they've had to offset the need to build generation and transmission lines so so they can help you throw up your system and run it and manage it but at the same time they're offsetting their their own generation cost so there are opportunities there depending on the utility and how they're structured but again there is going to be some regulatory hurdles and that's why fur quarter 22 is 22 which is coming into effect pretty soon like in the next couple of months what it really was was for the aggregators to give them a little bit more flexibility meaning that they compete in the open markets so an aggregator would just buy all this power from these different little prosumers and aggregate it and then go and bid and sell and buy in in the open market but that distributes the capital the capital requirements in other words you can have a business somewhere in that mesh and you can have a much smaller investment than utility would make but you can make money it can be something where you put some money in and you have you have a return on your investment and a lot of people can do it and and control it it's very exciting to me that this is possible well and and at some point one thing that utilities have been working on a lot it's not really capacity they've been looking at dispatchability so so though they I see at one point they will probably pay you money to just be available for dispatch and not really not really absorbing power or sending power back out but just to be available and that's something that they consider more important in some cases right just to be ready to withstand the mass contingency and well we we promised our viewers we would talk about national and for that matter international energy markets and and we have oil going up nicely as anticipated again and and we have gas on the horizon including the strange set of circumstances around Ukraine and gas prom and the pipeline oh yeah Nord Nord Stream I think it is from Russia to Germany we have the U.S. trying to sell gas hither and yon and including to Asia it's it's all changing it seems like it's transforming in front of our eyes right and how is this affecting the energy markets energy prices in the utilities and in the supply right now well gas natural gas has definitely gone up a little bit you know on the cost per million BTUs I never thought I'd see this but the fact that they're actually got compressing gas and tankers and they're shipping it overseas was something that I never thought I'd see but yeah here we are you know so the cost of gas over there has finally offset the cost of transporting it which which is mind blowing right and but we're finally here and the other thing too is is as we transition from fossil fuels or or anything else over to renewables you can't run on renewables all the time right you're you're going to need some dispatchability on that and and a lot of that bridge fuel has become natural gas and states like California for example where they they've had very aggressive goals they've seems seems like to me they walked it back a little bit where the governor was declaring natural gas once again the zero carbon fuel which you know shows how their their their expectation of what was going on versus the reality and and not to mention the fact that they're they're they're mothballing diablo canning which is our last nuclear unit out there um a lot of mixed opinions about that I mean uh nuclear right doesn't admit it any you know no emissions no carbon but yeah you have the weight so but but you put nuclear together with cyber cyber security issues it does make you worry make sure worry by the same time it's it's part of your supply and part of your portfolio and your energy mix and if you get rid of it you don't have anything to replace it with now you've got a shortfall so and then then they ended up having to bring units back online that were they have been mothballed and some of those are a little dirty but so as right now they're they're leading more on natural gas again so so it's a good bridge fuel natural gas is a lot more demand for it now for that reason and it's just you know to shame that it's kind of so expensive yeah okay well last question is by the way it's not my last question I want to admit something I've been thinking throughout this whole show that we have to have another show absolutely we have to drill down on so many the issues we're just we're skipping the stone across the pond and and there's so many things we could talk about but let me ask you about let me ask you about renewables you know where do they fit in all of what we've been talking about are they succeeding what's the political environment for them what's the pressure of the climate change contingent are we able are we going to be able to make our goals such as they are are we going to be able to make some significant contribution to you know the global effort at dealing with climate change I mean we're definitely making some good good good progress and good goals the the challenges when we shoot too far ahead and we don't have the bridge fuels right we don't have the bridge generation and what I mean by that is is you cannot run your system on solar alone right I mean I mean you're good from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and before that and after that what do you what do you do right and batteries can only give you enough energy for maybe a couple of hours and most utilities don't want to run them every day because they have a limited number of cycles so so storage is important right when it comes to that sort of thing so we're getting there eventually very clean burning of natural gas and for the for the good foreseeable future definitely getting away from coal definitely getting away from oil and I think florida got rid of his last oil burning power plant I mean over a decade ago or longer than that so but you know a lot of the portfolio here is natural gas but they do have a lot of solar and no wind of course and I give you one guess as to why no wind is a wind we have problems about wind too for many reasons anyway right we get hurricanes yeah well you can imagine what happens to a wind turbine in a hurricane never mind yeah right uh okay Guillermo we're out of time I I have to say I really enjoyed this conversation and I want to come back and we'll set up another show or shows to deal with some of these issues and some of the changes that we are going to find going forward this is a very important topic it's important for the economy in a number of ways it's important for the future of the country in a number of ways and I envy you being so close to the center of it having you know having all these all these areas of expertise thank you so much Guillermo well thank you for having me and next time I really look forward to talking more about Hawaii because I really really want to bring that up again because it's a it was something that that was really enthusiastic about when you were looking at the back of my day in next era and I would like to see one day you know that they you guys make that a really able goal at some point yes sir absolutely yes okay we'll be back Guillermo Sabatier HSI.com thanks very much thank you Jay.


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We're rolling. Diiiildi-dakadido. Do you like my mug? First human reaction to some corp. That's awesome. It's going to the board. Do you talk to the computer, cover the film, and then get it. Bop! First human reaction to some corp. Funny, funny thing about this. Where did you get that? And it's funny, your last name is Myles, so it's an M, it works. This is, I got this custom made. It's on Etsy. And I know for a fact the lady who makes them is like this Christian, she has no idea what you're saying. No, in the description it says, obviously you get a one letter, and then you can put, she said, names only.  So she made a cup, this is a motherfucker on it. It's the little things in life that bring me joy. That's so good. Anyway, there's nothing to do with what we're doing. Today we're doing a movie review. Uh, it's a... I'm going to take the watch off. It is a, uh, it's actually, we reacted to the songs and the trailer very early on. Probably within the first six months. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I think the phrase when Priyanka's happy, everybody's happy, came out of our reaction to... Yeah. Because when I watched it again, I couldn't help but feel like everything was going to be right with the world. That's been, uh, that's been on my playlist for a long time. But yes, this is actually the, even though we were going to get to this eventually, this was the Patreon May request of the month for the Hindi. Every month, uh, all Patreon members get to vote on one Hindi film and one regional. Uh, every month, this was their Hindi. Even though we would have eventually gotten to this. Yeah, I'm sure. But, uh, I'm glad they decided to, uh... But, in case you guys don't know about this film, uh, it's called Dildic Tuna. That's it. That's the actual original working title. Uh, directed and written by Zoya Aktar, uh, uh, from Belly Boy fame, uh, from us. And I think we've seen one other thing, of course. Um, but it's produced by Farhan Aktar, uh, and then starring everyone, Anil Kapoor, Shahi Fali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Aktar, and then, yeah, a whole bunch of other people that we do know as well, and, um, Vikran Masi who, uh, from Mizapur, and, uh, um, who's that other one called, um, Death and the Gun. Is it gonna be 100% spoiler-review? I'm assuming you've seen this film, came out in 2015. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. It's on Netflix for us. Um, but it's a, uh... It's a romantic comedy with family. Yep. Essentially is what it is. So, Rick, what is your initial thought? Well, and it's, it is our 31st of 2021. 31st film. 156th all-time. Yes. Our 104th Hindi film. Uh, and we're, we are, uh, tracking to do, like, we're gonna below, we did 65 films last year. We're gonna get to 100? We're gonna come real close. At the pace we're going out, we're gonna be in the 90s, we may get to 100. We try to do two a week. Yep. If we stay at that pace, we're gonna get in the low 90s, mid 90s. That'd be good. Uh, yeah. I, uh, to me, just a really fun, unexpectedly moving at times, escapist film that I thought was, uh, just, it's my, I have a bias toward this in the same way that I have a bias towards, say, eating sushi or Italian food. These kind of movies that are like this that remind me a lot of, say, You Again or Freaky Friday or even Debra. This reminded me a lot of the same kind of feeling of where you've got a rom-com dramedy that has a message. I just, I love them. So I love this movie. I actually really enjoyed this film as well. Uh, in terms of it being, I think it's one of the most, one of the first full-out rom-com style films that we've gotten. We have directed some others, but I think this almost embodies the tropes, the everything about the rom-com family drama. You could even go down to what happens in terms of what is considered the stereotypical qualities that make the differentiation between a comedy and a drama for Shakespeare. The tropes, the standard things where there's love stories and people, someone's in love with someone else and then there's a story that's made up and there's a mistaken identity. They have to forgive the guy. So there's a whole bunch of that, I just know you're getting that. I knew you'd love it because it's a dog. Telling the story. The minute I saw the dog, I'm like, Oh, Corbin's gonna love this. It was also, do you know who it was? The dog, the voice of the dog. Um, wasn't it an octar again? It was a, uh, who was it? It was a mirkan. That was a mirkan? It was a mirkan. It was? Wow. Nice. That was a mirkan. Sorry, I didn't get that. This is one of those films you could just turn on and just enjoy. You don't think about, in fact, we'll get into it. But when she left the boat, I'm like, I would literally yell, jump off the boat.  It's not the matter of if. Of course he's doing it.  So yeah, I really will get into all of it. But let's talk about the acting first. Yeah, of all the people. I think Ranveer honestly stole the show. Even though, not to say anybody else was bad. Everybody else was really, really good. The dude, man, he just impressed me even more. Because one, this could have just been a stereotypical, you're the love interest and you'd have to, and one, not everybody can do that. No. Even though it looks like a simple role, to make it memorable, it's not that easy. There's much more that can go wrong. When you've got, and Zoya knocked it out of the park, as did Farhan, because I understand he wrote the dialogue. This family affair is formulaic and it worked. They know how to work that formula and her direction and everybody's portrayals, especially I was interested to watch how he was going to do the comedy because it's one of the telltale signs of a good actor is can you do comedy well? Everybody did. He especially did because of all the roles in the film, his was the least grounded until the end. Everybody got really grounded at the end. We'll talk about that, but if there's any one of these that could have gone off the charts and been really cheesy bad, it was his role. It's obvious that we love Ranveer. We think he's a great actor and he has such a range and he brings such an energy to his performances. But we'll be brutally honest. Just because we love actors doesn't mean we're not going to say they weren't good in that. But he was. I think his chemistry with Anushka Sharma, I thought was really, really good. I loved them together. I was actually upset that we didn't get to see in the end them be together. Even though I assume obviously the big song, and they were together in the songs, I'm like obviously with literally at the very end, every romantic comedy trope happened within five minutes. I was listening to the song. I left yesterday after I was done watching it to go have dinner with Ashley and Harrell. And I just kept playing on repeat.   In a heartbeat. You're like, that's going to happen. I expected it and I loved it. It worked so well, I thought Shafali Shah, I think I mispronounced it. Shafali Shah. You've known if you've watched the channel and watched our reactions of her she's a phenomenal actress. In everything that we've seen her in. She had such a complex role because she had kind of almost fallen into this place, which a great scene for the whole thing.  That was the hospital scene. When he wouldn't leave. That was a great scene. I loved that Zoya literally just let it be silence and then Ren Vier just like looking at somebody and he grabbed the chair and he's like, I'm not moving. I loved the... I don't know if that was directed that way or if she just caught him doing it. But that was one of the best moments of the film is that moment when when she is screaming at him to get out and he's like, I'm not going to leave, I'm not going to leave, I'm not going to leave and then it gets silent for a second and he says, because dad, we know what he's been doing on his trips he's been sleeping with everybody and then dead silence and he's like, dad mom sister and you, you kind of just put up with it and then she obviously she can't go anywhere and she was like she was almost a villain at times but then she also feels so bad for her because you know she's stuck her husband's a complete asshole right until the very end of course like he's an asshole to her he sleeps around he's like the worst father that I can think of she kind of just accepted that this was her life and she also fed into his awful judgments and advice and that's where it got into and we'll talk about some of the other acting as well but as far as the messages it really did what some of the better rom-coms do and Debra did this, it's one of the things that we've talked about and relationship to other films we've seen recently that kind of just stay really shallow where this actually really got into some deep especially than the Indian culture the Indian family culture and in a way a modern way a modern way and an accessible way where this is something the whole family it's very hard to write and create a film that the whole family can sit down and watch it's going to touch on some very serious matters that the family might even sit there watching it going this is us and with you all happy and ready to go have dinner and talk and laugh, really hard to do so the writing with that in Zoya I think did a phenomenal job and then another moment, there was a bunch of moments obviously Shae Flecha had some really great Shafali Shah had some really great moments, Priyanka when she actually decided to tell him she wanted a divorce it was a phenomenal scene for her and so I thought she did really well I liked Sharma I liked her chemistry with Ranveer a lot very believable I mean I don't know who doesn't have great chemistry with Ranveer we've seen it with Priyanka, Deepika but you have to be a very think about it you have to hold your own he will overshadow you if you're not if you don't bring the energy and if you don't bring the talent the only reason he should pull back is if he's got it scripted like he did in Gully Boy in this he's not holding anything back so for her to shine equally with him speaks volumes and we've liked everything we've seen her do I do have one thing one and it's a pretty big complaint so I mark down what time it happened in the film is it 2 hours 19 minutes and 22 seconds is when the white doctor comes in hahahaha oh my goodness you can't deliver one line okay and I could see the look on the entire cast's face when he came to give the news they weren't shocked about the news about dad they were shocked where did she get this actor hahahaha anyway am I wrong? no you're not right and there was a few instances with some acting or some writing that was just cheesy but it's I knew that was going to happen going in that's every rom-com almost that you can think of all the classics ones at least that you can think of that they all have some cheesy lines and some like they all have stuff that's like completely unbelievable that would never happen but you accept it that's the genre you go in because you want to see the romance when you watch you again or freaky friday you know they're going to strain credulity you know this is nothing that could ever happen in real life and that's why you're enjoying it is because but you're also going to get real life moral lessons from it it's like great sitcoms the situational comedies have these ridiculous moments and lines that like if you watch Will and Grace there's some lines that Karen has and you're like there's no way Karen did that to her kids there's no way Karen did that with her husband and she says it and Jack doesn't blink nobody blinks but then later in the show there's like this really touching deep moment and that's what this is now I don't know if you noticed this but I noticed this so I thought Rahul Bose did a very good job playing Priyanka's husband but I did notice something so much so that I looked at it I looked it up while I was watching did you notice that whenever there were shots especially like the musical numbers he wasn't with Farhad Anil and Ranveer Farhan he wasn't with them and there was one sequence where they were on the boat and he walked up next to Priyanka and I saw him standing next to Priyanka and I realized oh I didn't realize he was that short oh was he really that short? well if you look his height up you're going to get everything from 5'4 to 5'5 to 5'6 to 5'7 he's a short dude yeah but here's the thing I don't know if this was asked or if Zoya just did it because I know they do this with Tom Cruise all the time because Tom Cruise is small he's not dinky but he's like 5'6 I think but like in the musical number the I've got Dil in my head right now I was looking around for him because he was sitting at the table and he's nowhere around until he comes down the stairs and then when he gets in front of the group they're all bent in half and he's snapping and then he's out yeah there was consistency with which he was framed in a way that didn't put him because Ranveer is 5'10 Farhan's 5'9 they probably didn't want him to seem that much diminutive in film that comes across if you look that much shorter obviously especially if you're next to big cute buff guys like Ranveer and Farhan and I think that might have been a primary consideration because if he looks that much smaller when he has the moment where he's telling Priyanka get up and do what I say and the brother and the dad are getting mad if you've already gotten this idea that he's diminutive comparatively he's not going to seem as much of a threat and physically the dude is a freaking freak of nature this guy's got like a metabolic rate this bows himself the man he's 52 but his metabolic system is a 27 year old the dude is an athlete and the dude is an amazing the thing I noticed is that he looks like Rufus Sewell to me I know that name you do oh yeah you're right you're you know what's crazy about that I didn't even remember his name but when I was watching the film and I'm watching bows in the role I'm like you know who he reminds me of and it was him but I couldn't remember the name he would play those roles it's the face it's the frilled brow he just looks like the Indian version of him great actors he's not a name but he's always in a great supporting role and he always does always does a great job that's what I imagine this other guy I think this is the first thing we've ever seen him in we've seen him in trailers for stuff and he was great the whole cast was uniform let's talk about a nil this is one of our first outside of Slumdog I thought he did a good job I thought it was a difficult role because one, he has to be a dick but also he didn't play it well, except for certain moments obviously even Zoya credit to Zoya here and Farhan I guess if he wrote him this way this guy he's awful he treats on his wife, awful to his kids he's awful to his wife and he's manipulative often you didn't feel that way until those big outburst moments which is phenomenal obviously that's what I expect because I know his reputation he's an actor and I would expect nothing less from him to not play a stereotype and I think he did a good job doing that I was expecting him to be good he was better than I was expecting and it's really easy to judge a character and play them as a cliche and it wouldn't have worked it's a testament to his prowess Farhan's writing and Zoya's directing because when he has the moment in the bed with her and he's actually saying something that seems genuinely intimate and she says to him why are you saying that, there's no audience to hear you and then she realizes that was bad for me to do if he was a completely dislikable guy you would have sided with her but I actually did feel a little bit bad for him he definitely made me question it's like oh that was sweet but also he definitely slept with everyone his perspective on what his son is there's a line in there where Roonveer's character says I'm an asset he treats Priyanka like his kids they're just assets for his company this film brought up so many points about Indian family Priyanka, she wanted a divorce there's an entire family meeting about something that's not their business and the constant repetitiveness of it's not the husband talking it was his mom, it was her parents the in-laws and the constant framing of what will people think and that pressure and the stigma very brave not only to put in a film but to put in a film that's like a family affair this is accessible to people it's not like an art house film that of all these people aren't going to see they should put in a film that I'm assuming this was a big hit I'm assuming it made a lot of money because obviously with all these people in it we didn't talk about Farhan he had a small role and it was halfway through the film when he finally showed up I knew he was in but I thought him and Priyanka had good chemistry that scene that they had in the room was very believable I don't expect anything less from Farhan even though we haven't seen a ton of him that's what I expect I expect him to be really really good he already started at that echelon and was like I know what to expect from you and if you don't bring it I'm probably going to be upset and a real credit because the writing and direction, the combination and the brother sister working this well together if you guys happen to be watching this the writing and the way that the pacing of the film for a film that is it's over two and a half hours isn't it? it's almost three hours most rom-coms don't work that long but this never got boring it stayed crisp, it stayed believable well paced the funny wasn't done just for the laughs and I even felt the writing of the characters who were the ancillary family that were there on the trip like the guy who had had the heart attack I didn't feel like they made any kind of a hollow caricature of a person they did their best to flesh these people out as best as they could I thought he did a very good job this was very different from the other roles that we've seen him in because death and gunge and then Mise-Bourg, they were very similar very shy, reserved smart characters this guy was more of a normal guy I thought he did well I'm trying to find her here I thought she did an excellent job in the role that she played in the relationship she had with Runvir where is she? I don't know her character name was Noori right? Noori Noori I can't believe I didn't pick up on the fact that that was Amir Khan I don't know why she's not in the IMDb credits here that's strange, she was kind of a big part she was a very big part, she's a supporting part in that I'm trying to find the name Noori here was that a nickname? maybe is this her? No that's not her, right? I don't know and the music guys it was as enjoyable for me the title song and the other songs and even her song when Runvir is falling in love with her it's got that 1920s feel to it the song composition and production quality was hairspray level good and the song was when Anushka Sharma was singing on stage Runvir finally figured out she was a dancer and then Priyanka got up and knew every step I know, that's so good she just happened to know every step knew every step loved it and yes, when Priyanka's happy everybody's happy and she looked just so beautiful and every single thing she did and so many times where the art scene of Zoya was there there were some unrelenting close up shots and some of the more intimate sequences I'm super interested to watch obviously of Runvir, I love Runvir he's another little notch in his repertoire of how many different roles he can play which I greatly I'm not saying he's like Nawaz I think he could get to that level absolutely but I think he's a really talented actor who has a versatile and also an energy that he brings that very few have and that brings a lot to a character but the fact that he can play this role play the role in Padma Va play the gully boy play the Bhaji Ramastani role and then there's a bunch that we haven't seen like Simba which obviously we know is a big masala film but I'd be interested to see how that is because like this is almost like when Heath Ledger played in 10 things they hit about you it's just a fun film it's not a film that you're going in expecting great but they can pull out great performances in those roles that's what great actors can do and it makes me love him even more and you might guys be like there's Runvir by, yeah we love him and I think it's warranted it's not unwarranted love and yeah I agree with you he isn't and I don't even think he'd put himself in that category and I don't even know there's need to make a comparison to it but the biggest thing for me was how this was able to highlight everybody in this their capacity to do comedy drama, ensemble, camaraderie you could also feel not just, I think the ease of working because everybody here knows each other and has done previous projects together I think this must have been a really really fun shoot you could feel the energy of the cast I want to see more of Zoya she knows how to put together a film and do it really well also cinematography, it was beautiful I thought whoever the cinematographer looks like it's Carlos Carlos Catalan who there were some shots that were so good I didn't know if they were using drones and cranes it was like now you're showing off all around just a fun film one of my favorite romance comedies right up there with Debra for me I can't wait to watch it with Ashley and Alexis it's just when you sit down this is going to be a lot of fun and you'll just enjoy it let us know what's the next Zoya and obviously all these people beer, Anil, Priyanka, Shafila Shah all of them one of them I know we're stupid everybody knows your name what the next film we should watch is down below


Coming to you from RGIS Studios, I am Anicia Antoine and this is your media news brief. The Ministry of Health and Wellness in collaboration with the Department of External Affairs is coordinating a humanitarian mission visit by the United States Naval Ship Comfort from September 23, 2019 to October 2, 2019. While in St. Lucia, the ship will be built at podcast trees with two walk-in clinics for general services, one at the OKEU Hospital and another location which will be confirmed in September. Medical Officer of Health Dr. Sharon Belma George says the services will be free of charge and open to all who need medical care. Dr. Belma George notes however that a request from a local doctor is needed for diagnostic procedures and a referral from a physician is needed for surgical procedures as these procedures are prescheduled. During its deployment in the region, the ship will also visit Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Kitts, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The events company of St. Lucia is the host of the latest series of workshops targeting the youth and the creative arts industry as part of its activities leading up to the Roots and Soul Festival. The organization held a performance poetry workshop last week at the Miquod Public Library with London-based performer and poet Kamiya Lisette as its facilitator. A group of students from the Miquod community were treated to not just an early performance but an entirety of learning about creative writing from the St. Lucia-born London-raised poet and educator who will be taking the stage on Friday, August 23 for the opening night of the 2019 Roots and Soul Festival. The Roots and Soul Festival is the third component of the St. Lucia Summer Festival and featured another free performance poetry workshop on Thursday at the Bay Gardens Hotel for students over the age of 11. The government of St. Lucia sought to strengthen the Gaming, Racing and Betting Act with a number of amendments made to the act as the last sitting of parliament. Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Economic Growth, Job Creation, External Affairs and the Public Service, Honourable Island Sharsney indicated that the move was necessary to ensure greater clarity as it relates to the Betting and Gaming in St. Lucia especially with the Desert Star Holding project which includes a horse racing track to come on stream. The act following the amendment in 2018 was tested for six months after which it was realised that several adjustments were necessary such as the modification of definitions and board stipulations to name a few. This has been your Midday News Brief. Thank you for watching.


Thanks for thanks for my talk is about some new insight on the AES like SPIN ciphers.  Block ciphers are among the most important primitive in constructing cryptographic schemes such as authentication schemes and hash functions and among the most famous block ciphers the advanced encryption standard is currently the most interesting candidate to build different schemes such as these ciphers, these schemes in the ongoing CES competitions. Some of them use the AES run function directly and the others maybe use some AES like SPIN ciphers. Although the security of these schemes does not completely depend on the underlying primitives we believe that the security of the run reduced AES could give some new insight to both the design and the cryptanalysis of the authentication encryption algorithms basically there are two settings in cryptanalysis one which is the distinguishing attack and the other is the key recovery attack and for distinguishing attacks the distinguishing properties refers to those properties of a cipher that a random permutation do not have and for key recovery attack the aim of this attack is to recover some run keys of a cipher and usually the attack is supplied once some distinguishing property of a reduced run block cipher has been found for example in differential cryptanalysis we first define some differential characteristic with high probability but for a random permutation this characteristic may not exist and let's see some details of the SPIN like ciphers AES like SPIN ciphers in the design of these ciphers one usually uses the MDS matrix with elements are restricted to low hamming weight in order to reduce the workload of the multiplication over finite field and not only the MDS matrix are always circulate but also they are identical element in each row for example in the AES the first rule of the MDS MDS matrix is 2-3-1-1 and I give a little summary of the known distinguish for the AES although there exists some five-run distinguish for AES 192 and AES 256 the known distinguisher for all version of the AES only covers at most for run for example the impossible differential AES only covers for run and also the integral distinguisher these signatures hold not only in the choosing plant X mode but also in the choosing cipher setting and this is basically because the most of the distinguish are based on the fact that the mixed column is MDS matrix so since the inverse of MDS matrix is also MDS matrix so this property holds on both directions so this is the definition of hamming weight and the correlation of brain function and the vectorial functions so we did it but we will use this notation to denote circular matrix and for the AES like ciphers we always have we also know the wrong function is composed of four parts the first part is add run case and then super byte if the division layer is made up of shift rules and the mixed column there we say the S pin cipher is an AES cipher for the AES the shift rule equal to 0, 1, 2, 3 this means the first rule is we keep the first rule and the second rule left rotated by one byte and the mixed column is circular matrix and in group 2006 2016 we have proved that the longest impossible differential of the AES is for if we do not exploit the detail of the S box so if we want to construct longer impossible differential of zero correlation we should exploit the detail of the S box and also we should exploit the detail of the MDS matrix so this here give an example of the known for example for run impossible or zero correlation linear how of the AES since in the M3 the input to M3 has three non-zero element and output has one only one so the sum of this is four which is contradict with the fact that the branch number of the MDS matrix is five so if the input so if the input mask is like this and the output is only one so this the correlation of this mask should be zero to enhance the performance of a cipher designers usually use identical S box for example in AES the 16 S box that you want are the same and the diffusion layer whose element often have relatively low hamming weight which is not necessarily but often cause some weakness as shown in the following first we will recall a fact that if the input mask to linear function and is A and the output mask of a linear function is B then if the correlation is non-zero then A and B should satisfy that B equals to the transpose of L minus 1 times A and the first in the following we will always ignore the first shift rule since it can be omitted in the capital C's and we assume that the AES like S being cipher satisfy the following conditions the first one is there always exist two elements such that they are two identical element in the transpose of the inverse of the mixed column matrix and without loss of generality the S boxes in the two positions are the same then the creepiness of the following we hope let's see here so not only the input mask of the two S boxes are the same but also the values of the two S boxes are identical so so if the input mask to these two positions are the same and the output mask should be the hemivet of the output mass should be three or four and in most cases it should it always it is always four so to make it be three here if the input mask is A A 0 0 and we already have these two elements at D so this element should be 0 to make this hold when we need we need the condition that the input mask are the same and also the value to the two S boxes are the same so in this case the two the input mask of this form the output of then the output mask should be of this form and then like as we aware as I have already explained before and this this is a four round zero correlation linear how so in this case if the input is always from the an output or the only one active expected in the output then this correlation should be 0 and since we have established some relationship between a zero correlation linear how and the integral distribution integral distribution we can turn the the zero correlation linear how to an integral one um let for AES like spin cipher if the let delta equals to the difference of two sub bytes of the let delta equals to the two bytes of sub keys and we denote a set like this then the output of five round AES like spin ciphers will have the following property the sum of each byte equals zero but for a random permutation it happens with it can it is not always holding so this can can distinguish a five round AES like cipher from a random permutation so let if the if the if two bytes of the plain text if two bytes of the plain text equals to uh uh to to delta and then uh we denote by t delta f like this uh this is the sum is let me see so the sum is in this set so there are since we already know if if delta equals to the two sub bytes of the keys then the sum is zero and the delta can only be one two three and zero two two to the power n minus one so there always exists a delta such that the sum is zero and for random permutations the property is too low so this we can say that this can distinguish uh uh block cipher from random permutation and we can also give a direct proof of this theorem and we refer for refer to our paper for the details so next we give some applications to the hash schemes since in block cipher we cannot know the value of the key but in the hash scheme we can sometimes we can know that that if if the if the chain value act as the key then we can know the difference of the two bytes so in in the if we consider a hash scheme we cannot to guess the value of the two the difference of the two sub keys so in the hash scheme in the hash scheme the this the value is we can always know this value so if the the different of the two parts of the planet x equals to this value then uh we can determine that the sum of the output can always be there since the whirlpool hash fancy is a special constant of m p hashing scheme so this this result can be generalized to a m p hash hash mode and in this case the subset we does not necessarily form a subspace this is different with uh uh integral attack uh basically in uh integral attack the the subset v is always a subspace of f2 to n and for the let's see the application to the a s and since the the inverse the transpose of the inverse of a s like this e 9 d b and they are we cannot find a two element sub we cannot we cannot find a two equal element so it seems that we cannot construct such distributors for the five-run a s but if we uh we consider the the decryption of the a s then since the matrix 2311 we can find the two elements that are equal so we can construct the distributors for the inverse of a s so like this if the this is the cipher text if the two part of the side text cipher text is equal to the corresponding as a case the the sum of the planet x is always zero just like this but for random permutation it happens with the probability 2 2 minus 120 so this this property can be used to uh for instance when the code book is provided to determine whether it is a s when both the block cipher and the keys are unknown since the a s adopts a circular mds matrix we can get many other different variants of this property by dividing the whole set into different subsets so let's see the conclusion uh distinguishing of the a s like x being structured are covered extensively in this paper and we all these results are based on the two observations so uh the first one is they are two identical elements in the rule of the transpose of the inverse of the matrix and the second one is they are the s boxes are identical and they in the husband mode the where the change in value serves as the secret key in the block cipher we can further remove the constraints on the matrix and s boxes and we apply the new result to the workflow and construct five run integral like distinguishes and although we cannot build a distinguisher in the chosen planet text mode we can construct a five run integral distribution for the a s in the chosen cipher text mode um which is the best distribution for the a s with respect to the number of run it covers so our result shows that despite the key schedule the second margin of the run reduced a s on the chosen planet text deck may be different from that on the chosen cipher text attack and we we also try to apply a key key recovery tag using the new distinguisher and if we can ignore the ignore the complexity of the doing the partial sum then we can attack seven run but in this case the complexity of the of doing the partial sum is too high and someone may think that it cannot be ignored so someone may regard it as a correct or someone may be thinking it's wrong so we can we did not add this route to the paper so that's all thank you


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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. First up, the coming soon. This is our circuit-pice online poster. We have a new poster vendor. Um, we were using a poster company and they didn't like that we weren't using them for every single one of our packaging needs and goods and told us to buzz off, so it took me a while to find another poster vendor. So we should have these in stock soon. Oh, are by Bruce. Yeah. So. You know, you can connect HD devices and displays and we've got USB host. Um, so some cool stuff. Yeah. Okay. Next up. Next up, we've got a whole, uh, gaggle of power supplies, different configurations. The reason I like these power supplies that we already stocked by bolt, uh, five ant power supplies from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and 3M for their Pi 4s and Pi 5s. They don't have this cool switch built in and the switch was kind of like not only is it a switching power supply, but it's a switchable switching power supply. So these are all five volt output and some are three amps and some are four amps. The four amp one is going to be a little bit more expensive. It's a little bit bigger. Um, but these are great for use with your Raspberry Pi 4, which has a USB-C connector. You can also use them with the Pi 5. Um, the three or four amp one will work just fine. Um, I'll say if you're using like all of the possible ports and they're one amp each and you've got like multiple displays and, um, disk drives connected over USB, you might need five amps, but like 95 percent of people do not need a full five volt five amp power supply, three amp or four amp will be fine. Um, and again, that switch is pretty cool because you can now like really cut power to your entire setup. Does the switch cut the mains? Um, there's no mains power. The mains power is, is in the transformer and in the brick. And then the switch is for the five volts that comes out of the USB port. Yeah, a switch for that would be like on the block. Yeah, that'd be on the block. This, I mean, the, but it's a switching power supply. There's no load. It's not going to use any current. So it's not like old style. Um, where the current would still be going through a transformer. There's no, it's, it's smart. So it's not going to be drawing power. Even, um, even if your power, the switch is turned off on the five volt side. Okay, cool. Yeah. And make sure you look at the product page documentation. Yes, there's a couple of ones. There's like a vertical style, horizontal style and a high volt, high current. This is four amp. Those are three amp. Okay, next up. Next up, uh, by request from JP, we have these silicone coated wires in different colors. We've got like the pack of like red, black, you know, orange, green, blue or whatever, but he's like, or white. He's like, I want more cool colors. So this is extension cables about six inches long. Um, and they come in a bunch of different colors. You get 30. So I think it's like five wires and six different colors. Okay. And then start the show tonight. Besides you, Lady Yeta, our community, our customers, our entire team of data for the mixings go and all the folks that are totally into sharing and making the world a better place through science, technology and engineering. And that's what the M stem stands for more. More. Uh, this is a new feather way. Um, by request, but also I thought it would be a fun build. It's a capacitive touch, 3.5 inch diagonal feather wing with lots of pixels. This is basically the biggest display you can get with the SPI interface. Um, I misspelled capacitive somehow. I think I was working on this really late at night. I will fix that in post, um, next board, but you know, you could order now and get the version with the typo and it might be worth more in the future. Like a miss strike on, uh, on a stamp. Uh, since the feather weight, which means you can plug a feather into it. So let's go to the overhead. I'll show in demo. So this is my prototype to its green and also has the typo and catch it in the beginning. Um, but otherwise it's the same hardware and you can plug in any feather into it. I will say that the best feathers to use because it is a big display or ones that have a fast SPI port. So the RP 2040, the ESP 32, the M fours, you could use this with the 8266 and the M zeros and the 328 and the 324, but it's going to be a little tougher. Um, they're not going to get as high speeds. It's going to be slower updates. Um, definitely the ESP 32s are going to be fast. Every 2040 is not too bad either.  Backlight driver and then, um, it communicates over I squared C for the touch screen and SPI for, um, the, uh, display itself. Turn this so you can see Adabon and all his glory. Um, so this is the display and it's, uh, displaying over the micro SD cards. There's a micro SD card slot over here and the capacitive touch is multi touch. So there's five, uh, touch points available. So you can see as I put four fingers on it can track each point individually. Um, I guess I can use five fingers, but it's kind of clumsy to use your thumb. Um, uh, so you can have an IRQ line on the, uh, capacitive touch to make it pretty fast. Um, uses the FT five three three six and then the display itself is an HX, uh, five three seventy nine D. I can remember where the numbers, but it starts with HX and we've got, um, drivers for that, uh, for Arduino and circuit Python. And that's the new product. Thank you. With that is the new products of the week.


Welcome to the session in the room 2, exactly. Jerry. Welcome to the... After the session in the room, we will start with something speaking about customizing quantified in the room 2. Thank you. Thank you. In this session... Oh, yeah. In this session, I will talk about something possible in the room. Some problems in the room when customizing. There's no problem. But at first, again, I would like to introduce the background of this room. If you go to the property, if you go, you will find the article I wrote this in 2013. It's a successful story about... about 10,000 PCs, it's based on 4, in Utah city. Now... Actually, you can go in and read it again. And then you can see what's the easy goal. But here, I will still simply introduce the quality goal. The easy goal is, you can say, a derived distribution customized by... before, by Ubuntu, and then by Kubuntu. The main purpose of easy goal is to promote good free software applications to everyone. And then we also form some good tutorial, public domain tutorial. And then we also join a bad day into the easy goal and just maintain the distribution to Kubuntu and everyone. Can I ask a personal favor? Okay, I'll try. Otherwise, it's so loud, but it's... Sorry. Okay, so when we customize the easy goal, we focus very much on the user experience about what users need. So the main idea of easy goal is actually application management. Generally speaking, this is just like this. There are many, many different distributions like major, Ubuntu, Fedora, Ubuntu, same. And anyway, we choose one for them. And no matter distribution we use, always use as we do for now. Maybe later, maybe years. And then we have different desktop, right? So we choose one backup for them, and then we focus on the application. Because to promote these to new users, for new users diversity is actually a good feature for web-source robots. It also confuses the new user very much. So for new users, we just cover the desktop to system to promote this part. We don't let them know. Actually, you don't need to explain anything to them. We just let them to experience the free software applications. Okay, that's the main idea of easy goal. And since the application is the main concept, main idea of easy goal, before we use Ubuntu and use GNOME 2, but then Ubuntu changed to Unity. And from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3, the application main is GNOME 2. Their idea is that for PC and for the touch panel, they should use the same interface. So at that time, we know that if we had no application main, the new user would not have set. Actually, Windows 8 proves my output. When Windows 8 comes, they know the application main is gone, and then the user is out. Why? Why do you use it now? Okay, so at that time, we decided to change the desktop from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3. At last, it's Prisma 4. So of course the main reason is that in Prisma 4, we have a traditional mode with the application main is still there. Okay, so since it's called version 10 to year-end and 12, they were based on GNOME 2, GNOME 2.4, so GNOME 4.4, GNOME 4.4. This is for 10. This is for 10. No personal phone, that's our server. Every version we have a server. You can read the article. So that's how we tell people. And then that's in the 11, and that's the part we put on to the new type of CD, some of the PC's, this version. Okay, and then the bridge is the new type of CD. That's 11. Okay, choose one, anyone, for you. That's how it's loaded at that time. That means you have choice. The new type of CD was asked for licensing because they think they have no choice. But then we get another choice. So that version is very important. And this is 12. This is based on GNOME 2.4 and the server type rules. So here, I would like to say the customizing here is not to customize based on so that I can use it mostly or as part I want. The customizing here means we need to make it a system default. So that when we create a new user, they will have such environment. So it's not just to make things into your home page. No, because the system has no user at that time. It may only have live user. And the live user is created during the runtime. So the customizing here is to make this system default. That's very important. So actually, that's why every time I ask questions about the customizing, maybe some developer, they don't understand how I mean it by customizing. So before easily going there, ten years ago, the word I used is I call it 30 hack. I directly changed the file content or directly changed the image but with the same file name. That means, it's not really the file, but the content is what I want. I call it 30 hack. Of course, for example, we directly changed the content of this file, press mark, desktop initial, before layout. That's the default desktop layout. The default is desktop activity and with which content, which press moist inside it. We directly changed the content. Of course, it has a main drawback. That is, we cannot update it. If we update KDE, the file will be overriding back to the KDE version before. So we need to turn off the PDA on KDE version 2 to avoid users to upgrade it. Because we are using 30 hack. But then, to the EZ12, at that time I was studying the school readings. You know school readings? The non-name is Debian Education. I was a friend from Debian and I was studying how the team made the school readings. I found out they do it differently. That's what I want. For example, in the extension, that means when the X window starts, they put some screen inside and make a linear to what they want and put the menu graphics here. So I just told you that easy code in easy code, the application may be very important because we categorize and store them together. I just want to show you. Though it's in Chinese, but you can say, that's the office suite. XMI is the development. XMI is the drill. That's the graphic design. You can see the scale. We categorize them together and then the education. Do you remember? And here is that. That's how we form the good public domain for education. Because we changed the whole menu structure, we followed the SDG menu step. We followed the SDG menu step. In the SDG menu step, you need to define the menu purpose, so that they will really bring the menu what I want, show the menu what I want. Now we can customize automatically. We don't need to change the menu every time. So I just put these files into the extension.b, and then when I boot it, the x-window will read that before the getting starts. And all the environment, all the very vulnerable will be affected during all the getting sessions. So in e2.12, I use this way, and I will active a brand, a pure brand, a name and name. My goal is that after installing the native or native Debian, I just need to install another easy-core packages, and it will become easy-core. That's my goal. So, of course, the package needs to follow Debian's policy. So, for example, I just, in the file, I just add a variable. Now, how do you see this easy-core.12 file around here in the vector box? You see? The zero real default is the original file. It's the original file in the variable 2. And I just need to add this one to override it. It will be executed after the zero. So I don't need to change this file. I just use another file to override it. And that should be the creative way of customizing, right? So, I made some Debian packages for this. So I just need to put new file in, and it will be custom-automated. So, everything is fine. Everything is fine. You can see in the location menu, I have easy-core also a creative form for the creative menu. But it will follow my easy-core of the creative menu. Right? Again, I'll show you this. This is my creative menu. Okay? It's not creative menu. It's in my easy-core menu. Okay, so that's my project, I told you. I just need to install native distribution then for easy-core packages. Also, it can apply to X1.2 or L1.2. Okay? So everything is fine. Everything is fine. Then until K2060.4 release. When we start to make the easy-core 13, we started starting 6,000 form and iPhone every single change. The first thing is that my easy-core menu is over. I said, no matter how I said it, it gives you many prefects. For example, you can see that my menu prefects is not set to physical but it does not matter. No matter how I said it, it always can't find a project. Always. I have no way that only what I can do is that remove the original one in the link little bit ago. That's the only thing I can do. Because no matter how I say the variable always can't find. So that's the screenshot. Okay, another question is that we have a pending profile. The profile is I can put some configuration in the profile but before we read ETC-KD4RC and then in KU-116 W4 what should I use? I have no documents. Nobody told me what file should I use. I use KD4RC KDRC that I try to find the source that I try to find the source. The source told me it should use KD5RC but no documents say that. Nothing in the wiki. No documents say that. There is no KD5. There is no KD5. That makes no sense. I do that but again, no use. Because I put the following content. It works in ETC-KD12 in Prisma 5. This purpose passed. But when I use it and even I create the ETC-KD5RC it's still no use. So everything I did in ETC-KD12 it won't work in Prisma 5. So that is another problem. Search and launch is gone. In ETC-KD12 we can say that you can use traditional based out based on activity and you have a competition menu and also you can switch to search and launch it's suitable for the touch screen you can use that and then spread the category and I also remember I also own some files in the search and launch and I report back and they fix the file I remember that but in Prisma 5 it's gone. Then the most important problem is this. In KD12 16 in KD12 16 4 there is only one layer of objects the layer of objects is here now the current file company is changed by me but I would like to say before I can use 0.0 and 1.0 or 2.0 or 3.0 so that it can be overwritten but in this version in Prisma 5 I can handle that I need 30 heads again because they just call for this file name they just call for this file and call for contents.js then I cannot direct overwrite it if my package I direct overwrite or direct change the file content it violates the baby package RLC but at that time I really I I didn't ask in the development list or even our session but I couldn't get an answer for this. So that's the problem because when I try to customize this in this version I need to call for it because actually what makes me confuse most is actually for this for example it works in Prisma 4 I just set up the environment the variable environment in the next session starts before it works but in Prisma 5 then another developer last week really last week after I made this the developer told me another way he said maybe without this variable environment variable does not pass to Prisma 4 so he tried out for me he tried quick application Prisma 4 and then with this environment and then record Prisma 4 again in this menu hey it works it works but my version is that yes it works but first I didn't find a document to say that second is even this works quite my old way didn't work to me I say my old way just put it in the next session before it starts you should just follow the environment variable I think it should go this way I think it should go this way even I didn't pass it to Prisma 4 it should inherit or follow what I said in the environment variable that time but it didn't and this developer tried this last week that's the first time I got an answer for the problem I tried to customize Prisma 5 the first time I got an answer for that but I think there are still many other problems but anyway our next version our next version now it's vehicle 13 our next version I would like to use a new one it's really beautiful it's very enough the migration machine I used to try that ok yeah I would like to use communion but currently communion still have the problem I said still have especially the main object I have no way about to directly change the concept I think it needs to be resolved or I have no way to make the correct data packages ok so especially tomorrow I would like to talk about I see a great chance to promote KD Taiwan especially the time discoverer I see a great chance but before that we need to prepare well we need to have a total solution for that and I hope that I can customize KDM correctly so the good news is a lot of those problems we have solutions the good news is a lot of those problems we have solutions and they are generally factored in the past 4 months so I think you should come to the platform of tomorrow so yeah before you go and we will just fix all of your problems and what we do with new systems is we have a distribution called NETRA which is a customized neon and we do exactly all the same stuff we have a custom manual if you want to look into it tonight Google for look and feel package so one thing that's new in NETRA 5 is we have a system called look and feel packages and what the look and feel package can supply is a custom layout.js file initialization scripts custom QML stuff like your own lock screen we can put all of the stuff into a look and feel package which is actually just a folder that you make in the right place and look and feel packages can inherit from default so you can just override what you need so you can place your own layout there you can even add an initialization script for example the input method never legit to configure it already into and even if the user then removes it and adds it back it will get initialized and stuff like that so it's much better than Plasma 4 it's just moved to a different place and the problem is obviously in our documentation sucks and we can't fight it but I would say if you walk through your problems and while we do that we take notes and then we write docs so the next person does not have the same problem okay I know the look and feel package you saw but I haven't started that yet so I will try it please hello so we only have the same problem do you know dpkgdvert what dpkgdvert it's a tool where you can divert files from one package to replace kind of the place so that's one mechanism we did dpkgdvert so we didn't use it but that's definitely one problem we're having at all so but our problem extends over a little bit feel like we need more greenerization but that's the same but because we usually will customize dpkgdvert so that means a release so it's not generated before so usually we would quite quite I need to install it it would be the same yeah yeah yeah I think the pacename problem is still we still need to that's a good solution so I really found out on the last slide your environment that I'm getting to pacenachelle and that's the main problem I think and that's probably an sdm change and when you fix that we'll start using your dpkgdvert if you sex and when you do that the next one will start working again so the root cause of probably our accession script isn't being loaded as we want it to be loaded it should be loaded as and then I fix it everything sdm should pass through the environment yeah very easy yeah so any questions? that's the other the other is to run more so if you are interested in about the quality of the dpkgd and I have a boat tomorrow afternoon after the beach office so we can discuss there and also I know that tomorrow there are a whole day of running maybe I will go and try to talk with you about this okay thank you any other problem? any other questions? no okay thank you


Yeah, Georg, I think I already introduced you last year. You're not going to do better this year. Yeah, I'm not going to do better than I did last year, I think. Georg Reve is like Shane, one of those disgustingly innovative people.  We all know you from your FSFE days, and now you're an SME. The last panel I promised would look forward a little bit and look at the kind of policy environment that we require in order to fully capitalize on what openness and collaboration can bring for Europe. Some of those things were already raised in Blinn's panel, but the idea here is that we really open up, look forward, and come possibly with some more specific suggestions for what the policymakers in the room should be taking away from today. Georg. Thank you, Zajicco. I've been around the circuit for a while, spent over a decade, by the way, in policy, and have the professional deformation to show for it as well. But what I will try to do, since I don't want people to go crying into the drinks after the session, is make this slightly more uplifting, if possible, and slightly more concrete. We have a very interesting panel here. I'm not going to go into these CVs. You have all the bios in the documentation, but the idea here is to give you a bit of a concrete practitioner's view, if you will, as to how making it happen, or perhaps, how making open happen in the end. And so I'm very glad to have this illustrious panel to present with Mr. Bartbeck, Steve Croissant, then Emma Swan, and Joelle Lambiott. And that, in fact, is also essentially the order in which we will go. We will go from the finance perspective over the knowledge sharing to the actual implementation on the ground as someone who makes it happen for their customers. And we're going to start with a couple of short presentations as before, and then we'll hopefully have a lively and energetic discussion to leave everyone with a positive outlook and an idea of what we can do to actually make sure that this is not the last year of openness, Holger Birken has said, but hopefully just the end of the beginning in a way. So Bart, would you please? Thank you. Hi, good afternoon, everyone.  I'm sick, I'm hurting on my foot, but I'll still try to bring a perspective. So since I'm fairly new to the community here, I'll quickly explain who I am, who am I, besides the fact that I ask myself regularly. So I used to work at FNAC. It's kind of a distribution company in France for book CDs and technical products, which is funny enough, started by a couple of Marxist people and they're still striving a little. I then became CEO of SkyNet, which in Belgium was, or still is, I think, one of the leading ISPs in consumer and business space. We talked about access in digital TV. I also used to run that. It was one of the first digital TV implementation, which was Bellicombe TV, and then I ran innovation, all new activities for the SBS group, which we sold then to a pro-Zeeban group in 2007. And then, like some, I wanted to do what I did in the beginning, so I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I often tell this line when I grow up, I want to be an entrepreneur, even if my wife always tells me I have to choose between either of them. So I started, or co-founded, and invested in 10 companies, which is all some kind of open element to them. Mobile Vikings is a virtual operator completely built on communities, Storify is a San Francisco-based company which uses social media to mash up and curate new kind of stories. They just got the Global Innovation Award for journalism. It's a very interesting perspective on what they're doing and a couple of other companies. I'm also chairman of the board of IBBT, which is a Belgium organization which drives innovation across universities, large organizations, and startups, which is doing some interesting stuff. But what I mostly want to talk about is a company that I launched two years ago, which is called Sonic Angel. Sonic Angel is a crowdfunding platform where we created a platform to invest in young artists. The big issue with music is kind of the same as with entrepreneurs, is that there was a lack of capital to fund them. And what happens if there's not a lot of payback on the large organizations, there's especially not a lot of money for what they call seat equity. The parallel between if it's creative works or startups are fairly similar. So we launched it two years ago. We had quite some good fun in the beginning because the first one that we launched went immediately to the number one position with this album in Belgium, number three in Germany, number two in France, which also created good headlines because the product that we created was you could buy kind of a share. We call it a fan share into an artist because for 10 euro you got a download of the album, a ticket entry for a concert and a proportional share of the profit. And for Tom, for 10 euro you got the album. So everybody was already happy. You got the entrance to a concert ticket. So you're double happy and per 10 euro we did a payback of 34 euro per 10 euro, which made the financial newspaper here title best investment of the year, Tom Dice. Luckily the collapse of all the banks helped us in our marketing campaign. We then quickly also extended it to film, to young filmmakers. We have now a couple of them already in the Cannes Film Festival. It's quite amazing how quickly it's distributing. And then we had this guy helping us a little since Obama in the U.S. and then if you followed it he had a 10 point economic plan and one of his 10 points is that he said you have to stimulate crowdfunding because it enables a new kind of creativity and entrepreneurship and that boomed the entire market. So you have now incredible amount of crowdfunding platforms. And we are, they're now implementing a rule that you can crowdfund. That's one of the elements. Crowdfund until a million dollar. That's where they're going to in U.S. And what's I think a very exciting project which we're launching in a couple of weeks now which we're gearing up is called angel.me where we will be applying crowdfunding to startups, but not only crowdfunding we'll also do access to capital and support for entrepreneurs and I'll quickly explain that. So crowdfunding is where you can invest and have equity in startups. So you take away the barrier to see equity for startups, but it's not the end point. We'll collaborate with banks and funds so that sometimes they'll have an allocated budget. So for example, if you raise 100,000 euro via crowdfunding another fund could allocate another 200,000 to it and a bank could see it as a funnel management to their loans. So it's an ecosystem around it and we're also building incubators around it because a lot of startups is not only getting the good idea, the good people and the right capital, it's also scaling