An Israeli lawmaker's address to Israel's Knesset was interrupted by air raid sirens on October 16, prompting an evacuation and the session to be halted for a short while the armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it fired a barrage of missiles on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, according to Israeli media. Several explosions were heard in the area, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.A.L. Qasem Brigades said in a statement that its attack came in response to Israel's getting of civilians.


A new study has shown that the easyhaler dry powder inhaler can be used successfully by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. In COPD, the airways are narrow, which makes breathing difficult.  However, for dry powder inhalers to work properly, patients must be able to inhale with enough force to breathe the powder particles deep into their lungs. Such forceful inhalation could be a challenge for people with COPD. To examine the success of easyhaler use in patients with COPD, researchers compared two versions of the device with another type of dry powder inhaler, the handyhaler, in 100 patients and 100 healthy volunteers. After being taught how to use the devices, the participants inhaled three times through each device in a random order. Because multiple inhalations were performed in the study, a placebo was used in the devices instead of active medication. The main outcome tested was peak inspiratory flow, defined as the maximum rate of air inhalation through the device. The patients and the healthy volunteers achieved similar peak inspiratory flow rates for all the devices. In addition, all of the subjects achieved the flow rate of 30 liters per minute required for the easyhaler to be effective, even patients with severe airway obstruction. These findings indicate that the breathing difficulties of patients with COPD don't prevent them from using these inhalers properly, especially the easyhaler. A sub-study conducted on 88 of the patients with COPD indicated that most of them learned how to accurately use both the easyhaler and the handyhaler. In addition, most patients preferred the easyhaler. Notably, the peak inspiratory flow rates measured with the in-check dial tool for all three devices correlated well with the rates measured via spirometry. Although steps were taken to reduce bias, this study was open-label, meaning the participants knew which inhalers they were using. Nevertheless, the findings suggest that patients with COPD can use the easyhaler successfully despite their airway obstruction, and that they prefer using the easyhaler over the handyhaler.


From Peter Kutak, I'm going to talk about improved version point of text on SIDH variants, which is joint work with Victoria D'Aquin, Chris Leonardi, Chloe Mortindale, Lawrence Pony, Chris O'Forty, and Kate Stangen. Isogeny-based cryptology is based on the hard problem of finding isogenes between super signal of the curves. With the degree of the secretisogenes of the form L to the K, where L is some small prime number, this can be interpreted as a past finding problem in the super signal isogenic graph. Best-own algorithms for finding a degree of isogeny are then just needed in the middle algorithms, where you just do random walks from both endpoints and hope for a collision. This gives you an algorithm which has time complexity roughly squares of t, but requires a lot of memory, and the Bellon-Vonorsk Cathedral algorithm gives a time memory trade-off. Nevertheless, all known algorithms for this problem are exponential in the size of the input. However, most cryptosystems, most prominently as SIDH, are based on relaxations of this problem. So if a natural question occurs, can one exploit this extra information somehow to be generated in the middle algorithms? First let me briefly recall super-singular isogenity of the helmet, or otherwise known as SIDH. Let P be a prime number, and let A and B be smooth copron integers, let E0 be a super-singular recurve over Fp square. Then Alice picks a cyclic subgroup, GA, and computes the corresponding isogeny, E0 over GA, going from E0 to EA, and sends a codomate of the secretisogen to EA to Bob. Bob also picks a cyclic subgroup, computes the corresponding isogeny, and again sends the codomate of the secretisogeny to Alice. And then they want to compute the common shared secret, which is E0 over GA and GB. But just knowing the codomate of the other's secretisogeny is not enough to compute this shared secret, so both have to send over some extra information, namely Alice sends over Phi A, Pb, and Phi A, Qb, where Pb and Qb generate the b-torsion, and Bob sends over Phi B, Pa, Phi B, Qa, where Pa and Qa generate the a-torsion. This motivates the following algorithmic problem, which we call the SSIT problem. Let Phi be a secretisogeny of non-degree A, between two super-singular curves, E0 and EA, and suppose you also know Phi Pb and Phi Qb, where Pb and Qb generate the b-torsion, and the problem is to compute Phi. So our goal is to give certain conditions on A, B, and P, where P is the characteristic of the base field, and then we can solve this problem in polynomial time, or at least faster than generic algorithms. This is a relaxation of the well-known CSSI problem, which was introduced in the SIBH paper, where A and B are also required to be roughly the same size, and both have to be part of powers. So some remarks, so for this problem to truly make sense, you need the b-torsion to be efficiently representable, which you can do in many ways. So you could choose b to be power smooth, but most systems use special primes to make sure that the b-torsion is defined over a small extension fields in SIBH, A and B both divide people as one, and B side, which is a variant of SIBH, A and B are chosen to divide P square minus one. In both SIBH and B side, balance parameters are used, meaning that A is roughly the same size as B, but that doesn't really provide any efficiency benefit. It just comes from the fact that you want the same security level for Alice and Bob. So the first attack, which exploits this extra information, was by Pt at 2017, Asia Crypt, and let me briefly call what the attack does. So the main idea is to find a special anamorphism theta of the starting curve E0, and an integer D such that phi, theta, phi hat plus D can be recovered from its restriction from EAB. And why does this help us? Because then you can compute the intersection of the kernel of tau minus D and the a-torsion of the target curve, which will essentially give you the dual of phi, would give you some technical details. And then the natural question, how do you find such a tau? So what restrictions do you impose on theta? So you choose theta in a way that the degree of tau is B times E where E is something small, because then you can recover the B part of tau just using the torsion point images, and then the E part can be recovered by some meeting the little algorithm. And then the next question is how do you find such a theta? In general, when you know nothing about the anamorphism ring of E0, then this is a hard problem because for generic random curves, you usually don't know any non-scale or anamorphisms. But in many applications, or actually most applications, a special starting curve is used, y squared equals x equals x, which has a very particular anamorphism ring, which is known and has a special structure. Namely, it contains i and j with the property that i squared is minus one, j squared is minus p, j is actually just a propenious note, and i times j is equal to minus j times i. And in this context, just finding a suitable theta is that we will end up solving the following diaphragm time equation, a squared times small a squared p plus b squared p plus c squared plus b squared equals b times e. Here we're looking for small a, small b, small c, and small d, and e. And we also have the actual mission that we should be small. So how do we solve such an equation? So first, we solve it modulo a squared, which will give us d. Then we solve it modulo p, which will give us c. And then we hope that what we get is a sum of two squares. If not, then we iterate.  So our main result concerns improving these methods in various ways. So let me start with our first improvement. So the first improvement is that it's actually enough for the degree of tau to be equal to b squared times e. And why is that? Because then tau can actually be composed as psi 1 e to psi 2 q o plus multiplication by m, where the degree of psi 1 and psi 2 is b over m. The degree of tau is e. And m is actually either one or two. And we can get most of the information about tau just by looking at tau modulo b. So tau modulo b can be represented by a two times two matrix over z over pz. And the kernel of this matrix is the kernel of psi 1. This was already used in the previous attack. But then the image of this matrix is actually the kernel of psi 2. And the m can also be recovered from this matrix representation. The only part which cannot be recovered is the eta part. But again, that part can be recovered by generic mean to the middle algorithm. An alternative way of thinking about this attack is just running putties attack twice, once with theta and then one with the dual of theta. And then essentially the first attack you recover psi 1 and the second one you recover the dual of psi 2. So another way of thinking about this attack is actually a reduction from finding a suitable theta with a suitable degree. And the other one being the SSIT problem. So when the starting curve is y square equals to x square plus x, then we have a very similar diagram from the previous one, except now we have b square instead of b. And we can solve this whenever b is bigger than p times a with the exact same method as before. But solutions should exist for a much wider variety of parameters. Just weren't able to find them. We give heuristics on when this should be solvable. But solving them is left as an open problem. The second improvement is that it's actually enough for the degree of tau to be b square times p times e. Because you can run the same attack as before. Just when you left with the eta part, then of course if eta has a small degree you can recover it by some meter in the algorithm. But even if the two curves in that part of the attack are not close, but one of them is close to the other one's conjugate, you can still recover the isogeny by applying for b nias and then applying the meter in the middle algorithm. So this changes the equation from b square to b square p. And this again imposes a modulo p condition now. So you need to choose c and d to be divisible by p. You make this choice and then you divide by p and set c equals to zero. And then solving this equation is again a very similar one as before. Solve modulo a square and then what you hope that what you get is a sum of two squares. The importance of this method is that this is much less reliant on p. Because essentially by setting c equals to zero you only have one p in the equation and this leads to a solution so this method succeeds whenever b is bigger than square into p times a square. Modulo some technical details which for that see the full version of the paper. So why is this important? Because you could bring down the exponent of p from one to one half. But then the exponent of a went up from one to two. But this is particularly important for SIDH like parameter choices where p is the biggest factor in the equation. So all these conditions were concerned with polynomial time attacks but you can also look at attacks which are exponential time but are faster than generic pass finding algorithms. And we have derived two types of methods for dealing with this situation. One is that of course you can increase the size of e and then the cost of the attack is just the cost of finding a degree eisogyny because all the other parts of the attack are polynomial time. The other one is you can also guess part of the secretisogyny which will reduce a and then run the torsion point attack. And then of course the attack can fail if the first guess was wrong and if it fails then you choose a different guess and guessing a degree d isogyny will give you a factor d in complexity. So now let me show two graphs which show the evolution of torsion point attacks throughout the years. So the first is the 2017 attack by T. So in this graph you have two axes, an axis alpha and axis beta where a is roughly p to the alpha and b is roughly p to the beta. So now you want conditions on alpha and beta when you have improved attacks. So in this graph the red line symbolizes and above the red area symbolizes polynomial time attacks and the orange line and above symbolizes better than generic attacks. As you can see the original attack didn't affect any SIDH or B side light parameter choices because so the dotted line connecting the two ones corresponds to SIDH light parameter choices and the dotted line connecting the two tools corresponds to B side light parameter choices. And now over work you can see we have a much larger portion of the parameter space covered here. So again red line and above is polynomial time attacks, orange line and above is better than generic attacks and we have a new line here which is the yellow line which is better than the quantum attacks. And as you can see now certain SIDH and B side light choices are now affected by our attacks. So let me give some highlights of this graph which are the most important parameter choices for which we have certain attacks. So first is a polynomial time key recovery when B is bigger than a to the fifth and p is roughly a times p which is an SIDH like parameter choice and it actually was chosen in some designs most importantly a group key exchange with six or more parties. The second one is a polynomial time key recovery when B is bigger than a square and p square is roughly a times B which is a B side light parameter choice. Again not chosen in B side itself because there the parameters are chosen to be balanced. And then the third one is an improved quantum attack whenever B is bigger than a square and p is roughly a times B which again is an SIDH like parameter choice. So so far all these attack were concerned with a special starting curve y square equals x plus x. We can also ask the question whether you can specifically design starting curves for which you can solve a SIDH in polynomial time or faster than generic algorithms. And the first result is whenever B is bigger than a square then the answer to this question is affirmative so you can actually construct certain backdoor curves for which you can solve a society in polynomial time. What is to be noted here is that this condition is completely independent of p so it only depends on the balance between B and A. So what is the main idea behind this attack is that instead of fixing the starting curve and then looking for some special endomorphism on it you look for them together. You actually look for the endomorphism first in a quaternion form and then you find the suitable supersingularity curve which contains that endomorphism. How does this change the conditions on equation solving? So you have the same equation as before in the first improvement method and again D has to be an integer but A and B and C do not have to be an integer. It's enough for them to be rational. What is to be noted that p times A square plus p times B square plus C square has to be an integer. The reason behind that is that that quantity will be the norm or otherwise in quaternion terms the norm of theta or in isogenic terms the degree of theta and you will be looking for a theta which has trace zero. How do you solve this equation? So first again you solve modulo A square which actually will give you the condition that B has to be bigger than A square because what you want is afterwards an equation where the right-hand side has to be positive because on the left-hand side you will have p times A square plus p times B square plus C square which even if you choose rational A, B and C will always be a positive number and then once the right-hand side is positive then the only other condition for this to be solvable over the rational is that it has to be a quadratic residue modulo P which happens half the time so if it's not then you choose a different V and you iterate as you before and then so once you've solved this equation you have found the theta in the quaternion form and what you do is you find the maximum order containing that particular quaternion and then you translate it to a super single of the curve. So to understand the solution step for this problem this is essentially any theta is good which has a particular minimal polynomial in this context it's actually all t-tars are good for which theta square is equal to minus d so essentially A, B back to our curves are curves which have an endomorphism ring which contains a copy of z squared of minus d and we show that the number of these maximum orders is actually exponential in log p which gives an indication that it's probably hard to distinguish a random curve from a back to our curve without doing anything any information about its endomorphism and again the condition that B has to be bigger than A square applies to polynomial time attacks so you can again look at special back to our curves for which you don't have a polynomial time attack but you have an exponential time attack which is still better than generic attacks and the result there is actually that even for balanced parameters you can construct back to our curves for which you can beat existing attacks we also discuss other back to our issues in the paper such as back to our parameters A and B and back to our base field problems which I won't be discussing in this talk so to conclude we have made significant improvements to previous attacks most prominently we have an attack whenever B is bigger than A to the fifth and P is roughly A times B which breaks a certain group key exchange with six or more parties it introduced the concept of back to our curves which is an important concept for future designs and actually can also be used in a constructive fashion our methods can serve as sort of a benchmark for SIDH and B side like parameter choices for future crypto systems and finally we advise against using starting curves coming from shady sources thank you


Spain's government has approved a draft law to let anyone over 14 legally change gender without a medical diagnosis. It removes the current requirement for two years of hormone therapy and a psychological assessment. At a news conference following a cabinet meeting, Spain's equality minister said the new draft takes a giant step forward LGBT rights. The draft bill will now go to a public hearing before a second reading in the cabinet.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2018 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Laramie is stock number 14173Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and ram headquarters. This 2018 Ram 2500 has the 6.4-liter V8 Hemi engine, puts out 410 horsepower, it's paired up with a six-speed automatic transmission. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our server shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Brilliant black crystal pearl is the color, I shoot all my videos in 4K. If you like the video, you can subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20-inch painted and polished aluminum fuel wheels, didn't see any major scuffs or scrapes on there, and it has some really nice Nitto Recon Grappler 33x12.5 R20 LT tires. These tires I would say have probably about 70, 75% of the tread left on them. This one does have a leveling kit on it, frame and underbody is in really nice condition. This is a clean title history, clean car fax out of Connecticut. Front fender is in nice shape, didn't see any dents or dings on there. You do get the projector style headlamps and LED running lights. Front bumper parking sensors, this comes with a really nice LED light bar and factory fog lights. We'll turn all those lights on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are. You also get the chrome trimmed grille. The hood is in fantastic condition as well, no major dents or dings on there. It does have the cab lights up top too and the passenger side front fender is in very nice condition as well. Passengers side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there. And as you go down this side of this 2018 Ram 2500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck here, the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. You can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that I was hopeful and that Brett sent you. Lower rockers all look really good. The back wheels come with the nice wheel-to-wheel side steps. This back wheel is in fan-tastic condition, no scuffs or scrapes on there. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. And the frame and underbody, other than a little bit of surface corrosion on the welds there, all looks really good. Very clean underneath. And once again, lower rockers and cab corners all look really good. I didn't see any corrosion on them. You get the fender flares with the Laramie package coming around to the back of the vehicle. You get the rear bumper parking sensors. No major dents or dings on that rear bumper, full towing package with the receiver hitch 4.7 pin wiring. The tailgate is in fantastic condition as well. And it comes with these ladder rack bars or whatever you want to call them. Anyways, spring and bed liner. Beds in really nice condition as well. And this, I believe, is a power roll-up tunnel cover. That's on the key ring. It's got a remote control for it. Spring and bed liner goes onto that bed, and that looks, or onto the tailgate. That looks really good. Shuts nice and solidly. That needs to go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side. No major dents or dings in the box. And for full disclosure, this back wheel just as nice as the rest. Cab and doors all look really good on this side. Once again, didn't see any dents or dings. It does have the heated fold-up tow mirrors, built-in directional signals. They fold up like so, and in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats. These seats look like they, honestly, like they've never been sat in. You get the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with the built-in, with just the power slide rear window. These headrests are removable for better visibility if nobody's sitting back here. These seats fold up like so, and you get a load floor back here, which is really nice if you've got muddy boots or tools. Dirty tools put them on there. You're not going to get your seats dirty. Or if you've got pets, put both sides down, and they've got a nice flat place away, and they also won't get your seats dirty or rippled. You get storage under there. On the other side is the factory subwoofer. Get a nice weather tech floor mat and factory floor mats in the back here. You also get in-floor storage with removable bins for easy cleaning. You can put ice and drinks in there. It's like you have too many coolers wherever you go, or if you're not in Wisconsin, just extra storage space. Side current airbags on the front seats, and child safety locks on the back doors inside and bottoms of the doors all look very good. Show you the VIN sticker here. No Canadian trucks here. And then the tire and loading information sticker is right there. Inside the Laramie package gives you the black leather seats, 40-20-40 split bench seating in the front. No rips or tears on those seats. They're in really nice shape. You get the Laramie embossed into the backrest, power driver seat with lumbar, memory driver seat, weather tech floor mats in the front, and the factories underneath. Auto headlamps, power windows, locks and mirrors, you get the leather bolster, the wood grain trim, and these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides, so you know that both sides are working properly. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio, and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see this one has the digital instrument cluster there. The 7-inch LCD display. And we're going to be putting some fuel in this right after this video. Digital speedometer, compass, outside temp, range to empty, and you can change all those corners to read whatever you want. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. There's your shifter for that six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. And then this one has the Uconnect 4C radio. You get AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You also get heated and cooled C buttons as well as heated steering wheel controls. You get the backup camera, which is working nicely there. And then you get all your different apps on here. This one does have projection managers. So while this one doesn't have the factory navigation system, project your cell phone up there with Waze or Google Maps from Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, and it's like you have nav right in the screen. We actually did a demo with Android Auto to show you that system. That's in the upper right hand part of the screen if you want to click that and check that out. And then here are all your other apps. Down here are your more tactile volume tune and climate controls.  You get more tactile heated cooled and heated steering wheel buttons, heated cooled seat and steering wheel buttons, heated stability control, tow haul mode, and then your front and rear parking sensors are right there as well. 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in, you get the wood grain trim on there. Dual glove boxes, passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well. You get the speakers in the ceiling, part of that Alpine premium sound system, headliners in a very nice condition. You do get map lights up there, power sign, rear window button, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, assistant SOS buttons in the mirror. And there's your badge for that Alpine premium sound system. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood and check out all the lights in the front. Starts right up, no check engine lights or anything like that. So the toggle switch for those LED lights in the front is actually right there. That's off, that's for low, and that must be for both of them, but we'll definitely go check those out right now and we'll check out all the factory lights too. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside. Now you can see all those lights are working perfectly and they are very bright. Cab lights up top working nicely too. Under the hood we have the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi engine and Jim May's very clean runs, very smooth. And once again this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. There is the emission sticker and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. 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We have a question on what types of questions might be asked during the interview and what are the tips I need to take in order to have an upper-hand at it I'm assuming this is the visa interview or are there other interviews that you would sure so A lot of colleges universities and Catholic offer admissions interviews So you get whether that's on campus or over the phone Oftentimes you can do them over Skype now as well So the point of those is to get to know you Outside of the application. So we've already seen your transcript and your test scores And so we'll ask you certain questions like, you know, what are you involved with? What do you want to continue to be involved with when you come to a college campus? And how do you see yourself contributing to our campus community? And you know, what are your favorite classes? I always like to ask how your teachers would describe you and how your friends would describe you So really get to know you on more of a personal level For the admissions interviews in terms of our visa interview I think it's going to be pretty standard questions in terms of your plans to study And your plans ultimately after you're done studying


The things that technology can never really touch, which is the human spirit and imagination. Welcome to the Smarter Building Materials Marketing Podcast, helping you find better ways to grow leads, sales, and outperform your competition. Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Smarter Building Materials Marketing, where we believe your online presence should be your best salesperson. I'm your host, Beth Papnikolov. I have a guest co-host with me today, our director of growth, Steve Coffey. And we have someone in the studio who we literally, you guys have just been like riffing for 15 minutes, because we have so many thoughts. I'm really excited to welcome Omar Fagundo. He is the vice president of Railco. He's also the founder of 3d.object.io. And we here at Benvio just love chatting with him about marketing and disruption and technology and the building material space. So you're just in for a great treat of listening into the brains of people who think about these things way too much. So Omar, welcome to the show. Thanks for your time. Thank you so much. So the topic in the room at this moment is disruption. And Omar was at our event in Denver that we hosted with the Farnsworth Group and a hot topic there that was offline and not on the agenda was, our industry is ripe for disruption. And I feel like I just heard the eyes roll of all of our listeners because of how complex we know our industry and the supply chain and specifying to purchasing, to installing, to inspecting, to submitting warranties and building life cycles and getting occupants in and selling that off and who is on first and what's on second. All the reasons we know that technology hasn't just kind of easily been stood up. There's a big but coming, but isn't that what makes something right for tech for disruption is the acceptance of it is the way that it is because it's the way that it's always been. So Omar, I'd love from your perspective, where do you see the biggest either risk or opportunity, I suppose, depending on what side of the fence you're on for disruption in our industry? I think without a doubt, if you start looking at 3D technologies, so I got into this through virtual reality, augmented reality and the Cambrian explosion that's been going on over the last, just the last year in this space is definitely gonna be disrupting building construction and building materials that are tied hand in hand in the next three to five years without a doubt and any company that could start taking advantage of these technologies is definitely gonna have a leg up on their competition because like you said, most people are very comfortable doing everything like they've always done it. And those companies that can start experimenting and figure out how can I apply this one solution that's already available on the market to a problem that I already have always had, those are the ones that are gonna see outsize rewards for their efforts. Can I just challenge your thought there because I wanna hear more behind it. 3D, it feels like 3D technology has been on the precipice of breaking into the industry for like five or six years. I would put it actually in a similar category to how I feel about modular construction. When you look at it from the outside, you're like, this is a no-brainer. Why doesn't everybody do this? There's obviously reasons, there's obvious reasons why everybody doesn't do it but why hasn't it seen widespread adoption because of all of the ways that it seems like it introduces efficiencies and answers questions and solves pain points. So I would put that to you about 3D imagery or 3D capabilities, what's the hurdle or what's keeping it from the floodgates just opening and having this widespread adoption moment? Sure. I mean, if you just look at our industry and the demographics, you're seeing a lot of the old guard retiring, being aged out of our industry and with them a lot of their old school methods and ways of doing business and intercoming the millennials, right? We are now, if you're a millennial, you are the majority of the workforce and now we're being put into positions of power, of leadership and we're more open to technology. We are digital natives and we're very comfortable with not only the digital realm but with changing how things have always been done.  They've been teasing it for the last couple of years. They've been teasing it for like years, yeah. Years and it's kind of frustrating for anybody who's been dying to buy one and actually deploy it but we all know that once they put something out, it's gonna be special. And I feel like we're kind of waiting for that moment for it to finally take hold but just look at the numbers and anybody who just, there's a business case for it. There's business case for saving tons of money to change, right? If you actually deploy this stuff. This is, like I am involved in building construction projects from the ground up and so often there are so many rework orders and oversights and things that people just didn't plan for because no one had the vision to perhaps 3D model the entire project from the get-go and think through of all the different things. And this technology has been around forever. So it's crazy that I still have to go through 2D plans to bid out something that's another tangent. So, you know, we are ripe for the picking because of a change in the old guard to the new guard. And I think as people start coming online that are very comfortable with technology they're gonna be way more willing to try something out like AR or even, have you guys heard of NERFs? NERFs are neuro-radiance fields. And this is a technology that just came out last year through NVIDIA. And so it allows you to take a couple snapshots of anything, for example, I mean my field like let's say a gate, right? Take a couple snapshots of a couple different points of view upload it and then get a 360, not only is it a 360 view of it but it's an immersive view that you could literally look at this gate from every single point of view. I mean, this is crazy technology and it's gone so far in one year that it's nuts. If anybody wants to try something out like that there's an app out there called Luma AI. You can find it on the App Store and have at it, start experimenting with this because this is the future. This is what's going to set people apart in the very near future, especially if you're up on it and you have your finger on the pulse. So 360 degree view images is not new but for anybody who's never created a 360 degree like image for like having it on your product page on Home Depot or something, it's typically I think 27 separate shots, 27, 57. It's something like that, like separate shots. When you're clicking and dragging a paint can in a circle like every angle of that paint can has been captured and I know this because I've been part of those projects and had to painstakingly upload each of those exact angles and in the right order, because if you get it wrong, it doesn't work. So the fact that it's like three images to get 360 is wild just to give some time. They brought up to the masses, they democratized it. They're leveraging AI to basically fill in the blanks between the three pictures that you took. AI understands, okay, this is a black cast iron gate with this type of latch system and this like one inch by one inch bars or whatever. And so then it knows what the whole thing, that's wild. That's very cool, that's wild. Steve, I'd love to know from your perspective what's your take on what Omar is saying that it's old guard has been hesitant and we can't say everybody hasn't gone into technology. You're not the first person I've heard say Omar, we know that this is a really important piece, we know this will bring efficiencies. The lift to get it pushed into the masses at current state is probably not, is gonna have not the return that we want, but in 10 years there will be almost no lift because the generation will have flipped to the next one and the demand will shift. Steve, I'd love to know from your perspective because you talked to hundreds of manufacturers a month, maybe more, what would your response be to what Omar is saying? Well, I think Omar, you're exactly right in that. I feel like we're waiting for that moment when things begin to happen. And I think you had alluded to it, Beth. I don't think there's ever been a more likely time for that to happen within this industry. There's so much content, there's so much availability of technology. All of the groundwork is there. And I feel like there has never been a time where a contractor, a GC, an architect, an interior designer, or the homeowner, the building owner wants to interact with technology to experience what they're purchasing. I don't think there's ever been a time where that's more prevalent. So all of the groundwork is there, the technology is there. I feel like we're just waiting for that moment. And I'm excited to see what that will be. I am curious, though, Omar, as to, and this is just interesting to me to think about, what are the old-school ways that you think will remain true as we begin to adapt to new technologies? What are those things that are gonna be carrying over? That the old guard will leave on, right? That we'll continue on? What are those things? Well, I think strong leadership, follow-up, and aggressive communication schedule, knowing where everybody's at, those things will never go away. Now, can technology help facilitate that? Absolutely. But I think there's definitely the work ethic, right? All that will remain, being analytical, creativity, and imagination. Those are things that technology can never necessarily tap into, even though you look at some new technologies like mid-journey that came out last year, and it kinda helps you generate ideas, right? So we're just gonna be seeing a melting and a melding of technology with the things that technology can never really touch, which is the human spirit and imagination and stick-to-tiveness, right? All those things are just always gonna be around. And we can just only hope that technology makes it better and makes it easier. And for me, it's also a matter of affordability, right? We are a generation that is having a tough time buying a new home, I'm in that bracket, and definitely here in the South Florida area, it is tough to find something that is affordable and reasonable and you don't have to put a ton of work into. I think Beth, the last time I heard you were on the same boat. Yeah, I'm renting for life at this point. I'm not proud, but those are the facts. Exactly, yeah, right. There's a lot of us, right? So I think it's a matter of doing right by this generation and the next generation and our kids to make housing affordable again. And if technology helps us get there, gee, let's go ahead and do it. Steve, I think that question is spot-on because it's time to start shifting the conversation from what if technology gets adopted to what do we not have to solve for? And how can we expect what we love about our industry to continue? And Omar, I love all of your responses. I think there's two things I would add to it is, one is what you're basically saying to the same thing is relationships. We know that our industry is built on relationships and an era that I'm excited to see is to have a dominant generation in our industry that views technology as a partnership to relationships, not a risk to relationships and also not just a tool to be leveraged. But I mean, so most millennials, we remember a significant amount of our lives before the internet. I know that that's not how we're depicted, but I can tell you the day that we got internet in my house and I was like well into middle school, right? I was well into high school before we had like dedicated, I think before we had DSL, right? We all remember those moments. So we value the things outside of technology, but we also have seen the, let's just say good sides, we're gonna ignore the bad sides of social media for a minute, but we've seen how the benefits of being integrated with technology has extended relationships. We have friendships that we've created all around the world and continued that would typically not have lasted. They would just been very seasonal. And to see a moment in our industry where we can now create technology kind of without barriers, but as a partnership is there's, that's where I'm excited to see versus just like, hey, you could replace these people with this tool, because that's often how technology is introduced, right? But like here's how to your point, Omar, here's how we can make things more efficient. And here's how we can promote and further what we've been doing and it's gonna create benefit and it's gonna create ROI and it's going to decrease prices and increase speed and increase the benefits and build relationships, not attempt to replace them. I think that's really exciting. Absolutely, you had mentioned before we started recording the advent of 3D printed homes. So they're so interested in, right? Because this technology has been around, I think since the 80s with 3D printers, then we all started hearing about it about 10 years ago and someone said, hey, what if we started putting cement into this instead of plastic and bam, now all of a sudden you have 3D printed homes? Who would have thought like three, four years ago that this could have ever happened? I was inspired by one of your episodes with Black Buffalo and what they're doing. It's just amazing how quickly things could turn around and to your point, how we started this conversation disrupting this industry, not necessarily through the outside, but sometimes through the inside and it's just a combination of hybrid approach and seeing where we could get with that, right? What happens when we mix 3D printers, 3D printed homes, right? With a generative AI technology and some augmented reality, manufacturing processes, things that are done off-site, you combine all that stuff together, how affordable can a home possibly be? Oh, yeah. While still maintaining all the relationships, that's exactly where I would love to see our entire industry go. To what you said, Beth too, and then Omar, you picked up on a little bit, there's an app that I was looking at the other day, mosaicapp.com and it's for engineers and architects and it's essentially project management. And going back to the question that I asked because I think the integration of all those technologies, what you were just saying, Omar, is extremely important. I think that's where you're gonna, that's potentially where you're gonna see the aha moment is when you have all of these different technologies together. And mosaicapp is AI project management efficiency. So it doesn't, it's not saying we're gonna replace a lot of people in your organization or in your firm, we're just making them better. So we're pulling together a lot of different technologies and we're making them more efficient as individuals so that you can do better projects. But I think also you can have the most amazing, let's say on a more consumer-oriented product, you can have the most amazing 3D software and I can interact with this product and see it on my house. If it's siding, I can see it on my house or if it's a faucet, I can place it in my kitchen and all this augmented reality stuff. But if I can't buy it effectively, like if I don't know where to buy it or how to buy it, what's the point? Right? So you're spending so much money on this software that's not really doing me any good at facilitating the actual purchase. So I think the integration of all of those technologies is probably that's where I would like to see the a-ha moment as well. I hear you, not only buy it, but install it, right? I think you guys had someone on your episode, there's something on your phone with a 3D instruction manual. Oh, built. Anybody can install anything because they make it, let me proof, right? Yeah. Yeah. Just add that to the mix, to the workflow. So I guess overall, if you look at this conversation is not so much new technology, but new workflows, right? Yeah, that's a great way to say it. Take A for Steve for Steve for Steve to get, you know, Z. Yeah, I mean, I think to bring the other side of that conversation, Steve, which is, you nailed it, which is the consumer side. So we're talking a lot about how do we get technology pushed into the leadership level, the manufacturer level, the builder, the dealer, the installer level, on the consumer level, if we think about the same thing. So millennials are, Omar, you teed this up perfectly. Millennials have the largest buying power of any generation right now. However, like I said, a lot of us remember when life was analog. So we have an acceptance of lack of technology. We don't love it. Like we don't ever wanna talk to a human and we think like driving through a bank line is very weird and things like that, right? Like I don't wanna talk to a person. I love my e-com experience, but we also still leverage like experts and we believe in making those connections. But even we, like we're not the young generation right now and younger millennials don't have that same, that same perspective. Do you know they call us geriatric millennials, by the way? Yeah. So disrespectful. So disrespectful. Do not approve, I do not approve. Right, so I was born in 85. I think I'm like right at the cusp of what you would consider a millennial. Like I'm, I think the oldest millennial is 42, I'm 38. So I'm like right there, kind of like at the high end, but the low end of millennials, they don't have that general acceptance. And if we think about the other side of, you know, in five-ish or so, let's say five to 10 years, the top portion of leadership that's currently in like the Gen X and baby boomer generation that's gonna age out and millennials will start to sit in those decision-making seats. Well, that's gonna happen from a consumer standpoint also. And those like younger millennials and older Gen Z, which by the way, older Gen Z is now graduating from college, we all think of them as 12. We're doing to them what everybody did to millennials. Everybody still thinks millennials are 25. Gen Z is graduating from college. They're going into the workforce and they're either on the consumer end of building products as they go in to get ready to buy a house or they're in the stages of getting ready to look at a career and they're looking at the building materials world and being like, what? Like that doesn't make any sense. Now that's a broad statement, right? There's absolutely a huge amount that are coming in, but I was at a presentation for our local NIHB chapter and they're projecting the need for an additional 61,000 people in the industry every month, every month. In the skilled labor sector for the next like two to three years, they need a total of two million people over the next five years added to our industry. And there's a ton of barriers to knock down there, right? I always say my number one idea is like you just throw money at that problem. You start paying plumbers $250,000 and let's just see what happens, right? But the other piece is technology. Gen Z is not coming into an antiquated industry. They're not going to adopt an antiquated career and you could overcome stigma for Gen Z from like a blue collar perspective a lot faster than you can overcome their absolute disdain for analog life. The inefficiencies just don't make sense, right? So there's both sides of the coin that kind of have to be looked at here where disruption is going to happen. And if this is where startups get this very cool opportunity to just be the Netflix of the situation, like just be growing and be nimble and be optimizing and be innovating while the big guys are like, no, we can't do that. That's crazy, right? Cause you'll just, you'll get, it'll be a landslide. Like there's huge right opportunity for disruption from literally all ends. And they'll end up blockbustered. Exactly, someone is like any startup I got my hands on at the builder show, I was like, man, I don't know if it's you but someone's winning this race. I'm like, yeah, you get like the two guys of the tech booth and they're like, oh, we don't know why we're here. And I'm like, don't give up, man. It's gonna be someone. Yeah, like what if you had a plumbing company to your point, right? That just worked completely digitally, right? They had 3D models and they sent out their workers with 3D AR headsets. They knew exactly where they were, where they were going, where they had to lay the pipe. And it was a kind of a cool job for them where they interacted with the real world, right? Cause it's very real world stuff, pipes, cutting saws, right? Adhesives, but at the same time, they have a foot in technology. So yeah, absolutely to your point. And that's been kind of a going thread, a conversation I linked in. A lot of people are talking about trades, not cool anymore, nobody wants to get at them. We need more. I didn't know about the 61,000 jobs per month debt that we deficit that we have going on. But the answer is fortunately or unfortunately, but it's the reality, it's technology, right? Yeah. It's gonna help us get to more efficient building, get us to a better state of construction, a better housing supply in the United States if we're able to attract the next generation through technology. And at the same time, implement it where we need to implement it. It's everywhere, it's rightfully. Let's say you're one of those 60,000, right, and you're entering into the industry. On that side, and we could even talk about the manufacturing side, we could talk about the A&D side, but I'm just curious on if you're one of those 60,000 you're entering this industry, what technologies do you need to know? What is it gonna be good for you to understand and have the ability to use? What are those technologies that are important right now? Right, and I think those 60,000 you were talking about Beth were like, hands-on, skilled laborers are in the field. Correct. So, and I hire some of these guys, right? And I interview for some open positions in my company. So I do get to talk to the younger generation as well as the older generation. And there is definitely a difference, right? And I think you start overcoming some of these hurdles through training, right? I think something that our industry, if you're in the trades, it's kind of been overlooked, right? It's just, okay, you just get your OSHA training out of the way and send you on to the field and the rest is hands-on training. And I think we have to do a better job as an industry overall to train and to promote, right? Because everyone wants to feel like they're part of something special and they wanna feel like there's upward mobility. So it's not so much what technology you already know, but what technology can you learn while you're employed at a trades company and a building materials company? How can you level up and get to the next place, right? Because nobody just wants to stay in an entry-level position forever. That's exactly why nobody wants to work in the trades. Yeah. Because they don't wanna just stay as the installer. Well, that's also, I mean, that's part of the problem, right? When we talk to installers or we talk to owners of contracting organizations, the issue is you train them and then nobody wants to stay there and they don't have upward mobility so everybody becomes their own boss and that is, I mean, that is just an avalanche that continues. It's valid. I mean, it doesn't feel good, but don't you get it? Like I get that. That's a, I mean, that's a problem that we should be looking to solve is not just how do I get you in but how do I make you feel like you can win and grow once you're here without having to start your own business because we've also talked to enough owners of contracting businesses to know it's not a lot of fun. Like there's a lot, there's a lot of, there's a lot of risk that they absorb. There's a lot of debt that they have to take on. There's a lot of just stuff that they have to endure that you don't really have to endure lower down but it's difficult to feel like there's a place for you to go. And that's, I mean, I just think that's really, really that's a valid feeling from an individual in a job to feel like, hey, I don't have upward mobility. I gotta make my own. Yeah, you see it so often. I see it every day. I mean, having a finger on the pulse down here and they're very active construction market. There's vans everywhere. They pick up a little bit of a skill and they want to go off on their own and the grass is greener and I end up interviewing some of these people and say, hey, you know, I've been, I thought I could make it on my own and I just want something stable and something where I could just feed my family and I have to worry about paying the bills and all these expenses and all the things that come with owning a business. Yeah, also valid. Omar, I want to change the subject a little because you have this great piece or quote that I've heard you say, which is you are constantly trying to disrupt your own company. You, so you really live and breathe the watchman for disruption in our industry. What does looking to disrupt your own company look like for you? How are you putting that into practice? It's a simple process, right? You take a look around at a broken process, a process that may involve pen and paper, that may involve manual calculations that takes a long time that you don't like to do but you have to do all the time and you figure out a way to improve it through things that are already available. And the good thing for all of us is every second that passes by, there's more and more solutions out there that you can easily shop around and implement to solve your problems. Some of them are free online. If you just take the time to actually research this. So that's what I do. I mean, when I first started with my family, I'm in a family business, right? And my father was doing payroll by hand every other Friday. No. Friday he would basically lock himself up in his office and with a calculator and calculate it out, everyone's payroll and hand write checks. So I came in there, I was like, nah, that's not gonna work anymore. We gotta use QuickBooks and Direct Deposit. And so that's just one, go for what's right for the picking. Go for what is taking you way too much time, what is causing your principles in your company to take too much time away from the things that they should be doing, which is running their business, like running the actual company and take them away from that operational side so they can focus on bigger, aspirational, more vision oriented tasks. So that's exactly what I've been doing. So for example, I picked up a piece of technology a couple of years ago with Grasshopper. So Grasshopper is parametric design software. And I was able to basically go from hand calculating to cost of any railing configuration because that's what we do, we manufacture and we also contract install railing systems and pergolas and other aluminum architectural features for new constructions here in Miami. And it's very, people like to get custom, right? With their projects. And so I was having to basically do hand calculations of what this railing configuration was gonna be. So I said, look, it's gotta be a better way. There was a Grasshopper. Parametric design software. You could go look it up and it allows you to take all your different extrusions. Let's just say all your different pieces, put some business logic behind it, which is not as difficult as the sound and come up with a costing model for what anything is gonna cost. So now I know exactly going to a project what something is gonna cost me at least materials wise. And that gives me a big confidence boost because okay, I know this is gonna cost me X amount of linear foot. Now I just gotta figure out the logistics and the rest of the pricing model. So it's just about solving the problems you already have with stuff that's already out there. Omar, we could talk forever because we're both marketing nerds. I really appreciate your time. If someone wants to reach out and get in touch and pick your brain, what's a good way for them to get in touch? Definitely LinkedIn. I love that platform. I'm an avid user. So hand me up on LinkedIn, Omar Fagundo. That's the best place that you can reach me at for sure. Great, that's awesome. So for our listeners, thank you for your time also. And if you want more great content like this, head to venvio.com slash podcast to subscribe. Until next time, I'm Beth Papikolov alongside Steve Coffey.


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