We've all experienced the warmth of the sun on a cold day. Harnessing this heat for a useful purpose, such as heating hot water or building, is a job for a solar thermal system. Wyoming's sunny climate provides an excellent solar thermal resource, especially cold sun. We have many cold, but sunny days. The new UW Visual Arts Center has a very large installation. It is used to heat the building in the winter. Much smaller systems, using one or two panels, can be used to heat a portion of your domestic hot water. In many Wyoming homes, heating hot water consumes 10 to 20 percent of the overall energy used, more than lighting or refrigeration. Both flat plate and evacuated tube systems, like the ones on the roof of the Visual Arts Center, can be used to collect and concentrate thermal energy. The different styles have advantages and drawbacks, but both can be cost-effectively used in Wyoming. A solar thermal system is just another way to enjoy Wyoming's sunny climate. For the University of Wyoming Extension, I'm Milton Geiger, Exploring the Nature of Wyoming.


The safety of patrons at the Lafay Keimege Human Resource Development Center is being prioritized. This comes with the donation of first aid kits and fire extinguishers by two residents of the Lafay community. Leiland Figuera and his wife, Angel Figuera, in presenting the donation said they are pleased to be able to contribute to the community. That's something that I noticed that the center needed and as for me I can say it's a journey seeing that we are new residents. I am pleased for what I've seen so far and with that I know that the journey will continue. Minister for Equity, Social Justice, Local Government and Empowerment and Parliamentary Representative for Grosjele Hon. Leonard Montout, recognizing the significance of the contribution contributed hand sanitizer dispensers to the center. He expressed gratitude to the couple for giving to the community in such a meaningful way. We are actually in a time where safety is at the premium. I mean we know what the world that we end today and I thought okay fine. We have a safety kit that will remain here permanently but at the same time there's another aspect of safety that we must consider. Sanitizing is one of the big protocols that we engage in these days and I realize but wait. We do not have sanitizers here. Well of course my hand was sanitized when I walked in but I thought even if there's not someone standing at the door if we have dispensers where as you walk in you can sanitize your hands that in itself would be a measure as well towards safety and good health of our people. Hon. Montout pledged to supply dispensers to other centers in Grosjele.


Hey everyone, welcome to theCUBE's presentation of the AWS Startup Showcase. This is season two, episode four of our ongoing series that features exciting startups within the AWS ecosystem. This episode's theme, cybersecurity, protect and detect against threats. I'm your host, Lisa Martin, and I'm pleased to welcome back one of our CUBE alumni, Chase Doley, joins me, the principal strategist at JumpCloud. Chase, it's great to have you back on theCUBE. I'm perfect and likewise. Thank you so much for having me again. Tell the audience just a little quick refresher on JumpCloud Open Directory Platform, and just give them that little bit of context. You bet. So JumpCloud provides an open directory platform, and what we mean by that is we help manage all of your employees' identities, the devices that they operate on, and then all the access that they need in order to get their work done in a modern IT environment. So from a market segment perspective, this is really targeted at small, medium enterprise SMEs, managed security providers, MSPs. Talk to me a little bit about that and some of the what's in it for me for those folks. Yeah, absolutely. And when we were thinking about specifically within that market, so small, medium enterprises and the IT or the managed service providers that help support those organizations, there's a lot of different technologies that you use in order to make sure that you have a secure organization. And within that group specifically, there's a lot less of a luxury, right? Of an enterprise budget or kind of all of these different personnel that you might have available to you. And it's really kind of down to maybe one team or just a couple of folks or just one person wearing a lot of different hats. And so we've designed the open directory platform to help accommodate for a lot of those different pieces where we're bringing in multiple different types of technologies from identity access management, device management and MDM, MFA, access through single sign-on, all of those different pieces and more that help kind of come into one platform. So not only do you have all the technology there at your disposable, but also all of the visibility and analytics of folks that are getting in and just trying to get their job done. But now all of those pieces are consolidated into one platform. And it really helps support a lot of those organizations, right? And keep in mind, small, medium businesses are the most common businesses. Not everyone's coming in from an enterprise. And so here we're able to layer on levels of security and making sure that you have best practices no matter what size you're operating in. So consolidating IT management, securing employees access to a variety of IT resources is really kind of in a nutshell. Absolutely. I'm just making sure that you're combining that combination of securely accessing all the things that you need, but also making sure that from an end user perspective, it's really easy. And you have all those things kind of built in from the get go. So how are SMEs and MSPs leveraging JumpCloud right now? What are some of the outcomes that you're helping them to achieve? Anything stand out to you? I think there's a couple of different areas that we help support organizations. One is you can think about just the whole employee lifecycle. So when someone joins an organization from onboarding, where does that identity come from? How can we make sure that they're productive, effective human beings as they come into it? But then the whole lifecycle as they're accessing or changing resources within a role all the way to the end where they might be leaving the organization and we can securely off-board that person. And so that whole flow that you might have from an organization standpoint is one aspect. Another area is as companies continue to grow, they might be going after maybe audit level compliance, other pieces that might help them grow. And there's a lot of layers that you need to think about are different types of technologies and processes to have those certifications and credentials. And so we help support those organizations, again, by consolidating all those different technologies into one spot, it makes it a lot easier for people to get up to par and how they think that their security standards should be set within an organization. And finally too, I'd say just ease of mind. There's a lot of pieces when you're thinking about where people might be coming in from, how do I get visibility into all those different aspects? And when you have all that under one roof, it adds a lot of, I'd say, less mental stress in terms of one, how all those technologies should be working together effectively, also securely, but then also making sure that you have time in the day to tackle big projects and let some of the, let's say, run rate security out of the way. Yeah, that's really important to be able to assign resources that are able to make the biggest impact across the organization, moving things off the plate that are not necessarily a more mundane. Twice a year, I understand, Jumfab does a survey with SMEs, where you really are aimed at understanding kind of where they are in the market today, their concerns, trends, challenges, budgets. Then I saw you just published results from a survey in June of 2022. Talk to me a little bit about the demographics of the survey. Who are you talking to within SMEs? And then we kind of crack open some of those really interesting findings that came out this year. Yeah, so we love to get a pulse check of what's happening within the industry, but specifically within that small, medium size, if you will. And so for the survey that we ran, we talked to 400 different roles, kind of that touch IT from security. So from vice president of the CISO all the way down to IT admins and anyone else in between. And we're really looking at organizations that had about 500 employees or less. Because there's a lot of information out there, especially from the enterprise of, hey, here's best practices, here's all the things that you can do. But for smaller organizations, it's not as clear cut, or you have less of an understanding of what your peers might be going through or kind of what their concerns are. And so when we're running that survey, that's one thing that we like to keep in mind is it's really meant for organizations at that size, because there's some commonalities that you start to see in suss out. And it's not to say that those aren't the same concerns that the enterprise folks have as well. Because a lot of the things that will come out, they were security based. I'm gonna say, hey, what's top of mind or what's kind of keeping you up at night? There were some clear indicators and especially well from kind of, as we do the survey, every six months or kind of even year over year, you start to see some trends that are emerging. And so a lot of the big ones are ransomware, software vulnerability and network security. Those are kind of the top three aspects when we're looking at, hey, what are specifics that are keeping you up? And those are easy to say because ransomware is obviously in the news. Even this week, there are three different organizations just kind of pick out. So Brestler who does dental manufacturing, they had ransomware, Intrust, which is another cybersecurity organization. They were breached, but then also Fremont County here in Colorado as a government organization, all three of those were hit by ransomware. And you might not say, they're all kind of random and they're not put together, but under the hood, really it's a lot of the same different technologies that are powering how people get access into things. Do they have the right levels or credentials? Are there conditions set within that type of access, especially if it's privileged? And so you start to consolidate and bubble down all those different things that can lead up to those concerns. And then even on the software vulnerability side, Mac released two different vulnerabilities this week. And so now it quickly becomes, okay, great, how can I make sure that my employees are using not only a secure device, but a secure device that's up to date because it's a dynamic field as all of these things coming through. And these are a lot of the gotchas that can keep small, medium enterprises up at night because if something happens, a security event like that, it could be a career ending event, but also a company ending event when you think about that. And so that becomes a really high level of importance because no one wants to see their name in the news, but it also takes a lot of different steps in order to create the layers that are necessary in order to achieve really solid ground stand on for an organization to do that. And so that's where we like to come in and help and making sure that a lot of those layers are actually easier to implement than you thought and it's not this huge project, but you're doing it in a way that's conscious and also not really getting the way of kind of battling users or making sure that their experience is a nightmare as well in order to achieve these goals that you have as an organization. You bring up ransomware and it's become a household term that I think probably every generation alive right now in some form or fashion understands what it is to some degree. It's now, security threats in general, now no longer, if we get hit, it's a matter of one. You gave three great examples of SMEs that were hit recently and organizations we wouldn't think really them. Everybody's vulnerable. You talked about the different, some of the concerns, software vulnerability exploits, the use of unsecured networks, people, and this is so common using the same password across applications that SMEs and enterprises too are dealing with. They have to be able to lean on MSPs, for example, in the SME space to say, help us with these obvious vulnerabilities. We need to make sure that our employees are productive, they're working together. We can onboard and off board people in a secure way. How did this survey uncover how SMEs are leaning more on MSPs to help solve some of those risks that you talked about? I think one of the more interesting trends that we've seen is just the ability in the ramp for organizations to lean on managed service providers. You saw a lot of this during kind of the beginning of the pandemic or kind of this really shift to remote work where people kind of have this mentality of, okay, IT might be a cost center and we'll have, but it's always felt this importance to making sure that people are on site, they understand their culture, they understand the ways that the organization works. However, now a lot more organizations are stepping back and saying, well, if I can't see anyone in the office or if there's only half or maybe 10% that are showing up, are there other economies of scale almost that I can get from leveraging a managed service provider, bringing in other expertise, right? And so it might be valuable to say, hey, it's not only just managing my organization, but five others. And so now you can start to see and kind of lean on best practices that they've evolved over time. And I think one of the more interesting stats is we see that, you know, almost nine out of 10 organizations that we surveyed are either leveraging an MSP or have considered it. And one of those things that's actually pulling them back where some organizations say, hey, I've looked at it, but I'm not quite ready to commit to outsourcing this section of my organization that or kind of bringing in someone to manage it fully alongside with me, almost in a co-managed type of environment, is a third of them say, hey, I don't know how secure the MSPs are themselves. How do they think about their own internal practices and what does that look like? Because again, you're thinking about handing over the crown jewels over to someone and say, hey, here's some of our most vulnerable or critical assets that we need to have secured and making sure that that's part of the organization. And so it's an honest conversation that a lot of the owners have with MSPs and say, look, are you up to snuff, right? Because if something happens, sure, I might have one person to go after or you might have SLAs that I can go, but it still means me as an organization has been targeted. What does that look like in our types of relationship? And so a lot of the partners that we have on the jump cloud side, it's a very common conversation that they have with their clients and saying, walking them through and say, hey, here's our security plan. Here's how we approach that. Here's all the different tools that we have at our disposal that are working alongside jump cloud in order to make sure that not only do you have good posture, I'd say good areas where the organization is set up for success, where you're thinking about not sharing passwords or there's password complexity or there's other technologies like single sign-on that help reduce that. But in addition to what type of network scanning do you have available? What type of antivirus do you leverage? What are all the other pieces that create that holistic security structure? And so sometimes it's a lot easier for MSPs to deliver that and package it up instead of having an overburdened IT admins that, great, this is another project that I have to go through and think about and look at pricing and kind of other those components because it helps speed up, I'd say your time to being more secure. And that's a really real conversation for organizations as they think about planning, as they think about budgets and what impact that might have on an organization to making sure that employees can get work done, but we're also thinking about in a very secure mindset within the organization. And that's so critical. As we talked about every organization of every size in every industry is vulnerable. There's just no way of getting around it these days. You talked about an interesting stat about 90% of the SMEs survey said, we're, yes, we're relying on MSPs, but we still worry about security. Talk to me from the JumpCloud AWS perspective, how do you help though, because that's a big number, the 90% of SMEs that are still concerned about security, how do you help them dial that down? I think it's really understanding, you mentioned AWS. So what are the critical access and what are those points that look like that we need to get a handle on? And how can we make that easier? Cause I think one of the pieces that we'll often come at and say, hey, we really want to make this approach work. We really want to make sure that when you wake up and you need to get into Q and A environments or production or whatever that might be that it's a seamless experience. But we as an organization have visibility into what's going on. And hey, if you're getting promoted or your role is changing, we want to make sure that those attributes or kind of those pieces that are associated to you and your identity are changing with it. And so making sure that there's this dynamic motion available to folks as they start thinking about, where a majority of their IP lives. It's no longer in some server closet. And yes, it might still be on a manufacturing floor, but it's those components that become the most critical for organizations. You've heard, I'd say, certainly within the last five years and probably even goes further back where a lot of traditional organizations say, hey, we're a software company now. We're kind of insert for innovation, making sure we can do that. And I think a lot of organizations are still going through that transition. But right behind it and what's coming next and certainly a lot of organizations start to say not only are we a software company, but we're a security company. And with that, that comes the mindset not only of here's how we tactically get into things that we need to do our job, but the why behind it. And I think that's one of the elements that might be missing or is certainly one of, I know that we have a lie to you and kind of take that approach of, yes, we're gonna be implementing, we need to have your device patched and updated because there's vulnerabilities. But for everyone else kind of on the end user side is like, well, okay, well, why? Why do we need to do that? And so by having that security first type of mentality, that allows everyone to be on the same page, play on the same team and making sure that when, those requests are coming in both back and forth between end users and ITs, security team, anyone else that might be involved within that process, you all understand that say, hey, it's not my job, it's everyone's job, right? We're all in this together because that's some of the parts where it can start to fall down too. You might have a team that has the best practices and intentions, but if the implementation and the follow-through isn't bought in from everyone, then you're also playing against the speed of the organization to adopt it. And that's really the timeline that you're battling, especially when you're thinking about ransomware or someone who already might be in it, is how can we help mitigate a lot of those different pieces? So by combining all those different elements into a thought process, into a mentality of being a security first organization, that's really kind of helps within the ripple effect all the way down into the critical resources like AWS. It has to be a holistic view. There's really no other choice these days and it also has to be done in a timely fashion. What did, as we wrap up, kind of talking about in the survey here, what were some of the trends, the future trends it uncovered? As we are still in a remote and distributed work environment, probably always will be. We've seen challenges and everyone's mental health in terms of strapped resources. What did the survey uncover as to what these folks saw as future trends? So I'd say there's a couple, there's a lot, but we'll break it down and say I'd say three core trends that you saw across every organization that we talked to, including our own base of over 180,000 organizations that rely on JumCloud is, hey, security's number one, right? And we've talked about it at length. Device management is another extension of that. I'm sorry, making sure that, hey, this is the only piece of hardware I have from the company in front of me. I wanna make sure that I can manage, secure it, make sure it's patched as well as we kind of operate in this dynamic and environment, making sure that we're resilient as an organization. And then I'd say finally, as those pieces start to evolve, there's still some organizations that are trying to understand, kind of truly manage what is hybrid and remote and kind of what does that look like for me as an organization? Cause I think we're now out of this panic mode and now organizations are now setting up, okay, what are some of the longterm structures as I think about that? And you hear a lot about too from other organizations that are mandating folks to come back or okay, maybe it's just a couple of days a week or all of those decisions have impacts on the IT organization. So that is very alive and well. I'd say one of the other pieces you mentioned mental health is that we're starting to understand a little bit more kind of who's behind the computer, who's behind the keyboard, what does the impact have for them? Because in this type of work environment as well, it's still challenging to find really good talent. And so you might be strapped for resources, you might be the only person that's trying to implement these processes or the security protocol or trying to help get us up into a good compliance posture, all of those different pieces kind of wreak havoc on it. And so you can start to think about, man, how do I make progress? And I think that's one of the other pieces that is really important for folks kind of from that perspective is always understand that you're making progress. Even though the tickets might be coming at you there's never ending in sight, all those steps that you take for an organization are critically important. And so, and it's not always just a people answer because you might not be in the position to say, hey, we need an extra five hands on this in order to make it done. It might have to be more of a conversation of, hey, here are the pieces that we need to automate. Here are the business processes that we really need to think about in order to have a fundamental impact on what we can do. And then you can come back and say, great. And if we have this, it might actually look like one and a half people. Maybe you can't really hire a half person, but you come into those types of mentality with a really solid argument of, here's what we need to have in order to make this happen. And I think too, getting that type of buy in again making sure that, hey, we are a security company after all, we're all in this together. That allows everyone to kind of help pitch in because if you don't have that piece, then everything can feel much more burdensome, right? And the level of burnout increases the level of mental health in general across the teams that are acting and supporting functions for an organization start to get burnout. And it might not always be as, hey, as important as revenue or, hey, we're getting this marketing campaign out, but it's this underwriting thing in terms of really truly important infrastructure that the company needs to think about. And when you can involve all of those different pieces, then people feel like they can make a positive impact. They feel more empowered. They have emojis attached to tickets and say, hey, it was so great to help you out today. And a lot of those, I'd say interpersonal connections that you might be missing in a remote only type of world and organization. And so bringing all those little tidbits back into, how to be a good person, how to be a good human and how to make sure that there's some personality involved with it. And it's not just this ongoing process. I think there's a little bit of give and take, but that's one other thing that we've surfaced is really just understanding a better picture of who's implementing all of these amazing things around the world. It's so important. There's so many different levers to pull here where becoming a security company is concerned. Where can folks go to, one, chase, get the survey? And two, some final thoughts. What, where can folks go to actually test out Jump Drive? Yeah, absolutely. Jump out, excuse me. So within everything that we talked about, some from various different technologies from identity management, advice management, SSO, MFA, and many, many more. So you can go to jumpcloud.com, create a free organization. It's free up to 10 users, 10 devices. So even for really small organizations, even if you're a startup, we can help leverage enterprise grade security technology for you to implement, as well as more detailed on the reports. And so if you want to get a better sense of kind of how we look at the world, types of information that we can bring back and making sure that you're learning from your peers and how to implement and put your best foot forward within the organization. We always have a ton of amazing resources and content that really looks at, you know, who's doing the work? Why are they doing the work? And how does that work impactful within multiple different organizations and not only just the organizations themselves, but those that are supporting it like managed service providers of the world. Got it, awesome. Chase, thank you so much for joining me on this episode of the AWS startup showcase. Talking to us about what JumpCloud has uncovered with respect to the concerns that SMEs have, how MSPs are helping, how JumpCloud is also a facilitator and really helping to organizations to become security organizations. We appreciate your time. Absolutely, thank you so much for having me again. Our pleasure. We want to thank you for watching. Keep it right here on theCUBE for more action. theCUBE is your leader in live tech coverage.


Hey what's up folks, in this project we're 3D printing selfie action figures. You can 3D scan your family members to make modified action figures. We scanned our heads and added a ball socket so it can snap fit onto existing action figures. These are printed and flexible filament and feature painted details like the eyes and hair. The built-in ball socket allows for articulation so you can pose your selfie action figures and have fun playing with them. These are a hit with the kids and we think these will make a great gift for the whole family. Most action figures feature removable parts and feature a ball joint for their heads. These aren't standard sized so you'll need to use calipers to measure the diameter of the ball joints. We used our phone to capture different angles of our head using the Polycam app for iOS. Check out the guide on the 80 for Learning system for a full step by step tutorial. To capture a good scan you'll want to get photos underneath the chin and the top of the head. Your subject will need to remain very still so patience is really important. Also avoid wearing glasses, hats or anything reflective. Once you capture a decent scan you can export an OBJ file and import that into your preferred CAD program. We used Tinkercad to create a watertight mesh for 3D printing. Importing 3D scans into Tinkercad automatically closes any holes and repairs the mesh.  Position your cut right below the chin to avoid having to use support material. Our ball socket is made up of two perimeters and joined together. These can be resized to fit the ball joint in your action figure. Position it right underneath the neck and combine the objects to create a ready to print scan. To bring out the details you can paint on features using a dry brushing technique using various pigments. A fine pointed brush or toothpick can be used to add on small details like eyebrows and pupils. You can also mix different colors to match the character's bodily features. We printed several copies so that we could experiment with different pigments and painting techniques. We were really surprised how well these turned out with just hobbyist 3D printers. We hope this inspires you to try 3D scanning and making your own selfie action figures. Thank you so much for watching and be sure to subscribe for more projects from Adafruit.


Okay, so let's start. I'm here to present our work as an alternative to nested visualization. The name of the presentation is No More Turtle Turtles. It's a referral to the original article of nested visualization, the turtle project. So what's the problem here? The problem is that we have cloud customers that want to spawn VMs. For example, on Kubevert, you have VM-based workload. Workers are VM or in Cata containers. For example, you want to increase boundaries using virtual machines. Right now, you only have two options. You can either use virtual machines on bare metal systems, and those are quite expensive to rent bare metal system and you don't really have much options of customization of the system itself.  You either get tons of core and tons of RAM, or you just don't get it. Or you can use nested visualization. So you just rent a standard virtual machines and you use that to spawn nested virtual machines. But that has some other issues. You do miss some features in the nested visualization. So for example, a confidentiality, you cannot use hardware encryption. So Intel TDX or AMD SCV or IBM PVM. You also have some problem in terms of security because the code base to enable nesting is quite large and larger code base means higher chance of bugs and you still in you do miss a bit of performance with nested compared to the standard VM. For these reasons, the Cloud Providers, most Cloud Providers, they don't allow it. So if you actually want to do it, you can't because it's not available to you. So what we thought of was to flatten the hierarchy. So basically we create a special VM. We call it the primary VM that it's able to talk to the host and ask for some things. So the VM is given some resources that it's booted with. So a number of CPU, some storage, some memory and so on. It can ask the host to just take some of these resources away from itself and use them to spawn secondary Biffle machine and then it's able to control them access deleted, pause them, modify them and so on. KVM already does some hierarchy flattening. So it has a VM control structure for nesting and shadow page table that actually accelerates some operation and that kind of solves some problems of performance, but not all of them. Most of all, IO is not really as good, latency is not really as good, and you're still missing some features like hardware encryption. So yeah, this is what we're at with nesting. We have the host with visualization software that spawns a standard virtual machine with its own version of the visualization software that's used to spawn nested VM. We want to go to a situation like this where the visualization software spawns both the primary VM and the secondary VM, and the primary VM just has access and some basic control over it. What are the challenges of this? Well, first of all, in terms of security, you need to make sure that the system, the rest of the system is unaffected by it. So exactly like nested VMs, it doesn't matter how many you spawn. For the host, it's like they have a single virtual machine. Like this, it doesn't matter how many secondary VM you spawn for the host, it should be exactly the same. So that's why the primary VM only has access to some predefined action. It doesn't have access to the whole control plane. Another issue is the other way around. Not only you need to protect the host from the primary and secondary VMs, you also need to protect the primary VM from the rest of the system. So if you have other VMs, you need to be sure that they don't have access to the channel of communication, for example, between the host primary and secondary VMs, and also the secondary VMs should act like nested VMs. So other VMs should not be able to see them. So this is where we start. We have on the left the level zero, the host with its version of the visualization software, and on the right, we have the primary VM spawn. To allow communication, we need to add a component which we called the secondary VM demon. Actually, we have one for each primary VM to avoid interference and potential voluntary or involuntary DOS attacks. Then we have a template that the host can use to spawn every secondary VM it's asked to. Now we have one final problem, which is how do we get the image from the primary VM to the host to boot. We cannot just copy it because that way, any primary VM could just keep sending data to the host and fill up the host space. So that's why we add a secondary disk, secondary drive, a virtual drive where the primary VM can put the image of the secondary VMs. Finally, we encapsulate everything in a pool of resources, and those are the one that they are allowed to use. The demon is also part of these resources. So now a primary VM that wants to spawn a secondary VM asks send the request to the demon. The demon unplugged the storage, it gets the image, it will shrink the secondary drive to the new size, which is the old size minus the size of the secondary VM image and it will plug it back. Now it has every information it needs. So it has the request, it has the template, it has the image, and it will just start the secondary VM and connect them to the primary VM. This is a table of comparison between the current solution. So standard plus tested and bare metal plus standard, and this is a comparison. So it should be as cheap as standard because for a cloud provider, it doesn't really change much to spawn one or the other. It has some flexibility issue. So you do have your storage divided into, you have the secondary drive and your primary drive. Also you do have some problem with memory, but you have much more choice than bare metal system. You have the full hardware feature available to you for the secondary VM. So you have encryption, you have through device pass-through, you do have some virtual IOMU for nested, but you take quite a big it in performance there and that's the whole point of pass-through anyway. Secondary VMs are as fast as standard VM because they are standard VMs. So now let's go through all the components of this. The most important one is the daemon. The daemon is the one that talks to the primary VM. With the channel we use is Vsoc. Vsoc was an easy choice because it's only visible in virtualized environments. So there's less chance for other software to interfere with it. We can use the idea of the device of the primary VM as to discern traffic between all the primary VMs. Actually that also gives us a way to demote a primary VM to a standard VM. You just remove the Vsoc device, you remove the secondary drive and you just have a standard VM. The daemon is the main component that does all the stuff on the behalf of the primary VM. Another important stuff is the resource pool. The main component of the resource pool enforcement is C-group. So we have CPU set to ensure that the number of cores stays the same and max memory for memory to ensure that the memory is, you don't go over the memory you started with. Right now those are the two that we implemented, but we will add some other things to make sure that other stuff needs to be proportional. For example, block scheduling awaits to be sure that all groups have the same bandwidth allowed no matter how many secondary VMs you spawn. One problem that the C-group doesn't solve is the storage like we talked about. So that's where we just do the unplug, shrink and replug thing. Finally, network every time you spawn a primary VM, you create a virtual network and you connect everything to it. So it's easy for them to talk and the rest of the system to not know. Up to this point, I just talked about concept that not really about a specific software layer, and that's because this is supposed to be a general solution. It doesn't matter which visualization stack you use, you can implement your own version of the daemon and your own version of the client and it should be good to go. But we did have a proof of concept in Libvert because, well, it's open source, it supports already multiple libraries or so, not only KVM you can use many more of them. It already has a system D integration and with system D we have access to C-groups. So it was quite easy for us to just add our limits to it. It's easy to have devices attached and detached at runtime. For example, network and storage. Now let me show you a demo. So on the left, we have the host, which has a single primary VM running and on the right, you have three instances of the same primary VM. The primary VM is encrypted with the AMD SCV, and you can see that we have the VDB the secondary disk, which is 50 gigabytes and inside that disk, we already have the images of the secondary VM we want to spawn. Now from the second instance, we send a message to the host. We want a secondary VM with two CPUs for gigabytes of RAM, that image is raw. We want it encrypted and so created. As you can see, right now, it's a simple plain text string to be parsed by the host. This will change in the future, but for a proof of concept, it's fine. As you can see on the whole side, we have spawned the secondary VM. We have a sense of hierarchy, so this is the secondary of one. You can see on the screen, but on the left, you have the IDs of the VMs. Now we are spawning another one, which is not encrypted. Again, sending it plain text on the host. It's done. You can see it. Again, it's a secondary one, the primary VMs ID one. You can see that the disk is now 28 gigabytes. That means the secondary VM in total were 22 gigabytes. Now we can access them using the network. You can see that it's in fact encrypted like we asked. We can use encryption both in primary and secondary VM at the same time. The last one, we can access it, but this one is not going to be encrypted because we didn't ask to be encrypted. Finally, make sure that this is not encrypted. Finally, another thing that we want to show is the resource usage. In the host, we're going to have a resource monitor, and we're going to have a few stressors in the primary VM CPU and memory stressor, on the primary VM and on the secondary VMs. As you can see, only four CPUs are being utilized, and that's because that's the resources that the primary VM has been given. It doesn't matter how many stressors, on how many virtual machine you launch, that's what the hosts see. One final thing is that the hierarchy is a strong hierarchy, so you cannot have orphaned secondary VMs. Let's log out. If you kill the primary VM, then that means all the other secondary VMs gets destroyed automatically. Yeah, no more. This is where we are at right now. We are going to do some other stuff in the future. The most important one is going to have a more defined way to talk between the primary VM and the host. We settled on the VSOC for the reason that I talked before, but we need to decide on the format, probably a form of XML or JSON, and encryption. I mean, the channel is invisible from the outside, but if you add encryption, it's better. Then we will clean up our code in an early state and try to upstream it so that this is going to be a baked-in feature to livevert. It's going to have, you can add a simple primary tag in your XML file, and that will just do everything for you. We'll boot a VM that's going to be a primary VM that can talk to the host using whatever clients it has. Another thing we want to improve the C-group stuff like I talked about, we want to add some other limits, like block limits and so on. Another thing is going to be to improve the isolation of the primary VM in the host. The most important one is we found that the CPU set of C-group doesn't really work as well as the boot parameters, ISO CPU, which was what we were using in the beginning. So we will try to improve that and make it act more like ISO CPUs. Another thing is we want to investigate over the storage solution, so how to get the secondary VM images. We tried a few stuff and then we settled on the plug-and-plug. So we tried like NFS having an NFS server in the primary VM so that the host can just access the data and spawn it, but that's quite slow in terms of your performance in the secondary VMs. We also tried to hack the Q-Cow layer and the Q-Cow file system and have the secondary VM be an overlay of the primary VM. So for the host, the secondary VM is a snapshot of the primary VM and you can boot it, but that still increases the size inside the host and that's not allowed. The final thing that we tried to do was for the primary VM to tell the host which were the physical blocks where the image was located, and then in the host, you create a fake disk with a file system which mirrors the file system in the primary VM. So you can create an iNode that points to the correct blocks and you access the file directly, but then you need the kernel to synchronized, and I don't think that's ever going to be accepted than from the kernel community. Yeah, that was it. If you have questions, yeah. So the question is, can you boot more of these secondary primaries? Well, you can boot. Secondary VM to boot another secondary VM. We thought about it, so we do have a vision of a hierarchy in the host, so it's possible we didn't implement it yet, but yeah, in theory, I don't see any problem. They are all at the same level from visualization perspective, but on the host, you can see which one belongs to which. First on the, yeah. Well, the OpenShift and Kubernetes are the most, like the one that comes to mind, so they usually have worker nodes inside VMs, and since the user is given a VM to begin with, they don't have the access to spawning nested VM in cloud, and so they need to do it somewhere, and this might be one way to do it. Yeah, that's probably the, maybe not the next step, but trying to have a demon version of this inside Qvert. It's something that we wrote somewhere and that we will investigate, yeah. Yeah. Is the demon a user space? No, it's all user space, like, okay. So if you have one, like if you spawn multiple VMs on a host, you pay for each one of them, and that might be something that you don't want to do, so you just get one VM and you just use the same resources over and over again. And yeah, the problem with the Q-Cow, so okay, this was for the thing that we tried to get the image from the primary VM. We tried to get the Q-Cow and have it as an overlay of the primary VM Q-Cow file, so you have the primary VM Q-Cow, which has a snapshot, which is not really a snapshot, is a secondary VM, and you just boot that. But a snapshot is a diff between those files, so it was still quite huge, and that's not something that we can allow because you fill up the whole space, the more secondary VMs you boot. And yeah, yeah, this is something that we will have to talk to the cloud providers. Probably then it's going to be a limit of how many encrypted VMs you are allowed to boot. Not unencrypted, as many as you want encrypted, you're going to have a limit. I have a question from the chat, can you hear me okay? Okay, it says, so the secondary VM does not consume any memory of the primary. How do you shrink the memory size of the primary VM when a secondary VM starts? Yes, you can cap the total sum via a host C-group, but the primary VM will happily use the memory until C-group will kill one of the processes. So the question is more C-group capping, OOM, killer versus using the existing shrinkers might have different end results. One is a fatal kill, maybe the primary ouch versus not being able to start the secondary nested VM. Yeah, so when the secondary VM is not encrypted, we didn't find any problem. When it's encrypted, the memory is pinned and we do remove the memory, we use a similar mechanism to the disk. So we have some slots of memory, you remove those virtual slots and you assign them to the secondary VM. So the primary VM actually does see, contrary to the CPUs, so primary VM always has a vision of the same number of CPUs. Memory, when you spawn a secondary VM, you see that your memory is shrinking. Great, thank you. And another question here. Just one, I'm just thinking, if you're starting to remove resources from the primary VM, and let's see if Kubernetes is not running there, how do you let the schedule know that it actually has less resources to schedule for its thought? Yeah, yeah, that was an issue that really came. And so on the CPU side, you really don't have a problem because the CPUs are virtual CPUs, you can just have memory. And on the memory side, yeah, that's an issue and you're going to need to change a bit the worker node so that he knows that his memory are diminishing. Any more questions? No, well, thank you. If you have some other question, you can find our email and write to any of the team. Yeah, thank you.


Organic solar cells, OSCs, have been developed as a promising alternative to traditional silicon-based photovoltaics due to their low cost, light weight, flexibility, and ease of fabrication. However, one of the major challenges facing the commercialization of these devices is their limited stability. This review summarizes the current understanding of the stability issues associated with OSCs and discusses the strategies employed to address them. These include material design, device engineering, employing inverted geometry, optimizing buffer layers, using stable electrodes and encapsulation materials, and the International Summit on Organic Photovoltaic Stability Guidelines. Additionally, this review outlines future research directions aimed at achieving the required device stability and efficiency. This article was authored by Leiping Duan and Ashraf Uddin.


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Look, there's nothing more important in this current economic recession than increasing your ability to earn income. And I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of college degrees will actually do the opposite, and will absolutely crush your chances of making good money at a young age when you can actually enjoy it. But the truth is, money is everywhere, and all you have to do is claim it. And the way you claim it is by going where the opportunity is. And that's why I put together a list of the highest paying bachelor degrees. And I'm going to break this down into different types of degrees as well. So you're going to find something that's interesting to you, whether or not you're interested in business, health, technology, math, engineering, science, social science, or even an art degree. But you will be 10 times more likely to reach that milestone than if you got a useless degree. Now the first one on the list is going to be a business related degree. And this one combines business skills with technology skills with an emphasis on data. You see, data is more valuable than oil or gold. And companies need people who are good at organizing and making sense of all the data that they get. And that's where you come in if you get a management information systems degree. So this degree is basically a perfect combination of technology skills and business skills. And just about every business in every single industry out there needs people that have these skill sets. And that's why you see insanely good numbers when you look at this degree. So for instance, when you type in management information systems on Glassdoor, you're going to see they make about $97,000 a year. And when you look on BLS, it's growing at 16% over the next 10 years. So yeah, there is a lot of positives to getting this degree. I will say that the way that companies collect data is extremely sketchy. They basically stole our data without our permission and they pretty much got clean away with it. And the reason they're able to do that is because a lot of the big technology companies are basically proxies for the government to do what they want. And hopefully that doesn't involve them using that data to control people against their will. And by the way, if you find this content to be valuable, go ahead, gently tap that like button and the algorithm will serve you more of it. Now the next one on the list is going to be a health related bachelor's degree.   So make sure to buy some really good, high quality shoes. And of course I'm talking about nursing. No, but seriously, if you want to buy a good pair of shoes, just find one of your friends who's a nurse and I can almost guarantee you, they're going to tell you the best one. Now nurses are basically the foot soldiers of the healthcare industry, right? They're like on the front line in the war against death and injury. And I know that sounds kind of morbid, but literally nurses are like the backbone of the healthcare system. Now entry level nursing jobs, you're going to make about $69,000 a year, but I can almost guarantee you if you specialize, you can make way more than that. I know nurses who make several hundred thousand dollars a year and it's growing at about 6% over the next 10 years. So this one is great for people who love helping other people and it's not so good for people who get queasy at the sight of blood. Now the next one is going to be for my math nerds out there. And it's kind of like being a detective that solves mysteries with numbers instead of clues. So you'll need to be good at math and have a sharp eye for detail. And the degree I'm talking about is going to be statistics. So remember when I was talking about data and how valuable it is to companies? Well, one of the main ways that companies get actionable insights from that data is they hire people who are good at statistics to make sense of it. Now, speaking of statistics, did you know that you'll have a 500% better chance of getting a girlfriend if you share this video with a friend or family member who needs to see it? It's science. I mean, just about anything passes for science these days. So hey, it could be true. Now all joking aside, statisticians, really hard to say that word, make about $85,000 a year and it's growing at 31% over the next 10 years. So this one is great for people who love math, logic and puzzles. And it's not so good for people who find numbers to be more confusing than words. Now the next one on the list came in as my number one degree out of over 900 different degrees on my college degree ranker. So this one has insanely good statistics. And it's basically like speaking the language of robots and being able to command them what to do. And you're probably able to guess which one it is. Yes, it is computer science and computer science will probably lead you to a job as a software developer. And if you haven't noticed this world basically runs on technology and computer scientists are the ones who are making sure that it's running properly. Now I'll be honest with you, I think technology has gone a little bit too far. There's a lot of studies that have shown that depression and anxiety and other mental disorders have actually gone up since the onset of social media. So I really do think that you should limit your exposure to technology. And I think the most important thing, this is probably going to be the difference between the people who are successful and not successful is your ability to use technology and not let technology use you. But there's a lot of really cool things coming out in technology. For instance, I'm a huge fan of cryptocurrency and the blockchain, but it can also be used for bad. So for instance, governments now are saying that they are going to try to create their own versions of digital currency known as CBDCs, which is central bank digital currencies. And that is absolutely terrifying because they will be able to control what you're allowed to spend your money on, right? So if they think you've been a bad boy, you might not be able to buy a car or get transportation or they might limit the amount of meat you can eat, right? It's really actually kind of terrifying. And they literally say that you're going to own nothing and be happy. So what I mean by this is technology can be used for good or evil. It's a tool just like anything else. Now as a computer scientist, you would be expected to make about $115,000 a year. And these types of careers are growing at about 15% over the next 10 years.  And the sponsor of this video is going to be course careers and they help people get into IT related careers in a very short period of time. So for instance, I've interviewed people on this channel who've been able to get into IT careers in less than a month. So definitely check them out. They have a free training, which I'll put down in the description below where they'll kind of go over how you can get into an IT career. They'll explain to you how it works.  So it's a cohort. And if you'd like to buy the paid course, you can use my coupon code down below, which is Shane 50. I'll put it down in the description as well as the pen comment. Now the next one on the list is going to be an engineering related degree. And I think everybody knows that these degrees are really good, but some of them are better than others. And software developers know the language of robots to command them what to do. But the people who give those robots life are going to be electrical engineers. And our entire society runs on electricity and electrical engineers are the ones who design and build those systems that make everything work. Now, with this one, you'd expect to make about $88,000 a year in the entry level job. And as an electrical engineer, it's only growing at about 2% over the next 10 years, but there is a ton of different careers that you can go into. So this one is pretty rigorous. It's for people who love math and science, and they also aren't afraid of getting shocked. Now the next one on the list is going to be a science related degree. And everybody thinks that's all STEM degrees are great. But the truth is stem stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. And the last three, the TEM, are much better than science. A lot of science degrees are actually not good. Or in some case, they even fall into the category of being borderline useless. And sadly, science has been hijacked by woke tyrants and universities.  And they are literally letting men compete in women's sports, right? I didn't think I would ever see this in my lifetime. This seems like some sort of like Salem witch trials type of thing.  But nope, it is actually happening right now. So unfortunately, science as much as I love it is a complete joke right now. Now if you get a job as a biochemist, you can expect to make about $75,000 a year. And this one is expected to grow at about 15% over the next 10 years. So biochemistry is one of the few science related degrees that are still really good. Now the next one on the list is going to be a social sciences degree. And yes, most of these types of degrees are not very good when it comes to the numbers. However, I think a lot of them are extremely interesting. And one of the most interesting ones is actually still a pretty good degree to get. And this is going to be studying how people make money, spend money and stress about money. And a lot of the time it's going to be done from a big picture perspective. Now what's so interesting about economics is, yes, there is a logical kind of like science fact based component to it. But at the same time, you're still dealing with human beings and people are extremely illogical. So 80% of it is kind of like science, math, analytical thinking, but 20% of it is just understanding illogical thinking. And there's definitely a part of economics that has sort of been hijacked as well, where basically it's just a bunch of fancy words and terminology to make up excuses to make the money printer go burn. Now economists make about $99,000 a year and it's expected to grow at about 6% over the next 10 years. But keep in mind to become an economist, you typically have to get a master's or a doctorate. With that being said, there's a lot of jobs out there where it does not require a master's or a doctorate and you can get into it with just a bachelor's. So this one is great for people who sort of like money, but they also like psychology and sociology at the same time. And you can kind of understand why human beings do what they do when it comes to money. And it also helps you understand how the entire world works as well. Now the next one I'm going to talk about is going to be an art related degree. And I have to admit something I sort of tricked you because I'm going to tell you right now 99% of the time it's not a good idea to get an art related degree. So I'll go ahead and give you an example of where it would be a good idea. If you are a world class classical guitarist, for instance, right? And you're like in the top 99.9th percentile and you're trying to get into the top 99.99th percentile and you have an opportunity to go to a top level school where you're going to get to work with people who are even better than you, then it might be a good idea to get an art degree. But in almost every other case, it's not a good idea. And the reason for that is because universities are never going to be able to teach you what is up to date in art. And it's going to cost you a lot of money. And it's probably going to set you back when it comes to you reaching your goals. Now this is coming from somebody who's technically an artist. I mean, I guess I'm an artist because I make YouTube videos as cringe as that sounds. I mean, I make some really good modern art when it comes to my thumbnails, for instance. I think my o-face on thumbnails is as good as anybody else out there. And I have absolutely no problem with artists. In fact, I would say the majority of my friends are artists. But what I would recommend if you want to actually make money for a living from your art, which by the way, you don't have to do, you can just keep it as a hobby. And in that case, you'll probably end up enjoying it more. But if you do want to make money actually get a job from your art, I highly recommend reading the book Steel Like an Artist by Austin Cleon. This book is going to give you practical tips for how to actually make a living, make money from art. And there are some jobs out there that are available to artists, but chances are you're probably going to have to start your own thing, become an entrepreneur, and that's how you'll make money from art. And it's much better for you to probably just get a stable, steady job, learning some sort of valuable skill, which is what I teach on this channel, and then try to make your money from art on the side. That is going to increase your chances of success exponentially. And when it comes to learning how to get really good at art, what you should do is put yourself in a community of other people that are doing the same type of art that you are. So for instance, if you want to start a successful YouTube channel, make friends with a bunch of other people who are also trying to start a successful YouTube channel, or even better yet, get yourself around people who have already started YouTube channels. And the best thing you could possibly do is to work for an established YouTube creator and learn as much as you can from them.  Now by the way, if you're still searching about what bachelor's degree is going to be best for you to get, I actually ranked the top 100 most common bachelor's degrees from S tier, which is the best to F tier, which is the worst. And you can check that out by clicking right here.


Stakeholders representing various government departments and non-governmental organizations participated in the review exercise, offering the input towards the important integrated health surveillance guidelines. Facilitating the exercise was retired medical practitioner and epidemiologist Dr. Mariona Bonhead. Dr. Michel Foussois, national epidemiologist, shared some further insight on the Sanluxia Paho 4D exercise. This visit was focused primarily on roles and responsibilities of everybody within the national surveillance system of St. Luxia. And so we hope in subsequent visits that we continue to build on this document till we have guidelines which would strengthen our surveillance system nationally as well as that level of data quality that we seek to inform policies and decision making. Thursday's stakeholders session involved a review of data collection methods and reporting mechanisms among other areas. The aim is to have it as an interactive document and so it may be a lengthy process sorry but we are hoping and we are pushing ahead because St. Luxia is but a pilot project right now and the hope is that it can be replicated. I'm just looking forward to the final documents and to improving our surveillance system all around. Paho's country program specialist for St. Luxia, Mr. Ronald Dewitt says Paho is pleased to be supporting the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs in the review and development of the national integrated health surveillance guidelines. We are playing a pivotal role in ensuring that the system here in St. Luxia is strengthened so that they can monitor all events in the country. When I say events I mean whether man-made or natural be it hurricanes and the consequences of a hurricane in the country. So we want to make sure that the surveillance unit has the prerequisite tools in order to monitor these events when they occur in country as you would agree that data is very important for management and for decision making. We want to ensure that the health surveillance system has a relevant platform where they can collect data, collect it accurately, store it and produce it in a manner where it can help the policy makers to make the relevant decisions that they need to make in country and for allocation of resources to respond to the needs of the population. Another Paho visit is started for March 2023 during which other pillars of the national integrated health surveillance guidelines will be reviewed. The Paho is hoping that a final document will be completed at a sufficiently high standard that it can be used as a template in other countries. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, Julia Tepita reporting.


Remnants of a power park. We're here with total wrecking and they are clearing out this site You may have seen the site before we were brought here previously to film the implosion Which was the main event of clearing out this site, but it's over a year later. They're still working There's a lot involved when clearing out a site like this. It is these were all buildings Oh, they blew it up man. There's a lot of a lot of mess Remember when your mom would make you clean your room when you're a kid and like how long did that take? Like a year and a half. Look at how big this room is. It's a big room It took me so long to clean up all this. We brought back here today because they've encountered a pretty unique problem These were our circulating water lines They moved the cooling towers that were over here They were the pipes that are nine foot in diameter that took water from the power block over to the towers to cut down So they run into a road so we have to fill them in to make sure they never destroy the roads So but we need to know how much material they have to bring in to do that We're gonna look inside the pipes Maybe you can do it. You don't think you can get in there. Oh, I can get in there It's getting out and be a little getting back out There's a section that they can't get to because there's road and railroad tracks going over it So they actually need to backfill those and what we're here is to get a look on the inside so that they know How much material they need to fill it up And if there's anything else in there that they need to know about before they start the filling process So we have like a screen. Well, then we'll be able to plug it into our goggles and they'll give you a live HD video will that record it? Yeah, the drone actually goes down so you don't lose the footage So we'll be able to record multiple I'm not gonna send like an action camera because I don't want to risk that the goggles that I'll be wearing will record on to The goggles themselves a 720p image and that we get no matter what so even if the drone goes down And it's gone. Well at the very least get that 720p The goggles are a much better resolution than they were when you came out last year Also, we were using an analog system. So now we've got new digital systems have come out like very recently And it's like you haven't noticed any experience lag because I know you said that was a big part of the reason you use the analog That's so funny to remember that. That's so yeah, we did not prompt him on that question That well that was always the biggest problem with digital before because this wasn't the first time they tried to do digital But before when you did a digital or HD There was big latency problems and now it is a little bit more Than the analog system the analog is technically still a little faster But it's very marginal and the benefit to having that visibility It's like it's crossed that that trade-off and the image is so much better Like I think I can fly better with it. Even if there is maybe one or two more milliseconds Too long it's it's still pretty long compared to how small it is maybe this entrance will be more clear It's not possible not flying through okay, so we got to turn around and come back. They said it's completely Blocked off on this side. So we pretty much have to go down the tunnel Turn around and return definitely a lot harder if you got to turn around and come back I really think we're losing the drone today. Yeah, I I totally think we're losing a drone probably mine the height is really concerning We've got these you know what's hooked up with led lights because it's also gonna be dark in there So edwin just got here. This is one of the best pilots in florida. We brought him out here We want to have all the skill available to us. This is looking like it's gonna be a pretty difficult mission Yeah, we might just make this edwin's problem to deal with Just don't lose our drone because they can't send anyone down there because this is like a slide right So they've excavated it as much as they can but like you couldn't send a person in there because it could just Yeah, bury him alive, right? Look at that nerves of steel That's why we brought him here So this is the dji smart controller and it's the device you need if you want to get video out onto a screen from the goggles So this is going to plug into edwin's goggles. We just plug this usb in right here Man, how well can you see bring it out? Let's have a look and we can do another run if they want if they need it Oh my god, you made it out. That was insane. Oh my god. That was insane Oh man, look at all the mud you got on this That's crazy. It's back. You made it back. Let's go have a footage review Well, could you see the light worked really well, dude, but all I could see was a long ass hallway just Uh-huh, just nothing but darkness at the end. That's a scary hallway of water That's pretty badass. Dude, you went deep in there. Is that enough? Is that a good view? Dude, that is a scary view coming out of there Yeah, and later you were coming backwards and then you rotated like right at the last minute before the rebar I was scared to turn around You're scared to y'all in there because it's so it's so hard to y'all without tapping the throttle by accident And if you start drifting towards the wall like and you start over correcting and stuff because it's kind of So the other thing they want to have us do here is get some aerial flyovers So they want to show some kind of before and after so they have drone shots before the demolition started So we're going to get just some flyover shots Then we get some freestyle we're just going to make a round around the entire site They've got a couple of zones that they want to get footage of we're going into the pipe and doing that inspection We didn't want to risk any Action cameras, so we were just using the footage that came straight off the air unit or was recorded to the goggles Now that we're not really going to be flying in a pipe that we might not Recover from we're going to be throwing some action cameras We've got the dj out osmo action here so that we'll actually get like a good 4k image And we'll just give you the screen and you can just tell us where to steer I got fly around to see the building on your right there.  That's it. Okay. Can they get a quick flight here to get some Have that again Between the grapple and the cab of the crane Dropping down and down. This is not something that they mentioned we're going to get to do today But apparently they want some footage of this machine going and I'm just wanting to dive it as they drop the ball I think that would be so cool Gosh, that was so sick over there and telling that if you want to go want to get a battery pack ready We just got approval to do a crane dive. He said the guys were dying to try to crush a drone or something What did he say? Yeah, yeah, when we first got here is like no, they're not going to go for it And they see the quads and they're like, well, I mean, maybe Maybe Do it after all actually because I want to crush that thing. No, I told him next time he picks it up pick it all the way to top The puddle it was awesome my drone.    Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. I went straight for it full commit No way you got it back a couple of new propellers and he's good to go. I think Thanks for watching the episode We did a lot of crazy stuff at the construction site and we didn't lose anything. So that's really good I not a single drone was lost. I got mine back I was fully prepared to lose one the score is that you're actually plus one drone, right? Because you should have lost that one. I got a couple extra cat lives today. Yeah Well, this is awesome I think it's really cool to get to use drones and kind of like a unique way to help perform some Inspections and get some of the aerial shots that they want to show the progress on this excavation A big shout out to toll wrecking for bringing us out here Thanks to DJI for sponsoring this episode digital system did great with all the long distance flying that we had to do If you guys enjoyed this episode make sure to hit the like button to let us know you had a good time Thank you guys for hanging out. 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Yes, I'm talking today about the Clearinghouse project, which is a joint project between Europe and China. And the point of the project is to look towards improving urban living conditions in both continental situations. I'm speaking today on behalf of a group of researchers, so I'd like to thank them for their contribution. The basis of our investigation is around the concept of nature-based solutions. I've put here a slide that is draws on the international union for the conservation of nature. And they say that the nature-based solution is an action to provide sustainably managed and restore natural ecosystems, etc. Address societal challenges, provide a set of tools. And I think importantly, nature-based solutions, the plural word is important here. They are not a single action, but represent many actions. I think we all know, and this is a theme that runs through conferences and seminars, workshops of this kind, is that we are urbanizing at an alarming rate. So the planet is going through a significant environmental change and that the cities are amongst the most vulnerable. The trend, all predictions suggest that urbanization will increase continuously at least until 2050, maybe beyond. Cities are the hub of global economic activity, but also the hub of global energy consumption. And as we've heard already this morning was one hopes that the tide might be turning urbanization does generally lead to a decline in the amount of green space and normally that is a consequence of the pace of development. So let's pose a question where can trees and urban forest help and it's helpful here to I think they use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I've highlighted three where I think urban forestry can make a significant contribution. It likely can make a contribution to all. In terms of good health and well being sustainable development goal three sustainable development goal 11 sustainable cities and communities and sustainable goal 15, which is life on land. So, trees and urban forest how do they actually provide or work as a nature based solution. Well, that really is not stuff of NASA or the European Space Agency this is simply to say, the trees in particular deliver most of these benefits simply through their normal biotic activities, but equally through their social and economic benefits, one might call this the anthropocentric function. And so a good way to deliver these is to consider them within the realm of ecosystem services and the ecosystem services they deliver. But there are challenges out there. Historically trees and forests and urban areas have been undervalued in respect of the services they deliver to societies. You can see here a campaign that hit the international news from the United Kingdom, where through what I think we could call it an era of planning judgment. The city of Sheffield gained a very bad reputation for cutting down mature trees. In urban areas existing policies and practice for the governance management and conservation of trees and forest clearly needs to change. And although in meetings like this we hear evidence of change. It's still not widespread enough. Our understanding of different approaches across countries and continents can help in terms of mutual learning and improve the strategies we have for urban forestry. And that was the basis upon which we were granted funding by the European Commission, and more recently by the Chinese most for the clearinghouse project, looking at urban forestry as a nature based solution. So a little bit more about how we are addressing an overcoming the challenges. Well, we're working across both research and innovation. We're working in China in Europe. We're providing open access to the knowledge gained. We're trying to bring together practitioners and strategists in cities, as well as researchers in the sector. We're providing guidelines already mentioned today. Those like guidelines are something that I'll be leading on over the next 18 months or so. In terms of where we've reached so far in the project there is an innovative innovative new technology, sorry type typology, a conducting of a large public perception survey on urban forestry in both China and Europe now complete data still in analysis. There are case studies available already on the nature, nature network program, which is available on the internet. And we've already completed an important analysis of governance, institutional economic frameworks for urban forestry as a nature based solution. A little bit about the Sino European situation. What we found so far, and you will see here from Fermilab in the US, the diagram on ecosystem services, just to help position you. We certainly identified that there are scale differences. So far in our cross continental comparison we've discovered that the interventions in China on balance tend to be of a larger scale than those in Europe. And that might have to do in large measure by the fact that space is of a particular premium in Europe. And certainly, it's quite clear to us now that there is evidence to just that the China Forest City program is a global leader, when it comes to tackling urban forestry as an NBS. And in particular, we think that the KPIs, the so called key performance indicators that have been developed for that program have global resonance. What's interesting, although to some of us not greatly surprising is the cultural ecosystem services that you will see in the bottom left of the Fermilab diagram, perhaps rather stronger in the European situation, whereas the regulating services are stronger in the Chinese situation. Even the fact that clean air is a particular problem in China that is perhaps one of the least surprising findings we've come across. And I wanted to share very briefly if I have time some of the key findings. The first finding is this is that it's important that we elevate the role of urban trees above simple aesthetics reinforce their role as critical urban infrastructure and provide a clear linkage to the delivery of ecosystem services. That involves an educational role as well, particularly for urban planners to make them aware of urban ecosystem thinking. The third finding is that the concept of urban forestry as a nature based solution remains a new concept. So there is a need for knowledge and capacity building amongst all engaged stakeholders. Our third finding is that land availability for urban forestry seems to be a universal problem. It's very evident in both Europe and China. And by extension, I think we're fairly confident that this could probably be said for almost all urban situations globally. Our fourth finding is that the engagement of civil society, by which we're referring to social groups and citizens is still relatively low. In the last part, this suggests that the planning and management of urban forestry is still largely top down, rather than bottom up. And this raises clearly an issue of governance, something that I know within the European arena. There is much talk at the moment about how to step up the idea of co governance and bottom up involvement in nature based solutions as a whole, specifically looking at urban forestry on its own. Our fifth finding is that the engagement of the private sector is falling short of expectations. One minute morning. Okay, thank you the long term management of the urban forest is certainly an opportunity in this regard, in terms of increasing in the engagement of the private sector. Our fifth finding is I think particularly important that there is complementarity between different types of nature based solutions, and possibly additional benefits from the management of water and trees together for air quality and tackling the urban heat island. This leads to an important point should urban foresters also be water engineers, or water engineers also urban foresters. We've also taken a literature review, very global literature review on urban forestry as part of this project. This is what came out of it. These slides will be made available and because of time I won't spend any time on that now. On behalf of the clearinghouse project and to the funders particularly the Chinese mosque and the European Commission for their generosity and invite you to connect with us on social media. Thank you.


I feel very anxious to open up with people whenever I meet someone, I feel uncomfortable and I just run away. Is it some mental issue or I don't fit in the society? What do I do? So, you are overly anxious about meeting people, interacting with people. You have heard of a word called yoga. When I say yoga, you are immediately thinking of twisting yourself? No. The word yoga means union. Union means, see in your perception of life, there is you and there is the world. So it is you versus the universe actually. You versus the universe is a bad competition to get into. Hello? You have any chance of winning this? You get into competition with the universe. Is there a chance to win this competition? No, you don't compete with the universe. So we found a way called yoga. Yoga means union. That means consciously you obliterate the boundaries of your individuality. So there is no such thing as you and universe, it feels like one. You need to do little bit of yoga otherwise your mind will get twisted out with all kinds of ideas, emotions and opinions.  You have no nonsense about this one. Whether it's a man or a woman or a child or an animal, you have no problem with everything you will communicate absolutely because you have opened up your boundaries. If you have concretized your boundaries, this is me, this is me, then with this you will always have a problem. If it's a man, it's one kind of problem. If it's a woman, another kind of problem, it's an animal, other kind of problem, I will tell you. This may sound… I've been telling people whether… whether you are at complete ease with life or not, how to find out somebody asked me recently. I said, we can give you a cobra test. Cobra test means right from my childhood, I've been in the jungles of western gods. In the wild, many of these animals, particularly if they're venomous, their way of perceiving life is through the chemistry. This… they're looking at your chemistry. If they… if you show a little bit of anxiety, they will go for you, otherwise they won't. So if you can just pick up a cobra like this, not by holding it by its head and all that, simply like this. And if he's not disturbed, that means you're at ease. If he goes for you, you are not at ease. This is a cobra test. I'm putting some people through cobra test just to check if they're really at ease. I can go and pick up a cobra any time he just comes to me. Of course she's asking if they're alive. See, when I lived in jungles by myself, no outside support, the only technological equipment I have is a HMT watch, okay? And no phone, no torch, no nothing in the jungle by yourself and food. So people always wondered, how does he survive for weeks? Well, I drank up lot of honey. Honey, beehives are there. Beehives are always built on that branch of the tree where a bear cannot get.  So the bees will build it in such a branch where if the bear goes there, the branch will break because of its weight. So now I slowly creep up. I always kept a little extra tube on my petrol tube in my motorcycle, just fourteen to eighteen inches long plastic tube. I will go stick it into the hive and just drink up half a liter to one liter of honey, just keeps me going for the day. But the bees think I'm just one more big bee.  If eight, ten of them bite you in your face, you will suffocate to death.  But I always drank honey and I survived. They never ever bit me because they are looking at your chemistry. So it's time you work upon bringing yourself to ease, not just with other people, just with life. The life that you are must be at ease. If you are not at ease, you will never realize your full potential. Above all, see in every human being, there is a certain genius. But ninety-nine percent of the people live and die without ever opening up the genius within themselves. If it has to open up, if the true potential within you have to open up, your life should come to ease. There is a whole science and technology called yoga, not just twisting and turning, approaching how to handle your body, how to handle your chemistry, how to handle your energies, how to handle your mental fluctuations. If you bring this to a certain level, you are at ease. When you are at ease, if there is this person, that person, animal, devil, whoever comes, you're at ease. You being at ease is most important. Otherwise, you will not experience life the way it is. In agitation, everything is distorted.