This is just a quick follow up to the previous video. One alert commenter had reminded me that I did not actually check the so-called AC termination or RC termination. So what I've done here is I've used a zero ohm resistor over here and on the ends I put a 100 ohm resistor with a capacitor. Now the capacitor value that I used I think it's about 160 picofarads and the reason that I did that is the rule of thumb is you take the total length of your transmission line and you double it so that's 90 centimeters and 60 centimeters is 150 centimeters and you double it so that's 300 centimeters and then you convert that to time so 300 centimeters divided by 18 is something like 16.6 or so nanoseconds and what you do is you make that your time constant. So with a 100 ohm resistor which I use because of course we've got a 100 ohm transmission line that works out to be something like 166 or so picofarads. So I chose 160 picofarads that was the closest I had and now we can take a look at the signal first at the long end and this is at 20 megahertz you can see that the waveform is actually really good. The dips aren't too low the highs are not too high in fact it goes up to 3.3 volts because remember that when we go from 0 to 3.3 the capacitor effectively looks like a short and then of course as it charges up the capacitor looks more and more like an open circuit until finally it's fully charged and it is effectively an open circuit. So the voltage is going to rise to its maximum value. So that is actually a pretty good looking waveform. The thing that is important to note is the time delay and this is one of the reasons why you may not consider an AC termination is that it does tend to stretch things out of it. Here we have an 11.44 nanoseconds delay between the low and the high but in fact maybe if I go from the low to the threshold which is 2 volts or so it's actually only 2.3 nanoseconds so in fact there's not much of a delay at all. And if I look at the other end, so we go from 3.3 volts down to 0.8 volts is the threshold so let's get to about 0.8 volts or so okay well we're almost at 2 nanoseconds so in fact this is a pretty good termination. Let's take a look at the short end now and the short end looks pretty much identical. So this is actually a really good termination I think. So thank you very much to the commenter who suggested that. The next thing to try is to see what happens on the end. Again I've chosen the capacitor so that it is for a 150 centimeter transmission line by cutting this trace I'm only going to get a 90 centimeter transmission line so the time constant is going to be basically you know something like I don't know three or four times the length which is okay. Let's go and cut this trace and see what happens. So I have cut the trace right over there maybe you can see it and let's take a look at what is going on and that still looks pretty good. So we've got again the timing looks really quite nice and everything looks pretty good. So this is a very viable termination and I think in fact that is what I'm going to use for my RISC-5 processor. Now the advantage of that is that I don't actually have to change the design of my RISC-5 registers because right now the RISC-5 registers just have the chips outputting to the bus with no source resistance. So that means that all I have to do is put the RC termination on the ends of the bus and hopefully everything should work out just fine. So I guess the next thing that I should try is to make a few more registers and make a backplane for it and see what happens. So I'll see you on that video. Take care. And I can't sing!


Do backrooms levels start out really small and grow over the years? Or are they just created at the size that they're at right now? Backroom shower thoughts, number 11.  Or do the backrooms not have any relation to it at all? Is the backrooms an SCP that hasn't been contained? And is the backrooms canonically in the same universe? As the SCP Foundation? No, that's the answer to that one, just no. Is the backrooms a government project like MK Ultra was and the lore that we see online is just a distraction from the fact that it's actually a real place that they're sending people? Is Broogley an entity that created the backrooms and that's why he knows so much about it? Or is he just a wanderer who got stuck in the rooms for a long time and has just traveled everywhere? Let me know your shower thoughts in the comments below.


Good evening folks is Reverend Mark Hughes from the Vermont racial justice alliance on your favorite show This is juxtaposition This is issues about black folks that black folks are dealing with so just wanted to welcome you to the Juneteenth edition we're gonna call this one the Juneteenth edition because we've got some great Conversation about what's coming up on Juneteenth Man, I've got some background information I've got some some details about what's been happening across Vermont on Juneteenth and other related activities You know what give you some updates on you know just some a lot of the advocacy work that has been done Definitely across the years. We know things have been amping up on Juneteenth and things peak folks are really focusing on what that's all about Yeah, folks are increasingly getting involved But yeah, we want to try to get some background have some conversation talk about some of the things that have happened that are Happening that we are doing in I am really pleased that I'm joined today with a couple of guests So I do have with us here to my right. Mr. Vincent Mitchell He is the program director as well as youth services at the Richard Kim Center welcome Mark, thanks for having me. Hey, no problem. I'm glad you're here. And also we have Deacon Roy V. Hill He is on the board of directors at a Vermont Racial Justice Alliance happy that you were able to join us today as well Sir, we may even also have some Some highlights of you historical highlights of you as it pertains to the subject matter So it's good to see you as well today the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance announced that the Richard Kemp Center plans Juneteenth weekend. This is on press release in case you haven't seen it already There will be an equal protection of the law outreach and education session tomorrow at the Richard Kim Center from 6 p.m. Till 8 p.m. As a part of this this reconstruction 14th amendment to the United States Constitution We want to talk about the opposition the appropriation and weaponization of it So this is a question a conversation. How do we respond to the attacks on the 14th amendment and Understanding the fact that if we don't do something that it will impact our children's children and moving forward Also in this press release was announced the upcoming meet and greet We do have the illustrious and industrious doctor tammy graze still a fourth generation black farmer and ceo of the national women in agriculture association the largest nonprofit women in Agriculture organization in the world. She said I have no doubt that the Vermont chapter of the national women in Agriculture association will hit the ground running That was released again in a press release today. We'll come back more on this press release later But brothers welcome to the show So happy i'm so happy to have some company a lot of times they leave me out here lonely It's just hard for a brother to figure it out out here. But Juneteenth Juneteenth Juneteenth. That's what's coming up I know that there's a lot of stuff That's planned and I just wanted to get some reflection from you first and foremost On just Juneteenth Juneteenth the holiday Juneteenth the holy day Juneteenth The commemoration Juneteenth the celebration What is Juneteenth uh to you and and how are you processing it mr. Hill? What is it to me on one sense? We all refer to it as liberation That is liberation from enslavement That is when The last festival of slaves were still being enslaved in texas in defiance of president And we got a mic check we're gonna We'll come back. We'll come back to you. But um, oh, yeah, we're good. We're good. We got mic We got some we got some tech. We got some tech right in the house. Go ahead Absolutely. Thank you in defiance of Abraham Lincoln president Abraham Lincoln's quote emancipation proclamation Thus two and a half years after that us General Granger went into texas and informed the public That is those who were still enslaved. Yeah, that indeed they had been liberated right, right So, um, Vincent What what what comes across your mind when you think Rep uh when you I was going to say reparation when you think of um, the the whole idea of juneteenth and how are you processing that Well for me, it's it's it's one of those things where you know our ancestors and and forefathers paved the way And you know while we all know that you know, they say slavery ended slavery still exists in today's in today's world And cruel is all said and you know housing Education the you know criminal justice system I can go on and on But for me, it's it's really really raising up our people and and bringing in our people together And I think that's what's really most important That we that we come together And recognize our true power because you know minute by minute hour by hour the more we know our story The more we know our power the more we know our story The more we know our power definitely and it makes you think um, and we're gonna From the control room you can bring that slide up that first slide But as we're talking about just some of this uh, what was going on You know, I'm just you know, we always want to remind folks who are watching, you know That systemic racism is the legacy of slavery So that the insidious nature that of of what we're talking about is is there That's that's that's in that definition folks taken a moment to just re familiarize themselves with that But as as slavery allegedly Ended thank you for that slide as slavery allegedly ended You know some of the things that you know, we know that were happening as we think of reconstruction as we think of that time in history Uh was is you know folks begin to look for their families? I think that was one of the big things and what i'm doing is is trying to pull things together We know or maybe some of us don't know Um, you know for those who are watching it's very important to understand that the proclamation the the proclamation of emancipation um Though it occurred in at the beginning of um I think it was 63 1863 and they were notified in uh, maybe around june of 65 in galveston That the proclamation of the emancipation proclamation only freed uh slaves that were the folks who were enslaved in um in Confederate states in slave holding states and it was political obviously, you know, it's always it's always political You know because that there we we've got to you know us as black folks I think it's under important for us to understand that look ain't nobody giving us nothing Absolutely right so everything everything that has happened up until now even to this day There has been a fight for there has been a stand for and there has been blood sweat and tears that have been shed for so I just don't want to over glamorize This whole idea of juneteenth because even in galveston texas on that june day There was yet still folks who were enslaved in states Like say for example, kentucky and so forth and these were in delaware, which were which were You know border states, but and but they were they were not they they were not emancipated by that proclamation So I think that's one thing uh to understand Um, so i'm wondering you know when you think about just this march this onward march and understanding that You know, it all it ain't all what it seems to be all of the time And i'm not trying to leave as they say leave the witness, but i'm just you know I'm just saying you know really what is juneteenth to us visit Well juneteenth to us that's that's to us I'm talking about us exactly nothing about us Without us absolutely Well while everyone is you know getting ramped up and and the city is getting ready to put something on Juneteenth and you know i'm well aware. We're all well aware We also are are having our own juneteenth honoring you know our our own black leaders in our communities And and really raising them up as the gentleman to my right roy hill He's he's actually done a lot for this community for the state and actually brought juneteenth To existent and made a joint resolution for the state to be in recognition So in addition to all of that slide control room in addition to all of that I just want to really really raise up You probably because yeah, let's let's do more than that proclamation for a quick second before I Yeah, that's that is the proclamation and that proclamation was was done in uh 2009 I just so happened to stumble across it and I I wanted to bring that out that it was um definitely under um governor douglas's um His his little uh fiefdom that this came to pass And I I remember I see here that even in one of the wear ass clauses. I see surely boyd hill as well as um Yourself, uh, roy v hill deacon hill Tell us a little bit about this one this what happened during that time Maybe just take a couple minutes and share with us What was going on during this time this proclamation? Thank you for the question because At minimum what you just said is Juneteenth is about education And liberation Education and liberation both in terms of our community that is african-americans And the community at large Because the indoctrination which has occurred in our school system and continues to occur in our school system Leaves out Who we are and what we are as foundation to this country even though the shackles Kept us restricted At the same time we were the foundation. We fed the families. We were abused That is our women were turned into wet nurses or So on and so forth in the houses here in working here vermont in working with in dialogue and with People in communities in general and in the legislature in particular house center governor ducklers We were able to advance reality that is educate the reality of juneteenth and who we are as a people And well as well speak and in doing so back to education move through expose and move through the Fossification that which we have forged Forced fed in our schools and on up. Yeah, example even today. This may be far-fetched But it's still a reality if we hear and I heard through School system one nation on the guard with liberty and justice for all liberty and justice for all Well, if we're talking liberty and justice for all, why is it that our children don't know about juneteenth? That part of history and other parts of our history where African-american women and african-american men and african-american children Were the bread and butter of the foundations Both In the south and at the same time that reality that education has been sort of purged from the northern part Yeah, looking at main and looking at massachusetts and looking at road island in terms of people who were enslaved and at the same time denied that practice Whereas Denial allowed them to again export and take advantage of so here. We are working with our legislature in a state That up until last year still had a cause in its constitution that allowed for Enslavement so that's kind of part of the the whole point of Juneteenth that keeps resonating with me Is is that I think everything is premised upon something That black folks didn't know I heard somebody joke one time and said the reason why they didn't um That it it was important that the folk in galveston didn't know about juneteenth is because as soon as they found out That white folk would figure out how to make money off of it so That's that's kind of like part of the challenge that that that I see is is that there's a lot of black folks who just don't know And um and just as sure as folks have began to acknowledge juneteenth it has You know began to become commercial commercialized as well because it becomes it becomes political becomes economic You know whether somebody can stick a feather in their political hat for it or whether They can draw folks into the marketplace to gain profit from it. So there's always that as well I want to just take you through a couple things that have happened since then I I did put together a couple of Of slides and if you can go to the slides that are up We did have first african landing day proclaimed in 2019 And and that was really about the 16 19 project and we continue to do that and we see that That is the um the fourth saturday of every august There's a juneteenth recognition day uh that also uh came up uh in 2020 and we also came across um A reparations task force here. This is just a snapshot of the um of the beginning of that resolution The reparations task force here in the city of burlington. So yes indeed there is a reparations task force in the city of burlington This was as a result just as the um the first african landing day was it was as a result of the work of the racial justice alliance You can you can also um, you know go in and take a look at uh, and I think there's another slide after that Is is the public health emergency which happened uh in 2021 And that was a resolution a joint resolution Behind and i'm going somewhere with this because i want to try to fill in the blanks because we need to scurry on Because we're going to be um taking this to a wrap pretty quick But the public health emergency It the resolution and it really is about the commitment the legislative commitment To a sustained and deep work of eradicating systemic racism And then uh that same year there was another juneteenth recognition day another juneteenth recognition day that was signed in To law by phil scott. So what we see here is is we've got thank you for those slides We got a lot of stuff. We got a lot of activities Uh that are happening and the question is is whether or not we're actually seeing progress Whether we're seeing progress. Um, so I don't know uh venson one of the things that um We've seen is as we've seen a lot of work. Um, you know this policy work Um, how is this coming together in our communities and what kind of support are you seeing in that respect? Well, one of the things that you know, we've done As a community and and this is something that doesn't you know happen overnight It actually takes about four years And one of the things that we did do was we amended the state the state constitution Where you know, uh, the city still had language that permitted slavery So what we did was we were going we were able to go in and change that language So that uh slavery could could stop. Um, they could stop the convict leasing that was permitting that was happening in ramon So there's a slide on that from the control room. Yeah, these are one of these are some of the things and if you guys just take a look On on on this slide right here of what we felt was most important that we needed to address Because like I mentioned before this this doesn't happen overnight It goes through the house and then it goes takes about four years So we were able to at least jump in front of that and begin the process of really really You know highlighting and and and and making sure that that language doesn't continue to exist Yeah, that's and that it's the the whole thank you for that and I think the the whole abolished slavery That that was another thing that you know Folks kind of looked at us kind of cross-eyed because I think there's There's you know, again, there's so much education Uh that is required of us that that we come to knowledge of actually what is going on around us You know, and we you go back to galvinston, texas. It's a lot of folks um You know, they celebrated they were celebrating the fact that slavery was abolished but didn't understand that slavery still existed in the united states Not just because of the exception clause that was in the 13th amendment Um, but also because of the fact that the That particular um proclamation that emancipation proclamation again did not even apply to the entire country so so lots of lots of uh things but You know to learn but but I think there there is some positivity Um, you know, I think chronologically first, you know, it's important to understand that. Yes The emancipation proclamation did happen in it in 63 in january 63 um the um the senate passed the 13th amendment in in april of 1964 And it was ultimately passed by the full congress in january of of 1865 so So there there was a progression now What we haven't talked about is is the fact that Lincoln was assassinated in um Right after congress passed months after congress passed the 13th amendment We remember john wilk's boost jumping from the balcony saying the south would be avenged So we're talking about some pushback So with every drum that's beat in history with every march this march with every bit of progress that's made Enlargedly by black folks in america to advance this conversation to establish one nation under god Where we can truly hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created Equal uh that we can truly live in a in a unified republic if we can keep it Every time we push things forward there's always a push backwards And I think sometimes it's very important for us to stay focused Stay focused as we're marching as we're moving forward But also to understand that we can expect a backlash just coming and so what I you know Speaking to you now is it's just understanding, you know your thoughts on the current backlash As we move to a close and um, what are some of your um Well, you know your perspective roi on you know What we're seeing as a backlash and in and how we hold our position As we continue this progress I say right on thank you for that question because it illuminates in so many different ways For example, they're in texas when the folk were quote liberated in texas. They could not celebrate Their liberation there were towns where they were rejected in mississippi in particular. There's a long story there I won't go into it in a moment, but that reality did exist there. We see In this country going back to the history of quote democracy and so forth England in 1597, I believe starts sending its criminal elements to this country Those are the criminal people who came changed their names put themselves in the policy making position And began to oppress across the board and of course african americans and native americans in particular Right to now we see from the police force through the government itself here that continuous push back Here in vermont as an example when Five or four whatever white boys got together in the senate and affirmed a person to the Highest court in vermont that person had Criminal elements a police person who was disbarred in our household, but the Senate the you're talking about judge barrett.  Amen Let's let's let's let's let's get let's get let's get a little bit We got a we got a club. We got to wrap it up because we got to get over to st. John's happy Happy birthday cc tv Happy birthday to you. I think it's your 39th birthday. We are headed to the st John's club. We're trying to get up out of here So in a minute we're going to leave there's a couple of other things that we got going on here summer activities at the vermont At the richard kimp center you can enroll ages eight to 18. It's out on richard kimpcenter.org You're seeing a slide right now about work that we're doing on the current initiative due to work that's platforms and initiatives So you can show up at the vermont at the richard kimp center rather on thursdays at 6 p.m We'll be covering some of the these legislative agendas Make sure you show up this thursday. We're talking about the most important Constitution amendment. I think that ever existed which is the 14th amendment the Do the equal protection clause under the 14th amendment? Don't forget about chest club on Tuesdays That's going to be happening You know, I told y'all was going to come back to this Also to this This press release and I just was we'll close out by telling you that the richard kimp center is going to host an open house um at From one o'clock to six o'clock. Is that it? This is flying right here. Look at that. That's flying here We will be having uh, this is one of those celebrations. Like I said before where we're going to be honoring our local Native i got the words right here. So it says the open house will feature young gifted and black exhibition The i.m vermont 2 the local black artists raffles and prizes and more folks will have the opportunity to first Have a first glimpse at the richard kimp center wall of black vermont history And there's also going to be some old school r&b Music and food and beverages for guests christine hughes director of the richard kimp center said in all the excitement and commercialization of juneteenth We don't want to forget where it comes from and who it is about the true history of american descendants of slavery So the vermont racial justice alliance will be tabling at the vermont richard kimp center open house as well Thank you for coming. Thank you for showing up Today this has been amazing. This is This is the special edition juneteenth Thank you for coming out. We're going to as I said, we're headed out right now. We're headed over happy birthday cctv. That's it from here Just a position. Good night


Hey there, my name is Adam McCallan and I am an associate professor of English at Tulane And I am trying to make a video today to talk about my new book Fortification and its disc intense from Shakespeare to Milton now I've tried to make this video about 17 times and each time it comes out so boring that I can barely even listen to it myself So I decided I would just do it out here in my makeshift outdoor teaching area, which is my sort of medieval camp and just talk about Why I wrote it. So the first question I was asked to address was how I got this idea Well, I got this idea because I love the Renaissance I love the 14 15 16th and 17th centuries and everything about them until I've got my My fire and blood Targaryen shirt on even and I didn't even plan it that way I love going to old cities in Europe and the Americas and just looking at them and I became fascinated with these new Fortifications that were being built in the age of fire weapons at the time when The medieval city walls were supposedly being torn down to make way for modern cities They started indeed building bigger more monstrous more expensive walls than ever before And I thought wow these things were changing everything about the Renaissance How did they affect the literature? I bet if I looked hard enough I will find out how and fortification and its discontents From Shakespeare to Milton is the result The next question is what were the challenges the challenges as in everything else in life The hardest thing is also the thing that makes it possible. No one else is working in this field There aren't any literary scholars who can talk much about fortifications of the Renaissance or really military culture is beyond the basics there's me and a handful of other folks are doing it and So I was writing this largely without being able to consult with other smart people preferably smarter people you know So it's it's exciting to be out there at the forefront of knowledge, but it's also lonely and that was a challenge Next question is What influence do you think it will have? Well? Now that is a good question Literary scholarship tends to make a splash over the long haul the first book I wrote on soldier poets in the age of Shakespeare Elizabethan soldier poets. So the real title is English Mercury's if you want to see if it's available at your local bookstore The it first it made absolutely no impression on anyone except for a few reviewers One of whom thought it would be cool to make fun of my picture So it was actually not very influential In fact, it was the opposite of that in the first couple years within 10 years, however Two other scholars wrote books on soldier poets in Renaissance France and Renaissance Spain. So and they directly cited my book as its influence So that book started a conversation about soldier poets and there had been no conversation about soldier poets before So I would say that that book was extremely influential even though at first it didn't seem so fortifications and it's discontents From Shakespeare to Milton is going to be more influential I suspect because the fact is if you like the Renaissance and you like visiting cities That were built in the 16th and 17th centuries You're going to notice these extraordinarily elaborate fortification systems that they had to tear down suburbs to build that took all the resources of kings to build You're going to ask yourself. What are these things? Why did they build them? How did this affect people's lives? If you ask questions like that and go to the library, you'll find this book Which does not answer all those questions, but it begins to frame the questions that will help you Ask even smarter questions and that's how knowledge gets built. So I suspect this book will be extremely influential over the long haul I was what is next for me after this one? Well, every book you write builds on the one before so this book is Built on what was left over from English Mercury's I left a lot out of this book Because I I wanted to get it out there and I also don't like reading particularly long books so in this book I decided to Not talk about the effort to rebuild Hadrian's wall, which is the wall between England and Scotland in 1587 which is a wacky idea, but they thought it was a good idea And the reason why I decided to leave it out, which I just is that it seemed to me more appropriate as the beginning of a larger book on waning sovereignty in early modern England the claim of which is essentially that Smart people like Shakespeare and Spencer recognized that the world they lived in was getting too big and too complicated For kings to manage and they could not think of an alternative and so they were a little scared I'll let you know how it goes Maybe you'll be out in ten years And the last question is if I could sum up fortification in this discontents in one sentence. What would that sentence be? Hmm, that's always a tricky question, but I will do my best shooting from the hip It is about a time when People in Europe and the Americas The mayor European colonies in the Americas were being asked to sacrifice Just about everything in the interests of building safer cities Cities that could resist high-powered armies carrying high-powered fire weapons They were asked to sacrifice everything and change everything and smart people like Shakespeare and Spencer and Winthrop Champlain were asking themselves Is this really necessary? What do we lose in the process? Though the book examines the literature the period to try to answer those questions now, hopefully I've been able to talk about Fortification and its discontents from Shakespeare to Milton in a way that makes you want to rush out to the bookstore and buy the remaining 20 copies available if you're lucky. No, I'm joking. You can get it at Amazon. No doubt But anyway, I hope you enjoy the book. It was fun writing it. It is fun creating knowledge It is lonely creating knowledge and so it is always a great time to be able to talk about your work with interested people Like you. Thank you very much


So we're here at the NXP here at Mobile World Congress. So hello, so who are you? Martin Humphries, hello. And here you have a big Amazon Echo? That's right, yeah, we're one of the partners on Echo and basically what is happening with the world of voice and voice control. We've been doing a lot of work over the last year or two supporting that with our arm processes. We have an entire range of IMX processes and today we can actually use the arm processes to actually run voice algorithms or that can be done on internal DSPs. So we're really supporting all the efforts that Amazon's doing with Alexa. We're actually in one of our products on IMX6 is in the Alexa tap. So you've seen that from Amazon and that's something that we're doing. In addition to Amazon, obviously there's other ecosystems for voice control and the IMX processor range is really good for all of that. We're also working very closely with Google and Google Things, there was an announcement a few months ago just prior to the Consumer Electronics show and we're working with Google on platforms for voice control for them as well. So IMX is really big for that. So what's the challenge to make voice control work? And how is IMX perfect for that? Is it on Cortex A9, right, the IMX6? Yeah, so today we use IMX6, uses Cortex A9. We use a multi-core processor, typically a quad processor for that. So we're able to run the different speech algorithms on multi-core, multi-threading. So that's a big advantage for what we're doing with ARM. We're also, we have voice solutions on IMX7. That's actually a dual core A7 processor from ARM and that gives you a very low power capability as well. And then the new generation of IMX8 processors will be using A53s and A35s and A72s. So between from IMX6 through IMX7 into IMX8, we really have the full range of ARM processors. And a lot of this really comes down to sort of high performance, multi-threading capability, and running those type of algorithms. So when did you announce IMX8 and when is it coming? So there's been, there's a whole family of IMX8 coming out. The first one, the first two have already been announced. That was the, what we call the IMX8 QuadMax family. And that's a very high performance automotive type product, but also for heavy industrial as well. Back at Consumer Electronics Show, we announced the IMX8M, which is for media. And this is a family of products that does high performance video, high performance audio, and also voice control systems. So they are, they're both announced and then there's another announcement that will be happening in a few weeks, actually at Embedded World. And I can't really talk more about that, but that will round out the family. So what we've been able to do with the IMX8 family is move right the way from the high performance automotive through industrial right into the consumer world as well. So this whole work and the expertise that Freescale brings to NXP is there's a lot of knowledge in how to really use those chips and real products and it's stable, it really works. Yeah, so one of the big advantages, right, is the fact that we have a massive ecosystem of partners for IMX, I mean built up over many years. And I think it's probably probable that we're the widest seller of APs worldwide, tens of thousands of customers used in the IMX family across all these different applications. The thing that's really important about what we've done is we've actually worked very closely, as I said, with Amazon and Google initially to bring voice. We're also working with HomeKit, we're working with Microsoft as well and Katana. So we're looking at all of the ecosystems of voice, but the key is that customers who trust us and have worked with us for many years on applications processes could be making a refrigerator or a coffee machine or controlling some light bulb. And they don't know how to do voice control but they know about what we've done with IMX and we're able to really help them and enable them to bring voice control to everyday products. And so I think we're seeing as one of the trusted companies that can supply not only the applications processor but the software to run on it. A whole ecosystem supported. Yes. Everything just works. Yeah, we basically enable our board partners and make sure that we have everything from the processor to the IO to the software to the firmware. Let's see if some of the examples right here. Are they, some of these devices running now? There's IMX in here, for example, in the Kindle. Yeah, so basically in the Kindle we have the IMX-6 and IMX-7 processors. We've obviously been a big partner for many years with Amazon and I think we've been seen well and trusted in those areas. And voice. It's all about recording the sound, the low latency, transmitting to other parts and going in the cloud and coming back. It needs to be really smooth and fast. Yeah, it's all about, I mean. It needs to feel instant. Right, so basically what we're doing from a voice perspective is obviously the smarts are in the way that we can actually handle whatever voice algorithms come our way, handle them very quickly, efficiently and with a low power, right? Because a lot of these devices really are just waiting for an event. So you have to be able to put them into a low power mode and then be able to quickly turn on the power very rapidly and then be able to process that either locally or basically then push it up to the cloud. And over here it's more like NFC, I think. Maybe that's the NFC. Right, yeah. We're obviously, I think the lead supplier of NFC products as well. So. How is it a great combination to have a free-scale technology come into NFC? Why was it a great position? I think basically when the two companies came together, they both had established markets in their own right. Certainly, if you think about NXP, they had connectivity, they had NFC-type products, they were in again another very wide market trusted brand. The same with free-scale. Free-scale was able to bring applications, processes and microcontrollers and add it together with the NXP microcontrollers to bring I think probably the largest portfolio in the world now for microcontrollers as well. All right, can we see some of the examples that are being used here? So what is shown off over here? Hello. Hi. So what are you showing here? Yeah, what we're showing here is our technology which is new to my native inductive radio and the advantage we have with this technology simply is you can do audio streaming from the left earbud to the right earbud by using this NFMI technology which is 10.56 megahertz which you usually can't do with Bluetooth. So it's synchronized? It is synchronized. Both ears you can do audio streaming, you can do binocular listening, you can do stereo listening, all this kind of things you can do with NFMI technology. And what is the chip, what is inside? The chip, it's a radio. Is it an ARM Cortex M0 something? There is an ARM processor integrated. You have audio blocks in there like audio codec, you have a CoolFlux DSP integrated, you have the NFMI radio in there and you have SPI, ISPC interface, stuff like that. So it goes into all these kinds of products and so it's a mass production? It is the devices in mass production. On the device that we have it's called NXH2280 currently. We have another device which is the NXH22801. This is the latest version that we have with an improved audio processing functionality. So higher audio bandwidth, this functionalizes the device house. Cool, all right. Thanks a lot. It was all? Okay. Thanks, cool. So around here there's some connected cars over there. Will introduce you to the automotive team. So the automotive team is a big deal in the future. Everybody's going to have self-driving cars, right? Absolutely, absolutely. So hi, so who are you? Sorry? Who are you? Hello, my name is Kozmin. I am the technical leader from Linux BSP team Romania and I'm working in the automotive department for Platform Live, Blue Box, Tree Runner, and Idotomy 6. So right here you have a 64-bit arm. It's a Cortex A72 53. This version of board is a heterogeneous board. We have two boards, in fact, two SSCs connected via PSA Express. One is automotive certified and has four A53 cores and one M4 core for the real-time part. And the other one is the landscape second which has eight 57 cores. Eight 57 cores. Yeah, eight 57 cores. All right. And you do all kinds of software solutions, some everything that's needed for self-driving cars. Yes. Everything works on it? Yeah, it works perfectly because if you have the tool chain and also the proper operating system, you can put over it open standards like OpenCL, OpenCV, or OpenMPI. All right, cool. So how soon can we buy a self-driving car with this technology inside? We hope as soon as possible. Right soon, right next year. We hope. We'll see. All right, thanks a lot. And there's lots of chips over here being used for the car industry, right? If I go around here. That's one level, all the grays can come out. You look at all these chips right here. So now we'll talk about that. So, can you repeat the book? You'll be the one by the table. Yes. Very good. Shit. Can you talk about the chips that are being provided right here for the car industry? There are a... Hi, sorry. Yeah, these are a lot of chips for the automotive industry. So these are these arm processors? Different categories here in different corners of the demonstrator. So this one is the security, whether we are kind of... Security, yeah. This is the security area where we have the 4 plus 1 security scheme. Basically, 4 plus 1 means we are adding four layers of security to secure the vehicle. Level 1 would be to actually secure the outside, the gates, the interfaces. Level 2 would be secure the gateway. So the electronics that are in the processing within the car, then network security within the vehicle is very important. And then also secure the microcontrollers. And the plus 1 is basically the car access. It's very important. All the cars are getting connected to the internet, but it's not going to be secure, right? Well, they are secure. Yeah. Well, they are... Is it secure already? Yeah, of course, there's already security measures taken by this solution already in cars. Well, I cannot say, but let's say for sure the industry is looking into that. And there's a lot of things ongoing of how to protect and what to protect. And I think our scheme for protection is within these four layers. And what do we do now on the other side over here? Right here is... An X piece V2X chipset. What is a V2X? Is it arm? This is a V2X chipset for vehicle and vehicle infrastructure communications. As well as radars here. Yeah, the V2X chipset is basically the technology that you need to... that cars will actually interact with each other and with the infrastructure. Is it the arm? Arm cord next to it? I'm not sure about the... I must say it. No problem. And over here, another whole bunch of chips. And this is... So you're from a arm? No, it's arm devices. This is audio? Yeah, we have our audio chipsets here. Mercury as a mode is not known to us or... No, it's not known to us. Yeah. Cool, and then we have over here some last over here. So that's the car. Sorry, I need to take over. Thank you.


Three years ago at SoCAP, a conversation began which set forth a series of events that has changed my life. Joy Anderson and I were talking with Shari Barenback. Shari at the time was the head of the Calvert Foundation. We had finished the raise for good capital and Shari asked, so what's next? We told her about our interest in the intersection between gender and finance and investing. And about the increasing gulf we were seeing between the worlds of impact investing and the amazing networks of women philanthropists. And our question of if there was a vehicle that would be attractive to women philanthropists, a vehicle that would drive impact through a gender lens. And Shari said, we could do that. Many of you in this room know the deep details of this story and you have been my mentors and my colleagues on this journey of creating a field of impact investing. I wish I could call you all out by name. I wish I could see you. Thank you. This has not been easy and we are only beginning. Others of you are hearing gender lens investing for the first time and wondering maybe if it's relevant to you. I hope the next 10 minutes peak your interest and get you committed to asking some more questions and taking a step. Because I am increasingly convinced that a gender lens in investing is one of the biggest underexplored opportunities for driving social impact and that this conversation when taken seriously changes everything. So to be sure, I am far from alone in talking about women and gender and finance. There's a chorus of virtual cacophony of voices these days. Take Goldman Sachs. They say investing in women is the single best way to reduce inequality and drive economic growth. They actually have called it the virtuous cycle. Or the economists say forget India, forget China, forget the internet. Economic growth in the next decade will be led by women. Or the World Bank who puts it simply, gender equality is smart economics. These voices are undergird by a boat load of data. Perhaps you've seen this infographic at Made the Rounds about the differences in spending priorities between men and women. Women's incremental dollar of income, 80% of that goes to her family's education, health, nutrition versus a comparable 30 to 40% for men. But there's a lot of other data out there. FAO suggests that if women farmers had the same inputs as male farmers, their yields would increase 20 to 30% lifting 100 to 150 million people out of poverty. Ross Baer told me last night in village capitals data, women entrepreneurs are 12% more likely to be running profitable ventures, but are raising 50% less money. If you look at public companies, companies with three or more women on their boards have a 53% higher return on equity. Harvard Business Review just wrote about teams, the more women on the team, the better decisions that are made. Or go to Wall Street, where women fund managers are more likely to be running profitable ventures. Women fund managers have average yearly returns 50% higher than their male colleagues. Leading to that question of what would have happened if Lehman brothers had had more sisters. So whether you're talking about organizations that are looking for outsized financial returns, or you're talking about organizations that are driving global social impact, they're talking about a gender lens. Where we're talking about money and meaning. Where we're talking about impact and return. It's imperative that we're talking about a gender lens and that we're moving one forward. Let me step back and start with a question that I get asked often, which is what do you mean by a gender lens? First of all, a lens and not a screen. A lens is something that brings things into focus. If you put your glasses on, you see things that you would otherwise have missed. A gender lens is not about taking some things off the table. It's a viewfinder for opportunity. It's not about taking half the population off the table. And secondly, I actually mean multiple lenses, because investors like philanthropists have different interests, they have different expertise, and they have different theories of change. And so this is not one size fits all gender lens, but multiple gender lenses. I've seen three most commonly. You may find another one. First, access to capital. Because women entrepreneurs, whether they're micro entrepreneurs or high growth entrepreneurs, whether they're film directors in LA or fund managers in New York City have disproportionately less access to capital. Second, workplace equity. Thinking about how women's leadership and equal rights are valued from the board all the way through the supply chain. What are the policies? What are the practices? And how does that work inside the company? And finally, what is it that the company is actually doing? What's the product or service that it's delivering? And how might that have a disproportionate benefit to women and girls? We're not here talking about pink laptops. We're actually talking about innovations and maternal mortality, about services that get women to work safely, about access to good childcare in Mississippi, or to midwifery in San Francisco. So oftentimes when I talk about these lenses and this opportunity, I have investors stop and say, okay, you had me at hello. Where do I go? And that's where a chart like this is helpful, albeit not totally all knowing. Two things to notice about this map. One is that half of the vehicles on the map weren't here two years ago. We've had some amazing launches, and so now we have some great pioneers to learn from. The second is the diversity, because these vehicles cross gender lenses, they cross asset classes, they cross geographies. I wish I could tell you about all of them, but just a couple here. Illuminate Ventures, Cindy Patnos, Venture Capital Tech Fund. She decided she didn't want gender to be a barrier. And so she threw out the welcome mat to women. She said, I will take a meeting with a woman for every meeting I have with a man. I will stack my advisory council with the top women in tech. The result? Her venture fund is performing in the top quartile of her peers, and 40% of her founders are women, compared to 5% to 10% for an industry average. Or take Recapital's Women in Agriculture initiative, where they took a workplace equity lens and said, how is it that when we're investing in rural cooperatives, we can drive more women producers' increase in income? What are the commodities that we should be working in? And then beyond that, how is it that we can ensure worker safety when we know that as workers' income rises, women workers, domestic violence rises initially? What are the culturally appropriate domestic violence trainings that we can advocate for? Or finally, go to the other end of the spectrum. In the public markets, US Trust launching women's equality and economic security platform, where they're saying companies that are looking at women's leadership and women's rights are going to outperform their peers over the long haul. So while I'm really excited about that map, what it doesn't necessarily represent yet is a robust spectrum. Investors often say to me, Jackie, if you're serious about this belief that a gender lens drives impact and a gender lens drives return, then what are the opportunities across all the asset classes? What's going on in real estate? What's the opportunity in hedge funds? To get there, we have to go from two sides. So first, continuing to design for particular asset classes. Take the example of the Calvert Foundation in Win-Win. They started and said, we already have investments that are beneficial to women. But what if we reviewed our portfolio and said, how with discipline could we drive even more impact, even more return, and launched an amazing new vehicle? Or the example of partnership where you have the ISIS Fund emerging from the deep knowledge and conviction of women's world banking that women were being left behind as microfinance advanced and the global track record of Trinotos. Moving to the other side, though, we need to also be looking at the social challenges that are disproportionately challenging for women and girls. So take maternal health. Looking at the innovations from vaccines all the way through to clinical delivery and saying, what are the appropriate roles for finance in that? And how do we make sure we're moving those forward? But then also asking the question, if we know that access to family planning is a precursor to long-term country-level GDP growth, what would happen if that question was part of the analysis in sovereign bond ratings? What would happen at the country level if people knew that Moody's and S&P were asking questions about women's health? To be honest, however, a gender lens for me right now is actually bigger than any one social issue on an amazing vehicle. Because this is about a sea change. This is about the movement from when a gender lens is seen as too difficult, superlatives or perhaps just not economically viable to a place where a gender lens is seen as a normative and valued process and financial analysis and a common and powerful tool for social change. Think back 20 years ago. If you were talking to your financial advisor and you said how's my portfolio affecting the environment? They probably said well, we're not exactly sure it's a little difficult and complicated and the vehicles aren't really quite out there and you might have to give up some return. So if you asked your financial advisor today about the impact of your portfolio on women and girls or how you were leveraging their leadership, most likely with a few exceptions they would say the same thing. But then what happened? Sustainability was shown to be a competitive advantage and investors kept demanding. Gender diversity and women's leadership has been shown to be a competitive advantage. And let's talk about demand. Because women are inheriting 70% of the upcoming intergenerational wealth transfer and women advisors are more than 70% more interested in offering values based investing products to their clients. So, two things here. One is this is powerful social opportunity. The second is, this isn't baked yet. We're still figuring this out. We're learning the metrics, we're learning the examples, we're learning what works, we're creating relationships and so to that end there are 45 gender lens champions in this room. Would you all stand up? So take a look at these people. They are driving impact and return in their work through a gender lens and they would be more than happy to talk with you or to point you to another champion who might have the expertise you're looking for if you have questions about how this might relate to your world. They're going to be with us at the workshop this afternoon. We encourage you to come and join us. Because part of this is a personal choice. It crosses possibility and power and empathy. Do you know what the biggest change in pay equity in a company comes from? When a male CEO has his first daughter because none of us want to live in a world where our child is making 70 cents on the dollar or our child is subjected to the one in three odds of experiencing physical or sexual violence. And these statistics and these realities aren't going to change through philanthropy alone. Investors have to get in this game. We need to start using a gender lens together to create a world that works for all of us. Thank you.


1, 2, 3. Привет, всем. Меня зовут Александр. Я разработчиком Blender4Web. И я тоже участвовал в разработке Blender. Теперь я хочу поговорить о present и future Blender и Blender4Web. Итак, First, let's define what is present and future. The present is of course Blender 2.7 and when I'm talking about the future I'm referring to Blender 2.8. If somebody is not familiar with Blender4Web, Blender4Web is a framework for developing of 3D web applications and Blender4Web is closely integrated with Blender In fact, you have no need to use other tools just Blender and Blender4Web and publish your models or prepare your models for more rich applications and so Blender4Web was designed by too much Blender report and today Blender internal report is most developed. So Blender4Web uses Blender internal report features its shading system and also Blender4Web has its own extensions for shading no system and for additional effects configured on the additional panels So let's let's look at some life examples to show how these extensions are working First example is this Sunny Poises in dessert You can see Translucency Translucently leaves of palm tree You can see Bloom Environment You can also see this bloom on water You can see Animated Texture on water You can see Soft Shadows Let's go to the next Example It's a Pokemon This Pokemon demo was released before The game Pokemon Go became so popular and It was made by our artist who is a big fan of Pokemon So here you can see Reflections caused by Red crystal You can see also glow Crystal You can see Animated steam around this character And also you can see motion bloom Next Example uses Similar approach Here you see Animated Flames Attractive example Really Let's go BlendForWeb also supports Parallax effect It's commonly used effect So it's just available in BlendForWeb Next Demo Demonstration of Depth of Field effect And here is shown Bokeh effect Next Now I would like to get down to the low level and to try to understand at which technology point BlendForWeb and Blender now today are So I highlighted here some important points First is the start of history of OpenGL Second is release of OpenGL 2.0 And third is release of OpenGL 4.3 So Second and third point had opened for us significantly different techniques of rendering For example with OpenGL 2.0 we have gotten fragment on vertex shader and also in extensions we have received possibilities to make render to multiple targets so it became available to make to implement the third techniques with sufficient performance and actually deferred techniques for example deferred lighting has some advantages for example you are not limited in amounts of lights so you can see that you can use really a big amount of lights and the second point which is a modern has a modern approach for example compute shaders and it's used for example in Doom game released in 2016 so here is used clusterization and actually here is used forward rendering which and the limitness of amounts of lights is resolved with clusterization of camera fruits too and where is WebGL and WebGL actually here today WebGL 1.0 is widely used and stable and it is wide range of devices but actually it's today for example for mobile devices you can't do you can't implement deferred rendering with OpenGL 1.0 because of lack of these extensions for multiple render targets and WebGL 2.0 actually has these abilities in its core but anyway for mobile devices deferred rendering is too heavy so it's hard to have a deal with all these buffers and do not expose for example so we think that WebGL BlenderViewPort future BlenderViewPort should use most modern techniques and should not be limited by for example deferred lighting which really making limits on the diversity of materials so I would like to say that that are available for implementation today with current system must be available in future report and here is actually a real commercial projects made by our partners you can see on the left non-photorealistic shader and actually non-photorealism I think perfectly suits for such purposes like infographics and on the right you can see realistic material of diamond and actually it looks very realistic I think so today shader node system which is really outdated and today is still really has many abilities and very flexible and we are participating in Blender development and we are already have committed some patches so here is our contribution first is vector transform and normal map and particle was ported from cycles to viewport it significantly expanded abilities for Blender internal node system also we have added support for cube maps and environment and cube maps for environment and materials and we have added support for environment lighting for Blender internal viewport and you can see how it looks before and how it looks now in Blender 2.78 on the top picture you can see how you can see impact of environment lighting and on the picture with elephants we can see reflections and with these patches actually today you can achieve some renders which are close to modern engines you probably saw this article by Eddie Burrows so he compared these two renders and actually I think that you can achieve more close result by implementing Fresnel effect and somebody can say that Blender Blender internal of viewport is not able to render dynamic reflections yes, it's correct but actually Blend4Web can do this and today Blend4Web I think has all possibilities to make non-photorealistic materials and photorealistic materials yes and implement close and close implement these materials to modern engines and we of course going to do our work on improving Blender 2.8 and we really think that the future of Blender is great and today is great team formed around Blender viewport project and we will participate in it and of course we will working on future viewport and integration of Blender4Web and now I would like to show you how fast Blender4Web is developing so the first example is we have made reflections we have improved reflections and before we before only opaque materials can be reflected and now you can see transparent materials also can be reflected we have improved our depth of field effect we edit bokeh effect so you also saw example with umbrella and here is just another one we have edit support for all Blender 2.0 shader nodes it's vector and RGB curves it's color ramp and this nodes allows you to make various gradients and also we have edit support for vector transform which allows you to convert your vector data object world and camera space and also normal map has been supported it allows you to make to make normals for your object and also and even mix many normal maps with different UVs and also we have edit support for tangent shading it's not working today in Blender viewport but it's working Blender for web and we think that we will add this we will do this work for viewport 2 also we have released our first long term support distribution it's production radio distribution and it will be receiving bug fixes and API will be kept for one year and it is available for our pro users and also we have significant event for us it's first Blender for web conference it was held in Moscow and official language was English so if you are interested you can find our presentation on YouTube and I would like to invite you to the next Blender for web conference next spring next point is contests at the beginning of this year we have started to make contests contests and the first contest was related to New Year and Christmas and we were so pleased with results of our contestants so we decided to continue to do these great things so today we are holding retro car contest and it's still open and you can actually you still have time to participate in this contest and here is just just winners of past contests this year we also started to fill our material library and today we have around 30 realistic materials we have improved our logic node system we have added possibility to make interactions between javascript and between logic node system and we are using it in development of our game called Tigger's Tale which has been released this year too and actually we we develop our logic node system so we separate programmer work and game designer work next point is profiler it's really important feature it allows you to see which part of your model most heavy and you can now optimize your shaders so red tone you can see it's for heavy shaders and green tone for light shaders we also have made deep optimizations on GPU and CPU first optimizations related to better batching we implemented cluster algorithm for batching next is today we used we use geometry instancing extension of WebGL and it allows us to save a lot of RAM and to decrease calculations on vertex shader also we have optimized our mesh data and it's it's important for some old GPUs so rearranging of mesh data cost on some systems very big increase of performance and of course we have optimized our javascript code also we worked with gamepads and actually with virtual reality and for gamepads we have done configurator so you can configure your pad or wheel we just you can map your buttons of your device with a standard layout which you can see on the picture and for VR we also have implemented configurator and actually we worked with many a lot of virtual reality devices for example gearware it's occult's rift it's cardboard devices yeah so and in the next game it's actually such white screen it's my first experience you can try who want to try you can see you can see how this all in features and working hard to make these features available in our every month release and we're really happy that we are using Blender and that our users can do really cool features and even and even innovation features yeah you saw examples with ring boutique so I think thank you for your attention if you have any questions if you have any questions just remember my face and that's good thank you


In this cave by the restless sea, we are met to call from out the past stories, strange, and weird. Bellkeeper, hold the bell, so all may know we are gathered again in the weird circle. I speak again, very mortal tale. What was it? What was it? What was it? Nobody knows. But the house was haunted by something or somebody. The boarders here at Mrs. Dimity's boarding house didn't believe in ghosts either, myself included. But we were curious about them, and that's why we voted to move into the old brownstone house on 49th Street. And once we were in, we were still convinced that ghosts don't venture abroad in a New York tenement building. The only one who wasn't quite convinced that ghosts exist only in storybooks was old Mrs. Dimity herself. But our favorite rumor, young handsome Ned Saunders, and myself, I'm Dr. Hammond, we refused to believe the ghostly nonsense. And Mitchell, the young sculptress who lived there, was frankly curious. While the Countess Harkavy, a fortune teller of some renown and a psychic of questionable fame, was delighted at the idea of living in a haunted house. That was in a business way, of course. It was around 11 o'clock at night when the boarders who were then assembled in that dark, dreary living room first heard what some claimed was a ghostly present. Listen to that, Dr. Hammond. I hear it, Ned. It's an uncommon sort of sound for the wind. That is not the wind, Dr. Hammond. It is the cries from the spirit world. I feel it in the marrow of my bones. No, say, Countess. Can't you feel things in a more comfortable place? Bone structures always struck me as the most uncomfortable place to have a feeling going on. Listen, all of you. Listen. Oh, skip it. Ned, will you pass me that magazine on the shelf next to you? I think any kind of reading will be preferable to listening to old psychic ears rambling. Of course I will. There you are, dear. You really think this house is haunted, Countess? Yes, I do. It would be a fortunate thing for your business if the United States of America could be made ghost-conscious. Dr. Hammond, you'll live to regret that remark. The Countess will take you seriously. I am serious. And talking of taking things seriously, when are you going to start taking me seriously, Anne? When you start to make a living, then. Oh, someday I hope I won't have to try and sell my sculptures. All art is conceived out of the fires of struggles. Well, I'm tired of struggling. Oh, if I could just create something out of the ordinary for an art exhibit, I could make a couple of hundred dollars. I've been working three months for an idea and I haven't done a thing. My poor dear Anne, as long as you doubt the extraordinary, how can you create it? She's got you there, Anne. Yes, she has, Dr. Hammond. Well, what would you suggest is a good subject for Anne to sculpt, Countess? Well, a denizen of the other world, perhaps. Oh, sure. That's rather a hot place for a girl to venture in order to sculpt a devil, isn't it? Don't speak so lightly of his satanic highness. No one knows where the devil's hand may be next. How about sculpting me, Anne? I'm an extraordinary young man. That you are, darling. Extraordinary lay broke at any rate. Oh, the woes of the world revolve on that ugly stuff called money. People take money much too seriously, Ned. Well, frankly, Dr. Hammond, if I had some of it, I wouldn't take it at all seriously. I'd scatter it around the world like a veritable windmill. Oh, frivolity. That's your trouble, my dear friends. Frivolity. You feed on it. Here in this very house is a poor earthbound spirit, and yet you ignore it. Come, Countess, you don't expect us to take it seriously? I expect nothing. What do you expect us to do? Call a spirit in and ask him to sit for me? Possibly, Anne. Possibly. Come, come, Countess. You're joking. I have never been more serious in my life. I think we ought to hold a seance and command the spirits to enter the room. That would be interesting, at least scientifically so. Nonsense, Doctor. Besides, Mrs. Dimity would never stand for it. Ever since she moved us into this, how she's been scared stiff of the very idea of spirits. Have you seen the amulet she's been wearing? Yes. She carries it around like a sword. Why don't we ask her? Oh, we were just talking about you, Mrs. Dimity. Oh, dear. I tell you, I just can't stand being alone in my room. I just know something was in there with me, Anne. I just know it. The spirits probably have been attracted to you, Mrs. Dimity. I've always felt you're strongly psychic. Oh, don't say it, Countess. Don't even think about it. It was all a mistake moving into this house. All a mistake. I've just never been as nervous. Dr. Hammond, feel my pulse. Feel it. It's practically non-pulse, so to speak. Well, I wouldn't take it seriously, Mrs. Dimity. We all know there are no such things as spirits. You see, we've been talking about the ghost for so long that at times we half-believe, but that's purely imagination. It wasn't imagination at all, Dr. Hammond. You know very well there are only five of us living here. You four were downstairs, and I was alone upstairs. Oh, I did hear footsteps in the hall. I opened the door, and I felt something cold touch me. Ah, you see, I knew it. Oh, listen. It came from upstairs. Listen, all of you. Ah, and was that also the wind, Dr. Hammond? I don't know, Countess. What do you think, Ned? I think the Countess' idea of a seance is a good practical suggestion. I'm all for it. A seance? Oh, dear. Yes, let's give it a try. Well, we're all agreed. Yes, come on, let's. I think it's a good idea. You're in charge, Countess. Now tell us what to do. Well, now for the first thing, bring your chairs into a circle, please. I don't see it. I think it's almost back. Now hold hands. Will someone turn off the lights? I'll get the switch. Good. Now we're in the dark. Quiet, please. Quiet while I summon the spirits. It is midnight, oh spirits. Midnight. Enter the portals of our room and speak to us. Speak to us. We are gathered to commune with you who have passed on. Withhold not your secrets. Speak. Speak. It is I, Countess Harkavy, asking you to descend to this mortal plane. Answer me. Answer me. If my uncle Ezekiel's in the room and wants to talk to me, I'd talk to him, Countess. Yes, Mrs. Dimity. Ned, stop squeezing my hand. I'm not squeezing your hand, Anne. Well, whatever you're doing, stop doing it. I'm not doing anything. Ouch, doggone. What's the matter with your hand? You're so coy, pinching me now. I'm not pinching you. My hands are in my lap. Well, hold. Ever sitting next to me, stop it. Dr. Hammond. I'm sitting across from your hand. Mrs. Dimity. Oh, dear. I wouldn't have the courage to squeeze anybody's hand at this point. Ouch. Well, whoever it is. Turn on the lights, somebody. Turn on the lights. No, no, don't turn on the lights. The spirits have entered the room and are attracted to you, Anne. To you. Oh, please, please, turn on the lights, please. I'll do it, Anne. I'll do it. There's nobody sitting next to you. That's a vacant chair. But I felt it. Anne, did you imagine it? Imagine what? That somebody squeezed my hand? I imagined nothing. Look. Look at my hand. And tell me that's imagination. What's there, darling? What? Dr. Hammond, look. Her hand is bruised. Yes, it is. Pretty badly bruised. Countess, where were you sitting? Exactly where I'm sitting now, Dr. Hammond, and I haven't moved. You had your chance to do something extraordinary, Anne. But you muffed it. A pity is all I can say. A great pity. The seance is ruined. But, Countess, wait a minute. What for? To try another seance and have you become hysterical all over again? Good night. Dr. Hammond, is it possible that I really was holding the hand of something or...? Anything's possible, Anne, but not very probable. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. I said not very probable, Mrs. Dimity. I think perhaps the Countess has been playing a trick on all of us. A cute trick, Doctor. Pretty a difficult one. If she wasn't playing a trick, she shouldn't have been so upset when you turned on the lights, Ned. Oh, Doctor, I think you've got a point there. Something like a good dash of logic to take the cold chills out of my spine. Well, how could the Countess do it, Doctor? Well, Mrs. Dimity's psychic phenomenon is the Countess's business. After all, she makes a living out of calling imaginary spooks from the outer world. I don't think it's very nice of us to try and pry into her secrets. I hope you're right, Doctor. I do hope you're right. Now, I wouldn't worry, Mrs. Dimity. Well, I'm going upstairs to bed. I've had enough spooks to last me for years. Oh, wait for me, Mrs. Dimity. I'll go up with you. Good night, Ned. Good night, Anne. Good night, Doctor Hammond. See you in the morning. Good night, my dear, and don't worry about the spooks. They're purely harmless, make-believe. Oh, dear, I'll never sleep a wink again. Well, Doctor, what's the tongue and the cheek look? Oh, Ned, I'm afraid we've had our first touch of real psychic phenomena tonight. What you just said... I didn't want to frighten the women. Then you believe this house is haunted? Haunted? Well, I don't like the phrase, but in essence, that's the idea. I was wondering if you'd be interested in trying an experiment with me tonight. Certainly, Doctor, anything. Well, suppose you and I spend the next few nights down here. We'll turn off the lights and wait. Just wait. Perhaps we can invite some trouble. We waited that night through without sleeping, but nothing extraordinary happened, except for the fact that Mrs. Dimity's rocking chair kept rocking all night long. Creaking and squeaking as it moved. But the wind could have been responsible for that. The next night and the next and the one after that, we kept our nightly vigil, creeping up to our rooms like thieves just before daylight broke, so that nobody would suspect our secret experiment. On the fifth night of our wait, we heard the rocking chair creaking, creaking, creaking. Doctor, yes, Ned? That rocking chair couldn't be moved by wind tonight. There wasn't a breath of air stirring. I noticed that, Ned. I wonder... Listen. Yes, the creaking stopped. Same as usual. I tried to get some sleep. I can't. I was nervous as a cat over this whole thing. Yes, I'm jittery, too. Ouch, let me. What's better, Ned? I don't know. Somebody's attacked me. Help me, Doctor. Help me. I... It's got its arms around my throat. Here, I feel it. You'll find out who this ghost is in a short time. There, I've got his arms, Ned. My throat! Let go of my throat! There. Can you hang onto him alone, Doctor? I think so, but he's as strong as a nox. No, you don't. His voice certainly doesn't sound human. Turn on the lights, Ned, while I hang onto him. You'll find out who this practical prankster is. I'm afraid to let him go, Doctor. I can handle him, Ned. You turn on the lights. Hurry, Ned, hurry! There you are. Doctor, where is he? He's right in front of me. I've got him by the arms. I'm... I'm hanging onto him. This is amazing. Amazing, Doctor? Well, we can't see it. It's invisible. Help me, Ned. He's trying to escape. Help me! If I could only see him. There we are. I've got it. I've got it. What is it, Doctor? What was it? I didn't know as I held the grizzly thing in my arm. It struggled and sobbed and moaned exactly as a beast would struggle and moan. An invisible beast. That was the horror of it. An invisible beast. I sent Ned to the basement of the old brownstone to get some stout rope. At least we could prevent this horror from escaping. That's what I thought then. Well, Ned returned shortly from the basement and opened the door. There you are, Doctor. I can't hang on to it much longer. Not as long as I used to be. All right, Doctor. Try to hold him on the floor. There you are, Ned. Feet are still for the minute. I've got the rope about it. Look. A perfect loop around, nothing but empty air. Hold him and I'll bind the rope around him. Quickly, Ned. There we are. That covers his feet.  Give me the rope and I'll bind his hand. There, that does it. What a relief to be able to let that awful thing go. All right, I'll take the rope now, Doctor. He'll bind it to his chair. He won't get away now. I'll guarantee that. It isn't very large, is it? No, about the size of a small boy. But what is it? Have you ever encountered anything like this before? Frankly, Ned never. Look at my hands, bitten and bruised. I wonder if I'll ever be able to move them again. What are we going to do with the dancing now? I don't think that's our responsibility, Ned. I think we'd better call the boarders together and let them in on the secret. Would you like me to get them, Doctor? Yes, wake them up, but don't tell them why. Just ask them to come down here and I'll throw this rug over the chair so that they won't see the ropes right away. Questions, everybody. Dr. Hammond will explain everything. Oh, goody-hey, Dr. Hammond. Have you possibly discovered that psychic phenomena does exist? Come in, Countess. Come in, everybody. Don't be afraid, Ms. Dimity. Explain it in a minute. Explain it, Dr. Hammond? Sit down, everybody, please. No, Ms. Dimity, not in the rocking chair. Oh, dear me. I'm afraid we're in for a revelation this evening. Ned, please close the door. Strange are the ways of the world. Yes, Countess. The ways of the world are very strange. Mrs. Dimity and the Countess have been correct about this house. There is something in it. Oh, what do you mean? Oh, spirits are often kind. Indeed, they're friendlier than many mortals. This isn't exactly a spirit, Countess. What do you mean? Exactly what I say. It's a beast of some kind. Dr. Hammond, is it in this room? Ms. Dimity, please. Yes, Anne, it's in this room, in that rocking chair. I threw a rug over it. Oh, unfortunate spirit. If you wish, Countess, remove the rug. Yes, of course. Where is it? It's being held in place by us. What kind of a hoax are you trying to play on me, Dr. Hammond? It is not a hoax. There's a living, breathing something bound in that chair. But it's invisible. It's more than incredible. Would you mind if I touched it? I don't see why I should. It's not my beast. The problem is, what are we going to do with it? What do you suggest, Mrs. Dimity? Mrs. Dimity. Well, she's painted, Dr. Hammond. Oh, I felt it. I felt it, Anne. I felt it. A captured spirit. I must tell my co-worker, Dr. Tharcox, right away. He'll be so thrilled, so thrilled. I am not sure that we ought to tell anybody about it. Are you, Dr. Hammond? It's quite right. We should not. Dr. Tharcox is the only living person constantly in touch with the spiritual night and day, day and night constantly. The smelling thought should be in here someplace. Oh, here they are. Until we find out exactly what it is, it's a secret. Heaven knows what we've stumbled into. Very right, Ned. Here, Mrs. Dimity, take a deep breath of this. And how do you propose going about finding out what it is? Breathe deeply, Mrs. Dimity. Well, I was thinking it might be possible for Anne to make a plaster cast. Oh, that's a gay idea, Ned. Breathe deeply, Mrs. Dimity. You'll be all right. That's quite a good idea, as a matter of fact. No, you'll hold it while I make a cast, huh? It happens to bite you with a pair of invisible teeth. That'll be my word. No being a doctor, I shall use a little chloroform and put it to sleep for a while. We'll be able to make a perfect cast. Mrs. Dimity, are you all right? I'll never be all right again. Well, Anne, are you willing to give it a try? Oh, I suppose so, Ned. I'll prepare the plaster right away. There we are, Anne. The chloroform has worked perfectly. Whatever it is, it's asleep. Before you start with the plaster, I should like to listen to his heart and the stethoscope. Certainly, doctor. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Normal. A little faster than as normal for a human being, but maybe we're not dealing with a human being. Yes, doctor, that's very possible. Ned, would you hand me that container near you? What do we have? There you are. Thanks, Ned. Well, Dr. Hammond, are you ready? Yes, Anne, whenever you are. Oh, I'm not going to start. It's two o'clock. We ought to be through by seven. And so, Anne, started to work. To cover that invisible form with moist plaster. We watched her spellbound. The hideousness of the rough object which soon met our eyes was appalling. Anne's hands shook perceptibly as she forced herself to complete what she had started. Minutes changed into hours. The mold was completed, and we had a rough idea of this figure. Then Anne allowed the mold to dry. By morning, we had a rough facsimile of the invisible beast. How can I describe what it looked like when it looked like nothing so much as a demon out of hell itself? Yes, shaped like a man with long sinewy arms, but it was small. Only four feet or so high. Its muscular development was amazing.   The first rays of light broke through the window and I realized that the effects of the chloroform were wearing off. Watch out, ladies, away. I got him, doctor. You'd better help me. Yes, of course. Here, we'll hold him together. Yes, doctor Hammond. We'll hold him down and you bind his legs to the cord. Get that rope around his legs. Good girl, Anne, that's it. Oh! Your arm, darling, it's bleeding. Come on, my arm. Just bind the legs. Give me the rope around him and pull it good and tight. All right, there we are. Give me the rope, Anne. Now, secure his arms. Ned, look at your arms. Oh, doctor, he's badly bitten. Don't bother about me now, darling. We can't let this beast loose on humanity.  Yeah, it does. Give me a hand, Dr. Hammond. We'll put it back in the chair and tie it. Okay, now, one, two, lift. There. Now, tie the darn thing there. I think we ought to do it now. I don't know. You're the doctor. I think we all need some sleep. First, I'll tend to that arm of yours, Ned, and then we'll leave the thing here for a while. Doctor, do you think we dare leave it here quite safely? Well, judging from the way Ned's got it tied up, I think so. Not even a spirit could get out of those ropes. Come on, Ned, I want to take a look at that arm of yours. I'll leave the little statue in here, in the morning. You know, doctor, that makes an interesting study, doesn't it? Yes, quite an interesting one. Extraordinary piece of work, one might say. Well, good night, Ann. Come on, Ned, let's get that arm bandaged. We'll all think more clearly in the morning. We thought we could think more clearly after some sleep. And so the days went by. Ned and Ann and I stayed with that invisible beast constantly. I took test after test. It's heart condition. It's breathing. Every test I took battled me completely. For this invisible beast reacted to every test exactly as a ring. It reacted to every test exactly as a reptile would react. Or, to be more specific, a python. A type of snake which swallows an animal or a man whole and then digest it. As the days passed, we realized that since this was living matter, it must eat. We tempted it with every kind of food imaginable. Tried force-feeding it. But the animal never swallowed one bite of food. And then one evening all of us were collected in the living room when those horrible sounds started. Oh, I tell you, Ned, I... It's hungry. Ann, darling, we've tried feeding. But you've got to get it out of this house. I can't take it any longer. That's very mysterious. We'll evoke the anger of the gods. My advice to you is to let it go. That's not very good advice, Countess. Whatever this is, it would be fairly dangerous. No, isn't there anything we can feed it? It must be suffering horribly, doctor. No food or water for two weeks. Yes, Ann. We need it, but unfortunately or fortunately, we can't. What are you talking about, doctor? Human flesh, Ned. This creature is a man-eater. An invisible man-eater. There's only one thing for us to do. Call the police and the medical society and turn it over to them. There's nothing more we can do. Oh, you'll regret this, doctor. You'll regret it. You can't evoke the anger of the spirit world without payment and full. I'm going to come over here immediately. And so, gentlemen, Ann called you and brought you over here. I've told you the complete story of the monster from the very beginning. Well, Dr. Hammond is a member of the police force. I don't mean to doubt you. But where is this invisible monster? He died of hunger ten minutes before you arrived, sergeant. Where is it? On the floor, here, next to my foot. You can feel it even if you can't see it. Here, put your hand down here. Sergeant, feel this. What kind of a trick are you trying to play on us? Trick, sergeant? Take my word for it. It's no trick. You felt it yourself. Many people know how to make a mass of material appear invisible. Chemistry can give you a lot of explanations of that kind of a hoax. It's no hoax, gentlemen, on my word of honor. It's no hoax. Tell us a better story. Come on, boys. Let's get out of here. We enjoyed your fairy tale, doctor, but we can't swallow that one hoax. But, gentlemen, ask anyone of us in this room. Look at that statuette. That's an exact replica of the Invisible Beast. Ah, now I get it. You're trying to get some free publicity for the art exhibition at the museum. No, gentlemen. I made that pass to cast myself from the Invisible Monster. Dr. Hammond's telling you the truth. Well, if it's the truth, what was it? What was it? Frankly, gentlemen, I don't know what it was. From the time-worn pages of the past, you have heard what was it. Bell Keeper All the Bells