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learning about racism from stephen king | holly book review

hi cuties! welcome to my little #youtubebookclub in today’s video i have a #bookreivew of #holly by #stephenking! this is actually my first time reading a stephen king novel! i hope you enjoy the review! 250 subscribers june 1 2022 350 subscribers sept 22 2022 450 subscribers dec 20 2022 500 subscribers feb 7 2023 900 subscribers feb 11 2024 ♡ ig: https://instagram.com/nourishnneka ♡ tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nourishnneka sounds by zapsplat.com sounds by chillhop, epidemisounds

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Welcome to the video. Hey, wow, this is truly honestly like my second book review video I've done. So I'm still kind of learning the ropes. But my name is Nika. I'm 29 years old. I'm a graduate student that lives in New York City. Suscribe if you haven't already. I make videos about like New York City life when it's like being a graduate student at Ivy League University. Book reviews, plans with me, all those fun sorts of things. So my goal for the end of the year is to 5,000 subscribers. We are very, very, very far away from that goal. So if you can subscribe right now, I would love you forever because I'm still trying to cross 1,000 subscriber mark. Anyways, so in today's video, we're going to be talking about Holly by Stephen King. I truly enjoyed this novel. There were like a couple of points that kind of irked me a little bit, but let's just get right into it. So Holly is honestly a book that made me feel like I was missing something. This is the first Stephen King book I've ever read. And it's very apparent as you're reading it that there was some stuff that happened beforehand. Like I think it's a part of a series that he was doing. So like there was references to like um, I think his name's like Chet or something, Ozinski or Ozempic. Whatever his name is, that kind of really affected the characters in this book. Probably another like murder mystery type thing. And literally that went over my head. Like every time they brought him up, they're like, Oh, it was so frightening. He nearly killed me. I was like, Oh, it really made me go maybe I should go back and read like the prior novel, but probably not going to do that. The plot of the book. So I'm trying to figure out like what kind of structure I want to have to these book reviews. I'm thinking starting out with the plot is a great one. So Holly is obviously a character that was in other Stephen King novels that I did not write. But she is a private investigator and she's like investigating a missing person's case in her hometown. And so she is trying to figure out like what happened to this lost girl. And what's really good about this novel is that you actually start with the point of view of Holly and then also the point of view of like, yeah, kidnappers slash murderers. So right away, you're kind of like, okay, this is what Holly thinks. Okay, this is what like the murderer thinks. And like the entire novel, you're kind of like, just waiting for them to collide, which is really fun. So it's really great. Like tension building throughout the entire novel, which I really like for diversity, like equity and inclusion, there are some black characters in here, which I appreciated. But what I did not appreciate is some one, okay, there is a character her name is Barbara. And she's like a black like, not teenager, but maybe like 21, 22, like early 20s. And I'm like, I don't know a single black girl whose name is Barbara. And like 2020 at all, like I feel like that's an old black person name. I just don't think people are named anymore. So that was just kind of weird to me. But honestly, Stephen King is also pretty old. So that's probably where he's getting his name and spoke from. And what's really interesting is that there are a lot of like, different side characters that have a pretty huge influence in the novel. So Holly has these like a sidekick that she works with and he's like sick with COVID the whole time. Oh, also, I should mention this happens during like COVID. So 2019 2020 2021. So that's also really interesting that it's like so current like that makes it kind of a really fun read and seeing them kind of battle and think through that. And then there's also like a lot of influence from like Donald Trump in here and like the election and the political climate and just like how politicized like COVID was. So that's also really interesting. There's a really good diversity of characters. There's another black character. Her name is Keisha. And she's a friend of the person that's missing. And what really kind of throws me off No spoilers. Literally someone called Keisha Keesh as like a nickname. And I'm like that is just not never like I've never heard anyone refer to someone whose name is Keisha as like Keesh as like a nickname. Like I think that's just like a little cultural thing because obviously Stephen King is like a white man. But yeah, like Keesh is not short for Keisha. Keisha is already short for like like Keisha. So it's like people don't like I don't know. Black people just don't call Keesh Keesh like that's just not that's just not what it's giving. So there was like little things like that throughout the novel that kind of like annoyed me. But overall it was a really good novel. And I did appreciate like the diversity that was kind of woven through it. Like you do have a lot of black characters in there. And yeah, I really appreciated that. Overall, I would probably give this like, um, let's see out of 10. I don't know. Maybe like an a and a half out of 10. Like I definitely would recommend this. It is very, very big. I think it's like 300 pages. Let me see 400, 400 and like 45 pages. And honestly, I still got through it pretty quickly. Like I think I read this all within the month of January. And yeah, there are nights where I was like, okay, I want to go to bed early because I want to read this novel. So it is really good. I do wish like I would have gotten a bit more of the insight about what happened with this person that they kept alluding to like throughout the novel. But I guess you have to read the one that was before it if you want to kind of be included. I do really like the class like there's an element of class within the movie or in the movie within the book as well because the main character suddenly her class changes and she doesn't really know what to do. But then it's also like the halves and the half knots because the setting of the book is on like this college area like campus type town and I grew up there also in the Midwest too. So I really like that. I grew up near Ann Arbor, which is a very wealthy like city, but there is like Ypsilanti and that's like kind of a little bit less like, you know, to do but so close to like Ann Arbor. And so that's kind of like how their town is as well. Like there's a places right near the college are like really affluent and they have all these really nice like $100,000 homes or whatever. And then you have people who live a little bit further away and like trailer parks and stuff. So that was really interesting to see as well. And then I did like that there's like a lot of like elderly people and the novel. I mean, when we talk about diversity, equity and inclusion, I feel like we never really talked about older people. So it was nice just to like see like like that life perspective when you are like a bit older and more season and kind of know what's going on. But yeah, the murderers or the kidnappers, they're like kind of crazy, which is really thrilling to read. And like honestly, I learned a lot about racism from this book. Like no spoilers, but throughout the book, he actually acknowledges at the Christie's novel that like one of her debut novels that was like super racist, like it used to be called like 12 little inwards or something. And then they changed it to like 12 little Indians. And now I think if you want to buy it, it's called and then they were none. And I had like never heard of that before ever. Not that I've read any of the Christie novels, but like I read a lot. So I know who she is. She's a very prominent author from the UK. And I was just like, wow, I was like, okay, Stephen King call your girl out. Like I had no idea that that like had even existed. But obviously Stephen King is a little bit older and athlete Christie is a little older. I'm not even sure she's still alive. But that novel that he references in here that came out in like the 50s or like the 40s or something. So racism was still very much a thing. Overall, yeah, I would give this book like, I think I said a nine out of 10 or maybe an eight and a half. Like I definitely would recommend this. It's really, really good. Yeah. So I hope you like it. Let me know if you read it or if you're thinking about reading it in the comments below, like, what kind of books do you read? Like what kind of books are you into? I've really been into like thrillers lately. So the book I read before this was Verity, which is really good. If you're looking for a thriller, I'll leave the link for that here or in the comment section below. And then also what I'm reading now is wait, let me go get it. Okay. So what I'm reading right now is Pineapple Street, which is really good. It's not a murder mystery or a thriller at all, but it's more like a social commentary. I'm like what it means to be rich in America and what that has to do with like race. And like, honestly, I really love this novel and I wanted to read it because it's based in Brooklyn, New York. And I actually used to live a couple of blocks away from Pineapple Street. So when I saw it, and then I read the premise, it's about like people who obviously live in these like mansions that are on Pineapple Street. I was like, ooh, I really want to read that. And like, they make references to like, buildings that I used to live in and streets that I used to walk on when I lived in that neighborhood. They are primarily set in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, which is a very, very affluent neighborhood in Brooklyn, like Sarah Kajeska Parker used to live there. I think she might still have a house there, like very wealthy people live in Brooklyn Heights, but then also like college dorm that's there too. So I lived there when I was in my undergrad program at Pace University. So it's just really interesting to see and I always love reading books based in New York because I live in New York. So if you're looking for something that's a little more light, you can check this out. I haven't finished it yet. I am about, I'm here. So I'm about halfway through. And yeah, keep watching and subscribing if you guys are avid book readers. I'll be posting a video about Pineapple Street once I'm finished reading it. And if you are thinking about reading Holly by Stephen King, I definitely recommend it. A lot of diversity, equity, inclusion in there, really good storyline, a lot of tension. Like I love when books go like this, like the whole time. I don't even know what this means, but you know what I mean, you know, it's like the protagonist and the antagonist, you're just kind of waiting for them to meet. So that was a really good book for this. And yeah, I really liked it. So I have to go return this to the library now because I had been reciting, I'm making this video. So it's a little bit overdue, but if you are interested in reading the Holly book, I highly recommend it. And if you want to feel like you're not missing something, maybe you should read the book that he wrote before this. I don't even know what it is. I'm being completely honest, but you can still not read that book and read this one and like have a really good time. Like it's a really good book. And I see why Stephen King is like the legend that he is. So yeah, keep watching. If you want to hear about Pineapple Street, make sure you subscribe. I love you guys so so much and I'll see you in the next video.

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Brian Nosek interview: Ideals, aspirations, and business models (part 2)

Further, if scholarly communication is central to the mission of academic societies, that doesn’t have to imply the current subscription-based business model.

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And so we can think of scholarly communication activities, peer review and otherwise, as that core value proposition of what societies bring to the table. And so we can think in new ways about if we're, you know, putting that in practical terms, you can think about that in terms of business models. Business model is not the control of information, the gated access to information. It is the evaluation of that information. And that evaluation process is a viable business model. We need the expertise that are housed in the collective action of societies and their members. And so that is a service worth paying for. And that evaluation process can be conceived from a society level as something that is done piecemeal. We help to organize and facilitate the actions of peer review rather than the control of the information, the output of that review.

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Photography Career After 12th | After 12th Career option | Creative Hut Institute of Photography

Why Creative Hut Institute of Photography is Top Photography College In India? 1. Creative Hut is India’s first Photography Institute with an unique educational system based on Gurukulam 2. International oriented syllabus -Our curriculum is up-to-date to keep up with the fast-growing digital technology in Photography. 3. We have very well experienced and award winning faculties who is composed to let you see not only in a viewfinder, but make you to capture it artistically. 4. Creative hut has one of the biggest and well-flourished production studio with all latest international lighting equipment. 5. Students here experience a campus life where they learn every aspects of photography, understanding the significance of nature. 6. Eco-friendly campus: Institute built on 4 acres land, surrounded by trees, plants, and river. We have an organic farm, Insect park, and Butterfly Park. 7. We initiate our students with various researches that come as a part of their entire Photography learning. The Creative Hut research team holds the records for their research in photography at the India book of records, Limca book of records, Asia book of records and Miracles of the world records. 8. National and International Photo tours - we conduct yearly a highly educative photo tour with award-winning photo-mentor guidance. 9. We give more preference to character building of our students, as it is the one which helps them to build their future astoundingly. so after 12th best career Option in Photography. 10. Here in Creative Hut, we celebrate every festival like Onam, Diwali, Christmas, Holi etc., which motivates our students to gain knowledge of every religion. 11. We motivate every individual who comes here to learn photography, to participate in National & International Photography competitions and exhibitions. 12. We make assure that every student learns every category of Photography thoroughly in One year, which actually takes 3 years for any other. 13. We help our students to make Portfolio Book showcasing their best works in all categories of Photography. 14. We includes Photojournalism, Fashion, Wedding, Candid, Product, Food Advertising, Automobile, Documentary, Street and Portrait, Editorial, Fine Arts, Abstract, Wildlife, Birds, Macro, Insects, Travel and nature, Architecture, Landscape and DSLR Cinematography in a Year 15. After Course Institute assist for One Month to One Year Internship. CREATIVE HUT INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY National Education And Research Foundation Thekkummattam, Karimpany P.O,Mattakkara Kottayam, Kerala - 686564 Website : www.creativehut.org E-mail : [email protected] Mobile :+ 91 85 470 44 220 | +91 85 890 54 220 #photographycareer #careerafter12th #creativehut

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Doublepoint Product Announcement | Slush 2023

Doublepoint is a Finnish startup working on wrist-based gesture detection, launching an entirely new input paradigm at Slush 2023. --- Slush is the most founder-focused event on earth delivering actionable company-building advice and bringing together the who’s who in the ecosystem. Want to join us at Slush in 2024? Pre-register here: slush.org/pre-register Want even more? Follow us on social media 💚 Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/slush Instagram: instagram.com/slushhq Twitter: twitter.com/SlushHQ

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Hi everyone, my name is Otto Bentigainen, I'm the CEO and co-founder at Jester Detection Company DoublePoint. Hi everyone, I'm Thomas Joseph and I'm the VP of product here at DoublePoint. We're a company founded in 2020 based in Helsinki and we founded this company because my co-founder Jamie had a personal project that he just needed to get done. This is a set of wristbands that he built. He's a classical championist and a biomedical engineer and he had this tendency to type his thoughts in midair by twitching his fingers. So we began from the electric shops from Alta University, building our first wristbands. Of course not a lot of people type their thoughts in midair like Jamie does so we didn't really have a market but then we started to look around. We saw that augmented and virtual realities were being built. We saw that IoT was becoming a thing. We saw that wearables were becoming part of most people's, a lot of people's, computation. However, there's something that's joined with these devices. We don't have a clear way of inputting to them. Currently when we look at the way we input to our devices we have the mouse but the mouse is only good for personal computing. We also have the touch screen which is currently used to control all sorts of devices but it's mainly used for two-dimensional screens. So how do we control augmented reality, IoT or wearables? How do we control these new platforms? Thomas, take it away. So this question right here is one that we obsess over at double point. And when coming up with solutions for this problem and how to address it we base this on five key principles. The solution would have to be intuitive just like the mouse and the touch screen. It would have to be accurate. Accuracy is table stakes for any good input solution. It would also have to be discreet. So just like these AR headsets that we have sort of coming on to market the input mechanism would have to be discreet like those same headsets. Always on, always available. This is a non-starter. This had to be in from the beginning. And then lastly low cost. So when thinking about these five principles over the last three years as a company our explorations have taken us far and wide. So here's just a short selection of some of the prototypes and hardware form factors that we've explored. And this includes Jamin's prototype that belongs with some gloves, smartwatches, rings, and thimbles. But we keep coming back to the smartwatch. As a tech industry we're on track to ship 300 million smartwatches just this year. And this device category is growing double digit growth year on year. They're ubiquitous. In fact I would gather that about 60% of you in the audience have some sort of smartwatch on your wrist right now. Whether it's an Apple watch, a Fitbit, or a Sunto. And we wanted to focus our attention on this because we believe that this form factor is capable of a lot, lot more. Now all of those devices, all those manufacturers, they have two sensors in common that are of particular interest to us at DoublePoint. So the PPG sensor or the sensor that tracks your heart rate for health activities, and then the IMU for orientation data. Now when we look at these two sensors we see a lot more capability. So what we actually have here are some traces of some raw data coming off these signals. And what we found was there's a fundamental machine learning problem here. And we could pick up on minute gestures that a user performs just by looking at these sensor data. So we built some custom algorithms, trained this on a lot of people, tested it on a lot of people. And what we came down with are a few key gestures. And I'm kind of going to go through these right now. So we have tap, which is very simple action in which the index finger comes into contact with the thumb. And these small deformations in the skin, we're able to pick these up with these off the shelf smartwatch sensors. As Otto is going to demonstrate right here. Right here. So let's see if the network is working. But there you go. And I can turn on my lights. And then you can also sort of multi-tap. So pick up multiple gestures like this. And probably most importantly is pinch and hold. Now this is actually a world's first demonstration of this gesture using commercially available off the shelf sensors. Now on the surface, those gestures seems fairly simple. And that's kind of by design. We wanted these to be intuitive and easy. But those three gestures also enable a lot, lot more. So I'm going to talk about it in the context of a few key use cases. XR, which we're really excited about. Now when we think about input, if you've ever worn a VR headset, you often use your hands to sort of input stuff, you use your voice or you use controllers. We believe this is a solved input problem. Sure, hand tracking can get better. Controllers can get better. But these are the modalities to control VR headsets. But what about AR? We're yet to see these devices come on market, they're lightweight, they're always on. Using hands is fundamentally problematic. Because we're now going to be in public settings. You don't want to be gesticulating wildly like Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Not to mention that that's expensive. So you have cameras that are high resource power hungry, and they don't fit with that form factor. Voice privacy concerns. And then obviously you don't want to be using a controller out in public settings. That's a non-starter. So let me show you what we can do with a smartwatch that we built at DoublePoint. Here, you'll see our interaction designer, Simon, navigating a UI with nothing but his watch. There are no cameras involved here. Just by pointing his watch, we're able to use the IMU sensor data to figure out exactly where he's pointing and the click gestures to sort of select these items. And he effortlessly sort of scrolls through these interfaces just by using pinch and hold, tap, and multi-tap. Here we see Simon playing a game, just pointing at bubbles and popping them. And then we have a smartwatch. And then we have a smartwatch. And then we have a smartwatch. But you can take this to another level. So if device manufacturers have eye tracking built, we can take this interaction scheme and put it on steroids. Here you see Simon using the same sort of smartwatch, except he's using eyes to focus his attention. And you'll notice how much quicker he is just by pointing and selecting. Now, this is super-fast, super-intuitive, and very fast. So we're not using inside-out cameras for tracking. Just the smartwatch. And just the sensors that exist on your smartwatches today. Outside of XR, there are a few other applications we're excited about. IOT. We have countless smart devices in our homes. And what you see here is our interaction designer just manipulating the devices around him with the smartwatch. Intuitively turning up the brightness using the accelerometer and IMU, turning up the brightness on his TV, and even turning on the music. And lastly, smartwatch control itself. So here, using these algorithms, we're simply manipulating the menu. So clicking through a menu, double-click to select, and pinch and hold for high-consequence actions, like making a phone call or making a payment. Now, this is just a snippet and a view into what we can do, but we can't wait to see what developers do with this technology. We are convinced this is the best input solution for spatial, metaverse, ambient computing, whatever you want to call it. For these reasons, it's fast. It's cheap. It's comfortable. You don't have to wear the smartwatch any tighter than you currently wear your smartwatch. No calibration, generalizable from person to person. High sensitivity, high accuracy, and lastly, no field of view limitations. We demonstrated all of this with existing smartwatches. But we needed to take this further. To turn all of this up to 11, we had to build our own hardware using these sensors. And I'm excited to pass this off to Otto to tell you all about it. So at DoublePoint, we decided to build DoublePoint Kit. The DoublePoint Kit is another piece of hardware now from Finland. And what it does, it enables the world with micro gestures. It provides the ultimate input solution for extended reality, augmented reality, lightweight headsets, wearables, and IoT control, among many other use cases. We built this DoublePoint Kit to provide everyone developing these interactions with micro gestures in a licenseable form. So people can license this technology straight from us onto their existing wearables. Or they can license this technology and build their own hardware. It's built for developers. So we're enabling a bunch of UI tools to help people build these new device paradigms. We're also providing a rapid prototyping experience, and it's easy to get started and will reduce your time to market. We're shipping in the first half of 2024. You'll get to experience it in CES in Las Vegas in January. Join the waitlist at doublepoint.com. And thanks for having us. Thank you.

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Self-organization: what it is and how it comes to be by Dave West

Self-organization, or autopoiesis, is an essential aspect of agile teams, but remains a somewhat vague concept. This presentation will provide a solid understanding of what self-organization means and how it arises in biological and social systems, yielding seven principles that can be used to form a practice of nurturing and assuring self-organization. Some practical guidelines for coaches and managers will conclude the session. Conference: http://2013.agileindia.org Slide and Other details: http://betterconf.com/agileindia2013/index.html#session-36-info

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to thinking, conversation, questions, things of that sort, so I will not be overly involved in actually giving the presentation. Self-organizing teams are something that are talked about a lot in agile. They are supposed to be one of the agile virtues, the ability of having a self-organizing team. Something magical is supposed to happen about that. The concept is relatively simple. You get a whole bunch of people in the room. You give them some autonomy. They organize themselves, don't require management and close direction and things of this sort, and they just magically, somehow or other, coalesce into this high-performance, high-functioning organization or entity that is able to produce software. A lot of misconceptions about that whole notion, and it's not very well-grounded in any kind of understanding discipline, science, anything of that sort. So we're going to start off today trying to explore a look at those foundations to begin with. So we see things that we call self-organization, and which we have used as metaphors for what we want to have happen in our organizations, in our software development teams. We can see it in chemistry. We can see that if you add two solutions together, they will spontaneously crystallize into a very defined, very rigorous structure. That's a kind of self-organization of the atoms and the molecules. We see it a lot in biology, and biology is the ultimate source of how we have been thinking about self-organization. The cell, from the basis of a cell up to the basis of an organism, these are all examples of self-organization. We see it in complex adaptive systems, which is another part of what is talked about in Agile, that we can have self-organization because we are a complex adaptive system, and we see complex adaptive systems from all the way up to societies and cultures as these kinds of self-organized phenomenon, an emergent phenomenon. They aren't something that you can direct, something that you can control. It just magically happens when you put all of the right ingredients together. Same kind of thing. Agent-based systems are really kind of a corollary or a subsidiary of the overall notion of complex adaptive systems, but this would be birds, things of that sort. The common thread from all of these things is that we say self-organization is a way of getting some kind of order out of chaos, that you put a bunch of things together and they just magically coalesce into something that is meaningful and useful. As I mentioned, we're talking about self-organization in kind of the agent-based biological social insect kind of concept. So when we think self-organization, these are the kinds of things that we are most likely to think about and therefore are most likely to be the sources of the metaphor that we hope to apply inside of Agile. We have things like termite mounds that are very complex structures. They have a very complex architecture as seen in that lower left photograph, the real termite mound with the prowling predator in the picture above it, fish schooling, traffic jams are a way of, they are a kind of self-organization. You go out on the streets of India, you have really what is an agent-based self-organized system. Their agent-based systems work by you give autonomous entities very simple rules that they obey and they, by each individual obeying that same set of rules, they give this manifestation of order or organization at least. The only rule in Indian traffic is don't run into the person in front of you. This kind of order was talked about in biology a long time ago. One of the people who has popularized it and brought it into the realm of the software world was Umberto Machirana working with Francisco Varela and they wrote a book called The Tree of Knowledge. They later worked extensively with Terry Winograd at Stanford and developed or tried to use and apply these theories to design in software, the design of software and tried to figure out how design of something could come from these kinds of self-organizing principles. Autopoiesis is the really cool name given to this idea or principle of self-organization. It's very simple to describe. You have entities, the little circles are individual entities that may or may not be substantial so it could be a protein in a cell for instance. But these semi-animate entities start to establish relationships with each other and these relationships are really basically stimulus and response that I emit this kind of stimulus and somebody else receives it and responds to me. If that stimulus response cycle gets reinforced then we are said to be structurally coupled and we can, that would be the horizontal arrows between the two circles. That's an example of structural coupling. There is also a second aspect of that structural coupling and that is to the total environment, the total context in which you exist. So there's this idea or notion that the context and the organism that self-organizes in that context are inextricably linked and are in fact one and the same thing at a very fundamental kind of level. You should also note that the horizontal structural coupling, from the point of view of either one of the circles, the other circle is just part of the context. It's not like two little things inside of a common context dealing with each other. You can take this simple context and you can move it up to the point that you have what Varela and Maturana call third-order structural coupling where you can have structural coupling between these entities in the context but you can also have it within entities within the entity. So the idea or the growth of a nervous system would be an example of this kind of structural coupling and we self-organize so that we can get really complex organisms like yourselves that have a nervous system have all kinds of structural coupling with other aspects and elements of yourself. Then these complex entities still can participate in the same kind of structural coupling with their context and with other entities which are part of that context. But autopoietic systems organize only to establish and maintain themselves. A cell has no clue what it's doing or what it's contributing to the rest of the body and doesn't care. Your liver doesn't really much care about the rest of your body, it just is and it organizes and maintains itself and that is not sufficient so we can look to some other ideas that might give us a better hint or a better clue about the kind of self-organization that we are actually seeking or that we think that we are seeing in our agile teams. So these are seven principles about large scale well small two large scale systems. They are supposed to if these seven principles are present in a system it has the capability of organizing itself to itself and they apply from cells all the way up to civilizations or cultures a very large scale macro phenomenon. You need population variation. You have to have a variety of things in your environment. You need to have some kind of persistence that when a new combination or a new structural coupling comes into place it has to be able to survive more than a nanosecond. You can't have structural couplings between atomic elements above a certain number because they don't live long enough. Don't persist long enough. So you have to have some way of maintaining yourself at least for a while to participate in the later phase which is the competition phase. You need to have reinforcement that structural coupling is a statistical phenomenon. So if the mutation occurs in a biological organization that mutation has to have some stability it has to be able to last for a while but it also has to have company has to have companions it has to have that mutation replicated in other parts of the organism so that you get this kind of reinforcement so that you can really see what the consequence or effect of that change is going to be. Then you have the competition. This is the evolutionary mechanism that we compete for market share so to speak inside of the biological environment which we exist in the week die out. We need cooperation so this notion of some kind of symbiosis and also the very importantly this notion of co-evolution. So I have said several times that the structurally coupled entities and their context have to mirror each other. They are in back mirrors of each other. You have to have a co-evolution. Human beings are the absolute best ultimate example of that. That we adapted to a natural environment in which we existed. Then we busily proceeded to change that natural environment and then we would co-evolve with it. So as we changed our environment to eradicated diseases things of this sort we became bigger and longer lived and all kinds of other things. But then you can get to a tipping point where you end up destroying the very context which makes you sustainable. So this idea or notion of co-evolution is very important. Then you need combinatorial richness. You need to be able to mix this diverse population together in different ways. You have to have a fairly high mutation rate so to speak. Ability to recombine and restructure yourselves in different ways. And then you have to cycle through this over time so that it is very much an evolutionary kind of a process. So these seven principles they do describe very well self-organizing systems at almost any level of scale. Unfortunately, yes, can't. So the question was is how do we see competition within self-organizing teams? And the short answer now is can't but I'll come back to that in just a second. So even with these seven principles and when we're looking at things as large scale as a culture or a quote self-organizing team in an agile process or an agile environment, they still are focused on the self, on the organism itself. There is no sense of purpose that we have not organized for anything beyond maintaining ourselves, establishing and maintaining ourselves. So self-organization gets you that far even if it is at a very large scale. So a culture exists to preserve itself. It doesn't exist to make you a happy human being yet exists to preserve itself. What we really want is not self-organizing systems so to speak or we want a variation on self-organizing systems which are called allopoetic systems instead of autopoetic systems. An example of an allopoetic system is something that is organized to produce something else. Factory is the exemplar. People put together factories, they assemble all of that heavy equipment. When we are building software, we're busily taking all these little modules and putting together in order to produce something else other than just the modules themselves. So an allopoetic system has a purpose. It does things of interest and of value and they're easy to get. Really good thing. You can take any random combination of the people in this room, put them together. They will self-organize and they will produce software. Unfortunately, they will produce, they will organize themselves and produce software of the that reflects themselves in accordance with their context. So they're going to self-organize any time. Don't care if you're officially doing Agile or not. You put a team together and tell them to self-organize and do productive work. They're going to self-organize and do the exact same kind of productive work that they always have because you haven't changed the whole context. And in point of fact, it really doesn't matter whether you change the whole context or not. You can see this in the macro in Agile very easily. The concepts, the principles, the practices that were introduced 13 years ago have been diluted and co-opted and are a pale shadow or imitation of themselves and this is an example of that kind of self-organization in work. A user story looks really weird and strange and makes us very uncomfortable. So we co-evolve. We adapt the user story until it's something that is nothing more than something we already are familiar with and now a requirement. So we busily adapt and co-evolve and in the macro level, it's very obvious to see in the Agile community. So it would only be possible to have a self-organizing allopoetic system if you were in fact changing everything. Some of the things that Agile does affect these horizontal structural couplings. Some of the Agile practices actually do try to establish different kinds of relationships between the entities that are in that environment. But it does nothing about changing the overall context of the environment. And the very first time you saw a book called Agile Project Management is an example of a failure to change to do what you were expected to do in terms of self-organization. You're just re-imposing the old structure onto things. But changing everything will still not give you what you want. You can have a really complex self-organizing structure, an allopoetic structure, like a beehive. A beehive from one perspective is not just about producing more bees and more beehives. So it's a little bit beyond producing itself. It produces honey. You open a beehive and you see honey. And so you immediately jump to the conclusion that, ah, bees exist to produce honey. They're a little honey factory. And totally ignore the fact that bees produce honey for their own consumption. The fact that you like honey, bee couldn't care less. And it plays absolutely no role whatsoever in whether or not that system takes on the form or the structure that it does. So I have been wrestling with this presentation because of where this conclusion leads us. That self-organizing systems for purpose, for creating better software, et cetera, are flat out impossible. Can't get there. You cannot have a self-organizing system that will do what you are expecting when you blithely use the term self-organizing team. It's an oxymoron. But maybe that's not what you really want. Maybe what you really want is a team that has an enhanced ability to produce high-quality working software efficiently. And by efficiently, I mean the proper cost ratio kind of notion. That's what we really want and we say, ah, self-organization is going to give us that. Well, it's not. You can't get that from self-organization. The best that you can hope to is to rebalance, reestablish, reinforce different kinds of relationships, particularly the power and responsibility relationships that exist among a group of people. The power relationship, the autocratic, all-powerful manager, the poor, defenseless little team. Agile helps you restructure or rebalance that power relationship or it's supposed to. The customer and the development team who are bitter enemies and have been for decades. They didn't start off that way, by the way, but they have been bitter enemies for decades. Neither side trusting the other, the user story and the product backlog are supposed to be a rebalancing of that power relationship. And you have to then, you know, take those kinds of ideas seriously. In fact, you want to rebalance that relationship. If you deny access to the customer, deny developers access to the customer, you are not rebalancing the relationship. If you have a product owner or some other kind of intermediary in between, you're just reinforcing the old relationship that used to exist. It's still in us versus them kind of a notion that you have to change that relationship in some real ways. Self-responsibility, accountability and transparency are the other things that make it possible to be a high productive team is that you have to take a lot more responsibility. You have to accept a lot more accountability. And the other side does as well. You have to rebalance and restructure that relationship. And then transparency is one of the biggest ones of all. So we have heard, I've heard a couple of presentations here today talking about Craig Larmann's keynote that this absence of transparency. So the little exercise of people reporting up the chain of command and obfuscating things along the way, that's not very transparent. So transparency is absolutely essential if you want the outcome that you want. Doesn't come from self-organization, it comes from courage. One of the four XP principles that have pretty much diffuse throughout all of Agile. So if you want what you think you want from a self-organized team, you're only going to find it and get it by exploring this idea of courage and how you enhance courage. So Confucius, popularly known as Confucius, talked about names. You're going to have disorder under heaven until everything gets their proper name. So what I am suggesting to you is follow Confucius' advice and drop self-organization from your vocabulary. Bodhidharma said, you know, this pursuit of this particular thing, like understanding self-organization, tends not to edification. It's not going to get you anywhere. It's a pointless term to have in your vocabulary. What you should do instead is look at what are the roots of courage? How do we increase and maximize the courage of the people and the team? A number of different kinds of things and they're all existing Agile practices or Agile principles in some form or another. Transparency, make things visible. The notion of big, visible charts was not just for counting progress or measuring progress or giving quantitative information about how the team is doing or what they are doing at any point in time. It's existing to make the tacit implicit. One of the really critically pieces of tacit information, really critical pieces of tacit information that exists in the team is individual contribution to the team effort. I teach. I had been a professor for a long time, now transitioning out of that, but I assign team projects. And guess what? You give a bunch of students a team project and one or two people in the team do all the work and the rest just kind of sit there and watch what's going on. Will anyone come and tell the teacher, no. Does everybody in the team know that information? Could they tell you probably to a decimal point? Who's contributing what percent of the effort to that team thing? Of course they know. One of the things that the anthropologists have studied and have been aware of are forms of reciprocity. And there's this form called balanced reciprocity. It's where everybody contributes in a balanced fashion or that the exchange is fair. Both sides arrange for an exchange that is equally fair. So you get a group of friends that go out to dinner or drinks every Friday night. And different people pay at different times or you split the paycheck at different times. Over a long period of time, six months a year, you could sit down and you could interview each member of that team and they could probably tell you with accuracy less than a dollar who was at a balance in that team. So yes, so and so. They pay their share kind of, but they're about $3.77 in arrears in terms of what everybody else has contributed. We know this stuff. Big visible charts make it overt and explicit in a way that it can't be denied, can't be hidden and where it can have action taken upon it. The Baldrige quality method, this is one of the critical principles of that is this kind of transparency. So if you want to see what, if you want to improve performance, make the performance public. You're not violating any confidentialities. Everybody knows it anyway. You're just making it overt where it can't be ignored. When you do your estimates, do honest estimates, we have a number of different practices that are supposed to get you to some kind of consensus estimate about how difficult or how hard a particular user story is going to be to implement. And the games are designed to force consensus, not accuracy. The only way that you can get accuracy is by paying attention to the person who has the most experience with that specific kind of activity or result that you're seeking that's implicit in that story. So you need to be able to give honest estimates and you can't do fudge factors. This is all in standard agile practices. You're not supposed to use fudge factors. You're supposed to be real numbers so that you can compute ultimately a real team velocity. Same thing when you're doing a budget for your team. It has to be honest and as accurate as you can make it, not in any way fudged or made explicit. The idea of mood walls and retrospectives. These kinds of things need to be taken into conjunction. You need, again, as part of making the implicit, tacit, explicit and overt, you need to have everybody aware that, yes, nobody's happy. That's a kind of a courage and these are tools or techniques for doing it. When you're doing your retrospectives, you can't tell you how many times, there's lots of kudos to go around. There's very seldom much in the way of self criticism when it comes to things that we should do differently or do less of. Not much thought given to experiments. I'm saying this with great trepidation because we have the retrospective guru in the room and she can probably contradict everything I just said but this is my experience. Collective responsibility. The idea or notion that the team is a team. There is no I in team is a good thing up to a point. The team cannot afford if it's going to be as good as it can be. It really cannot afford to have free writers in the team and it can't have people in the team who are resisting the collective efforts of the rest of the team. So it requires courage to confront a fellow team member and say you're just not cut out for Agile, would you please transfer to another team? But that kind of thing is necessary and again it needs to be public and overt. You need to be able to point at the wall and say look, doesn't matter who you pair with, that pair's performance is lower than every other pair in the room, it's got to be your problem. Please do something about it, change yourself, improve yourself or leave. So collective responsibility has its limits and constraints. For the first-end iterations, the stand-up meeting and its formulaic, what did you do? What are you doing? What issues or problems do you have? Really badly abused. I was at one company, we did, I was coaching, trying to train them in Agile and I was coaching four different teams and they were all having stand-up meetings. First of all, they didn't have them in front of the storyboard, they had them around a phone because one of the team members was in Colorado and the rest of the team was in Indianapolis. So they have their little meetings and they go through their ritual three things but the gist of it was well yesterday I met with so-and-so, today I'm going to meet with so-and-so and I have no issues. That was the whole thing, the whole stand-up and every single person reported the same thing. The fact that they were having these meetings constantly meant that there probably were some issues and if you are just starting out as an Agile team and nobody on the team is reporting any issues, somebody is being really dishonest. So for the first-end iterations, I would mandate that even if it makes the meeting go 15 minutes to 5 minutes, if you can't come up with an issue, you can't leave the meeting because they're there, you're just not being honest about them. And then the last thing up there is just say no and you can't delegate this responsibility strictly and solely to the coach. I know that coaches exist to be an interface between you and the big bad ugly world of management and they're the ones that are ultimately supposed to say no to the managers or yes to the managers, I give me this resource because the team needs it but it's not just the coach's responsibility, you all have to have the ability to say no at different times. This should be generalized also to just say no to doing the wrong thing or that we should not as a team be doing this. So I took you in a direction that came to a conclusion that you can't get there with the vocabulary or what you're talking about that probably, well I hope it was really provocative that you're now sitting there really annoyed full of feedback so I'm open for questions, comments, discussion, anything except you can't throw things at me. So yes, yes, yes, you. My answer is yes, perhaps many ideas, one of the same ideas is you. So my question is, have you actually spoken about this group of people in the line? So the comment was that he disagrees which is really cool that in his conversations with coaches and in his experience he has seen self-organization so he will admit that it is difficult but achievable and in fact most coaches would claim that it's achievable and then the implicit or the explicit question in that from that comment was have I done my research and the answer is yes but the research has taken on a little bit of a slightly different kind of a form is that I actually went and looked at these teams that were reported to be self-organized teams and from an outsider's perspective, so I'm not a team member, I'm an outsider's perspective so I am trying to figure out, you know, or trying to see what it is that they're doing. They're reporting, yes we had this kind of self-organized success but what people tell you and what you can see you're not necessarily the same thing. An example, cultural example totally outside of this domain, the, now I just blanked on the name of the culture, anyhow it's a Brazilian primitive culture, the Anomami are considered to be the most, were considered at one time to be the most violent people on the planet, they were constantly at war with each other, constantly fighting a bunch of little small groups out in the Brazilian rainforest and you ask them why are you so violent and they say oh it's because there's a shortage of women that we have to fight constantly in order to acquire women so that we can continue our existence, that if there were more women to go around we would not be so violent. So the anthropologist sits and observes and says oh gee that's you know that this is semi-plausible explanation but why do you practice female infanticide, why do you kill your little girls, why do you allow the men in your tribe that are too old to have children to have multiple wives including the most beautiful second young women in the tribe. So when I look at these self-organizing teams I see something much different, something much more, these are teams that have in fact figured out a way to have the kind of courage to do what they want to do, they have taken responsibility for doing what they want to do. They report that acceptance of responsibility and accountability as being self-organized but it really has nothing to do with self-organization. So I mean the principle, the concept, the idea is it's irrelevant and so I'm not, I'm not saying that you can't get gelled high performance teams you obviously can, but it doesn't come from self-organization, come from something else and if you really want to understand how to replicate that phenomena or how to ensure more teams achieve that kind of state stop talking about self-organization and start talking about things like courage because that's where I believe you will find your answer. Yes. So again I wouldn't say that self-organization is more aligned with different cultures but it is very clear that different cultures have different, different value systems which lead to very different forms of personal interactivity. A very, very simple example, pair programming, a practice, it is supposed to be one of these things that contribute to self-organization, it really doesn't, contributes to communication. Cultural differences in pair programming. There's a very famous published picture of an American male-female pair programming. The male is sitting vertical upright in front of the keyboard and the woman is leaning way over like this. Cultural differences of personal space. She is not comfortable sitting shoulder to shoulder with the guy. You look at two American males pair programming. There will be at least 12 inches between their shoulders. When I was doing a training here in India I saw my very first example of triprogramming. So two males that are sitting shoulder to shoulder swapping the keyboard back and forth. The third one with his arms around both of them controlling the mouse. So that's a cultural difference in the way that the team interacts with each other. And yes, that very definitely exists. Yes, in the... What is that? Do you actually mean or did I interpret right that it's not self-organization is impossible but it cannot be the instrument that it will lead you to your goal or is there impossibility of a goal first and then self-organization next? Or rather it's would courage just resort to self-organization as we call it. You can't aim for self-organization. Yeah, say it again in the microphone so that I don't have to try and recapitulate. So the first is that what I gathered from the thesis is that self-organization is not a possibility as a cause and you attempt it and that itself it can't be the goal and hence you can't attempt it or is it that courage is the cause that or the instrument that will lead you to this end. And as a result of this actual real question is that as you said in a complex adaptive system and the system itself is kind of determined by the context. And would the context from which we gathered a lot of this understanding be different or is it evolving in itself for example in evolutionary biology most of the earlier complex adaptive systems the concept of intelligence was not was has been gradually evolving and in a more intelligent context is this more possible? So I heard two kinds of questions in there. One is about the possibility of having a of a self-organization occurring that produced produce something of value something something of interest and the other one was about the mismatch between the context and the agile teams. The second one is simpler is that agility is very seldom practice at the enterprise level. It's isolated within the IT at best or within a team within IT more commonly and so therefore the team has no effect over the context in which it operates has very little choice or control about how it's going to evolve into some kind of a structure. The other one the the first question is that if in an allopoetic system you can think of that as if I if I put a random number of machine tools into a factory how likely is it that they would spontaneously organize themselves into something capable of producing a car? Not very likely. It is very possible for a system or you know for a set of entities that share common values that are going to have established be able to establish the right kinds of stimulus response structural coupling with each other and with their environment that they would become like a honey beehive only software instead of honey is their product. They will still be self-organized produce honey for their own consumption the fact that the enterprise then finds value in that honey was a total coincidence. You could probably get to the point of having a higher level macro evolution kind of thing that we have a whole bunch of random self-organizing teams that produce really good software really good honey and then introduce competition at that level among these teams such that the teams that are able to produce the sweetest honey are the only ones that get to replicate themselves and all the other teams join the unemployment lines you might get there that way but I doubt that management is going to allow it yes woman in the back wait for the microphone please it's coming. The self-organizing teams are self-organizing organisms I suppose are changing they're adapting and mutating okay then courage seems to be one of the things that changes the structure of the relationship with the environment it's something you put into the change but things like you can't affect your company's hierarchy perhaps you can and self-organization is a way of injecting adding courage into the team and into the whole organization so into the management structure to expect that if I've got a problem and the company's policies are affecting it not allowing me to produce or do something at the right rate that I can have that conversation with you and if you are unable to change that policy you can at least understand the impact on me so we can come to an agreement of another way to approach it so everything is then mutated by adding courage and you have then a different kind of organization that has become a different thing would that work as an alternative to self-organization doesn't work or you can't have it so if you have a team that is that does have courage that can say no that can structure their interactions with their environment and their context in an appropriate fashion you will probably also be part of a team that has a lot of information and data at its disposal so that it's better able to make the right choices the right decisions so that when they say no they say no to the right thing when they say yes they say yes to the right thing if you wish to call a team that has courage and has knowledge a self-organized team I can't prevent you from doing so but I would say that you are violating the understanding so self-organization is a metaphor that was borrowed from other disciplines and applied to our own discipline and in doing so we either have to corrupt the meaning or abandon the metaphor and all I was suggesting today is abandon the metaphor and focus on the things that are really important like how do we have better information how do we have increased courage and if you want to call a self-organization it's not going to hurt anything but it it can mislead your future research when you go and look at well how do we get more of this then you're going back to the metaphor you're saying well how does a biological system get more self-organization or more self-organized and you see those principles that I enumerated and none of them are going to help you but if you say well I'm not looking for self-organization I'm looking for information knowledge and courage which is you know the other the other four values you know the communication and feedback you're going to find your answers to the high performance well gelled well organized well structured team there you're not going to find it by exploring the concept of self-organization you talked about bringing about structural changes to have a meaningful change what are your thoughts on Kanban which talks about an evolutionary approach to change without changing the structure okay please say it again I didn't quite you talked about meaningful change can only happen if we bring about structural changes what are your thoughts on Kanban which talks about evolutionary change without changing the underlying structure so I'm I'm hearing and I'm not sure that I'm hearing correctly the relationship between individual change or discrete changes and structural changes and you know the the complementarity of those is that close to what what you were saying I'm talking about an evolutionary I mean how would you compare and contrast an evolutionary approach as suggested by Kanban to Kaikaku approach like Scrum which brings about a lot of structural changes okay I will have to confess to being puzzled and invite you to talk to me about it afterwards because I'm not sure I can give you an articulate answer right now thank you but but let's don't don't leave the room without talking to me okay yes depending on your culture depending on well your background or your beliefs or your values so um and I think it's also in the eye of the beholder so I'm sort of wondering if transparency exists okay first part of the answer is that yes it absolutely exists because the kinds of things that you were taught to do in the agile community makes you a part of that culture and so you are supposed to be coming to a collective understanding that this card in this place on the wall or this bar on this place on the wall means the same thing so at that level yes transparency exists so if you want to learn something you want to have an input from another another vision and how could you have an input from another vision if you're already in the same line of thought so so enculturation is the question that so they the set of us in this room that put up these big visible charts to us they are absolute transparent to the novice that comes into that context and it wasn't part of building them they are not transparent they are opaque and they're going to take time to learn them and figure them out I do not agree you can read them in another way you can have another interpretation you can have a very good background from another field and they can mean something else which could be a very good value for the existing this is the second part of my answer is that at an absolute epistemological level no there is no such thing as transparency because everything has to be interpreted but for practical reasons it's transparent for absolute epistemological reasons no there is no such thing as transparency which is why I very frequently will make the distinction between representational things and evocative things so those things up on the wall are transparent only because they evoke the same memory in each of us that participated in their construction they do not contain some kind of a truth because if they if they were each of us would have to interpret them and it would be different so you have to make sure that that is really happening yes it's triggering a memory yes and so that's again that's another one of those avenues that I would explore that if I wanted a team that had these characteristics that I am attributing to self-organization as a term I would go and look at how do we how do we establish a common culture how do we establish the same stories and memories and culture you know that kind of cultural background so that we have reason to believe that those things on the wall are transparent because they evoke the same same kind of constant comments time I saw a tease physical from the back of the room so thank you very much

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MPE Masterclass 2022 | Having myeloma or AL amyloidosis while having a job

Christine Bennink, from Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, gives some tips to return to work after a myeloma or AL amyloidosis diagnosis during the MPE Masterclass 2022 held from 1 to 3 July.

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Well, the main topics were that return to work in myeloma patients is even more complex than in other malignant diseases, I think. And this is because of the disease and treatment effects and also the prolonged treatments. And especially in physical demanding jobs that is often difficult to return to work. And also even traveling may be preventing patients to go to return to work. Because traveling may also be very burdensome physically and mentally. We also discussed that myeloma is still an incurable disease and also employers and occupational physicians and even hematologists are often not expecting myeloma patients to return to work. And that means that patients lack proper guidance to return to work and because they're not expected to return to work, where in fact they need specialized guidance to be able to return to work. So that makes it double difficult. An important factor in our discussion was also that returning to work is not only about financial stability or being able to provide an income, but being able to work is also a very important factor in quality of life. So that were, I think, the main topics. Well, it's not in general to say what rights they have because that's different in every country. But you can say that employees are somewhat protected by labor laws, whereas self-employed myeloma patients or temp workers, they are even lacking those who are losing income. So employees are somewhat protected, but groups as self-employed patients and temp workers are even more at risk. And also discuss the importance of work with your doctor and not only when there's a problem with work, but in general talk about your work and the importance of work in your life. And although it's not their field of expertise to guide you and to return to work, they do have referrals to social workers or other return to work specialists that they can refer you to. So they have their network of expertise, even if they're not expert themselves. So do talk with your physician or with nurses about problems or potential problems with work and do not wait until the problems occur. And make sure that doctors, nurses, your employer, your occupational physician are all on the same page regarding your wishes and your needs to return to work. Adapting work to your specific situation as myeloma patient, that is very problematic often. Since myeloma is a specific disease with specific physical problems and also treatment causes several side effects that will make return to work difficult. So it's not always possible for employers to provide alternative tasks. But employees may allow you to work from home if possible or allow you to work in flexible hours or let you take more breaks during your working day and especially that is important in physical demanding jobs and that are facilitating return to work or to reintegrate in a flexible manner. But also not being bound to standard reintegration schedules is important and also allowing patients to plan work and hospital visits in a flexible way is important but that requires hospital cooperation in facilitating treatment planning but also, for example, discussing the decimator zone schedule which is also interfering with your work often. So these are elements that will all help facilitate return to work but for some patients it will stay difficult. Depending on legislation per country for example in the Netherlands often there are good financial arrangements for myeloma patients also when they're not able to return to work at all or especially when they're not able to return to work at all there are good arrangements but that's not the case in any country and also in the Netherlands sometimes patients suffer considerable financial loss but not only that it's also that costs out of pocket costs or costs from treatments make that patients face extra expenditures for example only the hospital visits and the parking costs so it's not only loss of job or loss of income but also additional costs that they're facing and it's not always possible to minimize that but it's the same as I told earlier it's important to address it as early on as possible especially since the prolonged treatments patients are often too late with returning to work and employers are and colleagues are expecting you to not return so it's important to start early on with communicating with employers doctors and colleagues about your wishes regarding work and your expectations about returning to work well there's not just one solution to minimize financial loss but in general it's important to emphasize the important importance of your work with your employer and with your hematologist and so they can be aware for example to treat side effects that will hinder you returning to work but they can also refer you to as I said social workers and provide proper guidance and the earlier the problems are known the sooner things can be done which may prevent unsuited reintegration trajectories or even job loss and especially as I told in self-employed patients it's important that they seek expert guidance since there is no employer to help them and these patients are especially at risk to lose at financial risk and they tend to start working too soon and too much and this may cause stress and even burnout and in some countries there are rehabilitation programs especially for cancer patients and also this may be very good for myeloma patients to attempt these rehabilitation programs it's it's not just about fiscal rehabilitation but it's also finding the right balance in your life and well there are some indications that these programs are very suited also for myeloma patients in helping them to return to work as one patient in the workshop told as an advice to all patients be sure to have a plan B for yourself so try to return to work but be sure to have a plan B because he also said it's very important to deal with job loss he lost his job and but he ensured in every step of his myeloma way that there was always a plan B and that was a very important advice that I would like to pass on to all the patients that that are watching this video

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2017 GMC SIERRA 2500 DENALI CREW SHORT DURAMAX ONYX BLACK 4K WALKAROUND JOSE SPECIAL 14396Z

This 2017 GMC SIERRA 2500 DENALI CREW SHORT DURAMAX DIESEL IN ONYX BLACK CLEARCOAT FOR SALE IN FOND DU LAC OSHKOSH WISCONSIN 54935 is the vehicle we did walk around review of today. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/summitauto?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you for checking out this video of this 2017 GMC SIERRA 2500 DENALI CREW SHORT DURAMAX DIESEL IN ONYX BLACK CLEARCOAT FOR SALE IN FOND DU LAC OSHKOSH WISCONSIN 54935 If I helped you out in any way you can support my knowledge sharing cause with Super Thanks Button Above! ^|^|^|^|^|^|^|^ Remember to like, subscribe and share. https://www.summitautocdjr.com/inventory/used-2017-gmc-sierra-2500-4x4-crew-cab-denali-crew-short-denali-z71-6-6l-diesel-nav-moon-4wd-1-owner-4wd-crew-cab-pickup-1gt12uey8hf114079/ 920-921-0850 STOCK: 14396Z PRICE: $53,999 MILES: 51,747 MAKE: GMC MODEL: SIERRA 2500 VIN: 1GT12UEY8HF114079 PHONE: 920-921-0850 WEBSITE: www.SUMMITAUTO.com & TRUCKSON41.com LOCATION: FOND DU LAC OSHKOSH WISCONSIN, 54937 TRUCKS ON 41 1 OWNER! CLEAN TITLE HISTORY! CLEAN CARFAX!* 6.6 Liter V8 Duramax Diesel, L5P Motor, 445 Horsepower* Full Four Door Crew Cab* Short Box 6 1/2 Foot Shortbox* Short Box 6 1/2 Foot Shortbox* Denali Package* 6 Speed Automatic Allison Transmission with Optional Manual Tap Shift* Turn Dial 4x4 Four Wheel Drive 4WD* Z71 Offroad Suspension Package Z-71* Factory GPS Navigation System* Power Sunroof Moonroof Sun Roof Moon Roof* Reverse Backup Camera Rearview Camera* Onstar System* Blind Spot Monitoring with Rear Cross-Path Detection* Forward Collision Warning System* Lane Departure Warning with Lane Keep Assist* Dual Power Air Conditioned Ventilated and Heated Seats* Black Ebony Leather Seats* Bucket Seats* Memory Driver's Seat* Full Towing Package with Receiver Trailer Hitch, Wiring and Transmission Cooler Tow Package* Factory Brake Controller* Factory Exhaust Brake* LED Side Lights* Power Fold in Power Mirrors with Built-in Directional Signals* Telescopic Tow Power Mirrors* Stabilitrak Traction Control* 3.73 Gears with Automatic Locking Differential Limited Slip Differential* Goodyear Wrangler SR-A LT265/60 R20 Tires* 20 Inch Rims Premium Wheels* Chromed Alloy Rims Premium Wheels* Four Wheel Disc Brakes* Factory Chromed Stepbars* Spray-in Bedliner* Bedrail Covers* Clearance Lights* Fog Lights* HID High Intensity Discharge Headlights* LED Bed Lighting* LED Running Lights* Sonar with Front and Rear Bumper Sensors* EZ Raise Assist Tailgate* Locking Tailgate* Rear Bumper Steps* Chrome Trimmed Grill* Chrome Trimmed Mirrors* Cowl Induction Sport Hood* GMC IntelliLink Touchscreen Radio* AM / FM Radio Tuner* Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Capabilities Sirius / XM* CD Player* Bluetooth, Hands-Free Phone Controls Blue Tooth* Android Auto Compatible* Apple Car Play Compatible* Auxiliary MP3 Jack Portable Audio Connection* USB Jack Portable Audio Connection* Wireless Cell Phone Charge Pad* Keyless Entry with Factory Remote Start* Power Sliding Rear Window Rear Window Defroster* Adjustable Height Seatbelts* Driver and Passenger Front Air Bags* L.A.T.C.H. Child Safety System* Side Curtain Air Bags SRS Safety Restraint System* Heated Steering Wheel Multi-Function Steering Wheel Controls* Homelink System with Three Programmable Buttons for Garage Doors, Lighting Systems & Security Systems* Compass, Outside Temperature Display and Mileage Display* Dual Multi-Zone Climate Control* Power Adjustable Pedals* Factory Floormats* Woodgrain Dash And Door Trim* Air Conditioning AC* Cruise Control* Power Locks* Power Windows* Automatic Headlights Autolamp* Tilt/Telescope Steering Wheel* 110V / 150W Auxiliary Power Outlet* Onyx BlackONE OWNER! CLEAN AUTOCHECK! Very very clean inside and out! This is one of the sharpest 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 crewcab shortbox 3/4 ton diesel trucks on our lot! Make your move before this super clean 4wd is gone!* Call Now! 1-(920)-921-0850 . Check out our Full inventory at www.SUMMITAUTO.com ! Summit Automotive Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin also Proudly Serving Oshkosh, Madison, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Appleton, and Waupun is a family owned and operated dealership since 1959. We take great pride in our new and used car and truck center with vehicles to fit everyone's budget. We have ON THE SPOT FINANCING. BAD CREDIT OR GOOD CREDIT, we work with over 20 lenders to get you APPROVED AT THE MOST COMPETITIVE RATES. We provide AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION and NATIONWIDE DELIVERY OPTIONS. We are conveniently located on HWY 41 at EXIT 98, Hwy 151 at Military Rd. Exit . Just Look For The TRUCKS ON 41. Advertised price does not include, tax, title, registration and service fee.

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Hey, this is Brett and this 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Denali is stock number 14396Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2017 GMC Sierra 2500 has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine. It's paired up with the Allison 6 speed heavy duty automatic transmission. It puts out 445 horsepower. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Super clean all the way around. That's exactly what I'm going to do in this video. Go all the way around inside underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood, show you all the options and give you the most accurate representation that I can of the vehicle. Onyx black clear coast color should all my videos in 4k if you like the video. Subscribe to the YouTube channel, click the bell notifications, get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walk-arounds on YouTube. Stay current on our ever-changing and vast heavy duty truck inventory here at Summit Automotive. This one does come with the 20 inch chrome alloy wheels part of the Denali package and it has Goodyear Wrangler SRA tires. These are LT26560R20s. I would say they have right around 50 to 60% of the tread life, probably a little bit more closer to 60, even a little bit more than that. In the front, frame and underbody. It's a nice shape. This is a one owner clean title history, clean car facts out of New York. Front fender is in fantastic condition. This one does have the HID headlamps, LED running lights, and the factory fog lights. We'll turn all those on at the end of the video so you can see just how bright they are. Get the front bumper parking sensors. No major dents on there. Lower valence looks really good as well and you do get the chrome trimmed grille. This one has the true air induction here, cold air induction. I'll show you how that works at the end of the video. No major dents or dings on that hood and it does have the cab lights up top. Passing your side front fender is in fantastic shape. No dents or dings on there. And the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. Now take note of how clean this paint is and how clean the body is on this truck as we go down this side of the vehicle. This 2017 GMC Sierra 2500. Really nice condition down this side. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down. But you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the truck here, the truck, and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Boy, that paint is just mirror like. His back wheels in really nice shape as well. Back tires have right around 50% of the tread left on them. Maybe just a hair bit less than the front frame and under body. Pretty nice shape. It does have all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been altered in any way. Everything is stock under here. And the underbody looks really good. Lower rockers, cam corners, didn't see any corrosion on them. Does have the nice factory chrome step bars. And once again this passenger side box. No major denser dings in there. Looks really really good. Coming around to the back of the vehicle. Rear bumpers in great shape. It does have the rear bumper steps, backup parking sensors, full towing package which includes a receiver package, four pin and seven pin wiring. The tailgate, very nice and clean. Comes with a very nice spring and bed liner. Beds in really nice shape. It does have LED bed lighting and side box tight ounce. And the spring bed liner goes onto the tailgate, which is a nice feature as well. Going down the driver's side here. Just as nice as that passenger side. Box looks really good. This one does have, and then for full disclosure, this back wheel. Just as nice as the rest. Down the rest of the side of the truck. Cab and doors all look really good. And I didn't see any dense or dings on the doors on this side. Very nice and clean. This one does have the telescopic tomers, LED side lights, built in directional signals. They do telescope out like that. And in like that. Take a quick look at the back seats. They are in really nice condition. No major rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power sliding rear window with the built in rear defrost. These seats fold up. Does come with a set of factory carpet floor mats and a set of weather techs back here. Carpetting is nice and clean underneath. And you do get side corner bags on the front seats. Inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good on this truck. Show you the VIN sticker. No previously owned in Canada trucks here. Then the tire and loading information sticker. Up front the Denali package gives you the black leather bucket seats. There are no rips or tears on these seats. They are in very nice condition. You get the Denali stitched into the headrest there. Seats are in great shape. Weather tech floor mats in the front. And both these front seats are heated cooled and power. Auto headlamps turned out four wheel drive factory brake controller tilt telescopic steering wheel. Power windows locked to mirrors and memory driver seat. Get the wood grain trim on there. Bow sound system. And these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so you know that both sides are working properly. We'll hop inside check out the miles, the radio and everything that this one has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 51,783 miles on it. You do get the digital speedometer. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrapped steering wheel. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Cruise controls and information center controls. I'm sorry cruise controls and forward collision warning controls on the left and your heated steering wheel controls. Has audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. This one does come with the Allison six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. It does come with the GMC and telelink radio. There is highway 41 so that is working nicely on the navigation system there. You also have AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. This one does have projection where you can project your cell phone to the screen and you get all these other different apps right there. Down here your more tactile volume tune and climate controls including the CD player. Dual climate controls there. Heated and cooled seat buttons. Power pedals. Stability control that's for your cargo lamps. That's also how you turn on the LED side lights in the mirrors as well as the LED bed lights. Parking sensors. Lane departure warning. Downhill assist control and your factory exhaust brake. You get two usb's to 12 volt power points and 115 volt, I'm sorry 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in. This one does have the wireless cell phone charge pad which is a really nice feature. And the past new side glove boxes floor mat and seat are all in really nice condition. Smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's been smoked in and the headliner is in great shape. You do get the power sunroof on this one. Up here you get home link buttons for your garage door security systems, lane systems, map lights and your power sliding rear window and sunroof controls. Onstar and SOS buttons in the mirror. Let's start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition and options and of course cleanliness of this truck. There your LED side lights they are very bright and working nicely. And there your HID headlamps, LED running lights and factoring fog lights. All of those are working nicely as well and those HID headlamps are very bright. And under the hood we have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel engine engine day. It is very clean. Runs very smooth and once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. This truck is 100% ready to go. Really nice condition. There is the emissions sticker. That air comes in the cull there down the side into the air cleaner and that's how that hood scoop works. And I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and conditions standpoint. I think whoever's going to get this one's going to be very happy with it. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new new cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it. We got to go to the website right there. Summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at Summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Click the bell notifications to get updates in the videos I do each and every day. As well as having access to one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and heavy duty truck walk-arounds on YouTube and stay current on our ever-changing and vast heavy duty truck inventory so you do not miss out on gems like this one. I'm sure this one's going to go very fast. In fact any second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel in the upper left. A link to all the GMC-CR 2500 truck videos I've ever done in the upper right. A link to this vehicle on our website lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos on lower right. Click those, check us out. We're super excited to help you with this ultra clean. 2017 GMC-CR 2500 Crew Cab Short Box to Nali in Onyx Blacklear Co. Thank you so much for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on the YouTube channel. I really appreciate it. Thanks and have a great day.

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SIG Instrumentation: Intro, Deep Dive and Recent... - Mengjiao Liu & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava

SIG 仪器仪表：介绍、深入探讨和最新发展 | SIG Instrumentation: Intro, Deep Dive and Recent Developments - Mengjiao Liu, DaoCloud & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation 负责确保整个 Kubernetes 项目中高质量和一致的仪表化。了解我们如何确保 Kubernetes 项目中的统一仪表化。深入了解我们过去和当前的计划，包括分布式跟踪的进展，以及我们在将跟踪与日志和指标相关联方面的工作。我们最近的工作是通过结构化和上下文日志记录使 Kubernetes 发出可解析的日志。我们将尝试提供有关如何有效利用原生 Kubernetes instrumentation 来调试您的集群的见解，而且我们也将提供有关如何积极贡献我们的 SIG 的指导。参加本次会议，了解更多关于如何参与 SIG Instrumentation 的信息，以及如何贡献的指引。 Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation is responsible for ensuring high quality and consistent instrumentation across the Kubernetes project. Discover how we ensure uniform instrumentation throughout the Kubernetes project. Gain valuable insights into our past and current initiatives, including advancements in distributed tracing and our work on correlating traces with logs and metrics. Our recent work in making Kubernetes emiting parsable logs with the help of structured and contextual logging. We'll try to give insights on how to effectively leverage native Kubernetes instrumentation to debug your clusters, but we will also provide guidance on how you can actively contribute to our SIG. Join this session to learn more about how to get involved in SIG Instrumentation and get some pointers to get started with contributions.

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Hello 大家好欢迎大家来听这次的演示我们演示的主题是Sake InstrumentationIntral Deep Dive and Recent Development就是instrumentation这个Sake的深入探讨以及最近的发展然后这次演讲人是我刘孟娇的旁边这位十碗书然后这是关于我们然后我是刘孟娇来自Doclode然后一直工作在对KBUS的贡献方向是Sake Instrumentation和文档方向现在是Sake Instrumentation的神乐者以及Sake Dolls的神乐者和中文本地画的Owner下面是我的BitHub地址和Twitter大家有问题的话可以直接通过这两种方式找到我然后旁边是我的CodeSpeaker十碗书这是我们的一题主要分为这四个部分第一部分我会介绍一下Sake Instrumentation是什么第二部分是它包含的子项目第三部分是它最近的发展以及第四部分是怎么样去贡献以及怎么参与什么是Sake InstrumentationSake Instrumentation在中文翻译上Instrumentation不太好用中文翻译然后在翻译程仪器一表是不太准确的用一个词它可能就是用检测或者说是检测一个集群的状态的变化的一系列的工具都可以称为Sake Instrumentation这个Sake的范畴是包含日治 事件Mitrace以及追踪都在Sake Instrumentation的范畴内它包含的子项目是Cubos States Mitrex K-LogMitrex ServerCubos States Mitrex Collector有很多然后下面的章节我们也会介绍它的一些子项目How do we do it?我们怎么来运行或者维护这个子项目的主要我们平常的工作是分类和修复相关的Instrumentation的一些如果你发生了一些问题就是关于日治指标或者事件的然后在K8S的一锈上提出你的问题然后我们发现了这个提出的问题之后会进行相应的修复然后这个是Sake Instrumentation属于Sake Instrumentation的一些一锈的链接可以点去看一下然后还有一些PR第二部分是审约提出的代码关于Mitrex Log Events and Trace第三部分是开发新的功能然后开发功能的流程是在都遵循K8S的KEP的流程第四部分是维护和支持子项目因为Sake Instrumentation刚才我们也提到了它有非常多的子项目所以维护这些子项目也是它的职责之一第五部分就是直到新的贡献者去参与新的贡献让这个Sake能够一直保持活力下面的话我会介绍一下Sake的子项目Sake的子项目因为有很多所以这里我们选了一些比较有重要的大家可能平常比较熟悉的一些项目来进行介绍主要有KLOG,Coup of States,Mitrex,Mitrex Server,Holomex,Use Adapter,UseMitrex Collector现在我们看到的是KLOGKLOG库的话如果是作为K8S的开发者或者是作为K8S集群的运萎者可能会比较熟悉一点因为平常我们排账我们都会用到日治来进行日治的排查KLOG库是Folk的GLOG因为K8S需要的日治库需要它自己定义的一些功能但是GLOG开发不是很积极所以他们Folk出来了KLOG来支持很多K8S需要的一些日治的功能在下面我们讲到的上下文日治以及结构话日治中使用的库就是KLOG库在后续的章节我们会让石碗书详细介绍一下相关的内容这个是库Bus States Mitrex库这个库我感觉大家应该会比较熟悉一些因为如果我们想要监测K8S内部的资源的话我们一般都会用到这个库Bus States Mitrex然后比如说我们要收集PoE的是否启动然后PoE的Deployment是否它的复本数有几个是否运营成功的话都会使用库Bus States Mitrex然后来暴露出来它的指标它暴露出来指标格式就是和普罗米修斯格式的可以跟我们普罗米修斯去抓取左侧是库Bus States Mitrex和K8S APS Solar以及普罗米修斯的一个交互基本上是上面一个流程库Bus States Mitrex会List WatchAPS Solar当发现一些资源发生状态改变的时候它会进行相应的计算然后普罗米修斯可以从中抓取它暴露出来的接口就是我们平常的高Metrex这个APS这是它的视力基本上如果你访问8080-Metrex接口你可以看到下面的视力是符合普罗米修斯格式的Metrex SolarMetrex Solar主要是用于自动扩展自动扩展用的然后它主要的服务对象是Cuba Control Top和HPA以及VPAHPA就是水平扩展VPA就是垂直扩展然后因为平常如果我们想要看比如说一个POD或者Note它使用了多少CPU和内存排第一的是谁谁就是用的资源非常的多然后导致集群或者是Note的节点非常的资源不足导致什么问题的时候我们可以用Cuba Control Top来进行看一下的时候我们如果你没有安装Metrex Solar那么这时候APS Solar会给你发挥一条日日告诉你需要安装Metrex Solar如果你安装了已经安装了它那么它就会将Metrex这个API重调度到Metrex Solar它的应用中KBS APS Solar本身是不实现具体的逻辑的然后Metrex Solar它会使用Metrex Gaunt Results这个and the pointer去从Cuba Light去调用你去调用就是比如说CPU和内存的一些数据然后在它本身去进行存储OK下面这个是Prolomix AdapterProlomix Adapter其实和Metrex Solar有一定的相似之处但它俩的不同可能是Metrex Solar主要集中的是CPU和内存这两个指标如果你想要自定义更多的指标就是可能你自己的应用需要的是其他的指标的话那么Metrex Solar就不能满足这个需要了那我们可以使用Prolomix Adapter进行一个自定义我们可以看到从这个价格图上可以看到它跟Metrex Solar的区别就是相当于是它在Prolomix修斯中间加了一个Adapter做了一个Cuba Saps Solar和Prolomix修斯之间的一个适配器Prolomix修斯可以从各种各样的途径获得从Po的Node获得指标之后然后可以供可以把Prolomix修斯Adapter进行数据转化之后然后再供Aps Solar来使用USH Metrex Collector这个仓库是今年新加的这是它的仓库地址现在它也是处于在开发之中它主要的是计算一些计算量比较高的一些数据比如说P95P50P99这种的因为它的计算量比较高它可以在这个数据库这个应用本身进行计算然后根据计算出来的结果在定期的推送到推送到Prolomix修斯从从这个视力图我们可以看一下就是它还有一个优点就是我们平常如果使用过Prolomix修斯的人都知道Prolomix修斯QL其实是对初学者来讲是我感觉是稍微有一点点难入门的然后它的各种各种的方程式还是比较难记的如果这个库的话就你只需要修改一些压某然后它就会相当给你计算就不用你增加你学习Prolomix修斯ProlomixQL的成本然后它的输出结果我们也可以看到就是也是遵循Prolomix修斯的这个格式的它会进行各种的组合来计算然后Metrex这部分的话子项目的库就结束完毕了然后下一部分是最近的发展这一部分最近的发展的话我们就是分为基本上分为三大部分吧Metrex日治以及追踪Metrex这部分由我来介绍一下Metrex Stability也就是指标的稳定性如果我们作为一个K8S集讯管理员可能会遇到一个问题就是K8S有很多组件然后每个组件又有很多的指标但是在之前我们是没有一个地方能够查询到它有哪些指标的只能够是比如说你运行了一个K8S集讯然后你去实际的访问它的端口然后访问它的GalMetrex的端口然后去看一下是否有这个指标当它还有一个问题就是如果说开发者觉得之前的指标从名称有问题或者需要添加新的Label的情况下可能会去修改这个指标的指标的名称以及Label但这时候作为下游的使用者可能就会觉得我发现不了我之前使用的指标了然后造成了图物的中断或者什么的就会很麻烦之前是没有这样一个机制来保证的所以就是为了应对上面我提出的两个问题遇到的两个问题所以就是出现了这个Initial Maintenance提出了这个扩展Metrex稳定性的这样一个功能也就是说我们会把会扩展Metrex的稳定性让它基本上也遵循一个升级的流程就是RF2 BetaStable让开发者和使用者都能够意识到这个指标到底属于什么样的级别对它的信任级别有多少然后还有就是增加了一个自动生存的文档在每次版本发布之后都会生成新的对应的版本的Metrex参考文档然后在K8的光可以看到稍后我们可以看一下它是什么样的然后它现在的这个增强功能的状态是它是1.26被引入的然后1.27进入Beta1.28的话就达到了Stable的状态也就是这个还是推进的比较快的一个然后现在的话我们看一下它具体的稳定性氛围的级别它氛围四类级别Internal和Alpha基本上可以算同一级别的然后之后是Beta和StableInternal和Alpha的区别主要就是Internal主要是用来说明一些不太好形容的不符合特性功能的那种状态的这样一个指标但是其实这部分指标在K8S的那个代码里面其实是很少的只有CII的一个指标反正就是为了让为了有一些指标不好形容的就加到这个Internal但是实际上是很少使用的然后基本上都是如果你新加了一个Metrex的话基本上就是Alpha级别Alpha级别的话它没有任何的稳定性保障就是K8S可以随时的删除以及废弃Metrex但是这个也是可以在Metrex的参考文档中找到的但是Internal是不会在K8S官网可以查寻不到Beta的话是有一定性的稳定性保障如果你需要你需要一个发布的时间段或者更多的时间段让用户能够知道这个事情它会有一个前向兼容性就是这个Level你可以只能添加Level你不能移除它然后它也会包含在Metrex Reference文档里然后下一个级别就是经过了比如说一两个版本的迭代我们发现这个指标已经非常稳定了那么我把它升级为Stable它有这个稳定性的保障它会遵循一个弃用的策略如果你想要弃用它你必须要经过12个月或者3个发布版本的时间才能够移除它而且在它的弃用期间或者说它的稳定性的期间你是不可能不可以改变它的Level也不可以改变它的名称的Alpha, Beta, and Stable现在都可以在KBS官网里查询这是一个截图关于KBS官网就是Metrex Reference参考的一个截图就是在上面你可以看到它的级别类型Level以及它的简短的描述Metrex的部分基本上到这下面的是Logs and Trace的部分然后有我的Cosmica试完书来进行介绍所以我会谈谈我们怎么做以及我们现在的设计程序如果我们谈谈未来的观众这不是人们的体系这就是自己的技术如果有什么错这是我们需要的设计程序所以我们可以谈谈LogsEvent Stresses然后有设计程序所以我们知道是否有错的所以我们的努力在设计程序是让Logs更加合适基本上发展Logs自己的技术在设计程序就在Logs自己的技术在设计程序在设计程序by introducing new K-LOG methodsthat could generate structured logs in KubernetesSo in upstream Kubernetes codewe use K-LOG as logging librarySo we made some changes thereso that we can have structured and contextual logssimplifying ingestion of logsso when if you are managing your Kubernetes on your ownthen ingestion of kubelet, kubepair server, kubeproxy logs is a taskso how we can make the ingestionso that's where we introduce json formatso non-goals where we are not changing the legacy logging libraryin Kubernetes K-LOGwe have made some enhancement thereso that we can have the structured and contextual logsso this is how it looks likeso we have a message and a key value pairso that you can parse the logsyou don't have to parse on your ownby using a parser it's just a structured logso you can filter out bases on attributeswhat resource it is and everythingthat comes in the structured formatimplementation details around the structured logging involvesthe log message structuredefining the log message structure itselfreferencing two different Kubernetes objectsintroducing the json formatand logging configurationthe performance how it is impacting the overall performance of Kubernetesat scaleand what are the migration detailsthat upstream Kubernetes contributor needs to take care ofwhen they are writing new codeor maybe making changes in the legacy codeso to give an examplethis is howyou can reference a Kubernetes K objectso you don't have towrite the name of thecubinities object itselfyou can just use thelibraries that we have created inside klogso that you can referencecubinities native objectsjust like thisso for exampleifyou are logging cube dnsyou just have to parsethe cube dns referencein the k object referenceand it would give you the name spaced object in this waysimilarly if theobject is non name spacedit would give the complete namefor example in the cluster it's given hereand the output fornamespace and namespace would be something like thisand if we try to take a look at the complete log messageit would be key value pairswhich you canif you are looking a log collectionlog collection agentyou can filter based on of the key value pairsand you can embedcustom keysso for exampleif you are writing a custom controlleror you are extending Kubernetesyou can haveyour own structand you can embed the destruct in thestructured logso this is how a requestcan be embedded insidethe structuredkeylog objectand essentiallyin the info sand all the otherloggingfunction that is availablesoto enablestructured loggingand contextual loggingyou just have to configure logging formatby default it's text basedso if you are upgradingcubinities to1.24and onwardsthere is no changeonly thing thatwill bring the changesconfiguring thislogging formatflagand if you put that to jsonit will give you a structured andconnected logsthis is some basicperformance that we didin wgstructured loggingso info simplementation takesis around 9% slowerthan the text basedimplementationwhich is I think acceptablegiven the advantageof using a logcollection agenton top of itand the cpu performanceisoverallit takes2% of the overall cputhat is allocatedtocubinitiesloggingso that is alsoan acceptable matrixin terms ofconsumptionswe went GAin 1.27and we introducedthe structuredlogging first timein 1.19as alphaand most of the componentshave been migratedtodayand the remainingcomponentsaregetting migratedto contextuallogging directlyand let'salso talka little bitabout contextualloggingso the ideais toif thegiven codeishave a structurein whichevery leavesis differentin a waybutif you wantcorrelation betweenthe mainand the child threadsand you want correlationbetween the child threadsyou may wantto havecontextualloggingimplementationtherein that wayyou cancorrelatethecurrenthow therequest isgetting spansarounddifferent methodsfrom the parentto the childand thenthe subsequentchildso this is howyou haveto remainthe contextfrom the mainthreadto the childthreadsthis isand that'swhere thecontextualloggingis importantso the waywe do itwepass theparent contextto the childand thenthe subsequent childso thateveryleafnodehasitsowncontextso whiledebuggingyoucancorrelatewhichparticularthreadit'scomingfromwe madesome changesinthekiloglibraryitselfso thatit'seasiertoforfordevelopersto usethe existinglibrariesweintroducedfromcontextbackgroundandto doso thatyou cancreatenewcontextoruseparentcontextso this ishowafromcontextlooklikesitcantakethecontextfromtheparentbackgroundcangiveyouanewcontextforififit'sparentandyesso thisishowyoucanattachallthecontextforcontextureloggingweintroduceit'sand againonedottwofourasalphaandwewentbetainonedottwoateandcubecontrollermanagercubeshutterareother components are being convertedso if you are a contributorpleasefeel free to open up herefor traceswe have introducedAPS server tracingand cubelet tracingand they are bothbeta inone dottwosevensoif you can have tracingin a yeager formator you can also configureit to emit as logsso this isthe formatoutput when itwhen you emit the tracinginformation in logsand this is howcubeAPS servertracing would look likeso you can see thetransition happeningfrom the APS serverand thenthe span isspend aroundatcdfromand the totalduration it tookand the duration it tookin theatcdwe have a demoforAPS server tracingwe will come to thatsowe have added supportforAPS server tracingand cubelet tracingand this is importantso thatso for exampleif you are runningcubenitiesat a scaleandfor some reasonyour applicationisresponsesgetting slowsobut you don't knowif this isactualthe applicationproblemorcubeAPS serveris gettingthrottleandthe problemis atcubeAPS serverso if you havetracing informationavailable atcubeAPS serverand you havetracing informationavailable foryour applicationyou canfigure outif it'sthe infrastructureproblemor applicationproblemso I would liketogive youa demoaround thissoyou know喂啊嗯上面那個那個十萬數十萬數是講了一下那個APSAPSAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPScubeAPS怎麼在k8s裡面就是這個是怎麼一個流程ok就是k8sk8stestintincreation這個測試裡面是有測試怎麼去調度這個調度APItracing的在它的交互測試裡面我們可以看到兩個文件一個是tracing testgo和那個ETCDgo我們我們需要修改一下這個這兩個文件嗯就是我們需要修改的一航在這個地方就是它的endpoint因為我們需要有一個接收這個因為等於我們的demo是需要把數據發送到yagerUI上所以就是我們把這個它的地址改成我們本地的4317這個地址然後在ETCD的話我們需要改的是ETCD的話追蹤還不是它的那個默認的功能所以需要加一個你加這三個flex去讓它ETCD來啟用追蹤相當於是在本地測試一下我們需要在本地就是你可以用dalker啟動一下那個yager因為我已經安裝過了所以就是所以的話已經運行的本地了我可以給大家看一下我的那個需要安裝的那個YAMO的文檔大家如果想要去安裝一下yager的話可以直接去它的那個官網然後它會給你直接有一個安裝的YAMO然後現在的話大家直接可以看一下它就是用dalker運行了一個yager然後一些一些flag的一些一些環境變量的聲明基本上就可以了暴露的端口如果你安裝yager安裝成功的話你會在你的本地的16686這個接口上看到一個這種UI現在的話我們已經修改了就是K8SK8S的一個測試的文件現在的話我們只需要去運行一下它就可以了我們需要大概等一分鐘不到一分鐘然後讓它就是輸出一下一個運行結果基本上我們如果等會運行命令成功的話它看到的就是剛才十萬數上面兩張ppt演講就是展示的那張圖然後它整個是服務數據從數據從APS-O到達ETCD的這個一個追蹤的一個圖現在我們已經能看到日治了然後現在我們再到這個UI上來看一下它的OK我們可以把這個時間確定一下最近五分鐘的比如說以這個這個為例吧基本上它就是這個樣子的一個流程圖如果假如說你的應用出現了一個非常阻塞的問題然後它的這個時間啊什麼的就會可以讓你有一個直觀的展示出來你哪一個鏈路出了問題API Tracing這個功能還是在不斷的因為剛才我們也能看的在1.2的時候它只有幾個SPAN以及就是加的不是很多在1.26的時候已經新加了很多現在它還在不斷的發展在其他的組件在以後也會加上API Tracing加上那個Tracing的功能演示的話基本上是這樣大家可以就是如果如果作為開發者有興趣的話可以自己去試一下好的最後一部分是我們的Guide Invoid就是怎麼去參與怎麼去參與K8S的貢獻以及怎麼去參與Seg Intrubmentation這個貢獻你可以就是加入我們的Seg Intrubmentation這個Slike然後如果有任何問題可以在上面進行回答第二個就是可以參與我們的周會它的周會時間對於對於我們對於中國可能不是特別的早就是它可能是晚上12點但是它是它是每周都有一個會議但是它是輪著的一周是那個Seg的會議如果你有任何的建議或者想討論的可以寫在文檔上進行討論然後第二周是那個Track會就是會看一下是否有一些依秀或者PR需要去reveal需要去解決的然後會進行在這會議上會進行一個討論以及分配還可以訂閱我們的郵件組列表以及參與審閱依秀以及文檔最後的話就是如果你想要參與Seg implementation的一些功能的話可以就是點擊這個鏈接看一下它現在有哪些功能以及未來會做哪些功能都可以進行參與和參與就是還有最後一點就我講的是我們就是非常非常歡迎有更多的貢獻者來為Seg implementation做出貢獻而且如果你想要去貢獻做一個開發者的話我覺得Seg implementation也是一個非常好的開始因為它是跨越所有的KPA-S的組件和Seg的因為每個組件都需要日治追蹤和事件所以你可以通過日治通過Seg implementation作為你出事的起點然後再去深入瞭解其他組件而且我做其他的審閱者和Menten也是非常熱情地去歡迎大家去來加入我們OK基本上我們的演講就到所謂到此結束了然後大家有什麼問題嗎Thank you everyoneThank you for comingYeah, thank you for sharing說中文吧Can I speak Chinese?Yeah就是我如果想加一個指標的話就比如那個村市裡面我想加一個指標的話我應該怎麼做呢你加一個指標的因為那個KPA-S相當於它有一個Stage下面的有一個Mitrex就是它那個目錄下相當於有一個指標庫然後你可以直接遵循這個規範直接加就可以了當然是直接註冊一下就跟你使用自己就是你如果單獨的一個組件註冊到普羅米修的基本上沒有什麼太大的差別就是已經提供了一個庫然後你直接可以參考實力就可以添加進去但是你要遵循就比如我們剛才講的那個Mitrex的規範然後比如說就是它是什麼級別它的描述什麼的就遵循一下規範就可以了就基本上一致的OK OK OKAny more questions?And be useful other projectsin CSF or any otherYeah, so KLOG is made on top of SLOGLibertySo it's kind of enhanced SLOGdesigned for KubernetesSo I think I would say it's designed for KubernetesBut if anything which is kind of very correlatedwith Kubernetes and its componentsIt can be used for them as well如果大家沒有其他問題的話那我們的演講就結束了謝謝大家

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Hello everybody. Welcome to my channel. It's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting. Last few days I spent with organizing and moving furniture in my craft room. And I'm far away from to be finished. I still have lots of things to organize. And right now I'm inserting my stamps and I was thinking maybe we can do some craft together. So I'm gonna swap my camera, move to my table and maybe we will do something beautiful. So right now I am digging in my Tim Holtz stamps. And I was thinking I didn't use them for a very long time. And to be honest I never did kind of longer video with stamping. So I do have here this very, very cheap mini notepad. And I use that notepad few times to add these papers into my journals. And today I was thinking how about if that rest I will turn into mini something. Maybe just stamped book probably. So that's what I will work today. It does have really very fragile cover. It does have very fragile papers. These papers are from very light paper. These sheets are from very light paper. So it's nothing strong. And I will probably use also the glue to glue them sometimes together. And I will use those Tim Holtz stamps. And I would like to show you few techniques I learned. I'm not using them often because I'm still not very strong with my stamping. But I'm learning. My son Jacob, he loves stamps. He sometimes is crafting with me and he's amazing with stamping and I'm learning from him. So those techniques which I am trying to show him, he is then kind of teaching me how to do it properly. Or how to do my stamping properly. Because mostly I do all kinds of smushes all around. And he told me that I am too hard on my stamps. That I press too much or I move my hands while I am stamping. And that's not good and it's really funny that I do share those techniques with him and then he's teaching me. So today I would like to show you few techniques and maybe create something really beautiful from this cheap notepad. First technique will be semi-transparent stamping. Kind of like layering stamping. I'm not sure about exact words but we will use stamps. We will use clear embossing powder and create kind of like see-through page. For background stamping I'm gonna use this beautiful stamp. This is Papillon collection. I do believe it's very old collection. For that background stamping I'm gonna use Ice Spruce Distress Ink. Because I would like to use clear embossing powder. I'm gonna use this anti-static pillow. It does have anti-static powder inside and it's perfect when you need to make sure that your background paper will don't catch any embossing powder where you don't want to have it. So I dabbed that anti-static powder on it. I'm gonna use this beautiful butterfly and for my embossing effect I'm gonna use this stamp and dose. This is clear embossing ink in the bottle. I have to say that I am using this one now the most often. Because I found it very easy to use, always juicy. And now clear embossing powder. And because I did use that anti-static powder this embossing powder should get stick only on these butterflies. I'm gonna use my heating tool and melt that embossing powder. And as you can see that embossing powder got melted. And if I will leave those papers you will see that these butterflies got kind of like semi-transparent look. And it's just because those papers are very light and once that embossing powder is melted through that paper it does get this semi-transparent look and that's perfect. I do have in this bottle mix of Distress Ink. I have used Teedye Distress Ink. And I think I used also Ground Espresso a little bit, quite a lot. And I mix it with water. These two Distress Ink Reinkers or Inks. So I'm gonna spray that. And now with cloth I'm gonna take off here and there that water but not all of it. And I'm gonna dry the rest again with my heating tool. So it's dry now and on the opposite side I will use Distress Ink Broken China. And just with full ink pad I'm gonna kind of slide that ink pad very softly. I'm not pressing too much, just very softly. And again I will use my mix of Teedye Ink and do exactly same like before. So this is how it looks like now. I do have that semi-transparent look. I do have there also blue color in those butterflies just because it's semi-transparent and from that opposite side when I slide it, when I slide that Distress Ink pad it left here and there some kind of ink so it does have those colors see through. And my paper get loose a little bit so I'm gonna just rip it off and place it over there. I will put them together once I will have more papers finished. And because this clear embossing powder make this semi-transparent technique I'm gonna show you also another technique how you can do from very cheap paper kind of like fake vellum look. But first I'm gonna stamp a little bit that paper. I'm gonna be using another stamp from Tim Holtz and do some stamping. So I did my easy stamping and I also Distress that page with Ground Espresso. I'm gonna rip it off straight away because for this technique I need to have just this sheet and I'm gonna be using this Fragrant Wax, Fragrant Wax. It's this one fresh linen and it is for refreshing grooms. But you can use candle, you can use any kind of paraffin. I wouldn't recommend to use baby oil which I heard many times that ladies are using for this technique baby oil. I wouldn't recommend that because baby oil doesn't get dry. It will keep your paper still oily and it will also kind of move that oily greasy feeling on another paper so I wouldn't recommend any kind of oil. The wax, bee wax, these paraffins, candles or furniture wax these are perfect because they do dry and you can just wipe any kind of excess with the cloth and your paper will be clean and dry. So I'm gonna use these. First I'm gonna wipe a little bit on my paper and I will be using heating tool to melt that wax on that paper. If you don't have a heating tool just preheat your oven, wipe a candle or this Fragrant Wax on the paper and place the paper in your oven and that wax will get melted. To spread that wax evenly I'm gonna be using this brush which I am using all the time for my, for this folks volume technique. I'm gonna just spread that wax on my paper and I will also kind of wax the other side as well. Once you have that wax on all of your paper you just need to take some cloth and wipe any kind of extras from your paper that will also bring more transparency to your paper. And it's better to stamp it before this technique because then that stamping is permanent. Yeah it's permanent, it's the right one, it's permanent. So any kind of extras and I do have my second page and if I will place them together you can see a little bit those butterflies underneath. But because I would like to have their more visible page I'm gonna take another paper and do another stamping and because I am in that blue brown color I'm gonna be stamping first with that light blue. So it will be just that background and now I'm gonna stamp over it with this espresso truffle memento. And I do have kind of like an offset, I think it's the right word, that I didn't place the stamp exactly so I do have kind of like shadow behind. So I did all my stamping, I also sprayed the paper with my mixture and I used also that broken china distress ink for this paper. And I'm gonna take another one and this time I will use stencil, this is a stencil from Studio Light and the name is MaskMB02. I will put all names down below for all stamps and stencils. So I'm gonna be doing kind of like stamp in stencil. So first I'm gonna apply ink. So for this technique I'm gonna keep that stencil and paper as they are now. I'm gonna take a stamp and stamp through the stencil. Now when I do have that stamping down I'm gonna take my stencil out of it and I do have stamping and stenciling at the same point. I'm gonna flip it over, place my stencil back and just with brush to kind of like, you know, brush off all that ink in the background of this paper. Now I'm gonna take my inks and just, oops, just easily wipe that ink on the edges and I can use my spray and kind of match all these papers together and dry it with my heating tool. I do have here another paper and for next technique I would like to use the stamp and gold foil. This is foil for hot foiling. So it's very soft and it's easy to transfer that foil. And I'm gonna use strong PVA glue. This one is a really good one and this dabbing tool. I'm gonna add a little bit of that glue on my dabbing tool or distressing tool and it's good if you will have prepared something that you will immediately clean your stamp because this depends on glue which you will be using. This one it dries very fast and I don't wanna mess up my stamps. So I'm gonna add the glue on my distressing tool and I'm gonna dab, dab, dab, dab, dab that glue on that stamp, the stamp on paper. Do not stay there for a long time otherwise you will transfer the paper on your stamp. Then take the foil and place it over that glue nicely. So I'm gonna clean my stamp and clean my table and also wipe out a little bit of that glue from this one. Then take your foam folder and try to press the foil where you put your stamp. Here is quite intricate stamp so I hope it will transfer nicely. And we're gonna give it a try. And I do have golden gold foil ink. I know it's kind of distressed but for my vintage look it's perfect. And now I can stamp around and do some spraying to kind of match it all together. So I have made few more papers and I also glued two papers together and then folded them to some kind of base pocket and then did stamping. I do have this way four of them, always double layer folded and some stamping all around. And I do have here also double layer of paper and some stamping on it and I will create another pocket. I like to use my sewing machine so I will add there some sewing here and there. And then we will move to the cover. So before I will put together these pockets I would like to go one more time back to that gold foil. I'm gonna take glue stick and I just wanna try if that glue stick will also hold somehow that gold foil. So I place that glue stick here and there, not evenly. And I'm gonna cover this paper with that gold foil. Well I do believe it will work. Look at that. Good. I'm gonna let this dry and I'm gonna take my pockets. So I do have these two, these two and this one. So this way. And I would like to create closure. Today I'm gonna take as a closure these beautiful buttons, sorry for my hands, that's my stamping everywhere. I would like to take these beautiful buttons and kind of use them as a closure on my pockets. And for that I'm gonna take just paper punch and cut the circles. So from cardstock, from some old craft envelope, that heavy one. I cut one inch circles and I already sewn one button to that circle. On the one button I will leave long string that will be as a closure. The string which I used for sewing that button to that cardstock. And that I will glue on the top of my paper. The other one I will sew just very easy way. So I'm gonna take that one which does have string and I'm gonna go right here. The other one I'm gonna glue on the bottom. That will create closure for my pocket or for that booklet or something. Same way I will create those closures on those other pockets. So I do have sewn the buttons, I also glued them on these pockets and the pockets I glued on these three sides to the background paper. So that way I do have opening here, it will be like side pocket. I can open these totally so it can be like writing spot or like another holder or pocket. This is exactly same. Here I do have bottom pocket which I will sewn onto this paper with my sewing machine. And this I do have prepared once I will sewn this as a flap with my sewing machine like this. I can now take my prepared closure, put that glue on that bottom circle and glue it on the right spot so I will match that bottom circle. This one with the top one on the kind of right spot to find the right spot and then I can close my pocket. And here I do have these two last two folded papers and I would like to use them as a pocket. So first I'm gonna sew these two sides on each of them like this. And before I will glue them on my paper, I'm gonna put weight on the flaps so these flaps will hold down. And for that I'm gonna grab my paper where I put that gold foil. I already ripped that gold foil from that paper so you can see how it looks like and I really like that. I'm gonna use again broken china and my mixture. I do have my strip of paper color a little bit more than those address but it's still very fragile paper and I would like to use dies. I would like to use these dies from some pool. These are creative expression. Graph dies by some pool. Here is maybe some... Shabby basics. Whale tail tuck I guess. And I'm gonna use these two dies and cut these shapes. So for that to make it a little bit more stronger I'm gonna glue it on another paper and make a little bit more thicker paper from this one then I will use those dies. So I do have here my little collection and I really love the look of these. Look at that. That golden stripes, that golden imperfection makes that perfect. So I'm gonna grab these tap pools or I'm not sure how to call them and I will glue them right on the edge of these pockets and I also used this is die from Elizabeth Graph dies and this is from collection 1736 Reinforcement Variety Pack. It's from Planners Essentials. Elizabeth Graph dies. Wonderful collection of those Reinforcement kind of Holore Reinforcement. I do have these taps fixed on the edges of these two pockets. I also put two taps on the papers on the sides and those smaller Reinforcement I placed like decoration here and also here and here and here. You know on spots. Now I'm gonna use my Gropo Dial, push the holes in those Reinforcement and where there are holes here in those taps I'm gonna fix an eyelet. So I do have fixed eyelets and on these eyelets I will probably just hang some decorations. I've got here these stars. So maybe, oh yeah, maybe stars. Do I have more? I think I do. What I was thinking I do have here is these stamped circles but I do love those stars a little bit more. So I'm just gonna hang them there. And yeah, I think that will be cool. So I do have my pockets and I'm gonna take a glue. I do have here one of these stamped sheets. So here I'm gonna put a glue on these three sides. Oops, come here. And I will place it. I'm gonna go from the bottom. So I will have my pocket with pockets. By page with pockets. And I do have here that leftover from that sheet. I did cut also these three labels. Maybe I will just add them to the pocket. I'm not sure. I did use those dies from Tim Holtz. They are new one. Vintage labels, very easy word. Okay, vintage labels, new dies from Tim Holtz. So I did use that to cut these three. And it does have that beautiful embossing effect. I really like that. So maybe I will just add them to one of these pockets for now. And here I do have that leftover. So you can see that Elizabeth Kraft's die made beautiful kind of like template. So I'm gonna just cut this here. And maybe I can use it somewhere just like decoration. I like to use kind of like negatives for decor. So I think I do have a lot of things prepared. Which I can add to my new mini notepad. You do have so many pockets. You do have pages, decorated pages. So now I'm gonna grab that cover. Which that notepad had from the start. And I will have to extend it, I do believe. So I'm gonna kind of destroy it right now. Then I will put it back. But right now I'm just gonna rip it off, this one. So for altering that notepad cover I do have here this beautiful fabric. I'm not sure about the right name of this fabric. I think it's called Muslim, but maybe I'm wrong. I do have here clear embossing powder. I do have here my altered shoe wax or shoe polish, liquid shoe polish. I add there just black acrylic paint and mix it well. So now it's like black shoe polish with a brown background. And I do have here Nuvo acrylic painting. This is mushroom color and with my brush. So first what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna cover both these pieces with this fabric. I'm gonna use for that just glue stick. So I do have both cover from one side with that fabric. On this soft front piece I'm gonna use this Nuvo painting. It's really beautiful kind of like very warm gray color. It's called Mushroom. It's like gray mixed with pink. It looks that way. It has kind of like pink background. So this painted piece is now nicely dry. I'm gonna take my stumps and I will do some easy stumping. I think like this. Tips this way. I'm gonna use embossing stamping ink pad and stamped all this. But before I will use that embossing ink pad. First I'm gonna use my anti-static pouch or this one. This, what is that pillow? And make sure that once I will use clear embossing powder it will don't get stuck somewhere where I don't want to. I do have stamped those images. I'm not sure if you can see the shadow of my stamping. I'm gonna use that clear embossing powder and cover all these images with clear embossing powder. And of course use heating tool and melt it. Finally melt it. Now I'm thinking I use two complicated stumps. I will see. Maybe I should use just some easy stumps like this one. Here with that writing. And I'm gonna wipe my altered shoe polish over that image. And I will see what's gonna happen. So I'm gonna keep this one the way it is right now. For that back cover I'm gonna use just ground espresso and just slightly go over the edges. The rest I will do once the journal is all together. So I do have front cover. I need to put something here inside. So maybe one of these pages will be good to use. And from that I will probably start with all the rest. So I'm gonna put pages in some kind of order but before I will glue them I will take a glue. Add a glue on this piece of fabric. Fold it over the edge here. So this will be kind of like finished. And now I'm gonna take one by one of these papers. This will be first one. I do have here that eyelet. Not this one. Maybe something without an eyelet. Maybe this one. And I'm gonna glue it to that front cover. It will be journal which is going lift up. So I'm gonna take my first page and just place it right here. And I will also try to make it straight but if I will be not straight to be honest I will don't mind that much. I've got here this medical tape. It's perfect tape for gluing pages together because it's strong and it holds really well. So I think my second page will be these two pockets. So first I'm gonna place it right here to match these two together and glue it from this side. And here as you can see that medical tape is very transparent. So it doesn't cover that gold that much. I'm gonna lift it up. And I'm gonna take another page from my composition. And I think that can be these butterflies. And I will do exactly same. With this gluing one page on that previous one I'm gonna put together all these pages. Lift it up. Make sure here they do look kind of similar. And I'm gonna take this one and again glue them together. So I did glue that last page. I'm gonna take my back cover and I'm gonna use this shorter piece. I'm gonna put a glue on this rest from that top cover. And I'm gonna also put a glue on that fabric here. That fabric goes on my page and this chipboard. I will glue it straight to the edge of that last page. Like this. Now just flip it over. And first make sure I'm on the right spot. And just flip it over. Hold it down. Make sure it's all sitting nicely. I'm gonna check it one more time. Yeah. Now I can cut this one a little bit shorter I think. Kind of same size fabric around. And now I can open it one more time. Take my brush. One more time ground espresso. And I can go a little bit more on these edges. Once I know how big they will be. Like this. On the back cover here I can do some stamping. Or I can place there some background paper. If I will want so. But this way I do have decorated mini notepad. Using mostly my stamps. And some inks. And it looks like this. It does have pockets. It does have decorative papers. It does have those eyelets where I can hang maybe small tacks. And I have to say I did really enjoy that. So this is my small creation for today. If you haven't used your stamps for a long time go to Dick in those drawers. In those baskets. I did it for two weeks but I also removed furniture in my room twice. It was exhausting but I'm so happy I did it because I saw again how beautiful stamps I do have. And it's great motivation to see what tools you have. And it's a great inspiration. So this is my sharing for today. I hope you found something inspiring. I hope you will try to pull out your own tool. And to do something beautiful using simple notepad. Thank you so so much for visiting me today. Thank you so much for spending your time with me. Have a beautiful day. Take care about yourself and I will see you soon. Bye.

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The Continue Statement in Python Language | How to use the continue statement in Python

The Continue Statement in Python Language | How to use the continue statement in Python

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Hi everyone, in this tutorial, we're going to talk about the continuous statement in Python language. Continuous statement in Python language causes the current iteration to end and to jump to the beginning of the next iteration. And when continuous statement executes the current iteration of the loop body terminates and execution continues with the next iteration of the loop. Suppose that we have a while loop with few statements inside it and inside it we have an if statement with some condition and if this condition 2 is true then our continuous statement is going to be executed which further mean that other statements in this current iteration below this condition they're not going to be executed. In this example I'm having just one statement but if you're having more than one statement those statements they're not going to be executed if this condition is true and if those statements are down below after this if statement. What's going to happen next? Next this loop jumps to the beginning of the next iteration. It's almost the same case if you're using for loop again inside this for loop we're having if statement with a condition when this condition is true that continuous statement is going to be executed which means that other statements after this if statement down below they're not going to be executed but is that after this continuous statement our loop is going to jump to the beginning of the next iteration. I'm going to give you a simple example. I'm going to open a new file in Python IDLE. Here I'm going to show you a simple example with which you're going to get the point how and when to use the continuous statement. This example is very simple and it's simplified for you to understand how to use the continuous statement and please avoid the usage of continuous statement like this but use it in more complex examples. In this example that I'm going to show you you can solve the problem without the usage of the continuous statement. In my example I'm going to make a list. I'm going to call it list1 and I'm going to populate it with few numbers. Then I'm going to create a variable which I'm going to call sum. The variable sum is going to have value zero and now we're going to use for loop in which we're going to iterate one by one all elements from this list and if an item is less or equal than zero then in this case we don't want to add them into our sum but we're going to avoid adding this number to our sum. So if this condition is true then we're going to jump to the beginning of the next iteration but if this condition is false we're simply gonna add that current item of this list to the sum and finally we're going to print our sum. So again we're going to loop through the all elements of this list and if an element is negative number then we're going to go to the next iteration we're going to skip the current iteration because in each and every iteration we want to add our current list number to our sum but if the number is negative or zero then we're going to avoid adding it and again telling you that this is very simple example and very simple case in which you can't avoid the usage of continuous statement but if you're having some more complex condition here or some complex math or more complex statements here you can use this continuous statement to jump to the beginning of the next iteration rather than continue working with your current iteration. Okay I'm gonna save this example like for example maybe sum.py and then I'm gonna run it and we're gonna get the result 9 what was happened here so we're adding in this case just the numbers which are positive so in this case I choose all the numbers from this list which are positive numbers and the sum of these numbers are number 9 in this video we've talked about the continuous statement in Python thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe to my channel see you in the next video happy coding

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Pat Gelsinger, VMware | VMworld 2014

Pat Gelsinger, VMware, at VMworld 2014 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante @theCUBE #vmworld2014 nabling brave, new IT is the bumper sticker theme Pat Gelsinger put on his keynote presentation on Day 1 of VMworld. The VMware, Inc. CEO outlined his new vision for the company, how it fits into the EMC, Corp. federation strategy, and what his offensive moves will be in the coming year to curb encroaching competition from virtualized services like those from Microsoft, Corp.’s Azure and Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS). Joining hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante on theCUBE during SiliconANGLE’s live coverage of VMware’s annual VMworld conference, Gelsinger recapped his keynote and even commented on hot-button topics like the rise of Docker, Inc., a newcomer that’s pushing the envelope on virtualized tactics with the use of containers. Gelsinger began by outlining what he sees as “brave, new IT,” sharing stories of VMware customers that have become critically important to business. “They’re redefining the entire business infrastructure,” Gelsinger said, calling out the IT guy as the most qualified to manage the transformation. More choices for VMware users: OpenStack & containers To that end, one of VMware’s most significant announcements today was what Gelsinger called a “choice” announcement, as the company now supports OpenStack APIs and containerization, extending more choices to customers. To some, including Furrier, VMware’s support of container technology is a bit surprising given the company’s stance on containers only last year. Furrier recalled an interview with Gelsinger from VMworld 2013 where the discussion around containers fell flat. “What’s changed?” Furrier prodded. “It’s still very early,” Gelsinger warned. “In the hype cycle curve, we’re way up and we’ll probably go through the valley of despair. But there’s an emerging set using containers. If that’s how users want to deliver apps, we’re going to embrace and enable that as well.” Gelsinger went on to detail how VMware’s support of containers quickly came about, leveraging relationships with Google, Inc. and Docker, among others. For Vmware, scalability is key to its use of containers, the end goal being to enable IT to satisfy the business guys. According to Gelsinger, VMware’s enterprise-ready container offering for virtual machines (VMs) is lighter and more efficient than a Linux implementation of Docker, hinting that we’ll see more container offerings with the next major release of vSphere. Read more after the video. Prepping popular technology like containers for the enterprise remains central to VMware’s vision. From Gelsinger’s perspective, his company has earned the right to a seat at the table with the CIO, “enabling programmable, flexible, scalable solutions so IT can worry about the application services and enabling business models.” “We’re viewing this as the potential for a very scalable model, for those that have unique governed assets,” Gelsinger went on. “We’re building the stack, building the software layer to operationalize a 24/7 service with a hybrid model. Not a race to the bottom with the Amazons and Googles, but to enable rich, enterprise-class services on top of the services we do.” Gelsinger’s offensive strategy for VMware Gelsinger’s explanation prompted more detailed questions from theCUBE hosts regarding just how far up the stack VMware wants to go, addressing a question discussed earlier by Wikibon.org analysts on whether or not VMware is moving into the hardware business with its revamped vision. The answer is no, Gelsinger said, going on to detail VMware’s offensive strategy for maintaining a leadership position in the virtualization market. The datacenters will not be built by VMware but will be achieved through co-location set ups, for which VMware receives a recurring revenue stream. Gelsinger also noted that the application is where VMware draws the line in its journey up the stack, sticking to enterprise services. “We’re absolutely playing offense,” said Gelsinger. “We’re transforming networking and the entire datacenter operation, delivering the first truly hybrid cloud, enabling secure, managed environments on those devices. Some things I think we should’ve done sooner, like public cloud. The moves we’ve taken on OpenStack I think were pretty well-timed. Containers, I think we’re ahead in the enterprise.” “Organic innovation and inorganic innovation – we’re playing both. We will use open source every place we can to accelerate offerings to customers,” Gelsinger concluded.

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Live from San Francisco, California, it's the Cube at VMworld 2014, brought to you by VMware, Cisco, EMC, HP, and Nutanix. Now here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back, one here live in San Francisco for VMworld 2014. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. This is the Cube. We extract the signal from the noise, you get the tech athletes in from CEOs, entrepreneurs, startups, whoever we can get that signal on. We have Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of VMware here in the house, Pat. Great to see you again. Great keynote. Hey, thank you. You've been a great friend of the Cube. Thank you. Five years now running. Just want to put a plug in. Five years? Wow. I want to thank you for this amazing gift of pens we got from the VMware opening campus day. Great pens. Celebrating you guys opening up officially the Palo Alto campus. How's that going? What's happening with the campus? Well, first, the campus opens great. Thank you for joining us there for it. It really was just a fabulous place. I mean, a beautiful campus and, you know, we have the greatest employees, so we wanted to give them the greatest place to work. And so the campus has gone fabulous. We've opened up almost all the buildings now on campus. Just two more to build out and, you know, we're hosting all sorts of wonderful people who want to come in and see the coolest place in Silicon Valley now. It's like, you know, it's like China over there. New cranes going up and putting new buildings up there. Are you guys done with construction there? What's happening? That's expanding like... Two more buildings to go. Two more buildings to go. And then we're done for a while, so. Almost there. Almost there. Right? I got worried when there's so many cranes going around, you know, do I need all my employees to wear hard hats or something? It's like, no, we're soon done with that and we can get everybody to work. So Robin kicked off the keynote for U.K. Monk. You talked about staying in the course and using computing hybrid cloud, so we're going to find data center. Then you came out and laid out essentially the vision of this transformation that's happening. What's the state of your vision there? Expand on that keynote and share with the folks who might not have caught it live. What was the crux of the presentation? Because it had a lot of Pat Gelsinger vision. It felt like, hey, it's transformative. We even had some guests talking about commentary and the announcements. Are they playing defense, offense? You're not a defensive player. You're an offensive player. So talk about the offensive moves for VMware. And how did that keynote strike a chord there? Well, you know, the first one is we really started with this phrase brave new IT. And the nexus of that was all of our VMware faithful, the people, the V-Admins, the people who've been using this, they are becoming critically important to the businesses that they serve going forward. Because not only is it about them doing their job, but with STDC, hybrid cloud, and user computing, it's them redefining the entire infrastructure for the business. And when the CEO looks down across his leadership team, who's the most competent person there to navigate through all of these IT trends that are emerging to necessarily redefine their businesses? And we call this a liquid business. That's changing. So very quickly we're seeing that businesses redefine themselves from education to governments to transportation. Uber today, not owning any assets, has a market cap equal to that of Hertz and Avis combined. I mean, we're just seeing these things emerge so quickly. And who's the smartest guy on technology in the room? The IT guy. Right? And out of that we laid out, obviously, our continuing progression with the software-defined data center. Updates on major projects, bringing those components together in a big way. One of our first and I think most significant announcements today was a lot of the choice announcements. Adding an open-stack distribution. So if you're a vCloud user, and want to have the programmatic ability of infrastructure through the open-stack APIs, you now get it with VMware. We also announced an embrace of containers. And containers, you know, this 20-year overnight success. Where all of a sudden, lots of discussions around containers and how can I use containers as a new app delivery model. Well, the best way to deliver apps for an enterprise? On top of the VMware infrastructure. So we announced relationship with Google and Kubernetes with Docker and one of the leaders in that space early. And how we're going to make them containers without compromise in the data center for enterprise customers. So on the container piece, last year we asked you here on theCUBE about Docker and containers. You're like, oh, containers have been around for a while. What made you go, hey, this Docker thing's got legs? Was it the community thing part of it? Was it the open-source tie-in? Was it the interoperability? And the containers is not a new concept, as you had pointed out. But what's changed for you in VMware over the past year to make that happen? Yeah, and it still is very early. You know, let's be clear, John, that, you know, we're very much in this early nascent phase, right in the hype cycle curve, you know, we're way up. We're probably going to go through the valley of despair, right in this technology. But very quickly, there's a broad set of these third-gen developers that are saying, containers is a cool way for me to package, deliver, and manage app deployment over time. And we're saying, hey, if that is how people want to be able to deliver apps, then we, the preferred infrastructure for delivering apps, we're going to embrace and enable that as well. So it very quickly came together, and we engage with Docker and Google as partners, and they say, absolutely, we want to partner with you in this space. And so all the pieces just sort of snap together overnight, right? We've been working with them, making meaningful contributions in the space. That's a DevOps ethos, right? That's basically cloud, right? Well, you know, DevOps is a funny term, right? Because it was funny, we had, you know, I had a bunch of my guys at the DevOps conference, you know who was there? It was all IT guys, not developers, right? It's really a progression of developers to DevOps into IT. And we really say that DevOps is sort of where developers and IT come together, right? And so we really are trying to enable DevOps to satisfy the business guys. And if I go back to my brave theme, you're seeing shadow IT and developers and line of business go around IT, and IT is now being, through announcements like today, armed with the tools to go to developers and say, oh no, I'm your friend. Yes, deval the shadows. I'm going to enable you with the coolest, most efficient infrastructure, and I'm still going to have it secure and managed as well, right? You don't need to be, right, you know, running in these environments that we can't scale, manage and secure. Your apps now can operate in an enterprise worthy way. Well, that right once, you know, run anywhere concept is very powerful. It is the premise, if I understand it correctly, that you'll bring that enterprise capability, the security and other management capabilities to that concept? Yeah, the VM doesn't change, right? We're adding Docker on top of the VM and enabling it with some cool new technologies like I mentioned, Project Fargo, that actually make that delivery of the container on the VM more efficient and lighter weight than a bare metal Linux implementation of Docker. I mean, that's really powerful. It's really cool that we can do that and we have some cool technologies that we're showing off that enable that to be part of our next major vSphere release. So you touch that base, you touch the open stack, you got some action going on there and sort of embracing open stack, more developers in open stack. VMware has a tough act to follow. I mean, when you think about the whole where we've come from. I mean, it seems so simple now. You know, servers are underutilized, saved. You had a 10X disruptive factor. And now you've got to do it again. I remember Marich used to talk about this deeper business integration. He'd talk about it like this was grand vision, but you actually now have been executing on that. Is that where the next wave comes from? That deeper business integration? You talked about transforming infrastructure. So how do you do it again? Is it a cost reduction? Is it a business integration? Is it, as you say, transforming that infrastructure? What does that mean to the customer from an operational standpoint? If you're the IT guy, do you want to spend a lot of your time worrying about the infrastructure? Actually, what you want to do is have this programmable, scalable, flexible infrastructure that enables you to go worry about the business problems which are in the apps, right? Because you want the IT guy spending all of his time, and those people say, how can I do new application services? How can I enable new business models, et cetera? So he wants this flexible, programmable, secure, managed infrastructure, and he wants to worry less and less about it. And, e.g., it needs to become more automated and more efficient, more scalable. And we walk into that discussion and say, you know, we've earned the right because we've demonstrated more value, more efficiency, more quality of software, and we now have 80% of the world's applications running on top of the software that we do for you, and we've earned the right to show that we can do that for the full data center, to be able to do that both on and off premise in a reliable, scalable, managed, and secure fashion so that we enable you, Mr. IT, to go deliver the environment for the developer. To deliver the environment on and off premise, to secure all those next-generation devices and applications as well. And that's what we're off to do for you, and we deserve a seat at your table to help you do that. Well, and the Federation helps you with that seat. You guys got a pretty big role in the Federation. Yeah, yeah, we do. So I wanted to ask you about the financial analyst meeting. Did you get a lot of questions about that, you know, about the whole spin-out thing and how was that addressed? Actually, surprisingly. Didn't come up? Not a question at all. Why, because it's already come up, right? Yeah, I mean, we've talked about it before. You know, largely, I mean, those things, I mean, EMC is addressing those things. We've been very proactive in our position, right? We think the Federation is the right model, right? It's working, it's delivering value. We're quite committed to it, and we're showing quite a number of cases where we're adding value as a result of it this week. You know, we announced the EMC as one of our EVO rail partners. We announced the Viper-based object service for the VCloud Air service that we announced this week. Announcing new solutions that we're doing with them. So lots of different areas that we're just demonstrating the value that comes from the Federation. Well, we know Joe a little bit. We know it's not going to happen anytime soon. So what kinds of things did come up? Were they nitty-gritty things around, you know, enterprise license agreements, 2015 guidance? Share with us, you know. Lots of questions around 2015. And you guys shared a little bit more, maybe, than in the last year. We gave them framework to go look at 2015. Lots of questions about the strategies that we've laid out. You know, how will this NSX thing play out? How rapidly is that going to grow? V-SAN, how rapidly are you seeing that grow as well? V-Cloud Air, how are you going to win in that business and do it in a, you know, margin effective way for VMware? And how does this V-Cloud Air network partnership work? You know, and based on that, you know, how should we look at your growth profile going forward with your traditional business, as well as these new business areas, and what's that going to look like over 15 and beyond? So those are sort of the nature of the questions. So the Air piece is interesting to John and me because we've been trying to sort of parse through, okay, on a long-term basis, you guys software everything. You talked about that at quite some length. And the business model is great. Marginal economics go to zero. And you see some of that happening with the public cloud, where the traditional outsourcing is starting to follow that software, Marginal Economics line. So my question relates specifically to how your, whatever it is, 4,000 partners, can you replicate that kind of Marginal Economics at volume? Or is it more of a high-touch belly-to-belly model? Well, you know, we definitely are viewing this as the potential for a very scalable model, right, working with service providers who invest substantial capital, who have data centers, who have networks, you know, have unique, you know, governed assets in their own countries that they participate in as well. You know, we're building the stack, right? You know, being prescriptive in the hardware, building the software layer that we need to go with it so that we can operationalize a 7x24 service that scales and do so with this hybrid model. You know, not be over here in the race to the bottom with, you know, Amazons and Googles. We're over here focused on enterprise customers to deliver value of how these things work across the boundary of on and off premise, the hybrid cloud, and enable rich enterprise-class services on top of the platform. And we're going to do so with what we do. We're going to leverage partnerships like Savis, CenturyLink, like the SoftBank partnership, and we're going to enable this 3,900 partners with additional service offerings as well. It's a very effective business model. But you will build out your own data centers or not? You know, we're not building our own concrete air conditioning and networks, right? We're doing a co-low for the core vCloud air offerings for those, but we're enabling our partners to do that as well. So here are the recipes. You go build them and operate it as well. So that's a technology transfer, IP transfer? You know, for that we get a recurrent revenue stream as they go run our software in their data centers and services. So the combination of the two we think gives us a very effective business model for the future. So Pat, last year I asked you about the, you announced the hybrid cloud all in. You made a comment kind of off the cuff. It's a halfway house. Got you agitated. You're the halfway house. And you said, no, it's not, it's the final destination. I took a lot of heat for that. I follow my sword. I'll eat my own words there. But it turns out absolutely correct, right? That's absolutely the destination. That is the number one conversation. It's hybrid cloud, certainly on-prem, off-premise, new economics, value creation. So I got to ask you, and the question from Twitter has come in along the same lines is, you know, ask Pat about moving up the stack. And I obviously want to hear about the end user piece. But inside the hybrid cloud destination, what is the VM where a vision of moving up the stack mean and what does that mean to you? Yeah, and we're drawing the line. Anybody who lays out a strategy, to me, it's more important to answer what you're not doing than what you are doing, right? And for us, you know, we're not doing hardware. We're making that clear. We're enabling hardware partners. We're not doing consumer, right? We're focused on the enterprise customer and we're not doing apps, right? And, you know, we are enabling more services, enterprise services like DR as a service, desktop as a service, but we're not going into the app space. So that's the line that we're trying to draw. Everything that's an enterprise class service where people need, you know, enterprise capabilities, that identity, DR, storage capabilities, things that really are common services for apps to utilize, that's what we're doing, but that's as far north or far up the stack that we'll go. I asked Steve Herrod on our crowd chat pregame on Friday what the hot opportunities are for startups. He said security, or mainly not getting caught at this perimeter-based security. What's your view on that? Well, you know, the crusty, you know, the hard crusty exterior and the soft gooey inside as I described it this morning, my morning breakfast every day. And, you know, with it, right, this whole idea of micro-segmentation at NSX really redefines how you build networks. And that's going to allow us to refactor every aspect of security, every aspect of routing and load balancing, et cetera. You know, we announced the F5 partnership. You know, the Palo Alto Networks partnership is really enabling us to execute on the micro-segmentation use case. You know, it really is transformational about how services and networks are operated inside of data centers. And, you know, we have the pole position here with the NSX platform. One of the most common questions we're getting from the crowd is, when are you going to get a Twitter handle? Oh, you know, I've never been a good social guy. We have an engagement container for you for that. We'll show you the engagement container. Thank you. You can help me out with that. That'll be good. Thank you. I appreciate it. So, on the end user computer, let's go to that part because Sanjay is on board. The acquisition. Give us the update. I mean, it's coming through that. Oh, what a team. You know, Sanjay has been a great leader. We brought together a great leadership team. You know, Summit and John Marshall. I mean, Passion and Aggressive in that space. You know, the combination of the new assets, the AirWatch team, revitalization of Horizon. You know, DAZ is a service on the platform. Right, the new, you know, we just announced cloud volumes. You know, it's very cool, the dynamic app capability. So overall, really coming together, momentum increasing in the marketplace. And Sanjay's done a really fine job, right, of driving us into that area. What a difference a year makes. Pat, we wish we had 34 minutes, which was your record. Just get started, John. I know you've got some, I mean, appreciate your time, but I want to give you the final word. And we talked about this briefly earlier. Everyone always wants to ask, oh, is this a defensive move? You know, what's the strategy? I've never seen you as a defensive player. I mean, in all the interviews we've done, knowing your history, you're an offensive player. You talked about years ago, get out in front of that next wave, or you'll be driftwood. I don't see that defensive. What is the VMware offense? If you could describe the offense for VMware as a company. And answer the question of offense defense. You're making defensive moves, or is it my off base by categorizing as an offense? Well, I think we're absolutely playing offense. Right, you know, if you think about, you know, we're transforming networking. We're transforming the entire data center operation. We're delivering the first truly hybrid cloud. Right, you know, enabling secure managed environments on those devices. So unquestionably overall, we are playing offense. Now, hey, some things I think we should have done sooner. You know, we should have been in the public cloud space earlier. Right of that. And we're having to catch up in that space. You know, the moves that we've taken in the open stack, I think they're pretty well timed. The moves that were taken in containers, I think we are way ahead of anybody else in terms of delivering enterprise container environments in that respect. So I think everyone- How many activity looking good right now? As always. Hey, I just announced one last week. I got more in the pipeline, you know. You know, we're never finished. Organic innovation, inorganic innovation. We're playing both. Right, and we're absolutely playing offense because here we're playing to win because our customers want the very disruptive nature of the products that we deliver with the quality of the brand of VMware. That's what they want from us. And more open source as part of that playbook? Oh yeah, absolutely. See a net grow? Oh, absolutely. You know, we will use open source every place that we can to accelerate the offerings that we bring to our customers. You know, we're not fundamentally changing our business model. Right. But hey, we can add open source components to it and we will and today's open stack announcement is a great demonstration of that. Okay, Pat, put the bumper sticker on this to end the segment. What's the bumper sticker safer this year's VMworld? What's on the bumper right now? What's it safe for VMworld? Enabling Brave new IT. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware here inside theCUBE. Always great to have him. Our fifth year. We love having him on. Great, great athlete, tech athlete. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back after the short break.

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Finding Your Path of Freedom From Unnecessary Suffering (Seymour's World)

Finding your path of freedom from unnecessary suffering Our guest, Flint Sparks is a Zen teacher and former psychologist dedicated to assisting people in the unending path of growing up and waking up. He is an experienced therapist and a master teacher who assists people in the skillful removal of blocks to love, both inside and outside. He is a clear and caring resource on the path of freedom from unnecessary suffering. Flint has nearly four decades of experience in the practice and teaching of psychotherapy. He is also a Zen teacher who leads retreats throughout North America and Europe. The host for this episode is Seymour Kazimirski. The guest for this episode is Flint Sparks. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out any time for great content and great community. Our vision is to be a leader in shaping a more vital and thriving Hawaii as the foundation for future generations. Our mission is to be the leading digital media platform raising public awareness and promoting civic engagement in Hawaii.

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Hi, welcome to Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii. A couple of weeks ago, we had probably one of the most interesting shows that Seymour's World has had in four, four-and-a-half years. And we had Paige Davis on the show. And she talked about her journey, her journey through her cancer, how she went through it, what enabled her to have a better, better lifestyle during that period of time. And something hit me. We all know that family, friends are very, very supportive. But she had somebody else. She had a man named Flint Sparks, who is a Zen teacher, a psychologist. He's probably one of the most mentoring persons I have met. And I am so lucky that this man has moved from Austin, Texas to Molokai, very recently, and he is here to join us today. So we're going to talk to Flint about meditation, about life, about journeys, about love, about breaking barriers, all these things that I hope we can get in this one session, if not we'll do another one. So may I introduce you to Flint? Flint, welcome to Seymour. Thank you for having me on the show. This is wonderful and great to follow Paige. Well, what a pleasure, not just to meet you, because I know how much of an influence you are on Paige's journey, but also because you're influencing me so much on my journey of life. And I think it's critical that we as individuals understand that support is so important. It's essential. So tell us a little bit about what you do. Well, I have been, as you mentioned earlier, in my sort of former life as it were, a psychologist and a psychotherapist for nearly 40 years. And during that time I had a specialty in which I worked a lot with people who had severe medical illnesses, especially cancer, hence my relationship with Paige. And over those years I also began to, because of the requests of those people who were ill, questions of their deepest soul, I wanted to respond to them not in a religious way, but to those spiritual levels. And so I began to train in Buddhism and meditation so that I could offer something deeper. So now I lead retreats, teach, write, and do things like this. Coming on to Seymour's world for me is an honor. It's an honor to have you here because I think it's so important that we have shared so much. Just in a few minutes before, when I first met you, we share so much of the same value systems and the value of appreciating life the way it is and making sure that you can pass that on to others has become a key motivator in my life. And you said that's exactly the way you think too. Absolutely. Because I've worked as a psychotherapist and if you look at a lot of the research on what predicts happiness and well-being for adults, one of the most robust predictors from research is secure attachment for the infant. Someone that's there to love them, to be with them, to care for them. At the end of life, my other big work of my life, I hear people saying, you know, at the end, nothing really matters that much except, was I loved and did I love well? Well, if love is the most important thing in the beginning and it's the most important thing at the end, it seems like that might be something to focus on for the entirety of life. How do we care for each other? How do we allow care from each other? How do we connect in a way that humans really require for health and well-being and happiness? I think you've answered a big question. What is the most important part of your life and if the word is love, to be loved and to also give love, I think that, of course, love has many, many pieces. But that in itself is such a great legacy for all of us to live by. Can you be loved by all the people that you've affected and can people love you for everything that you have done in your life? Those are big, broad things. But what we know is that if you're operating from your sort of deepest, truest self, then probably what's going to come forward is something that has some integrity and some truth and some clarity and some kindness and some compassion. Those qualities come forward naturally when our reactivity and our fear relaxes. I think you're right. I think one of the other things that I wanted to discuss with you is the ability to show gratitude. Those of you out there who have seen my show over the years know that gratitude is one of my most important pieces in my life, especially now, because I mentioned to you I have cancer and I'm living with it. And believe it or not, I'm enjoying life more today than I did two years ago when I was diagnosed with cancer. I really didn't allow the negativity to come into my life. So I have as full a life as possible for 18 hours a day and I do what I want to do. That word, gratitude. Tell me what that means to you. Well, I think the capacity to view life through a lens of what's possible, what's available, what's present rather than what's missing, what you hoped would be. In those ways, you become smaller, more self-contained, more self-centered. Is it what I want? Is it all about me? But if you open to what's available, you find that life is remarkable. And there are many, many gifts that are being given to us all the time. Even if they're a gift that you wouldn't suspect, like your cancer, would make a difference. Here's something that people don't believe. I worked for, like I said, 35 years with people with cancer, mostly quite severe. And people will say, so what's the main thing you hear? And they expect me to speak about fear, difficulties. I say, we won't believe me. They say, come on, what is it? I said, over and over, I hear some version of this. Cancer is a terrible thing. I wish I didn't have it. I wouldn't want it on anyone. And it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to me. Because it makes you appreciate life more? Some version of, but is this open to me? It turned me. It woke me up. It did something so that a lot of the smaller ways that I was caught or contracted began to fall away. You're right. Paige talked about that in her book. Yeah. She was very, very emphatic, actually, about the idea that the cancer actually helped her in understanding her own life, what her journey was. Yeah. I never thought about it that way. We call it in Zen, since I'm a Zen priest and teacher, that spirituality is about the great matter of birth and death. This amazing reality of existential existence. And when we have a diagnosis in our world, that's the kind of wake-up call that's the like, oh, okay, I really have to pay attention to this. Not, will I get the next job? Will I get a better car? Will I have a better husband or wife? Those things may come and go, and they do come and go. Everything's impermanent. Right. But what doesn't come and go amongst all the things that change? And that's that heartfelt sense of gratitude of being alive and appreciating your aliveness. Isn't it funny that it takes something as strong as maybe getting hit by a car or a cancer or something that makes you realize, am I ever lucky to be alive today? And really, that's the spiritual question. What wakes us up to saying, oh, I'm going to go beyond what it means just to develop myself as a material, functional human being. How can I open to that greater space of spirit and of the ineffable that which is sort of inconceivable? And that place, we open to awe, and then we can be the recipients of grace. I think it's inspiring for all of us to sit here and listen to you. I feel like I'm a student in a classroom. Well, I am, because for me, I try to do what you do in my way. You know, I do it in my foundation with my Make Him Smile program for the kids in the hospital. I do it with the foster kids. I do it with Holocaust teaching. It's the gratitude that I feel and I get from the kids. I read you a letter before from the kid in school who just said that I made a difference to them, you know, that in itself. And when I get those, I feel so satisfied. Me too. It's an amazing, and rather than feeling like an ego nourishment, it's actually more humility. It's like, if I'm able to do that, then I want to offer more. See, that's the thing. It cultivates your generosity. You want to offer more. You want to grab more. So the circle gets bigger. And it's more, you become more humble in the face of it, not more egotistical. That makes you open to more gratitude. And so humility, generosity, and gratitude begin to flow together rather than egotistical kind of separation or small selfhood that you do. It's interesting that you say that because I, as you know, I'm very busy with all the stuff that I do. And it all comes and stems from the need of gratitude. Yes. The need to, I feel like I get more out of it when I'm in the hospital playing for the kids. For instance, with our musicians, I get more out of it than the kids do. I know they get a lot out of it. Of course. But you're fed by it, aren't you? But man, do I get something when I see a parent putting their arm around the child and there's tears coming down their arms because they see their kids smiling again. Nothing beats that. And that smile may be the best thing. That's right. One of my teachers would say, most of us, if we get what we want, or we feel like we're satisfied, then we think, then I'll be happy. This is no. Open yourself to gratitude and then see what's around you. Start with gratitude. Gratitude doesn't come just from being happy. Gratitude is the source of happiness. Absolutely. It's the other way around. Yeah, yeah. And you need to hear that. And I hope all of you out there hear that because it's important to realize that when we talk to somebody like Flint who has been around for a long time in this business and he understands what the barriers of love are all about. And I want to touch upon that because we only have a few minutes before our first break. But if you could explain a little bit about your theories on barriers of love. Well, I think we mentioned earlier someone had asked me one time, you've been a therapist for a long time, been as in priest. What is it that you really do? And I heard myself say, well, I think I help soften or remove the barriers to love. And all that really means to me is help people relax the kind of tension or tightness that sometimes are conditioning or past our stresses. If those things can soften, then we have an open hand that we can offer. And it's an open hand in which we can receive. And that's really the practical thing that I'm talking about. Can we just offer ourselves to each other? And can we receive each other? How do you get away from the practical side of it though? The stresses that people have in their lives creates barriers from love or for love. How do you remove that? How are you able to get people back on track again? Well, that's sometimes why I say it's about softening the barriers instead of removing them. Right. It's through presence. If you can actually connect with someone, even in their busy, most stressful time, and you do this in your consulting, you do it in your teaching, if you can get their attention, so suddenly they're with you, that all that other begins to soften, it begins to go into the background. I find too many people I know have forgotten how to do that, Flint. They really have. I mean, I see couples and friends who have been married for years and years and years, and they've lost it. They've lost that ability to connect to each other. And it's such a shame. I mean, my wife and I were sitting on the deck, and I told you where we live, and we're sitting on the deck enjoying the sunset and just feeling how good it is to be alive, of feeling that connection that's there sitting in that spot of earth. And so grateful that you could. Absolutely. When I was about to do my TED Talk, somebody said, what do you want the result to be? I said, at the end, when I stop, what I want people to do is turn this way instead of to their phone. If they do that, then I've made my point. I think you're right. I find eliminating barriers, and I love that word, eliminating barriers, and that could be in business and personal lives and financial structures and love, all that stuff. You eliminate those barriers, and all of a sudden life becomes much easier. That's right. It's infused with an energy and a nourishment that's always there, but we don't notice it because we get so caught up. Yeah, I agree. And that is really what we wake up to. It's amazing. Flint, we have to take a short break, and then I want to talk about meditation, because people look at me and they say, Seymour, don't tell us you meditate. You don't have the personality for meditating. You're too busy. Yeah, I'm too busy. I wake up at four in the morning, and I'm going at 150 miles an hour, but yet I do meditate, and I want people to understand what the term really means, because too many of us think of it looking at somebody in the corner. So we'll be back in a minute. We'll meditate during the break. Let's do it. We've got 60 seconds to do it. I'm Seymour Kazimurski on The Seymour's World with Flint Sparks, our wonderful, wonderful guest, a Zen teacher, a psychologist, and I think he's going to be one of my very best friends. Be back in a minute. Oh, I'm Yukari Kunisue. I'm your host of New Japanese Language Show on Think Tech, Hawaii, called Konnichiwa, Hawaii, broadcasting live every other Monday at 2 p.m. Please join us, where we discuss important and useful information for the Japanese language community in Hawaii. The show will be all in Japanese. Hope you can join us every other Monday at 2 p.m. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Jane Farrell, founder of Think Tech, Hawaii. And I'm Andrea Gabrielli, the host for Young Talent's Making Way. Wait a minute. This is not a new episode, is it, Jay? No, it's not a new episode. You know, that show is over, Andrea. So what are you going to do now? Why don't we have a summer edition of Young Talent's Making Way, where we focus more on education as a mean for our young talents to max out, becomes role models, and achieve their dreams. What a great idea. So when do you want to begin, Andrea? July the 3rd, 2018, Tuesday at 11 a.m. Young Talent's Making Way summer edition. Stay tuned. Hi, welcome back to Seymour's World on Think Tech, Hawaii. If you listened to the first half of this show, you were probably just as mesmerized as I am by this young man, Flint Spark, sitting next to me. What an amazing individual, somebody who can basically explain life to you, explain love to you, explain how we should lead a better life, how we can make a difference. And by the way, after the show, I'm going to be filming my commentary called How to Make a Difference. So Flint, we are back together again. And the first half of the show went too quick because we only answered one of the five questions that I had for you. So I don't think we're going to be able to do them all. But one thing we ended off with was meditation. Yes. Definition of meditation, please. I think the essence of meditation, or aside from any different form of meditation, because there are many, is when you stop manipulating your experience in any way whatsoever. Well, that's an counter-intuitive definition because many people think, oh, I'm going to meditate, so now I'm going to change what I'm doing. But meditation really is in some way stopping. If we can be just grounded, sit here, but open and aware, not go inside or pull away, and be very deeply present with ourselves and each other, then some people think of meditation as like fighting, like stopping your thinking or trying to slow. And if you're- Or emptying your mind. Yeah, and if you do that, you know, you're going to be at war with your mind forever because it doesn't stop. But there is a primary awareness that you can rest in. It's like the sky outside when you're sitting on your deck. We were going to talk about that in a second. I know. So the clouds go through the sky. The sky doesn't get confused in things, the clouds, what's going through it. But we get confused with the contents of our awareness. We get- We hook onto the fear. We hook onto the worry, the planning, instead of resting in that space of awareness. And you can actually learn to remember to rest in the space in which everything is bubbling around instead of getting caught in what's bubbling. The bubbling can continue sometimes. Sometimes it slows down. Well, for me, meditation, as I said to you before the show, I go into the hot tub three days a week, at six o'clock in the morning, and I'm there for half an hour, and you're right. I allow the bubbles to surround me. It's allowing. I allow the clouds to pass over me. I allow the trees and the birds to do their thing. And I find myself, after that half hour, so much more relaxed. I'm calling it meditating, and it may not be the essence of what meditating is all about. No, you're talking about it. But to me, that's what it is, the ability- Is the deed allowing. Right. And I think it has to be done on a fairly regular basis so that people understand it's something that you can cultivate over a period of time. And I've been doing it for years, and I find that I miss it. If I'm out of town, for instance, and I don't have that half an hour to just... You could call it vegetate. I don't care what you want to call it. I'm calling it meditating. Of course. The ability to allow your mind to just totally relax, to totally forget about all of your ills and everything that's going on. You can't stop it from thinking. There's no such thing. And even if you don't forget at all, you remember, over time, because you do it a lot, that there is a space of clarity and simplicity that's always there, even if you're not touching it, but you remember it, and that you don't ever lose that, even though you might not be able to reach it every single time. But over time, you practice, practice, practice, and you don't just cultivate a capacity, which you do. It also begins to actually change your physiology and your neurology in a way that things are more in alignment, more in balance, and are much more healthy. It's so strange. And to all of you out there who have sent me all these notes, oh, he's going to teach you how to meditate on the show. Well, he's not teaching me how to meditate on the show. He's validating that what I'm doing in the hot tub, what I'm doing in those moments, are giving me a meditative state, a state in which my mind is able to totally, totally relax and allow, as you said, physiology. It allows your mind and your body to leave that state half an hour in a much better state than it went into. Yeah, it's a portal. It's an opening, and you know what your opening is. If we're just vegetating and hanging out, that's not meditation, that's resting. Correct, correct. This has an attentive quality to it, a quality of presence to it. There's some energy, but it's not an energy that's grasping at anything. Correct. And that's what's really difficult for folks because we're so used to doing something for an instrumental gain. Right. And this is doing something without that and resting in the gratitude of the present moment and seeing what comes. You know, one of the issues are that we as a society want definition, and you don't want to define meditation as a certain way of thinking, a certain way of doing. It is an individual issue. It's an issue of how to do it. And again, if you watched my commentary last week about happiness and I told you to write things down about one of the first two or three or four things that you could do to be happier, one of those things that I had so many people talk about was meditating. And I had not suggested it. I had not suggested it to you. It came up on its own. It came up on its own. I probably of the 400 or 500 people that commented, probably at least 100 of them said, I wish I could meditate, meaning they know that their body and their mind needs this. They need to be able to totally feel it. That longing is something about, for most of us in this culture, a longing to rest, to be more quiet, to be more peaceful. But people don't really understand what it might mean. How would one do that to actually rest? Because it isn't just hanging out at the beach. It's something about a deeper resting. Oh, man, you are so on track. And to those of you who I've been speaking to this about for the last three or four years about how important it is to get the... You don't have to call it meditating if you don't want to, but I call it meditating. If you could do that, if you could get your mind and your body into a state, like you're discussing right now, it is not that difficult. It's just a matter of practice, slowly, even for five minutes, 10 minutes, and then you build up to it until you feel comfortable. And here's the warning label. You know, on the package is always a warning label. As you quiet your mind and your body, as you sit still or open to everything, guess what's going to show up? Everything. And so sometimes in the beginning people will say, well, actually I'm more disturbed because now all these things are floating up, that I kept at bay by being busy. So there are ways in which more things become available to you. That's the good news because now you can attend to them and you can take better care of yourself. But at first, if you think it's like taking a pill that's going to wipe everything out, that's a naive view of meditation. You're right. It's going to open you to everything so that you can meet everything more fully. And over time, that's going to transform your life, not just give you symptom relief from stress. And that's a big difference. Very, very big difference. You're preaching to the choir here. I'm a real believer in the ability to allow your mind and your body to focus on what's most important at a period of time. Not everything. You can't do everything at one time. You have to be able to sift through some of the funnel, stuff that you put in the funnel and decide, this is what I want to work on. This is what I want my life's purpose to be. And as we mature, notice I didn't say get older, as we mature and also as we have challenges, which we spoke about, these are things that refine our view. We realize, oh, I don't have an infinite amount of time. Maybe I'm not going to achieve every single thing I thought I would. But as those things fall away, they can be deep disappointments or they can be openings and refreshment for something that you didn't even expect would happen. You're right. You're right. And those new things that happen to you, whether they be love, whether they be work opportunities, no matter what it is, can restart your life. It can make you feel much younger than you were before. Exactly. And totally unexpected. It's not, it wasn't in your plan. It wasn't in my early plan to move to a strange little island in the middle of the wine archipelago. Oh, when we hadn't even talked about that, I wanted to talk about it. But I do want to bring up something. Sure. I came up with a saying, and I have it here. It says, focus on what you have, not what you don't have. Exactly. Now that phrase by itself, how do we get people to do that? How do you focus on what you have and not wish I had this wish I could, you know, the wishing well is endless, right? Because you always want more. Yeah. How do you focus on what you have, not what you don't have? Well, that's part of what meditation is about. Because when you stop and you're not doing anything, all that's there is what you have. You're not going to be able to stop people from thinking about what they don't have. That's like human brains do that. But it's also a choice issue as well. But do you put your energy into it and focus on it, or do you provide an antidote that is right next to it, rather than fighting the longing to say, okay, let's right next to it, let's appreciate what we have, let's use gratitude as a balancer. And what happens over time is that there's a generosity of spirit, there's an openness of heart, there's a quieting of your mind that begins to emerge when you put them together. So you're not fighting the acquisition mode. You're just offering an antidote right next to it, which begins to change the balance. It's so interesting because that leads into my last topic that we only have time for and that's listening. How important is listening? How many people over talk? And I happen to be very guilty of it. My wife, Sue, who is watching this show right now can probably tell you how many times she said, you're over talking because my mind is going faster than my listening mode. And listening is the key. So I came up with something on listening that is, and I'm going to read it to you, how to listen. It says, truly listening requires a person to fully disconnect himself from all other preoccupations and thoughts and make himself available to the other. You need to focus better. You need to shut out external visual stimuli and concentrate. When we listen and allow the words we hear to penetrate us, we make space for the other person. Right, and that space and that quality and that discipline that you're talking about, I would encapsulate in the word presence because if I can allow other things to not take such forefront in my attention, that attention opens. And I can really look in your eyes, feel your body here, be with you, and be present with you. You're going to feel my presence. You're going to feel my attention. I do it now. Yes, absolutely. And we listen to each other. We see each other. We feel each other. And that's the essence of really what I hope people are removing barriers to, because that's really the essence of care. I think once you remove the barriers, something pops in. It's natural attitude. Yes. Compassion. Yes. Presence. All of these issues become part of people's lives and it's something that I've been trying to struggle with myself and I think I'm getting there at my tender age. I'm starting to understand that that's a lifelong thing. I know. And it makes me happier. Absolutely makes me happy. There are four qualities, without going into a Buddhist stuff, but there are four qualities that are talked about in the way of maturing into one's spiritual practice. And they are essential qualities that are there that get opened. And they are compassion, the ability to meet suffering and not turn away, loving kindness, which is unconditional friendliness, equanimity, a peacefulness, and then the last is sympathetic joy, the happiness that comes from when the other person's happy. And those four qualities of compassion, loving kindness, equanimity, and sympathetic joy are what are in your definition. You are right. They're all there. You're right. I have to say this, and I hate to say it, Flint, but we're at the end of our show. Oh, no. Yes. Believe it or not. We're having too much fun. Well, actually, we only did one. So we have five more topics to do and I'm hoping we can continue this because it has been, for me, a pleasure and education. And I just think for our audience in general, if they watch the show and they just glean a little bit of it, they will have a better life. Well, maybe we'll have some more time together. I'm only an island away. Oh, thank you. Thank you. And you are coming to our Hanukkah party this year, right? We'll see about that. I'm putting you on air that you're coming to our party. Thank you so much. Thank you, Seymour. Love to have you. It's a pleasure. Absolutely love to have you. For all of you out there, I will be back on August the 24th. I will not be here on August the 9th, I believe, but I will be back on August 24th with a guest and a new commentary as well. So today, I think I will probably get hundreds of comments as well because Flint is an amazing, amazing individual and a man who I look up to is my mentor. So Aloha from Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii. See you next month.

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FiOS1-NJ at 4 p.m. - Englewood Health will merge with Hackensack Meridian Health

Englewood Health will merge with Hackensack Meridian Health. The merger agreement includes a $400 million-dollar commitment by Hackensack Meridian to invest in new operating rooms, expanded cardiac facilities, and outpatient sites for Englewood Physicians. Subscribe for new videos - http://bit.ly/SubscribeHMH Learn more about Hackensack Meridian Health - http://bit.ly/HMHWeb Listen and subscribe to our Podcasts on iTunes http://bit.ly/hackensackmeridianhealth Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is truly the most integrated health care network in New Jersey. Get Connected. ➸ Facebook - http://bit.ly/HMHFacebook ➸ Twitter - http://bit.ly/HMHTwitter ➸ Instagram - http://bit.ly/HMHInstagram ➸ Flickr - http://bit.ly/HMHFlickr ➸ LinkedIn - http://bit.ly/HMHLinkedIn ➸ SoundCloud - http://bit.ly/HMHSoundCloud Thanks for watching and subscribing!

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One of the last remaining independent hospitals in the garden state is set to merge with one of the largest healthcare systems in New Jersey. For 130 years, Anglewood Health, the Anglewood Hospital has served Bergen County as an independent facility. Now, however, it will merge with Hackensack Meridian Health. The merger agreement includes a $400 million commitment by Hackensack Meridian to invest in new operating rooms at the hospital, expanded cardiac facilities and outpatient sites for physicians. Hackensack Meridian has also agreed to take on Anglewood's outstanding debt of 182 million dollars. Anglewood Health's CEO says the deal is all about serving the community. We're going to push access to care out into the communities that we serve. Our friends, our neighbors, our families are going to receive the highest level of care close to home. The hospital's merger with Meridian Health was unanimously approved by Anglewood's Board of Trustees. The agreement must now be reviewed by the State Attorney General's Office as well as the Federal Trade Commission. The process is expected to take about a year.

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Calgary CTrain Ride Red Line | Calgary's Light Rail System CTrain Ride From Tuscany to Somerset

Calgary Transit CTrain Red Line Ride (1st St SW to Tuscany) | Travel Alberta, Canada Today, we are taking Calgary CTrain from Tuscany to Somerset. These red trains are cute and comfortable to ride. In this video, I will give you a tour of the CTrain journey in Calgary, Alberta. I do not provide any affiliated links to sell anything or to make money off you. But if you wish, you can support me here: https://ahmeddawn.com/support-me Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:15 Start Point - Tuscany Station, Calgary, Alberta 2:35 Crowfoot Station, Calgary, Alberta 6:20 Dalhousie Station, Calgary, Alberta 9:15 Brentwood Station, Calgary, Alberta 11:00 University Station, Calgary, Alberta 12:55 Banff Trail Station, Calgary, Alberta 14:55 Lions Park Station, Calgary, Alberta 17:15 SAIT /AUArts /Jubilee Station, Calgary, Alberta 19:05 Sunnyside Station, Calgary, Alberta 23:00 8th St SW Station, Calgary, Alberta 24:45 6th St SW Station, Calgary, Alberta 26:40 3rd St SW Station, Calgary, Alberta 28:40 Centre St Station, Calgary, Alberta 30:20 City Hall Station, Calgary, Alberta 32:45 Victoria Park/Stampede Station, Calgary, Alberta 34:45 Erlton/Stampede Station, Calgary, Alberta 36:50 39 Avenue Station, Calgary, Alberta 39:40 Chinook Station, Calgary, Alberta 42:20 Heritage Station, Calgary, Alberta 44:30 Southland Station, Calgary, Alberta 46:10 Anderson Station, Calgary, Alberta 48:40 Canyon Meadows Station, Calgary, Alberta 50:37 Fish Creek–Lacombe Station, Calgary, Alberta 52:33 Shawnessy Station, Calgary, Alberta 53:30 End Point - Somerset–Bridlewood Station, Calgary, Alberta Travel Expert Ahmed Dawn's insights. Do not click this link: http://b.link/donotclick You may want to watch the following: Calgary C Train Line Walk | https://youtu.be/PL0Tx3HdZL0 Global Travel Video Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIOZmI-FcF3K0KSxEJIjRlSn Calgary & Banff (Canada) Trip Travel Videos Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIOWh8lWRE5ri3CyZmU2mFFN Banff (Near Calgary, Canada) Trip Travel Videos Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIN_oSK3k7Oh7Lcai8KAGFz0 Calgary & Banff (Canada) Trip Travel Videos Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIOWh8lWRE5ri3CyZmU2mFFN Live from Calgary & Banff | Sights & Sounds of Calgary & Banff | Ambience White Noise https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIO38bY1z8Pa_4rIqbv1J_KA Business Class Flight Reviews | Global Travel Vlog https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIOw-IyJ-6M6yUrEsqalMxbN Great Ocean Road Australia | The World's Best Road trip https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIOcKP4wEVxDP6GIkJIl1Lyw New Zealand Travel Vlog | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTA92rkznIIPmCDeY9Re7NNPS8sFrpG4p #CalgaryCTrainRide #CalgaryCTrainStation #CTrain #CalgaryTravel #bestthingstoseeClagary

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Scaling NFV - Are Containers the Answer?

Abstract: Containers are the biggest hype today - In the latest Heavy Reading Survey (October 2016), 68.4% of the responders said they will use containers for NFV. While containers provide high scale, low latency and a low startup time, however, no one really understands the complete impact of containers on how it changes the virtualization model for NFV and what impact it has on the networking and orchestration model for NFV. Containers are well dsigned for scale out applications but for contai

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Good afternoon, my check. Thank you. Good afternoon, thank you for joining this session. We should get started because we've got a full agenda. My name is Azhar Saeed. I'm one of the chief architects in the Red Hat Talco team. And joining me today in this presentation is Doug Smith. Doug and I are going to talk about scaling NFV and our containers the answer. Let's explore that particular question. But before we get into the presentation, there are a lot of people we have to acknowledge for their work. Let's start with Dan Williams. Dan, is he in the room by any chance? No? Rashid, is he in the room by any chance? No? OK, both of these guys were incredibly helpful in terms of trying to create a POC for what we are going to talk about today. And I will share that particular POC with you. And then there's another gentleman by Tomo. He's right here in the room. He's done some work with container connectors. And Ajay Simha, who had helped me with some of these slides. I don't know if he's in the room either. And of course, there he is raising your hand. So thank you very much. Thank you, Tomo. And of course, Doug, who has actually done the actual demo itself. And we're going to try to show you that demo today. Let's quickly go into the agenda. So we do a quick background in terms of how VNFs are deployed, what are the typical use cases. Very, very short introduction and background because this is part of telecom NFV operation session. So I want to make sure I put everybody on the same page. Then we dive straight into containers. What do containers do? How do they help? How well do they scale? Then we go into some scale questions. We'll ask scale questions from various different angles. And then we'll see how much of a problem do they solve and what are the open questions that we still need to solve. And then we'll show you a POC and a demo to say, how are we solving some of those problems? And of course, as a community, we'll need more people to participate in order to drive in a certain direction and we'll wrap it up with a quick summary. As you know, virtualization progression, you have seen these are all part of the introduction set of slides just to set the conversation up. You run applications of VNFs on bare metal or in virtual machines. You can also run some applications on containers. The question we are going to explore through this particular presentation is, for NFV are containers the right answer. Let's take a set of different use cases. In the use cases, if you see virtual CPE residential, virtual CPE business, or SD-WAN type of use case, or if you take on the mobile side, voice over LTE, IMS, virtual EPC, or on the GI LAN side, you can probably segment them from a wireline and mobile perspective, also from a consumer and a business perspective. You can look at the four quadrants and say, where do I need the most amount of scale? Where do I need the most number of sessions that I'm tracking? Where do I need what capability from a network functions perspective to actually go deploy my service as a telco? So those are the angles to look at from each one of these conversations. For our practical purposes, we'll just take a look at VHCPE use case and look at the residential aspect of it. In the residential use case, you're aggregating thousands of subscribers. You're looking at various different functionality that's being provided to the subscribers, whether it's incremental set of services or whether it's standard set of services through virtualizing a BNG or virtualizing the CPE. Now, what do you need to look at it from a scale point of view? You need to look at the orchestrator, you need to look at the SDN controller, you need to look at the networking components, you need to look at the VNF managers, and all of these things need to provide the capability and the service that's needed to deliver for thousands and thousands of sessions, and you need instantiation of these VNFs in the data center infrastructure or on the remote side. We are not going to deal specifically with that remote side use case. There is another presentation on Thursday you can look into where we look at multi-site open stack. So this presentation, we won't be able to explore the multi-site open stack specifically, but we'll look at specifically the scale conversations. Let's take a step back, look at what are the NFV requirements. Those NFV requirements are incredible. I mean, we need to really have a good understanding of what those NFV requirements are, and then how do they map to virtual machines and the current deployment models, and then more importantly, how do they map to the container models going forward. We need flexibility for IP addressing. This is an important topic that we need to know. Everybody takes it for granted, oh yeah, I can do DHCP, I can do Slack, I have V6 Slack, I can do private IP, public IP, overlapping IP, all those type of things. They take it for granted because it's available today, that's what they do, that's how they deploy these type of services today for virtual CPE, for residential, for business, and so on. DHCP-based address assignment and management is also something that's, you know, you'll say, yeah, this is available, this is done, it works, right? That is a requirement for NFV. Multiple interfaces assignment to a virtual machine, whether you're doing a SRIOV or whether you're doing DPDK, it doesn't matter, but you need the ability to actually emulate that hardware and provide that capability into a virtual machine. Now you need the same thing in the context of containers as well, but we'll talk about that when we get to containers. Multitenancy, and multitenancy is important because you're sharing so many different services across thousands of subscribers, whether they're business or residential, and you need multitenancy capability. From a packet forwarding perspective, you need all of those nick bonding, pneumo affinity, you know, huge page support for better latency, jumbo frames, CPU pinning, because all VNFs are not equal. You have hybrid VNFs, VNFs that actually have run some portions in containers, some portions in VMs, you have mixed apologies, you have to do load sharing, you have to have elasticity in terms of configuration. So there are lots and lots and lots of requirements for NFV or network function virtualization to work in a open stack and virtual machine environment. And people have deployed this, people have made it to work, people have actually gone through a lot of pains to get it to work and to provide the right level of performance and so on. Now let's look at some of the scale factors for those telcos. Scaling is a multidimensional problem. It's not, you know, when you start to say, I just, scaling is not about just the number of sessions. You can't say I'm gonna scale, you know, to thousands of sessions and that's it. Well, with that comes performance, with that comes QOS, with that comes service density, with that comes through, you know, orchestration scale. Management and troubleshooting scale is also important for us to understand how well will you be able to do. Are these areas visible? Are these VNFs visible to us? Do we have traceability for those particular VNFs? Also, you know, scaling the whole deployment environment itself, how do you build a CI CD pipeline to actually add new functionality, add new capability for your existing subscribers? Those existing subscribers are, you know, you're residential customers, if you're a telco, you're business customers, or they could be your internal IT departments actually trying to deploy new capabilities on that same infrastructure, on that same data center infrastructure. So it's not just about the size of scale, meaning how many, it's also the speed of scale, which is how fast you can do these things. Let's take that, go back to our residential services example of the VCPE and see what happens. Now, we all know virtual BNG, if you have deployed, you know, if you're a service provider, if you're a telco, you've deployed BNGs, you've provided residential services to those customers, and those, I mean, the number of sessions on a BNG and the number of, you know, IP sessions that you can hold with QoS to terminate those residential subscribers, it's been tuned over a period of time. Now you can get in half rack heights, you know, boxes, dedicated hardware boxes that provide half a million sessions, 300,000 sessions, easy. When you enable all the bells and whistles with respect to QoS, with respect to, you know, all of the functionality, maybe you can cut that number down to about 100, 200,000. Again, it varies by vendor, you know, some vendors will say, yeah, I can support half a million with QoS and so on. Sure. What you have to also look at is, what's the size of that box? What's the footprint of that box? What's the bandwidth you can serve in terms of the number of subscribers? What is happening at the end? If you look at the access networks is with G-Pon, the subscriber bandwidth is rising up, right? You're going up in that from single gig connections or 100 meg connections to now tens of gigs of connections. If you take then do, you know, the average statistics and say, how many connections do I have active? How many subs per connection? Now, for those of you who have designed mobile networks, even though you designed it for LTE, the average bandwidth per sub that you take from a design perspective is much smaller than typically what you advertise for an LTE. You do the same math here. You do oversubscription. You do, you design this particular network and you say, OK, how many sessions do I need to serve simultaneously? Then when you take that, you can then translate that into how many virtual machines do I need? Then from the number of virtual machines, then you translate that to how many servers do I need? And you can very quickly say, if you have just 50,000 active subs with all of the QoS, with all of the capabilities, today you can easily fit that 50,000 subs in a quarter height or half rack dedicated box. If you want to do that on a virtual machine, how many QoS do you need? How much memory do you need? How many machines do you need to be able to actually scale that particular virtual machine up for VBNG? BT did an interesting test and they found out that they couldn't actually support about 3,000 subscribers on a server with all of the bells and whistles. Now if you want to do 50,000, 100,000, 150,000, you're talking about footprint size that it increases pretty rapidly. So then what do you do? Can you scale that in a many number of VMs and keep scaling horizontally and throw more hardware to the problem? Well, no. What happens is pretty quickly, your cost efficiency and all of the dynamics that we were thinking about with respect to virtualization and with respect to NFV goes out of the window. So then enter containers. Then the question becomes, can containers help address that particular scale problem? First, let's understand what are those containers? Containers is basically a software packaging concept that include applications and all its runtime dependencies. Of course, lower virtualization overhead, lower memory footprint, instantaneous restart time, potentially much faster than a virtual machine word. Perhaps even lower latency if you want to actually talk about intercontainer communication through IPC because of a shared memory model. You can then potentially pack higher density because container runs as a process inside that particular hardware. You can encapsulate various different microservices in containers. Portability is available. If you use a standard container format, then you can use standard container capabilities like Docker containers orchestrated via Kubernetes. Deterministic packaging models. And you can accomplish reasonable isolation with C names and groups. Let's do a quick comparison of containers and VMs first before we get into NFV with containers. As we all know, in terms of VMs, VMs require their own host operating system. They run on top of Hypervisor. So you have particularly an overhead in terms of the guest operating system that actually is there inside a virtual machine. Whereas on a container, container runs in that same host, you can have something like a Docker engine that behaves quote-on-quote like a Hypervisor but actually containers are natively as a process on the host. Docker engine provides some certain capabilities and separations. There is no Hypervisor there. You have isolation through C names. They are considered much more lighter weight. And I have some specific examples to show you what is the difference we're talking about between a VM and a container for exact same metrics. You can orchestrate these containers by Kubernetes. And typical expectation is they probably scale better than 10x in the context of VMs versus containers. Then the question becomes, do you run containers natively on the host? Do you run them inside a virtual machine? Do you run them containers and virtual machines together? Well, the answer is it depends on what your environment is and where are you migrating from. Do you have containers natively available for those network functions to be able to run? Do you have the network functions re-architected in such a way that you can actually run them as containers appropriately? And do you have all the capabilities to run them? Maybe you go to a hybridized model. I was talking to a bunch of service providers in a room. And they turned around and told me, look, it's very hard for us to tell our VNF vendors to provide containers for those VNFs. I said, why? Oh, because they've done so much of tuning with their VNFs and the guest OS that comes with it as part of virtual machine that they're having a hard time trying to standardize on a common platform and actually apply all of those tuning capabilities. I said, well, you know what? Please introduce us to them. We would like to talk to them. We'd like to figure out a way to actually put those optimizations in the host OS and actually provide that capability. But it was sad to see in a way that a service provider was resigned to what a VNF vendor was offering, rather than actually turning them around and saying, hey, if you don't do it, I'll go to somebody else who can actually do it. So VNF re-architecting becomes important. So now let's explore that idea of containers and VNFs and let's explore where the problem set is, what are we doing, and how are we doing it? First, a lot of people look at containers a la VMs, use containers like a virtual machine. The question is, does that really work? What are the challenges to make that work? And what are we going to do about it and how are we going to do that? Leveraging dockerization of functions, right? There are some functions, network functions that are already available via Docker images. You can just get it out from the Docker repo or a library and start to use them right away. How well do they scale? Do they perform as much? No, we don't know that. You may have to do some of that testing and you may have to do some of that work. What you're doing really on that VNF that has already been dockerized or containerized is you're using that as like a VM lock, stock, and barrel. So in other words, the VNF has not been rearchitected to meet a microservices model or a container model. So you're limited to some of the capabilities that it provides in terms of how somebody has created a container out of it with respect to putting wrappers around the existing application. It is intuitive to apply, so people always assume, yeah, sure, it'll work. Let's now revisit our requirements that we put out and say, what happens when you run it with containers? What works, what doesn't work? So I've just put some check marks and cross marks to say, flexibility of IP address management. Anybody who's playing around with Docker and Kubernetes will tell you that the IP addressing model of Docker and Kubernetes is very rigid. What does it do? It creates a default gateway. It does an automatic address assignment each time you restart a new container. You can do it in host mode where you're exposing all your host interfaces to the containers. You can do it in bridge mode where it's actually isolating some of the things. You can do it in Mac VLAN mode. Any of those modes that you choose, it's one interface per container. The addressing is all predetermined in terms of the private addressing, regardless of what bridge do you create and what do you use. It's always knotted. So the flexibility of IP addressing, private IP, overlapping IP, multiple interfaces, doesn't work. You have to play around with the code to make it work. And one of that is what Doug's going to show you today, how you do that. Multitenancy and management overlays, perhaps you can accomplish that using Kubernetes. Things like nick bonding, num affinity, vCPU allocations. Because remember, all of these VNFs are not created equal. All workloads are not created equal in this particular context. So what do you have to do? Well, you need the ability to assign CPUs to certain VNFs. If that VNF is running containers, now you need those containers pinned to certain type of CPUs. There are VNFs there that require eight cores, 16 cores. If you have containers that are running those type of VNFs, now you need to be able to assign multiple CPUs to that particular container for the processing power that you need for those set of VNFs. Hybrid VNFs here, probably you can make that work again in a container model if you're not too worried about the networking model itself. Mixed topologies, also you can make that work. Load sharing and scale. How do you orchestrate those set of containers? And how do you specify this? See, Docker and Kubernetes do a great job of masking that complexity because all you're trying to do is deploy a web app on those. So they mask that complexity, which is awesome for the type of applications that we need. But when we go to network function virtualization, it's quite the opposite. You need traceability, you need packet traceability. You need the ability to understand what's happening, where are things getting dropped. So one of the telcos that I was talking to give me this definition says, hey, maybe what I can do is not worry too much about all of these data planes issues and just look at some of the control functions and containerize them. Sure you can do that. They actually said there are some VNFs that are control plane heavy. There are some VNFs that are data plane heavy. Wherever I don't have a requirement for those multiple interfaces, multiple addresses, and all I'm worried about is signal processing and some CPU allocations. Maybe I can use those type of VNFs and lead them to containerization a lot faster, a lot easier. Yeah, that's an approach. But what will that do when we talk about, remember, we started this conversation with scaling VNFs? If you're not gonna be able to look at VNFs holistically, rearchitect them, containerize them appropriately in a cloud-native manner, then it is not gonna work. It's not gonna help you. So that's an important thing. Let's do a quick sizing and do a quick comparison. Here's an anecdotal example, right? We did this in our lab. We're just running a simple stock image of Viada OS distribution that's available online. You download it, you do a minimal configuration of it, and you run it on a hypervisor. The amount of memory that it consumes is about 387 meg per instance that I instantiate in terms of that particular Viada OS. I have a containerized version of that Viada OS as well. The amount of memory it consumes is about 34 meg per instance. I can fire up 10 Viada OS instances or 20 Viada OS instances by a simple script, and it comes up in less than 10 seconds. So it's definitely, from that point of view, much smaller footprint, much faster, and I can restart in a matter of a couple of seconds, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds, something like that, and the whole thing is running. I haven't actually measured, for example, BGP reconnect time when I kick down a Viada OS container and then bring it back up, but I'm sure people have actually measured that, or if you go and measure it, it is again really much, much faster. So the size of the container changes a little bit in terms of how large it configures. When I started to configure a whole bunch of a whole bunch of BGP sessions and IGP sessions, and I could see the container size growing a little bit, but nevertheless it was still much, much smaller than what you typically see. So this is kind of, you can achieve easily from a six to 10x type of density in the same memory, CPU footprint in the context of containers. At least that's what we saw. Let's take a look at forwarding performance. Now forwarding performance of containers, you can use namespaces to isolate functions, network namespaces for containers to see their individual set of resources, but kernel forwarding, a kernel stack becomes incredibly important in this situation, and you can use a software such like Mac VLAN. These days there's also some work to have OBS with containers, with container networking to make it work, and then there's also some interesting conversation going around DPDK acceleration for that. Orchestrating those set of containers, you can orchestrate them using Kubernetes. Of course, Kubernetes has proven out to scale from an orchestration perspective for different apps, in enterprise IT, as well as in over the top providers, whether it's Google or whether it's Facebook or somebody else, even Red Hat has a large amount of exposure in terms of how Kubernetes orchestrates thousands and thousands of containers. Scaling the number of parts with respect to this, that's, again, Kubernetes works fairly well in that. You have hundreds of nodes, 3,000 parts for VNF deployment that you can actually see. And then, of course, you use something like COLA Ansible to actually containerize the OpenStack control processes as well. NFE does replace, in the interest of time, I'm just gonna skip and talk a little bit about the control functions of OpenStack and how they can be containerized. You can run OpenShift or Kubernetes on top of OpenStack. You can use something like Courier to connect to the neutron interfaces and actually manage those containers through Neutron as part of that particular API. Magnum will allow you to actually manage container orchestration engines as an OpenStack native service. And COLA will allow you to actually containerize the OpenStack control plane itself. So with this whole container orchestration model, you can not only just containerize the OpenStack control functions, you can use the same Kubernetes model to actually now go manage those containers that are running virtual network functions. And then the last point before we get into the POC and the demo conversation is subscriber service chaining. Well, you can take, for VNF functions or for residential services or business services or mobile services to be stitched together, you need to actually take these VNFs and stitch them together. How do the service function chaining work in the container context? Well, in the container context, if those VNF functions are on the same host, you can use IPC to stitch them together. You can actually do orchestrated service chain through Kubernetes itself. And that's what we're gonna show you as part of one of the POCs that are in a few slides. And then when you look at different hosts, you can definitely do the same standard model of VLAN, VXLAN and map those. Let me quickly walk you through. So remember I showed you a whole bunch of requirements in the beginning in terms of NFV. Now we can map those requirements over into containers. We need multiple interfaces, that's important. Docker or Kubernetes model today does not provide that to you, so we need to make that happen. You need physical NICs and SRIOV interfaces to be associated directly with containers. You need DPDK-enabled applications to work in that particular environment. We need flexible IP addresses to work. It's a reasonably flat architecture with some deterministic memory CPU allocation models and V6 support. So there's again, the list goes on. I have an interesting, with the help of one of the product managers we put together an interesting epic to actually define all those requirements and start to prioritize them and then see how much of that capability we can actually develop and commit it upstream. Sorry, so this is what we did in terms of a POC. We actually took a bunch of containers, assigned multiple interfaces to that, modified that code where you can assign multiple different interfaces to containers, stitched the containers together into a service chain through orchestration and then actually run traffic end to end. This is again to prove out the concept of that virtual CPE architecture that I started with. You know how it works internally where here's a firewall or virtual router that's sitting inside a container. We've used the kernel networking stack here. DPDK is optional at the moment. I don't think we've done that work yet. We've assigned multiple interfaces to that particular container where you have administrator defined IP address instead of the default addressing model. And then you have service chaining through, excuse me, service chaining through VE with an SFC endpoint, again with an administrator defined IP address and of course another interface that actually talks to a management SDN plane. So this is the features that it works on today, static V6 support, simple service function chains, flexible addressing. There's no bridging or SDN involved here. There are no default Docker networking models involved here. And we do multiple interfaces per container and then we assign a particular container to a CPU for the CPU pinning capability that I described to you earlier. There's a lot of work that needs to be done still in this. No more affinity needs to work. IPv6 Slack, this is the automatic addressing capability for IPv6, right? Dynamic service function chain, network service header work and additional SRIOV enhancements. And our goal is to get this to upstream as part of one of the SDN plugins with respect to Kubernetes and that's work. Now I'm gonna hand over quickly to Doug. Doug and Ajay have been doing some work internally to prove this particular multiple interface model. Over to you Doug. Thank you, Ajay, appreciate it. All right, so here we're looking at an architecture of what I'm about to show you at the kernel, or at the kernel in the terminal. So the deal here is what is so important about what we're going to show here. Azar touched on it and the deal is yes, you can use just a plain Docker, do a Docker run, have and assign multiple nets to it, but you're not actually going to have isolation between these containers. So what we've set up here as a demo is we've got two container hosts and on these hosts we're going to run containers and we're going to run Quaga as a cloud router between each of these. One, we're gonna have an open stack and if you're curious, this is in particular, this is a bare metal host provisioned by Ironic and then on AWS we're going to have an open shift instance running containers. Between these two instances, we're going to have a VXLAN interface that connects them so that we can route this over the WAN. As you can tell in each of these containers here, you'll see interfaces here with RFC 1918 style addresses between them, but then we also have given them some aliases here to represent what might be a real world WAN IP address. So you'll see from left to right a 1.1.1.1, 2.2.2 going down to 4.4.4.4. So CentOS A and CentOS B in this diagram represents some end points here that we're gonna route traffic from. You might, for a simple example, think of these as some type of service that's gonna consume, say, HTTP from Nginx on CentOS B. So we'll take traffic from CentOS A, we'll hop across the two routers, which are using OSPF between the two of them, and we'll route it to CentOS B. Well, how are we accomplishing this if this isn't technology that's available natively in, say, Docker today? Oops. We're going to use primarily a application that's called COCO that's been written by my associate Tomofumi Heishi, who's here with us today. And what this allows us to do is actually go ahead and connect either vEath or vXlan interfaces to the network namespaces that the containers are using. And we also have implemented this preliminarily as a CNI plugin. CNI is Container Network Interface that's used by Kubernetes and other things, but so we have that. So what does COCO do? Takes your two containers and connects them. So COCO Container Connector is how we got the name and that's what it's like. So moving on to the demo, I'm going to switch here. All right, so looking at the terminal here, we have got, I've got two tabs open. This one here that says a doctor octagon four is the Centos host. It's bare metal provisioned by Ironic. It's just a Docker host. So if I do a Docker PS, I'm going to see two containers running here. We have a Centos A and a Quagga A, not exactly the best display out there, but on the very far right wrapping to the line. And that represents the first two containers on the left in the architecture diagram. And then this host here with the funny host name is our open shift host. So if I say OC get pods, which is an open shift command, I can see that I have a Centos B and a Quagga B instance here. So let's take a look here at first Centos A and we'll look at the interfaces in here. You'll see that there's two interfaces here. A loopback and then this interface called in one. That in one is a VEETH connection to Quagga A and it's a VEETH to this interface into here in Quagga A. So and then we have the mid one interface in link show mid one. This is a VXLAN interface and you can see that it's remote is this WAN IP address going out to AWS. And reciprocally, we have an open shift here. If I look at Quagga B, we have this VXLAN which points in reverse to the other end. So and we also have that VXLAN or VEETH connection between Quagga B and Centos B. So we can do it either local to the machine or over the network should we need to. And to show it in action, if we can go ahead and ping from our Centos A which is a 1.1.1 routed to Centos B which we have numbered as 4.4.4.4 and there we go. We've got that coming across and then we'll show you that there is a trace route as well so you can see that it's hopping across these two Quagga instances here. This is also available on GitHub as well. So we've got on GitHub Cocoa Container Connector, Ratchet, CNI implementation of this and then also Ansible Playbook that we call ZebraPen for the containerized Quagga which is a type of Zebra, I believe it's extinct. And so you could actually spin this up yourself and take a deeper look should you so please. So that's what I've got, thank you guys. Thank you, Doug. Thank you, Doug. So what you saw there was actually containers that were sitting in AWS and containers that are sitting in here in local host and you actually saw a live demo that goes and each container had multiple interfaces that were signed. So we are not using the typical Docker networking model. So then just summarizing what are the challenges that you see with using containers for VNFs? We didn't talk about security at all. That's probably a topic that we can put another session in at the next OpenStack Summit and see if that's of interest to people. What's the risk? They run with the kernel stack. What's the optimizations? How do you do namespace isolation? How do you do C-groups isolation, right? How do you achieve multi-tenancy? How do you achieve some of the network specific functions and now you're intruding into the host TCP stack? So in terms of OAM, in terms of do we need to redefine some of those architectures? So these are questions that we need to further explore, but overall, we do believe that containers can achieve much better scalability than the typical VMs. They need to be designed as such in order to be able to achieve that level of scalability. You can't take a default model and say, oh, I have a container image, I'm gonna make it run and it's gonna run optimally, right? They do provide a much smaller footprint. Some VNFs maybe need to re-written to take account of this whole microservices architecture and the microservices model to run with containers. I know that Verizon, for example, showed you an interesting presentation yesterday where they containerized a whole bunch of services on that micro-CPE that was part of the keynote and also part of the session. That's interesting, and I think that's probably the model a lot of people will drive towards in future. You can use Courier to actually interact with the open-stacks, native open-stack set of services and we still need more work to do in the context of things like NUMA, things like dynamic service chains and more flexibility in terms of the V6 address assignment and so on. So that's what we had for you. Hope this was interesting. We have, I think, five minutes for questions. We'd be happy to take any questions. I wanted to ask Doug about the demo in the containers CentOS A and CentOS B. Who was placing the routes towards the service for the chaining? Was it Coco? So the routing was determined by OSPF in Quagga, but the actual chain of interfaces between one another is Coco. So it was Coco that... So the VF, yeah, is put by Coco itself. Yeah, that's correct, yep. So yeah, and in this case, when we've provisioned it with Ansible, we've said we run Coco from the CLI and we say, okay, hey, Coco, I wanna create a vEath pair between these two network namespaces and with this IP address assignment and we say that statically. Otherwise, if we were doing it with CNI during the process where it says interface add or interface delete, then you could potentially do it in more of a dynamic way. Right, that was the follow-up question that I have is it would probably be interesting to have, there's a lot of contention now about the multi-network proposal in Kubernetes to be able to define those things in a declarative way so that then the CNI could pick it up and would be able to set that up because if I understood correctly, now you're calling Coco out of band, like you stay still that bold thing. That is correct, that is correct. So one of the things we're also looking into is actually just enhancing the SDN plug-in itself, right? So the POC that I showed you earlier before the Doug jumped into the Coco specific demo, that approach is actually much more in line with what is being discussed in Kubernetes. Unfortunately, I didn't have something to show you live, but that is available. If anybody's interested, then we can certainly come and talk and we'll be more than happy to work with you closely. Yeah, well, thanks. Thank you. Yep. I hope we have still a few minutes. Sure, two minutes according to my clock, so. Okay, so my question is, as you know in Kubernetes, you cannot spin up a container with multiple interfaces. That's right. We probably need to use, okay, at least what I'm aware of is you can try multi-CNI or something like that. That's correct. But again, there are limitations. Like, how do you make it work with SRIOV and something like that? That's absolutely right. So in this demo, what was used? Was these containers, especially that your Kuga, something which had multiple interfaces, were they spinned up using Kubernetes and some special CNI or did it manually? Like after creating the containers, you run some scripts and out of Kubernetes or Kade Kubernetes out of bounds. So two things, one, let me just explain. So I explained to you there are three slides in terms of the POC, the Provo Concept. That is primarily via Kubernetes. That was not shown today. That's the approach that we will take and move forward with. What was shown today to you was using Coco. So maybe Doug, you can just walk through. Absolutely. So in this particular demo, what we did is we spun up the containers and then we ran Coco essentially manually with Ansible. However, in the ratchet CNI plugin that I mentioned, we actually use the same exact concept as multi-CNI uses, where what they're doing is they're calling the delegate add functionality, which allows them to specify multiple plugins. Essentially, it's sort of like a meta plugin. Yeah, it's a meta CNI and it just changed them. Right. Okay, so I understand this part. And the second thing is another thing which probably there is a lot of debate going in Kubernetes communities about the CPU pinning and those aspects. So as I see in your presentation also, is there any work you people planning to do on that? So the POC actually does have the ability to pin that container to a given CPU. That's the POC that I spoke about, yes. When will it make upstream? I don't know. I'm working with the developers to get it. And I think it's part of the Kubernetes conversation. So yes. And one final last question from my side. Okay, we're out of time, but... Okay, go ahead. For SRIOV, again, as you know, we need to do some kind of a bookkeeping for the VF, how many VFs per node are allocated, how many available. That's right. Retrieve them back. The SRIOV CNI currently available in community doesn't do that pretty well. Or at least it doesn't let the, should you learn how many VFs and VFs are available? So is there work going on that? That's an enhancement that we still need to do. That was part of my list in terms of work still that needs to be done. Okay. Sure. Thank you. I may say in Kubernetes somebody sent a patch for SRIOV. And it will end up doing the management of the SRIOV devices if you want to. Okay. Just to add, we are looking at the OPEC integer resource feature to be able to do that and doing some POC with that. Maybe we can collaborate and work upstream for that. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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Hi everyone, my name is Xavye and this is the first video of the TypeScript Design Pattern series. In the upcoming videos, I will show you how to use these patterns in TypeScript. To follow along with this series, you will need some basic knowledge of object-oriented programming and TypeScript. If you don't know anything about TypeScript, check out my series about it here. So what are design patterns and why would you want to use them? While many problems in programming have already been solved by others and don't require you to solve them again. Some of these solutions are so generic that they are called a design pattern. The benefits of using design patterns are clear. First of all, you don't have to spend time and energy solving problems that have been solved many times before. Secondly, design patterns help you increase the quality of your code because these patterns were designed with extendability and flexibility in mind. They will also help you avoid common mistakes. And when design patterns are used in teams, it allows developers to quickly understand other people's code because they'll likely recognize some of these patterns. In this series, I'll show you how to use and implement design patterns in TypeScript. I'll show you patterns like decorator, strategy, observer, facade and adapter. I'll also keep adding videos to this series in the future, so make sure to subscribe to my channel so you won't miss a beat. Hi everyone, my name is Xavier and in this video we'll be taking a look at how you can use the decorator pattern in TypeScript. Just one remark before we start. The decorator pattern has nothing to do with the decorator's feature in TypeScript. It's a bit confusing but decorators in TypeScript are basically like annotations in Java. In this video, we will discuss the pattern and not the feature. A decorator pattern is useful for when you want to allow objects to have different options. I'll explain with an example. Let's assume that you're in charge of writing the ordering software for Tesla cars. A customer has to choose between either the Model S or the Model X, nothing too fancy, but these cars have many different options that you can choose. A customer might pick the improved autopilot or the smart air suspension or maybe both. Every option has a different effect on the price. In this example, the options that Tesla give you decorate your car, hence the name decorator pattern. You basically take a base class, say the Model S, instantiate it and then wrap many options around it. This is much better than giving your Model S class a list of properties like has smart air suspension and then calculating the total price by checking if these properties are set to true. So let's dive into the code and take a look at how you can develop such a system with the decorator pattern. Okay, so here I am in Visual Studio Code ready to show you how the decorator pattern actually works. So I've created two classes, the Model S and the Model X class. And both of these have a description and they have a method cost, which returns the base cost of this car. So the Model S costs $73,000 while the Model X costs $77,000. So the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to create an abstract class car that both of these classes will extend. So let's start by creating an abstract class, car. So we're creating an abstract class here because there should be no instance of car. There should only be an instance of the Model S or the Model X, never just a generic car. Now this class will have a description as both of these cars already have, which is of type string. It should also have a method get description, which should return a string. And the method will look like this return this dot description, pretty simple. And we will also create an abstract, an abstract method cost that will return a number. So now I'm going to go to the Model S and say that this extends the car class and I'm going to do the same for the Model X and say that it also extends the car class. Okay, so next up we will define a class for all of our options that we can choose for our Model S and our Model X. For example, we might choose the Enhanced Autopilot. So for this, I'm going to create a new abstract class and I'm going to call this class car options. And I'm going to say that this extends car. This will be very important later on. So a car option will decorate a car. So we're going to keep a reference to the car that we decorate. We're going to call that decorated car. And I'm also going to say that this should override the get description method, which returns a string. And it should override the cost method, which should return a number. Okay, so that's our class for car options. Now let's create an actual car option. So let's create a class. Let's say Enhanced Autopilot. That's one of the options that you want to offer on our Teslas. And we're going to say that this extends car options. And Visual Studio Code will complain now. It will say that I need to implement some elements of car options here. So I'm going to click on that and it will generate the methods that I need to override. So the first one that I have to override is get description. So I'm going to do that right here. I'm going to say, well, we're going to return the description of the car that we decorate. And then we're going to append the name of our options. So we're going to say Enhanced Autopilot. Okay, now we're going to do the same for the cost here. We're going to say that the cost of this option equals the cost of the decorated car plus the cost of this option. So for example, we're going to charge $5,000 for the Enhanced Autopilot. Now there's one more thing missing. We need to fill in this decorated car property. So I'm going to make a constructor. And this constructor will receive a car, which will be of type car. And we're just going to say this dot decorated car equals car. And of course, we also have to call it super. Okay, so that's it. When we create a new Enhanced Autopilot option, we're going to give it an instance of car, which could be a Model S or a Model X. And then when we ask the cost of this option, we're just going to take the Model S or the Model X that we're decorating. We're going to take that cost and add $5,000 to it. So let's make another one. I'm going to copy and paste this class here. And let's say we also want to offer people rear-facing seats. So I'm going to add rear-facing seats here. We're going to keep the decorated car. We're going to keep the constructor. We're going to keep the description. But now we're going to change it. We're going to say rear-facing seats because that's what this option is all about. And we're going to charge $4,000 for the rear-facing seats. So how do you now use this decorated pattern? Well, we're going to start by creating an instance of a Tesla. So I'm going to say my Tesla equals a new Model S. And now I'm going to say my Tesla equals a option. For example, new, let's say I want the rear-facing seats. Rear-facing seats. And I'm going to pass along my Tesla so that it can decorate my car. So let's now take a look at what it looks like if we run this. I'm going to say console log my tesla.cost. And we're going to log the description of my Tesla. Get description. So let's open up the terminal now. Oops. And let's run the TypeScript compiler on this. And let's also run it in Node at the same time. There we go. All right, so here we can see that my Tesla will cost $77,000. That will be the Model S with rear-facing seats. So that seems about right. Our Model S costs $73,000 plus the $4,000 for the rear-facing seats gives us $77,000. Now let's say the customer also wants another option. Let's say he wants the enhanced autopilot. Well, all we have to do is say my Tesla equals new autopilot, new enhanced autopilot, I'm sorry. And give it again my Tesla so we can wrap around that object. And now if I run it again, our price has bumped up to $82,000 and the description of our car is now Model S with rear-facing seats and enhanced autopilot. So that's a simple example of how you can use the decorator pattern to decorate classes in TypeScript. Now I just want to end the video by showing you the UML diagram of the decorator pattern. Here we have four components. We have two abstract classes. The first abstract class is called component and it has an operation. In my example, this was the abstract car class with the operation cost. We also have the abstract decorator class. In my example, this was the abstract class car options. Then we have concrete classes for both of these. So in my example, the concrete components were Model S and Model X. And the concrete components for the decorator were the rear-facing seats and the enhanced autopilot. As you can see in this diagram, the decorator also keeps a reference to the component that it is decorating. And it also overrides the same operation. So that was it for this video. I hope you liked it and if you did, make sure to subscribe to this channel so you won't miss new videos. And if you want to learn more about design patterns in TypeScript, check out the rest of the videos in this series. Hi everyone, my name is Xavier and in this video we'll be taking a look at how you can use the observer pattern in TypeScript. So what is this pattern about? Well, often when one part of your application changes, other parts need to be updated. This is the kind of problem that you can solve with the observer pattern. Now, if you have already developed a web application, then you probably already know this pattern. You've probably used onClick or onChange handlers to detect when a user clicks on something or when he changes some text in a form. In this video, we'll take a look at how you can implement the observer pattern yourself. So let's get started. Okay, so here I am in Visual Studio Code. And in this video, we're gonna write a weather station. So I've already set up a weather station class and a temperature display class. Now it's pretty obvious that the temperature display should update every time that the weather station records a new temperature. So the weather station has a private attribute temperature, which is of course a number, and then it has a set method for temperature, and then it just outputs to the log weather station new temperature measure, and then it outputs the temperature, and then it also sets the temperature attribute. So that's pretty simple. Now with this example, we call the weather station a subject because other classes can monitor that class. And we call the temperature display an observer because that one observes another object. Temperature display observes changes in the weather station. So we're gonna start by creating two interfaces for subjects and observers. So I'm gonna create one for subject, and I'm also gonna create one for observer. Now a subject needs three methods. The first one is register observer, and we're gonna get an observer object in here. What this allows us to do is it allows our temperature display, for example, to register itself as an observer with the weather station. So the weather station then knows that it should notify the temperature display of any changes. We're also gonna create a method remove observer, just in case that we want to stop being notified of changes in the temperature, and then we're gonna create a method notify observers because if a change happens in our subject, it should notify all its observers. Okay, so that's it for subject. Let's now move over to observer. This one should have only one method that's update. And in our case, when we update, we will pass along the temperature to a subject. So if the temperature changes in the weather station, it will call the update method on an observer class and pass along the temperature. So let's now implement these interfaces. So I'm gonna say that the weather station implements the subject. And this is gonna throw an error because I have three methods that I need to implement. So I'm gonna say implement missing methods. There we go. So here we've got register observer, remove observer and notify observer. So we're gonna implement them one by one. The first one is register observer. Now what we wanna do here is we wanna keep track of this observer that we get here as a parameter. So I'm gonna create a new private attribute for a weather station. I'm gonna call this observers. And this is gonna be an array of observer objects. And I'm gonna initialize it as an empty array. So when someone wants to be notified of changes in our weather station, well, that he calls the register observer with a reference to himself. And all that we're gonna do is we're gonna say this dot observers dot push O. So we're gonna keep track of this observer. That's everything that the register observer method should do. Now let's do the remove observer. If someone wants to be removed as an observer, well, then we first have to look where he's positioned in our array. So we're gonna fetch the index by saying this dot observers dot index of O. So we're gonna look up where he is in our array. And when we know his location, then we're gonna say this dot observers dot splice. And we're gonna take away the element at the index. So that's the remove observer method. Still pretty simple, pretty straightforward. We're just manipulating an array here. Now comes the notify observers. Every time that something changes in our weather station, we should notify all of our observers. So we'll need a for loop. So we're gonna iterate over all the observers. I'm gonna say observer of this dot observers. Just loop over them. And we're gonna call the update method on each observer and we're gonna give it our current temperature. Okay, so that said, there's just one more thing that we need to do. Every time that our temperature changes, we're gonna call the set temperature method. And then we also wanna notify observers. So we're just gonna say notify, we're gonna say this dot notify observer. And actually let's make this plural because there could be multiple notify observers. There we go. And also gonna change it here in the interface. Okay, so that's everything that we need to do in our weather station. Now we can go and implement our observers. So in this case, we have temperature display. We're gonna say that this implements the observer interface. Then it's gonna complain again because I need to implement some methods. There we go. And temperature display has only one method and that's update. So whenever the temperature updates, we wanna do some logic in here, but I'm just gonna fake some logic. I'm just gonna say, I'm just gonna log something to the console. I'm gonna say temperature display. I need to update my display, for example. All right, and then your logic would go here. Now that's not enough. We need to actually say to the weather station that our temperature display wants to be notified of changes. So let's do that right now. Let's create a private attribute here. We're gonna say that we observe a subject. Should be a type subject. And we're also gonna create a constructor in which we're gonna receive the weather station, which is a subject. And we're just gonna keep track of the subject. So we're gonna say this subject equals the weather station. And then we're gonna register ourselves with the weather station. So we're gonna say weatherstation.registerObserver and we're gonna register ourselves as an observer because our temperature display wants to know when changes happen to the temperature. Okay, so that's it for the temperature display. Let's now create another observer. This is the beauty of this pattern. You can have many observers that will be notified when a single element in your code base changes. In this case, it's our weather station. So let's say I also wanna have a fan. So I'm gonna copy paste the temperature display. I'm gonna create a class fan. I'm gonna leave the private attribute here intact. I'm also gonna leave the constructor as is. And then we're gonna change the update method. So the first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna write some logic in here. What I want is I want the fan to automatically turn on when the temperature is above 25 degrees Celsius, for example. So here I'm gonna say, well, if the temperature is higher than 25 Celsius, then we need to turn on the fan, for example. So we're gonna say it's hot here, turning myself on. And then you obviously here you want some real logic, not just the console log. And if it's colder than that, we're gonna say fan, it's nice and cool. And we're gonna turn myself off. There we go. And again, here should come some real logic and not just a console log. Okay, so that's it. Now, how do you use the observer pattern? Well, you just create instances and pass references along. So the first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna create our own weather station. So we're gonna say new weather station. There we go. And then we're gonna create an instance of our temperature display. Gonna say new temperature display. And we're gonna give it our weather station so it can ask the weather station to be kept in the loop. We're gonna do the same for the fan. So we're gonna say fan is new fan. And we're also gonna give it a reference to the weather station. There we go. And now we're gonna play with it a bit. So we're gonna say weather station. We're gonna simulate a temperature change. So we're gonna say that the temperature is now 20 degrees Celsius. And then we're gonna duplicate this line. And after a while, we're gonna say, oh, the temperature rises to, for example, 30 degrees. Okay, let's now take a look at what will happen. So I'm gonna run the TypeScript compiler to compile this to JavaScript. And then I'm gonna run it in Node to see the output. Now, as you can see, when I say set temperature 20, our weather station says the new temperature measurement is 20. And immediately followed by that, the temperature display is gonna say, oh, I need to update my display. And the fan will say, it's nice and cool. I can turn myself off. That's exactly what we want. We made a change to our weather station and it automatically notified all of the observers that are subscribed to changes in the weather station. So when we set the temperature to 30, the weather station does the same thing. It says that the new temperature measurement is 30 degrees. And this triggers the temperature display and the fan to update themselves. So the temperature display now says, well, I need to update my display. And the fan says, ooh, it's hot here. I'm gonna turn myself on. So this is a simple example of how you can use the observer pattern. So let's quickly recap in what we have learned in this video. This is the UML diagram for the observer pattern. And as you can see, we have an interface for an observer and we have an interface for subject. Then we create concrete observers that have the notify method. In our case, that was the fan and the temperature display. On the subject side, we also create a concrete subject, although that's not shown here on the UML. And that one is responsible for keeping track of all the observers. So it has register observer, unregister observer and notify observers. And you can also see that whenever you call the notify observers method, it should run over all of its observers and call the notify function on each and every one of them. So that was it for this video. If you liked it, make sure to subscribe to my channel. It really helps me out a lot. If you wanna learn more about TypeScript or TypeScript design patterns, check out the next videos in these series. Hi everyone, my name is Xavier and in this video, we will be taking a look at how we can use the facade pattern in TypeScript. This pattern is used to hide a lot of complexity behind a single method. I'll use a home theater system as an example because those can be quite complex to control and set up for a particular use case. So let's take a look at the code. Okay, so here I am in Visual Studio Code and I've already created classes for some of the devices in my home theater setup. So I've created a class for Blu-ray player, for an amplifier, some lights, a TV, and a popcorn maker. Now let's assume that I wanna start watching movie. Every time I wanna watch a movie, I have to do certain things. I have to turn on my Blu-ray player. I have to press play on it. I have to turn on my amplifier. I have to set the volume. I have to set the source of my amplifier. I have to dim the lights. I have to turn my TV on and I have to turn on the popcorn maker and start popping some popcorn. Now that's a lot of complexity and it's also not practical if there are multiple places in my code where I want to start watching a movie because then I would need to copy and paste all these instructions. Instead what we can do is we can create a facade. This is a class that will hide all the complexity behind a single method. So let's do that right now. I'm gonna start by creating a new class and I'm gonna call my class home theater facade. And this class will have an attribute for each of the devices that we want to control. So in my case, it's a Blu-ray player which should be of type Blu-ray player. We should have an amp type amplifier. We should have some lights. We should have a TV and of course a popcorn maker which should be of type popcorn maker. Okay, there we go. Now the constructor of the home theater facade will receive all these devices, an instance of all of these devices. So I'm gonna repeat some of the code here. There we go. And all what we're gonna do in the constructor is we're gonna keep track of these devices. So we're gonna say this amp equals the amp that we got in the constructor. This Blu-ray equals the Blu-ray that we got in the constructor. Okay, there we go. Now we're ready to set up our actual facade. So let's say that there are multiple places in my code where I want to start watching movie. I want to set up all of my devices to watch a movie. Well, in this case, I'm gonna create a method called watch movie. And this method is gonna prepare my entire setup for watching a movie. So what we can do is we can ask the popcorn maker to turn on. And the popcorn maker should start popping some corn. There we go. We should also dim the lights. We should definitely turn the TV on because otherwise we won't be able to watch our movie. We're gonna also turn on the amplifier. And we're gonna set the source of the amplifier to Blu-ray. These are fake methods. By the way, you have to substitute these for your own implementations. And then we're gonna set the volume of the amplifier. So in this case, we're gonna turn it up to 11. And last but not least, we have to turn on my Blu-ray player. And we're gonna have to start playing the movie. Okay, so that's the facade method for when I want to start watching a movie. And I can do the same for when I'm actually done watching a movie. So I can say, well, public end movie. And then we can do some other stuff like we can turn off the popcorn maker. We can turn off the amp. And we can turn off the TV. And turn off the Blu-ray. Okay, there we go. So now we've actually placed all of this complex behavior in this setup process. We've placed that behind a single method, a facade if you want. So how do you use it? Well, very simple. You start by creating an instance of each of your devices that your facade needs. So I'm gonna start by creating a Blu-ray player, an amplifier, some lights, a TV, and the popcorn maker. And then we're gonna create a new home theater facade. So I'm gonna call mine home theater. I'm gonna say new home theater facade. This will receive all of the instances that we've just created. So with Blu-ray player, some lights, a TV, and the popcorn maker. All right. And now we can call one of the methods in our facade to start watching a movie, for example. Just say watch movie. And the facade will take care of all the complex setup process that is involved in start watching a movie. And the nice thing about this is, is that you can use this single line throughout your code. And you can keep all of this setup code centralized in a single class. That is the strength of the facade pattern. The facade pattern is a really simple pattern, really straightforward, but it allows you to keep your code short and to the point, and it prevents you from having to retype this entire setup over and over again. Also, the facade pattern is very future-proof because if one day you decide to add a device to the mix, then all you have to do is change up these instructions, and then it's changed in all the places of your code. So this was a very simple example of how the facade pattern can be implemented in TypeScript. I really hope you liked this video, and if you did, make sure to hit the thumbs up button or to subscribe to my channel. It really helps me out a lot. If you wanna learn more about design patterns in TypeScript, make sure to check out the rest of these series. Thank you very much for watching, and I'll see you in the next one. Hi everyone, my name is Xavier, and in this video we'll be taking a look at the adapter pattern. This pattern allows you to make different classes with different interfaces to work together without changing their source code. You can compare it to adapters in real life. Say you're traveling from the United States to Europe. If you wanna charge your devices, you will need an adapter to convert the European wall outlet to a US one. In this case, the adapter should implement the European plug and expose the US plug for you to use. So let's take a look at how you can implement that in TypeScript. Okay, so here I am in Visual Studio Code, and I've already created two classes to show you how the adapter pattern works. I've created an iPhone 7 class and a Google Pixel class. Now, the iPhone uses a lightning port to charge while the Google Pixel uses micro USB. So say we want to charge our iPhone with a micro USB cable that we need an adapter to change the port to lightning. So the first thing that I'm gonna do is I'm gonna create two interfaces for each of these devices. So I'm gonna make an interface for iPhone and I'm gonna make an interface for Android devices. And both of these interfaces will receive a method that is tied to their port. So for Android, that will be the method use micro USB. And for the iPhone, we will add a method use lightning. And of course, the iPhone implements the iPhone interface and the Google Pixel implements the Android interface. Okay, so far, so good. So now we're going to define the adapter. So I'm gonna create a new class and I'm gonna call this class lightning to micro USB adapter. And I'm gonna say that this implements the Android interface. So if I wanna make the iPhone compatible with micro USB, then I have to make an adapter that implements micro USB but internally can convert it to lightning. So the first thing that we need to do is we need to implement the missing elements from Android. We're gonna do that right now. There we go. We got a method use micro USB. Now before I implement this, we also need a device. And so in this case, we want to make our iPhone compatible with micro USB. So I'm gonna keep track of an iPhone device. And we're gonna receive that iPhone device through our constructor. So our constructor will receive an iPhone, which is of type iPhone. And we'll just keep a track of it. So we'll say that this iPhone device equals the iPhone that we got in the constructor. Okay, so through this adapter, we can now use the micro USB function, but we need to convert it still. We need to map it to something that the iPhone understands. So I'm gonna say, first we're gonna write something to the console. So we're gonna say want to use micro USB, converting to lightning. Okay, and then we're gonna say this dot iPhone device use lightning. So even though the iPhone is not compatible with micro USB, it only has use lightning, we can make it compatible with this adapter. This adapter will implement the micro USB function and internally translate it to something that the iPhone can understand. Now this example is really simple. We just call another method, but in a more complex code base, it could just as well be that you need to convert some arguments and do more complex setup work. So how do you use this interface? Well, I'm gonna create an instance of the iPhone 7 here. So I'm gonna say is a new iPhone 7. And if I want to charge it with micro USB, I'm also gonna create a charge adapter, which is of course a new lightning to micro USB adapter. And I'm gonna give it my iPhone in its constructor. And now we can ask the charge adapter to use micro USB. So let's take a look at what happens when I run this. So I'm gonna open up the terminal here and I'm gonna run the TypeScript compiler on adapter and simultaneously I'm gonna run it in Node.js. Let's see what happens. Okay, so notice that it says, okay, we want to use micro USB, but we need to convert it to lightning because that's what our iPhone uses. And then our iPhone says, hey, I'm using the lightning port. So what's great about the adapter pattern is that I don't need to change the iPhone class to be compatible with micro USB. I only create a new class, an adapter class that handles all the translations. So in this case, the adapter class handles translating the micro USB code into lightning. And so again, in a real code base, this can be much more complex. You might need to change the order of the arguments or you might need to convert them to other types or you might need to use many classes to accomplish something like this. I hope this simple example illustrates how you can use the adapter pattern in TypeScript. If you wanna learn more design patterns in TypeScript, make sure to subscribe to my channel. Thank you very much for watching this video and I hope to see you in the next one. Hi everyone, my name is Xavier and in this video we're going to take a look at how you can use the state pattern in TypeScript. This pattern is used to keep track of the state of a process. In this video, I'll use an order on amazon.com as an example. Here's a simple diagram showing what the process could look like. It's a bit simplified, but it will do for this example. Each arrow represents an action that the system can take and each box represents the state of the order. It starts when the customer places an order. At that point, we should verify the payment. After it is verified, it moves to the order being prepared state. In these states, the user has the option to cancel but it should not be possible to move directly to order shipped state or to any of the previous states. So let's take a look at how you can implement a system like this in a way that is flexible and future proof. Okay, so here I am in Visual Studio Code and I've already created a simple class for our order and I've given it a constructor, pretty basic. Now our order has a state that can be order being prepared, order shipped, payment pending, canceled order, and so on and so on. So to start with, I'm gonna define an interface for the state. So I'm gonna call my interface state, obviously. And each state is going to keep track of the order it is assigned to and each state will have three methods to move it to another state. So in case of an order, we want to be able to cancel our order, verify the payment of our order or ship an order. So I'm gonna write that down. I'm gonna say cancel order, verify payments and ship order. Now it's very important that all states have these methods. Next up, we'll give our order class a property called current state. And that's of course gonna be of type state. And we're also gonna create a setter that is gonna receive a state. And then we're gonna say this.currentState equals state. And we're gonna create a getter as well, getState, which is gonna return a state object. And this is just gonna do return this.currentState. So now I'm gonna create our first state. So when you place your order with Amazon, your order has a payment pending state. Amazon still has to verify your payment method and charge your credit card. So I'm gonna create that class. I'm gonna create payment pending state. That class obviously implements our state interface that we've just defined. And Visual Studio Code will complain. I'm gonna implement the messing elements. And there we go. We now've got our pending state class. I'm also gonna give it a constructor because here we have an order property, but we need to fill that in. So when we're creating a new payment pending state, we're gonna receive an order object in our constructor. And we're just gonna keep track of this order. So I'm gonna create three more classes of this. You're just gonna copy and paste this. We're gonna implement these methods later on. So we have payment pending. We also have a canceled order state. We also have a order being prepared state. And I'm gonna create a order shipped state. At that point in this state, everything is final. Your order has shipped. You cannot cancel it anymore. You cannot verify your payment anymore. That has already happened. So I'm gonna scroll up and I'm gonna go to the order class. And I'm gonna create four properties in this order class, one property for each of the possible states that it can be in. So I'm gonna fast forward the video, but this is what I'm gonna do. Okay, and in the constructor, we're gonna initialize each of these states. So we're gonna say this.canceledOrder equals newCanceledOrderState. And we're gonna give it a reference of this current order. And again, I'm gonna fast forward the video here. Okay. And when we create a new order, we're gonna set its state by default. That's gonna be the payment pending state. So when we create a new order, we're gonna place it in the payment pending order state. That's pretty simple. So now we can start implementing our actual states. So let's start with the payment pending state. If our payment is pending, we can still cancel it. So we're gonna override this method and we're gonna say cancelling your unpaid order. And when that's done, we have to set the state of our order to the canceledOrderState. There we go. So let's continue on. If the payment is pending, we sure as hell can verify the payment. So we're gonna say console.log payment verified, shipping soon, for example. And then we're gonna copy this line that we're gonna move the state along. We're gonna set the state of the order not to the canceledOrderState, but to the order being prepared state. Now, if our payment is pending, can we ship it? Well, no, because we need to wait until the payment has been verified. So all we're gonna do here is we're gonna say we cannot ship the order when payment is pending. So at this stage, when your order is in payment pending state, you can call, you can ask it to ship the order, but the system will just say, you know, I cannot do that and it will stay in the payment pending state. So let's go to the canceledOrderState. If your order is canceled, you cannot really cancel it again. So you're gonna say your order has already been canceled. And then we're gonna do nothing more. Same thing goes for verify payment. You cannot verify your payment anymore if your order has been canceled. And we also cannot ship an order that was canceled. So we can say order cannot ship it was canceled. So on to the next one, order being prepared state. If your order is being prepared, you can actually still cancel it. Well, with Amazon, you can cancel the order just until the moment that it's been shipped. So we can say cancelling your order. And then we're gonna copy the same line here. There we go. But we're gonna set the state to canceledOrderState. So for verify payment, we cannot really verify our payment because we've already done that at this point. Already verified your payment. And when our order is being prepared, you can of course ship it. So we're gonna say shipping your order now. And then we're gonna move the state along. We're gonna say that the order is now in the order shipped state. So let's now go on to the final order, the order shipped state. If an order is shipped, you cannot cancel it. You cannot verify the payment anymore. And of course, if it's shipped, you cannot reship it again. So these methods should be just empty methods or methods that tell the user that it cannot do any of these things. You cannot cancel, already shipped. You cannot verify payment because your order has already shipped. Whoops. And you cannot ship it again because it has already shipped. So that's basically how the state pattern works. You create an interface with all the methods that move your state along. So cancel order, verify payment, ship order. And then you make a class for each state that your order can be in and you implement all of these methods. And these methods are responsible for moving the state of your order along. So let's now see how you actually use this. So I'm gonna start by creating an order. And so I'm gonna say order new order. And let's just write a message to the screen that says the order state. And then we're gonna display the state. So we're gonna cast it to an object, to any object. We're gonna say order dot get state. Then we're gonna call the constructor and we're gonna echo the name of the constructor so we can see which state the order is currently in. So let me run this code right now to show you. So we're gonna run the TypeScript compiler and then we're gonna run it in Node.js. And there you go. When we've created a new order, our order is in the payment pending state. That's pretty obvious. So let's say at this point, our system tries to ship the order. So I'm gonna say order dot get state. And we want this order to ship. Let's do that right now. Let's compile it again. And now it says we cannot ship the order when payment is pending and the order state stays at payment pending. So it hasn't moved to the shipped order state because that's actually not allowed by our process. Okay, so if that's not allowed, let's do verify payment and let's run it again. And this time you can see payment has been verified shipping soon and the state of our order has changed to order being prepared. Okay, so we can do more stuff but I cannot verify it again. If I do it again and I run it, it will say that my payment has been verified shipping soon but when I run verify payment again, it will say, hey, you've already verified your payment and the order is again in the order being prepared state. So just to complete the cycle, after verifying the payment, we should ship the order. So if I run it now, it will say the payment is verified, we're shipping your order now and the current state of my order is in the order shipped state. Now let's say I want to try and cancel my order now. Well, then it will say that that is not possible because it has already shipped. So you can see payment verified, we're shipping your order and then you cannot cancel at this point anymore because your order has already shipped. So that was it for this video. I hope that this simple example made clear how you can use the state pattern. The state pattern is ideal to keep track of a specific process, in this case, shipping an order to the customer. It's also very flexible because at any time I can add more states to my system and all I have to do is add methods to my states. It's also very secure because I can define what is possible and what is not possible at each given state. So in this example, there is a rule that says once an order has shipped, you cannot cancel it anymore. So thank you very much for watching. I hope you liked this video. Make sure to subscribe to my channel if you want to learn more about TypeScript design patterns. And as always, I'll see you in the next video.

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Plotly tutorial

This series of videos on YouTube follows the chapters of my award winning massive open online course (MOOC) on Coursera called Understanding Clinical Research (or UCR for short). Anyone can view it without having completed UCR, though. If you want to learn how to use the most popular programming language for data science, then this series of videos are for you. Just an FYI. UCR is an intuitive exploration of healthcare statistics. While I have other technical courses on Coursera, I wanted to add this companion to UCR on YouTube, to teach you how to use Python to do your own statistics and research. We will be using Google Colab. It is part of your free Google account, just as Google Docs. Simply log in to your Google account and go to https://research.colab.com. Click on WELCOME TO COLABORATORY and then on COPY TO DRIVE and Colab will be available in your Google Drive. In this video I show you how to create plot and graphs. yes, we are going to visualize our data. Data visualization is such a great way to explore and understand data. I use the Plotly library. It is really stunning and powerful. BTW, leave a comment down below if anything is unclear. There are nearly 100,000 students that have been a part of my Coursera course. We are a big community. You can also jump ahead and get a certificate from my Research Unit at the University of Cape Town by completing the Biostatistics Fundamentals course on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/biostatistics-fundamentals-using-python/

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We get to one of the most exciting things in data analysis and there's visualization. Just to see your data come alive as a plot or a graph is absolutely fantastic. So after you've summarized your data, the next step is to visualize it. I'm not talking about those final plots that you're going to do when you create your report or publish it. I'm talking about just getting to know the knowledge that's inside of that data. I'm going to show you a plotting library called Plotly. It's my favorite. There are so many plotting libraries inside of Python about Plotly. It's my absolute favorite. And I think as you start looking at the video, you are going to see why I enjoy it so much and you're going to enjoy it too. Absolutely phenomenal, modern type of library to plot data. So I'm going to show you the Plotly website and then I think we're going to dive into the notebook. And I'm going to show you some basic plots, the ones that you're going to work with most commonly. Plotly is an enormous library. There are so many plots you can do. You can even plot the earth and all sorts of geography plots. It's just phenomenal what you can do. And there's no ways that I can show you all of it. But I want to give you the basics so that you then can go on the Plotly website and you can understand how to go from what they explained on the Plotly website and implement that in your own plots. Let's have a look at this beautiful world of data visualization. Good. Here we are at the Plotly website. It's plotly.complotly.com forward slash Python. So Plotly is a company. They do commercial work, but they also have this open source library available to us. So if you go to plotly.com forward slash Python, this is what you're going to see. You're going to see examples and tutorials of hundreds of plots. Look at everything that is available, even geographic plots, 3D charts, subplots. There's just so much here. There's more here than I could ever show you. Most important bit is this API reference here and the figure reference. And as we start building these plots, I'm going to show you how some of this works. I'm going to get you going, show you the important plots, how Plotly constructs its figures that we are going to plot. We're going to look at the different modules inside of Plotly. And I really hope you enjoy this. Plotly is one of the most exciting things you can do, visual things that you can do with data analysis. Here's our notebook, data visualization. So let's have a look at the libraries that we're going to use. I've already imported them. I've been playing around quite a bit. I really do enjoy plotting. So we're going to use pandas. So import pandas as PD. And here are the modules we're going to import from Plotly. So import Plotly.graph underscore objects. You can see graph objects as a module or package or library, whatever you want to call it. And we're going to import that as go. We're going to also import Plotly.io as PIO, a shortcut and we're going to use it immediately. And we're going to use the templates.default setting inside of Plotly.io. So PIO.templates.default and we're going to set that to Plotly underscore white. There are quite a few of these templates or themes if you're using a dark background that you can use inside of Google Colab, you can set it in the settings as a dark background and you can set your plots to be dark background as well. So that works out quite well and actually looks quite good. And then we're also going to import Plotly.express as PX. And that is a library that works very well with data frames. It's a quick way and easy way to create plots. It's not as powerful as graph objects, but it's certainly a quick way for you just to get some of the visualization while we explore our data. And then as always, we load the data underscore table function here. That's a magics command right inside of Google Colab. There are the files. Remember, we've got to import the drive module from Google Colab. We use the mount function and then we just change directory that's %cd into the data directory that holds our data and we list that data with the %ls command and you see all the files there. And we're going to import the data.csv file as part of a series. Please go back and watch the others if you're not familiar with this data set. It's exactly the same data set as we used before. With the data table imported and set here with a magics command, we see this nice representation of a table right inside here and we can see it's the same data set that we've worked with before. So let's start with plotting and plotting really depends on the data type. So of course age is a continuous numerical variable. There are certain types of plots that we use for continuous variables. Smoke here, although we see zeros and ones and twos, that is a nominal categorical variable. We've just encoded it during data capture as a zero, one or two. But those zeros, twos and ones, they just placeholders for an actual sample space value. Smoker, non-smoker, X-smoker, etc. And heart rate that's a continuous numerical variable. All these things will, the type of the data will determine what kind of plot we can create. So we're going to start with categorical variables and we get bar charts and pie charts. I'm not even going to talk about pie charts. Get them, they are no good. They are up to no good. Of course you can do them with plotly. Have a look at the website if you're interested. So let's just remind ourselves of these smokers and we're going to call df.smoke. So that's going to return for us a pandas series object. And it has a method called value counts and we're going to call that method value counts without any arguments. And we see the zero was the non-smokers. One was the smokers. Two was the, they were the X smokers and we had frequencies of 88, 85 and 27. And we're going to use this fact just to create a figure. So let's create our first bar plot. First of all, we are going to create a computer variable. I'm going to call mine smokers underscore fig. You call it what you like. And I'm going to create an object. Inside of graph objects, there is a figure function and I'm just going to call the figure function by saying go.figure. And that's going to create this empty figure for me. The figure object, which is now inside of this computer variable, remember, it has some attributes and it has some methods. The method that I'm going to call to add something to my plot is add underscore trace. So there we go. Add underscore trace. And we're going to, that method, we're going to populate with some arguments. The argument that we're going to pass is another graph object function. And that's the bar function. As you can see, the go.bar is a function. So parentheses there. And we're passing two arguments to it and x equals and a y equals is our two arguments. I've just hit the space bar there just so it looks nice on the screen, but you can have the x directly there. So on the x-axis, I'm passing a Python list object and it has three elements and each one of those are string. And it is in quotation marks in other words, so I've got non-smokers, smokers and smokers and that corresponds to this zero, one and two. And then on the y-axis, I'm passing the actual values, 88, 85 and 27. So that would be how many people it's a frequency count. And then the figure object here, smokers underscore fig, it has a dot show method. And when we call that dot show method, it's actually going to show to the screen and there we are, a bar plot. Now there we go, the three bars. We see non-smokers, smokers and x-smokers, but something very interesting, when I hover over this you see some information popping up. It says there non-smokers comma 88, smokers comma 85, x smokers comma 27. This graph is interactive. It really is. I can do certain things. I can zoom in and look at these things here at the top. If I click on this button, it's going to save a file, a PNG file, which is like a JPEG file onto my hard drive or on the Google Cloud. And I can use that inside of a Word document or some form of presentation. You can zoom in, you can pan around, you can select data, you can lasso some data, you can zoom in even further, zoom out a bit, just go back, reset everything. And all sorts of other things you can do here. This is completely interactive. It's fantastic. You can also set up your notebook, by the way, in presentation format. So when you do a presentation, you'd needn't go with boring old PowerPoint. You can keep your interactivity here, and that is absolutely fantastic to do. So these are bar charts. They are great for categorical variables and showing the frequency of the sample space elements of a categorical variable. And we know it's a bar plot because there are these gaps in between to show us that these things are not continuous. It's not like age, where age is continuous. These are distinct and discrete sample space elements. They have nothing to do with each other and not a continuum. So we leave these gaps in between. So next time you open a journal article and just look at the plots, you can immediately see when the authors were trying to tell you this is a categorical variable that we are dealing with. Now I want to work a bit on having to have done these things just by hand. Let's see if we can do better. So I just want to just make you aware of something. If I call the dot unique method on my DF dot smoke series, I get zero, two and one. So that's not in an order. If we go back to the table here, it's just in the order that they were discovered. So DF dot smoke is going to give us this smoke column as a pandas series and look zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, and then two, zero, zero, zero, zero. If we go on to the second page, smoke zero, zero, two, zero, two, zero, two, one. So zero came first, then it saw two and then it saw one because it's only documenting the unique values. And is this as they were discovered as pandas goes down that series, that column, zero, two, one. So we get it in that order. And if we do a value counts, if we leave all the defaults, we're going to get o12 there, but o12 there has nothing to do with the order. The order is about the frequency, the count. We are just lucky that 88 was the zero, 85 was the one, 27 was the two. So that order, but that order need not be there. By default, this is going to be in descending order of the frequency count. So be aware that there's a difference between that o21 and this o12, that's different, there's a different order there. So if we were just going to use some code, instead of hard coding the values as we've done here, we might run into a bit of problems. So let's see, we can deal with it to some extent. And the way that I'm going to deal with it, first of all, is I'm going to call the df.smoke. And that's going to give me a pandas series. I'm going to call the valueCounts method on there. That is going to give me back another pandas series. I'm going to call the values attribute on that, and then I'm going to call the toList method on that. So I'm just stringing these things together, and in the end, I'm going to have a Python list by virtue of the fact that I have this toList method there. I've just got to be aware of the order here. So just do it more than once. You know that the 85, the first to the non-smoke is the 85 to the smokers and the 27 to the non-smoke. So you just know this. So let's create the plot a little bit differently. I'm still going to use overwrite, the smokers underscore fig, computer variable, and putting an empty go.figure object inside of there by calling the go.figure function. On that figure now, I'm using the addPlace method. Again I'm passing the go.bar function to that, and my x-axis, I'm still printing out these words. I'm still creating this Python list there. But on the y-axis, instead of typing out those values, because imagine I had more, I'm just doing exactly what I did there so that I have a list object. Just as we had a list object before, we typed those values in as a list object. Now all we're going to do now is just code those values, but be aware of the order. I'm going to show you a new argument, marker equals, and I'm going to use the shorthand notation for a dictionary. So there's my outside set of curly braces, and so you can see I have two key value pairs. Remember dictionaries? Now it's the time to use them, a key value pair. My key is color, colon, and then I have a value, we'll talk about it now. And then I have comma, there's a comma, so I have another key value pair separated by the colon. So the key is color, the value is a list. So I can pass a list object as a value. And there's the list object green, red, and orange. So inside of Plotly, there are these protected words like colors. So Plotly will know exactly what that means. I don't have to code the colors later, I'll show you how to code colors. And then the value of the line key is another dictionary. So a dictionary itself can be a value to a key. So the key is line, and the value is another dictionary. And that dictionary has key value pairs. So I have a color, and black, and width, and one. The integer one. We're going to see what that is going to bring us. And then again I just call the dot show method on my object. And there we go. We have green, red, and orange. And we have this little black outline. That's where the line comes from as the key for this marker argument. So color is black and line width is one pixel. So there we go. I want to add a title. Now fortunately I already have my object, smokers underscore fig. And I can call another method, update underscore layout. And it has a couple of arguments. One of the arguments I'm going to use is this, the title argument. And I'm setting title equal to some title I came up with. You come up with your own title. And now we've updated our plot, and if we show it now, now I have this beautiful title to my plot. Let's add some access titles. Because although it says non-smokers, smokers, and smokers, we'd like a title here, and we'd like a title here on the y-axis. The vertical axis. What is that all about? So again I'm just going to call the update layout method. And remember we had title before, but now we're going to have x-axis equals and y-axis equals x-axis equals addict. Now if I write it out like this, that is the proper Python way to create a dictionary. And we just use the curly braces notation, which I prefer, but I'm just showing you, you can do this as well. So in addict I'm going to have a key value pair, but we write this differently now. So I'm going to say title equals groups of smokers, which is more in line with the other things that we did inside here of, inside of an object, a bar object here, x equals y equals. So you can use the notation that you prefer, but I'm giving these two x-axis and y-axis arguments. I'm giving them some values, and then we're calling the dot show method again. And now we're also going to have groups of smokers here and counts on the y-axis. So that is absolutely fantastic. Next thing I want to show you is to df.smoke value counts. I'm going to normalize that so that it is a fraction of one or multiplying it by a hundred so I get percentages. So now 44% of people were non-smokers, 42.5% of participants were smokers, were current smokers, and 13.5% then were x smokers. So let's try and express that in our graph somehow. So again, an empty figure object, I'm going to pass this graph dot bar. And by the way, if I hover there, look at all the arguments that you can set with a graph object. It's just absolutely phenomenal. There's so many changes you can make. And that's where I meant if you go to the APIs of Plotly on their website, it'll show you what each and one of these can do. And that's just wonderful. So on my x-axis, I still have this list object. My y-axis is just going to be those three values that I've done in this way instead of having to copy them. Now I've got a new argument text equals and text position equals. And you'll see exactly what that does. The text is going to be exactly those three values we had for the y-axis, so no difference. The text position, I've set that argument to outside. There's also inside, none in auto, but it was going to stick to outside. And then I've got another one here called hover text. In my hover text, I've actually written some words. 44% are non-smokers. That came from my value counts normalized equals 2 up here. 42.5%. I'm just doing this by hand. I can write any bit of information there as long as it's a string. Marker, we've seen that one before. And I'm going to use the dictionary notation. This time though, I'm passing three key value pairs. Color, line, and opacity as my three keys. The color has a value green and then something else and then orange. Just to show you that there are different ways that you can present a color instead of these protected color names. And the way that we do that is still inside of quotation marks. So these are still strings. RGBA, you don't have to put the A there. If you just put RGB, it's just red, green, and blue. So you know some of you might know that the pixels on your screen, they just read green and blue little things and they just shine brightly or they dim down to nothing. And if you mix those together, your eyes perceive those primary colors as some color. And you just have to tell how much each of these channels, how bright they must be. Zero is nothing at all and 255 is maximum brightness. So the red is at 255, the green is at zero, and blue is at zero. So this is going to be pure red. And then the comma one refers to this A and that's opacity. From zero, it's totally see-through, so you can't see it at all. And one is totally opaque, so you'll see the red completely. And then orange. So with these three colors, you can mix up any color you like. So you needn't be stuck to these named ones. My line, I still have this one pixel with black. And then I'm setting opacity as 0.7, only 70% of opacity. I'm using opacity outside here as my last key value pair. That means it's going to affect the green and this red and this orange equally. And that's why I set this to one here. If I put 0.7 there and 0.7 there, it'll be 0.7 of 0.7. But the green, if I write green like that behind the scenes, there's going to be an RGBA with an opacity set to one and same with the orange. So I'm keeping this one at one and outside. I'm doing all of them a lower opacity. There'll be a bit see-through. And then I've got the same things going on with my add layout. Now I've put the title here, and then x-axis is two different. Look at this update layout arguments. I could have all just listed them in one of these methods. But I've done it separately here. So I want to show you this x-axis underscore tick angle set to negative 25. That's a new argument. And let's see what that does. So there we go. We have our title, we have our axis titles. We see these at a negative 25 degree angle. Because we're lucky, yeah, we only have three sample space elements. Sometimes we have a lot more. And if we were to write these words next to each other, they might overlap and we can't see. So you can put an angle up to negative 90, then they're going to be completely vertical. So you can stack a lot of them together. So remember that x-axis underscore tick angle there. And then there's our text at the top. And that's outside the text position being outside. And the actual text up there, that's where we get the 88, 85 and 27. That's very nice. Remember I told you it can also be inside auto or none set to none. And then we see the bit of opacity that we've also introduced. And then lastly, look at my hover text. So now I get the non-smokers comma 88. And 44% are non-smokers. And 42.5% are smokers. The text that I passed, we can see that in the hover text here. So absolutely fantastic. What about horizontal bar plots? Just to show you how to do those, we create the same exact thing, go.figure. We have the air trace and we can add a bar to that. But all I've done here is I've swapped my x's and y's around. So on the y-axis, I'm now going to have the three categories. On my x-axis, I'm going to have the actual values. Text is the same text position I've put on the inside now. Hover text, I've kept the same, the marker we've kept the same, but now we've got a new one, orientation equals h as a string. And now we're going to get the horizontal bar plot. The other thing I've had to do of course is just swap the x and y-axis titles here around as well. So you've got to be a bit artistic about these things. And there we go, we see the inside numbers there. Plotly we'll decide whether they have to be black or white. And then we have our categorical variable here on the left-hand side. What though, if you wanted to group these. So this is for all the patients. Let's have a look at that. I'm going to use the group variable there, statistical variable. So I'm calling the df.group to give me the group pandas series. And then survey. And I'm passing that to the pandas cross tab function. Remember the cross tab function? That's going to give me a data frame back. I pass df.group first. So that is going to go along this axis and it's found active and control. Some participants were taking active jobs, some were taking placebo. They were given the survey and they could choose between one and five how much they agreed with the survey. So we see the values for the active group. 21% of them, 21 chose one, 18 chose two, 17 chose three, et cetera. So remember that. Let's hard code that into a bar plot that we split in two. We don't want to know of all the participants together. We want to split it up by the group. So how are we going to do that? Well, let's have a look at this. I'm going to create a computer variable, serve underscore group underscore fig, and let's go dot figure. And I'm going to pass, I'm going to create two different bar plots, two different traces. There's an air trace there and there's an air trace down here. So I'm doing it twice. So on the first one, I'm going to pass on my x-axis one, two, three, four, five. And on my y-axis, I'm passing those values there for the active group, 21, 18, 17, et cetera. I've written it there. I'm going to do exactly the same for text, the text position on the outside, but now I'm giving it a name because we're going to get legends down the right-hand side of our plot and that to show that these are only for the active group. And then I've got a marker there and a bit of opacity. And I'm doing the same here and I'm adding another trace, same x-axis values, but now the different y values that I get from control here, 17, 32, 13. And I've given it a different color. And then nothing changes as far as my title is concerned, my x-axis and y-axis titles as well, but then this new one bar mode equals group. I want them grouped together. Let's see what the effect is going to be. There we go. They are grouped together. So on my x-axis, remember I have one, two, three, four, five, and I've split it into two groups, the active and control group, but I want them grouped together. So all the ones are grouped together. That's for the active group, that's for the control group. And you can see the numbers there. In the active group, 18 participants chose two. And in the control group, 32 participants chose two. So you can see that they are grouped and that's what this group is going to do. It is going to group the two different groups, but we're keeping the x-axis sample space elements still the same because that's the survey answer, one, two, three, four, five. So I want you to do a little exercise. I think there's only exercise that I'm going to ask you to do. It's quite complex. I want you to do the same thing, the same data, but instead of grouping this one, two, three, four, five, I want grouped by whether they're in the active group and control group. In other words, we can have one, two, three, four, five and one, two, three, four, five on the other side because that's the other way you can do the grouping. So it's time for you to take a break and try this on yourself. Google it. Go unplotty.com forward slash python, see if you can figure it out. Go die your back. Let's have a look at the solution. There we go. The cross tabs function. I'm just going to do that again. So we see this is a Panis data frame. Now what I can do is call the dot values attribute or dot values property of this data frame. And all of this, remember, gives me a data frame. That's exactly the same code as we have up there. Other than the fact that I've turned things around, I've got survey first and then groups. Notice that difference. And I'm saving that in the vowels now instead of getting this 21, 18, 17, 23, I'm getting 21 and 17, 18 and 32, 17 and 13. So I'm getting this as these nested little lists inside of a NumPy array. So this is going to be a two-dimensional NumPy array. So that's the difference from before. If I were to swap these two around, I was going to get five values comma another five values. And you have to think about it why you would want it in this way. Now I'm going to create a little list object active in control as two elements that are both strings inside of a list. And just print that to the screen and I'm doing the same on so one, two, three, four, five by my choice as another list object. And then look what I'm going to do here. I am going to use a for loop to do all of this. So there's my computer variable. I'm passing a go.figure object to it. And now for I in range five, remember range was going to give me, if it's five it's going to be zero, one, two, three, four. That's five elements and we're going to loop over those because we've got here, look at this. We've got five elements to loop over here. That's the first one, the second one. And I've got five elements to loop over here. And we can make use of that in a for loop. So that I don't have to do the five air traces separately. Of course you can do that, but this is just a short way. So I'm calling while I'm looping over this five times serve dot underscore group dot fig the air trace and it's a bar, there we go bar. My x-axis remains the groups because remember now on my x-axis I told you I just want active in control. So that's all I want on the x-axis. On the y-axis though, I want values the first set, the second set, the third set, the fourth set, the fifth set. And that's why I've set it up like this so that I have these five sets to loop over and these five here to loop over. So my y is going to be vowels and then I'm using indexing the zero with one, the first one, the second one, the third one, the fourth one, text values exactly the same, text position the same and then the names it's going to loop over these five names to give me the legends on the side. And then everything else is going to stay the same. I just want to show you here how we've done this all as dictionary shorthand. So that's a different way of doing this update layout method. And look now, now I have them active and control exactly what I wanted and then they are grouped by one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five and I have the one, two, three, four, five at the bottom and plot is absolutely fantastic. I can click on one of these and they disappear. I can click on three and they disappear. Now I only see two, four and five. I can bring them back by clicking on them again. Absolutely wonderfully interactive. Just wanted to show you this one more before you take another break. I'm going to loop over this all again and nothing has changed but I'm changing the bar mode to stack. I don't like stack particularly. I just want to show you what happens if we set the bar mode to stack. By the way, I've used alternative notation here, not the curly brace notation just to show you both are available. And this is the stacked one. So I've put the values here and that's why if I do stack, I like to put the numbers there because it's difficult to see how many chose two here because you'll have to kind of guess what this level is and what this level is and subtract this one from that one to know that there are 18 there. It's difficult to see when they are stacked. Sure, it gives me the whole lot that there are 100 in there and 100 in there because I can see it's up to 100 there but just to show the values there helps a bit as I say, I don't particularly like the stack but if you set bar mode to stack, this is exactly what you're going to get. I hope you've had a nice break. Let's continue on with histograms. Now we're going to get to the types of plots that show us a distribution of a continuous variable. I use the term distribution. We're going to look at what distributions are. In a future video, we just want to see the pattern of the spread of a continuous variable and we're going to look at the age and I'm going to use the plotly express library here, so px.histogram. So we don't do .figure, it has these objects that we can access directly. So by calling the histogram function, I'm going to create a histogram object and look at this. I told you it's integrated with pandas so I can just, my first argument is this, the df, that's the data frame, comma, x equals age. So I can just use the column name there and then I'm calling the .show method on my computer variable there, which holds a histogram object and there's my histogram. Nicely done. Now you can see there are no gaps between the bars because we're indicating that this is a continuous variable. We've created little bins out of it and we're just counting how many participants fall into that bin. If I hover over here, you can say age, you can see there age equals 30 to 34 and there were 13 of them. Age equals 35 to 39, age equals 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 50 to 54. It tells us and then it shows us how many within each. But you also get this idea of how the data was spread, the shape of this spread. Now you can see the values are five apart. There's from 30 to 34, that's a five year gap, the five year interval, that was decided by plotly. Later I'll show you how you can decide how big and wide those bins must be. Now let me just show you, it's not as powerful as the graph objects, but it's much quicker. Here are some of the arguments that are available if I hover there. You can see there's relatively fewer arguments, but there's still a lot of them. There's still a lot you can change. If you go to the reference API, you'll see exactly the things that you can do or plotly.com forward slash Python. You click on one of the tutorials there, it'll show you how to construct these. So it is px, so I can just call df and on the x-axis I want age, but now I want it split up by some categorical variable. I wanna see it been split up by the group. So I want to see a distribution by histogram of the ages of the active patients between the active drug and getting the placebo drug. And for that we split on this argument called color. Now it has nothing to do with color, although it's going to color the two different sets differently. So perhaps then that is a good name for an argument, but it doesn't set the actual color. For that we have to use other arguments. There's a title argument, an opacity argument and a marginal. Now I've set that to rug because that's gonna create a rug plot on the margin of this histogram. By default it's going to be on the top. Let's see what this looks like. There we go. Now we have a group by active and control and again I can just click on them and decide which one I want to see or whether I want to see them both. And by default here they are stacked because if I look on the left hand side there's six in the active group in this age group 30 to 34, there's six there and there's seven there. So it goes up to 13. So that's the total lot and you have to kind of guess if you didn't have this hover text exactly how much each of these were. It's easy for the bottom one, you can see it says around about six but now you've got to guess that that's about 13 and 13 minus six is seven. To know that there's seven in there ends me not liking stack bar charts that much. But now you can see the rug plot. The rug plot is just a little line here indicating each of the actual values and there might be more than one patient in this group of 54 and that'll just be on top of each other. But on this margin here of my histogram I can see the rug plot. So that's fantastic. Now let's do all of this with the graph objects module inside of Plotly. So I'm going to create a go, use the go.figure function and that creates a go.figure object and I'm storing that in the computer variable age underscore hist. I'm calling the add trace method on that passing the histogram object to that and the x-axis is just df.age. All the ages on the x-axis please and Plotly will know that it has to create these bins and do exactly as we've seen before. So the hover text is a little bit less but we can still make out that's ages 40 to 44 inclusive on that interval 27 of them, 27 of them, et cetera. So let's add a bit more fun. So that's quite a bit of text code there to write a figure and I've got these two traces and what I'm going to do is on my first trace I'm going to set this conditional. So on the x-axis I'm saying df, then df.smoke, so the smoke column returning for me a panda series when it's equal to zero and for those please use the age please. So only in this trace putting age values of people who are non smokers and people who are smokers because you have got smoke equals equals one. So for brevity we're just leaving out the x smokers here but look at this new one x-bins equals dict start at 10, end at 90 and make sizes of five. So you can control that bin size by doing this and I've just marked color as orange and that's how you do the actual color not just remember before we had color. So inside of here we said marker underscore color and I've got a bit of update layout there and let's plot that out to see what it looks like. So there we have very beautiful histogram showing us the distribution of ages of those two groups. One thing I should say they look at that bar mode equals overlay. So now it's an overlay that eight there it's not stacked on top of that that is at eight because there are eight participants in there and there are four participants in there. So that's fine unless they're both at the same value and then what you'd have to do of course is just take one of them away and now you can see the traces for that one or the other one. If you just look at those two groups separately. So histogram very nice if we want to determine this distribution of data. Now more commonly in healthcare literature you're gonna see a box plot as an indication of the distribution of data. So let's rather have a look at a box and whisker plot or box and whisker chart. So I'm gonna use px my express library here dot box and so that's gonna give me a box object and I'm pausing that to computer variable and here are some of the arguments we're gonna use. We're gonna set df the data frame the x-axis we want smoke and on the y-axis we want age. So it's going to see well there are three different types of samples. There's three sample space elements inside of smoke and that's gonna be put on the x-axis. So the non smokers, the smokers and the x smokers and on the y-axis I want some indication as a box plot of the age. I've added a title there. Let's see what it looks like. This is just, this is really good for quick data analysis just quick visualizing and understanding your data after doing the summary statistics and then for me, if I wanna create plots and charts for my reports or publications, I'm gonna use the graph objects. So here we can see, I can already see there's quite a bit of difference between these smokers and non smokers. Now look at the bottom, we have zero, one and two so you would have to do something perhaps replace or map the values with a dictionary inside of a pan, that pan is series for smoke, change the value zero to smoker, one, two, non smoker, smoker and x smoker but for these plots, I'm just looking at the data, I'm just exploring the data, I'm gonna use plotly express. And look, what do you see with a box and whisker chart? If we hover over those, you see zero, zero, zero, zero because that is the group in which the participants fall and then you see the minimum was 30, the maximum was 75 and those are the outsides of the whiskers. Now I warn you if they're statistical outliers, those whiskers are not going to go to the minimum and maximum. They're going to go to a value beyond which we'll find outliers and then you'll start seeing little dots either above or below or both above and below those whiskers and you'll have to click on the top most one and the bottom most one to get the min and the max and but it'll show us that Python thinks that these are outliers. The box in the middle, that's going to be the first quartile, the second quartile and the third quartile and that's how you form it. You can see the second quartile there is the median. So that's how a box and whisker plot. That's what it looks like. Now let's do the following. Let's create separate traces and I'm going to do it the long way. So I'm going to create three list objects, Python lists, so I'm calling that dot dot to underscore list method on this conditional that's only going to return for me the ages. So df, df dot smoke equals equals zero, the ages to a Python list convert to a Python list and I'm saving them into three appropriately named computer variables there. So I have these three list objects there. So I'm going to go ages underscore smoke underscore box, go dot figure and I'm going to create three separate traces. I'm going to take ownership over the design of each three of those. So my first trace is going to on my y-axis I'm going to have non-smoker age and then I'm giving it a name, non-smokers. I'm making the marker color green and then I've got a new one box mean equals true and box points equals all. I'm going to leave that as a surprise so you can see what that does. On the second one, we have just a list of values of ages of smokers, giving it a name, making it red and I have box mean not set to true but to SD and SD as a string so inside of quotation marks and box points still all and I'm doing the same here for the X smoker ages and let's have a look. Let's not keep you in suspense here. That's what we're doing. Here's all the box points. You see some jitter left to right so that different people, participants of the same age, those dots are not on top of each other and you can set that jitter and also set how far the box points are from the plots. This first one where we said box mean equals true and the dotted line is going to give me the mean as well. Very important here when we get to actual statistical analysis, we're going to choose between parametric and non-parametric tests. Sometimes you can't use analysis of variance to compare these three ages. You'll have to use the Kruskal-Wallis test and that happens when we don't meet the assumptions for the use of parametric tests. I'm going to tell you everything about this, not to worry, but in this plot, I can see my mean and medians quite close to each other. I also don't see a lot of outliers and the box seems to be very central in the data. That seems as if this data is normally distributed and that helps me to decide just visually trying to already guess at what tests I am going to use here. When you set it to SD, not only do I get the central line, which is the mean, but I also get the standard deviation. You can see the mean plus minus in this little sigma that's the greatly illegal sigma for standard deviation. So it's showing a mean of 56.16 plus minus 2.29. That's the mean and standard deviation and this diamond goes out to that standard deviation. So it's 12.29 above the mean and 12.29 below the mean. So we get all this beautiful, rich information. When you get used to using this, a plot like this for your numerical variables or box plot like this is really going to help you out. You'll get used to reading these plots and seeing exactly where your future analysis is going to go, absolutely fantastic. The last plot that I'm going to show you here is a scatter plot and that is where we're going to just deal with numerical variables. We just want to plot numerical variables. Sure enough, we can split them by a categorical variable. We can say to show me the patients on placebo and the patients on the active drug, but we're dealing inherently with plotting numerical variables. So let's go for it. I've got Godot figure there, passing it to age underscore SPP. So I've got two numerical variables as you can guess from the name I've created, the computer variable name that I've created. So I'm going to use the add underscore trace method there and it's Godot scatter is the object that I'm passing to it, Godot scatter. On the x-axis, I want all the edges please and on the y-axis, I want the systolic blood pressure. My mode that I want is markers because you can also do lines and markers. I want a mode. My mode is just little dots, markers. I've got my standard update layout there and let's see what this looks like. And there we go, a scatter plot. So every dot here represents two numerical variables. For that participant, that participant was 33 years old and had a systolic blood pressure of 179. So pairs are values, very nicely done there. What can I do though if I want to bring a third numerical variable into it? Well, I can create a 3D plot on the one-axis edge, on the one-axis systolic blood pressure and on the other axis heart rate. But that doesn't translate into print format or if you send your article to publishers and they're going to put a publisher on their website, they also not going to have interactive 3D plots that you can hover with your mouse over and twist and turn it so you can see the 3D. You've got to have some idea of how to represent this in 3D. And one way to do it is a bubble chart which is a former scatter plot and that is where we take the size of our marker, we attach that to the third variable. So that's what I've done here. So my x-axis, I still have a h on my y-axis, SPP, but now I have this size and I'm sending that to heart rate. So the size at this time, the size of my marker is going to be coupled to the heart rate. So the bigger the dot is, the bigger the marker, the higher the heart rate. I'm going to show you another marginal here. On both my y-axis and x-axis, I've got marginal underscore y, marginal underscore x. I'm putting box and box and I'll show you what that does. I'm also adding a trend line. We're going to learn all about linear regression, creating these models. If a model will say, well, if you give me the patient's age, I can tell you what the SPP is going to be. You can get linear regression models. And then I'm giving it a title and then there's this nice labels. I like this and probably express this labels argument. It says, well, I got SPP, that's what it's going to print on the screen because that's the name of that column inside of my data frame, but I just want to change that to write it out like something like this. So let's not waste any more time. Let's call the dot show method there and lo and behold, look at the beautiful thing we've created here. Look at my two marginals. I've created two box plots, box plot for both marginals. So of course later on, I'll show you, you can do different ones, but they are all interactive. So I'm going to get that indication and look at all this data. We see a tiny little dot here. Heart rate of only 24. Definitely that's going to be a statistical outlier, I think a statistical outlier, but look at the size of the dots. That gives me an indication of the third variable. I've got the two groups separately from each other, and I've got these trend lines. You can see them. That's my mathematical model. And let me try and hover over one of them. Look at that. There's my ordinary least squares trend line model, my linear regression model. It says, if you give me the age, you can see the age there. So if I multiply age by 0.729, 121. So 0.729, 121 times age plus 114.18. If I do that little algebraic expression there, I'm going to get a predicted systolic blood pressure. I also get an R squared value there. A coefficient of determination, and it goes from zero to one. Zero is a very poor model. One is an excellent model. My predictions will be spot on. And you can see my predictions are not spot on. These values are up and above and below my trend lines. My actual values are far away from my model. But this ordinary least squares is going to give me the best model, but we can see an R squared value of only 1.0.12. Beautiful. After we've done linear regression, when we plot this again, this will make so much sense. This is all in a one, in a graph like this. It's absolutely fantastic. So four out two box plots here. We're going to see age here for this box. And we're going to see systolic blood pressure for this box here. And you can see here on this attempt, you see the little dot there? That was beyond this box in whisker. So that's a statistical outlier as far as the systolic blood pressure is concerned. Now no longer have this as the minimum. There is the minimum. And this little box now, this whisker down here, is going to give us the margin beyond which we find statistical outliers. Excellent information in just this plot. Now, let's just do this again. In this instance, I'm just going to show you two different marginals. I have histogram and rug as my two marginals, y-marginal and x-marginal. So there we see my rug as my x-marginal. And that is going to be of all the ages. And here my y, I've got the systolic blood pressure as histograms. Fantastic, absolutely fantastic. All the things that we can do there. Now I just want to show you one more thing and that is where we used the size of these markers for our third dimension. We can also use color as our third dimension. And this is the last plot I want to show you but it's absolutely beautiful. I love it. So px.scatter for scatter object inside of plotly express. The data frame, the age, the systolic blood pressure and I'm going to call color equals HR. So what did we do before for HR? There we go. We said color size equals HR. And now we're going to say color equals HR. And we're going to say facet column. Now what facet underscore column is going to do is going to create separate two columns, one for the active group and one for the placebo group because I'm wanting it to split on group. And you'll see what that looks like. A trend line using OLS. I still got a title, still got a label but now I've got to tell it because I want this color to have the spectrum of colors to indicate the heart rate for me. I've got to say color underscore continuous underscore scale. And there are different named scales and this is the name scale that I'm going to use and we call it px.colors.sequential. Whichever one of those color scales you want to use. And if we run that, look at this beautiful plot. The facet underscore column done by the group statistical variable there. There were two groups, an active group and a control group. So if there were more, we would have had more facet columns. And we see them individually and we see the agent systolic blood pressure. Agent systolic blood pressure, they're both sharing the same y-axis but they've got the individual axis. And look at the colors. The more yellow it gets here, the higher the heart rate and we can see that from the color. And we can also see the two separate models. There's the one trend line and there's the other trend line. The R squared is 0.124 there and 0.08. So for the control group, our model is a bit better. There seems to be more of a correlation between agents systolic blood pressure than there is an active group. And there's a statistical test that we can compare. If there's a significant difference between those two models, it's all fantastic and I'm going to teach you how to do all of that. So I love the plotly library because I can export it, I can work on it. I mean, if we hover here, I can say, let's zoom in just on these points. And now it's going to zoom in on the other facet column as well. And if we hit on pan and I move around the one, it moves around the other one too. It is absolutely phenomenal. And if you bolt this into a presentation, of course you can just load this page as a presentation and go down and that's what I do in my research group. We get together and I go through this analysis and it's a wonderful way to explain, especially if we have a personnel that are not that knowledgeable about statistics. This is a beautiful way, a notebook format to show them the statistical analysis because I can put word, text, all sorts of things in here. It's absolutely fantastic. Remember there, let me just reset the axis we back to where we were. So please go to the plotly website, play around, there's just absolutely just so much that you can do. I really hope you enjoyed this. Click to like this, please subscribe, tell everyone about this so that everyone can learn how to do their analysis inside of Python. It's really easy. It's overwhelming this plotting, I do know. It takes some time. You are going to make mistakes, refer to the website so that you learn how to do this and there's such absolute control. I mean, look at this plot. It is absolutely fantastic.

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Progress & Learning: Shailaja V -- blogging & social media coach

Shailaja Vishwanath is a blog and social media coach with over a decade of blogging experience. For the past few years she's also been coaching other content creators and bloggers to grow their organic audience without the overwhelm. She helps creators DIY their blogging and social media strategy and helps them truly connect with their audience. What we talked about in this interview: Content creation is a process that feels both like an experiment and a path to connection. Shailaja learned that using content for two distinct purposes - connection vs selling - has really helped grow the authentic connection with her audience. The key is to do it on a regular rhythm so that her audience is aware of the work she does and they also understand the value that she provides. In doing so, she's managed to consistently fill her coaching sessions every month since January of 2021. Netcaring with other people in your community must come from a space of deep empathy and compassion. Without the two, networking can very easily turn into an act of reciprocity with the veil of expectations thrown over it. Cultivate connections from a place of true alignment and make time in your calendar to treat everyone the way you'd like to be treated. If you're a business owner, it's important to keep trying and keep taking risks. As you do, you'd learn that failure and success are part of the game, even for established coaches and creators. Remember to chalk failures up as an experiment and focus on building on your success stories. Shailaja's Offers: The 7-Day Blog Reboot Program that helps you fall in love with content creation and blogging all over again https://shailajav.com/blog-reboot-program/ The SEO bundle (3 Books in 1) https://gumroad.com/l/SEOBUNDLE (Free) The 12 Week Social Media Game Plan: https://gumroad.com/l/freesmplan Book a Coaching Call with Shailaja: https://shailajav.com/book-a-call-shailaja/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shailajav/ Medium: https://shailajav.medium.com/

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So today I'm here with Shailaja. Now, some of you may have already seen her around in my community. I am so grateful to be able to have her actually help some of my own clients and students and she has a terrific following on various social media platforms which you can look in the notes below. And so I'm honored and grateful that she has even shared some of my things with her people as well. Shailaja is a member of my MasterHeart Business Mentoring Group and I wanted to get her on this video today to share with you some of the progress that she's seen herself making in the past months, years. Shailaja, you can talk about whatever time frame you want. The purpose, of course, of this video is to encourage people, those of you who are watching or listening to this, that you could keep taking steps on your journey of authentic business and you will start seeing some results or continue to see even better results. Shailaja, welcome to this interview and thank you for doing this. Thank you so much, George. It's always an honor to talk to you and it's an even bigger honor to be interviewed by you. So thank you so much. I really enjoy being a part of MasterHeart and of course, even before MasterHeart I've learned so much from reading your books, attending your courses, watching your videos. I remember telling one of my friends that I think I must have single-handedly contributed to a lot of George's views on YouTube because I remember watching so many of your videos back to back. Well, you're very kind and ever since that, I mean, I've seen you doing more videos as well and you're terrific on video and I hope people will check out the links below to watch your content. So do you wanna say a bit about what it is you love helping clients with just kind of as a part of the intro? Yeah, because you do a lot of different things. Absolutely, so for those who don't know about me I'm a blog and social media coach and I've been blogging for almost 14 years now come August and I've been a coach for about three years now. So it was 2018 March that I became a coach and I've actually gone through different iterations of the coaching experience. So I started off being kind of a handy woman in terms of the tech and the social media strategy and the marketing and handling people's social media until I finally found a rhythm that worked for me. And as far as my rhythm is concerned now what I help people with is to DIY their own content strategy, their social media strategy, their blogging strategy. So I don't do the nuts and bolts part of it. So I help you figure out how you can do it on your own. So that's what I typically help people with. And interestingly, I recently also had a session on time management. So one of the clients who reached out to me said she was a previous client of mine. So we had a business call, but she said, I also noticed that you're extremely good with time management. Would you be open to doing a session for me on time management? I said, sure. And then we had a call based on that. So the interesting thing I noticed is that as we grow in our role as coaches we also learn to understand and identify how we can help our own clients. And if it aligns with our purpose I think it's something that we can stay open to as time goes on. That's brilliant. Yes, absolutely. I, yeah, it's a natural that you're helping people with time management too, because to be able to thrive on social media and yet still maintain a life of wellbeing, especially since you have a family to take care of too, requires really good time management. It's like, we don't have to be on social media commenting on everything all the time. We have to use it much more mindfully. So thank you for providing that service as well. And I just want to let everybody know Shailaja offers amazing value for what she does. So please go check on her website, yeah, and get a session with her if you can. I think her rates at this time of this recording anyway is extremely affordable. So take a look. All right, so let's talk about sort of what you've been learning in your progress. And we could talk about your own experience with content creation or with collaborations or anything anywhere you'd like to start. So let me start with content creation from the business perspective. What I mean by that is where I'm specifically trying to create content from two perspectives. One is just what you talk about when you're just creating it as content creation and then there is content as marketing or selling. So I remember or even up to eight or 10 months ago when I was trying to mix the two up when I was trying to sell people a product or a course or a workshop or even a coaching session after talking about something else it would never really translate into what I would call a quality client. Sure, I was getting calls. Sure, I was getting inquiries but they weren't really tangible. It wasn't something that I could say would definitely convert to a long-term relationship because I feel at the end of the day we want a client who values us and when we are able to provide value to the other person that has to be that synchronicity. And that only happens if the client knows you knows your work over a consistent period of time. So from about June or July of last year when I started creating content with a very clear distinction where the one part of the content is where I'm just helping people with no expectations nothing other than just putting the content out there getting visibility, getting a sense of being present in this space and hand-holding people with no expectation in mind. So that kind of builds or rather it built the idea that here's a person who enjoys what she does which is what I want people to understand about content creation that it's an enjoyable process. So that was the first thing. The second thing I started doing which was in November of last year and I've been managing to do it now consistently was I would post a video a week. And I do this primarily on Instagram because that's where most of my target audience is pretty active. And I noticed that the quality of the engagement improved drastically. One, of course, video does tend to do better on social media that's there of course. But I think the fact that when any of us are on video we tend to be a little more transparent we tend to be a little more accessible. There's a sense of approachability. So people know, hey, she's talking my language. She's a person who understands who I am. She's somebody whom I can reach out to. She's somebody who if I comment on her posts she's going to respond to me. So I think that sense of accessibility really helped. And how I saw this directly impact my business and I remember mentioning this in Master Heart as well. I remember starting to post the videos and I wasn't posting the videos with an intention to gain clients. It was just a way of content testing. I was just trying to get my content out there get more visibility and things like that. The interesting thing is people started reaching out to ask about my calls, to ask about my coaching sessions, to ask about my group workshops or my webinars. And I remember at the time I started scrambling around because I didn't really have a set calendar in place yet. So I began to set up a calendar I began to set up very clear timelines, booking slots. It was very interesting because although I wasn't creating most of the content with the intention to gain a client it became a very organic process. So people started trusting me more because they were able to see that there was a sense of comfort and there was a sense of authority in the way I was presenting the content. So that made it much easier. And once I realized that I would be able to sell directly as well. So I made selling a very integral part of my overall content strategy. So if I was going to talk about a client session that went well, I would actually put up a testimonial directly from the client. And then at the end of the caption if I was putting it up on Instagram I would mention that this is exactly what I do. This is the kind of hand holding I help you with and you're welcome to send me a message or hit the booking link. So since I have a paid equity account equity allows you to add a booking button to your Instagram page. And I noticed that a lot of my clients were actually finding me through Instagram. So it made sense to have the booking button visible. So people could just go ahead and send me a message or book a call directly. And that was a very significant book. So and as a result, I started I think November with about three or four calls per month. December that went up to about six to eight. And then January and February I filled my booking calendar that was about 10 calls a week. And I actually had to do a couple of extra calls because a couple of clients said they couldn't wait till March for the next round of calls. So that was the really interesting progress that I saw. That's fantastic. I love it. And just like you said, when we have a genuine relationship with our audience by showing up with helpfulness and with transparency in our content we're welcome to sell as well occasionally. And the selling, you know, well, you're selling in a very grounded way meaning that you are sharing the experiences of your clients testimonials. This is what actually happened or this is what they said. And if this sounds interesting to you then we could think about doing that for you as well. I mean, it's a very, it's a simple, but it's so, yeah, it makes a lot of sense and it works obviously because I'm so happy to hear that your client booking is doing really well. And I think it's well deserved, well deserved. So one of the things that you've been so extraordinary at really, I mean, compared to so many others that I've collaborated with over the years is that you really, you know, I talk about net caring, you know, as a process and as a theory, you really put into practice every day, I, you know, all the time. And I want you to share what is your thought, what are your thoughts about net caring and how you do it? Like, yeah, and how is that, what has that done for your connections, for your business? All right, so here's the thing, as far as net caring is concerned, I really try to take my time to understand people where they're coming from, what they're talking about. And I wait to see if it aligns with my core belief system and my sense of values, because I feel if I have to collaborate with someone, I need to know them well enough before I can do anything, you know, whether it's commenting on a post or sharing a post. And I say this as someone who used to be a part of a lot of collaborative groups in the blogging universe. And a lot of that was, I wouldn't say a lot of it, at least some of it was kind of, it was kind of an expected reciprocity. So if I go and visit your blog, you're expected to visit my blog back. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, except that over time that can lead to you having to do that because you're expected to and not because you necessarily want to. So I would prefer that if I were to build a relationship with someone, I should do it on my terms and also do it in a way that will make the other person feel valued. So I shouldn't just, you know, I shouldn't just comment on George's post because he's a friend or I shouldn't just share George's post because he'll feel good. I should share George's content because I know that it has value, not just for me as an individual, but for my audience or for people who follow me. So I always think of it as, would I share this piece of content with anybody who knows me, not just my business audience, let us say my family, my friends, if I were to send somebody a link to your post on time management or joyful productivity, I still recommend your book to a lot of people, not even those who are necessarily in business, you know, people who ask me for links to productivity books, George is one of the few books I recommend. And I always think about that, you know, at the back of my mind. So that's the first thing I keep in mind. I really need to find the right vibe with the person in order to be able to do justice to the net caring. That's the first thing. And the second thing I ask is, how would I like to be treated in a social media universe? And I'm not saying that with a sense of expectation, I'm just saying from the perspective of how would we like to be treated as a human being? You know, if you walk up to a person, if you say hello, I mean, there is of course that slight expectation in terms of, we want that hello back, but it should be genuine, right? It should be from the heart. And it's okay. You're not going to vibe with every single person you network with or every single person that you maybe even collaborate with. But I find that if we make the effort to truly find something that makes a sense of alignment with our values, we are able to net care much better. And I always remember this from my, one of my high school teachers, and she said, even if you have to criticize someone, you know, even if you need to criticize somebody, do it with kindness. You know, don't do it from a space of superiority. Don't do it from up, from with a tone of condescension. Do it from a space of empathy because I feel that's very important. So even if a person were to reach out to me and ask me, hey, you know, I wrote this post and this actually happened a couple of weeks ago, one of the fellow Master Heart members, she reached out and she said, I wrote this post and now I'm feeling terrible about it because I don't know how it sounds. She said, would you be willing to just look at it and give me some feedback? And it was a beautiful post. It's vulnerable, it was raw, it was, it was absolutely resonant of who she was and what she was doing. And I got back and told her that I said, I wouldn't change a thing. I wouldn't change a single thing about it because that's who you are. And if a person turns away from that piece of content, it's because they are not meant for it at that space of time in their life. They'll come back to it later maybe, maybe a year, maybe 10 years from now, it will hit them that, you know what, that was actually a very brave thing that this lady spoke about, you know, putting herself out there being that vulnerable. So I think compassion is a very integral part of net, net caring because if we don't have compassion, we tend to come to it with from a lot of expectation from a space of a lot of expectations. We expect that just because I left a comment, this person has to get back and leave a comment as well. So I think these two things are important as far as net caring is concerned. Yeah. And you really, from what I can tell, I mean, what I mean, actually our own connection really started because you were such so good at doing this. I mean, you were doing it without expectation. It came from, I mean, I get a lot of people trying to network with me all the time. And I can, I can just feel the energy when someone is, you know, has an agenda and they're trying to get something from me versus when someone is just from the heart, you know, sharing. And it makes me naturally want to reciprocate, you know, it's just because when you net care with a fellow giver or at least a fellow matcher, someone who understands that, you know, we all move forward when we collaborate more and when we learn from each other, when we uplift each other really as much as we can. So I love that. The abundance mindset, right? The abundance mindset works in so many ways. Yes, absolutely. So tell me about now that you have grown this audience and kind of give people a preview of what's to come, okay? Because a lot of people who are watching this or listening to this are, you know, have a smaller audience than you. Let's just say that. And, but, you know, as we all continue to share authentically, consistently, learn how to distribute our content, the audience is going to grow. And so I'm actually real curious for myself, you know, to hear from you, you have, well, you have a bigger audience on Instagram than I do. I know that. I forget how many. I think it's getting close to 10,000 or maybe more. I don't remember. No, no, no. I think it's, no, I think it's around close to 5k, not even. Okay. So don't worry. Well, I just know that it's very active. And you have, you have, you have a very, yeah, you have a really sincere fan base, essentially. So one of the challenges people might have, and this is part of the progress and learning because it's like, okay, as I keep building, building, building, what does that mean for the need to respond to everybody? You know, people are commenting, people are messaging me, will I be able to deal with that? How do I deal with that? And I'm saying it's especially asking you to respond because, one, you are a very caring person. So I think similar to a lot of the people who are in my audience, we want to make sure people are cared for. Number one, number two, you're good at time management and you have a family. And so I think you're really qualified to talk about this. How do we, yeah, I think it's a bit of a time management question, but as we grow, how can we deal with that growth? One, I would say as far as growth is concerned, see growth is going to happen whether we like it or not. So this is the truth, right? I mean, you're not going to stagnate. That's the first thing that people need to understand. We are going to continue to grow. But I think one of the things that we can try to stay true to is how we respond to people. No matter how big we grow, I don't think we should ever forget the fact that there are people out there who are just starting out and people out there who really love it when people who have an audience respond to them. And it's something as simple as just saying, thank you for your kind comment. And thank you for agreeing with that. So this is the thing that I even teach my clients. So one of the things I teach them is to respond to every comment as much as is humanly possible. That doesn't mean you have to do it all on the same day. It doesn't even mean you have to do it all in the next day or two. You can even batch it together. So here's how I do it. So let us say, and I get most of my engagement happens on Instagram because that's where, as you know, my audience is extremely active. So any given day I have between 20 to 60 to 70 comments to reply to depending on how many posts I've put up that week and how many comments I have. So if I have 60 comments to get through, and even if I would spend about a minute or a minute and a half responding to every single comment, I do a simple thing. I schedule a focus-made session. I actually just schedule a focus-made session and I sit and respond to every single comment. And because I'm doing it in a deep work scenario, I'm actually able to put a lot of thought into the comments. I'm actually able to respond to every single comment and make everybody feel cared for. And I think this was either Josh Spector or Srinivas Rao who mentioned it on Medium. He says, treat everyone like an influencer, not just the people who have big audiences. Everyone is an influencer. We never know who is going to be a friend of yours. I'm not talking about a friend who may necessarily be, let us say, somebody of use to your business, but just a friend, a friend in need, right? And I think treating every single person who responds and comments and asks your question the way we would with a friend really makes a difference. I would say, yes, schedule a session, maybe once or twice a week where you can respond to every single comment. If most of your clients or your comments happen through email, you can do it over email. So you can batch a time when you can just respond to all your emails intentionally. So when I send out my free newsletter, I usually get about five or six emails back. And some of them send me really long emails. And I'm talking about really long ones. I'm not even talking about something they dashed off in a hurry saying, thank you for this newsletter. Some of them really open up. They're like these heart to heart talks which you would typically expect with really close friends. So, and I don't want to respond to such a long email with thanks for mailing. I want to take the time to sit and respond. And I think a lot of it is to do with how we grew up. We grew up writing letters. We grew up writing really long letters. It was not all email. It was not text messaging. It was not SMSs. It was not WhatsApp or Telegram. It was a lot of thought that went into each of these things. So I think those are habits and those are principles we can bring into our net caring as well. And as we grow as business owners. So I think that's kind of important to keep in mind. So make the time for the people who are making the time for you. Does that make sense? Yeah. And it's no wonder that you have such and a dedicated audience who respond to your content because they feel a sense of connection to you. Not only because, yes, you show up on video. You show up on posts, but you actually respond to them thoughtfully. And I love that you actually batch. You use that word. You're batching your time and responding so that it's more efficient while still being able to care for each person, at least a little bit. So of course, we both like using FocusMate. So that's one of our favorite tools. And those of you who are listening to this, like you hear me talk about it, hopefully enough to finally try it. But Sharadja, thank you so much for what you do and how you do it. Do you wanna say anything else about, anything else we didn't cover that you wanna talk about in terms of progress that you'd like to kind of celebrate or any insights you wanna share to encourage people? Oh, I would like to say that if you're a business owner of any kind, I would say keep experimenting with what works and what doesn't. And it's okay if things don't go as planned. I remember there was this coaching session that a few of my clients asked for an Instagram. I did a poll and they said, we want this training session on MailChimp. And a lot of people actually responded to the poll and said, yes, yes, we need a MailChimp tutorial. And then when I actually sent out the mail and then I sent up a couple of follow-up mails, only two people responded and didn't really make sense to conduct a workshop just for two people. So I ended up canceling the session. Now I could have said, what 50 people responded saying, yes, only two people ended up showing up. So there are so many reasons that could happen and I won't go into all the reasons right here. But the fact is sometimes things don't work out. And then there could be another situation. For instance, I'm launching a course next month and I sent out an email this morning where I took a leaf out of your book, George and I just went ahead and offered two beta sessions, scheduled for the end of this month. And within a few hours, all the slots were booked. I didn't expect that. I actually thought I'd have a few left over which I could then post about on social media, but that didn't happen. I just ended up filling with up. So things can turn around and surprise you. So I feel as business owners, it's okay to be ready to face anything. Both the successes and the failures, we tend to learn from both these things. And I think that's important to keep in mind. It's fine to fail, it's great to succeed, but it's, and I know being a stoic is not necessarily going to be easy for all of us, but it's something worth aspiring to for sure. Thank you so much, Shailaja. So those of you who have enjoyed this, be sure to check out Shailaja's content. She also, like I mentioned, offers very affordable and tremendously valuable services. So whether you are wanting to get feedback about your content, your writing, she's a tremendous writer. I really enjoy reading your writing, Shailaja. So writing, showing up on video, just kind of the technicalities of social media, Instagram, all those kinds of things or the overall strategy, and along with time management and things like that, blogging, feel free to reach out to Shailaja for some of her services and her courses, including upcoming courses too. So Shailaja, thank you so much for all that you do and for sharing your lessons with us. I hope those watching have found it encouraging. So thanks so much, Shailaja. Thank you so much, George. It's always a pleasure meeting you and it's a lovely opportunity to talk to your audience as well. Thank you once again. Yeah, thank you.

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Daily Debrief: 3,000 more US troops deployed in West Asia

In today's episode: - 3,000 more US troops deployed in West Asia - Developments at Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia - US knocked out of FIFA Women’s World Cup

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More U.S. sailors and marines have landed up in West Asia, bringing their number to, maybe nobody knows really how much, but what are they actually here for? Over the weekend, we saw a peace summit held in the Saudi city of Jeddah, a very unique peace summit for the Russia-Ukraine war for which Russia was not invited. So what really is happening with that peace? And finally, top contenders in the United States have been knocked out of the FIFA 2023 Women's World Cup. What lies ahead and who are their favourites? We will be discussing all these stories in this episode of Daily Deep Brief. So do keep watching and also please don't forget to hit that subscribe button right under this video. Over 3,000 sailors and marines from the United States have reportedly landed up in the Red Sea region in West Asia and they are apparently being deployed to counter the Iranian threat. Now Iran did see some tankers over the past few months and the United States seems to indicate that that is the reason why so many marines and sailors have been moved so far from U.S. territory into Iran's neighbourhood. But what really is happening? What is the logic of this decision? How is Iran responded? To know more about this, we have with us Abdul. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. So more U.S. troops in West Asia, nothing new. Of course, there are a lot of U.S. bases, U.S. deployments, a fifth fleet is there. But what is the justification that is being given for the latest deployment of around 3,000 marines and sailors? Well, yesterday U.S. Central Command issued a formal statement claiming that the latest surge in troops, U.S. already has more than 10,000 troops in and around the region. Because of course there is a U.S. fifth fleet is based in Manama, Bahrain and there are troops in Iraq, in Syria, in other parts of the Gulf region. So it claimed that the surge is primarily because of the increase in quote-unquote threats from Iranians which have attempted to seize, according to the U.S. statement, various civilian ships and the oil tankers in the region. And they claim that in the last two years at least 20 ships, either Iranians have seized or attempted to seize. So that is the primary reason quoted in fact in this defense ministry last month also announced deployment of further fighter jets in and around the region, F-16 and so forth. So this is a part of the larger built up according to the official versions against the aliased Iranian threats in the region. So that's exactly what the U.S. is claiming. But of course one should not go by these statements issued by the U.S. Central Command. As I said before, the U.S. of course already has thousands of troops there and if it wants to provide security to those ships passing across the Persian Gulf region they are more than capable enough to do it. As Iranians are claiming, this is basically a provocation in order to be as a part of the larger built up against all of course the changing geopolitics in the region as well as what they consider as a larger Iranian influence, rising Iranian influence in the larger West Asian region also. Abul so could you also maybe give us a bit of context for what is called this so-called tanker war between the countries there have been incidents of seizure. So what does Iran say for instance is a reason for some of these seizures and have they also responded to this latest troop deployment? Well as far as the response is concerned there are multiple ways Iranians have responded to it. Nasir Kanani, the spokesperson of Iran's foreign ministry said that U.S. troop deployments in the region has never provided insecurity to the countries in the region. In fact it has never been about security, providing security to the countries in the region. It is primarily to serve the strategic interest of the U.S. Then the IRGC commander Spokesperson also talked about the possible mischief which this particular surge could kind of provoke in the region, can cause in the region and warn against all kind of such attempts saying that Iran is capable enough to respond to all those attempts by the U.S. Then of course there is a larger question put forward by the Iranians that why in a region which is thousands of miles away from the U.S. the U.S. needs to be there. If the security of the ships in the region is a concern the countries in the region can of course safeguard can do it on their own. Iranians have also proposed a regional security alliance, maritime alliance including all the countries in the Persian Gulf region primarily to provide security to address the security concerns, whatever security concerns may be and basically to exclude all possible external interventions U.S. being one. In fact Iran has been very vocal to all foreign troops presence in the region and has repeatedly demanded their withdrawal. As far as the tanker war is concerned well the tanker war started following the U.S. sanctions on Iran after it unilaterally withdrew in 2018 and attempted to seize various tankers, Iranian tankers all across the globe one in Mediterranean then in Atlantic and other places in retaliation Iranians also started seizing some of the ships carrying of course different flags but considered to be serving the interest of the U.S. and this basically happened in 2018, 2019 in particular it heated up for some time it was of course not that hot but it has started you can say gaining pace in earlier this year but Iranians have claimed that the recent surges in seizure of the ships has nothing to do with the larger U.S. claims made about Iran being irresponsible and so forth it is primarily Iranians attempt to control the smuggle of Iranian oil and also to basically address the security concerns in the region Iran has a long maritime border and some of the ships it claims basically had threatened its maritime security so all those and of course there are certain claims made we have been refuted by Iranians that those ships never tried to seize and this is a part of the U.S. propaganda so it's a very complex situation and it seems that U.S. has used incidents of tanker seizure some instances of tanker seizure to basically create a hype against aliased Iranian threats. Over the weekend we saw a peace summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah where representatives from a number of countries gathered to discuss President Vladimir Zelensky's peace plan also unique peace plan because one it does not involve talking to Russia and second it puts a lot of conditions on Russia in order to come to peace now what really came out of this summit is a bit confusing it's not really clear there was no joint statement for instance but we have with us you go back to Abdul to actually understand the nitty-gritty of it Abdul so we discussed this right before the summit this curious case of Russia Ukraine peace summit without war peace summit without Russia but what were the major conclusions the Ukrainians are spinning it in a very positive light well that is exactly what it is spinning if you see the reports whatever reports are available in public it seems this is only Ukrainians claim that certain things have been achieved apart from the fact that the most of the participants which also included some of the close allies of Russia like China agreed to have another set of meetings in six weeks from now apart from that nothing else is concretely there in the public domain Ukrainian claim that they have all the participants in the meeting agreed to the 10-point proposal given by Zelensky the 20-point proposals as we have discussed before are nothing more than an attempt to put to portray Russians as the sole villain sole country responsible for the war in Ukraine and to held it responsible without it being invited to any talk so that was that is the gist of the talks as claimed by Ukrainians but of course no other country including China has made any public utterances about what happened during the meeting whether the proposals put forward by Zelensky were discussed or if they discussed whether they were accepted or not in fact Ukrainians also claim that some of the countries considered close they did not name it of course name them considered close to Russia tried to create certain problems during the meeting but ultimately it turned out that all of the participants agreed for the next week so just to put it in a nutshell it seems from all the reports available in the public domain that nothing concrete has been achieved so far apart from what Ukrainians are claiming and there will be a meeting in some six weeks from now again and where what will be the integrities all those details are not there there is no joint statement issue there is no concrete record in public so we are in no position to verify what Ukrainians are claiming Abdul also of course looking at it this is a larger context I mean on the one hand there is fighting there have been some talks of negotiation both sides have talked about it but clearly there is no serious will or proposal from both sides so do we see the situation continuing as you know in this pretty much what it has been for the past few months well it seems that this will continue primarily because the negative responses which all the peace proposals which involve both the countries sitting together and talking means Ukraine and Russia sitting together and talking under some mediation have been rejected primarily by the Ukraine or the countries which are backing Ukraine through armament and other supplies and until Russia is involved in any negotiation there cannot be nobody can should hope that there will be a successful peace agreement so all of even if all the countries which Ukrainians are claiming meet again and say some of the countries withdraw from it in the future the majority of countries are those countries which have taken pro-Ukrainian stand which has taken pro-NATO stand in the international forum wherever the war of Ukraine has been discussed and since they have a particular perspective about the conflict of course it is possible very likely that they basically declare the Zelenskyi proposal as something to be kind of accepted by all the parties in the war that would not pressurize Russians to agree to it and that would that means that the stalemate which is there as far as the political settlement of the conflict is concerned will continue and until there is a serious attempt made and all the proposals which have been submitted about bilateral talks between Russia and Ukraine are taken seriously of course there is no end of the conflict in sight right thank you so much Abdul for explaining that as well and we'll hopefully come back to you for more developments from the region finally continuing our regular coverage of the FIFA women's World Cup 2023 being held in Australia and New Zealand there have been quite a few developments the United States has been knocked out a very formidable contender lot of interesting football taking place we go to Siddharth and you for the latest Siddharth thank you so much for joining us our continuing coverage of the FIFA 2023 women's World Cup so it looks like the final eight teams have been determined big surprise of course being the fact that the US women's football team very renowned team is out of the tournament so take us to the last eight what's interesting what stands out what are the surprises absolutely Prasanthi I mean spot on like so right at the early on in this tournament the US has always been a favorite when it comes to the women's World Cup and a couple of coaches actually came out and made this statement that the physical difference that existed between their side and the other teams in this competition has greatly reduced because there's a much larger number of women players now who are getting the same kind of playing time same kind of exposure same kind of coaching as well and so like at least at a physical level many of the teams now at a tempo from a tempo perspective and all of that are really well matched so what we've seen at the round of 16 is almost I mean maybe France is an exception but other than that very little domination by a single team it started off with Netherlands versus South Africa you know a bunch of new teams in this stage of the competitions so Netherlands South Africa even though it ended 2-0 in favor of the Netherlands South Africa had some really good chances and with a bit more perhaps time and at this level they can probably compete even more but all the games have been really tight Sweden versus the US ended in that quite tense penalty shootout and Sweden have always had a very strong sort of women's football program they've done really well at various tournaments whether it's the Olympics or at the World Cup so they will feel like they were never really underdogs in that game but given the sheer amount of exposure the kind of investment in the sport in the US beating a US team is always going to be a great achievement so that was I guess one of the surprises Nigeria ran England pretty close as well that went down to a penalty shootout as well and the English women there coming through that but I think it's a really good mix at this point because you have Columbia representing South America they also went through earlier tonight after a 1-0 win over Jamaica who we've heard so much about this tournament and seen a lot there actually coming here has also been a great story Bob Mali's eldest daughter for example helping them find sponsorship their GoFundMe program to get support to actually continue the program to get exposure and now I think the federation back in Jamaica will have plenty to think about when this team gets back because definitely if it is a comparison with the men's team then there's so much more potential here for the team to go deeper in the tournament and play on and we also saw for those who talk about the women's game and the context of it being far less physical and it's a contact sport but they play with a little more sort of care and all of that today's game Jamaica versus Columbia was full on I mean as full contact as you can imagine and played with the kind of fire that you would expect from around a 16 knockout tournament at this level and both teams looking to sort of keep their regions not just their countries in the World Cup so it's been a really good round of 16 Peshant and we're hoping for more of the same when it comes to the quarters Absolutely Siddharth you mentioned of course Columbia of course a lot of us associate football so closely with Latin America so must be a happy moment for Latin American fans in Australia and many other parts of the world Yeah for sure inside I was talking to an artist she's a vocalist and I think the local organizing committee is talking to her to do the national anthem of Columbia if they make it through to the last stage of the tournament and she was talking about how the entire Latin American community Sydney is where they've played a bunch of their games so there's a largeish community and people are wondering how there are 60,000 Colombians in Sydney but it turns out that actually the entire Latin community or whether you're from Argentina or Peru or Chile everyone has picked up a Colombia jersey and now is sort of backing the team from the regions so I was asking her how this fits in with what we've covered often or what we continue to cover on People's Dispatch with this kind of resurgence of Latin American collectivism and that approach and she was saying yeah it's very evident in the community here they are looking at what's happening back home and also banding together they've organized in various different ways to have these kind of social events to expose people because they are also they are diaspora so they are Australian as well as belonging to whatever nationality they belong to so exposing both sides to each other's cultures and what she was telling me was that because of this World Cup also coming in here the kind of interest level in the sport in general has gotten such a boost that groups who are not perhaps before involved have gotten in it much more and so for this entire lot of people here I mean they are in that World Cup mode so it's like when you have a World Cup in Brazil on days when there are matches happening the national team are playing it's a national holiday it's a given so it's almost like that kind of vibe here which is great to see and otherwise it's a small town but we're hoping like tonight after the win over Jamaica Sydney might be a little bit alive later into the evening in a more sort of asian way so in that sense those kind of I don't know whether it's spirit or what you want to call it but it's also taking over a country where rugby and other sports are actually a little bit further ahead than football is thanks for the usual bringing in a bit of politics into sports in fact we really don't buy that distinction here at People's Dispatch so thank you so much for speaking to us and hopefully we'll get back when the semi-final line up is ready and that's all we have time for in today's episode we'll be back tomorrow with many more stories from countries across the world so do keep watching and reading People's Dispatch and do hit that subscribe button on the YouTube channel

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Taxonomic Approaches to Knowledge Codification | Knowledge Management | MGTE630_Topic057

MGTE630 - Knowledge Management, Topic057 - Taxonomic Approaches to Knowledge Codification, By Prof Dr. Khalid Mahmood @thevirtualuniversityofpakistan

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जी तोपिक है तक्सनुमिक अप्रोँचाई भी से नाडस तनोलग कोडीवकेशन,कै नाडस को जब हम कोडी़वचाई कर अंगे उपन्मे लाँइ मेह आने एक प्रुप ठी हम लाइंगे यह जब द्कमेन्ट्री खाँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँ. उसके हम मोडलद � इस में सब सेहँद है, कोगनेंटिख, और कनष्चब् मैब, उसके बाद है, विस्यन्टरी, उसके बाद है, मैनवल नीलज तकसूआनोमी, और उसके बाद है, अतोमेटेद नीले तकस्अनोमी. इने हंआमबाय बारी देखते है. तो सपायले कोगनेट्योग और कानशाप्त बाप है, ये नालजग को लिए लिए सन्थ करनेगा एक तीगा है. इस में क्या होता है के यार की कानशाप्त होता है. लिए वी तुवस ना कानषाप्त, and the relationships between these key concepts are explicitly defined. निुआ एह थी, any अगर साँँह के रहा है, ही तैसा light, this weight, This length, बलचएर सो होता, लाहा वेएिखा ہے,ider law,ूझाम ये जाता एह करता होता,ऊसे आत आद को। मुल्रोर का जाता यह उ� outstanding ke khas, अभो म小 होता।, ओा largo।. यह, ड는데요. उसको इस मैप में शो किया जा सकता है, these maps are fairly easy to produce and intuitively simple to understand but difficult to use for knowledge related procedures. तो प्रोस्टसीया प्रोस्टीजर को इस मैप के जरीये जाहर नहीं किया जासकता, otherwise, अगर कन्सेप्स को औरगनाइस करने का मामला हो, उनके द्रिमयान में रेलेशिट्स को शो करना हो, तो इस तरा के मैप जेहां वो बेस्ट अप्षन होतें हैं. अब बाद केते हैं दिसीयं, ती की अप दिसीयन ती क्या है, यह एक हरारकीकल, एक अडर को शो करता है, ती को आप प्षन वीश्ट आप आप दिसीयन प्रफ्सस के अज़ेग ती का, जिस में येस नो हो, जिस में एक साझट पे जाना हो, यह दूसरी साझट पे जाना हो, जिस में अलटर नेट वेश हो, उस को शो करने के लिए दिसीयन ती शमाल होते है, तो इस तरीके कि जो क्लासिटकेशन है कि जिस में एक फलो या एक अडर दिखाय जाता है, इसको हम नौले टेक्सानूमी केते हैं, मोर कंप्लेक्स जो होती है, इस के लिए जो है वो ताईम जाता चाही होता है, मुशकल से बनती हैं, ये जो इस पे मेंवल नौले टेक्सानूमी है, ये वेरी फ्लेक्सिबल है, कैं भी विवड आजा कंसेप्ट मैप और आजा हरारकी एक तरतीप के तोर पर इसे देखा जासकता है, इस में जो जैदा पापुलर मेंट्टर्ट्स हैं, जो टेकनीक्स हैं, वो एक हैं, ये कार्ट सार्टिं की यस में कार्ट की उपर कंसेप लिखे जाते हैं, और उनको फिर औरगनाइस की आजाता है, मैनुली और दुस्रा तरीका है, अफिनुटी ड्याग्रामिं की जिस में कुछ कागस को तुक्रुं की अपर लिखके, तु बोड की अपर या पोस्टी तु से बोलते हैं, वो एक स्टीकर नुमा होता है, उस के ज्रीये से कंसेप्स को औरगनाइस की आजाता है, किसी बोड की अपर. ती ये कार्ट सार्टिंग और अपिनुटी ड्याग्रामिं जो है, ये जीधा पापोडर मेठर्ट है, अगर हम तेक्सानोमी का काम मैनूले करनाचा है, और अगर इसी काम को हम अतोमेट तरीके से करें, तो बैनी तुल्स आर, कमरशली एगलगे लिए दिस देख्छ, फोर तेक्सानोमी कन्स्टॉक्ष्ट्ख्छन, पैस्टिक्तेख्छन isme software है, वोल स्था बेस दाने स्थार्टिस्टकेंग क्यी फुफ्चा से च्टिक्स्ट्ख्ट्ख्ट के लै़्से से तुग्टेर्मेट। विई स्थाँर्टिट्स थार्टिक्स्टंट कोर्मेट घ्रवाग के सेजट है, वोगी है, वोगी अड़ेंग सही है, और वोगी जो है, वोगी जुजर के ये आंपलाइस के जेहनो में है।

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Drug use problems and mental health: comorbidity explained

Drug use problems are often associated with health harms. Infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C, have clear links to drug use, but there are also links between drug use and mental health problems that we need to consider: People with problematic forms of drug use often suffer from both a substance use and a mental health disorder. The co-existence of a substance use and a mental health disorder in the same person is usually called ‘psychiatric comorbidity in substance users’ or 'dual diagnosis'. Read more: www.emcdda.europa.eu/topics/pods/comorbidity-substance-use-mental-disorders-europe Music: Alessandro Pirona.

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Drug use problems are often associated with health harms. Infectious diseases such as HIV, AIDS and hepatitis C have clear links to drug use. But there are also links between drug use and mental health problems that we need to consider. People with problematic forms of drug use often suffer from both a substance use and a mental health disorder. The coexistence of a substance use and a mental health disorder in the same person is usually called psychiatric comorbidity in substance users or dual diagnosis. There aren't many figures on the extent of mental health disorders among drug users, but the numbers affected can be very high, up to 80% in certain groups of drug treatment patients. Depression is the most common mental health disorder associated with substance use, but anxiety is also often seen and comorbid substance use disorders are more common in people with psychosis. Compared with people who have only a drug use or a mental health problem, people with comorbidity have more emergency admissions to general hospitals and to psychiatric hospitals and more of them commit suicide. Substance use and mental health disorders are interlinked in different ways, which are sometimes overlapping. In some cases, a mental health disorder can be considered a risk factor for drug use, which may lead to the development of a substance use disorder. In other cases, drug use can trigger the development of a mental health disorder. Clinical practice has also shown that comorbid disorders often interact to make each other worse. It is often difficult to diagnose comorbidity among drug users. For example, in a person entering drug treatment, acute psychiatric symptoms might be attributed to their drug use, or the effects of withdrawal or intoxication from drugs may be misinterpreted as psychiatric illness. Patients need careful diagnosis and integrated treatment, where the two disorders are treated at the same time with professionals from both fields working together. Providing this level of care is a major challenge for policymakers, professionals and clinicians.

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Caffeine Connect - Making federal contracting accessible for vetrepreneurs

Though veteran-owned business certification is handled by SBA as of the New Year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs remains committed to making federal contracting accessible to veteran owned small businesses. Representatives from VA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) will discuss efforts to empower the veteran entrepreneur community. Mr. Jules Tchoujan, the Senior Director for VA OSDBU’s Acquisition Support Team, will discuss the procurement process and efforts to empower the veteran entrepreneur community. Mr. P. Antoine Broughton, Director for VA OSDBU’s Direct Access Program will describe business networking sessions OSDBU’s hosts which intend to maximize participation in government contracting. He will also explain OSDBU activities that provide entrepreneurs options to diversify their operations. The discussion will also entail resources to help business owners’ ventures grow and succeed.

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Welcome to today's DAV Caffeine Connect. Just before we get started, I wanna remind you all that registration is open for DAV Patriot Bootcamp Spring cohort. It'll be held in beautiful, the beautiful silicon slopes of Lehigh, Utah by our friends at MX. The deadline to apply is May 18, I'm sorry, the event will be held May 18 to 20. The deadline to apply is March 20th. We need mentors too. So if you want to mentor email us at infoatpatriotbootcamp.org, the event is free and thousands of dollars in non-dilutive capital is available to winners of the pitch contest coming out of the event, but back to business. In January 2023, most of you know, certification of veteran and service disabled veteran owned businesses was transferred to the Small Business Administration. However, as a lead federal agency for services to veterans and one of the most prolific sources of potential contracts for veteran entrepreneurs, the VA remains an incredible resource for veteran business owners. The VA is committed to making contracting accessible to veterans. And our guests today play a significant role in making sure you have the opportunity to succeed and participate in the American dream you and your fellow veterans serve to make possible for everyone. We're joined by two extremely passionate representatives from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilizations. Jules Tujon is a retired Army combat veteran who completed two tours in Iraq. He is the senior director of acquisition support team for the office and Navy veteran and retired Mustang officer with 30 years nearly of military service, Antoine Brotten directs the direct access program. And he'll tell us about that today. So gentlemen, I'll kick it off over to you and thanks for being here and thanks for your service. We got you there, Jules is on. Thank you, good afternoon everybody. And for the veterans on the call, I would like to thank you for your service to this great nation. My name is Jules Tujon and I'm the senior director of acquisition within the VA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. What the Osdebu office does is we basically under public law 95-507 and public law 109461, we make sure that we provide maximum practicable opportunities to federal contract to small businesses. So today we will discuss with you ways and means method that you can apply when applying or when looking forward to become a vendor within the US Department of Veterans Affairs. And I will turn it over to Mr. Antoine Brotten. Over to you Antoine. Thank you Jules and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, again as my colleague Jules Tujon has said so eloquently. I wanna thank all the veterans out there for their service. I am Antoine Brotten. I lead the direct access program and the direct access program focuses on trying to connect buyers, which we also call procurement decision makers to vendors like you, small businesses of a variety of socioeconomic categories whether that be service disabled, veteran owned small businesses, veteran owned small businesses, 8A, hub zone, women owned small minority, LGBTQ regardless. We are trying to connect those firms to various buyers. And the unique thing is that we're looking at not just VA procurement opportunities as showcased by our program offices. We also talk about and present information related to subcontracting and teaming with large businesses. And we call that our large business engagement. And then finally we connect with other government agencies to help them showcase their procurement opportunities. So when we do that really it creates a trifecta of wins. It's a win for the small business because that is one less basically ceiling that they have to try to break through one less cold call. It's a win for whether it be the VA office or the program offices, whether it be the industry partner or the another government agency. We do the work, you benefit, we benefit and our customers benefit. So that's just a quick highlight for you. I'll turn it back over to Jules because he's gonna talk to you about the procurement process and everything that goes along with that. And so please ladies and gentlemen, use this time, take some good notes and at the end we're gonna go ahead and open up the floor for questions. Let me turn it over to Jules to get to the meat of the subject which is the procurement process. Jules? Yes, thank you, Antoine. The procurement process is actually made of two big phases. And the first phase is what we call the pre-solicitation phase. Pre-solicitation means it comes before the solicitation. And the second phase is what is called the post-solicitation phase. Well, the pre-solicitation phase is as important as the post-solicitation phase but it's the most important phase because you as a vendor or you as vendors you need to be prepared to meet the solicitation requirements. And talking about the pre-solicitation phase, I'm referring here to a couple of things, right? The government has a need. It's all about the government having a need and you have to meet that need. What is called also requirement. What does the government need? I'll just use an example in the hospital environment, the hospital environment. The government has the need for elevator maintenance. Okay, the elevator breaks down. So that's the service. There's a need for that. So at the pre-solicitation phase, the government establish a document called the PWS or the SOW which is the performance work statement also called the statement of work. And it is a document in which the government clearly writes down what he's looking for. How many elevators need to be maintained? What is the quality of service that they expect? If they have 10 elevators in the hospital, the government may say, we want you to have nine out of the 10 elevator have to be maintained, have to be functional at all times. So that's the need, right? And so here now you have to, and the government goes through in the background, the government prepares the money. In the VA, we do it through a form called the VA form 2237 or the purchase request, the purchase request, which is basically the government is saying, we have the money for this. There's a budget line for that and we have the money. And the program manager, which is the person in charge of the program office, usually an engineer will say, well, we have, I'm just using a number year, half million for that. And we want to award a 100,000 contract, a base plus four years, base 100,000 plus four option years. Obviously there's inflation that can be added to that, but let's leave those details on the side. The big picture for you here is to see that there's behind something going on that is called acquisition planning. The government plans that and the government has to do something called the market research. So basically the program or the engineer has to answer the question, are there any small businesses, are there any businesses that can do this? If it is in Washington, DC, I'm using a hospital, let's say a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland or in Washington, DC, VA hospital, any VA hospital for that matter. So the government has to say, well, we need a vendor that is within, I would say, that can respond within 30 minutes of a call. If a elevator breaks down, we need 30 minutes response time. So that's called the statement of work. So they write all those things in the statement of work. And the law requires that these requirements are posted in something called the FCO, forecast of contacting opportunities. You may not take a note of that because that's an important thing to have. FCO. So when somebody say, that is where you need to go to look for opportunities that are coming. Remember, this is in the pre-solicitation. So the solicitation is not even out, but the government is required under the law to post this in FCO. So if you go in FCO, you should be able to see what is upcoming. You will not see all the detail at this time, by the way, you will not see a completed standard of work or it completed a finished performance work statement. The document here are not finished because in the planning phase, but at least the government is telling the vendor community, we have something coming. And they even put the bracket. They can say it will be within between 250,000 to 500,000 or 700,000. So they put a window there. So you know that this is not a $50,000 job. And they write something called a next code. That is something you need to write down. Next code is N-A-I-C-S. And I'm writing it down so that I don't forget for you. So N-I, it stands for North American Industrial Classification System. Basically, all the things that the government buy, whether it is good or services, they will fall under a next code. This is an important element, an important parameter you need to know. Okay. So the government plans all those things now and does the market research. And the market research is basically, just like when we buy TV, we try to shop around Walmart, Costco, B-Jangs, you know, you list the stores. I'm not making any advertisement for any company out there, but we as consumers, we go and shop for that, right? It's the same thing that the government does. So the government try to find out there what are the vendor out there that can meet the need for the elevator maintenance. The government searches. Another system called SAM, S-A-M. It stands for the system of award management, SAM. So the government goes there and see what are the vendor. The government goes into something else called FPDS. You hear me using a lot of these acronyms. They're important. Those are the things that the government, the tools that the government has. It stands for the Federal Procurement Database System, Next Generation, FPDS. So the government looks into all those and now the government comes around and say, oh, within the Washington hospital, we found five vendors. But out of the five vendors, there are three that are large businesses. Large businesses means big company, okay? And I will not get into the detail now. I'm just giving you a big picture at this point. There are three large businesses and there are three small businesses. This is important for everybody on the call. Out of those two small businesses, there are two veterans owned small businesses. Both are veteran owned small businesses, meaning these are veteran who open their company, they manage, they run their company, they own at least 51% of, they have 51% or more of ownership and so on and so forth. But in any case, they are owned and managed by veterans. Now, the program managers, after doing that market research, oh, just like you would say, oh, I found a TV in Costco, I found it in Walmart, I found it in Sam's Club. The big question becomes, what is the price? What are the price? Do the requirement of the TV, the feature of the TV meet my needs? Something with the government. This vendor can then meet my needs. And the government doesn't evaluate at this point. But at least they know that there are three large businesses out there and two small businesses. And the small businesses are SDVOSB, SDVOSBs. That's you people, or VOSBs, veteran owned small businesses. So under the public law, and you can write it down, the public law is public law 109-461. It requires that whenever in the VA, the VA wants to buy something, good or services. If market research shows that there are two or more service, disabled, veteran owned small businesses, or veteran owned small businesses, that can do the work. There are at least two of them, but this is important. They can do the work, meaning they can meet the price, within the price. The VA will not go to you if you come out with your estimate to do the work at one million. Because remember, the government has the budget from only 500,000. So now the government goes ahead and post something called the solicitation. Usually we even do something called sources sort. Sources sort, SS. If we don't do a sources sort, we do something called an RFI. Request for information. Request for information doesn't obligate the government to buy anything. It is market research. The government is looking if you are out there, if they are company like you are there, we can do the job. And you have to respond to the sources sort. If you don't respond to the sources sort, what happens is that the government says, oh, we posted the sources sort, we posted this RFI, and only one service is obligated on responded or no service is obligated on responded. Well, remember what I told you, on a public law 109461, there must be at least two of you guys out there. So you didn't respond to the sources sort, the government did this market research and say, well, nobody responded. They didn't respond. Now the government is obligated not to follow the public law 109461 and to do something called unrestricted procurement strategy. And I will explain. If there were two, if you guys responded, the government is obligated to do something called set aside, set aside, meaning the setting aside, for whom, for you, for serving several veteran or small businesses and veteran or small businesses. We call it the vet first program because it's for you, that's the law in the VA. But if you don't respond, then the government do something called unrestricted. It doesn't mean that you cannot compete on it. It simply means that a job that was normally restricted to only you were large businesses, women on hub zone, AAs, the other socioeconomic category could not compete. Now you let it to be competed by those. But guess what? The more competition, the less chances you have. And the less competition, the more chances you have. That's the name of the game. Know the rule, play the game. It's a game, but you need to know the rule. And remember, you cannot play the federal procurement game with the rules that you learn from someone else. They don't apply, just like you cannot play American football with the soccer rule. Same thing. Now the government posted, after the RFI, the government post, what is called a solicitation. And the solicitation can be, it takes different name, but it's a solicitation, right? There's something called RFQ, Request for Information. I'm sorry, Request for Code. I'm sorry, RFQ, Request for Code. Remember, we talked about the RFI, Request for Information before. Now we just change. We just move in the procurement phase because that was the question. We are not in the middle. The government posted a solicitation and looking for you. In the solicitation, the government specifically, and it would specifically say that, we want to end this with an award. If the Avento can do it, and if the price is fair and reasonable, the price has to be fair and reasonable. So the post it now, and you respond with your proposers, or with your code. The solicitation takes different name. I told you early, Request for Code or RFQs. RFPs, Request for Proposers. RFPs, Request for Deeds. In any case, the government is saying, we have a solicitation and we want to hear, we want to see how you will do it. You have to respond to it in order for the government to look at your proposer. And I will use the proposer term here. I can use the code, but people use proposer a lot. So I will go with proposer, so that you understand. So now, the government posted a solicitation, and you respond with your proposer. You gave it back to the government to look at it. Take a note on this, this is important. I've seen this over the last 20 years, a lot of problem with this. When you respond to a solicitation, to any government solicitation, whether it's in the VA or out of the VA, in the federal government, under the federal official regulations, you have to meet two criteria. Two criteria. One is called the element of responsiveness. And I'll write it down, responsiveness. And the other one is called the element of responsibility. And I will come at those two with you and close this first part of my speaking. Responsiveness means what? The government in the solicitation would say something to you like. We don't want you, we want you to respond with no more than 20 pages. Your proposer cannot exceed 20 pages. If you give 21 pages or 20, and maybe a line on the 21st page, you are disqualified. Those are the rule of the game. The government will say something like, we want you to respond in the world, 12 font, aerial character or aerial font. Don't use any other. You use any other font, you disqualify. That's called responsiveness. They say 12 font, you put 11 or 13 or 14, disqualify. Those are the rule of the game. And we are here in Osibu, we are here to help you. Call us at anytime, email us at anytime we will help you with this thing. After this conversation today, this meeting you may forget everything I say. Remember these two things, responsiveness. If the government say respond on by Thursday, March 9th by 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and you respond at 3 or 1 Eastern Standard Time, you are deemed, your proposer is deemed, disqualify, ineligible. That's the law. You can go all the way to the Supreme Court, you will never win it. Those are the rule of the game. So I'll finish with the responsiveness. It's called responsiveness determination. And the next one I will finish here and give it to Antoine. It's called responsibility determination. The responsibility determination basically, the government is looking if you have the technical management, you just, you cannot just say you will fix the elevators. Do you have the expertise to do that? Do you have the manpower to do that? Another area of responsibility is, well, what if you file bankruptcy last year? What if you have a bad credit line? That is the government that we cannot do business with you because you cannot finish this. You can run into a court, a lawsuit and not be able to complete the work. They look at your finances. That's the area of responsibility. I talk about your capability, your manpower, how the people who work in your office, the people who will be conducting the management of this, are you able to perform the work? The government look at that, are you responsible? And that was the first part of the solicitation, pre-solicitation. It ends and it turns into what you call the award and everything kicks the post-award, which is the post-solicitation, okay? And the post-solicitation is everything that happened. They evaluate your proposal. They do your debriefing. They make the award. They start monitoring the work. They do the Q&A or quality assurance to make sure that you're delivering everything that we agreed on the contract or that we put on the solicitation, so and so forth, including that you are getting paid. Under the Prom Payment Act, the government is required to pay you within 30 days. And you have to deliver it to the government. You have to meet every single area of element of your contract. I will leave it there and then I'll wait for your question. Over to you, Antoine. Hey, Jules and Antoine, I'm sorry. If we could just real quick, while we switch over to Antoine, we're getting a ton of questions about some of the acronyms and it seems like, you know, the VA and DOD have something in common or government contracting in general does. So if maybe you could just prepare to help us with some reminders on those acronyms when we get to questions, that'd be great. And Antoine, I'm sorry for taking some of your time. Sure, not a problem. Dan, if you want, we could maybe address some of those questions now. So that way we can get to that. So if you can give us some of those questions about the acronyms and then I can kind of pick up where you leave off or will you give me the cue? The acronym questions were many, there were many acronym questions. So it's kind of general. Here's a question from Devin Copy. I'm sorry I screwed up your name for sure, but are there, are these opportunities to respond to RFIs sources sought only on SAM.gov or is there another place to locate these opportunities? Yeah, this opportunity under the law if it's above 25,000 have to be on SAM.gov. It used to be called FedBeesOps. They just changed it. It was called FedBees Federal Business Opportunities. They changed it to SAM.gov. And the law says that it is called the Federal Official Regulation calls it, the technical name is government point of entry, GPE, government point of entry. And SAM.gov is the government point of entry that we have right now. Great. Antoine, why don't we move it over to you and we'll have some more questions coming out of your presentation, if that's okay. That is fine, Dan, thank you. And Jules, thank you for that great information. I'm quite sure that the audience found it extremely useful. So ladies and gentlemen, what I wanna do is talk to you very briefly about what VA Osibu does really and truly to help you. We lost your, there you go. Okay, all right. Let me start over again. So what VA Osibu does is we help small businesses do capture management and capture management by definition is the effort to identify, explore and consider business opportunity. Regardless of the equal space, whether it be government or private sector. And truly really that is what VA Osibu does and that is done by two portfolios, my portfolio, the direct access program and also the women's version on small business initiatives. So I wanna talk about our outreach activities and that we're going in a very broad way because whether it be for one type of business or the other, Osibu is committed to helping you not just reduce the level of effort to find contract opportunities but to the fullest extent possible to connect with the buyers that will influence or has a direct input into the acquisition strategy which is basically who are we gonna buy this from? Who is in the type of business, socioeconomic category and what is the basis for that decision? Is it past performance? Is it having relevant experience and things like that? So the direct access program, we work with three different groups like I mentioned in my introduction. We work with the VA program offices, we work with other government agencies and we work with industry, okay? With the VA, basically the demand to engage with industry drives conducting events. What I did earlier, I think the last chat that you may see from me colleagues in the chat box is the list of upcoming events that we have and you'll notice on that list, we have a basically a litany of events that we are hosting as in for the department and that we're collaborating with a industry partner such as IBM which is coming up actually today. We're doing that today. And so the type of interaction that happens at these events really come in two different modalities. The first one is called a business opportunity session, BOS. Some, in some circles you'll hear it referred to as a industry day. I like to really stick with the term business opportunity session because it's not an all day type of event. Typically it's an hour, maybe hour and a half which includes question and answer. And during the business opportunity session, the buyer also called the procurement decision maker will lay out the who, what, when, where and why. This is what we have, this is what we're looking at and they'll talk in very gentle terms because with the government sometimes there is what they call acquisition sensitive information. They will get into those details. So they'll give you enough to help you to understand what it is we're looking to buy and in most cases the on or about timeframe. That's the business opportunity session. Like I said, again, it's a brief. We typically do those virtually. We've been doing them virtually since 2019. And I wanna say that we've done probably a couple of hundreds since 2019 and what we find by doing it virtually we're actually being able to attract not only firms in the local Washington DC area but also those companies located across the country. So that's one of the benefits of doing virtual business opportunity sessions. Subsequently, the program office or the industry partner may decide to do what we call scheduled one-on-ones. The scheduled one-on-ones is a 20 minute discussion between one business representative and whether it be one or more representatives of whether it be the VA as a program office or our industry partners. And during that conversation it's intended to explore from both ends buy the seller and sell it to buyer. What is the likelihood that this company or companies like the one that they're talking to can satisfy the government's needs? Bear in mind as a result of the one-on-one conversation no one is walking away with a contract at all. This is a part of what we call market research to really explore what's out there. So during that particular conversation that is a great time for small business to really talk about what makes them unique. How do they stand out from the crowd? Okay. And what I always suggest small businesses do is talk about metrics, because metrics are undeniable. If the industry standard let's say for a call center requirement is to answer the call speed of answer within 30 seconds if the audience is, let's say a thousand or less and you answer calls based on past performance less than that that's the type of information that you wanna use in your 20 minute conversation. So you wanna help position your company in the mind of the person you're talking to to say, hey, look, this is what we can do. Here's how we compare to the industry standards, okay? So to recap, we have the business opportunity session and then we have the scheduled one-on-ones. Another activity that we do and again, these are all driven by the needs and express desire of the program manager. And again, that could be VA or the government agency or industry are called product demonstrations. And those product demonstrations allow for a company to really show a product. We've had product demonstrations for walkers, for lifts, for wheelchairs, for a hospital beds. And what will happen is the VA program office will give potential providers a list of what they call minimum technical requirements, the MTRs. And so during that product demonstration, you have to go through that list to show. It says that it could hold this particular bed can hold a hundred pounds, you're gonna have to demonstrate that somehow. That it's got wheels that go 360, you're gonna have to demonstrate that somehow. And so we've been doing those a lot with the Strategic Acquisition Center and those again, provide the small businesses an opportunity to show that product. So I've talked about three activities, the business opportunity session, the Schedule 101s and then the product demonstrations. The first two really form the core of the types of activities that we, the direct access program under the auspices of Osibu will conduct, okay? So I've talked about the activities. Let me talk about one other point and then I really wanna open up the floor for questions. The next point I wanna talk about is what we call a large business engagement, LBE. And what the large business engagement entails is us teaming with not just those VA prime vendors who providing us services, but also whether it be large companies or even small, what I call medium sized companies that are successful that are looking for business partners for you to subcontracting and team it. Now remember sports fans, that is a decision that you have to make because it has to fit. You have to be good with that relationship. So during a large business engagement, the large company or the middle-sized company or the small company who's looking for a subcontract and a teaming partner, they'll kind of lay out in very broad terms. Here's what we're looking for. Here's where we're operating in. Here's some of the prospects that we are considering with respect to where we wanna go. We wanna either add some capabilities, we wanna supplement some capabilities in some existing areas or whatever case can be. So they lay that out during a business opportunity session. Subsequently, that program office or industry partner may hold scheduled one-on-ones. And as I talked about before, that's where we're kind of calling it the first date where a conversation is happening, 20 minute conversation. So you've got 20 minutes to sell your business. But again, I would strongly encourage you, think about facts and figures. Think about how you're gonna stand out in the mind of that buyer. I've had a Fortune 50 company CEO tell me one times that Antoine, if you can tell small business anything, tell them, treat every interview like a chance to do business. Every interaction is an interview. So you always wanna put your best foot forward and you always need to be prepared to speak to, you hear it all the time, the elevator speech, but really speak substantively about what you provide and what makes you different. Saying that you're committed to a particular call, saying that you committed to customer service, saying you committed to innovation, that's all in great, but this is business. So let's get to the bottom line upfront. How do you compare? What makes you different than everybody else out there? Okay, so that's really all I wanna talk about because I wanna really open up the floor to get some questions answered. And again, so when you think about VA Osdibu, think about us being an extension of your capture management efforts. We do a lot of work. If you go on our website and I put it on there for the upcoming events, you'll see the litany of companies that we have partnered with. I also encourage you when you go to our webpage, if you click on where it says events, there's a pull down that says archived events. If you go back and look, you will see over the last three years since 2019, consistently, ladies and gentlemen, we are partnering with a variety of companies in a variety of business line, construction, transportation, IT. You name it. Bear in mind, each event, when you go to our events page, we have all of the information as it relates to that event, so you can make an informed decision about attending. One other note before we go to questions, I want you to know if you register for a business opportunity session, and for some reason you can't attend, not a big deal. Everybody that registers will get a copy of the recording, assuming that the program office allows a copy of the recording, as well as a PDF of the presentation. So you won't miss out that way. Another point is when you sign up and register for a scheduled one-on-one, you are putting your hat in the ring. What I mean by that is the program office or the industry partner will look at your capability statement and other questions they have asked us to include in registration, and based on that, they will decide who they are going to meet. Again, this is about maximizing time, so if you're closer to what they're looking for, that way it is an objective assessment, then they're gonna say, yeah, we wanna meet with this company, and then my team will work with you to schedule a time. So just bear that in mind. And a point with that, kind of going back to what my colleague said, if they're asking a question about a particular aspect of your business, provide the information, get in, get out. Don't need a manifesto. You want to ensure that you clearly and succinctly explain to them whatever the question that they're looking for answers, given that information right away. So that said, let's open up the floor, Dan, and let's take some questions. Awesome, let's start with Devin. Devin is working on this in SkillPridge, and he's had a ton of great questions, and Devin, do you wanna come on and correct me for butchering your name? I apologize. Yeah, sure, Dan. Don't apologize. 15 years in the military, a lot of people have had a lot of practice having trouble with the last name. So it's Copey, it's Finnish, but I had a question. I think either of you guys could probably knock this one out of the park. There was some mention, I think you mentioned a little bit, Joel's at the end of your talk, asking about working through the process for receiving funds. We've successfully worked with the VA in the past, and then we've just had some trouble with the tungsten network getting, being able to get through the technical difficulties. Would you be able to speak at all to that process of how you would go about requesting funds? Is there an appeal process? How do you work through that so that you can maintain your relationship with the office that you're working with? But you can also create the opportunity to get the funds back, if that makes sense. Hey, you were muted for a second. We couldn't hear you. Sorry about that. Thank you, sorry. So are you referring to difficulties in getting your invoices paid? That's correct. Yeah, so after, so you said, the main thing you pointed out was there's a time from which the company completes the job as required per the statement of work. And then there's a period in which the 30 days or 45 days or 60 days, depending on how the contract's written, there's a time period in which they should be paid. And sometimes maybe not fault to the VA or not fault of things, but one of the ones we've been working with is working through Tungsten and the payment processing there. And sometimes it's difficult, but sometimes we're just in a current process where we completed a job in December and now it's March and we still haven't been fully paid. And I've been trying to advise my employer on how to work through that. And it's one of those things that I think you have more insight than I do. And so just trying to understand. Thank you. That's actually a great question. I don't know. I'm not good at, how do you call it, beating around the bushes, right? I would say, put it to you as it is. So you, military, you will understand this. So issues with payment, invoice payments, I will pick it, I will take it from the second part of your, that question that you had. How can you do it without, you know, making your program manager, the program office angry against you because you don't want to leave them with a bad, you don't want them to have a bad impression of you. Well, I will say this to you. Osdebu is in the business. That's one of the things that I do, okay? So instead of you going to the contracting officer and being afraid that they will retaliate against you or blackmail you or do anything, you send one email, you send the second email, you send the third one, they don't respond. You don't have to wait one week or one month before you send. You send the first one today, Thursday. You don't hear an answer. Monday you send another one. The second one on Monday. Then Wednesday you send the third one. Those three are good enough with the record, the email, you take that and you contact us. You send that to me, I will take care of that. And the reason is this. I was on the other side as a lead contracting officer, contracting officer audits. So that happens, right? Well, sometimes they can say, oh man, this vendor is giving me headaches and all that stuff, right? That happens. They don't say that publicly. But in the office politics, you hear about next door, next cubic car, they guys say, man, this vendor is getting on my nerves. Well, that's not good for the vendor. So instead of you engaging the program officer or the contracting officer after three attempts, three unsuccessful attempts to get your invoices paid, send it to Osdebu, send it to my email. You can share my email with you at the end of the presentation. But in any case, when you send it to Osdebu, I will make sure that you get paid. We do that. In fact, the law under that, the law that addresses those areas of Osdebu is 15 United States code 644K. If you want, you can write it down. It's under 15 USC 644K. That's the law that gives Osdebu the responsibility to address invoice payment. Now, the requirement for the federal government to pay it within a certain time, and I talked to you about it 30 days, is what is called the Prompt Payment Act. That's the law, right? So you have two laws that, and Congress recognized that this is a problem, and they put in place the laws so that you can get paid. But because I don't want you to be blackmail, I say use Osdebu as your advocate to fight on your behalf, right? I mean, we get this type of question every day. I'm telling you, and you talk about invoice, it could be about solicitation. What if you saw a solicitation out there and the person, let's use the elevator that I mentioned, and I don't want to get off track your question. I already answered your question, by the way, but I'm using it on the, you use it on the post solicitation because the counter was awarded and now you've run into difficulty getting your payment. It can be that you're performing and the contact officer or the program manager is saying that you're not doing what you're supposed to do. Example, the solicitation said, I will stick to the elevator maintenance so that I stay in one example. The solicitation said, and when you were awarded a contract, it said when the call that an elevator is not functioning, you, the vendor, you must respond within 30 minutes. Each time that they call you, you responded within the 30 minutes. But for some reason, the program manager didn't have a good record and here he's telling the contractional officer that when we call this vendor, he never responds. That's a problem because you're not, but the contractional officer is saying you're not performing and the contractional officer has somebody in the program office because there's just one contractional officer for many contracts. So the contractional officer cannot be anywhere. That's why the contractional officer has somebody called the call, the contractional officer, the abbreviation, the acronym is CO. He has or she has her representative or his representative in the program office called the call, contact officer representative, right? So the reason I'm bringing this up is to show you another aspect of it. So now the contractional officer representative is saying that, hey, your company is not performing per the contract. Now you find yourself, how can you argue this? If you argue it the wrong way, you upset the people next time they don't come to you. So guess what? Find a way to get a meeting with the call or the program manager. Usually you will not meet with the contractional officer, it's difficult. I can tell you that, right? And so you find a way. And if you are still not able to meet with them with the call of your contract to address this issue, whether it's payment, impulse payment or whatever the performance issues and all that, you contact us, our office does what it does, my team, it falls under me. In fact, that's one of my duty is that now I will arrange a meeting between you, the contractor, the call, the contracting officer representative, the contracting officer and my team and myself and our office. So now the three parties that are part in the contact you, the program manager, where the job is supposed to be done and the CEO who is supposed to hear from the contractional officer that the job is done before they pay you. I arranged that and I'm the middle guy now, I come in the middle now, I read the contract and I say, look, it looks like we have a problem here. And I don't try to upset the contractional officer and I don't try to upset the call. And at the same time, I want to satisfy you. What is weird in this picture, I will tell you to be honest and let this take the next question. What is weird in this issue that you raise is that you will think that I work for the contracting officer. It's a perception that people have out there that, oh, yes, because I'm a VA employee, I will, what the contracting officer will do in this case, whether it's not paying you or you performing and they say, you know, performing or even issues with the solicitations, you know, which I didn't even discuss that much because we don't have much time. But regardless of the issue, I don't work for the contracting officer. I work for you, the vendor, you see? I work for you. The law says that I should support the small businesses. That's what it is called office of small and disadvantaged business utilization. We work for you. We work to make sure that you are successful. Not to make sure that the contracting officer is successful. No, that's not how it works. Okay? I hope I answered your question. Jules, that was great. And you were so passionate about helping your fellow veterans. It's great. It's just neat hearing your voice. We had a question from Greg McClark who looks like he's located in the bowels of the Millennium Falcon. So he can't hear us, but there's what he had. He had, teaming is a great way for smaller companies to get into government contracting. Can you talk more about how you help and or work with teaming companies or the advantages of teaming agreements? Yes. Thanks for that. So go ahead, you go ahead, Jules. And then I'll plan on. Oh, okay, Antoine. Thank you. I do want to see your thunder there, Antoine. No, Timmin, Antoine mentioned it very well, right? And Timmin, don't, I really want you guys to be successful so this is how you need to see it. Timmin really, you should not team just for the sake of teaming. And I want to take a little bit depth here to sort of see. The government always has a problem to solve. There is, at the beginning of this, there's a need to be met, a requirement. That's where all these things start. The government doesn't have money to throw to you or we want to give 27 billions to service disabled veterans. No, that's not how it works. No, the government has a need in this case for elevator or for any kind of, it can be genitorial services. It can be ambulance services. It can be home oxygens, building a hospital. You name it, buying beds, all that. Regardless of what it is, there is a problem. And what happens is that sometimes the problem is complex. When the problem is complex, or the problem is too big, it can be a simple problem, but it's too big. When it's too big, it means it's too big for small business. Now you find a teaming partner. You find somebody that you can get together with to address this problem. And what you need to ask in the teaming arrangement is this. Hey, Raina, Antoine, use this example, Antoine and me. We are not on this call, both of us, because the government has two people that are not doing anything to put on the call. No, that's not how it works. It's that Antoine is bringing a set of expertise on the table in terms of outreach, in terms of establishing the contacts. Remember this, in terms of establishing the contacts between what he called the PDM, the Procurement Decision Maker or the Program Officers and you, the vendor. So he wants to put you guys together. But guess what? That's a contact. Jules is in this teaming arrangement with Antoine. He's here, he's my colleague. This is not, we are not here on this call again because we have one hour or two hours to waste. No, Antoine is doing the contact and Jules is in the contract. What is the difference between contact and contract? English is my fifth language but I can tell you the difference is the hour. The letter hour, that contact has and that contact don't have. That hour is for what? Relationship. So you're building in a teaming arrangement, you're building a relationship with another partner. That partner has to add value. Okay, that partner has to bring something on the table. I'm bringing my contract expertise. Antoine is bringing his contact expertise. I don't know how to do his job. He doesn't know how to do my job. But guess what? We need each other. Does it, you guys say we need two to come go? Okay, we need to build the contact and after the contact, we turn the contact into the contract. He's here to show you how to set up the contact and I'm here to show you how to set up the contract. So the teaming arrangement, the way it works is I will use another example, home oxygen to explain this to you using an example. In the home oxygen contract, it was about $25 million contract that I awarded back then. So in this contract, the question is if you know the home oxygen, I will explain you. You will see some veterans carrying a tank on their back or on their wheelchair and all that and they're bridging through their nose, the tubes and all that something so. So that's the home oxygen contract and it is in their houses too by their bedside. But the problem is that, well, is this, there are two pieces to this so that you understand. One is the equipment, which is the cylinder, the tank that you see. And the other is the service. The service is what? What if the veteran call at midnight and say that my oxygen is not going through properly? That's where the service contract kicks in. What if the veteran call and say, well, my tank, I fell and something broke on the oxygen tank. That's not the service contract anymore. That become the manufacturer because it becomes the supply. It is a hard part, you see? So you have to put both together. So in this type of contract, you have to look where can I get, who cannot team up with if you're providing the tank? Who cannot team up with to provide the service and you come together, right? So same thing. If you're providing, I will use another case. Ambulance services to the veteran, to the VA hospital. Well, one is the car, the vehicle, with the seat inside, the drivers and all that. But the other part is the scheduling. It's not enough to have that. Somebody has to make the call. Somebody has to recall the call and say they're called at this address and all that. It's not the driver that does all that. So if your expertise, you want to spend 99.99% on what you do very well, which is if it is the hardware part of it, you do it and you team up with the service part of it to meet in the middle so that you can solve the problem of the government because I'll tell you, in a lot of cases, a lot of people miss the contract, they don't miss to have the contract. We're not awarded, not because they could not do it themselves, but because they didn't find the proper teaming arrangement to add value to the government. So in forming the teaming arrangement, you need to look into value added in your relationship. Over to you, Antoine. Thanks for that, Jules. And so let me supplement that too. When particularly with the VA program offices, when they have a requirement and based on some cursory market research that they have done, they may come to us and say, hey, look, we know a lot of small companies or just companies in general, not necessarily small, but companies that it seems like they could do one aspect of the work or it could be their footprint is smaller. It would be great if they could, if we can get this service for a larger footprint. And so they would approach us and let us know, hey, look, it would be great if some of these small companies got together. So we have another tool, which I by design didn't talk about because we don't get those requests often, but we have done this. We have a tool called business to business less connect. And it is very simple. The program office approaches us and say, hey, we have this thing coming up and we believe that if some small businesses get together, they could potentially be a force multiplier to get this thing done. And so we would advertise to small businesses based on the next that the program office provider said, hey, look, we are establishing a next connect, excuse me, B2B less connect event. And it's really not an event, it's just more of a listing. So you as a company go in, you put in your information, your contact information and things like that, right? The event tile will give you the details about what the business prospect is with respect to the contract opportunity. So all the firms that put their information in that listing are basically saying, because we put this on a tile, you have an interest in exploring a teaming relationship with other companies. So you put your information in, the other company based on the contact information you put in that other company or companies will call you and then you guys just have a conversation. So we're just facilitating, I kind of call it like I forget that dating app, but basically it's like we have created this platform so that specifically geared toward, hey, if you want to just connect with other companies focused on X, you have the ability to do that. And the other thing that I mentioned earlier which is just the large business engagement, that's how we help with respect to, we set up those, we actually make the calls, I make these calls to these large companies and say, hey, look, are you interested in offering small businesses, subcontracting and teaming? And nine times out of 10, they say yes. The good thing with that too, because we also focus on the VA prime vendors, not just industry, but VA prime vendors. I want to footstomp that for a minute. So those companies actually doing business with VA, okay? So by working with them, you would get basically what I call two advantages. One, you get to understand how the VO ecosystem works. And two, you help build up your relevant past performance. So I believe that between my colleague and I, we've answered that question and ready to take another one, Dan? Hey, that's great. And I know we're gonna come up against our time, but two very important questions. One is how do we schedule a one-on-one? And then the other one, before I turn it over to you, is what are we gonna do if we need questions? If we have questions and we need to ask you later on down the road. And then if we have time, I'll get to Paul and I'll have to announce our, I have some closing stuff for my team will kill me, but go ahead. Sure, so for the one-on-ones, like I said, that's a specific event. And again, I put it in the chat already. You go to our registration board, like I think the next one I'm looking at it now is a session for the CFM, the Construction Facilities Management Executive Director is gonna do one-on-one conversations with construction firms. With that one, it is a first come, first serve. We wanna get 10 slots, but the good thing is with the CFM, and once you guys who are in construction and construction related activities take this home, he does these every quarter. So if you cannot connect with him and looks like in on actually not April 19th, but it's actually now in May, because he's already filled up the April event, just keep going back to our event page and look for the next upcoming one. So now that's specifically CFM. For the other one-on-ones, particularly with industry, because we do a lot of one-on-ones with industry, you basically register. Bear in mind, like I said before, please take this home. Registration is just saying, hey, I have an interest. The large company ultimately decides who they meet based on the salient characteristics you provide as part of your registration for that. So that's how you sign up for that. Once they decide who they're gonna see, and they do that fairly quickly, you will get an email either saying, yes, you've been selected by the company or they'll send you a declaration email. Those emails are coming right from the program office. I want everybody to also, to bear in mind, we as the Boo that we have no influence and make no suggestions on who these companies should or should not see. That's their business decision. Similar to teaming, like we just talked about, that's a business decision. So you have to make a business decision whether or not you wanna team with a company. Is it the right fit? Do their e-fills match up with your e-fills? Those type of things. All right, Dan, what's next? So I think we're just about out of time. I would encourage anyone who has questions to email us at info at patriotbootcamp.org and we will forward those questions long and connect you with some folks to answer them. And I do have to remind everyone that registration is open for DAV Patriot Bootcamp Spring cohort. It's gonna be in the beautiful Silicon slopes of Lehigh, Utah by our friends at MX. We need mentors for that event as well. Thousands of dollars in non-dilutive cash is available to pitch contest winners following that event. You can email us if you're interested in being a mentor as well at info at patriotbootcamp.org. And if you're interested in registering, please go to patriotbootcamp.org. And if you're interested, if you're on the LinkedIn chat, especially when you're interested in getting into the Zoom chat, please submit for our newsletter and you'll get notifications and we can get you on answer questions. I know Paul had a good question. I'm sorry, Paul, we can't get to it. But thank everyone for tuning in and thank you to these wonderful two veterans who've had very dedicated outstanding careers in the military, great service to our country and they continue to serve us every day. So thank you all for tuning in and we'll see you next time. Thanks Dan, thanks everybody. Have a great day, be safe up there. Thank you, thank you for your service.

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Iga Swiatek will take on Cori Gauff in the semi final of the Dubai Championships for 2023. Swiatek has dominated everyone she has played this week including Fernandez and Samsonsova while Gauff has had wins over Keys and Sasnovich. Who will make it to the final of the Dubai Championships? 0:00 | Intro 0:08 | Coco Gauff 0:43 | Iga Swiatek 1:21 | Head to Head 1:31 | Keys to the Match 2:00 | Prediction Get the LATEST tennis news 🔔 SUBSCRIBE here https://www.youtube.com/CamWilliams/?sub_confirmation=1 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCObs7FwjNmLB3u5fcHiLCWA/join — SOCIAL ACCOUNTS WEBSITE ➤ https://thetennistalk.com INSTAGRAM ➤ https://instagram.com/thetennistalk FACEBOOK ➤ https://www.facebook.com/Tennis-Talk-with-Cam-Williams-920458994806038 DISCORD ➤ https://discord.gg/wND3zvy TWITCH ➤ https://www.twitch.com/tennistalk/ PATREON ➤ http://bit.ly/31cTagG 14 DAY FREE TRIAL | TOP COURT TENNIS ➤ http://bit.ly/2Nk7Irf — Tennis Talk with Cam Williams is your home for all the ATP and WTA Tours Tennis Breaking News, Draw Previews, Live Streams Play by Play, Match Previews and much more. We cover the largest tournaments throughout the season including the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open and talk about the best players including Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, Simona Halep, Roger Federer and Naomi Osaka. If you liked this video, then you will LOVE our latest playlist with MORE Breaking News. Click here for the playlist ➤ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcFR9mOW9rDKlJDA33iw3wuuIptp-I2Ad — Copyright Disclaimer : Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Affiliate Disclaimer : This video contains affiliate links in the description. If you click on one of them, we will receive a small commission which helps us continue to provide more of this type of content. #Tennis2023 #ATPTour #WTATour #Nadal #Djokovic #Federer #Swiatek #Williams #Osaka

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Cocoa Goff vs. Igor Shviantek is the first semi-final for the ladies event in Dubai for 2023, and both ladies are similar roads to get to the semi-finals. Goff entered the tournament as the number 5 seed, and would get a buy in the first round. In the second round she'd take on Sasnevic, who had just come off a 3 set epic in her first round, and this was no problem for Goff, winning in straight sets, 6 loves, 6-4. In the third round she was put up against the number 9 seed Rabakina, who had come off two very impressive wins, but unfortunately Rabakina had to withdraw due to a back injury handing Goff a walkover into the quarter-finals. In the quarter-final stage she would take on the unseeded Keys, who had taken out Azarenka and Garcia along the way, but Keys hit too many errors, and Goff would get the straight sets win 6-2-7-5 to make it into the semi-finals. Shviantek entered the tournament as the number 1 seed, and would get a buy in the first round. In the second round she'd take on Fernandez, who had had a very good first round, but unfortunately it was too much, and Shviantek would get through in straights 6-1-6-1. In the third round she'd take on the 14th seed Samsonova, who had battled past Medosa in the first round, and gotten a walkover in the second. But the walkover in the second didn't give Samsonova any hope, as Shviantek smoked her 6-1-6 love to get to the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals Shviantek was supposed to play Pliskova, who was coming off a good win against Sakurai along the way, but unfortunately Pliskova got ill, and Shviantek continued her run, making it into the semi-finals with a walkover. These two players have played five times before, with Shviantek winning all five matches in straight sets, and they played four times last year, including the French Open Final, which Shviantek winning every match, super easy. If Goff's gonna win this one, she needs to serve well, and she needs to limit the errors. Even though she played well, or the score suggests she played well against Keys, Keys hit over 50 errors, Shviantek's not gonna give that many free points away, and Goff also hit 30 errors despite winning in straight sets, so she needs to limit the errors, and of course serve extremely well. If Shviantek's gonna win, she just needs to keep doing what she's doing. She's beaten everybody in the last couple of weeks, super easy, and she's not gonna be scared of Goff. She's beaten Goff super easy in their past matches too, so I'm a little worried for Goff in this one. This is gonna be an interesting match. We've seen this match so many times, and it's played out pretty much the same way every single time, and I think it's gonna do the same again. I think Shviantek's gonna get the win in straight sets. I hope the Goff makes it competitive, but I can't see Goff making it more competitive, because of that error-filled match she just played against Keys, so I'm gonna go with Shviantek in straight sets, but you tell me, who do you think is gonna win this match?

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Why Do People Oppose Wind Projects in Hawaii (Energy 808: The Cutting Edge)

Like what you see? Please give generously. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Are these protests legitimate? Are they in the interest of the community? Marco Mangelsdorf and Jay Fidell will discuss the current protests against wind projects on Oahu, even after those projects were approved and permitted under applicable law, and how they are related to other protests of other projects in Hawaii. The host for this episode is Jay Fidell. The guest for this episode is Marco Mangelsdorf. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out any time for great content and great community. Our vision is to be a leader in shaping a more vital and thriving Hawaii as the foundation for future generations. Our mission is to be the leading digital media platform raising public awareness and promoting civic engagement in Hawaii.

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Okay, it's Monday. My goodness, Monday noon and we're back with Energy 808, the cutting edge with Marco Mangelstorff, who joins us by phone from Hilo, Hawaii, from, wow, from, what's the name of your company, Marco? Provision Solar. They checked it was Provision Solar. Provision Solar in Hilo, Hawaii. I've been there. I've seen it as a large arrangement there. So, Marco, can we talk about these protests that are sort of anti-energy protests and where they come from and what they mean, what they signify, and where they're going to go and the effect they have? You know, it seemed to start out this year at TMT. There have been no protests at PGV yet, but I expect there will be. And then it sort of spread into Oahu where there were two wind installations, both of which had been approved and permitted. And in fact, they were being built. And when the trucks were on the road, you know, they go midnight and carry the sections of the wind turbines so they don't get in the way of traffic. And there were protests, there have been protests on both of them on these wind facilities in Oahu. And I can't help but think that there's a connection between the protests on TMT and the protests on the wind facilities, although, you know, it's hard to find a common denominator except that people like to protest. Do you have any thoughts about this? Do I have any thoughts? Yeah, I certainly do. And I'm trying to decide how to proceed. I think I'm going to take kind of the broader view on the subject and the bird's eye view or the above the wind turbines view and then kind of roll down a little bit further. And to me, Jay, it really begs the question, who's paying for lunch? And what I mean by that is kind of a play on the phrase, you know, there is no such thing as a free lunch. In this case, I'm thinking there's no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to energy sources, that even though, comparatively speaking, renewable energy, principally in the form of, let's say, solar and wind is more better, more benign than some type of hydrocarbon based power generation. So, again, generally speaking, I think there's quite a consensus among many, many people that renewable energy are better than fossil fuel energy. So that said, a choice to, or the choice to install a wind farm in the north shore of Oahu with wind towers that will be the highest ever in the state. I mean, 500 plus feet when you look at the total span of these three bladed wind turbines. I mean, these are, these are big hobbies. And there, as anybody's been watching and reading the news over the past few weeks, there's been no shortage of arrests of people protesting the wind farm, as well as an act of rather serious malicious, not even mischief, but, but, felonious assault on a, on a helco power pole. And that was somebody took a chainsaw to and caused it to, to effectively collapse, which, you know, you're talking potential for not only serious injury, but death when you're dealing with big power poles. So, unfortunately, whether it's solar, whether it's wind, whether it's the proposal to burn biomass, the power plant up at Pepe Keohar on this island, whether it's drilling down into Metta and Pele, as, as had been the case for over 25 years up until the eruption of last year, that there is no cost free choice and that there will likely continue to be a constituency from small medium to large. Well, that will find a reason to protest vigorously and risk arrest and risk more than arrest to stop a given project. And in my concern, you know, without really looking at the specific merit for lack thereof for any particular project, again, whether it's solar, whether it's wind, whether it's biomass, whether it's geothermal, is when we go down the path of saying no, no to wind or no to biomass, no to acres and acres of solar that are going to bother someone in terms of their view playing from their condo and why Kaloa, we effectively pay ourselves into a corner more and more as a state when we are still, as we've talked about before, my friend, we are still so incredibly dependent on this, the state's economy on imported oil to the tune of last I looked 83%. So I'm kind of a broken CD in this respect, but I'm still struck by the fact that decades worth of efforts, notable efforts and valuable efforts and legitimate efforts to become more energy independent, more energy resilient, haven't, hasn't moved the needle nearly far enough. And I think there's widespread agreement on that. And yet what, what do we do when the Robert is the road, so to speak, when AES wants to put in a another multi megawatt wind farm in North Shore of Wahoo? And clearly there are a lot of people who just don't want that. So it really just kind of paints us into a corner, you know, the proverbial, you're painting the floor of a particular room and you're not going about it strategically and you end up in a corner because you don't want to walk across the wet paint that you just put down. So with that, I will quiet down and look forward to your response. Oh, I've a response is more like an agreement. I'm so concerned about this, because these are obviously progressive maneuvers. And, you know, good for the powers that be that they gave them permits. And although it took a long time, think about how much you have to do to get a permit for a wind farm. You know, you have to get control of the land, negotiate a lease. You have to put in for, you know, I don't know, zoning issues and you have to get financing to find somebody who will actually build it. You have to get a permit from whatever the authority is in Oahu that's the problem of planning and permitting. There's so many things that checklist is a mile long. And you go through all this and you get, you know, get approval, you get a lease, you get a permit, you've done, you know, years of bureaucratic bureaucratic effort. And then there's somebody out in the street opposing you. Now what's interesting about it is that the people out in the street, just as in the case of TMT, had the opportunity to raise the same objections when the permitting process was going on, but they either didn't or they lost the argument. And so, you know, you have a whole thing about the rule of law, about respecting the rule of law. It's an alternative system to just ignore the rule of law, ignore the permit, ignore the process that the capital concentration had to go through to get the permit and get the project underway. And then you ignore all of that. And you're unsympathetic to it. You don't care about it. You don't care about their goals either, you know, to deal with climate change or to make money, either one. And you have your alternative system, which is protest. Protest and do, you know, violence to telephone poles and the like. Sabotage. So when you say to yourself, what's wrong with this picture? Don't people understand how important this is? Don't they understand that we're spending six, seven billion dollars for fossil fuel that we won't have to spend if we build these, you know, clean energy facilities here in the state, that the money, you know, your money will go to the clean energy facilities. It won't go out of state for fossil fuel. Furthermore, you know, we won't be on the wrong side of the tracks as far as climate change is concerned. Although, you know, there is a legitimate argument that we're so small, so tiny that it doesn't have that much effect. I think we have to do our part. We have to be conscious aware, to be connected to the global global thinking on this. And, you know, and finally, you know, our kids, our kids learning about this in school. I was telling you before we started Marco that there was a piece on NPR this morning about how, you know, like less than 50% of the kids in the state can swim. Can't swim. Most kids can't swim in a state that's surrounded by water in a state where it's all of its history and culture is defined by water. Most kids can't swim. I find that extraordinary. And I would like to do a show about it. I also, I also told you about a trip that ThinkTech took to Lanai at the time the cable, you know, the cable from Lanai to Oahu was was in play and all these arguments going on. We went to the school there. And I guess we attended a class, took pictures of a lecture, a talk by one of the people from, you know, I guess it was from the cable, the ones who wanted to build Murdoch's company wanted to build the cable. And so the question he put rhetorically to this class was, how, how big in diameter do you think the cable is? Silence crickets on one young student stood up and he said, I know is six feet in diameter. Okay, well, he didn't know anything. And that school is this is junior high school, maybe high school, that school had not taught him anything about an issue that was in play in Lanai to the exclusion of most other issues for a couple of years. He didn't know anything about it. So our schools doing a job. Are they teaching about energy? Are they teaching kids about climate change? Are they teaching kids, you know, about solar cells and the grid? They teaching kids about wind, they teaching kids about geothermal or the kids coming up in the state, not knowing as much about energy as they do about swimming. You know, I think there's a failure here and it's likely to continue. And I think what we see in this in this ongoing and in fact, this viral protest that we see running from the Big Island now to a Wahoo on cable, I'm sorry on on on wind is, you know, it's an example of people not really knowing what the deal is. And I don't know where we start, you know, it sounds like we haven't had good educational leadership for a long time. And people are just off in the wrong direction as a huge detriment to progress in energy. So I guess, I guess it's clear we have a problem. And the question is, how do we deal with this? Because it's going to happen again, Marco. You know, I give kudos to the HPD people who effectively moved in and stopped the protests on the North Shore. But I don't think the matter is over. I think it will happen again. And I think that, you know, the electric company, and for that matter, the BUC, and for that matter, you know, people who support efforts dealing with climate change, and want to see clean energy, they're all frustrated by this. Why in the world, would you have a grassroots movement against the obviously better choice? And how do we deal with that, Marco, you got some ideas. If I made you governor, what would you do? I'd rather be energies are with unlimited power to to issue edicts from from my perch. Yeah, well, you know, I mean, what will it take? What will it take for us to do what we targeted to do? What will it take for us to do what we talk about all the time? We just barely don't have the action to back it up. To me, it's kind of more tangible and more challenging when you kind of strip away the the more generic nature of your question, Jay, and look specifically, let me let me look at the Big Island as a case in point. Okay, in 2017, the Big Island produced somewhere around 57% of the end of the electricity consumed on this island 57%, probably even more because I think rooftop solar is likely undercounted by by utility company. But let's just say 57%. That's what they reported to the BUC. That was the total out of the total electricity generated and consumed on our island in 2017. Close to 60% was renewable. Okay, last year in 2018, that dropped to 43, 43. Something was rounded up to 44. Obviously, 57 is higher than 44. And my prediction is that that's going to be a comparable figure this year, in terms of somewhere around the mid 40s for Helco, because PGV will not go back online by the end of the year, if it ever goes back online, it'll definitely will not go back online within the next two months. So we have gone in the wrong direction, right, in terms of energy independence on this island. And what do we do? What can we do to reverse that? Well, one of the ways we can reverse it is, if you want to count the combustion of biomass as renewable energy, which a lot of people do, we have the case in point of who know up the coast and set the queue, right, roughly 20 plus megawatt. And here, the developers of who know up by their accounting, Jay, some more over $200 million to date. Okay, and they have gone through processes with negotiating a part purchase agreement with Helco. They were able to achieve regulatory approval back several years ago, only to have a lawsuit in the white Supreme Court, essentially overturn that particular PUC agreement in 2017, and remanded it back to the Commission. In order for the Commission to look at greenhouse gases and the effect on environmental quality on the emissions that would come from these stacks, they're at who know it. So here you have to pick up on a point you made a little while ago, you have people who played by the rules who spent a lot of money playing by the rules, who got regulatory approval by the rules. And yet, the work of Henry Curtis and Life of the Land, who successfully brought a lawsuit in the white Supreme Court overturned that by a five to nothing vote overturned that decision by the Commission back in 2017. So here we have the Commission will be chewing is chewing on this and they will issue a decision. I'm going to say probably first half of next year, thumbs up or thumbs down. Will that power plant go back online? And in my case, since I think 2005, after they stopped burning coal, prior to that gas. So, you know, if I made you energies are energies are for the big island, say, what would you do? You believe the burning biomass at with a power purchase agreement for 30 years, 22 cents a kilowatt hour is a good move to make to reduce the state's dependence or this island's dependence on important fossil fuels power power plant. You don't need to make me energies are just make me a lawyer who's sitting in his office. And somebody from Wall Street calls, and says, you know, we're really interested in energy because this is why I keep saying that it's way ahead, you know, it's going to reach its target 2040 2045 of 100% clean energy and all that. So we were thinking of investing $200 million in clean energy in Hawaii. What do you say, Jay? What do you think my advice would be? I say, I would tell him be careful. Because, you know, you think you're doing all that you need to do. Then there's always a surprise. And there was a surprise on super ferry. It was surprised on ho hoonua. And gee was there, certainly a surprise on on on on the 30 minutes. Let's go. So who who would make an investment like that? You know, our, our history and our brand, and our reputation is littered with projects that had surprises and were killed. And if I were a lawyer, or if I were a Wall Street investor, I would say let's go somewhere else, because it's moving faster somewhere else, government understands the need for lackrity. People are better educated about the benefits of clean energy and and how to deal with climate change or the need to deal with climate change. Hawaii has lost its way, I would say, and I would say that within attorney client privilege and everything. But, you know, if I were being responsible and responsive to the question of the capital concentration, and asked me that question, I would not necessarily encourage them to come here. And I think that kind of conversation is taking place. I think that kind of conversation is taking place on Wall Street. We have no way of knowing how many projects we've lost, how many investment dollars have not come here because of the things we've done. One thing after another, and every time it happens, you know, there's a huge effect in terms of future investment. And when they saw down a telephone pole, they're sending a message all through Wall Street, about how you know, we got sabotage going on here. Maybe you should maybe you should go somewhere else where that doesn't happen. And, you know, to me, the most important thing about Hohenua, or the super ferry, or what was a 30 meter telescope is if the state makes promises and assurances, and if the investor goes through the process and gets permits, we don't want to surprise him. We don't want to turn him on his head, have the coins dropped out of his pockets. That's not the right approach to offshore investment. Think Tech had a program about this a few years ago, and it was really a powerful discussion. Because we don't respect offshore investment. We treat it either as a scam, which is, which is, you know, not not right, not a right approach. Or we treat it as, you know, if they're from the mainland, they must be right. Sacred cows, they must be right. And therefore, we buy into it. And everybody makes a mistake. We have to manage offshore investment. And we haven't we haven't really done that. And I would add that, you know, here we are, we've rejected, thanks to the governor, we've rejected LNG. So we haven't done anything for LNG or with LNG. While the whole country, in fact, the whole world is moving ahead on LNG is a cheaper, you know, cleaner solution as a bridge fuel on the way to clean energy. So what's happened, as you said, is we really haven't made that much progress on clean energy, lots of aspirations, no bridge arrangements like LNG. And I, you know, where are we going on this? Do we really believe what we say as questionable? Well, I'm going to put you again to the test, my friend. And if you were a member of the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, would you be in favor of allowing Huho Nua to to come online when all is said and done and to burn trees, whether they're from the Hamakua Coast or whether they're from thousands of miles away? Is that a, is that in the public interest, change in the public interest to have a power plant along the Hamakua Coast that is burning biomass? Is that more better than the alternatives? My answer is, is other factors in play? And we call me, you know, business oriented. But if those investors have gone this far, then I would let them do it. Maybe negative aspects to it. We have to move, we have to keep going. It was there was another project came up the name right now in the big island in Pahala. It was that was that was smashed a few years ago. And those guys lost a ton of money. They were local investors too. So you know, we have to move ahead. So if I were in the lead here, if I were leading at the government governance level or at the energy office level, I would say, let's move it. Let's move it. Let's get going. Let's not get tied up in process all day. None of these projects has a useful life anyway. The burning trees on this island is a reasonable trade off in order to avoid burning something else. That's what I'm, that's my takeaway in what you're saying. Yes. Because the useful life of that project is not that long. And we just have to sort of work our way to clean energy. But we have to keep working. We can't let it go and we can't keep on relying on fossil fuel. So yeah, I think I think the most important thing is to keep going and show political will that we want to get there. You know, all these decisions and all these surprises actually hold us up. And we're sort of fascinated with the process. But what happens is we haven't made nearly the progress that we'd hoped to make. I've been following this for 10, 15 years. And I haven't seen the progress we were talking about at the beginning in the middle years. I haven't seen that progress. We have all these targets and goals, but we're not really making enough progress. Is combusting trees clean energy? Well, I guess you can say it's, it's tree fuel, but it is not fossil fuel like oil. If you disagree with me, then say so. I do. I do. And I've, you know, I've given this a lot of thoughts and learning anything in terms of new power generation, I've come to a place of having a very hard time where at the least in our neck of the woods, whether this island or in this state. And yet I also question, for example, this island has a serious solid waste problem in terms of landfill and Hilo is not far away from being filled up, right? So if it fills up here, that means it has to go somewhere and somewhere is on the west, the west side of the island where there's a land fillet has more room. And obviously, people haven't come up with a way of magic magically levitating waste from here point A to point B with no energy being used, right? So we're talking about fossil fuels used to have trucks going on six, seven day a week calls to move waste from the east side of the island to the west side. So in that regard, I asked myself, what would I think about some type of waste to energy plant here, which has been talked about from time to time over the years for this island. And it's being talked about again, in fact, so again, waste, waste to energy. If the, you know, as a purest, we'd all like to be more pure, or at least I'd like to be more purest and less purest, but at the same time, when you look from the perspective of, well, we're going to burn waste to energy here on this island and put obviously greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. But that in return will will reduce the amount of fossil fuel used to transport waste from the east side of the island to the west side of the island. I guess kind of my takeaway here is one, one should probably should be more of a practical purist than a purest purist. And that's something that I will endeavor to do. And again, to go back to the point I made the beginning of the show is, you know, we can't keep on saying no, to do to these ways of it's not the ultimate good, it's not it's not the there's no such thing as an ideal solution when it comes to energy, there are always going to be trade off and always cause that don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I've seen that before. But you know, one thing that strikes me is that the utility goes out with these RFPs and it says, why don't you make a proposal? All you guys across the country, cross the world, why don't you find some money find hundreds of millions and come and make a proposal and we'll take any proposal that gives us arguably other than fossil fuel. And I don't know exactly what the definition is, but the definition of the RFP is approved, the RFP is approved by the PUC. And one of the reasons that the definition is broad, is because it's hard to get people anywhere in the world to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, especially with our reputation, or surprises. So you go out wide, and then you let them come in. And then you, you know, you have this competition among them. And then you pick one you like, and you go to the PUC and you say, is this one okay? And the PUC says, it's okay. So you know, the problem is that that whole process is is daunted by the fact that you got to get people to cut to spend the money to invest. So you try to make it broad enough. And you give them plenty of rope. They can come in and and do their thing and respond to the RFP and then go ahead and invest the money and and build and build the facility. If we made a very tight definition and said only win only so or nothing else, then I expect to be less money coming in. And the whole thing is to entice capital, come to Hawaii, we've done a really good job on on not enticing capital, come to Hawaii. And I think we're getting better at that. So whatever the system is, we've got to make it clear to respective investors that this is a safe haven for their money. What do you think about that? I think from the geography, right, and I think from the solar perspective, that it has been a safe haven. And we have in fact an RFP request for proposal deadline this week, or according to Helco, Hiko Miko, for as many as 900 megawatts across their five service territories. And that that's a lot. That's a lot of capacity. And the deadline is this week. And then they're expected to announce the winners sometime May of next year. So, you know, we're, we definitely have some good stuff going on. In terms of over the next two, three, four, five years, there's going to be substantial amount of solar plus storage deployment. It's kind of what do we do? What do we do in the interim? And the key, one of the keys to figure out key conundrums is one needs a certain amount of spinning reserve or generation that is combustion based with a turbine that goes around and around generator goes around around in order to make up for times when the sun doesn't shine enough for the batteries aren't fully enough charged. So this as we get higher and higher in terms of renewable penetration, which everybody's forecasting we will, what's the minimum amount of combustion generation that we will need to have a resilient grid because everybody wants resiliency and grid is going to stay on. So it, you know, more into the great new frontier, as far as these laboratories that are the islands in our state, and it's easy to kind of get frustrated about lack of progress. But at the same time, we're going where a few utilities and few states have gone before. And I never ascribe to others, even though I may disagree with them that, you know, they're motivated by some type of malicious or negative that takes us back to the beginning that takes us back to where we started the show. I can't disagree with you your answer and with the analysis you make. But I do want to say that it's gratuitous to have violence and to protest after project has been approved, right down to dotting the eyes and crossing the T's, and then go out in the street and protest that. I don't want to put a characterization on it, but it is not good. And if there's one thing that would scare me in Wall Street, it would be that kind of thing, a refusal to accept the rule of law. So that is probably as damaging as anything else we can identify. And I hope they stop. I really do. Contrast, you know, Jay, that the HPD there on Oahu has been quite active in arresting people by the dozens when necessary. And here, this is month four now, since the the road to the mountain monarchy access road has been closed down. And I mean, I drove over the saddle road a couple weeks ago, I hadn't been up there in months. And there's a veritable tent community up there. I mean, you got people who are parked on not just parked on, but, you know, camping there in the lava fields and have been there for months. So maybe the big guy can learn some stuff from Oahu from HPD. Anyway, we got to go, Marco. I so look forward to our next discussion. There's so there's so much more to cover. Marco Mangostore, Provision Solar and Hilo. Thank you so much here on Energy 808, Aloha. Thanks so much, Jay.

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Heat of Vaporization of Water Lab

Part of NCSSM CORE collection: This video shows the collection of data to determine the molar heat of vaporization of water. http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu Please attribute this work as being created by the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. This work is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/GAgQ/

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We're going to do an experiment to determine the molar heat of vaporization of water. We're going to mass an empty calorimeter. We're going to add about 70 milliliters of water to the calorimeter, and we're going to remass the calorimeter and the water. We're going to use our CBL and temperature probe to measure the initial temperature of the water. We have a steam generator containing water. I'm going to cap off the steam generator and we're going to bubble steam through our calorimeter. The water will condense to a liquid and transfer the energy to the water in the calorimeter. We'll record the final temperature. We'll let the calorimeter cool to room temperature and remass it to determine the final mass of the water in the calorimeter.

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Gov. Fayemi Presents N100.7BN Proposal | NEWS

The Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi has presented a budget proposal of 100.7 billion naira to the House of Assembly for 2022. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch More: https://bit.ly/2KLQxbI Watch PlusTV Africa Lifestyle: https://cutt.ly/tbdOHzQ Watch via our Website: https://plustvafrica.com/live-tv Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlusTVAfrika/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plustvafrica/ Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlusTVAfrica Comment on Whatsapp: http://ow.ly/d4kQ50pT4Bt #PlusTVAfrica #News #NewsOnPlusTvAfrica

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A quick visit to Iqitsa State, Governor Kaido Faiemi has presented a budget proposal of 100.7 billion dollars to the House of Assembly for 2022. 60.7 billion dollars has been budgeted for the current expenditure and 40.7 billion dollars for capital expenditure. The proposal is questioned by the budget of legacy and consolidation. 2022 fiscal year is a watershed in the life of this administration. On one hand, and in Iqitsa State in general, on the other hand. It is a year of transition to a new administration. To this end, the primary objective of the 2022 budget is to complete and consolidate on our numerous achievements and prepare a solid economic foundation for the incoming administration. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.

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Interview with Ambassador Harry Thomas, Jr

CSIS Southeast Asia Director Ernie Bower sat down with Ambassador Harry Thomas, Jr, US Ambassador to the Phillipines, to talk about US-Phillipines relations and other related topics.

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I'm Ernie Bauer. I'm the director of CSIS Southeast Asia, and we're honored to have with us today the new ambassador of the United States to the Republic of the Philippines, Harry Thomas. Thank you for coming to CSIS today. Thank you, Mr. Bauer. I'm honored to be the president's representative to the Republic of the Philippines. It's a great honor and a challenge. There's been a new election in the Philippines, and there may be a new president. What are some of the things that you're thinking about as you look ahead, you know, taking over at the embassy in the Philippines? What are some of the top things you'd like to accomplish and that you think might be possible with a new president? Well, Mr. Bauer, first of all, we want to congratulate the Filipino people on the successful election, nearly 75% of them going to the polls and reaffirming their commitment to democracy. The United States is interested in partnering with the Filipinos on human rights, defense and security, ending terrorism, eliminating the scores of trafficking in women and children, but also ensuring that we improve our great people-to-people relations. We have so many Filipinos living in the United States and contributing to America, and that needs to go both ways, so those will be some of our priorities. The Philippines is one of two treaty allies that the United States has within the ASEAN group. How do you see the alliance relationship and could it be better, the things we want to emphasize? Well, the Philippines clearly is a treaty ally, a long-term partner. ASEAN is very important to us, and we're very pleased that the Filipinos have taken the lead on pressing Burma on politics and freedom for Anson Suki and democracy. They deserve a lot of credit for that, and we'll ask the new administration to do the same thing. Thank you. On the trade and investment front, obviously a lot of people believe a trade policy or an active trade and agenda for the United States is sort of a foundation for a foreign policy, particularly in Asia, which is so trade-dependent. How do you see the U.S.-Philippine trade and investment relationship? Well, the President and the Secretary are very high on the Trans-Pacific Initiative. We know that one in four American jobs are tied to exports. We know that China is also having trade agreements with Southeast Asian and South Asian countries. We want to make sure that they know that this is important to us. The President is extremely high on renewable energy, is way growing us out of our deficit, and we were the leader 20 years ago. We're not there yet, but the Philippines, 43 percent, the energy of their energy, they're a leader. So that's an area that I think the President would love us to partner with the Filipinos. Under the last administration of President Arroyo, or the current, but outgoing administration of President Arroyo, the Chinese seem to sort of unlock the key to Manila, and Chinese influence in the Philippines really increased over the last five years. Is that a problem for the United States, or is there an opportunity? I think it's an opportunity. There are many things that we work with China on, and we want to continue to work with China on, especially in the business realm. And I think that we have to ensure, though, that China's intentions are transparent, that we work on the South China Sea issue through ASEAN, that has to be a group issue of all of ASEAN, not just one or two countries. But we have to understand that China believes that they need resources to grow their economy. At the same time, China has been in the Philippines for hundreds of years. Many of the Chinese who immigrated to the Philippines hundreds of years ago changed their names. They were businessmen then, and I think a lot of this is benign. What's going to be your favorite part about being a master to the Philippines? Working with the wonderful Filipino community. We have just a beautiful embassy full of hard-working Americans and Filipinos working together, honoring what we did together in World War II. And now, I think it's going to be so exciting to work with this new administration on things that are key to both countries, the defense, security, human rights, opening opportunities for business, ASEAN. So I'm really going to be excited. Of course, Filipino cuisine, music, and basketball. And if I can get to meet Manny Pacquiao, I'll really have impressed my family back here. Well, we wish you the best. We're so happy that you're there now and if we can support you in any way. Well, count on that. Thank you so much, Mr. Bauer. We have tremendous respect for CSIS. We want to partner with CIS and other like-minded organizations in bettering American Filipino relations. So thank you. Thank you for your time today.

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Ripple Skyrockets, Big Hack in Japan | Hodler's Digest

Hodler's Digest Sept 17-23 Subscribe to Cointelegraph: https://goo.gl/JhmfdU Ripple skyrockets, the UK is cautiously positive about crypto, Elon Musk is on help to Dogecoin, another big hack in Japan and NY Attorney General vs Kraken. We also talked to Jaron Lukasiewicz, CEO of Autonomous Capital about how hard it is for the crypto companies to operate in New York. Follow COINTELEGRAPH: Website: https://cointelegraph.com/ Telegram: https://telegram.me/thecointelegraph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cointelegraph Twitter: https://twitter.com/cointelegraph Cointelegraph covers everything Bitcoin, bringing you the latest news, prices, breakthroughs, and analysis, with emphasis on expert opinion and commentary from the digital currency community. Ripple Skyrockets, Big Hack in Japan | Hodler's Digest

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We reported recently about ordinary Venezuelans investing in crypto as a way to survive the ravages of hyperinflation. Well, it appears economic turmoil is hungry work, not just for ordinary Venezuelans, but also for Maduro, senior taking a break from presidenting, eating the humble dish that is part rack of lamb, part mean, hashtag Salt Bay. Also this week, Elon Musk seeks help, three exchanges in New York might be operating illegally, and one more multi-million dollar half in Japan. Ladies and gentlemen, it's your weekly Hotellers Digest. Great news for those who didn't sell Ripple last week. On Friday, Ripple briefly overtook Ethereum and became the number two crypto by total market capitalization, reaching $26 billion in leaving Ethereum in third on-coin market cap on Friday with only $23 billion. Ripple has seen unprecedented 140% growth on the week, trading at around $0.65 on Friday. Among possible reasons for the spike are the upcoming launch of Ripple's new payment platform XRapid and the announcement of PNC Bank, a top 10 US bank by assets, to use RippleNet to process international payments. The Treasury Select Committee in the UK wants to regulate the wild west crypto asset industry. They repeated the concerns of other governments and regulatory bodies heard many times over. The risk to consumers, investors losing everything, the potential for money laundering and terrorism financing. However, this report only talks about the potential for criminal activity, admitting. The latest risk assessment from the national crime industry is that crypto assets used for money laundering and terrorist financing is currently low. They are seeing cases of it, but it is not widespread. The committee also expressed skepticism towards blockchain. Although small scale uses for blockchain may exist, we have not been presented with any evidence to suggest that universal applications of the technology are currently reliably operational. One of the more positive conclusions of the report was that if correctly regulated, crypto could have a positive effect on consumers and the UK economy as a whole. Crypto UK, a group formed to help the industry self-regulate, were cautiously supportive of the report. In a statement, Iqbal Gantam, the chair of Crypto UK said, As an industry, we have been calling for the introduction of proportionate regulation to improve standards and encourage growth. Self-regulation by the industry was always intended to be a starting point. This must now be matched by government action. The New York Attorney General came out against several crypto exchanges for failing to provide basic consumer protections. The criticisms feature as part of a report that was months in the making. In short, the findings revealed that consumers are at risk. In addition to this, three exchanges might be operating illegally in New York, Kraken, Binance, and Gate.io. According to Attorney General Barbara Underwood, many virtual currency platforms lack the necessary policies and procedures to ensure the fairness, integrity, and security of their exchanges. Back in April, when the report, titled the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative, reached out to 13 crypto exchanges for participation, Kraken, along with several others, refused to play ball. Their co-founder defiantly tweeted, Generally speaking, regulators run a very strong PR campaign that is targeted at companies. And so given that New York State actually singled out several exchanges, it doesn't really fit into, I think, what regulators are generally supposed to do, which is provide a fair and balanced point of information for consumers. I'm very familiar with the bit license. Actually, I submitted an application to New York State in 2015. And that was a very long process. The DFS made it impossible for us to raise venture capital in those days because we would go into, you know, different VC meetings. The question of the bit license would inevitably come up and it prevented companies. It essentially created the crypto bear market we had for two years. Well, the bit license was really strict that we only saw around six applications get approved over time. Many influential companies in this space either not apply for the bit license because it is very difficult to comply with. Companies like Bitfinex and Kraken pull out of New York and stay out of New York. So I think that companies are really doing their best to comply with New York by not operating there. If Elon Musk has taught us anything recently, it is that super geniuses are flawed and really bad at Twitter. It emerged this week that the SpaceX CEO was being sued for making unfounded and pretty awful accusations against a British cave diver. The diver in question only deciding to sue after Musk doubled down on the accusations. There are also reports of a criminal probe into Tesla after Elon made claims that he had the funding to go private. Musk clearly needs help and he's not afraid to ask. Now for something that involves little something less personal. Elon Musk needs some help with crypto scammer impersonators, so he asks none other than Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer. Palmer was clearly happy to help, perhaps hoping for a free ride into space. Musk might not have matured when it comes to name calling, but he might have been showing some signs of maturity on scambots. Jackson Palmer's efforts proved to be entirely altruistic. Following Musk's tweets, Dogecoin's price merely fell in line with the bearish trend, dropping 4% in 24 hours. Japanese crypto exchange, Zafe, was hacked as a result of a security breach last week. Hackers got away with over $40 million from users' hot wallets, as well as about $19 million in company assets. Among cryptos, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Monacoin were stolen. The total losses were $59.7 million. This is nowhere near as much as Mt. Gox's $500 million hack back in 2014. The operator tech bureau, Inc., in Osaka, detected a server error on Tuesday. Xyphen suspended deposits and withdrawals on Wednesday. This was the fifth major hack this year, and of course, it won't be encouraging for retail or institutional investors. However, Bitcoin's price remained unaffected by the hack, standing above $6.7K. The firm Fisco Digital Asset Group will help Zafe cover lost customer assets by putting up $44.5 million. In February, Zafe reported a system glitch that allowed 16 customers to trade crypto for yen at a rate of 0 yen per coin for a very short time. It was perhaps the greatest deal on the internet. To date, the SEC has received over 1,400 letters regarding its decision on the VanX SolidX Bitcoin ETF. But now, it wants more. Filed back in June, this application claims to be physically backed by actual Bitcoins and is anticipated to be listed on the Chicago Board of Exchange BZX Equities Exchange. The SEC made clear in a statement this week that it hasn't reached any conclusions with respect to any of the issues involved. The SEC is particularly interested in comment on 18 key issues. For example, BZX's assertion Bitcoin is less susceptible to manipulation than other commodities that underlie exchange-traded products. Hottlers in the US and around the world, does this make you optimistic or pessimistic that we will see a Bitcoin ETF in the near future? Let us know in the comments. And as always, like, subscribe, and hodl. Cointelegraph, like, subscribe, and hodl.

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Claudia - David Interupted

12/16/48, episode 319 This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group At Yahoo

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Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke And now Claudia I Can't believe it can't believe what David you've been quiet for five whole minutes You asked me to be quiet, didn't you mm-hmm, but since when is there such a wide obedient streak in you since I love you Besides it's very sweet to watch you working over your drawing board. Mm-hmm. What's sweet about it? You know, you look just like an architect. That's peculiar because I am an architect. That's what's so sweet Oh go back to your knitting. I'm not knitting. I'm sewing buttons on your shirts 32 say David Mm-hmm darling you interrupt to the first silence so you won't get angry with me find a rough the second one Might but speak up. I don't try brow beating me David I'm really want to require how long you want to be left alone to pour over your work Till dinner till dinner. It's ours till dinner till dinner. You begrudge me a few hours. Frankly. Yes, I do But they are yours for the asking Thank you so much and I'm going to see that you are not interrupted. It's the dawn of a new day And that you didn't stay at home to talk to me Of course You're so understanding today. I am always understanding when you give me a chance 32 now David You you stop talking get back to your work I will and darling if my being in the same room bothers you. I'll be very happy to retire to me closet You know, that's Shakespeare in for room. Thank you for translating it. No, you can stay here now that you're here Is that all did I hear you say is that all mother? Well, what I meant was you're always working. It's nothing unusual You have to do better than that mother now. You get back your drawing board David What was it you wanted mama? I wanted to ask you if you'd like me to prepare the baby's food But they said she'd do it I think I'll do it myself. Would you like me to do it mama for the love of Mike? Will you two women stop whispering speak up whispering so as not to disturb you that disturbs me twice as much I'm breaking my neck trying to hear what you're saying wasn't anything very interesting guys if you weren't so nosy You better go out of the hole. Oh All right, I will I only have drop all these buttons all over the floor come along the great man wants to be left alone Oh, he didn't mind my being here mama. He said oh Well, all right. I'm coming in the hall. Well save your strength say what you have to say and get it over with all right, David That's what you want Mama, would you like me to prepare the food for the baby? No, thank you Claudia. I have nothing else to do just now I'll be happy to do it myself that is very sweet of you mama there David That's all we had to say I hate to lock you out of your own living room But it's not my fault that Fritz scraped the floors in my study and that I didn't warn you. I'd be home early Not your fault all David and and don't you worry about us now darling mom and I get along fine without talking Don't don't we mama. I'm not staying around to test myself. I'm going into the kitchen Hey mama come back here. No good Lord grant me patience Claudia make it quick we're disturbing David David wouldn't know what it's like not to be disturbed Well, all I wanted to say was for his best. Well, let's see it. All right. All right. I did I will I mean Will you be so kind as to tell birth and not to come in here under any Circumstances just to call us when dinner's ready. I'll tell her anything else and if the phone rings mama could you answer it? I'll take it in the hall anything else Oh if Fritz comes in to talk today, but David can talk to him after dinner I shall deliver all your messages as fleet as much Oh Everything's arranged so you won't be interrupted Very sweet and very thoughtful of you. Oh, nothing I wouldn't do for any old husband of mine Shuck yourself Oh That was a telephone But don't you worry about it David mama will have to I'm not worrying about it 32 Wonder why mom is not answering it. This is one of those days I can take a hint mama I'll answer Hello, do you want speak? Mr.. Kelsey who is it Claudius for me just a moment day that I Excuse me. Did you say you want to speak to mr.. Kelsey? Well, who's calling, please? Oh Mr.. Adams just a moment David Hello, mr.. Adams. Now. I'm afraid there's no mr.. Kelsey here. You must have the wrong number Bye mr.. Adams Who was it mr. Adams, I do want mr. Kelsey what mr. Kelsey I don't know just mr.. Kelsey Oh that mr.. Kelsey. Yeah You go back to your work David We don't know any mr.. Kelsey do not that I know of Mr.. Adams has a very nice voice what mr.. Adams just mr.. Adams. Oh that mr.. Adams Wonder what mr.. Adams wanted well. I'm surprised you didn't ask him David just because the phone rang and interrupted you is no reason to take it out of the man I have to do No, I can't anything else to interrupt you David. So just fretting Sides I'd be like a watchdog watching over what a comfortable thought Actually, I think if you had an open your mouth ten minutes ago to comment on how quiet it was none of this would have happened You know it's like a chain reaction. What a big word for such a little brain. Maybe now it has unchained itself Yeah, it stopped reacting 32 Where was that? Did that sound like a doorbell to you David? Yes, I think it was definitely the doorbell. Yes, it was so what? David you don't seem to understand I either is the doorbell. That's an interruption, too Not if you'll do me a big favor Anything get rid of the interruption get rid of it by any method or Mean really really yes, I really really mean all right if you say so I just said so Of course if you if you don't even bother to answer the door now, that would be rude I'd rather be just plain inhospitable rude What are you doing locked in your front door in the country missus not well We don't usually mr. Tucker, but ain't very hospitable of you locking your door on a neighboring friend Well, we didn't mean to honestly I didn't even know it was locked gonna be locked in your front door. There ain't much it's gonna walk through it Somebody wants to come in mr. Tucker all they have to do is ring the bell waste a time and energy Somebody really wanted to come in all the body'd have to do is to come in I don't hold with shutting your door on life ma'am paint neighborly You know that you're welcome any time you choose to visit with us then why don't you invite me in well I can stand out here so long on this doorstep. I'm starting to feel like a door mat Your husband told me told me yesterday He was going to be out early and he spoke to do some architecting on this schoolhouse. Well, yes, he's a He's well. What are you stuttering about? Well, you see he either he is or he ain't here now Is he ready? He's here, but he's oh, but he's busy. Hey, well, he's working Well, that ain't nothing to be ashamed about sooner or later. We all got to work Get myself home and he can call me when he's himself again He did ask me to keep him from being interrupted But I love it if you come and talk with me mr. Hey, what are you apologizing? I'm not apologizing Apologizing anything I can't stand is a woman who's always apologized. I I so just tell your husband that That I was here and that I went and that if he's done with the architecting tonight Why we'll talk there. I wish you'd stay. Nope. Nope. I I got some other important things to do, too I'll I'll be seeing you. Well, thanks for coming over. I'll tell David Oh man, I certainly hate yeah, I hope I wasn't rude he well he seemed understand though They don't even say thank you David. Hmm Thank you for what for doing your dirty work. Didn't you hear me here? No, no, I didn't hear anything I was I was concentrating right here. You really concentrate. Don't you? I said we do When I concentrate I can hear everything that's going on. You do I guess that's the difference between men and women probably Claudia Who did you get rid of? Oh, didn't I tell you mr. Tucker? Mr. Tucker. Yeah He's the one who rang the doorbell and you turn him away. You told him not to come in Want to you you told me to get rid of whoever. Yes, but not mr. Tucker David you were working He insisted on not mr. Tucker is different. He's our neighbor. We have things to talk about call him back You call him back yourself. I'm not much like what you possibly turn away mr. Tucker Wouldn't I turn away mr. Tucker? If I live to be a million I will never understand about men Besides, I didn't turn him away. He turned himself away Hey, mr. Tucker Come on back first you tell me one thing then you tell me another thing. I don't know what That is the end never again as long as I live will I try and do what he asked me after I went to all the trouble and Blaming me for his weakness Right work work comes first I'd rather talk to you mr. Tucker much rather. Oh nice you to say so son and we have until dinner So fill yourself a pipe at the back and settle yourself down Oh, I thought you really meant it when you said you wanted to work I yeah, I was just aiming to talk to you about the Clover seed. I latched on you through Matthew Warren Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about that too. It seems to me that we need to seed one of the lower matters Yeah, now I'll tell you story about that Oh Mama hey mama, can you come on here a second? Would you? You'll disturb David. Oh Look at David for yourself. I'm well Looks to me as if Jared Tucker and your hard-working husband have settled down for a long afternoon of chinning Honestly, doesn't that burn you up? No more than one should expect of a man Interruption by a wife is one thing by anything else. It's quite another When I a dope to believe him you were indeed He has a wonderful laugh though hasn't he mama who mr. Tucker no Waiting for seats at the movies isn't nearly such a bore as it used to be Now that so many movie houses have co-coolers in the lobby You can step up drop a nickel in get a nice cold coca-cola and wait refreshed And you can stop for a coke and enjoy the pause that refreshes on the way out To how long do you think it'll be mr. King before claudia finds out that husbands are only men She's finding out I'd say a little every day. It's hard to believe they're married only a little over a year Still harder to believe it's that long already. I know what you mean Time is a way of going fast and then Going slow Christmas again. What does it mean to you? Christmas by Snow and decorations and carols and christmas presents to be unwrapped and prayers And mistletoe mistletoe. Oh, yeah, that reminds me I'd quite forgotten to get the mistletoe. I was quite all right. Don't get it because uh Tomorrow claudia and david will find it. Well, thanks for warning me Goodbye Joe. Goodbye mrs. Brown Every day monday through friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joe king saying or of war And remember Whoever you are Whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment Think of coca-cola Or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes And ice cold coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of claudia was supervised and directed by william brown maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola

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Welcome with us, folks. Welcome to all new viewers. Please hit the subscribe or hit the like button. It's not asking for much, but it means a lot for us. I mean, if you are a new viewer, make sure to have a look at previous videos that we have posted because a lot of information that will be given tonight has been covered before and something will be repeated. And sometimes I take for granted that some of the information that I provide has been covered before. So basically, I like to keep it simple. I really appreciate all your comments. I like to simplify things. Even comments that are negative, I really try to build from that. If, you know, I build on critics and I don't pretend to know it all. I don't pretend to have the only safe and rewarding solution. I just like to show and share things that a lot of other traders are looking at. So this will give you the edge for anticipation. Looking at what our traders are looking and maybe this will provide you information on your next move. So when you're looking at this here, this is the spy chart just before the open this morning. It was already extended to the oversold category. And if you look at what happened right at the bell, we started tanking. And this is where I want to take. I want to take this was support. This is support exactly at the gate and support from pre-market. And then we flushed right after after the bell. I called in chat saying that 422.75 was a line to look for. And I want to show you why I took that line and where I found it. What you need to look for is two things. Are we going to tank further? In my opinion, we were pretty much there because there as in we're not going any further. So this is the RSI. This bit here, if you my cursor is pretty small, this is the bit that we were looking at. But this is the five minute. Let me take you to the one hour chart. One hour is even more dramatic because this here, we were in the teens, right? On the RSI, which was pretty, pretty low when we were when we started going down. So I was looking at a bounce on spy this morning. So let me take you on why I decided that the 422.75 is going to be a good line to catch. This is the spy chart, right? Look at what happened here. We got right atop here, top there. Oh, top here, top here, top here. Same top. And then we broke this line. Appears to me that it's pretty tough to break, right? So what you do is this, you put a line on where you see resistance. This was resistance here, right? This is the arrow where I put resistance and then this is resistance again. Then we traded pretty flat, broke it, and then we ended up going higher. However, twice, and for a while, we had volume that rejected the line and rejected to go further. So you know that when this is going to hit, it was hitting it on the way up. What happens when it comes down is going to be used as support. And let's get back to this very same line. This is what happened when we came down to this line here. So basically, I was expecting the whole thing to bounce on the line I just showed you, and I decided to go on with the 424 calls for this week. Not this week, for today. So why 424? 424, I believe we could get in the money if you have watched videos before. My intention was even a little lower than that, but my intention was to reclaim this support and now it would become resistance, right? So I would go for this line and reclaim back to old resistance. We never made it that far. And if it's same day expiration, you do not have the luxury to wait and see if you're going to get there. No, you have to take profit before that. Now, when I took the 424, I believed 424 would be in the money in a matter of time in a very short period. However, I found that they were 128, which is pretty expensive because in order for it to close green, it means 425, 28 had expiration. We are $3, so $2.5 under that, so I thought they were pretty expensive for the amount of time left on the day. So I decided to go on 424, even if they were a little expensive. And if you saw, let me blow this up for you. So I'll show you exactly what made me decide to get out. Basically, it tried this here, if you look at this, it tried and it rejected it. And this line, right, is where I decided to get out. That's a 1045. As soon as we broke it, I decided to get out. So basically, we got in 128 and we sold for 169. It ain't much, but it's green. And I was happy about it. And the other trade, same thing, same day, same idea, we broke under the 422.75 down to 422. So you know now that this 422 line becomes your support. 422 here, 421.97, call it whatever you want. 421.97, it came very close to it. And then, no, see how many times it tried here. You know, I tried to get up, no, no, no, no. And then it started going up, no, again, a little dip under. Then no, no, no, again. So you know that this is pretty strong now. It's not getting down any further. So I decided to blow this up a little bit. I believe it was around here 245 in the afternoon. It rejected here. And when it came here, as soon as I saw this one, I placed my order. We were right on here. And I mean, this was a quick one. And I advised it was going to be a quick pump. I decided to be in the money. Oh, okay. Why? We are at 422 at this line, 422, but I decided to go 421 calls. So it's already in the money. It has a value. If we were to close right here right now has a value of a dollar because we're 422. And we paid a dollar 50. So basically we're paying 50 cents for an hour and a quarter that we have left until expiration. An hour and a half if you count the after hours that is open on spot. So basically that 50 cents, I'm hoping that we are going to bounce at least to this high, right? Because it goes this high down to 422. It's such high again and again, I thought it would do the same thing or pretty much. But I decided to stop to secure some profit on at 185, which was basically we had this. If you look at the next candle, it went down and up again. But if you had waited, you would have gone red at this point in just one candle. But to take that profit, which wasn't much, but still we're building on something here, right? Obviously if you had waited for the end, it was well in the money at the closing bell at 425. So basically it's $4 in the money. So basically you pay 150 and you could have sold for $4. However, it's a much riskier play to wait it all out because it could have gone all the way down as well with no result at all. So the idea is to build slowly and surely. But the idea behind this video is to show you that two things. First, when it tanks, right? Where to look for support. Look back at previous support or resistance areas that have its strong. The other thing, so look, sorry, let me write on this. Look for old support. In this case it was old resistance and that becomes support. This was not that long ago, but it was quite a strong one. The other thing to look for is what I like is look at our side and stochastic momentum index. If we look together here on the one hour chart, you will see that this is the stochastic here. We're below 50 and here we're below 20. So it needs to rebalance. I mean, it can't go to minus on the other side needs to rebalance, which it did at the end of the day. But we're not here. We're not mid pack. We're not here mid pack thinking we could, it looks like it could do something. Well, this is why I call this mid pack because it's really like a gamble. But when it's down and this kind of thing, it needs to rebalance before something happens. So this was the other thing that you would learn from this video. And the other thing is to profit early. Because same day expiration can be nasty. And you all saw that in this pic at the bottom here, I played in the money already. Yes, the reward is much lower. However, so is the risk. So basically what we're looking at is to end up your day with more money than what you had when you started your day. So it's not how you can double or triple the amount of money you had in the morning. No, it's having more money than you had in the morning. If that is the case, well, we're all happy. So like I said, small is beautiful in this particular case because it's very risky. And what we try to do is book money early. So to all new viewers, we have covered many of these situations in different types, different videos before. And you will probably see that a lot of things that have been repeated in this video will be repeated again in the next videos and have been repeated in videos that we have shown you before. So I hope you guys are learning a few things on how to look for bottom picks, look for support, looking back at previous days and looking for a strike that will get you a safer play and knowing when to exit with, you know, 20, 25, 30%. It's all good. Everyone's happy. So I hope you guys are learning. Take care folks. See you soon.

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How Locals can Help with Tourism

With nicer weather on the way, tourism is expected to increase, and local people can help make the region more appealing.

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Sarah: From USA to DE.

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn16-7677-from_usa_to_de An overview of the possibilities US citisens have to live in Germany. Sarah

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So this talk will be in English, because it might be a bit of a disappointment for you in the audience. This talk is not for you. I'm sorry. This talk is for you at the computer, and you see me through the camera now. This talk is not for you in the audience, because you live here, you are here, and I hope you are not a political refugee. But some people in the United States seem to be or turn out to be political refugees. We heard the case of Chelsea Manning, who can't leave the country. We heard of different whistleblowers who left the country who can't leave the country. I don't know why this is not so. First of all, my name is Sarah Johnson. I'm the laser lady. I'm a bit nervous because I'm on completely new territory for me. I worked in the mid-90s in the House of Refugees during the Civil War in Europe. So I worked there for one year. This is my experience with refugees. That's all my experience. So I'm not a lawyer. I have no clue what I'm talking about. And this talk is for folks who live in the United States, who are US citizens. If you want to have more information, there are some links. It is the German Embassy. It is the Bundesamt für Migration, some German terms. So the websites there in English as well. So look at it and read it. They have more and detailed information that I can give you. But my intention is to give you some starting information. If you are in a trouble situation, if you need to leave the country now, then I hope this talk will help you. Yeah, as I said, reasons to leave. You can be a whistleblower whose cover is not far from being blown. You belong, for example, to the LGBTI community. North Carolina has very strong laws against transgender persons. This might be a reason. Police violence is one issue. There are many reasons to leave the country, also for economic reasons. For example, you want to go to university. You want to make a degree and you face the high institutions fees. You don't want to be in debt for the rest of your life for a few years of university. Come to Germany. There are some other reasons like seeing a beautiful country. Germany is a very beautiful country. I hope in the audience you all agree. This is one point why going to Germany. It is a beautiful country. We have free university. We have a good social system. It is very affordable health insurance. That works and it is not limited. If you pay minimum into the health insurance and you get cancer and you need 100,000 euros of surgery and undone, it is covered. You never run out of coverage. You don't end up with a question, do I buy some food? Or do I go to a doctor? You go to a doctor and you buy your food. We have a stable political system. It might be a bit boring. We have a few larger, smaller political parties. We have a two chamber parliament. In the end, we have a decent government. Everyone here is angry about the German government. But in the end, if we draw a line and compare it to other countries yes, we have a stable government. We have a good infrastructure. We have enjoyed driving 200s kph on an autobahn. It is legal on some parts. The autobahn is mostly in a good condition. You don't get cut off by electricity because of a storm, because of snow. You are not cut off from your telephone line because some poles collapsed. We have a good infrastructure. We have a very rich culture. Goethe, Schiller, painters, sculptures, theatre players, actors, and so on. It is quite a decent culture. We have a very interesting history. We have the second world war. This was only six years in German history of thousands of years. We had the Nazi time for 12 years in total, which is also very small. We had the first world war. But in between we had great times of culture and development. Take a look at the literature. It is quite rich. We have two seas. We have the mountains. We have beautiful countryside. We have fantastic cities like Hamburg, Cologne. Okay, maybe I can't say. Karlsruhe as well. It is nice as well. If you decide to come here to live here, to make a living, there are a few possibilities. The easiest one, of course, is you have a German passport because your parents migrated from Germany to the United States, kept their nationalities. You are German by birth. Or one of your parents has a European citizenship. And depending on the system, you might have this European citizenship as well. Hop on a train, come here, make your living. Easy, totally. Maybe you should learn the language. There are some other ways which are a bit more of a long shot. It is you go to a university, make a degree, or you come here and find your work or be self-employed or employ others. There are some bits and pieces to look for, but it works. Another thing is the EU blue card, which you can get from different European countries, all of them. I will come to this later. I will come to the three last points later. What you should not do. I talked with a friend. She is a political refugee. She lives in Berlin. She dug too deep. She wrote a book. And she had to leave the country now. So this was half a year ago. We had this get the fuck out immediately situation. We talked and she said don't do the asylum thing. It doesn't work. You are a US citizen. The United States of America is supposed as a safe country, as a safe place. So you are not in trouble then, seeing from the German law. So don't go the asylum way, please. You will go back. Lots of pain, lots of money loss. Don't do. Do the other ways. So we get into detail. There is a very, very nice law, which is fantastic. It is Article 41, oftentimes for Ordnung. German. This says that citizens from Australia, Israel, Japan, Canada, Korea, New Zealand and United States of America can come here without a visa. You decide, okay, tomorrow I'm going to Germany. You hop on a plane. You come here. You land in Frankfurt. You have 90 days to get your stuff sorted. This is luxury. You don't have to talk to anyone else before. You just do it. No visa needed. No visits at the embassy, at the German embassy. You just do it. It is good in a situation of get the fuck out. And you don't need to talk to anyone about it. It is a bit... When you're in this situation, then you don't want to talk about your plans. It might come out. You might get arrested upfront and so. So it's a nice way to just go. You have 90 days to get your stuff sorted. Take all your original papers, university degrees, certificate, your passport. You need to have valid passport. Really. No copies. You can have copies. But you need mandatory to have the originals. Because if you go to the German authorities, they want to see the original. If you don't have it, you don't get the status you want to have. And then, let's be frank, you're in a deep shit. Because after 90 days, your right to stay runs out and you become illegal. You are cut off of the grid of health insurance and so on. Please, in original. Yeah. As often times, Article 5 says it. You need to have a passport. Your identity must be clear. I don't know what supposed, how this law says it, how this law is meant. That you have to be, that there have to be no question about your identity. Yeah. Keep your papers straight. You need to have an assured living. You need to have money. Yeah, you need to have money to live in Germany. And if you want to stay, you need to have an idea how you finance yourself. You can't live off the German social security system. Not now. Not when you come here. After a couple of years, when you have a different status and you get unemployed and you have a permanent status, then you can get unemployment money, but not in the first five years. So you need to have an idea how to finance yourself. There are two, Article 7, there are two types of legal status, except for the first 90 days. It is the residence permit and there's the settlement permit. I will go into the residence permit first. This is called Aufenthalz-Alaubnis. The residence permit is limited. You can't stay forever on this title. You need to do something and then when you fulfill some requirements, then it will be changed into the settlement permit and then you can stay. But the residence permit is always bound to a purpose, be it university, be it jobs, be it research, be it learning German, whatsoever, it is limited. And it is limited to a purpose you announce when you register in Germany. So let's go through this. You land, you have some people you know, maybe I suppose you are in the hacking community, maybe you have been at the C3 in Hamburg or you have other European events. You met some German folks. You made contact to hackerspaces. For example, C-Base in Berlin, which is a fantastic and big one. You contact them and you tell them, well, I'm going to leave. I need to suffer to crash. I need a place to live. You have 90 days for this. Then you go and find a place to live. You need to have a flat for some things, for some benefits. You need to have a place, you need to have a flat. Maybe it's living together with some other people in a shared room, not a shared room in a shared flat. We call this Wollengemeinschaft. You go to the authorities, you register and say, oh, I'm living at this place, at this specific address. You need to have an address in Germany. It is very difficult without a valid address. Then you go to the Foreigner's Office, the Ausländerbehörde. Before you do this, you make up your mind what you want to do, how you want to stay, what's your plan. A good idea is to contact a lawyer who is specialized in foreign law, foreign law staying in Germany. It's a good idea. They tell you much, much, much more than I can do. They will tell you the bits and pieces. So you get your purpose straight. Be it university, be it learning German, you have one year about preparing for university, you have two years time to learn the language. This is your purpose. You can't change backward and forward from day to day. This is a long process. So the other thing which you in the end want to have if you plan to stay longer, you want to have the settlement permit. The settlement permit allows you to work wherever you want and allows you to stay. It has no purpose. It's not bound to a purpose. But you don't get it from the day one. You need to have five or more years residency permit. You need to have an assured living. You need to be able to pay health insurance 250 euros if you are not working, if you pay it by yourself because you are self-employed 250 euros. You need to have to pay rent. You need to be able to pay tax. The taxes are a bit higher than in the United States but it's okay. There are 80 million people living in Germany and quite a lot of them are paying tax. It is a pain in the ass. Yes, but you get something from it. You get fantastic out-of-bonds. You get a social system. You get good working infrastructure. You need to have paid five or more years into the retirement and into the pension funds. If you are older than 45, there are some different laws. This is what I show you as an excerpt. Is it condensed just for the case that US citizens move to Germany? There are other cases for refugees and so on. This law is quite big. But these are just the parts you need to know. Five years into the retirement funds you need to have a sufficient living space. You can't live in a cardboard box. You can't live under the bridge. You need to have a flat, a house or something where you can have sort of a decent life. You don't need to have a fantastic palace. A Wundermeinschaft is okay. You can live in this co-living space. You need to be able to speak German. Not just a few words. Hello. You need to be on the level of B1, which is okay. You can get around. You can talk to the officials. You can talk to tax employees. You can order something at the restaurant and so on. You can live in Germany and you don't always be the foreigner. You can have a conversation and so on. This is important. It is tested. It is going to be tested. So you can't just fake it. And you also need to have quite the knowledge about the German culture, political system, how Germany runs the parliament and so on the countries and the state and so on. But after five years you should be able to speak some German and you have enough time to take German courses and they are also mandatory for some people. In the end, after five years, this shouldn't be difficult. So if you come here for education, if you want to go to university, you need to be. It is always about residency permits, not about settlement permits. Settlement permit comes later. This is a purpose thing. You need to have the purpose to get the residence permit. You need to be accepted by a German university or high school. And with this acceptance, so you need to have your school degrees from the United States. And you need to have the allowance general to go to university or high school. If you have this, then you pick a university, pick your courses, pick what you want to study and then you have two years time to learn German because German universities are run in German. There are some private universities, maybe they do the English thing, but university in Germany is in German. And you need to be able to read and understand much more than hello and danker and be gates. So you have two years time. This buys you two years time. If you go to university at the end, it's something else, but it buys you the two years. Maybe you go somewhere else. You have nine months to find a university place. It is not within the first 90 days. You have to say, you have to claim, I want to go to university. These and that and that are my school degrees. I'm able to go to university. Then you have nine months time to find a place and then do the German learning thing. When you've finished and you made it, you got a degree, then you have 18 months time to find a work which fits to your degree. If you studied medicine and you want to work as a software engineer, this doesn't work. If you studied something, mechanics, mechanical engineering, and you just want to work in a car factory at the car manufacturing, this doesn't work. This is not the work you studied for. You need to have a certain level of work. You can't work as a bin man with a PhD. It doesn't work. They don't accept it. If you work... No, something else. We have something very fantastic in Germany besides university. This is called the Ausbildung oder Lehre. This is an apprenticeship. It is mostly three and a half years while you work in a company and you go to school, professional school. You work a couple of weeks in the company to learn the practical things. You go back to school for two or three weeks and so on, and you end up with a degree. This is quite valued in Germany. This is a fantastic system. You can do this, but you need to have the improvement from the Arbeitsagentur, from the employment agency. There are some bits and pieces. They have to approve it. Maybe if you want to do something electrical and there are too many electricians in that area of the country, then they might ask you to switch to become a cook, to become a chef, for example. And you also have one year to find a job afterwards in your field, what you learned. If you learned electrician, you can't work as a chef, vice versa. There's something nice. That is the EU blue card. This is valid for all of Europe. So you can work and live in Germany or you can work and live in France or you can... I don't know about the UK. They have this Brexit thingy in four weeks. I don't know how it will turn out. But there are 28 European countries, EU countries, and you can live there. If you decide to go, if you like cold and snow, then you go to Sweden if you like hot and sea, then you go to Spain or Italy. There are also some rules and regulations, some bits and pieces to get this blue card. You need to have... So you apply for this in Germany. You need to have a degree, a university degree that is at least recognized by German authorities. Or you have studied in Germany. Or you lived, or you worked five years in a specific field and have a comparable qualification. You need to have the consent from the employment agency as well. So there's always this thing of... There's an open job position and there's a ranking. If no German is found to do this job, then it is opened to everyone else. So if a German or European citizen takes this job position, then you're out. You need to have this job opening where you can fit in. Sometimes maybe it's okay. It's a good idea that you are American citizen because you have contacts to the United States, thinking and so on. You have to work at Google or something and they want to have someone specific with these specific skills. Then it works. Salary must be okay. You can't work as a doctor for a thousand euros a month. You need to be paid within the range of the other German employees doing the same. This prevents you from underpayment. This prevents you in a way... This is a two-sided thing. It might prevent you as well from having this job. The Ministry of Labor defines the accredited jobs and the lower limits of salary. That's how it's written the law. This is very flexible. The employment agency has its thing into it. As well, you shouldn't be asylum seeker. This doesn't work. You need to have a settlement permit for more than 33 months to get this. You don't find a job. You have quite some skills. You are talented to run your own business. Please, you're welcome. If you provide working space for others, perfect. You need to be independent financially. You need to... Your idea, your job idea needs to be interesting for that region. If in the city there are 30 bakeries and you want to open up bakery number 31, it's a bit questionable. If you do something with software, hardware, take... This is a good idea. It might work. Very good is if what you do has a positive effect on the job market, as I said earlier. You need to be funded. You need to have some funding, some investment. Again, the German authorities don't want you to live off the expenses of other ones. So, unemployment money. You get a residency permit for maximum three years. And when everything works well, your business is running. Maybe you have some employees. You have this positive effect on the German economy. Then you get a settlement permit. Freelance work also works. Again, must be approved. But in the end it will also lead to a residence permit. So, you made it somehow. You come the first time to Germany and you want to live there. Not the first time for holidays, but you want to seriously live here. Then you need to learn German. You are entitled to... to take part in German courses. And if you have the right, then you also have the obligation to learn German. If your language skills are below A1, which is in a way of hallovigates and thank you and hello and whatsoever, then you need to do this course. They also teach how the German system works, how the political work system works, parliament and so on. If you don't do this, frankly you end up in deep shit. Your status can't be denied. And you have to go home, find another solution. So, I think in most cases if you have this get the fuck out situation, you might not want to come back. So you should hang in there, learn, integrate, do something with a job, go to university, start, make a living, like all the other Germans. I talked with this friend about this talk and basically if you plan to go, then you take your time, make some savings. If you are like a whistleblower, you know that you do something at least questionable. If you get into this and get into the zone of being endangered by the American authorities, you might want to put some money aside so that buys you time. You should do it quietly. Don't wave anything around and say I'm putting aside money for living, for being a potential political refugee. You just do this. You also should have an idea of what you want to do when you come to Germany. It can happen that you did something and you leave now and you had no time. So it is a very short time process then you have to get the fuck out. But if you have the time, you are into a specific special thinking and into a scene whatsoever, you might be prepared to leave. As I said earlier, be quiet. It is like before 1889, we had the German Democratic Republic called DDR. There were some refugees and they went to western Germany and it was a very, very dangerous journey trip. The problem was if they talked to someone, parents could be friends, close friends, they never knew if one of these persons talks to the Stasi and blames you. So you have to be quiet. Try to figure out what you want to do, what your options are, what your skills are. There are some groups on Facebook, there are some websites about how to live in Germany, how to make it, how to go there. You should read this. You should read a lot to get an idea. So what I tell you is just the first ideas, first information. So you come here, you go to the Einwunermäderamt. This is where you get registered, where you go and you say, I live in this and that specific address. As I said, you need to have an address in Germany. So this is the first step, this is a very important one. And then you go to the Ausländerbehörden, to the foreigners authorities. So you proceed. Yeah, when you came here, it's a journey, it's a trip, it's a life experience. Take everything you can get from this experience. Learn as much as you can, enjoy as much as you can, enjoy the German beer, enjoy the weather, enjoy going to the beach, take this as an opportunity, not only, wow, health breaking lose, but you end up in a nice place. So I came to the end. I want to thank you, I want to thank all the folks, the US folks I met at the C3, which talked about leaving the country because they gave me the idea of making a talk about. I want to thank Vera for her input. If you want to shoot me a mail, Sarah at laserlady.org. If you want to Twitter me, it's at exceelsara.hl. Shoot me a line. And if you have some questions, please. Questions? Okay, thank you very much for your attention.

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A Better Way Program 149

ARC Identifier 1479 / Local Identifier 16-BW-149. Program 149: How to grow good cucumbers; Home made toys; Pocket sandwiches; How to split wood and the tools to use; How to make pickles and relish at home; Tips on backpacking. Department of Agriculture. Office of the Secretary. Office of Information. Motion Picture Division. (ca. 1929 - 1976?) DVD copied by Liz Pruszko.

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To split a log for home firewood, our gardening segment will talk about how to grow cucumbers. We'll offer some tips on making pickles from your garden cucumbers, and for our young viewers we'll show how to make a nutritious pocket sandwich next on A Better Way. Welcome to A Better Way, I'm Don Elder. The cucumbers are fine vegetable for salad, sandwiches and pickles. On today's gardening feature, Larry Quinn looks at what it takes to grow healthy cucumbers. If you like homemade pickles and enjoy fresh cucumbers in your salad, then this is one crop that you may want to include next year in the garden if you weren't able to grow it this year. Dick Biggs is a horticulturist with the Maryland Cooperative Extension Service, and we're in his garden today looking at cucumbers. Tell us about this particular crop, Dick. Okay, cucumbers are fairly easy to grow. We have basically the same problems that we talked about last time with cantaloupes. We have the striped and spotted cucumber beetles, so if we can control them, then we should not have the bacterial wilt. Cucumbers do take up quite a bit of space because they are a running fine crop. However, there's one benefit with them. If you're limited on space, you can grow them on a fence, chicken wire or any type of fence where you can get them to go up in the air instead of on the ground, and that can cut your space by about half or so. How much time does it take to produce full-size mature cucumbers? The cucumbers really don't take that much time. Generally, they will run around 75 to 80 days from the time you plant the seed. That's amazing how fast they go once they start flowering. You get your flowers, and I can pinch one off here so we can see it. We've got our flowering that occurred just a couple of days ago in already our small cucumber. I would say roughly in five or six days with the moisture levels we have, this cucumber would be approximately this size. So you have to be on the lookout. Once they start to be in this condition, you've got to start checking every couple of days because it won't be long before they're ready. And when do you harvest them? Looks like we have several here that are getting close to harvest. Okay, it all depends on what you want to do with them. If you want them for slicing for salads and that sort of thing, then this is really about your right size. If you let them get much larger than this or they get fatter and start turning white, then you'll find that they're getting a little bit tough and maybe even bitter. If one looks like if you were going to pickle, make your homegrown pickles, that'd be just about the right size. Fine. If you like to pickle, you can do them this size. You can use this size for like dill chips or dill spears. It really doesn't matter. A lot of people even take young ones like this and just cram a jar full of them for sweet pickles. Is this a particularly hard crop to grow or is it pretty easy? It's hard to say. You really need a good growing season. You need plenty of hot weather and plenty of water when they start making rapid growth. If you get those two conditions and you can control the insects, it's an extremely easy crop and you'd better have a lot of neighbors that like cucumbers because you'll have to find a home for them. Big, big thanks for being with us to talk about this crop of cucumbers and next week we'll be turning to zucchini. If you're getting tired of spending an awful lot of money for toys, it seemed to fall apart after a few months or else they need batteries or they need a complex set of instructions to put together. Well, we have a partial alternative. My guest is Marcie Myers and she's a home economist for the Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. We're going to talk about homemade toys. In fact, we've got the ingredients for some homemade toys right here. We can play poultry farmer with this one. We can. We can play dairy farmer. Well, we really couldn't. These aren't exactly ingredients, Don. These are the toys. Oh, this is it. This is the final part. Right. This is what my children played with. They're good enough for my kids. They're good enough for yours. The thing is, the whole philosophy of toys. What are toys for anyway? Why do kids play? They don't do it just for fun. I guess it's a diversion. Well, it's been said that play is children's work and toys are their tools. That sounds, you know, kind of corny. But it's true. They're playing for purpose. They're learning a lot. Even tiny babies who are touching things. For instance, plastic hair curlers. As long as the plastic is soft and not brittle, a tiny baby could learn a lot from this. They're learning how things feel, how they taste mostly, to a year, year and a half. And common household things as long as they're safe can be wonderful toys for children. In fact, you have to check on purchase toys too for safety to be sure there aren't sharp edges, aren't little pieces that are going to come off. So if you're going to have to check anyway, why not go with the free stuff? None of these things need to be assembled. They don't run off of batteries. That's great. Really, our box here, which is a shoe box, very brightly colored and appealing to children. Different age kids can play with this and have a wonderful time. It's not a shoe box someone a child plays with. It's any number of things. It can be a monster box. I'm afraid to look in. It can be building blocks. Kids will stack up boxes like this or put things in them cans too. Button collection in there or it can be anything collection. If you're really a creative parent, you can decorate these things. Are you talking about really young children like preschoolers? Mostly, yes. Once kids hit school, they get a little sophisticated. They've also been watching television. Five-year-olds are sophisticated today. That's it. They watch television and say, you know, I want some of that. They see sophisticated, expensive toys advertised and a lot of times the toys that are really pushed are not fun for kids at all and not educational. If it has a battery and does things by itself on the floor, you can watch it a day or two and after that... Well, the problem is they're designed by adults. That's right. And most adults are much too grown up. Okay, now let's start looking at some of these things tonight a minute time because these... all these came out of your house. You didn't really have to do a lot of planning to bring these things with you. This is a potato chip cylinder that's been covered with some kind of wrapping paper. Just to make it attractive, although the color of the cylinder itself is bright and cheerful, you can cover it with plastic coated paper and this makes it washable too and this is a safe thing. Little tiny children may have a wonderful time peeling this off. I'm sure you've seen children who unwrap Christmas presents and then play with the wrappings in the box while the expensive toy, battery operated from grandmother sits on the floor. This is good for caring things too. Oh, and it rolls and babies that are crawling can roll it and they'll follow it. Alright, now this is a pie tin. Yeah. In fact, this reminds me of something when I was a kid. We used to take aluminum trash can tops and they had a handle on them. They had made a great shield. And it's sled and icy weather. Sure. Little kid's favorite place to play, I think, is right between and under his mother's feet in the kitchen floor. Doesn't seem to mind water dripping on his head. Love to pull out pots and pans from the lower cabinets and bang them, feel them, chew on them, push them around. Generally make a terrible mess. But they're learning something while they're doing that. And on the other hand, they're right there where you know what they're doing too. So it's a little bit of forethought. You can put safe things in those lower cabinets that they can open. Now you put something together here. Most people throw these things away. Margarine comes in them in any number of things in the kitchen. But I've seen toys like this where you had one item nestled inside another. Yeah, five, eight, ten dollars for four or five of these. They come in more colors too. Things that fit together. You can see where that's an educational thing. You can't put them together this way because that one won't go in. So it teaches the child relationships and sizes. Right, size, shapes, and so forth. Again, I can't stress too much the safety factor here. These are that soft plastic that aren't going to break. I can't figure this one out. Well, that's a little more fancy. It looks like a clear plastic gig, okay. You're just not at that stage yet. That's okay. This is a common-part puzzle-type toy. Just an example of a good toy that is a commercial product. This one's a little sophisticated. That means that I can't do it. My children can. But there are simpler puzzles of this kind that will absorb school-age children. And again, like this with a tiny child is teaching them space and shapes. This is doing the same thing for older kids. This looks like something that wrapping paper comes wrapped around. Yeah. And kids can build again with boxes, empty boxes. Build all kinds of wondrous things with tubes. Cut them up, glue them together, stick cut holes in boxes and stick them through there. And only in their imaginations do the real things exist. The whole point then is that not so much of these things are inexpensive, but the fact that here's something that can really stimulate your child's imagination and creativity and the things around the house. You have to use yours a little, too, to see toys or play things in ordinary objects like this. A sand scoop out of a plastic milk bottle. Now, when I was in elementary school, not too long ago, we used to take these things and paint them, all different colors, and use them to make... Make Christmas tree ornaments. Right. Cut out the cylinders. Joy boxes for little girls, spray paint them, you know, and line the little sections with cotton, and they put all their little junky jewelry in there, and they think that's wonderful. And they've made it themselves, and that's the important thing. They've done something. Now, something like this. Is there a chance that a child could hurt themself on a kitchen utensil? I mean, this doesn't have any sharp edges particularly, but it's hard. You know, a young infant might... I wouldn't give this to a tiny baby. I was thinking of this kind of down in that bottom cabinet with the pie pans and the sauce pans and so forth of something that'll bang, make a good noise. You could hurt yourself if you fell on that, but it's not going to come apart. There are no small pieces. Thanks, Marcy Meyer, with the Brown Cooper Extension Service being with us. So, you know, if you just look around your house, you'll probably find all sorts of things far more imaginative than what we've brought out here today. For maximum efficiency in your home fireplace, it's important that you learn how to split a log properly. Larry Quinn was in the wood lot recently, and he learned to do just that. Today, we're going to talk about splitting wood, how to do it, and the tools to use. Zeke Hornick is a wood energy specialist with the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Zeke, just how do we go about this splitting wood? Well, first, I guess you have to get the wood, Larry, but then you need to have a good firm base to work from, and that's why we worked off of a chopping block. And then the other thing is to get your feet on good solid ground, then get the right tools. By and large, unless you're a more perfect chopper than I, you really ought to go for hard-toed shoes as well. Zeke, what are some of the other tools that we use? We've seen the axe use, but what are some of the other tools? Well, for the really tough pieces, you need a wedge and a sledge. These are heavier than the axe, aren't they? Yeah, it's quite a bit heavier. This one happened to be an eight-pounder, but you can get a very variety of sizes, depending on the work you have to do, up 10 pounds down to this nice little fella for the backyard slitter. Yeah, that's about a three and a half pound. Then we have the splitting maw, which is sort of a larger version of the axe, but it still has the design of the wedge so that you get more of a splitting action plus the weight. And here is a case of just getting it up, lining it up, and letting the splitting maw do the work. All right, let's take a piece of wood here and try the wedge and the sledge, OK? Oh, you sure picked the piece that needed a splitting wedge. Let's put on some safety glasses so in case we have any flying metal here. Take one of these wedges. Now, what do we do first? It looks like you've marked this one already for me a little bit. You did that? Well, yeah, one of the things you'll find, Larry, is that all these knots look pretty vicious, and they can make life miserable for you, but they never go past the center of the piece. So if you always aim for the middle... Let's see. Right in here. Right there, what we call the pith, you will miss the knots. And if you cut at a right angle to the knot, you never have to encounter a knot with the cut. So that's why I've started the cut there. So if you put your wedge in there, this thing should split quite easily. Notice how that's falling apart. That's a nice job, Larry. And you guess you know that with the axe you'd have been hitting a few more times. That's right. Let's talk about kindling for a moment. Small pieces of wood to help get the fire started. Well, that's where your cedar and your pines come in. Some small pieces. They're nice and light. And what you need to do is split them into pieces about this big. So set them up there and that one, I guess we can split it in half and then we'd have a piece of kindling. All right. What you want to do is bury your the sizes from very small to pieces this size before you move into your regular firewood sizes. And you just need a few pieces like this to get started. Right. Right. What about storing the firewood when we get through? Well, once you've got your hardwood cut, you still won't have a good piece of firewood until it's been dried. Because this is over 50% water right now. So the thing to do is put it in a pile out in the open where the air can get at it and that will dry the wood, take the water away. And if you really want to have it nice and clean and dry when you use it this winter, then cover it either in the shadow or with the even a tarp or piece of plastic. See, Corning, thanks for being with us to talk about firewood and splitting it how to do it with the right tools. If you'd like more information on firewood, you can write us for this free booklet. Our address is Agriculture TV, Washington, D.C. 202-50. You know what the price you pay for a quart of firewood these days, too, if you can find a supply that you can cut, it's well worth the effort. Did you do that all in one take? Well, as a matter of fact, the magic of television probably did make me look like a little better woodsman. Splitting wood down is really a difficult job. And if you don't master that skill early, don't feel too bad about it because it takes quite a long time to learn how to swing the axe safely, even to use the wedge and the sledge. And one of the things that probably any wood splitter would tell you is that if you're using a wedge and a sledge, be sure you get two wedges. Why is that? You only need one at a time. Well, just like my luck, that one wedge gets stuck in the log. Oh, yes. And so you need another wedge to split the wood so you can get the first wedge out. Sometimes I've used two wedges and a small axe. It depends on the kind of wood. It may be twisted and turned and doesn't really split that easy. Now, again, what is a good size for a log for the home fireplace? I mean, is this about it? About 20, 24 inches? If you have one that is a quarter of a pretty good-sized log, and that would be a little bit too big to put in the fireplace. That's why you do need to split it. Now, something like this, Don, you don't really need to split that because it'll catch on pretty easily. But when you have larger logs, you definitely do need to split them. And that's where you use a little energy of your own and splitting them, believe me, a lot of energy. You know, one of the things I think that is becoming interesting these days is the fact that people are no longer just thinking of firewood as something aesthetic, you know, sitting around the nice warm fireplace on a cold evening and they're starting to look at it from a functional standpoint. That's right. You're gonna be talking about heating the home with firewood next week. And talking about how to get more efficiency out of using wood in the home to heat the home. Because a lot of times it's not as efficient as it could be. And so we're going to give some tips next week to give a little bit of help along that line. And also coming up in the next few weeks, we're going to take a look at some rather innovative uses of wood now. Not just heating homes, but heating factories, textile mills, a brick plant. Many states in the South have discovered that with a large natural resource and fast-growing timber that they can put some of this to good use and reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. So wood is coming back, folks. And we're going to be also later on Don talking about if you do want to cut your own trees down and cut it up into logs, we'll give some tips along that line too. Thank you Larry. And coming up in just a moment, a better way just for kids. I finished planting my pot full of herbs. Did you know that you could eat every single part of the plant? Well you can. Today in our tough kitchen we'll be showing you how. Plus we'll be showing you a pocket full of good food ideas from the Human Nutrition Center. Come on, let's take a look. Hi, I'm Tommy. Hi, I'm Darcy. Hi, I'm Mike. So what are you about to have a plan for today? I'm stuffing my salad into a sandwich. Why? I'm stuffing my sandwich into a pocket. You know what they're talking about? We're making pocket sandwiches. Oh, well how do you do that? This is pizza bread. It comes from the Middle East and it's made out of whole wheat flour and it has a pocket in it like this. Now we'll show you how you carry all of the plants. To eat the leaves, you can eat the lettuce, the parsley, or the cabbage. To eat the roots, you can eat carrots or radishes. To eat the seeds, you can eat alfalfa sprouts or cucumbers. To eat the flour, you can eat broccoli and to eat the fur, you can eat tomatoes. To eat the stem, you can eat the celery or the mushrooms. I want to stuff my salad into my sandwich. Yeah. Yeah. Let's fill them. You can even sprinkle a little cheese on top if you want. Yeah. Hmm, it looks like it's going to be good. We've got pickles next. A mushroom. You can even pour a little salad dressing on it. If you want the recipe for pocket sandwiches, write to us. Say again. If you've been growing cucumbers in your garden this summer, you might want to use them to make pickles. Pickles and relishes can add zipping zest to your meals, snacks, and party refreshments. In this booklet, Making Pickles and Relishes at Home, you'll find all sorts of suggestions and tips on making your own pickled products. There are basic recipes for old-time favorites. For instance, pickled pears, pickle lily and sauerkraut. You'll also find tips on preparing sweet gherkins, cross-cut pickle slices, and dill green beans. And you'll learn some common causes of poor quality pickles and spoilage and sauerkraut. I'm sure there are lots of homemakers who would enjoy making their own pickles, especially when garden vegetables and fresh fruits are an abundant supply. If you would like this booklet, Making Pickles and Relishes at Home, just write to Agriculture TV, Washington, D.C. 202-50. Now, let's join Don and Bill Holman from the Forest Service for some tips on backpacking. Hey Don, we better find a place to camp pretty soon. It looks like rain. Yeah, it'll be at least an hour or so. This looks like a pretty good place. It's out in the open and away from snags, and it's a pretty hard sight. What's the problem with snags, Bill? Well, in the high windstorm, they could fall on the tent. We want to be away from any danger of falling snags. We also want a place to the camp where if it rains, we're not going to be in a flooded area. It looks like a pretty hard sight, and we can minimize our impact. So we don't want to be too close to the tree line, then? No, I don't think we do. We want to be out away from the trees so the snags don't fall, but in a hard sight so it doesn't cause a whole lot of resource damage. I like to eat, but I guess the first thing we're going to do is get our shelter out. Yeah, we better do that right now. Okay. That's a nice tent. Hey Don, this is a fairly common kind of a backpacking or mountain style tent. It is made up of an inner tent in a fly situation. You'll note that the fly that we put on is held away from the inner tent, and the fly is used when there's a great deal of a lot of rain. Why the idea of even having to fly at all, because it seems to me that this will keep us dry when? Well, it wouldn't, Don, because it's a breathable kind of a nylon, and it doesn't sweat. That's for ventilation, right? It's for ventilation, and it keeps the water from dripping on your head. The tent has a lot of other little features that we might be needing tonight, such as mosquito netting, and we have a little best of you on this particular tent where we can store our gear underneath. This is a pretty common design, isn't it? Yeah, it's a very common mountain kind of tent, and it only weighs about five pounds, and doesn't take up a lot of space in your pack, and it's, as you could see, very easily to set up. It only took us about three or four minutes. I remember back when I was in Scouts, we used to have to trench around around a tent, where those are tents without floors, I guess. You don't need to do that anymore, right? That's right. This tent has a coated nylon bottom, so you can set it right on the ground. In fact, I know the people managing the forest would just soon not have a trench around the tent, because then that impacts the site for the next person. Yeah, I noticed a helicopter flying overhead. Is that a farm service helicopter? Yeah, they must have some fires in the area or something. Well, I guess the next thing we need to do is get our sleeping bags. Yeah, that would be a good stroke of business to get that done before it gets too dark. What kind of pads that? This is a closed cell foam pad, non. It looks like it's really thick enough to give you much comfort. Well, that's really not the purpose. The purpose of it is so that the moisture from the ground doesn't come up into your sleeping bag, and it causes a little bit more insulation and you stay warmer. In fact, with this kind of pad, you can throw it on the snow and put your sleeping bag right on top of it, and sleep very comfortably. Yes, it is lightweight. There are other kinds that give you more comfort, but I found that this is the best. Now, we'll get the sleeping bag out here. Notice it's put in a stuff sack, so it takes up a lot less room. Because you can compress it inside the bag? Yes, you can compress the sleeping bag and put it into a relatively small space. Is this bag down? No, there are several kinds of sleeping bags. There are synthetic fibers, there are down bags, and there's a combination of bags. This one happens to be a synthetic fiber. Each of them have a little different characteristic. Yep, if I was going to go buy a sleeping bag now, what factor should I consider? I mean, a down versus a synthetic, I guess? Well, that would be your first choice, and it depends on the kind of area or the kind of camping you're going to go into. If you're going into an area with a lot of humidity, a lot of rain, I think we would recommend a synthetic sleeping bag, because it tends not to absorb as much moisture as down, and it dries out rather quickly. But if you're going to go into a cold area where it's relatively dry, I think the down is better. It compresses a little bit more and weight for insulating quality is a little better ratio. Well, actually, this doesn't weight that much, does it? No, this weighs about three pounds, and this bag is good. Well, I slept in this bag down to about zero. Well, I hope you'll have that kind of temperature. No, I don't think we'll have that kind of temperature tonight. But in fact, it's going to be relatively warm, and one of another thing a person ought to look for in a bag is the fact that the zipper zips all the way down to the toe, so you can open it up to get a lot of ventilation. This zipper works in both directions? That's true. It's a zipper that you can zip all the way up, and then if you want to let your feet get some ventilation, you can just open up the bottom section. One should look for that in a sleeping bag. Most of the good sleeping bags have that nature. I guess the plastic and in ordinary nylon-type zipper is less prone to jamming up to. That's true or freezing up, and this is a large YKK-type zipper that works in most, under most conditions. I think we can put this in the tent now. Well, Don, we got the tent up in the sleeping bags in. Let's go eat. That was good to me. Next week on A Better Way, we'll get a chance to watch Don enjoy that outdoor meal with Bill Holman and some more information on camp stoves and cooking for those who are backpackers or campers. Also, next week our gardening segment will talk about zucchini, we'll have some household cleaning tips, and we'll be continuing talking about use of firewood to heat the home. So join us again, won't you, for Better Way next week.

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An expansion to ECB QE? and what’s next this week - CMC Markets

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Okay, welcome to this week's charting analysis webinar with myself, Jasper Lawler. Quite an interesting start to the week because we've just had China's GDP report. We've got the ECB later on this week. We'll soon dig into that. For the time being, we're just going to dig through these risk warning screens. Any questions at all? Please feel free to send them through the chat or Q&A dialogue boxes. And I'm happy to oblige. Even if it's just a slightly more obscure market you want to comment on, or some specific event or particular pattern maybe that you were looking at within some of the more prominent assets that we trade, feel free to just let me know. So not that much in the way of economic data this week. I mentioned the interest rate decision from the European Central Bank could be an interesting one. My take is that most likely they're not going to announce extra QE per month. And they're also fairly unlikely, I would say, to extend the duration of the policy. We're not that far into the policy at the moment. And we're only a few months in. And I don't think that the current state of markets, although a bit cautious, is not the outright state of panic that preceded the previous meeting. And no action was taken then. The only reason to believe that there could be some action taken and why we're looking on this euro chart and yet another false break of this long-term triangle pattern is because inflation has dropped into the negative again in the euro zone. And so really officially speaking, as some of the ECB members have alluded to, the European Central Bank as of the moment is not actually meeting its target and not even getting close, in fact. Its target is inflation just below 2%, inflation's declining. Now the problem is that most of the reasons for that decline in inflation is oil prices. Core inflation is actually holding pretty steady. And that's the inflation that strips out oil prices. So if they were to use policy, it would be a very dovish signal because really it's fighting a force that they can't really in themselves combat. It's a commodity-related decline in prices. But just looking at this chart, I've been focusing a lot on the weekly chart on the euro dollar at the moment just because we keep getting these false breakouts of this triangle pattern. It's not so easy to see on the daily price chart. Nonetheless, I've highlighted this weekly reversal here, the dip and the close below this triangle as I see it. Then if we do drop down to that daily candlestick chart, you can see that we had what is fairly close to a bearish engulfing candlestick. Pretty much covers it. The body is slightly, the ears about the same. But it's quite a big reversal that we saw on the Thursday and that's followed through on Friday and today. And to my mind, when you see a false break, a failure at the 115 level again and a false break of this triangle pattern to me suggests that the psychology is that we're probably going to have to go and retest the 111 and see if we can get through there before we make another run higher. It's really range-bound conditions and so we could find support in and around what is something akin to the previous resistance in that 113 area and then make a surge out of the triangle again. My suspicion is that we drop a bit further back into the range because it's not quite certain where we're going. Obviously, the ECB is a big factor here. If, as I say, the ECB actually doesn't really do much, then that would be a positive for Eurodollar. And the only other factor at play here is what's said and done by the Federal Reserve. We don't have a Fed meeting coming just yet. We've got non-farm payrolls, but the Fed meeting is next week. So that's still a fair bit away. So my feeling is that probably we can't get out of this range until we hear more from the Fed. But at the moment, risk is skewed to the downside in the Euro because of that ECB meeting coming up. Now the other factor that's kind of in play today while we're seeing, according to our charts, a slight drop in these European pairs, but actually most of the European markets themselves, like Germany, the German DAX and the French CAC, as the cash prices were suggest slightly higher. But it's just the FTSE 100, or as we trade it, the UK 100, that's a bit lower today. And that's kind of because of this Chinese GDP report. As you can see here over on the right of my screen, it's these heavily weighted commodity stocks that are kind of dragging down the rest of the index. So without wishing to jump around too much, just while I'm talking about that, let's pull up the UK 100. I've been seeing it for a few of these past webinars. A lot of these global indices are looking kind of similar because it's concerns over Chinese growth and the Chinese currency devaluation that pushed them lower and they're all kind of dealing with the same global factors. Some showing more strength than others, but generally moving kind of in tandem. And so this chart looks a little bit busy, but let me just focus your attention on the main bits, which is if we're looking at weekly chart, it's made a higher low and then a higher high. So that's characteristic of an uptrend. We've dropped back down from that higher high, down to the breakout area in around this 6,260, rebounded strongly, but then stalled a bit at this 6,400. So obviously where we are now is do we continue up towards a bit of resistance from this broken trend line on the long-term chart. And indeed to the 61.8% fibrous placement. And indeed to these highs up here, this is the kind of barriers that we have to cross if prices are to move higher through this big decline that we had. Or is it here or maybe at one of these high resistance levels that this correction ends and we roll over. There's a possibility that we can't even get through this high from Friday and that we roll down into a lower price and try and pick up more buyers interested at lower prices and around the 6,000 round number again. You know, I haven't torn it in yet. It's only two prices, but if we do get a drop down here, I'll be keeping an eye on a rising trend line connecting these two lows. At the moment, this is kind of the resistance area, just beneath the 6,500. Now I'll pull up the US 30 chart because that's probably the strongest of the bunch. Obviously in the midst of US earnings season at the moment, it just had some bad results from Morgan Stanley. The results from the banks have been a bit mixed, but most of the investment banks have been kind of disappointing and that's kind of the thought process around earnings at the moment is a bit of a focus around the banks and hasn't been all that great. A lot of the kind of market volatility from August actually has played into it. Normally volatility is a good thing for trading, but the volatility was in and around the stock markets mostly and people have been frightened out a bit of the bond markets which tends to generate this profit to some of these banks. So US 30 can see similar kind of deal where we've broken through this, what was the 50% Fibonacci. I think stores there were now up into the 61.8. We did come back a bit from there. We're up and above the previous peak right on that Fib level now. Same deal where we're making higher highs and higher lows. Appear to have broken out of this bearish RSI zone. So we made an oversold level. And typically once you break back through the kind of 60, then we're more into the vicinity of looking at a buying market. We haven't moved into that overbought area yet to characterize more bullish trend in the market. That would be a stronger signal, but obviously that would typically involve us being at higher prices for the time being we're still below the 70 overbought and we're still below the 200-day moving average. So there's going to be reticence about buying as we approach the underside of that 200-day moving average. A lot of people have a rule that they won't buy below the 200. And they won't sell above it. So while that's the case, we're sort of limiting the possibility upside. And there's been a good run higher. Then we're certainly, the higher we get, the more worried there is going to be that we roll over. And so I've highlighted this level here, which I think was first marked out by that low, sort of false-braked and challenged here, chopped around here and then finally broke through in August. So I think that could be an area to watch out for and obviously just beneath that 200-day, which at the moment sits quite well with that peak on August 18th. We've also got some lows back here, which I had a trend line drawn in at the moment. So that's this in the nature of beast when we're pushing up into an uptrend, but at the moment we're not into clear skies. We're going up against these previous areas, all of which can cause either smaller, large corrections. You've just got to make a decision which way the trend is going. The moment the trend is up, that's where your bias should be, but you've just got to be cautious because we are below that 200-day moving average. Now, European markets are actually looking a bit softer, which goes slightly counter to the idea that there could be some more QE in the line. Now, this is the Germany 30 proxy for the DAX. And as you can see here, we've not even got close to these September peaks that we've pushed through in the U.K. and the U.S. I think part of that is that part of these gains in U.S. and U.K. indices have been born on a bit of return to strength in commodities, and there are some prominent oil and gas and mining companies in the U.S. and U.K., particularly the U.K., but not so much in Europe. We've got Total, who I think are actually reporting earnings this week in France, but nonetheless the bounce in commodities has not helped European markets as much as it has the U.K. and the U.S. and they're still the sort of German exporters. The car makers, obviously Volkswagen is prominent at the moment, are all not looking quite so good with the slowdown in China, because that's been a big market for them. So I think those exporters are a sort of drag on the European markets, whereas the commodity shares have been a bit of a boon for the U.K. and U.S. So if we do get a push through this resistance area in the Germany 30, I think that'll be a little trigger for another run higher in the other U.K. and U.S. indices as well. That's a bit of a barrier, I think, to global markets pushing higher as this area in the Germany 30 and the equivalent-looking ones in the French CAG and Euro 50. French 30, Euro 50. French 40, so. Now, I touched on the euro. Maybe just jump over to the pound. We've got Carney speaking tomorrow after markets close, around 6 p.m., I believe. We could have some things to say. But overall, not too much to push the pound around until we get to Thursday, which is a busy day anyway with ECB, but we have U.K. retail sales on Thursday. Technically, as I see it at the moment, we already highlighted this last week, and we're starting to see signs of this working now. What today is that we've got a pullback from this potential declining trend line here for a couple of days, but it was a pretty indiscriminate drop, not exactly heavy selling going on there, and what was notable is that we had an equivalent RSI trend line, and that had actually broken. So what I think we could be looking at here is the RSI gave us an early warning signal that price was going to break this trend line and maybe push up to this peak in September. This is one of the more valuable setups in the RSI. Sometimes it just looks a bit similar to price and doesn't tell you much, but I think this is potentially a good example of its usage. Obviously, we're above the 200-day moving average in the pound, but on a sort of weekly chart basis, we did make a lower low and make lower highs, but it was only just about a lower low, and I think it didn't actually close below. No, it didn't close as a lower low, so if you're looking at this weekly candlestick chart, which I'd always recommend doing, that was essentially a false break, because it broke below, and yes, on a daily chart we closed below, but on a weekly chart we didn't, and that's the big swings that we're dealing with. So that false break there has triggered this move up here and maybe the initial trigger for us to get a test right back up to this high, and this little false break that is down the trend line that we're talking about on the daily chart could just be the next little minor trigger to get us finally there. But overall, we've had this break of this defining trend line. It was looking pretty bearish at this point in the 20th of September, but we couldn't do the break, so as much as you wanted that to be a push, a nice sell up the broken trend line down to the low, you did first have to get through there with the previous low first, and we weren't able to, specifically on a closing basis, and hence we're pushing up again. So once we get up here, that's going to be this previous peak, and it's going to be another test of this trend line, and that's going to be some pretty hefty resistance, but just the fact that it didn't work the first time to me suggests we're still just in a range-bound environment and could even get back up to the peaks around 158 again. I'll just notice the chat here when there's been a bit of a chat about timeframe of charts. So I think in terms of, so I've been discussing this from a sort of weekly and daily perspective. Obviously those would typically not be the timeframe charts that you use for day trading, and I know a lot of you out there will be day trading. The way I would characterize the usage of this, the material that I present is, it's really best to be aware of these longer-term patterns and trigger points and not to be on the wrong side of them. So if you're looking at a little, maybe you'd trade some particular indicator set up on a one-hour or four-hour chart. Don't take a return from an oversold level on the stochastic indicator on a four-hour chart. If, as a buying opportunity, if we're right at the resistance level, as suggested on a daily or weekly chart, you're buying right into a resistance level. So even though you've got that trigger there, it's just less likely to work. So the traders that I speak to, the ones that have the best success are the ones that consider the daily timeframes, the weekly and daily timeframes, and the more significant longer-term levels that everyone's watching. And then they dig down to those lower timeframes if they have the time to do so and more specifically take those little short-term opportunities in line with that longer-term picture. Now obviously, not a lot of us do have time to go to those lower timeframes if you're working all day. It's pretty tricky to sort of split your mind across your day-to-day work and those short timeframe trades that require a bit more attention. Now, they're certainly worthwhile using those shorter timeframes, but not if you don't have the time to do so. You'll end up sort of taking trades without enough analysis. You'll see something without having really studied it properly, take the trade, and then it could or could not work out, but over a longer stretch of time you'll start to notice that you're missing things because you're sort of jumping in and analyzing the market but not with enough time to do so. That's certainly been my experience anyway. But more power to you if you do have the time, because obviously what you can do is when I'm talking about this trend line here and perhaps it's going to break and to me it looks like it will, you can dip down to the four-hour chart and look for some short-term patterns to verify that it is in fact breaking or give some specific buy triggers to justify that longer-term outlook. If you're just relying on the longer-term, you just have to go by that and come what may. I hope it works out. You've got a bit of extra... a little extra confluence, a little extra confidence if you have a short-term buy signal to justify that longer-term pattern. RSI, you can really use it just the same in the one-hour and four-hour charts you do the day. It's just the same with all indicators. They're just less reliable on the short-term. You get more false breaks on the short-term, more false indicator signals, but obviously you get more of them. So that's the choice. Can you handle all these false breaks and the associated extra-losing trades in order to get that higher number of trades? Bit of a dive edge there, but I hope that was useful. While we're on the currency, we've got a little request for sterling yen. You can certainly have a look at that. You ask for that a lot, Gordon. I should just add that to my watch list here because I always say just have your a yen. I don't have... It's just a good point in general, I think, that obviously a lot of currency markets out there and unless you're trading on a very long-term basis, it's hard to cover all of them and you just have to make cuts somewhere. For some reason, the pound yen just hasn't quite made my cut even though it is a nice volatile pair to trade. So I'm sure you have this line on there. So this will be my first starting point. We're getting some kind of breaks here, but still it's holding quite well this trend line. You can probably draw it in different ways. So far there hasn't been a particularly categoric break lower. There's been a couple of false breaks and we're kind of holding in around this 50-day moving average and this rising trend line at the moment. I guess if you'd change the trend line over to here, we're looking good. So I think that's what we're, you know, we've had a bit of a break of that other long-term one, which is something to be cautious of, but we're holding this more interim trend line and, you know, it's kind of just a sideways market and it's slightly long by a sideways market. So even though I think there's a risk of a breakdown, as we fell short of that 200 level, there's a big psychological level. Obviously there are a lot of people paying attention to it. I think that that finally did us in. Still, you know, it's not that this has to always hold weight, but on a macro basis, UK looks a lot more likely to be raising interest rates in Japan, you know, and there's speculation that Japan may actually increase the size of their QE program, which, you know, if they were to announce that, that would be a massive surge and break of 200, I would imagine, in Sterling Yen. So with that risk on the table, I think there's only so far that people short the market would be willing to take Sterling Yen and I would always be slightly biased to being on the long side, but it's obviously a bit of a choppy market. Now, near the lower end of the scale, coming off a slightly oversold kind of level. So, you know, move through 50, break through some, you know, the short-term resistances as you look on the daily chart, you know, as we're approaching it here, entering a sort of breakout at this level. You know, there's only, I wouldn't really buy a base too much of this broken trend line, but so it's a factor. Had a bit of a break, trend line. It's kind of, this was a nice confluence of trend line retouches down here and we're moving off it and it looks like we could get a break through this peak. You know, a break through this RSI. So a few factors to me suggesting we've got a bit more, a bit more room to the upside, but just the MAs are pointing down. So it's, you know, kind of going against the trend in the short-term, if you like, just in the belief that kind of longer-term rise is going to play out. Hope that helps. So since I covered Pound Yen, I don't think, I think similar, similar factors at play with the Dolly Yen. Let's skip over to commodities. Now, Gold, we're entering our third day of declines here and actually explains why Rangold and Fresnillo, some of the biggest mining companies for Gold, are top-decliners on the FTSE 100 today, is because of this slight step back that Gold has had in and what has otherwise been a pretty great run. I highlighted this channel a bit late just after the pullback here. Thought, well, actually, that looks sort of, you know, you see that, if you follow the markers, and if you see that bottom-rising trend line and you see a pullback from a sort of slightly indiscriminate area, and you think, well, hold on, actually, that looks about equidistant. Wacking that channel pattern down here, just one of the draw tools. It's quite nice to just draw two lines, you know, I'm sure you've seen it, draws two lines together, I guess, with two trend lines. And it's playing out from the time being. So at the moment, we're dealing with this previous peak. Could get a rally off here. Certainly an opportunity in this area, but for me, maybe a slightly lower risk opportunity down at these two peaks here, which is in the sort of, I think I made a note in the chart forum. There is about 152 to 157, yeah. That sort of vicinity. And then if we get a drop that down through the trend line or through that low on October 8th, there, you know, certainly not looking too good for the old at that point. You know, still the rising trend line could help, but the fact that we weren't able to get through the 200-day moving average for several days would be a pretty negative sign and see a lot of people capitulate, I think. So, you know, this is the overall picture. Just always keep this trend in mind. We've sort of got a big, you know, trying to draw too much unnecessarily on the job. We've got a bit of a kind of sloping channel down there. Hasn't massively accelerated to the downside from that channel. And so still certainly scope to push up towards, you know, where that... Let me just draw it in for argument's sake. It's basically that. There's a good chance we could push up here, which would be in sort of two, you know, one to 50 kind of area at a stretch. Depending on how quickly we get there. One to 40, maybe more conservatively. And these people's peaks here that I had drawn in had more like one to 30. You know, nothing really holding us back from doing that, other than, you know, just a slight worry that we're, you know, well below that 200-week. You know, if we could push back through that 200-day, I think, you know, wouldn't be too difficult to get back up to this kind of region. Yeah, it's distorted it slightly on the daily basis of the weekly drawing. So, you know, the big ones as always with gold is really just the prospects of a U.S. rate hike and, you know, any kind of turbulence in the stock markets. It hadn't been working for a while as a safe haven. But in the last bouts of sell-off, you know, it actually did work quite well. And obviously, we're getting a bit of a recovery in stocks at the moment, and gold is moving higher. So a bit of an on-off relationship in terms of a safe haven, not all that reliable. But it's a fact. Obviously, Mark, it's a bit nervous at the moment, but I'll tell you probably the most significant factor is that we've scaled back when we think the U.S. Fed is likely to raise rates, and that's been weak, you know, hitting the dollar and helping in gold and silver. So talking of silver, let's have a little jump across to that. Not much to say on this other than that we've got a little potential setup with bearish RSI divergence in compliments with a declining, do I need a weekly? No, yep. So a few ways you can draw this trend line, but a very basic way would be connecting these two larger peaks. And that's kind of where we are at the moment, that sort of vicinity. If you connect these two later larger peaks, that would put us higher. So there's a risk to the upside that we push up to that again, given the fact that we had so many attempts to push below 14 failed, but, you know, it's still a generally negative bias on the long term, and so slightly over the medium term, high probability to sell them to buy, I would say. But at the moment, we've got this little specific trigger where the price has attempted a new high, failed to follow through in and around that declining trend line, and a lower high on the RSI. So it could take us back down to that rising trend line. Having been also at the overboard level, so it could take us back down to this spike low around 1540, perhaps down to, what I think is probably the significant level within this mess of a few peaks here. It's about the 1520, and over to Crudall. So obviously looking pretty positive when we broke out of this consolidation that took forever during September. It looked good at the start of October. We just failed at that previous peak, and I've dropped right back down. Closed below this area, which to me is a pretty negative sign, but managed to hold up with a little weekly daily engulfing bullish pattern of the lower level of internal resistance there. Not much to go by. I think that was maybe the 61.8-ish as well of that rise. But now we're starting to roll over again. So there's two levels for me on this. It's not too certain at the moment if we close below 50 and close below 50 on the RSI, turns the bias negative for a retest at the bottom of the range. Likewise, if we manage to close above 50 again and hold the RSI 50, that to me suggests the top of the range. But it's rain fading conditions. Obviously harder to call the market. We're right in the middle of the range at the moment. And I would characterize the middle of the range as 50 on both price and RSI. So I think that's about it for this week's testing analysis webinar head that was useful. Certainly feel free to get in touch with the company if you wanted any extra, if you had any extra questions. I'm happy to field any extra questions outside of time on the webinar now, but I'm going to end the recording. I'm certainly happy to chat after the webinar or obviously if you need to digest this first, just get in touch with our customer service department and they'll be able to go into anything in more detail or can certainly pass any comments from you to me. So again, I hope that was useful. Good luck with trading this week. Definitely be interesting with the ECB and the Euro to see which way that eventually goes. And it could be a bit of a turning point for the stock market were they to suggest any extra policy. I don't think they probably will, but it's certainly worth watching. Alright guys, thanks a lot.

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Learn How To Find PROVEN Products To Dropship In 2021 (Shopify Product Research Tutorial)

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So in this video, I'm gonna show you my new favorite method of finding proven products. So proven products, in my opinion, are by far the easiest products to sell because they're well proven. When I say proven, then I mean products that have proof behind them, they have data behind them, and they have evidence that they're actually good products and they're actually selling as well. Now, don't get us confused with looking on Aliexpress at Aliexpress order numbers. Many beginners, when they first got started in dropship, and they may not have heard of Aliexpress before, so they've gone to Aliexpress, they'll find products such as this Sponge Holder that has nearly 17,000 orders, and immediately they think it's a good product. But when you're doing product research on Aliexpress, what you have to consider or keep in the back of your mind is that maybe dropshiping orders are probably 15, maybe maximum 20% of the overall order volume on an average, that's not for every single product, that's just across the whole platform. So just because a product is selling well on Aliexpress, doesn't necessarily mean it's a good product to dropship. So again, going back to this example of the Sponge Holders, yes, there's 16 and a half thousand orders nearly and they're really cheap, but I challenge anyone right now watching this video to try and sell these profitably and make over 10K, it's just not gonna be possible because the margins just aren't there. For us to sell these successfully, you have to work on a ballpark number of, say, plus 15 pounds to allow for your marketing costs. So to try and sell these for 20 pounds, I think anybody out there, even the best marketers, are really gonna struggle. So in this video, I wanna take you through a demonstration of a new tool that I've been using recently. It's one that I've actually paid for by myself through my own money. The only tools and resources and apps, whatever it may be that I suggest in my videos will only ever be ones that I've tried and tested myself. I get questions all the time when you're gonna release a TikToks video or when you're gonna release a Google Ads video and the truth is I'll only ever pull out information once I'm confident that I can back it up through my own experience. So with that being said, before jumping into it, I do release videos every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. When you're watching this video, it will be Saturday. Next video will be Monday. And the planned video for that day is five proven products that I've actually used Salesforce to find. And I'll go through all the information, back the products up, retail prices, profit margins, interests to target on Facebook, as well as all the different pieces of the information and data that I use to essentially decide whether a product is proven or not and whether it's worth committing to and actually committing the resources to testing. Without any further ado then, let's jump into my computer and let me show you Salesforce. So this is the Salesforce homepage. There's many, many different things in which you can do on this software. Too many to mention in one video. And to be honest and upfront with you, I don't actually use all of the different tools and things that you can do with it basically. There's only maybe two or three things that I find useful for my own research. And there are gonna be things that are demonstrating this video, but obviously feel free to try the software yourself. I believe it comes with a free trial and you can have a play around and see how you like to use it. So the first thing you can do on Salesforce then, if I draw your attention to left-hand column, if it's a left-hand column, if we go to stores, lots of different information about pretty much every Shopify store out there. So on the left we have the name, in the center we have the monthly traffic, which is verified by Salesforce themselves. I'm not 100% sure how they come to this conclusion, but when you compare it against other tools, so for example, I've forgotten the name, if I click up here, what's it called, similar web, then the actual traffic to the site seems to match up relatively similar. So it's gonna be in and around the correct range. Products, 1.5 products on the website and it also tells you what theme they're using too. So if we go to the themes tab over here on the left-hand side, we can see that the top theme used by all Shopify stores out there is a debut theme. It's currently 2,818 stores using the debut theme. What's really nice about Salesforce too is that we actually click on the debut theme. We have all these different filters and essentially we can see the different sizes of different stores using the free debut theme. There's a lot of kind of, and there's a lot of people out there which would say they're free themes. They're just not up to standard. You can't make money using them, but let's just have a look, say, at the top 304. We can see we have PetMe, which is 3.3 million monthly traffic using the debut theme. So it just goes to show you can make money using the free themes if you do everything else correctly. Let's go back to our stores tab then because there's a lot more information on here to show you. So Salesforce will track pretty much every Shopify store and not just drop shipping ones. So this is where the filters at the top come in handy. So for a start, we can filter by country. I like to go straight to the UK because I wanna see what's selling in the UK. Then I'll do a separate search for the US to see what's selling well in the US because what tends to happen is things will sell really, really well in the US first because that's where the majority of dropships go to. It's just America are really good at setting trends. It's just the way it is. And then the products will start to kind of filter out, start selling well in other countries. So if you do a search, starting with the US and you find a product that's selling really well, you can then come back into Salesforce, foot up by different countries and see if there's any other country in which it's selling in too. If it's not, then it might be a case in which there's opportunity to be one of the first advertisers to actually bring a dropship that product to that specific country. So I'm gonna be focusing on UK stores, only dropship in stores too because I wanna be looking at products that I can source myself. I always leave this as any stores. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure what a verified store means. And then this is basically just different ways of filtering it. So if we go traffic, high to low, then in theory, we're gonna be looking at the biggest dropship in stores on Shopify that sales source are currently tracking. So what I like to do from this point onwards then is the main thing I'm kind of focusing on is the images. To be honest, I'm trying to find, and the name in fact, what I'm trying to find are stores that sound really dropshipping, sell the kind of like stereotypical how they express products because these are the one I'm gonna be interested in. One of the biggest advantages to sales source too, well, not one of the biggest advantage, what a good thing about it is you can open all of these up into different tabs, whereas one of the annoying things say about sell the trend, which is another tool that I use myself, you can't actually do that. So you can't copy and paste and send different links to people. So it's just a nice little extra thing that I really like about sales source. So scrolling through then, we have Chopzoo, let's open up that. These look like this stereotypical kind of AliExpress products that we'll be able to find. So does Lightstrips, but I'm gonna stay away from that for now. 200K traffic isn't enough for me. Let's go for Hyvis Sport. And then at the bottom here, we have Dogs Loves Store. So that sounds like the typical kind of dropship in dog store, but we'll open it up, we'll take a look and see what we find. So it's down with the baby friend then, one of the tabs we opened, this is where we can find out a lot of information about the products that a store is selling and also whether they're the best seller. So we know roughly this store is doing 450K average monthly traffic. If we go to the products tab, we can see what their best selling product is. So it gives us a pretty good idea of what's selling really well for these guys. And if they're getting this amount of traffic, then it just goes to show that product must be a good one, it's proven to sell, otherwise it wouldn't be a best selling product for a store that's doing these sorts of volumes. Let's check out shopsuve.com then. This doesn't really make sense to me, so let's go to their products tab. We can see again, kind of like a stereotypical dropship in product. They're three in one, silicon removal and cork in multi-tool seems to be their best selling product. If we open up the URL and head over to their Shopify store, we'll be able to see kind of whatever products they sell. Just get kind of more of a feel of what kind of business they are and whether we can actually learn anything from them and actually replicate anything from them. So straight away, this looks like their debutify theme to me. We can always double check all the information from sales source too. We can use, there's so many different Chrome extensions out there, but we can use one called Koala Inspector to see what theme they're using and they are indeed using debutify theme. If we go to products, best sellers, these guys are actually hiding them, which is no problem. We can scroll down through and see the kind of products in which they're pushing, which will typically be the ones on the homepage. Looking at the best sellers collection then, now obviously there's no guarantee in these are their best selling products because you can put any products you want into a collection and then call that collection best sellers, but it still gives you an idea of what kind of products they're pushing and what products they're gonna be advertising. So let's double check the information then from sales source. Let's bring in our tool, Chrome extension, sorry, called similar web. Similar web have it roughly about the same kind of 200K to 300K monthly visits. And then if we hit the more insights button, which is gonna take us to the similar web website, we'll be able to find out where this traffic is coming from. And once we know that we've learned something about the site, we'll know whether we can replicate it and whether these products are actually working on the platform in which we wanna be selling on. So traffic to shop, sue by country, we obviously can see that US 25%, which shows obviously they must have a lot of US customers. India, interestingly, and so is Brazil too. Let's keep scrolling down then, we can see traffic sources for shop, sue. And we see that 72% of them are coming from social. So if I had a hazard guest, I'd say a lot of this traffic is probably coming from Facebook, but I do believe that similar web actually tells us a bit more information about that traffic. So 72% from social and actually 95% is coming from LinkedIn, which is actually really bizarre. I've never seen that before. They must be running quite a lot of LinkedIn ads. Now, I don't know a lot about LinkedIn ads. I don't know if you can see what ads people are running, but it'd be interesting to kind of delve a bit deeper into that to see what products they are actually advertising and which ones they are pushing. Let's go back to the stores then, which we found at the beginning. So we have dogs love store. Let's open up the tab, take a look at their website. We can also check out their best selling products. Number one is the stainless steel name tags. And then number two is we have this dogs bath in massage brush. So let's take a look on their website. First of all, I'm gonna check out Koala Inspector to see exactly what their best selling products are. It matches sale source, which goes to show sale source maybe actually quite accurate because on that previous store it showed us the best selling products whereas Koala Inspector didn't. So maybe we can actually trust sale source more than I originally thought. So number one is the stainless steel name tags and number two is the dogs bathing massage brush. These guys are driving on average around 300K visitors every single month for this particular dog product. And in my opinion, this would be considered a proven product. There's no way these guys would be driving that sort of traffic to these sorts of products unless they were actually selling well. Let's take a look at another example. I'm gonna go for Hyvis Sport. I think for this time of year in the UK is a really nice time. Lots of people are gonna be out and about commuting, working out in the dark and these sorts of products are gonna be a lot more popular because people wanna stay safe, they wanna wear reflective gear and they wanna let people know so people can see them and avoid them on the roads on the pavements. So on and so forth. So again, estimated monthly traffic is around 300K. If we have a look at the best selling products we've got these mesh leggings. These will do really, really well in January. I'm guessing they probably, so these launched seven months ago which is February time. So that's still kind of when gym stuff is quite popular. This launched eight months ago and this eight months ago. If I had to hazard a guess, I would say these guys are gearing up for a really good Q4 and winter, those early months next year. Probably because all of this sort of stuff is gonna come into demand. And if we take a look at the Google Trends search term for a reflective jacket, we can see that kind of towards the end of September, October, November time, the search term spikes massively in popularity. So it just goes to show these, again, approving products for this time of year. And this is why I love approving products so much is because there's so many more people looking to buy this particular product. It becomes a whole lot easier to sell a product that people and more and more people actually actively looking to buy. Next up on Salesforce, I wanted to show you the apps tab. Works similar to the themes tab to be honest. It shows you the most popular apps that are installed by Shopify stores. If you're new to Shopify, it's definitely worth checking out because you won't be familiar with what the popular apps are. But you can scroll through, there's up to 34 pages and the top two, three pages are really decent apps that you definitely install into your Shopify store, have a play around, test two weeks on, and see if they actually bring more money to the table than what they actually cast. So definitely worth checking out. Next up, I wanna show you the products tab then. So if we hit products, it will take us to the Shopify products section. Now to be honest, a lot of the products that come up at this point will be more or less useless because it's tracking lots of different products across lots of different Shopify stores. But this is where the filters at the top come in. So again, I'm gonna go for, instead of UK actually, let's go for the US and see what's doing really well in the US. Then we can check the UK and if there's not many people selling it very well in the UK, then like I mentioned earlier on in the video, then potentially there's a gap or some opportunity to be had. So the United States of America, we're gonna go for drop shipping products. These can be the products in which we can source without having to commit thousands of pounds up front for a bulk quantity. And straight away, we'll hit with number one bestseller traffic 1.7 million people a month to betterjuice.myshopify.com. So let's open that up in a new tab so we can check them out. And we can also see that the fulfillment method is through Oblo. And if I'm not mistaken, the only website in which you can fulfill through Oblo is for AliExpress. So these guys, betterjuice.myshopify.com, that won't be their URL, it's just betterjuice.co. These guys will be drop shipping from AliExpress and they're driving 1.7 million visits every single month, which just goes to show this is a proven product. There's no way this would be this popular unless it was selling and actually making them a profit. So let's check out betterjuice.co then and see what kind of information we can find out. We know that estimated monthly traffic is 1.7 million, which is obviously huge. And if we go to the products tab and have a look at the bestsellers, we know the bestselling products is this kind of interactive pet toy, which they're selling for $30, launched this six months ago. We're gonna see number two is kind of like this ice snow shield, which you put on your car. Then they have this four-hole ice ball maker. And as you can see, so on and so forth. Let's take a look at their actual website then and see what kind of setup they've got. So if I'm not mistaken, this looks like the debut theme. Let's check it out on our Koala inspector. It's called the motion theme, which is a custom theme apparently. The overall design is quite simple and there's nothing on here that looks overly complicated. It doesn't look replicable or unachievable, which is a good thing. It just goes to show you haven't got to go crazy, haven't got to go super expensive or super complex. Just have to get the fundamentals correctly. The right product, a decent looking store and targeting the right people. So this is the product page then for the best-selling products and for a store, which is getting a significant amount of traffic each month. Again, just very simple. This is, in fact, very similar to the product page template in which I went through in my latest product page video. And just to kind of quickly recap over that, you have, I usually put heading at the top to try and capture the consumer's attention. Have a few good points. You have a GIF. A video will help sell a product 10 times better than any image will. Then they go into the simple features. They go into how to use and how to lock. The product details and then the very simple looks, reviews app installed. And that's all there is to it. Just need a good product to put in front of the right people and it can get some really good results. They also have the buy with PayPal dynamic checkout button. By default, Google Pay will kind of trump PayPal for some reason, for whatever reason. It's definitely not as popular here in the UK. I'm not sure about the US. If you're from the US, in fact, let me know in the comment section whether a lot of people use Google Pay in America because in the UK, it's typically Apple Pay and PayPal. So if I had to guess that disabled Google Pay so people can see straight away, they can shop with PayPal, which then instills trust with their customers. On the contact us page, they have a physical address which again just installs more trust. They come across as more legitimate and a professional and actual real business. One of the most difficult things and obstacles you'll have to kind of overcome is getting your customers to actually trust you and having all this kind of information which you would expect behind any legitimate business are great ways to do that basically. If we go back to our product section in on Salesforce and filtered by best sellers, high to low, we can see at the top, leggings, which is no surprise. Obviously a super, super popular product, especially in January, when everybody's making their new year's resolution to get in shape and lose weight. Have the dog water bottle again, a very typical product, which has been exhausted quite a lot. Certainly in the US and the UK, I'm not sure about other countries. And then we have these vertex boosts, which is some sort of souls. So I can see lots of cool different products that you can just jump into, delve into, try and do a bit of research into them. You can find out who's selling them, how well they are, what sort of ads they're running by using the Facebook ad library, by using the tool in which I forgot the name of again, similar web. So I can see in this video, there's lots of different ways in which I've showed you and which you can research into products. Find them pretty quickly. In this video, we found two or three really decent ones, which we've been delving to more. So hopefully after watching this video, if you do go ahead and try out Salesforce, you'll be able to find some of those products yourself as well. And with that being said, guys, I think I've shown you all the features in which I wanted to. So if you're still with me, I really do appreciate it. Thank you very much for watching this video. If you enjoyed it, please hit that like button. If you wanna see that top five proven products video that's coming out on Monday, make sure you hit subscribe too. And one final quick message in before you go. First of October, I'm releasing a new course. It's gonna completely change the whole drop shipping vibe online. It's a course that I wanna make affordable for everyone so it will cost you less than what your phone is costing you each month. So if you want more information about that and that's of interest to you, please check out the first link in the description below. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you on Monday in a new video.

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Learning English Podcast - New bird names, Invasive hippos, Sickle cell

Why are they changing bird names? And how did hippos get to Colombia? Listen and learn all about the answers. On today's podcast, Dan Novak and Ashley Thompson host the show while Dan tells listeners what with will hear on the program. 01:03 First, Gena Bennett has a story about how the American Ornithological Society will rename all North American birds named after people. The group says it is doing this work in an effort to make bird names less exclusionary. 06:21 Then, Greg Stachel reports about Colombia's problem with hippopotamuses. The invasive animals were brought to the country by Pablo Escobar, a drug trafficker. Now, they are out of control. Officials suggest them might sterilize, export or kill the animals. 10:35 After that, Caty Weaver has a Health and Lifestyle report about a new treatment for sickle cell disease. The treatment uses a patient's own genetic material to overcome the malformed cells that give the disease its name. The report is followed by a discussion between Dan and Caty about what a sickle is and Caty provides more details about the dangerous disease. 18:41 Finally, on Lesson of the Day, Jill Robbins and Andrew Smith talks about interjections. They explain Anna's use of interjections in Let's Learn English and then explain their use in the broader English language. Then Dan and Ashley sign off. In North America, Birds Will No Longer Be Named after People https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/in-north-america-birds-will-no-longer-be-named-after-people/7338844.html Colombia Tries to Control Invasive Hippo https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/colombia-tries-to-control-invasive-hippo/7340831.html Try the quiz! Scroll down in the story online. Health & Lifestyle: Possible New Cure for Sickle Cell Disease https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/possible-new-cure-for-sickle-cell-disease/7337435.html Discussion: What does sickle mean and more on the disease? Lesson of the Day: Interjections Lesson 32: Welcome to the Treehouse! https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-32-welcome-treehouse/3547306.html

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Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. Coming up on the program, Gina Bennett reports on how birds in North America will no longer be named after people. Gregory Stockle has a story on Colombia's efforts to control invasive hippos. Katie Weaver has this week's health and lifestyle report on a possible cure for sickle-cell disease. Later, Jill Robbins and Andrew Smith present the lesson of the day, but first, Birds in North America will no longer be named after people. The American Ornithological Society announced the move Wednesday. Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 birds found in the United States and Canada. Colleen Handel is the organization's president. She said, there is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today. Everyone who loves and cares about birds should be able to enjoy and study them freely, Handel added. Rather than review each bird named after a person individually, all birds named after people will be renamed, the organization announced. Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson's Warbler and Wilson's Snipe. Those are both named after the 19th century naturalist Alexander Wilson. Audubon's Shearwater, a seabird named for John James Audubon, also will get a new name. In 2020, the organization renamed a bird that used to be named after Confederate Army General John P. McCown. It is now called the Thick-Build Longspur. I'm really happy and excited about the announcement, said Emily Williams. She is an ornithologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the decision. She said debates over bird names have been happening among bird watchers for the past several years. Naming birds based on habitat or appearance is one of the least problematic approaches, Williams said. Earlier this year, the National Audubon Society announced that it would keep its name. Some critics argued that the group should lose its connection to John James Audubon, whose family owned slaves. The name has come to represent so much more than the work of one person, Susan Bell told Audubon Magazine in March. She is chair of the National Audubon Society's Board of Directors. Bell added, we must reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon. A 2020 incident in New York's Central Park has been reported as an example of discrimination that black people sometimes face when trying to enjoy the outdoors. Christian Cooper, a black bird watcher, was looking for birds when he asked a white woman, Amy Cooper, to follow local rules and leash her dog. Cooper called the police and was later charged with filing a false police report. Police later dropped the charge. Soon after, a group of bird watchers organized the first Black Birders Week for black nature lovers and scientists. I'm Gina Bennett. Colombia will try to control its population of more than 100 hippopotamuses, large animals from Africa. The South American country aims to control the big animals using several methods. Animals might sterilize the animals through a medical operation. They might move the hippos to other countries or possibly euthanize them, the government said recently. The animals' ancestors were brought to the country by the late Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Escobar was the leader of an illegal drug operation in Colombia. The hippos have spread from Escobar's home to nearby rivers where they have reproduced. They have no natural predators in Colombia and the government has declared them as an invasive animal that could hurt the environment. Animals estimate there are 169 hippos in Colombia and that many of them are in the Magdalena River area. They estimate that if no measures are taken, there could be 1,000 by 2035. President-Minister Susana Muhammad said the first step of the plan will be to sterilize 40 hippos each year and this will begin soon. The method is costly. Each sterilization costs about $9,800 and there are risks for the hippos including reactions to medicines or death, as well as risks to health officials, the ministry said. The hippos live across a large area. They are territorial and aggressive. Experts say sterilization alone is not enough to control the growth of the invasive animals. The government announced in March that it is planning to possibly move the animals to other countries. Muhammad said Colombian officials have contacted officials in Mexico, India, and the Philippines. And they are considering a plan to send 60 hippos to India. We are working on the protocol for the export of the animals, she said. We are not going to export a single animal if there is no authorization from the environmental authority of the other country. As a last means to control the population, the ministry is creating a protocol to euthanize the animals. A group of hippos was brought in the 1980s to Hacienda, Nepalese. The place was Escobar's private zoo. Now it receives many visitors after his death in 1993. Most of the animals live freely in rivers there and reproduce without control. I'm Gregory Stockle. A group of health experts recently announced that a new gene editing treatment for sickle cell disease was safe for patients. The treatment could provide a new cure that attacks the disease at its genetic source. Sickle cell disease, SCD, is a genetic blood disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. The disease is common in places with high cases of malaria, like Africa and India. It strikes among black Americans, Africans, and Middle Easterners more often than other groups. Scientists believe being a carrier of SCD helps protect against severe malaria. People with SCD carry unhealthy blood cells that result in blockages called blood clots. This can cause pain and damage bones and organs in the human body. The World Health Organization said many children with the most severe form of the disease die before the age of five, usually from an infection or severe blood loss. Vortex pharmaceuticals and CRISPR therapeutics make the new treatment called XSL. The treatment involves permanently changing the genetic material, DNA, in a patient's blood cells. The goal is to help the body return to healthy blood cell production. Healthy blood cells are present at birth, but abnormal cells begin to develop in people with sickle cell disease. When patients receive the treatment, stem cells are removed from their blood, and the gene editing tool, CRISPR, is used to remove the switching gene. Patients get medicines to kill off other damaged blood producing cells, and then are given back their changed stem cells. Vortex reported 46 people got the treatment in its study. Among 30 of them who had at least 18 months of observation, 29 were free of pain crises for at least a year. All 30, Vortex reported, avoided being hospitalized for pain crises for that long. Victoria Gray of Mississippi was the first patient to test the XSL treatment. Gray told researchers at a scientific gathering earlier this year that she had suffered from pain since childhood. She described feeling reborn the day she got the treatment. My children no longer have a fear of losing their mom to sickle cell disease, she said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, had already found the treatment effective in a study of SCD patients. The health agency, however, was not sure if the small genetic sample size used in the study captured the entire U.S. population for sickle cell disease. With the expert's findings, the FDA is likely to approve the treatment in early December for patients aged 12 and older. If the treatment is approved, Vortex has also proposed to follow up with patients to study its safety for another 15 years. Vortex has not said how much the treatment will cost. But the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review estimates the cost could be around $2 million for the treatment. By comparison, research earlier this year showed medical costs for sickle cell treatments from birth to age 65 could add up to $1.7 million. Dr. Allison King of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri cares for children and young adults with sickle cell disease. She told the Associated Press that the new treatments would be costly. But if you think about it, she said, how much is it worth for someone to feel better and not be in pain and not be in the hospital all the time? I'm Katie Weaver. You just heard today's Health and Lifestyle Report. Katie Weaver joins me now to talk more about the story. Welcome back, Katie. Hi, Dan. Nice to see you. Katie, you reported on a possible cure for sickle cell disease. Can you tell me a little more about the condition? Our listeners might not know the word sickle. What does it mean? Well, SCD is a genetic condition that deforms red blood cells. It is also called sickle cell anemia. The red blood cells of a person with SCD become sticky and harden into an unusual shape like that of a sickle, a hand tool with a sharp rounded edge used to cut grasses and other plants. The pain from sickle cell disease is intense. How have doctors traditionally treated the sickness? Current treatments include medications and blood transfusions. The only permanent solution is a bone marrow transplant, which must come from a closely matched donor without the disease and brings a risk of rejection. But this new treatment in your report requires no donors. That's right. It uses the patient's own genetic material. That is a big step forward because there is little risk of rejection. Well, let's hope this new treatment can bring about a cure. Thanks for coming on the show, Katie. You bet. I enjoyed it, Dan. My name is Anna Matteo. My name is Andrew Smith. And I'm Jill Robbins. You're listening to The Lesson of the Day on the Learning English podcast. Welcome to the part of the show where we help you do more with our series, Let's Learn English. The series shows Anna Matteo in her work and life in Washington, D.C. On The Lesson of the Day, we like to help you learn from even small amounts of the language you hear in the Let's Learn English series. Sometimes you can learn a lot from just a little. Listen now to the beginning of Lesson 32 of the series. See if you can notice little expressions Anna uses. First to show excitement and then to show that she is worried. Hello. Today is a big day. My first children's show is on television. Woohoo! I'm excited and nervous. Hello, Anna. Hello, Ms. Weaver. Some people are going to watch your children's show. After they watch it, they'll tell me what they liked and what they didn't like. Oh dear. Oh dear is what we call an interjection. Those are words, sounds, or phrases we use to quickly show feelings. Oh dear shows that Anna is worried about whether people will like her new children's show. Ms. Weaver also looks very serious in the video, so I think Anna is worried about that too. But what interjection did Anna use to show her excitement? Hello. Today is a big day. My first children's show is on television. Woohoo! I'm excited. Woohoo is right. When we get good news or are excited about something, we sometimes use this interjection. It's not really a word, it's more just like a sound. It's an interjection. Interjection. Interjection. Interjection. Interjection. Interjection. And what other interjection does Anna often say to show she is excited? Here's a hint. It begins with the AW sound. And it is also a real word in English. And the interjection is? Americans say this expression a lot, but our listeners might be curious to know what other meaning the word has. Awesome is an adjective. And the noun form of the word is AW, spelled A-W-E. To feel AW is to feel very amazed or even frightened or fearful when you see or experience something big or special. For example, if you are looking at a huge mountain or the world's tallest building or a natural wonder such as the Grand Canyon in the United States, you might have the feeling of AW. And so you would say that the mountain or building is an awesome sight or an awesome thing to behold. Behold is sort of a fancy word that just means to see or look at. Jill, Anna said, oh dear, because she suddenly felt worried. What are some other polite interjections we use when we are disappointed, upset or worried? We say uh-oh if we think something is wrong, like if we've made a mistake or a machine is broken and if we get bad news or a bad result, we can say polite interjections like darn, rats, shucks, or shoot. That's right, believe it or not, we sometimes make mistakes when we are doing this podcast and we might say something like that. For another example, if you are playing a sport and you make a bad mistake, you might say rats. Of course, native speakers also say curse words, or words that are not polite, has interjections to express negative feelings such as frustration, anger, or disappointment. But we'll let our listeners find those on their own. You're darn right, we will. I'm Jill Robbins and you're listening to the Lesson of the Day on the Learning English Podcast. Now let's go back to the beginning of Lesson 32. Listen to Ms. Weaver again. Some people are going to watch your children's show. After they watch it, they'll tell me what they liked and what they didn't like. Here's a bit of grammar for our listeners. In her second sentence, Ms. Weaver uses what we call a noun clause as the direct object of the verb tell. After they watch it, they'll tell me what they liked and what they didn't like. The noun clause is the words what they liked. A clause has a subject and a verb. The subject is the pronoun they and the verb is liked. Together, the words what they liked act just like a noun because they are the object of the verb tell. They'll tell me what they liked. One mistake people learning English make is they will say what did they like in this situation because the word what makes it seem like a question. But it's not a question. It's just a noun object of the verb. That's right. Like if I say tell me the answer, the word answer is the object. So the noun clause works the same way. I can say tell me what you think. What you think is the object. But what about the pronoun me in the sentence tell me what you think? That is called the indirect object. It's like saying tell what you think to me. But in English, we usually put the pronoun before the direct object. We can hear more examples of the indirect object in lesson 32. Listen as Anna explains the special machine she will use in her children's show. Hello, I'm Anna. Welcome to the Time Traveling Treehouse. This is not a usual treehouse. It can time travel. That's why it's called the Time Traveling Treehouse. Anna, do not forget me. Of course not. This is my partner, Mindy. My name means massive information navigation device for you. That means we can travel to many places and learn many things. Kids from all over the world ask us questions. We find them answers. Woohoo! That is right, Anna. Mindy, what is our first question? Laila asks us this question. We hope you heard the interjection that the machine named Mindy used. And the examples with pronouns as indirect objects placed before the direct object were these. Kids from all over the world ask us questions. We find them answers. And Laila asks us this question. On our website at learningenglishatvoanews.com you can download for free the lesson plan that goes with lesson 32 of Let's Learn English. It explains direct and indirect objects and many other things about lesson 32. And now here's a little poem that uses many indirect objects. You gave me your hand and opened your heart. You gave us a chance to make a new start. I'll tell you my hopes. I'll tell you my dreams. I'll give you my love and all that it means. Like rivers that run from hills to the sea, we'll flow day by day together and free. I offer my words. I open my door. The day you walk in, I need nothing more. Oh that's really sweet Andrew. I hope your girlfriend likes it when you find her. I hope she does too. And remember that you can ask us questions by writing us at learningenglishatvoanews.com. You could also find us on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Thanks for listening to the Lesson of the Day on the Learning English Podcast. I'm Jill Robbins. And I'm Andrew Smith. And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep learning English through stories from around the world. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak.

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Using high performance computers

The fourth tutorial in the Reproducible Research tutorial series from riffomonas.org. In this video, Pat Schloss walks you through a demo of how to use Amazon Web Services EC2 service to do your data analysis and how this helps to make analyses more reproducible. You can find the slides that Pat discusses at http://www.riffomonas.org/reproducible_research/hpc/. The tutorial series homepage can be found at http://www.riffomonas.org/reproducible_research/ and the Riffomonas website is at http://www.riffomonas.org

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Welcome back to the Riffamonus Reproducible Research Tutorial series. Today's tutorial is called Working on a High Performance Computer. We're going to talk about using cloud computing to enhance the reproducibility of your workflow, as well as to help analyze large data sets that can't easily be analyzed on your own personal computer. The material in today's tutorial isn't super critical to making your research more reproducible. However, I still think that you'll see the value as part of overall effort towards greater reproducibility. Furthermore, as data sets get larger, I think it's worth knowing how to use high performance computers at your own institution or using services like Amazon Web Services, or AWS for short, to analyze these large data sets. If your local institution has their own high performance computer cluster, that will probably also have its own idiosyncrasies of how to log in, how to load packages, how to move files around. So if you go through these slides with me, you'll notice that I'll skip some. And those that I'm skipping are the basics on how to use a cluster here at the University of Michigan called Flux. But because the idiosyncrasies of Flux and other clusters are not universal, I'll instead focus on working with the AWS cloud computing tools. The systems administrators at your local cluster likely have training materials that you can use to get going quickly. We're going to use AWS for the remainder of this tutorial series. It's not free, but it's pretty cheap. If you follow along with me over the rest of the tutorials, you'll find that it maybe only costs you a few bucks. So now join me in opening the slides for today's tutorial series, which you can find within the reproducible research tutorial at the Riffamonus.org website. Before we go into today's tutorial on working with high-performance computers, I'd like to give you all a little test to see how much you remember of the previous discussion we had on Markdown. On this slide you'll see a list of the top five songs from Casey Kasem's Top 40 Year End Countdown for the year 1976. Using Markdown, convert this list to an ordered list and italicize the song name. Go ahead and hit pause while you work on this exercise, and when you press play again, I'll show you the answers. Here is how I would have done it. So first you'll see to make it an ordered list, I put the number one with a period at the beginning of each line. Alternatively, you could have numbered them one, two, three, four, five. The advantage of using all ones like this is if I wanted to add something between don't go breaking my heart and disco lady, it would automatically update the numbering for the now six different lines of the list. In addition to italicize the song names, I could put a single asterisk at the beginning and end of the song names. If I perhaps wanted to bold Paul McCartney, I could put two stars around Paul McCartney's name to make it bold. So if this doesn't seem super familiar to you, go ahead and go back and listen to the previous talk where we introduced the concept of Markdown. This will be a very useful tool in the coming tutorials where we talk about documentation. The learning goals for today's tutorial are to identify the practical and financial benefits of using high performance computers or HPCs over a local computer. We'll access an HPC resources on Amazon Web Services. We'll see how you can run jobs and do analyses using a program called Tmux. And then we'll see how we can move files between a local computer and AWS and then back to your local computer. I'm not going to discuss this as I introduced in the introduction to this tutorial. But the slide deck here also contains information on how to work with a local high performance computer cluster. Again, because of the idiosyncrasies of various HPCs from different institutions, I figured it's kind of a fool's errand to try to serve everybody. And so we'll really be focusing on information about how to work with AWS. So one of the most frequently asked questions that I'm asked when I teach workshops or when people are starting to learn to use mother or any other type of bioinformatics tools, drives me nuts, and they ask me, what type of computer should I get? I hate this question because I don't really want to spend other people's money. And so I think a computer is a very personal thing that it's probably the one piece of lab equipment that I use more than anything else. So it's something I want to be comfortable using and like and enjoy the experience of. I also do see it as a piece of lab equipment, that this is a lot like a thermocycler or a pipeter that you might use in the lab. Well, my lab is my desk here in my office. And so it's important to me that I have a computer and a setup that I like. But beyond that, I don't really know what to tell you. Some people like Mac, some like Windows, some like Linux. And so I always get a little bit uncomfortable because I don't want to be seen as taking sides. And also computers can get really expensive and people want to try to price things out for hardware. And so some of the questions I ask people to think about are, you know, what are you going to use it for? Are you only going to be doing word processing? Or are you going to be doing coding and analysis or perhaps without your PI watching? Are you going to be using it to play games or watch movies? What is your budget? How much RAM do you need? How much CPU speed? How many CPUs do you need? How much hard drive space do you need? What operating system do you want to use? And then what does your lab use? So as a PI, it can be frustrating when everybody's using a different operating system and it's really difficult to get everybody on the same page because sometimes there's a lot of conflicts between, say, Windows and Mac users in terms of the types of files they use. And so these are all really relevant and really important questions. Maybe I can answer for people how much RAM or CPUs speed or number that they need. But even that's going to change as the size of their data sets are going to change. So a lot of these questions are personal and things that I really can't answer. And so some of the problems with modern computers is that they get old, quick. So by the time you buy a computer, it might be obsolete already. They also sit idle a lot. I know my computer is open when I'm at work and the rest of the day it's closed on my desk or in my backpack. It's not getting used. They can also be quite expensive. If you get a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro that's got all the bells and whistles, that's going to be pretty expensive. Alternatively, they can also be ridiculously cheap. You can get a Chromebook for a couple hundred bucks. So it's hard to predict also what you're going to be using them for. So you might get a computer today and a year from now you decide to go into a different area of research and you might need different features than you'd previously anticipated. So it's a moving target in terms of what type of hardware and even software that you're going to want to use on your computer. So these are all the difficulties of working with computers and picking out a computer. So here's a quick comparison. These numbers were valid when I looked them up a month or so ago. Looking at kind of top-of-the-line and middle-of-the-line laptops, so a MacBook Pro, a Dell, or System 76 to run Mac, Windows, or Linux. And like I was saying, you can get something that varies considerably in terms of cost. And so these are different configurations for each of the types that vary in price by about two-fold. So if you get a 15-inch monitor for a Mac with 2.9 gigahertz and 16 gigs of RAM and 500 gigabyte hard drive versus 13-inch, 2.9, 8-gig, 256 hard drive, that's a difference in price of about $1,300, which is a lot of money. And so it's easy to see how you can spend a lot of money and how you can very quickly get a bit confused about what to do. And of course, there are far cheaper laptops than these that are out there, too. So in comparison, we might also think about using a high-performance computer cluster rather than doing all the analysis on our laptop or on a desktop computer. So if you were to use something like AWS, the prices here are also frequently changing, that you can get access to a computer with four CPUs and 16 gigs of RAM for about $0.20 an hour. And similarly, you can get bigger and bigger computers through AWS paying different amounts of money. And so one of the things to note about this pricing is that it's by the hour. And so if it sits idle and you put the computer to sleep, you're not paying for it. Whereas the computer that sits on my desk or in my backpack closed and not running, I paid for it, right? And so it's only getting older, and it's not getting any cheaper. Alternatively, at the University of Michigan, we have a high-performance computer cluster called Flux, and I pay about $17 per core per month for a core that's four gigs of RAM per core. Alternatively, I could pay $13 per core per month for a computer with 25 gigs of RAM if I buy the whole month. Okay, so on-demand means I get access to it when it comes available. Usually that only takes a few minutes. But there's different pricing systems and different ways to think about the value of your computing. Okay, and there's also other public and commercial computer clusters available. The prices also don't include the cost of storage, which is generally pretty cheap. And with AWS, you can also get access to various educational discounts. Related to that also is at the University of Michigan, and I think a lot of other universities that have these HPCs, they heavily subsidize the cost of the HPC. And it comes out, I think, to be about half the cost of AWS. So there's pluses and minuses of using your local HPC relative to Amazon. I don't want to get into those too much here. And again, computing isn't free, and so while we'll use AWS for this tutorial series, it's not going to be much more than a few bucks to pay for what we're doing in these tutorials. So I encourage you to come along with me in using the Amazon Web Services as we go through this tutorial and the other tutorials in this series. So some of the benefits of using an HPC. The hardware is constantly being updated at no cost to you. I think it's updated perhaps a little bit faster when you're using AWS than your local cluster. With a thousand bucks at AWS, it would last you about 104 days with 100% usage, which I think is unlikely that you would have 100% usage. And that's also a really nice computer that you'd be using on AWS. It's pretty flexible, so you might only need eight CPUs and 32GB of RAM for a short period of time in your analysis, whereas downstream analyses, perhaps using R where you don't need a lot of RAM, could possibly be done for free. And so you can mix and match different needs in your analysis using different costs along the way. I also think that this will reinforce good reproducible research practices, which we'll talk about in a bit. With the availability of an HPC, then, you're perhaps better off thinking of your laptop as a terminal rather than as a workstation or as a workhorse. So if you only need to be able to log into a remote computer, then your laptop doesn't need to have all the bells and whistles. I mean, you may want the bells and whistles to watch Netflix and to do other things, but you don't need the bells and whistles for doing your data analysis. And I think that's very comforting because as your data sets get larger or perhaps your research interests change, you're not so invested into a computer to do that work. So if your data set doubles or triples in size, well, your computer now might be too small. Well, if you're using it as a terminal to get access to an HPC, that's not such a big deal. Some of the drawbacks of using an HPC is that there is a learning curve, and hopefully today's tutorial will help us to get over that learning curve. You'll have to learn how to use the command line, which we'll do in a future tutorial. And it feels weird at first, right? You're working in the cloud and you might wonder, well, where is this computer? I've had in the past a computer at the University of Michigan that was attached to the cloud, and I never saw the computer. It took me a few months to get used to that. I had no idea physically where this thing was located. And that was just fairly unsettling. But eventually you get used to it and you realize that you have access to a really powerful computer that is relatively inexpensive. So to get to your HPC, if you're working with your local HPC, you're going to need information from your systems administrators. And like I said earlier, typically they'll have tutorials for you to follow and information that you can use to get up and going quickly. For accessing your local HPC as well as AWS, you'll likely use SSH if you're using a Mac or a Linux. SSH comes pre-installed with a Mac and Linux. If you're on Windows, you'll want to download a program called Putty. And so you can go into these links and download them. Like I said, SSH should already be installed on your Mac or Linux computer, whereas Putty you'll have to go out and install. If you're accessing a local HPC, you might also need to get things like a VPN or two-factor authentication to get access. We'll deal with those things when we log into AWS. So to introduce AWS, you should realize that the S is for services and there's many different types of services. They have tools for doing data analysis like we're going to do. They have tools for different types of storage. They have services for databases, for maintaining websites, all sorts of different things. And it sometimes becomes overwhelming by all the various services they offer. It's widely used. So many commercial applications, websites that you use are being run off of AWS. They'll do web hosting for you. They also have various educational applications. And as I mentioned, if you go into their portal, you'll find ways to get discounts for educational usage, which we qualify for when we're at a university. The service that we're going to use is the Amazon Electric Compute Cloud or Amazon EC2. This creates a virtual computing environment that are called instances. So this is an important piece of jargon to tuck away. That these computing environments or remote computers are called instances. And we can build upon existing instances that are called Amazon Machine Images or AMIs. Elastic in the Elastic Compute Cloud comes from the ability to manipulate the hardware configuration of the instance you're using. So as I mentioned before, you could have an instance that requires tons of RAM. You could then modify that instance to use very little RAM. And this way, then, you can adapt your cost to what you're doing. In addition, you can create your own AMI, which is preloaded with all of the software and data that you can share with others. So we're going to get going using AWS, using a tutorial that they have built into their website. And so I'm going to go ahead and leave the full screen mode here of the tutorial and click on this link for the AWS tutorial. So the tutorial that we're going to do on the AWS site is how to launch a Linux virtual machine with Amazon EC2. And as you'll see, this is a tutorial with a handful of steps that will quickly get us connected to an instance and get us set up with credentials to log in, as well as how to terminate our instance and quit the instance. This will be very useful for when we want to use our own AMI for the rest of the tutorial series. So the first thing that we need to do is just click Sign In to the console. This then brings us to a sign-in window. If you don't already have an Amazon account, and you might first try your Amazon credentials for the main website where you would buy books or movies or coffee or any other things from Amazon, if you don't have one of those or if that doesn't work for some reason, go ahead and click to sign in to a different account. And then if you can go ahead and click on Create a new AWS account. And then go ahead and insert your information to create your AWS account. I'm going to go ahead and click on Sign In to an existing AWS account, because I already have an account and this is with my email address and my password. So I'll click Sign In and this then brings me to the AWS homepage. And so we'll go ahead and click on EC2. And if that's not up here for some reason, you could always type EC2. So Virtual Servers in the Cloud. And so then you might have something similar or different than what I have up here, but go ahead and press Launch Instance. And so we've launched our instance. We're now at the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard, which will help us to configure and launch our instance. And so what we want is to find the Amazon Linux AMI. So we'll come here and there's our Amazon Linux AMI at the very top. We can click Select for that. And then we'll now want to pick our instance type. And they have these instance types of varying combinations of CPU properties, memory storage, and networking capacity. So you can choose the appropriate configuration for your application. So what we're going to use is for this tutorial is the T2.micro, which is already clicked. And this is covered under a free tier so it doesn't cost us anything. So we're going to come back here and see that T2.micro is already clicked. And then we're going to click the blue button at the bottom for review and launch. It brings us to the summary page to review our instance launch. And everything here looks right. So we'll go ahead and press the Launch button. And then it then says on the next screen you'll be asked to choose an existing key pair or to create a new key pair. So a key pair is the way that you can securely access this instance using SSH or Putty. And so AWS stores the public part of the key pair, which is just like a house lock. So you download the private part of the key pair, which is just like the key. So when you put the key into the lock, you're granted access. So we're going to select Create a New Key Pair and give it the name My Key Pair. So we'll say Create New Key Pair and they wanted us to call it My Key Pair. So we called it My Key Pair and now we're going to click Download Key Pair. And so this then was downloaded and opened. And so we want to, as it says, we want to store this in a secure location. Okay, so right now I have it on my desktop, which isn't super secure because sometimes things get deleted from my desktop. And so looking at the instructions here, there's a link for Windows and there's a link for Mac. I'm using a Mac, so I'm going to go ahead and follow these instructions. But if you're using a Windows computer, of course, you should then follow these instructions. So for the Mac, we recommend saving your key pair in the .ssh sub directory from your home directory. Okay, so we haven't gotten too deep into how to use the bash and how to move things around. But we'll follow the instructions that they have here. And sometimes people have the key pair stored into their downloads directory. For me, mine downloaded to my desktop. And so we can type the command mv till the downloads mykeypair.pem till the sshmykeypair.pem. So what I tell you to do is go ahead and copy that. You can then right click to copy and then paste it up here into a terminal window. And I should back up and tell you that the terminal for a Mac is if you click on the Finder and go Applications. And at the bottom, there's a directory called Utilities. And here then there's a program called terminal.app. And so that will open that. But I use the terminal.app a lot. And so I like to keep it in my doc over here on the left. Okay, so I'd encourage you to do that too just because we're going to be using it a lot and it's easier to get access to that way. Again, I told you that mine didn't get stored to downloads, mine is stored on the desktop. So I'm going to scroll to the left over here and remove downloads and replace that with desktop. Okay, so move desktopmykeypair.pem. And when it was downloaded, it added .txt to the end of it. So I need to change that to .txt. So move tilde forward slash desktop forward slash mykeypair.pem.txt. Okay, so there's no spaces in there. And then there's a space where we then have the tilde forward slash .ssh forward slash mykeypair.pem. Okay, so if I go ahead and hit Enter, I can test what happened. Well, first of all, I didn't get an error message and I can type ls space .ssh. And then I see in here mykeypair.pem, so it got moved. Okay, and so that's there. And so now the tutorial tells me that after I have stored my key pair, click Launch Instance to start your Linux instance. So go ahead and click Launch Instance. It goes through and voila, your instances are now launching. And so I can go ahead and click on the blue button. Just double check that that's what they want me to do. Yep, and it tells me to click the blue button for view instances. And so it's got this message here, this notifications that I'm not going to worry about. I'll close that and you'll see that there's a line across the top here for my instance. The instance state is running and it's checking the status is that it's initializing. Okay, so it takes a few moments, but then the instance state column on your instance will change to running and a public IP address will be shown. Okay, so it's running and is there a public IP address? Yes, public IP address is right here. It's 5419611.3 or this longer one here. So again, if you're using Mac or if you're using Windows, with Windows they'll have you download a tool called Git for Windows. This is similar to what Putty does or has functions in it that are similar to what Putty does. I'll leave the Windows users to follow that. Those of you using Mac Linux, I'll click on that to bring up these instructions. So it says your Mac or Linux computer most likely includes an SSH client by default, as we already mentioned. So we can check for an SSH client by typing SSH at the command line. So I'll do that, SSH. So it gives me something. I'm not sure what exactly all that means, but it works. We'll now need to use the chmod command to make sure that our private key is not publicly viewable by entering the following command. So I'm not worried about what this means. I'm going to highlight this text, right-click on it to copy, and then over here I'll right-click to paste. And then I'll hit Enter, and I'll never have to worry about this step again. So again, in the land of using a Mac or Linux computer to access AWS, I can now use SSH. So I can say SSH, space-i, space-tilde, forward slash, dot SSH, forward slash, my key. And to show you a nice little trick, I can hit, once I've started typing this path in, I can hit the Tab key, and it will complete it for me. So I don't have to type so much. And then I can type ec2-user at, and I'm going to give it this IP address. Well, not this IP address. I'm going to give it my IP address, which was back here. And so I can highlight this one. We'll see if this one works. And I'll do right-click Copy, and I'll come back up here and do right-click Paste. And I'll hit Enter. Let's see. Are you sure you want to continue? I'm pretty sure I want to continue, but let's just double-check that it doesn't say anything. Here it says, are you sure you want to continue connecting yes or no? So I'm going to say yes. And so it's permanently added it to the list of known hosts. And so now I'm in. So I'm going to scroll down here and see what happens. So it tells me that I've logged in. If I type ls, there's nothing there. But you can rest assured that you are connected to Amazon's computer. So that's pretty cool. We got it to work. So for now, we're not going to do anything in here. But what we'd like to do is to show then how we can terminate the instance. And so if we're not using it, it's a good idea to terminate the instance that we're no longer using so we don't get charged for it. And so to quit out of the terminal here, we can type exit. And that leads us to see now that the connection to that IP address is closed. So I'm going to go ahead and type exit again to close the terminal shell. And then I can come up here to my EC2 management console and I can right click on it and go to instance state and click terminate. And it gives me a warning that it will be deleted once the instance is terminated which on local drives will be lost. Are you sure you want to terminate these instances? Yes, I'm sure. So now we see it's shutting down. This instance was free so we're not worried about it. But if this was running a big analysis that had a bunch of stuff stored, it would be shutting down so we wouldn't be getting charged for it. But at the same time, it would also be deleting everything. So later, we'll see a different way that we can change the instance state to something where it's not terminated but where it's in a suspended state. Great. So hopefully that made sense and hopefully the Windows users were able to follow along in parallel to what we were doing. I think the key differences for those of you using Windows, if we scroll back up here to this step up here where we're creating the key pair, was saving the key pair to a sub directory called .ssh underneath your home directory. And like we did for Mac and then also connecting to the instance with Windows was to do it with a tool called Git Bash. And so Git Bash is part of a tool called Git that you've heard me talk about already in this series. But by installing this, you will then be able to run this similar to what we would do on a Mac, but instead of using the terminal command, you're going to be using Git Bash to do it. And so I think I mentioned previously possibly using Putty. Instead of using Putty, you could use Git Bash. If you already know how to use Putty, you can also use Putty, but Git Bash is a nice lightweight tool. It doesn't take up a lot of space and the instructions to use it are here. So great. We've gone through this tutorial and it doesn't seem like we did anything, but we really have. We've created that key pair that allows us to connect securely to AWS. We've seen a list of different types of instances and we've also connected to an instance. We've made sure that if we're using SSH or Git Bash or Putty that that works. And so we're really in a good position to go forward now. So I'm going to close this tab from the tutorial and we'll see now that in our console that that instance has been terminated. So the next thing we're going to do is to create a new instance that we'll be using for the remainder of the tutorial series. It's going to be a little bit more sophisticated and have a lot more to it than that one we used in the tutorial series. So we can go ahead and click, if we're at this window, Launch Instance, or if you're at the EC2 dashboard, you can then click that blue button to launch a new instance. So we'll go ahead and click this Launch Instance. The first step that it wants us to do is to choose an Amazon machine image. So make sure that this is your name up here, that's me. Make sure that this says N Virginia, North Virginia. And so you'll see there's a whole bunch of other versions or locations, but we're going to use the North Virginia location. And then we're going to go to Community AMIs. And so Community AMIs are AMIs, Amazon machine images that were made and contributed by members of the community. And so here I'm going to type in Rifomonas. And you'll see that there are two versions of the Rifomonas AMI here. And so the first is from May of 2017 and the second is November of 2017. And if you're watching this at a later date, later in 2018, you might find a third or fourth version as well. So go ahead and pick the latest version. So I'm going to pick this one from November and click Select. And I'm not going to use the Micro Instance. Instead I'm going to pick the General Purpose M4 2x Large. So scroll down and you see M4 2x Large. Click on that and we'll see that this has eight CPUs and 32 gigs of RAM. It's probably more than we need for many of the things that we're doing. But again, it's going to be a relatively quick analysis over the course of this tutorial and shouldn't take up, shouldn't cost very much. So the next thing we'll do is not click, don't click Review and Launch, but next to configure the instance details. Click Add Storage. And we want to make sure it says 50 gigabytes. That's good. And now we want to do Review and Launch. So click that. And we'll see that it says your instance is not eligible for the free usage here. We know. That's cool. And so we're going to go ahead and click Launch. And this pulls up the select an existing key pair or create a new key pair. So here go ahead and click your key pair, my key pair. Click that. And it says I acknowledge that I have access to the selected private file, my key pair.pem. And that without this file I won't be able to log into my instance. So click that. And then I'll go ahead and click Launch Instances. And my instances are now launching. So I'm going to go ahead and click View Instances. Okay. So this other one that we terminated, it may hang out there for a few hours. Might be for a day or two. But what's really important is that it's terminated. So if it says terminated, we don't need to worry about it. Our instance state for this new instance is pending. Okay. So now it says it's running. And I'm going to go ahead back to my terminal. Now we want to be able to SSH into our instance. And to do that, the command will be very similar to what we did previously when we did the tutorial on the, from the Amazon site. We'll type SSH space dash i, space tilde forward slash dash dot SSH forward slash my. And then I'll hit Tab. And it'll complete it for me. And then we need a username, which for everybody doing the tutorial will be Ubuntu. At. And then we want to come to our instance window and highlight the IP address. Right click Copy. Right click Paste into our terminal window and hit Enter. It gives us this question about the authenticity of the host. We can say Yes. It then says that there are some packages that can be updated and some security updates that there'll be a system restart required. So we can do a pseudo apt upgrade. It then says, do you want to continue? And we'll say why for Yes. Then runs through all this. Great. So it finished installing all that stuff. Various security patches and other things that it needed to upgrade to run well. There were a couple points in there where it asked us a couple questions and I just hit Enter or why for each of those. And you should do the same. Okay. So at this point we need to restart our instance. As it told us when we, before we went to update all of those tools. What we'll do now is we'll type exit from our terminal which brings us back to our home directory on our local computer. And here now in our instance window we can now do action. Where's the action? Actions up here. Actions. And we can then do instance state reboot. Okay. So this is clicked our M4 2x large instance type. We'll do actions. Instance state. Reboot. Are you sure you want to reboot these instances? Yes, reboot. And we should be good. So now let's go ahead and log back in. And so see if you can remember. That's SSH space dash I space tilde forward slash dot SSH forward slash my key pair dot PEM. Ubuntu at, and then I'm going to copy this again, paste it in and we're good to go. You should see that it says zero packages can be updated. Zero updates are security updates. Okay. Great. Every type LS. There's nothing there. One of the things you might type is R. And this will open up the R software package within Amazon. So this is on our Amazon directory or Amazon instance. We can quit R by doing Q open close parentheses. And so that's great. You'll know that you're on the Amazon instance because in the lower left corner here, say Ubuntu, okay. And so you should see a little bit different configuration of what things look like in your terminal. So when you're running things remotely on the Amazon server, we might have analyses that take a long time to run or we might need to. And so because they're going to take a long time to run, we don't want to have to have our computer connected to the internet or running locally for all that time. And so there's a nice tool called Tmux that we can use. And Tmux is useful for those cases where you've got a long job where you might want to disconnect from the internet, right? So say it's the end of the day and you want to put your laptop and your backpack to go home. But that means then disconnecting from the internet and perhaps disconnecting your Amazon connection. So Tmux allows you to run, to keep those remote jobs running even if your local computer is not running, okay? So while we're in the Amazon instance, you can type Tmux and this will then create a session. And we'll know that this is a Tmux session. And again, we are still on Ubuntu as you see in the upper left corner there. The way you know that it's Tmux is that we've got this green band across the bottom of the screen. And so I could type R to load the R program. And you'll see that we're in the R shell. To get out of R, I can then type control B, remove my fingers from control B and hit D. And that then brings me back to my terminal. To get back to that session, I can then type Tmux space A. And that brings me right back to where I was, okay? So again, to get out of this, we hit control B and then D. And then Tmux A gets us back in, okay? So I could type exit and I'm disconnected from Amazon. If I hit the up arrow that will bring back the previous command, I can hit enter. And then I can type Tmux A and voila, I'm right back to that session that was still running even though I wasn't connected to Amazon, okay? So Tmux is really powerful. There's a lot of great other tutorials out there. I'm going to go control B, D. One other thing to know is Tmux LS. And this lists the various Tmux sessions that I have going. And you'll see this first one is zero. So I could do Tmux zero to open up that first session, okay? Because I only have one Tmux session going. It doesn't really matter. It's going to take that first one. Sorry, it's Tmux A-pound zero. And that brings us right back. So I can then quit this Tmux session by quitting out of R, and then from this prompt I can type exit. And that then gets me out of Tmux, okay? So there's a lot of other commands and there's a lot of other things that you can do with Tmux to run multiple sessions at the same time and to make sure that your analyses won't be ended if you quit Amazon. So if you're going to run something that's going to take a while, be sure you run Tmux before you start those other commands, okay? So now we're using our own computer that's hosted by Amazon, okay? We're using Tmux and that allows us to then carry on even if we're not connected to the Internet, even if we're asleep or wherever. And what we're going to talk about next is how we can use a program called FileZilla to connect our local computer to Amazon to move files back and forth. So to install FileZilla, or to use it, we first need to install it. So I'm going to open up a new tab here, go to Google, and type in FileZilla, and it comes up as the top hit, at least on my browser. And you hit that, and then that gives you a couple links to download the FileZilla client. And so this is the one we want. Download FileZilla client, all platforms. Knows I'm using a Mac. There's other platforms for Windows and Unix users. So download that. I don't want the pro version. I just need the freebie version. Go ahead and click download. It pulls that down pretty quickly. And install it like you would any other piece of software on your computer and follow the instructions. I'm going to skip that. You don't need the freebie stuff they're trying to give you, just the FileZilla. And so this now opens up FileZilla, which we can use to work with a remote computer. And so it says the free open source FTP solution. So FTP is a file transfer protocol, and we've got this nice interface that we can use to access our files from Amazon. So I'll go ahead and click OK to close that. I'm going to clean things up here, get rid of that. Drag this over to my trash. Great. OK, so the first thing we want to do is open our settings. And I'm going to, on a Mac, I can do this under FileZilla settings. And I'm going to click on SFTP. And for some reason I've got something here, but it says could not load key file. I'm going to remove that. You probably don't have that. I'm going to then add a key file. So one of the problems with that .ssh file, at least on a Mac, is that Mac hides any file or directory that starts with a period. OK, so on a Mac to see those hidden directories or files, I can hold down the Command, Shift, Period keys all at the same time. And voila, that opens up. OK, so Command, Command, Shift, Period allows me to see those hidden directories. So I'm going to open up .ssh. And then I'm going to do mykeypair.pem. And I'm going to click Open. That looks right. And so then I can click OK. And then up in the upper left corner, there's this Open the Site Manager. And I'm going to click on that. It's bringing in information from a previous time I used this, I think. So I'm going to go ahead and delete this host information. And over in my console window, I'm going to go ahead and copy again my public IP address in there. I'm going to use the sftp.ssh file transfer protocol. I'm going to log on normal. And the username again is ubuntu. I'm not going to put anything in for the password. Like I want to say connect. And so it says that hostkey is unknown. You have no guarantee that this is the computer you think it is. I'm pretty confident. I always trust this host and add this key to the cache. So I'll say OK. And so it's now listing, directory listing of Home Ubuntu successful. That you might have a listing here that has the hidden files. So to double check that you don't see those, we are going to go up to View and go to Directory Listing Filters. Yours probably looks like this. So we're going to edit filter rules. So I'll say new hidden files. And then click OK. What I will then do is to say if the file name contains, I want that to change to begins with a period. And I'm going to filter out items matching all of the following. And so then I can say OK. And then I want to click Hidden Files and Hidden Files so that those are no longer seen. And so then I'm going to click Apply and then OK. And if before you had those .files, those hidden files listed, they should now be missing. So this looks the way we want it. One other thing that we want to do is go up into Settings again. And we want to look at File Lists. And the Double Click Action on Files should be View Edit. Double Click Action on Directories should be Enter Directory. This will allow us to double click on a file and have it open up. So we'll say OK. Great. So now what we'd like to do is to test this out. So I'm going to go ahead and minimize that window. And you'll see that I'm still logged into Amazon. If you haven't already logged into Amazon or if you logged out, log back in. And so I'm going to run a command that will grab a picture from the internet. So the command is wget space-o picture.jpg Wget space-https colon forward slash forward slash picksum.photos forward slash 400 forward slash question mark random. So this picksum.photos website is a website that creates random pictures. So I'm going to, just to show you, if I highlight that, copy it, paste that in. You'll see that it's a website that allows you to get a lot of different random pictures. If you just need pictures to hold for things. So that's kind of cool. So anyway, clean things up. And I can come back to my terminal and hit Enter. And you'll see that now I have a picture, a file called picture.jpg. But picture.jpg is on the Amazon server. It's not on my local computer. So how do I get that onto my local computer? So we're going to use FileZilla to do that. And what we'll do is hit the refresh button up here. And we now see picture.jpg show up. And so if we double click on that, it will open up a random picture. Pretty cool. So I have a picture of some mountain range and the Milky Way or the stars off in the distance. You have something probably totally different. That's cool. And so that's, again, very useful for thinking about how we get files down from Amazon. So something else we might do is to think about how we would put something into here that we could then put up onto Amazon. So I'm going to, I'm going to, for fun, go back to that pick some photos page. And I'll just pick, I'll highlight this and then copy that and paste it into my thing. And I see that pretty picture. I'll save this to my desktop. Which now shows up over here as 300.jpg. And so I can then drag this into the right side of FileZilla. And then you'll see it's been added. And so now if I come back to my terminal and type ls, I now see that I have both 300.jpg and picture.jpg. So again, it's really handy to be able to transfer files back and forth. So if I were to then delete picture.jpg, do you really want to delete the one file from the server? Yes. And so now if I come over here to my terminal and type ls, I now see that picture.jpg is gone. We're at the end of the tutorial and what I'd like to do now is show you how we can come back to the console without terminating our instance so that it's still there when we open up tomorrow. So if you want to temporarily quit the session, we'll click on our instance. We can then go up to Actions and then we can go to Instance State and then we can say Stop. So before we did Terminate and Terminate permanently quits the session. It will delete everything. If we stop, we'll stop the session. It will suspend the session. And so here it says any data on the ephemeral storage of your instances will be lost. So we don't have any of that so we're not going to worry. So we'll then say yes, stop. And so now that's stopping. So note that if we come back later, so this is stopping, we'll give it a minute to stop. You can always hit refresh if you're getting antsy like me. And so we now see it's stopped. And so if we look down here now, we see that we no longer have an IP address. So if we want to restart this, we can again click on that. So we could then click Actions, Instance State, Start. And that would fire it back up again. But I'm not going to do that. And then you will also see that our session over here has given an error because we've closed the network connection, right? We stopped the session. But if we do Actions, Instance State, Start, do you want to start these instances? Yes, Start. Now it's running. We now have a new IP address. I can copy that and come back up here and you see that it kicked me out. But if I hit Up Arrow again, I get back to that long SSH command and I can delete the IP address and paste it in, hit Enter. Again, it doesn't know this address, so I'll say Yes. And then if I type LS, we'll see that 300JPEG is still there, right? So we stopped the instance, but it wasn't running. We're not getting charged for it. So I'll go ahead and type Exit. Exit again. And we'll come back here. And we will stop this instance. Yes, stop. Awesome. We have used Cloud Computing to play with some pictures. Admittedly, it's a very humble beginning to our use of high-performance computing clustering, but we've already gone over a lot of great material that we will be using in future tutorials of this series. We've been able to connect to Amazon. We've been able to move files around. We've learned about TMux. And so those are tools, again, that we're going to be using as we go forward with our data analysis. So as some exercises, what I'd like you to do is to think about how using an HPC can facilitate reproducible research. What would be the strengths and weaknesses of storing a project's analysis as an AMI? From your terminal, we did this with picture.jpg, but go ahead and log back in, use FileZilla to upload a file, maybe perhaps download another file like we did with that WGet command from being logged into the Amazon instance, and do that exchange a couple times where you pull things down to your local computer, push things up to your Amazon remote to show to yourself that you can do this. I hope you enjoyed learning about how to access and work with Amazon EC2 service. There really are a lot of different services available through AWS that you might enjoy learning about for your other projects. They really have a nice set of tutorials available on the AWS website that you can use to learn how to use them. For this series of tutorials, however, we'll only be using the Amazon EC2 service. What do you think? How might we use the Amazon EC2 to improve the reproducibility of our analysis? I can think of two possible ways where we could use Amazon EC2 to improve reproducibility. First, just as I made a mother AMI that we're using in this tutorial and will continue to use the rest of the series, we can also make an AMI for our full data analysis. That way, we could share a directory structure, files, and software with anyone. Second, when we're analyzing large data sets, we sometimes will run part of the analysis on one computer and other parts of the analysis on another computer. By having access to an affordable and flexible set of computers, like Amazon's EC2, we can access all sorts of hardware configurations without having to move files around. I find that when I have to move files around, they invariably get dropped in the wrong place, or perhaps I use different versions of software on the different computers. Overall, this will hinder the reproducibility of my analysis. We'll come back to using Amazon's EC2 in a couple of sessions, so feel free to revisit the material in this tutorial to get some more practicing. In the next tutorial, we'll discuss various types of documentation that you can use to improve the reproducibility of your analysis.

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Marines test their might

Physical fitness is an important part of the Marine Corps ethos. Lance Cpl. Haley Foret shows us how marines in Iwakuni, Japan are demonstrate that ethos in a friendly physical fitness competition.

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Marines from units around HNHS went head to head to claim the title of HNHS Ironman. The team started the contest with crunches and then pull-ups. The next part of the competition was the three-mile resupply run. Participants ran with ammo cans, water jugs and rifles during the run. Then competitors faced the last a mile and a half of the run by firemen carrying a member of the team plus carrying their own gear. Well we knew going in that it was gonna be tough. We prepared mentally by you know getting together and going over the LOI as far as what we were gonna be doing. We were ready. We knew it's gonna be hard so we came here today with their heads held high, had the motivation and we knew how hard the chance was gonna be and we completed it. Winners of the competition earned the title of HNHS Ironman and received two days off. Lance Corporal Haley Foray, Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan.

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Webinar Express: Mastering the partnership DANCE

Word of mouth introductions are the best type of lead a business can receive. They trust the brand, and the services have been pre-sold. Meaning sales cycles are shorter and negotiations on price much less likely. They’re the oldest and most successful form of marketing – so why do so few businesses focus on them? Strategic referral partnerships take this channel to the next level. Working with other organisations who have a vested interest in introducing your ideal customers, at the ideal time to buy, on a consistent basis. But they take work. In this webinar Dave Plunkett from Collaboration Junkie will take us through his DANCE framework for successful partnerships. Applicable not just for referral partners, but across the board. Speaker: Dave Plunkett, Founder of Collaboration Junkie

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The broadcast is now starting. All attendees are in listen-only mode. Hello everybody and welcome to our Lunchtime Webinar Express series. We've got a great session today on partnership marketing with Dave Plunkett who will talk us through his dance framework for successful partnerships. If you've watched any of our Webinar Express sessions before, then you'll know how this works. But for those joining us for the first time today, a very warm welcome to you, it's great to have you with us. Before I hand over to Dave, I'll very quickly give you some information about the session. How you could submit your questions for the Q&A and where to go if you want to watch the session again. So we'll be hearing from Dave for around 30 to 35 minutes. We'll then move into a 10 to 15 minute Q&A to answer some of your questions. You can post your questions at any time during the session by clicking on the question mark. We've circled the question mark for you. So if you're watching on a laptop, you'll find it on the right-hand side of your screen or along the top or bottom if watching on a tablet or smartphone. Dave has very kindly agreed for the slides to be available to download whilst we're broadcasting. So if you pop into the handout section which looks like a little memo icon with the top edge folded over, you can download them from there. And if you want to watch the session again, just head on over to our YouTube channel. You can find the webinar express under the playlists and you'll find it in there along with the entire series of our webinars to date. We've got a broad range of webinars all free to access and available whenever you want. So do take a look as we've had some fantastic sessions since the start of the series. If you would like to share any thoughts about today's webinar on the socials, you can use the hashtag CIM events. We love to see your comments on the socials, so please do get involved and let us know what you think of today's session. And finally, if you're a university student attending today's webinar, then you may wish to sign up to the CIM Marketing Club. All you need to do is take a photo of the QR code that's on the screen. Alternatively, you can hop onto our website and find the Marketing Club webpage under the qualifications drop down menu. It'll keep you up to date with the latest trends, innovations and concepts in the marketing industry, so it's really worth taking a look and signing up. Okay, so I'd now like to introduce our guest speaker for today's session, Dave Plunkett from Collaboration Junkie. If you'd like to turn on your webcam, Dave, I'll pass things over to you in the floor is yours when you're ready. Awesome, thank you very much and a good afternoon everyone. I hope this finds you well. Let's just get these slides moving on. There we go. So welcome to Mastering the Partnership Dance and I want to start by taking you on a journey. A journey before the days of social media and pay-per-click, before direct mail, potentially before even the written word. Back in those prehistoric times even, if you wanted a new route to market or something to help you with your new brand positioning, then essentially, word of mouth and working collaboratively and in partnership was the only thing that you had available to you. Word of mouth is the oldest and I would argue still the most successful form of marketing for most brands. And yet it's one that so few of us really pay attention to and have much of a strategy around. And that's why I want to work with you and share some insights on today. So before we do that, we'll do a little bit about just a very brief bit on why it is that I'm speaking and why you might want to listen to me. So other than being a relatively cute kid, I think, I've got a bunch of background in this. But what I'm going to quickly do is while I talk to you, I'm the least important thing today. So while I talk you through a bit of my history, we're just going to pop a poll up, which would just be good for me to get some insight as to where you're at with partnerships at the moment. So while you're answering that, you may have noticed on that sheet of logos that a woman that was business seen, I've got a background in business membership, so I run my own work for the Chamber of Commerce. I then run my own membership organization, which we grew to almost 2,000 members, almost entirely through referrals and strategic partners. I then run a benefit business, working in partnership with people who have business communities to provide benefits to them through some of those logos you saw up there, some global brands such as Regis and Volvo, and Yalba's users as their access point for the SME market. So I had some successes, but also had some other made or witnessed a bunch of mistakes along the way. And I've turned those into the work that I do now at Collaboration Junkie, which is where I work with service and SaaS businesses to really help them with the skills and the strategy to get strategic partnerships right and really working for them because it's such a powerful, powerful way to work when we do get that right. So I'll leave this pot up here just a couple of seconds more. Brilliant slides back. So I kind of did a little story bit at the start and I mentioned that I normally work on lead gen, but I'm aware that there is going to be a broad range of of you on here today. And so it's not just about leads, the framework works for all different sorts of partnerships. And I'm just going to highlight some of those with some stats who doesn't love a good statistic. So I think I'm going to have to click on my mouse. So the first one up, pretty broad. We've got 97% of company surveys believe that partnerships are critical to their success. No surprise there. Getting a little bit more specific though, Harvard Business Review, companies that collaborate with external partners are more likely to be successful at developing new products and services. So innovation is a key reason to be partnering and collaborating with others. Then looking right, looking back in the on the marketing piece. We've got this one here about brand awareness of things like credibility and by association of brand awareness, another essential, really strong reason to partner and get it right. But it's not just external partnerships, kind of working collaboratively with others, particularly when we're in large organizations. So innovation is a key skill. And yeah, a report by Deloitte here showing about the that strong collaborative culture within organizations leads to higher performing teams. And then we move into a little bit more into my normal wheelhouse around revenue growth and real kind of hard ROI. We've got some stuff here on 50% more likely to report revenue growth. And if we really want to get down to the lead gen stuff, 84% of B2B decision makers start the buying process with a referral. Absolutely huge numbers there. And I think what it does show is that all saying about it's not what you know, it's who you know, really comes to the fore. And okay, I think it's more, it's not just what you know, because what you know is important, but it really needs to be seeded with and supported with who you know as well. And we live in a relationship economy, and the strength of our relationships really will enhance the strength of our business and the strength of our results and the work that we do. But we need a strategy behind it. And before I move on to my dance framework, which is going to outline that strategy, I'm just going to pop up those poll results again and see where we're at. Okay, also a pretty even spread actually so identifying. Okay, brilliant. So that we've got reasonably even spread there. And the engaging within acquiring new partners act doesn't doesn't surprise me at all actually that's what I see quite a lot, but an even spread across the other piece. Okay, right, if we could get the poll down now that'd be wonderful work for my slide to pack up. So five answers that I asked you to select from. And funny enough, they relate to the five steps in my dance framework and they are discovery, discovering who your ideal partners are assembling the systems and processes to scale. And relationships so they remain really strong, helping with that connection piece of helping your partners, activate the part activate the partnership and do what you want them to do. And last but not least, engagement going out and finding partners. What I will say before we move on though, is that that engagement piece that scored so highly on the on the poll. Actually, if you get these other bits right that that engaging with and getting new partners on board actually becomes much, much easier than we think it would be. So moving swiftly on. There's an underlying rule that's going to go right across everything that I talk about over the next 30 minutes. And that's make it easy. We are all busy people whether it's whether you're a business owner whether you're in house marketing part of team whether you're a marketing director, we're all busy people, which means we become inherently lazy. And I don't mean Netflix slobbing out on the sofa lazy I mean, if something isn't easy for us to do and it's not part of our core day to day activity. If it's not easy for us to do both physically or take too much brainpower will put it on the I'll get around to it pile. I don't know about your piles might get round to it piles. Sometimes only get touched when I'm wiping them off the proverbial desk to start again. So the easier we can make it for our partners to either engage with us or work with us or see an outcome and more likely are to do what we want them to do. So with that in mind, we'll move on to the first step of the dance framework which is discovery. And this is all about understanding who your ideal partners are. It doesn't mean we don't work with other people in whatever capacity we're looking for. But if we have a really clear image of who those ideal partners are, we're much more likely to attract them and we're much more likely to have a strong message. And the first thing we need to do here is be specific. So the first thing is about having a really clear understanding around why you're looking to partner. Is it brand awareness? Or is it leads? Or is it innovation? What is that main reason you're looking to partner? And if you have more than one reason to partner, that's fine. But it's quite rare that one partner will cover all of those bases and be the ideal partner for that. So have a really clear image in your mind around what you're looking to achieve from any given partnership so that you have a really clear understanding of what the ideal partner looks like and that specific piece. From there it's about being really targeted about what the end goal is and who the end audience is because only from there can we be really clear about who our ideal partner is. And the reason why this is so important is because it allows us to lead on to understanding what our partner value proposition is. And this is the bit that makes the going and getting partners so much easier. I mean it's not about understanding why you want to work with another partner, it's about positioning your proposition in a way that really speaks to them. If I can use kind of lead gen partners as an example, all too often people will focus on when they're talking to new partners, they'll focus on the value that they can deliver to someone's client. And all that says is I'd like to sell to your audience please. When actually there's people out there where the real driver for them wanting to work with you is that what you do in some way enhances their own product or service. And so if you can tap into that what that is and communicate that in a way that says I want to rather than I want to help your audience to do this is I want to help you to do this for your audience. Then it works that it's just it's a very subtle shift, but it immediately sets the partnership up on the right foot. What I mean with this is could be this could be a copywriter and ideal partners for copywriters could be web developers who don't do the great copy. The web developer wants to refer the copywriter in because it means ultimately the website will perform better and their clients will be happier. Is that sort of level of relationship and just positioning that it's not about as a copywriter. It's not about you delivering great copy for that web developers clients. It's about helping a web developer deliver a better website for their customers and deliver a better result. It seems obvious, but so few people position their propositions in this way. And whether it is Legion or whether it's brand awareness or whether it's internal collaborations and this really understanding what's in it for the partner. Not the end kind of recipient will absolutely allow you to set your partnerships up in the right way and get people excited about working with you. So that's the discovery piece. I knowing who ideal partners are and crafting a message that's really compelling for them to want to work with us. We then move on to assembly. Now the reason why I use this is the system and the process is the behind the scenes things. The reason why I use a festival image isn't just because I love festivals, which I do. But it's because imagine you were going to a festival, you'd seen a lineup, whatever type of music it is you like. Imagine the greatest lineup in the world at a new festival. You've got your ticket, you're super excited to go and then you get there and the queuing is a nightmare. It takes you two hours to get in. When you get there, there's only one bar and it's poorly run. And then when the music starts, the set lists are all out of sync. So it bounds on at a different time and the sounds rubbish. It's awful. Right. And it means that no matter what happens, then following in about how good the lineup is, you're probably not going to go back because the behind the scenes systems and setup was just all wrong. And you've lost trust. And having this behind the scenes stuff right. It's about building and maintaining trust with your partners, which is absolutely crucial if you want to form long term partnerships. And it's also about setting up scale. Now there's all sorts of things that go on with this, but there's one in bearing when we've only got a short amount of time. There is one key thing that I want to mention is to do with tracking. And whether that's lead gen partnerships where you're tracking leads, whether it's tracking results, whether it's tracking other commercial drivers, whatever it may be, the key metrics of your partnership. They need to be tracked. You need to be able to communicate them back to your partners quickly, efficiently and easily. Because if you can't, then one of two things happens. If there's a commercial angle to it, there's a chance that you look a little bit dodgy that something hasn't been registered before, hasn't been registered correctly in the any kind of commercial arrangement might not go through. All people think you're incompetent and you just don't know. And crook and incompetent are not good looks when we're trying to form partners, particularly where there's a commercial aspect. So it's really important to get the tracking of whatever data is happening amongst your partnership. Right. And on that note, you can spend thousands on on a monthly basis on partnership software. Or you can use a spreadsheet. I'm a big fan of CRMs, but it is better to use this is better to have a spreadsheet that you use than a fancy bit of software CRM that you don't. So just for whatever you do make sure that that key data is being tracked. The other piece that I want to cover under this kind of the setup of partnerships. Is reward and recognition. And now this is such a gray area, particularly in the referral and lead gen space because there's a there's a great book that I'm sure many of you have listened to called or read drive down pink where it talks about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. And with things like referrals if you from your clients and customers if you're building referral programs out for your organizations. If you over incentivize a referral upfront, then it can really turn people off who would have made that referral for you anyway. There's a well known bit of accounting software that keeps sending me an email offering me 50 quid a pro for someone to them. And it's just so off the market. It's ridiculous. Where we're looking at strategic partners, a commercial angle helps elevate the relationship from a friendly handshake to something much more formal and serious. But whatever your type of partnership, one thing that is goes throughout everything is people like to be shown gratitude. So if there's been a good result, if something's happened, then make sure you're saying thank you. And if there is if providing something else on top is appropriate, then the more personal you can be the better create those kind of wow moments those special moments right because at their core partnerships are based on relationships. And so building those the building that relationship by going the extra mile doing the personal piece. They're only little things but they go a long, long way. So, we know who ideal partners are. We've got the systems and the setup there. The next piece to make sure we do is that once they're on board is that we nurture those relationships in the right way. As I just said, it's that that relationship piece sits it's very cool. And there can be a danger in some partnerships to over automate and over systemize everything. And in my mind that doesn't work. There are different reasons to communicate. Sometimes it is transactional. It's about keeping your partners informed about what's going on within that partnership, whether it's results, whether it's progress on particular milestones that have been hit. The reason for partnerships, there will be milestones that are transactional things that keep everyone else informed. And because of that there's different styles for doing it. So if it is that more transactional piece, then fine the things can be semi automated or even self serve as a dashboard somewhere wonderful. But equally we need to make sure that we're building and maintaining those human relationships. And that needs a different type of approach. Yes, we can absolutely have systems behind the scenes to remind us to do this stuff. So behind the scenes it can be super formal, but it needs to feel informal and personal to your partners. And there's three key communication points that I want to that I want to run through and these are absolutely universal across all partnership types. And setting expectations particularly as one that I think is the number one reason where if you've had a partnership and it's not really hit the level of success it should have done, fizzled out or even worse ended acrimoniously. A lot of the time it's because expectations haven't been set at outset. And this can be quite a tricky thing to do. But when we're all excited about a new partnership, and we're going to conquer the world to be think we're on exactly the same page, kind of sitting down and taking a step back can be a hard thing to do. But it is so, so powerful if we do do it. And there's three things you want to do within the expectation setting. That's look at the long term goals. What do you want? So long term expectations setting. Because even if you're just five or 10% out in your long term thinking you, if you don't pick that up then over time that that gap between your thinking is bigger and bigger. And some suddenly the partnership doesn't feel right and you wonder why and it's because you've sat out on slightly different trajectories. There's then the midterm around what does this, what do the nuts and bolts of this look like as we activate it. The other expectation to be setting is what can we do right now to get things going. Momentum is powerful in all types of work and life, but it's particularly powerful in a partnership, particularly where there's huge scope within a partnership to actually focus on what we can do to just get going is really powerful because potentially things never really kick off because you just get stuck in that planning stage. So what's that simple thing you can do? Because as well as building momentum, it also kind of gives everyone a dip in the toe in the water on what people are like to work with. So it's really important to set expectations and communicate those expectations once they've been set, either in a formal partnership agreement, if that's appropriate or at the very least a one page or an email that everyone buys into and goes, yes, that is how we are going to work together. These are the goals. This is what we're doing. Absolutely crucial. The second thing is keeping your partners informed. Now this may seem obvious, but so often it doesn't happen. And I am going to use lead gen partnerships again as a specific one in this, in that when someone makes a referral or an introduction to you, and this could be a lead or it could be any type of introduction. But what they're doing is they're not just making an introduction. They are giving you a little bit of their reputation and reputation is the the most important thing any of us have. And so it's up to us as partners to treat that little bit of reputation with the trust and the respect that it deserves. Your partners should never be left wondering what's happening with their reputation. Keep your partners informed at every step of the way. And that goes so it's especially true when there's any kind of leads or data being passed. But it's true across all types of partnerships. Let people know what's going on. If there's been a hold up because there's an internal discussion going on. Let your partners know. Let them know what's going on. Don't leave them wondering. And then the final piece I'm going to mention on the on the nurturing and the building and maintaining relationships is about having formal reviews. Now I use the word formal in terms of we want to get them scheduled in but they should still feel friendly and informal and relationship building. But this is about no matter how much you're talking with your partners on a day to day basis around what's going on around activating the partnership. Setting time aside to have formal reviews is so so powerful. Particularly if we set our expectations at the start because number one. We can look at those expectations. If things aren't going quite as well. The fact that we've had those expectations set means that potentially difficult conversations become much much easier to have. It's not about beating people around a stick around the head with a stick with these expectations. It's about keeping dialogue open and making those trickier conversations easy. The second thing we can do is we can ask our partners what we could be doing better. Because we all like to think that we're greater what we do. I'm sure we can all admit that we're not always perfect. And so there may be things that we're doing. They just niggle our partners. So they're not bad enough for them to pick up the phone to us or drop us an email. But they do niggle and we don't want niggles in our partnership. We want everything to just be smooth and easy. And so by asking the question is there anything else we could be doing or what could we do that's better. So often your partners will say I don't know what I wasn't going to mention it but there is this thing. We want that. We want those comments because then we can rectify them and really be delivering value to our partners. The third thing and it's my absolute favorite is when we have these review meetings we can take the time to ask our partners what's going on in their world. Because so often when we do that when we're curious about what's going on in our partner's world we find you opportunities. Curiosity is the birthplace of opportunity. And so by taking that time to find out what's going on with our partners so often we uncover other opportunities for us or people that we know. And that collaborative effect is builds and builds. So really, really recommend having formal reviews. It's something that so many people don't. But it's a massively powerful tool to use. Okay. So we know who our partners are. You've discovered that we've set up all behind the scene system. We've got the processes in place to communicate with our partners effectively. The next thing now is actually activating the partnership, tying it all together and helping our partners connect us to whatever it is we need them to do. And there's two aspects of this. There is partner facing. So this could be, this could be sales support. If it's a, if it's a lead gen partnership or brand awareness partnership, it's sales and marketing support. In terms of giving them the knowledge that's in our heads as to how they can best, how they internally can best position it is what they do. It could be technical support. It could be support with internal conversations that you can have that would be much easier for you to do than it would be for your partners. It's about understanding the touch points that your partner has with whoever the end recipient or the end goal is and looking at is there anything that I can do that will make my partner's life easier or make the result more effective. And so often we don't do this stuff. And then we think that we worry that we might be either we don't think about it, or we worry that we might be kind of teaching people to suck eggs. But we're not. There's a saying that I like to use all the time. It's not common sense experience. We all think what we do is common sense because we do it day in and day out. And it's not common sense. It's experience. So if we've got that clear in our mind that what we all do is uniquely great to us, if we can share that experience with our partners and help them along the way, then they are much more likely to help us deliver the end result that we're looking for. So it's a really, really key one to do that. The other piece is customer facing or end user facing is in a broader sense. And this would be in marketing terms or well all the different marketing stuff we could do essentially so there's a bunch of them up there. And if it's if we're looking at a lead gen partnership or a brand awareness partnership, then it's all about making sure that you not only have all the stuff that you can proactively provide your partners, but actually take the time to ask them what they're doing. What are they doing at the moment that that you can support and you can add more value to where you can add real value to the end audience in a way that remember if we've got that partner value proposition piece at the start right, then our partners want to do this stuff for us. So the easier we make it for them to do that by offering this range of additional support. Then the, then the more likely are to do it. Now on that ease piece. It's also important to provide our partners with the right level of support with materials so there's easy for them to do it. And what I mean by that is, if you've got materials that are set up to be kind of direct to market. Then maybe they're not appropriate for your partners to be using maybe they're going to need to tweak them slightly. And so I would always suggest that you do that heavy lifting. And I say that because I was responsible for writing hundreds of thousands of leads to some of the some of the brands and various others that you saw on that slide right at the start. So I dealt with a number of large organizations marketing teams, and we were sending out regular communications on behalf of other path of our clients from the promoting these other other products. And the amount of times that I got content in, and I had to either completely adapt it or me or someone in the team I had to completely adapt it because it was written from a for a corporate market, not an SME market and then send it back for approval. Well, even if the content was right, but I had to top and tail it differently to so it read that it was coming from a partner. It was just annoying. And remember what we said before we don't want annoying we want smooth partnerships. So when you're thinking about the content you provide your partners that they may be sending out. Think about giving it to them in a way that's going to be easy, easiest for them just to lift it and use it as much as they possibly can. And again, this also works really well when you've got multiple partners, because you have to do that work once and then send out multiple times, rather than each individual partner going in and making those tweaks, potentially sending it back to you for revisions, which is more time on you to do the heavy lifting, make it easy. Okay, so we're on there in the end now there in the end of our dance together. So we've got we know who our deal partners are and what our value proposition is. We know what we know that we need to set up the right systems behind the scenes. We know that we need to communicate in them, both from a transactional point of view and a relationship point of view, setting expectations, one of those on ongoing basis. And we're doing all we can to help our partners actually activate the partnership and do what they need to do. The final piece is going out there and getting new partners. Now, there's two things to remember here. But first of all, on the subject of partners, depending on your partner types, it may be a kind of a phased approach to a partnership program, particularly if you're in the kind of the external partnership space and it's around getting more visibility or getting more leads or driving more engagement. Your ideal partner, if you're just starting out on your partnership journey, your ideal partner for right now is not your ideal partner for all time. If you know what I mean. If you get too large potentially if you get too large a partner in early doors, they could break your system they might deliver more leads and you need whatever it may be. Quite often, our early adopter partners, we want them to be people that maybe we know, or at least at the very least, are friendly and sympathetic and so we can build our partner programs out with minimal stress and minimal pressure. So finding those early adopter partners, and then building out from there once we've got case study and testimony and we've tested all our systems and we know what works can be a much, much stronger play. It also means getting those larger partners becomes much easier because we've got proven case study and testimony. But the key thing the key thing hill push the button the wrong way key thing here is to is first of all really remember that partner value proposition. If you can get that piece right around the value delivered to the partner, not the value to the end audience, then immediately they are going to engage with you because you'll stand out from the other messages that everyone that everyone gets. The second thing that I really recommend everyone does is is usual network. I do outside of the partnership piece I do a lot of work with people on on their own kind of referral strategy as well, some from customers and clients. And one of the things I say always say to people when I do this work is that is that remembering referrals aren't just for leads. How often we referrals are every part of our life aren't they we look for restaurant recommendations what to watch on TV. And the same is true within the business environment, and it's especially true with partners. So, when you're asking for an introduction for potential lead or a sale from someone, then there is there can be a hesitance there because the person making that referral is kind of knows that the person is going to. There can be some kind of pitch on the other end so unless they're absolutely certain they need the service that can sometimes be a hesitance. But if you're looking for a referral introduction to a potential partner, well there's no sell there. It's an opportunity. And if it sounds like a sell then you need to go back and look at your partner value proposition again because you should never have to sell a partnership opportunity is an opportunity. And so by looking at what we've got on our network, most of the time we've got within our either directly or in our first circle, we've got the people that are right for those early adopter partners to see where we're going. And a nice little extra tip here for you on that use your network on if there's someone that you that you know that you think could be a good partner for whatever reason in your business, but you're unsure around how to approach them. And if you're just starting out asking them for feedback on your partner program is a really good way thing to do, because most people are quite nice. And so then they like and most people like to give advice they'd like to be thought of that they'd like that their opinion counts. And so if you ask someone for help, if you say look, we're building this partner program, you fit within our demographic, I'd really appreciate your feedback on whether we've kind of hit the nail on the head here. The most people will say yes. And what you'll get off the back of that is you'll either get some some good feedback that there's stuff that needs improving, or you'll get good feedback that it is right and hopefully potentially a partner of it as well. So really remembering that value proposition and using your network should get you the conversations that you need. And at that point it's doing all it's it's knowing you've got the value from the all those other bits of the framework. And making sure you make it easy for people to say yes, let them know how easy it's going to be to work with you how easy it's going to be to on board and setting those expectations that's that that's the crucial piece. Okay, so I think I've been about bang on half an hour I think so as a recap, be crystal clear on why you're partnering and who your ideal part and therefore who your ideal partner is, and what that partner value proposition is. Make sure that you've you've set up the systems behind the scenes so that you can build trust and you can scale your partnerships as you go. Have the communication processes in place, particularly around setting expectations, keeping your partners informed and the formal reviews. All you can, both in terms of internal support and external facing materials, do all you can to help your partners activate the partnership and get that connection between them and their audience. And then finally, remember, think about who the right partner is for you right now, focus on that partner value proposition and use the networks that we all have to help grow those partner channels and whatever partnerships it is you're looking for. So that's me that's my partnership dance. If you would like to know any more about the work that I do, you can scan that QR code there or take your food to a page on my site where we can connect. Also, you can look me up on LinkedIn and Dave Plunkett collaboration junkie, you can jump onto the collaboration junkie website, or you can you can drop me an email to Dave at collaboration junkie.com. I absolutely love to connect to people. It's at the very core of who I am and what I do. It excites me. I love people stories. So please do connect reach out if any of this is resonated. You've got any questions or you'd like to know more about the work that I do. Yeah, would love to connect. Thank you all for listening. I guess it's over to Q&A now. Fantastic. Thanks so much, Dave. Yes, over to the Q&A and we've already had some great questions, which will get underway in just a second. Please do continue to post any questions you might have and we'll try and get through as many as we can in the next 15 minutes or so. Just a little reminder that if you want to comment on the socials about today's webinar, you can use the hashtag CIM events and we've just popped that up on the screen again for you. So just heading into our first question. Very first to ask was a clarification, actually Dave, because the sound momentarily dropped out when you were talking about the title of a particular book. I just wondered if you could repeat that for us as there were a few people that wanted to get the title of the book. Yeah, okay, it's Drive by Dan Pink and it talks all about motivation. I mean, I listen. I'm an audible person and he does the narration, I think. Or if he doesn't do it, it's someone good. So yeah, Drive by Dan Pink. Fabulous, thank you so much. So some of the other questions that came up, we had one that's asking if you could provide an example of two lesser known brands who have collaborated with a partnership that's benefited both brands. Is there anything you can think of examples wise? Yeah, of course. I mean, it's the work that I do day in day out so I can use some client examples. One of the people that I work with, what I did some work with was a marketing agency, actually, and they were trying to lead their partner program by pushing on their commission and referral fee, which kind of as I mentioned, it didn't excite people. So we switched up the partner value proposition. So they started working with and partnering with people who did inbound leads. So SEO, pay-per-click, that type of search based marketing, because where that partnership works really well for the search and inbound marketing, search marketing agencies is, yes, they should really only be judged on the number of leads and the quality of leads that they provide, but really the end result that the client wants is new customers. But the problem for the people that providing the leads were was once they've handed them over to the customer, they've lost all control over them. So by then referring in and working with someone who was going to follow up those leads really efficiently and well meant that more of the leads got converted, which meant the clients were stickier and actually started investing more in more search and more inbound requirements because they were seeing more end results. And so that's that that that's that it's looking at who's in that chain and going, right, well, they're the right they're the ideal partner to me because they fit into this chain. I'm working with someone I'm working with right now actually, which is completely on a on a different on a different angle. I'm just thinking because I had a session with them earlier earlier this morning. They're a construction consultant. So they're like a quantity surveyor, but for when big civil engineering projects are going really, really wrong. They step in. They actually partner with with normal quantity surveyors who are typically the first port of call here. And the reason why that partnership works really well is because the quantity the quantity surveyors they partner with, they're out of their depth a little bit when this stuff starts going wrong, it's a unique skill set. And so rather than them take the extra time and effort to work through this stuff, they'd rather hand that over to someone who's a bit more specialist, take a commission fee, and get back to doing higher margin, higher value day to day stuff. So it's really about looking at where your services and thinking about, well, whose product or service comes directly, either directly before mine or overlaps with mine, because typically that is where you've got some extra value to add. Fantastic. Thank you. And looking from that end of the spectrum to another end of the spectrum, one of the questions is asked if you're looking at really large organizations, e.g. Microsoft. The relationships can be quite a challenge as there's a lot of people involved and lots of things to try and connect. How would you recommend from a marketing director perspective to help shape experience when you have relatively limited control over such a large organization as a whole? Yeah. And yeah, obviously the more moving parts that are the trickier, the trickier it is. I think from that point of view, the framework is still valid and it really comes down to the expectations at the start. So there was a really, really clear common objective for everyone involved, no matter what it is, this is our overriding objective despite, because where there are people working on little bits of it is remembering what that goal is. And then I would say it's about, and it kind of links in with a formal review piece, but it's about what big events could you do? What things are there where you can get everyone involved? Is there a big kickoff event? Is there a big review event? Is there anything that can be done that just periodically brings everyone together, reminds of what that overall goal is, and how important every individual's units or people's role is within that and just kind of recalibrates everyone and gets them back on track. So I think it really does come down to that. The nurturing piece I think is more important than ever in that, both on a granular level and then as I said, is that big picture community piece. Fantastic. Thank you. And sharing win, I should have added that story, and sharing successes, kind of celebrating the wins. We don't do that often enough, I don't think in business in general, and particularly in partnerships. So it's all too often we move to the next thing and sharing wins and successes is a great way of inspiring people to keep going. Perfect. Thank you. Another question we had was, how would you recommend launching a referral program? Right, grey area. It really does depend on your business, right, because this comes back down to actually what we were talking about, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. If you are a sales led organization or your audience is kind of sales growth focused D type of people who are going to be extrinsically so it's kind of reward motivated people. They're great. Launch a referral program and have a have a reward, have a reward there that drives it. I would always position it as a thank you for referring though, rather than the reason someone will refer you. The reason why someone is going to refer you is because they know, like and trust you, and they want to increase their reputation either with the person they're making a referral, or with you as the person they're referring to. In most cases that will be the driver. So the reward piece though absolutely can be crucial if people are that way incentivized, but do it as a thank you rather than the reason. For some brands though, particularly with smaller businesses doing that, doing it that way doesn't always work doing it more organically. And rather than launching a program just being much, much more intentional about what you do on a day to day basis at the right points in your customer journey where you get wow moments, which often happen much sooner in someone's customer journey than they traditionally ask for referral. Just being more intentional about we are going to ask for referrals more can often have a greater impact than sending a mass email out offering people an Amazon voucher if they refer you. And so I appreciate I've not been very specific there, but that's because it is a, it really does vary from business to business and what you're looking to achieve. Whoever that is if they want to connect with me then I'm more than happy to kind of give them a bit more, a bit more detail when I know a little bit more context. Great, thank you. Sticking with the referral partnerships. Another question is asked whether or not you have got or can share any examples of successful referral partnerships between professional services firms, for example accountants, solicitors, banks. Yeah, so this is an interesting one and the on the and it comes down to the connection piece, I think, because the accountant solicitor one is kind of a is it's kind of a very traditional one, I would say in terms of there's a handshake agreement between a couple of people and I'm being really stereotypical here by the way so I apologize in advance because I appreciate what I'm doing here, but they, they know each other from Rotary or chamber or something like that. And it's handshake agreement that there's a partnership here but but stuff doesn't really happen. That's where the connection piece in the framework really, really comes to its own. That's where both giving training each other's teams. So just going in and doing a session with the other person's team around identifying the triggers and the moments in time when it's right to make a referral. So, if a client if you've got a client that's suffering this pain point or they're saying this thing or at this stage in their journey to make them this right time to make an introduction so kind of putting some process behind that. And then looking at the creative things you can do together so can you run a joint event. Can you run an event each other's offices can you do a webinar can you share blog posts it's that it's the it's about elevating the informal relationship to a more structured partnership. And that's exactly what that connection that connection pieces. It is all about. Fantastic and I think we've got time for just one more question that asked. Are there any common pitfalls with establishing partnerships or any golden rules to ensuring the gain maximum value from the partnership. Yeah, absolutely so the number one pitfall, the number one pitfall is that is the expectation piece. I honestly cannot stress that enough that definitely the number one pitfall is getting all excited, and they're not setting any expectations around where we headed and what we're going to do right now that is the number one pitfall above any other. The second one though and it's something and it fits into the discovery piece. And I didn't cover it then because it's a quite a big subject is one around values. And again this is something that becomes the varies depending on the size of organization around whether you're looking at organizational values. But when it's small businesses often it's personal values as well that and it's like going with a gut like sometimes that the audience match can be right the products and service match can be right. But somebody just doesn't feel right. And if there's a if there's a mismatch in values or and how that how that outwardly affects how we treat our customers and typically that partnership isn't going to be long term and something's going to kind of typically something breaks along the way or the the transition of customers doesn't quite work so so yes setting expectations but then also just making sure that because they are based on a human relationship that that values piece that feels right and it's and it's an enjoyable experience I suppose. Brilliant thank you so much Dave. Unfortunately that's it for our webinar today. So I would like to say a huge thank you to Dave for the fantastic presentation and answering all of those questions for us. And also thanks to the CIM Southwest and Channel Islands Group for organizing the webinar. We do hope you've enjoyed the session and found it interesting and worthwhile. We'll be sending out a short survey in the next few hours and we'd love to hear your feedback will only take a few minutes and all survey responses are anonymous so please do let us know your thoughts on the session and what you would like to see from our webinar series in the future. We'll be back with our next webinar express Thursday the fourth of May with Patty Sanchez from Duarte. So head on over to our events page website and find further details and you can register for this session if you'd like to. So that just leaves me to say a final thank you for joining us today and we hope you enjoyed the webinar. Take care everyone and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

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I Mean they don't you won't come through there highlight back door Bobby They're gonna bless you and on your way home driving in your car You're gonna be listening to your music from your your whatever phone you got Apple phone Got a car. You gonna be outside. You gonna call your friends. Hey, I got a car Okay, you know, I got a car. I was walking. Oh, you got a car now. Well, you get a car from spring for a Hyundai Who you went to back door Bobby any hit me up with some airpods. So I'm happy I mean spring for a hundred eight four four nine drive now One more time spring for a hundred eight four four nine drive now. That's my radio for you This is all that type of stuff. Let's get to me and I was worth a game Recently I seen a little clip of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian what happened and Kanye was telling her kind of, you know, basically, you know, how you dress, you know He didn't say insecure, but he kind of said insecure like it makes me feel like You know, and she kind of rebuttal. Well, you know, you built me up You know, you built me up to to believe in myself and be this person and now that I I'm this person You you kind of have a problem with it now Is it ever a situation where your woman could be too sexy You want a woman that's just like beautiful everybody want they want to be beautiful They want them to be dressed nice. They want them to be smelling good. You know, I mean, I don't want listen I don't want she did but what was the issue but she did I guess I guess how she dressed at the sexy pics I'm not for everything nigga. I'm not for everything. I'm not saying I know this I might be a old-school nigga, but I don't fuck with the like the shirt That's basically a clear shirt and they nipples is just their titties is just straight out is basically You know the screen door, you know how like a house got a screen door, you notice them shirts They wear where it's like it's just a clear shirt, but you still see the nipples I mean that's not even that you see it's literally like a window with just titties there But they be like well it's something in front of it, but it's like it's Literally, I see a titty the area to a whole thing. I don't even understand how that's like When you with the window shirt your man, but you're missing the point question. Wait, you not leave You telling me if 2d walk out the house with her titties out you cool with it I ain't leaving because yeah, you would yeah, you would I'm gonna say this though Yeah, I'm gonna say this question not these titties these titties, right? Is they Is they owned by it? Hold on listen. You purchased these two first off is my girl So I own it so what I'm telling so so so what I'm telling you is you telling me you let April Oh, no, wait, wait, you let April walk on the gram with her nipples just out. No, that's all I'm saying Okay, so what I'm saying is you own the yeah Oh Okay, no, let's this is crazy moment sound owner. He said I A niggas about to die. Yeah, let's get a moment of silence for Devon. We yeah the owner How do I say goodbye to what we had Hold let me remix it. Oh Dev is dead Be killed He thinks he's a slave master I bought her to my titties. It's my body She can't do none if she wears shirt this brother and his titties showing I'm a killer The person's holding sure I'm gonna kill him to all that type of shit He just flipped out he flipped But no, the whole thing is I want a woman. I want my woman to dress sexy. I love that absolutely I don't I don't think you should be like if you got beauty like I want you to smell God I want you to look good absolutely, but I was gonna look at your woman. They won't let that That's reality. So what that's what that's mine. I'm you know, she's getting blaze and glaze a night by me He might just not want her to be like She out on on Instagram, but what I'm saying is Kim, I think she done had some some like some Picks out where she was kind of naked like right book or something. I'm not sure right. I don't know I mean it kind of started off with her So since you own V What is V allowed to post on Instagram and what is she and not allowed to post? I mean, she could post whatever she want, but she's not gonna be naked on like literally hurting titties Okay, so let me answer your question. So V so if she was shown somewhere and our girlfriend Put the phone on it. Okay. I'm with my bitch and V threw her hands on her knees. She started twerking I don't even care what fuck about that shit Okay, cool. All right, so if she um if She take a picture with she on the bed and she on her knees And she look in the box in the buck And naked no in the buck like like it like it's like on force Yeah, she on four and she took a picture. Listen. I don't care about that type shit, man Okay, see me and you totally different. I don't care about that. Me and you totally different I'll take the picture like I'm a photographer understand this art. Okay. Okay. Let me understand. Let me understand this So being naked is art. No, listen, everybody got the individual rules Y'all niggas might be cool with y'all girls titties literal titties not cleavage. No, this is titty boy No, we understand this what I'm saying. Mm-hmm. This is what I'm saying, right? if if I'm not all the way cool with certain shit like for me bitch if you ain't a Victoria's Secret model or You don't get paid to take pictures in your panties Why the fuck would you be taking pictures in your panties and posting them on Instagram trying to catch to me? That's that's a thirsty bitch. That's a bitch that need to obey a thirst. She needs a sprite You feel what I'm saying so for me It's like, okay. I'm scrolling down to all fours looking back at the camera and taking a picture Bitch the fuck you took that picture for I'm confused You know what stay in that position so when I get home I'm kicking your ass Let me ask you a question. What the fuck with like why would why would a woman that do makeup on? Marvel movies and all these companies Just say I'm a jump on all fours a mother getting the book a mother of two Kids that's grown in college in high school. Oh, I'm just gonna throw my panties on get on all fours Turn around and look at the camera and take some pictures and post on Instagram. It's like, uh Bitch, how's your brain operate now here? So you kick in above so you let me actually kick in a woman I got an interesting question. Is uh, is is titty fuck still in the style because I see I'm not asking you could you always you you I mean, I just What's this call the cleavage Disturna, yeah, I don't know what that is I try to do a titty fuck before I just was rubbing my dick And was ever really in style. I think that's Strictly, I think that's strictly a pornography thing. No, you was really You never you never got a good titty. I said it wasn't in style. Yeah, that's a young boy I mean, it was just titties. I love it. We perverse wrong with you. I Ain't never give a bit of jerking squirt First of all when she puts them titties together, she holds the hand right there and trapped the dick right in between. Oh my goodness I'm about to squirt you down. It's about to be all of my lotion time I'm about to I'm about to lube your neck down with some jerking This is like it is like a ride a great adventure a wild one. It's wet and wild the wet and wild titty ride Come to great To the new wet and wild titty. That's crazy, man. You know, it's just like that's just crazy, man A lot of a lot of things is playing out of dev at all flat chest bitches. No dev don't play that. He bottom Jones He a bomb. Yeah, but you buy some titties ain't never even do you had a proper titty fuck? Or what have you ever bought some what have you bought a chick some titties she came back with a nipples crooked Bitch come back a nipples pointing out this I've seen some bad titty jobs before Because these bitches be going flying to the Dominican Republic getting a titties done in the motherfucking Reburdo I think it's cuz they trying to go from straight flat chested to like two big titties and they don't be like sitting where their Shoulders be at let me hold on. They'll be far apart. No, the problem is they fly to the Dominican Republic They lay up Listen, they lay up in a holiday and express for two days Dr. Roberta You gotta make sure when you say it shit you gotta make sure you run the arms Reges he given too much credit I know brawls that fly to the nearest Latino neighborhood in a city walk today and get it hooked up Okay, first of all, let me just say this first of all, let me just say this and get hooked up Let me just say this I haven't seen it Let me just say this it's a reason why the bitches fly to the Dominican Republic. Why because it's fucking cheap Alright, so so if they say oh, I can drive up here, but it's gonna be six thousand seven thousand Oh, I can get me a $400 flight go to the Dominican Republic and spend Two thousand and come back with some crooked set of titties No, he told about the people that be putting fixer flat in the ass and all types of shit like that in the hood Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I'm just doing that right like that. He line ever That's your right across street from power 99 shit crazy right across street from sex that uh That hotel right across street from tax on city line Avenue. Yeah, I'm just be running in there I think you tell a little too much in for me Now you might be a bus or read like I don't think you should say it all that they don't they don't read who tells your rat That was a rat He's a rat. He's a rat everybody put it out He told he's hating cuz girls getting titties. He told the city He ran it on titties on the local to the guy on the ground to the guy like the rat-ass nigga niggas a rat He tell anybody told him you know, but I even know Hey, he just got to change this little He hating it barking to the bargain breast is crazy. Let me ask y'all question Who's the top five most influential people in hip-hop of all time and listen Before I don't give a fuck who y'all add in The most The most influential single-handedly the number one most influential person in the hip-hop of All-time you niggas can name the other four But the nigga that's number one Dr. Dre by far Dr. Dre was in a group that has some shiny fucking jackets on what was them niggas called back in it You turn off the lights. I want one thing Understood Wrecking clue wrecking world. Okay. We'll crash record crew. Yeah, right He left them niggas want with NWA Complete switch. Yeah complete switch matter of fact. It was a halfway So it was a halfway switch because he joined them and he was a mom I don't smoke weed assess cuz it's known to give a brother brain damage and brain damage on the mic Don't manage it. His next album was the chronic. Okay, but cool but No, no, no, no, no, no Niggas for life. It was straight out of comp to then niggas for life Yeah, he did switch his game about the I don't smoke weed or Seth. Okay, so my appetite is from he went over it Right over there start going in so it was different Right got a little hard and then easy spank them easy. Once again No, you know industry route number four thousand and eighty record companies people are shady Right, who said that so I don't know but let's shoot it. Oh, that's why I don't know Usin don't disrespect it. I didn't disrespect it, but I didn't listen to Q-tip. I told you It's a vibrant thing. You see how y'all just see it Bob. Who's saying that? I don't know I never heard that line in my fucking life. It's a classic. Okay, cool, but the nigga Go ahead help build up ice cube mm-hmm easy producer yellow Ran ran Hold on didn't you left left them niggas was dead pop stolen car broke fucked up Went to death row that was shook got was shook Build up a billion-dollar company responsible for snoop the dog-pound uh Tupacalus to pop right the second version Reincarnated Michelle a mm-hmm, right mm-hmm. Hold on left them They popped fuck don't keep the money. I don't want to keep the money. I just want my freedom Went to aftermath Started after math came out with the firm Didn't he do the firm? Yeah He did the firm. He did but don't count that was just good for that M&M. No, this was of all voxie brown. I get M&M Yes 50 cent. Oh Yeah, that was getting crazy no more the game off to the races. Yep Him and Jimmy Alvin said beats by Dre That was classy come on you kill them put the beat together put a beat like and still around here right now Get after they stick then he come back with beats by Dre. He getting it. No one headphones in the world This nigga has been constantly Evolving since 1980 fucking force. I'm gonna say this I'm gonna connect with Gil. I understand where you're going Nobody has came along Dre is in a whole nother atmosphere Dre's ice cube ice tea LL where you was in a time that don't exist no more and you're still relevant today You're making money off of moves off of initial moves that you made in the 80s Yes, but he's making moves. Oh, he's making money off of new moves effect. He's got new moves moves still Oh, I know move. So I see Dr. Dre's number one. Who's number two? He is I think we should name some people and move them then you'll be able to move the list around cuz I I think a Fluent you I even know he might not be the same number two is Jay-Z Jay-Z. Oh, I can't I'm see cuz you know I got stuck in the town. Hope was changing how people was dressing how people was rapping. Oh, yeah, hope how niggas was talking before songs niggas And I'm not when I say influential. I'm not just talking about that I'm talking about everything being an influence on somebody else's life I hear a period. Yeah, hope hope is major in a hurry and put half the niggas on No, that's Ray did Dre put the most people on you saying. Yes out of everybody Dre Yes, but for Philly hope did us wonders. All right. What about man? We don't be talking to work. What about Master P? Master P is I think I think master P is I think I think Master P is Is he got to be on that list and one of the reasons I say cube because you got some young person right now watching Friday The ice cubes definitely he sparked a lot of crew he put a I'm putting ice cube number five He he started he sparked we hear you jump numbers, but it's something I see cuz he's trying to fill But cube think about this He had Chris tuck in the joint before he even blew Mm-hmm. He put a lot of people in his movies Michael Blackstone He put a lot of people in his movies gave a lot of people day they date Michael Michael Mike Epps Mike Epps and my man Kat Williams. He he started a lot of people is getting money because of his initial come on No, that's a real like and he did all these other movies Uh-huh like had it had it had a great solo career Yeah, his solo rap career after he left NWA was legendary, right? He stayed relevant all the way through all right, and do you got people like ice ain't probably big as that But but the fact that ice and LL they still around I don't got ice tea in there. No, no, no He ain't got it. I got LL He mentioned he mentioned mention mention him LL. I mean just a third did he's with those good mentions To park now did he got to be Did he did a lot of stuff third? Yeah So it's Dray Hove did he? Who for Mm-hmm. So you're going by mainly big big power moves that pussy Pete. We're massive P at He not enough. He ain't number four Pop really touched the culture on a different level. I Know but I'm telling my like still here rest in peace of pocket. Okay, so not counting anybody pass That's a piece of pop biggie big L big pun But they didn't really have a chance to grow run DMC. You know what I'm saying They wasn't here no females on this list to be able to they wasn't here I didn't see them see like that. I'm gonna say run DMC No, no I was gonna say if you're looking at a fashion standpoint style for hip-hop culture is GM master J Cuz they got that how y'all feel about how do y'all feel about Russell Simmons or Russell Russell in there? Russell Russell listen, Russell was a lot of things Russell way up here. Let me tell you something. Okay. Let's go top 10. So the starting five is dr. Dre Jay-Z did he did he? Russell Simmons No, you said five was a master P. You say ice cube was five. I gotta put master P in front of ice cube Word what yes, because let me tell you why Let me tell you a lot of people on let me tell you not only did master shit load of people put a lot of people No, no, it's a tie for five master P and ice cube back because master P really He really was What he did was really more influential than any of them niggas Cuz he just and he just didn't last as long as a lot of them lasted as far as Going on to the movies and he has a lot of independent movies Yeah, but they wasn't as big as Friday shit like that because He was the first motherfucker to say I'm banking on myself all the way fuck y'all. I just want a 15% Distribution deal. Yeah, just distribute my shit. I'm banking on myself in a time where niggas never banked on themselves They always were lied in the label He said I'm my own label. I just need distribution from you motherfucker and he It was 85 15 right and he fucked the game if we making a real list and we still got to Separate the two we can't let them share a slot ice cube. No, you got it You got they buy equal ice cube wrote those songs to for NWA Most of them bars even for them other guys. That's a big push up It is but what I'm saying is the difference is the difference is Where master Pete catches up? They came in the game as artists I just broke down hydrate went to all of them labels straight and get his own shit until four That's became an independent master. I got my stuff in these stories The P came out the gate like when a time where the record labels was like Let's just take 15 and I'm gonna say something. Absolutely. This nigga's not gonna do what he think he's gonna do Can I say something and that nigga was selling millions of records on an independent standpoint before anybody was doing that shit 1995 me him dice raw We're in the studio 2020 My man studio, no Philly baby. Yeah, I Played Master P. I Was all the way up on up on my stupid 95 because of this rap pages magazine. I seen an article in him back then Raps one of the rap John think it was Joe and T Rats, whatever they was playing Master P song him and King George TRU on the videos I'm like, damn it and then I seen it in the magazine. I said, let me go get this tape I went down there downtown got his tape was playing in it master P and them TRU and all that stuff Them dice and if you don't cut that shit off that shit trash, I believe you told me it was trash I believe I was a dude guilty. I was a hip-hop boy that always knew hip-hop eat every coast I listened to E40 spice one drew down rapping Forte when you name it. I listened to him You know, I mean, I'm talking about I don't care who Richie rich I don't care I was into the Bay and they used to be over there like that in the bay a little bit Richmond area of Master P and all them Even though they from New Orleans, but I listen I peeped that whole independent movement Southwest distribution I knew about murder. It was a lot of stuff that I read that was independent Because I was always like we gonna do our thing on a major figure level because that was my my whole thing was mean gill Mean gill Rat but gilding really think it was serious. I knew this rap shit was I'm like, yo cuz there's money in this shit He's like, uh, we could do it, but I'm like, no, I'm like this money in his Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, no See the money Right there. It's about 12,000. I'm reading stuff that these dudes are gonna take 30 seconds I'll read shit that dudes is doing independently and I'm like, yo We got it. We need a we got to get a logo. We get once it came in the name I'm like, we got to get a logo. We got to get this We got to get there cuz I'm seeing this shit is easy like even like today If we had the things they had today how easy it is like you can set up your whole label in 20 minutes Get your LLC get your tax ID number I'm just saying like get all get a logo done on fiber or somewhere I'm talking about everything get your merch done get a website done all today Right now today off of this phone connected with a couple apps couple people I can set up my whole label today set up my publishing set up everything Everything right here. I'm talking about to be on paperwork Once I get that paperwork back the LLC go open up the bank account bang come back So I'm looking at masterpiece like this dude is the shit Gil Every I probably was the only dude in Philly listening to master Pete. It's circuit 1995 He told me and if you'll cut that nice shit off. I believe you Let's let's forget to that ice cube just I'm comparing it to what Gil talked about when he was talking about um Tom Audrey Remember cube got fucked over in that deal was the first one to bounce and leave They thought he wasn't gonna do it on his do it over there, right and he still pops. So it's just like So let's so let's get to the top five. We got them. Who's number six 50 cent 50's the legend. Oh, he's that nigga. No Eminem come before 50 cent. No, but the vitamin water Trumpy vitamin water power BMF fucking oh, yeah, yeah, he's niggas doing everything they got four five six seven eight movies the M&M probably made a lot of white people rap bro. He did but I'm winning grip. He was smart. Let's go get me. Yeah, but at the end of the day 50 When 50 was a underground rapper day 50 cent meant more to the culture Yeah, he did so we could put Eminem right behind 50 if y'all want but right behind him is Drake Power and right behind them is cash money. What about Jay Prince? Jay Prince what about oh, oh, we're gonna we got names some other but other people because we got Russell We got all them out of the way. Did he Russell? Hold on. You said cash money. Do you want to say baby? You want to say baby? No, no, he's cool. No, he's back. No, I'm just saying say baby. But listen baby cash slumber the brothers But this let me explain something to you We got to get stills when we mention them could we mention some honorable mentions of the Jay Prince the Tony Drapers These people that was making an independent move Tony Draper Tony Draper the Jay Princess These dudes was major in a suave house right like these dudes was major in a job See like Tony Draper is the one who took cash money over the universal mm-hmm And Tony Draper is also the one that had eight ball in them JG right? You some saying like Steve Rifkin is a white dude and he put a lot We can't we can't is crazy. We're not gonna forget Steve Rifkins. We cannot forget him loud records I'm talking about power with a lot Wu Tang man. Just say who just say mom deep like just them two alone Wu Tang as a group and mob deep was on loud records. That's just like what do you think about the way that the RZA figured out how to make them sign a deal and then every single We did a solo deal. Yeah, that's that's smart And I and I don't think I think for real for real a lot of times if people just went like it's cool To just be rapping these days. All right, it's cool But if somebody that's just doing anything in the music thing if they go back and tap into history and get all them resources And all that game because think about this if I'm from any city in America, right and I rap and I say I'm gonna go to four or five different sections of the city Go get somebody to rap and we gonna form a group form like vote trying get a universal name a universal logo That a bike a mess with and now we snatch and all this and what we gonna do is we gonna form like vote Trying to grab all the energy from a whole city now Just like if you in Camden if you got dudes from all over so now we got the whole so now you know what they do I ain't got to be this one rapping that's competing against the 10,000 other people that rap in my city Because that's all that goes on like I tell dudes all the time. Why are you on it? Oh, no I'm cool because it didn't be like this us three from the same neighborhood We might have been kicking I might have been rapping first I'm buzzing all of a sudden Gil when a rap now all of a sudden you want to rap So now I'm splitting traction. I'm splitting fans now We splint people because now your cousins and them they just want to rock with you now He really better than a while up. That's all he really and that's all you see in these days So now and ain't nobody even thinking about the business structure of rap no more Everybody just want to rap and get on and go get a deal and not knowing that build your own get your own traction Get your leverage and then go on your shit, right? You know, I mean, it's like it's just crazy So we let's wrap that segment up. We got the top 10. We made it about 11 We necessarily they ain't got to be in that order, but those are probably the most top 10 11 motherfuckers That was what we agree on the top dog. Absolutely. That's it. We agree on Drake. Okay. Ain't no doubt about getting the segment Who would you be? Who would you be? You want parole? Okay, that's You violate your parole So you so you in the office you in appeal appeal call you in. Yeah, you're sitting there. Come on. Hey, yo I'm gonna send you to jail. Oh if you can't get a job in two hours So you leave Two hours you got to come back and they got city hiring you somewhere in two hours in two hours I'm shooting the McDonald's the only job That's open for you is Number one security at Woody's You got to be the frisker you got to be the explainer explain the people that don't know what's Woody's what he's is a gay bar So you got to be so you got to be the frisker and it is That's not a job frisk frisk man. That's gotta be the frisk man at Woody's Pat down Okay, and the thing is we all straight. So that's why it would be a big thing. Yeah, what I'm saying for us If you if you just do a job, right? But so or you would have to be Takashi six nine security when he come home from jail, but you unarmed No, God, you got no strap. It's just you by yourself. Just you by yourself You got to walk with him every way. You ain't got no strap doing you his security? Well, I'll cool with that cuz he's got the last dragon powers Oh, no, I'm not no No, I'm not or you got or you can get hired to be a high school mascot Oh, that's easy. Oh, so just just put a costume on the car. I might be a mascot. Hey Come on crowd my nigga That's the first of all, that's the ultimate fucking loser. Oh, hold on You say somebody a loser because they earn any money with a costume. I got a costume. Wait, hold on. Wait, hold on Wait, hold on. Okay. Hold on. Okay. Hold on You're a grown-ass man. Okay. Okay. Hold on. You're 40 years old. Okay? On parole. Hold on Uh You're gonna go be the mascot at cherry hill east. You you the cherry hill cherries You a 40 year old man. You throw a big-ass cherry on you come all out. You want to cook? You're a fucking loser Will you tell me that's the ultimate loser? The ultimate loser is him or the nigga in jail. No, both No, you're not going to jail. No, this is what I'm saying. What I'm saying He's saying that's the ultimate loser is like no, he's trying not to be the ultimate loser He's trying to be free. He's trying to be free. He won't put the cherry on me. I'll put the cherry on top I don't want to be free and I'm gonna you got the cherry on top. I'm at cherry on top. I'm at cherry hill east high school And I'm a cherry hill cherry. Hold on. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. I'm 40 years old So you're trying to say read us. What are you saying? Read a water ice dude that be outside? He's a loser. Oh, shit. Hold on. What about what about the sixers do the dude from the 60s? Let me tell you something. He might actually be getting a check I don't know. I don't know. Hold on. Hold on. Is he a loser? No, no, no. Let me tell you something Hold on. Hold on. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question And mother fucker get you the throw a batman outfit on right now and walk around with him If he gave you 300,000 a year, you'd be fucking getting no 300,000. I don't know what I'm saying is so it's a difference That nigga that's outside that nigga Right that nigga that's outside dressed up as a fucking lemon water. I said read us that nigga's making 850 The fuck did you talk about 11 dollars? He's taking care of his fucking family. He's out of jail. He's out of jail. He's out of jail He's a loser I don't give a fuck what you say. If you're a high school mascot at 40 years old I'm going to be the best high school mascot in the country. Let me tell you something. We're going to have the battles I'm going to all the battles and he's saying he's going to kill it so much the sixers is going Terry, Terry on top. Terry, Terry on top. Terry Let's go Jerry's all that dumb shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm not going to this joint and I'm not going out there and woody's down woody's You 40 you 40 all you walking into the locker room the niggas throwing a uniform so you stepping into a fucking sherry 40 years old. He's like, oh, oh, it's a fucking nut. Look at this nigga. This nigga's a nut ass nigga Hey nigga, everybody is honorable. Have a job, man. Listen, they sit on the bench, nigga sitting on the bench Nigga sitting on the bench He run by with the chair off and on him was like this nut ass old head like This nut is like well first of all the high school mascot is supposed to be somebody that goes to the fucking high school Not a 40 year old fucking man Take the job. Listen, man. I gotta take the job. I'm taking the job. Okay, so you being a high school mascot You're a fucking loser All the losers I'd rather be a cheerio on top out here than a cheerio on top in the cell Cheerio on bottom So what you'll be? How you going on nigga? I'm with the cheerio Jerry's I'm not being 69 but you're not shooting me man Because you they get you out the way. Oh, yeah, especially they see me. Oh, yeah, he know that karate shooting Fuck I'm done. I'm done like You you being 69 that's not gonna work. I can't be no fucking man. So you're gonna be at the wood You're gonna be a woody. You're gonna be a woody's cutting down woody's Is you gonna be a woody's patting down woody's first of all ain't patting down the woody's Like you know what type of shit that is like your name is all he got a early day you he gotta he gotta go And then the fact that niggas gonna be like yo, I saw gill like I saw gill coming out with We was taking somebody down. Hold on. Wait, hold on. Hold on. Wait, hold on So you think the kids ain't gonna film me putting that fucking cheerio on? I'm cool with that. I'm not cool with that. I'm not cool with that. They be talking about damn This nigga went from this nigga went from rapping to running around with a chair You gotta put the red tights on you gotta have a red So you in a jaw like this Yo younger help me with this Better than frisking a nigga and some red tights nigga. I better than be it's free. I'm gonna keep it all the way real Because securities nowadays they don't search niggas anyways, bro. He was just letting niggas walk in with the mac 11 Because let's be for real you never hear about new shootings at a gay bar. You never hear about shit going down at a gay bar Yeah, man, that was a super They went crazy. No super tragic. You wouldn't admit no that's super tragic and I was very recent People be people be mad at people because of whatever they gender is and whatever they are But first of all, I don't have anything against We don't but I'm just saying you if you security you gotta protect these people you can pay I'm not but first of all, let me tell you something. You gotta protect security don't protect niggas Let me tell you something let me tell you what security is Security is security is some bootleg niggas. That's getting a check If I'm security, I'm let you know right now if I'm ever security somewhere. I'm going to the end of the earth Okay, hold on. Let me tell you what I'm going to be security. Let me tell you what these security niggas Ain't never going to what jump in front of fucking bullets like the CIA. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot So let me tell you something if you're under my watch and I'm going I'm handling security Let me tell you let me tell you one thing that all security niggas know Because what what's one thing that? 99 percent of security niggas guys are coming. No, no What's one thing? They're all big So guess what when that hot shit get the flying guess what them big niggas understand? I'm the easiest nigga to hit A lot of elite niggas not big. They just like some ordinary soldiers and shit my nigga You security Yeah, he's like this He's all my bouncers So if you make them niggas fight you for more than one fucking minute them niggas is dead fucking time. He's all my bouncers So let's be for real But the Tekashi 69 niggas might jump in front of the bullet because they they like this I need this nigga to live where they don't get a check the next day because you know He's getting around the clock security, right? Yeah, let me let me tell you something about Let me tell you something about because I don't know how many shootouts you niggas been in But let me tell you about when that hot shit start flying Niggas been in shootouts, but go ahead niggas get skinny the fuck as you talk about the All that Where's that? Where's coming from? No Bop, bop Oh, especially if that shit sound too close because when a nigga shoot It is anywhere. No, let's let me let me just show you when the niggas shoot and it's anywhere close to you I don't know nothing about the first thing you is you get the fuck skinny Let me just show you something you ain't no nigga. Oh, where it's coming from Oh, wait, hold on. It's prime example. You seen you seen you seen security with low Wayne Sitting in the truck low Wayne's in the hood. He's filming a video Niggas walk on up on the truck Bang on the window get out nigga Fuck it Why is this nigga security still sitting in the motherfucking in the front seat like this? Because wait, hold on these niggas look like they was real these niggas look like they for real It wasn't wild hold on these niggas look like they for real and I ain't finna die Over little Wayne for $300. I would have protected a little teacher not on my watch And when it happened on my watch, I'm gonna tell you this how I go. Listen. This is how you're gonna protect a little So they put that pistol out and do you to turn through the little coochie cash money is an army better than a navy That was a wrap. Let me tell you something. This is what it would have that was a wrap I know them niggas rule number one. Let me show you that was a wrap In case of danger, let me okay. Let me tell you all the gangsters around cash money before you continue hot boy Elton Mm-hmm We gotta worry about that. Mm-hmm If I was a diesel I would have been a gangster out there. Mm-hmm That's the only one and didn't on top of that you do you think Recipes killer stone. Do you think do you think me? Shout out to busy. I'm gonna let something happen to Pippin Magnolia to Cito Tato to my god, baby I don't mind watch not the fuck. I know now. Let me show you what you know Let me show you something nigga to put that pistol out on you nigga You're gonna start bitching at a rapid rate. This is what I would have said this this is exactly how you're talking about That's why nobody never hides you for security. No, I didn't have some security gigs You know about them because I want you to come around. How would it have went? This would have went That's the door Uh, excuse me. Uh, what's going on out here? Nigga, I told Lil Wayne to hold on. I told Lil Wayne to get the fuck out the car nigga Fuckers, you're talking to the pistol slapped you right in your head with the gun now now now immediately Here to work right over the door He wants you He let me show you what happened. Let me just show you guys. He looks for you Let me show you what it said damn. Let me show you what happened. We ain't what it said. God damn why I love No, this is what happened. Hold on. Let me tell you what Wayne would have said He said what god damn why I love why you ain't use your karate? No, this one would have happened Why I thought what happened to karate arrow? No, this one would have This one would have happened Let me tell you what would have happened This one would have happened I got out He would have said we would have said he just slapped me in the whistling This would have game would have changed what because I would have game would have changed you to open the door He won't you don't want me. No, no, see he got the game fucked up. Okay. I want to open the door The first sign of defense is When he hit me with the pistol on my head It's What's the first sign? You know your martial art your retreat. No. No. No. No. No. No. No I'm going to tell you your status. Dev. Yeah, let's see what he know Yeah, what is what is you talking about after you get hit with a gun to go after you get hit at the head of The gun the first thing to do is grab your shit. Make sure you ain't leaking. Let me show you what everybody Listen, listen, listen. Listen. No Because I've been hitting I've been hitting the head before with firearms in danger the first thing a true martial artist do is Catch the blood from going into your eyes Once I did that as a worry my worry is since I would accord the blood Add that accord the blood I had to make sure I had to immediately make sure that this was blood And then I get in my stance What let's hold hold now people stands. I'm let we listen America is listening. Listen. Once I get in my stance I get in my stance From right here And this is immediately he would have listened. No, he always he's right there. He's right there with the gun Now now suit is that happy as a true And I'm going into defense And I'm going into defense Now my martial art vocal tone that leave. Oh family. We had to do all that We we didn't even had to do that. Okay. So now you talking to a nigga that ain't really what to talk Then I tell you I'm pat listen. Listen peep game. This is when the retreat. This is when true martial artists smart ones coming encounter Once I catch the blood and identify that his blood is real Before anything happened. Oh, oh brother. Oh, we just say had to happen First of all, it already happened. I've slapped you already nigga. First of all, didn't I tell you get winged out first of all First of all, you bitch. Have security. Oh, no, no, no Shot your toe. He's not gonna shoot me that grew your fucking pinkie You know why he's not going to shoot me We as soon as I get out and I identify that The liquid on my head is blood and I catch it I'm immediately. Oh, that's not we don't have to Don't worry about way. What you looking for is right here. They go to back He goes to your vehicles money You didn't even have to do that if that's what you wanted He's gonna tell me that And excuse me. Excuse me. Wait, come on. Get up out of here. Talk to these guys If they just want to talk to you like that's true security Real security security is to secure your life. So you to tell her at the bank of The jury they go to book back jury to money How does security security is supposed to secure your life? That's the first rule of security anybody out there doing security secure your lifers That's a fact because I'm going to secure mine So, you know, but a lot of people the fuck that's a fact I'm not playing about this happen to tiger and philly. It's a fact Happen to a lot of diggers It's a fact. Yeah, I'm not I'm not going. I like what let's get into me and I was worth a game This million dollars worth of game is brought to you. Have you had any good here lately? Everything diva glam.com is also sponsored by Dureg Danny And all the do rags you can get If you want to do rag get with do rag Danny who is He wear do rags if you got any good here But once again, this million dollars worth of game right here segment is brought to you by everything diva glam.com Yo, give I need some games, son. He's he definitely from new york. He called me son I've been fucking with this shorty for like two years laying and spraying Smashing and dashing but for some reason I can't make this chick come It makes me feel like I'm not putting in work But she loved the way I put it down And she the only chick that I haven't made come yet And at times it's frustrating How would you take this? You ain't measuring up player you coming up short actually Yeah, you you you you you don't push the cake to the back of the oven Yeah, you you're not uh, sorry Your life is fucked up. Let me tell you something though. You're in trouble. Let me tell you something though because It's also about how you deliver the dick Yeah, I mean like how your dd out here is everything how you delivered that dick Oh, that's a triple dick. Yeah, that was that dick. Yeah, that was new to a woman A lot of niggas think because they jump in the pussy and they go a hundred miles an hour and They going in straightforward Nigga like this Nigga don't He'll hit no angles He'll come up go down He'll take the bitch skiing so you gotta have a little lymph to take the bitch skin right this skin Right this skin you arch the back from the back Get to him Then you come off the cliff on that bitch Yep You gotta bring all See a lot of niggas think they be ten to put this nigga getting in go 20 minutes straight like this Yeah And they done you got jabbed from different angles, man, right this shit like Everything this shit like box everything is about the stroke once you grab the once you grab that hair Right, you wrap that hair right your whole wrist And you got to give it to him from God forbid if you got the man, you got the mirror No I'm telling you gotta you gotta rip off the frame at all scoops You gotta give him a rough ride Oh, this is gonna be a rough ride, girl You got this straight up Yo, you gotta pipe him down, man The way you was just swinging that was a little spicy You see you having a spicy look Listen, man, whatever you want to call it man. You gotta have the angles You gotta hit the walls that's you gotta You gotta you gotta pipe him down, but my man right there his life is fucked up. He's he's he's he did anything pop You know why because it's a combination of two things One or two one or two things. Oh my god Eva His dick's too small. Uh-huh To hit the spot that I need to hit to activate her waterfall Or her pussy's too big But either one ain't that motherfucker ain't matching I know his life is Hold on. Hold on. He say she she never made me come, but she happy with the sex Hold on, but has anybody made her bust off as anybody made her bust off She fucked a bunch of niggas and don't bust off. It's like she got a so hold on So you've had sex with women before and they don't come. No, but what I'm saying is there's women that No, no, listen, let's make sense. Be a grown up for a second. They talking about sex being adult If a woman is having sex This nigga talking no He just turned into a niggas Fuckers Think about this sex education if his girl has sex with a bunch of people in her life And she never bust off Maybe she has something wrong with her that why she can't bust off Or is he saying she'd be busing off with other niggas? But when he hit it, she's not busing off Let me just ask you this question Have you ever heard of a dick that can't bust? I'm just I mean, it gotta be he told me about a push to start dick. I'm saying but his About I'm saying is his man dick ran out of gas He said his boy dick, bro Got a got a penis pump put in the dick and you press a button on the balls and it make his dick turn on Hey, but listen, but his his man dick ran out of gas He got a push to push to start He Man got a push Hey, you got the 2020 dick A lot of these pills, let me say something to you a lot of these pills For erectile dysfunction. I did research on it and then I've talked to my my homie about it That's what happened to him. They taking the pills when they don't need the pills They want to go longer, but you already get erection and sometimes it's reversing on people You know I'm saying Because this what he told me he said a lot of people a lot of people That was going to the places that he was going these these penis specialists or whatever That's what they was doing. They said everything was cool, but they just pop You know, I do is over driving and they reversed it and it messed a piece up He got a bionic dick, dawg It's crazy, so man dick nigga dick ran out of gas one of you waiting And he only 25 desk 25 he was popping with a push to start and dick He was popping it, but he also used to get high some shit. So I don't know That's probably what it was. The perc ascents perked the dick. I didn't have to do with the rhino I didn't have to do with the hawker maniacs. Don't put that on hawk name. You couldn't smut on hawk name Wait a minute brother, what are you gonna do? I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep going. What are you gonna do? Like I'm gonna keep going fucking putting that smut on hawk name Fucking right. I'm gonna keep going Too low when I pop the hawker baby See now y'all see he was lying on me all the time. He said it was me. I'll be tell y'all he be lying on me Hey, listen hawks Who's the who's the top five baddest actress of all time? Number one. Holly Berry number one. Holly Berry's all the top five Sonia Lathan It's a vanity for me, man Cause I can't talk my skills. I'm not talking my skills. What we're not talking my skills in an act and we just don't talk about looks We told mom Because I got to count time periods vanity was crazy and so was I hate this bitch now, but Stacey dash was crazy when we first saw on the screen, bro I'm gonna keep it all. We really y'all know who I'm in low key in love with Khaleesi. Oh, bro. She's on my list, but not only as khaleesi though. I don't never seen that only as khaleesi Yeah, I don't like her when she's regular. What about what about karry washington? I love khaleesi Karry washington is bad, but she ain't in my top five my top fizzle nah I think I fell in love. I've seen so many episodes again, but through I fell in love with khaleesi I get it. So so ho you you got who? Vanity is in my top five. What do you think? I the vanity is great. I got I like I like I like Holly Berry's number one. Okay, washington's to be in there. I'm not even gonna hold you I was I was always growing. I was always feeling Angela Bassett What I'm thinking about y'all y'all Angela Bassett had a little little little aggressiveness in the face Yo, she was beautiful. Yeah, I don't think y'all understand Yo, can you stop? Why y'all lean it seem like y'all lean it's a lighter skinned women Nobody did that. Nobody did that I only named Holly Berry and Khaleesi and one of them is white. Khaleesi is white Khaleesi is white. First off lighter skin. Yeah, Khaleesi was what I was saying. He's really talking about That's not light skin. That's pale skin, motherfucker. I have to not leave it on my list because I really love the actual girl She was in loving basketball. Like I wanted her like the actual character Cynthia, Cynthia Williams and more but a blue. She was everything. She was I'm just saying Angela Bassett a little strong looking in the face, man. Y'all know who Frida Pinto is? No, I know who that I'm trying to think slumdog millionaire. She's ridiculous Yeah You got her You got a lot of you got so hot. Listen, we know universally Holly got to be in the list because it's kind of like universal What about Jada? Jalo Jada Janet was an actor too. I'm not putting Janet in not in the top five. No, not in the top five I say Stacy Dash gotta go in there Yeah, I think Queen Latifah is beautiful. She ain't in the top. What's up, man? I'm just saying you can't put Queen in there. Yo, Gil's trying to stir shit Latifah UNIT What's the top five women baddest women rappers? Hold on. We ain't even finishing this one. No finishing that fuck that We going right to the top five mc like I love the mc like back in the day. What a baddest women. It's a lot of new ones I love women rappers like back in the day though back in a day. I don't want back in the day No, no, no, but I I'm just I say five nigga. That's mc likes on my list. I really really you talk and Roxanne Shantae, Roxanne Shantae. No The the the the DJ John Shantae's is bad What's the John sweet tea? What's the John that worked in she she she did Philly radio for a little while too But back in the day, I'm only in the middle morning when I was a kid. Oh my god, bro She was legendary. Spinderella Spinderella Cardi B my mom loves me like Cardi B Cardi You gotta say a lot of them nicky megan. So so we making the top I'm gonna keep it all the way real right now was the era of the women Yeah, they going in because I'm gonna keep it all the way real The women is killing the niggas. Yeah, these women rappers is killing the niggas because Look how shit totally changed in order for a woman To be relevant And rap these had to be with a crew. They had to be with somebody They had to be with some niggas some niggas had to validate them like Jay really came up with foxy was right there He know nigga, right like like Nicki Minaj Kim Nicki Minaj had to go get with cash money But now you got women that's blowing by themselves and they blowing on their own Getting the bag getting the bag tiara wack ain't got no crew Cardi B ain't got no crew Megan the stallion one of my favorite rappers ain't got Megan ain't got no crew this lady london She's fire dog Wrapping she's crazy. Yeah, Renny Rucci. Don't Yeah, I like I like Renny Rucci Yeah, I mean but shout out to all the women that's doing them things rocky Guy give me the amazing major shout out to all the women all the women because all you buy They killing me just frenchy They breathe steaks breathe steeds up. They they killing these niggas man. They coming hard. It's a bunch of that lady london Lady london be she's pretty she'd be destroyed graduated educated. She just she just be just Here you get your red bag. Yeah, I was I used to spit back in the graduate educated for gil the fuck Roach a wrap stop lying So who's the top five? It's hard. I'm putting Nicki in there. I got to You putting cardi in there. I'm putting the old Kim in there. I'm gonna fuck what y'all say That was like one little Kim drop that poster with that That was everything in jail That was everything No, that was anything that was everything in jail. Hold on. Hold on. What about that one join that's like eat the opi in the sun um, yo that rap that She fired too. Yo, that is hell. Can I be spent too from the bank? Oh That's crazy. It's a shame. I can't think of this chick that rap man 25 nicky cardi Megan. Oh the love you talking about. That's the baddest like mc light And rocks and shanty. That's mc mc light M.c. Lane tar for me to get five. There's so many good. What you try I know his the brat That was like she was like he like Bahamadi a real heavy. He was a Bahamadi at a brat. Missy Elliott I'm just All Hit him with the funky sound. I could get down but whatever you want and kaya my neck my back She's one of the most terrible rappers I've ever heard She was one of the most terrible looking bitches She was tangled in I wasn't gonna say that I'm not here to disrespect Kaya was tangled like any other One of his favorites craze y'all one big girl full of bad bitches Gucci Gucci. Yeah, that was one of his favorites Yo, so I got my five. Oh, let's get into Stories from a cell stories from the cell I'm not going to say her name, but uh I got hooked up with this girl, you know when I was in prison the old head. We are not talking about how you stop lying. So listen This uh segment of stories from the cell is called shaking the dice on the pizza What happened was That was a real thing. She come to see me You know, I mean I was just like and we had a little ritual what we do She had come sometimes she'd be at the visit before she'd be down there before I come out the back The door pop or sometimes I'd be sitting in the door pop And they come, you know, you hit a door and then you came downstairs. So I'm sitting here this day This is one of my best days because the pizza fell this day. It was crazy So we had trays Your people come they go to the vending machine grab you a thing and come down there with a picture ticket and all type of stuff. So She get the stuff heat my pizza up and all that stuff and usually Once she heat my pizza up and then come sit back down I'll put the tray like like I'm holding the tray like this over Over my wiss name and we had these jumpers, right? And I will always get a little get a little slip my jumper like as you can slip right here in the jumper So she could just crack that joint open, right? And just go for what you broke or sometimes you can have your You zip it down and my way to go. So I had a little this day. Bless this hole was legendary. It was enough space She went in that zone Grabbed him up grabbed him in the headlock. So the whole time I'm like this I got the tray, right? But I got one part of the tray on the on the on the arm piece Mother and I'm acting. I mean I'm trying to rip like I'm ripping the pizza Because she's you know, I mean she's shaking them dice up under the table. How long you ripping this pizza? God Listen, I'm listening. I ain't taking long Let me go scream a week because our hands were so soft right I'm creaming my hands were so soft and moisturized. You know my hands. Well, that shit was rough It should you just never felt no hands on your dick in 10 years them bitches felt soft That's time my leg my leg jump. You had drug dealer hands my leg drunk, right? My leg jump, right? Listen, but this was the only thing they say me my leg jump and The girl like usually wait to the to the to the to the person leave We had a standard person that'd be like there on the bubble Like it's not a bubble. It's like a big higher desk so they can see anything he went on break So it was a girl there that I knew right? A co chick So when the John fell she just peeped over it was like a smile to just put her head back down like I'm like, oh, she let it ride. I had to hurry up and grab the tray. I'm like damn I'm like, so she broke you down off a hand job. He said it's like Like it was like it was like nigga said it was like man listen, man She shook them dice right the pizza dropped in there. I wasn't even worried about the pizza I was so happy because it was like You was worried about a piece of mine I had the creamy boxes that you just spilled right on her hustler hands She went back to the barrel. Let's see. Let me tell you something That was easy. Hey, hey, that's how you know, he wasn't a real player That's you just told on yourself. That's how you knew you wasn't a real player I was a real player. She would have came right about the motherfucking drinks Listen, I couldn't wait to taste you daddy Hey, listen, it was crazy Like talking about that. She's like, let me go wash my hands when I be back She didn't even taste you, but you know it was crazy when this niggas jumped This niggas jumper was filthy when he had to go back A jizz jumper a jj had a jj a jizz jumper nigga So listen, she was like glee, she was throwing that shit all along And then and then you know how you was named after then you all hugged and all that I actually was straight back Listen, man. She's looking tired. This is straight back. Like I really like I really just got it in I'm tired now. I'm gonna take a nap and all this dumb shit I slept it on to get back on the phone later on right getting on the phone with you Yeah, baby. Yeah, that was a hell of a hand job I'm talking to you. It was magnificent. You know, that was special, right? That was a special thing, man We got to put that in business. That's our that's a special day for it Now, you know, you told on yourself because I know you came home put the jumper on cut it until april I'm gonna beat up niggas at your hand He wanted to relive it He cut a hole in the onesie with the animals I should have niggas at your hand had me handicap You paralyze me your hand is paralyzing. Oh my god That's crazy though. You look at a whole portal book at your hands for the rest of the day with the cream of wheat boxes on I ain't even I went back and went laid down, man. I was just tired It was a wild that was a wild They didn't even take a shower and still had the creamy bottle later, but it was just like I needed the rest She took my legs from me Now whenever this nigga look at hustling hands Shit, John Crazy We appreciate y'all tuning in. Yeah, this is another episode of million dollars worth me me me me me me me I'll go by the name of gilly the king. I'm wild 0267 And it's just like that right

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Today guys we look at a new Legendary to the game which arrived at the Moxies heist DRC. It's a sniper rifle called the Autor Aim and well it kind of has an aim but mechanic. Has it gone guys my name is DPJ and today I bring another BR3 video, if you do enjoy it leaving a like really helps me out and subscribe if you want to see more. On-screen legacy my weekly giveaway along with last week's winout to be another chance of winning this yourself, follow the instructions on screen now I'm good luck. For the Legendary Sniper, the Autor Aim is a new Legendary to the Moxies heist DRC. This one is more or less a guaranteed drop from Freddy near the end of the store campaign. This guy is easily farmable as after you kill him you can simply just fast travel back to the start of the area, run back to him in which he will have respawned and you can just keep doing this until you get that perfect roll. You can however drop elsewhere on the handsome jackpots. And by the way is located within the VIP tower on the handsome jackpot so you know where to go if you want to farm this. Ok so this Autor Aim, the one new sniper to the DRC is basically a weapon for folks out there that can't aim. This sniper literally tracks its targets, if your aim is a little off for instance don't stress this thing will close in on the closest target and hit their centre point. For this reason alone I'm a little iffy on this I mean as hitting crit shots are more or less impossible unless you are point blank face to face with an enemy or use flak. I actually think this weapon was probably made for flak, this pedreuse failed away and that class mod stuck but I can confirm is pretty damn nasty. For all of the war hunters though isn't that amazing but it is far from a bad weapon. I feel this thing in actual fact purposely has had an increased body shot damage for the very reason that this thing targets 9 times out of the 10 of the body. It does make for a great long range weapon though being very very easy to hit smaller targets while they are moving slightly out of your sights. This will track their asses. The weapon drops are from corrosive incendiary and shuck. My favourite variants are the two you can see on the screen now, this shuck version and this corrosive version which is anointed and actually pretty decent. These two are two of a certain number of variants this can drop on them. My shuck version has lower damage but a bigger mag and a corrosive version has more damage but a lower mag. This weapon can also swap between two firing mobs, a single shot and a two burst. Both firing mobs in full auto though. So this sniper, the auto aims actually a great addition to snipers in this game and it's very very unique in what it offers. I definitely recommend you getting this and trying it out for yourselves and although it is ammo heavy it's very very powerful. One down point though it takes minimal effort to use, whether you see that as a good thing or a bad thing you make your own mind up. One thing about it is though, I believe this should be an atlas weapon but that is just my opinion. I'm pretty sure most of you guys out there understand what I mean but I don't know we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more boy lines videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video or upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.

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### Keywords ### #dangerouspathogen #severesystemic #highlyresistant #Staphylococcusaureus #systemicinfections #Staphylococcus #aureusinfection #RTCLTV #shorts ### Article Attribution ### Title: Novel antimicrobial strategies to treat multi‐drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections Authors: Edward J. A. Douglas, Sri W. Wulandari, Scott D. Lovell ,and Maisem Laabei Publisher: Wiley DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14268 DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/bd367d079a2a4da5aa3dd2ad3c002d4a Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14268 ### Image Attribution ### We used stable diffusion to programmatically generate the background images. Viewer discretion is advised. ### Channels ### YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@stemrtcltv Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@stem_rtcl_tv ### Video Timestamps ### 0:00:00 - Summary 0:00:26 - Title 0:00:33 - End

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Staphylococcus aureus is a dangerous pathogen that causes severe systemic infections and is highly resistant to many antibiotics. Despite the lack of new antibiotics developed over the past few decades, researchers have been working on various strategies to fight off S. These include targeting specific genes or proteins involved in the bacteria's survival mechanisms, developing vaccines, and using existing drugs in combination with other compounds. This article was authored by Edward J.A. Douglas, Sri W. Willandari, Scott D. Lovell and others.

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How to Build More Muscle & Lose More Fat by Reducing Stress

In this QUAH Sal, Adam, & Justin answer the question “When I go on vacation or take a week off exercise and ease up slightly on nutrition, I lose weight, my digestion is better, and I sleep great. Why is this and how do I go back to my everyday life and keep up the positive momentum?” If you would like to get your own question answered, follow us on Instagram where we post QUAH requests weekly. https://www.instagram.com/mindpumpmedia/ Free resources & guides on building muscle, fat loss, improving mobility, & more: https://www.mindpumpmedia.com/free-resources?__hstc=36882303.f023370a36852b54503cb0395c89f712.1555188899281.1568219719523.1568306153608.24&__hssc=36882303.2.1568306153608&__hsfp=4092504085 Check out the full episode 1394 here: Video - https://youtu.be/trHpWSYok-w “How to Build More Muscle & Lose More Fat by Reducing Stress“ LIKE this video if you learned something new! COMMENT your thoughts on this topic. SUBSCRIBE for more valuable fitness content! #MindPump CONNECT WITH US: INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/mindpumpmedia TWITTER: http://bit.ly/2vN1qpE FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/2vq95cd SHOP MIND PUMP: http://bit.ly/2uvQY6b PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP: http://bit.ly/2vuntia PODCAST: iTUNES - http://apple.co/2vMEPcA STITCHER - http://bit.ly/2hQSIAS

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First question is from Tiffany J little when I go on vacation or take a week off exercise and ease up slightly on nutrition I lose weight. My digestion is better and I sleep great Why is this and how do I go back to my everyday life and continue the positive momentum? I love this question and this is an observation that I've had many clients report to me. I have myself identified this At times where I go on vacation and foods that normally would cause Gut issues don't necessarily cause gut issues Sleep issues seem to disappear doesn't speak really to your stress. Totally. Yeah, this is a people don't realize just how big of an effect Your stress has on your body's ability to build muscle burn body fat your cravings your sleep your hormones Digestion everything is affected so strongly from these things and this is why you go on vacation and you're like Wow, I've got the best sleep. I can't believe I feel so good I've had some of my best workouts on vacation, which you know, it's strange because my diet isn't necessarily as good You'll find that when you're stressed. Here's another thing if you're not tracking You know, you may not realize this but when you're under a lot of stress They've proven this in many studies and again, this is my own observation with clients You crave foods that tend to not be as good for you as well You tend to eat more when you're stressed out and of course sleep is is totally negatively affected, you know Yeah, it is I've definitely noticed this myself to like going on vacation You're just immediately this weight is like like relieved and your body just feels like oh, you know I can I can provide you more energy. I can provide you like more strength. My workouts are better It's just like the there's less of that pressure and tension like leading into that like oh I got to get this in and cram it in to my already hectic and chaotic schedule It's just it's one of those things you try and think about that and then kind of carry that into Well, what do I got to do now? You know recovery wise and what I got to implement now like coming back out of vacation to you know Get these same types of fields. Well, this is you know This is interesting you this is a question and we were talking about that study salad You brought up with intermittent fasting. This is an example of somebody that I use this tool for Yeah, this sometimes is a sign to me like oh this person is like stressing about what they're eating there They have they have this structure that they're following they probably got a lot of stress at work They're also hammering the weights like crazy, you know, this is somebody I might say okay Hey once a week, we're gonna do you know a fast and during that time. I want you to do something meditative I want you to do either yoga. I want you to do sauna stuff or cold plunge hot cold stuff like Focus on kind of working within and restrict from food for the day and not think about it, right? And so this is somebody who I might do that with and use that as a tool because that's normally a sign of like Yeah, you are you're just probably stressing too much over all those things and you just naturally going on vacation Probably eating just when you're hungry You're probably doing things with your family and friends and focusing on other aspects of your life Even more active you're getting more sleep you get more sun, you know, because usually on vacation going somewhere where there's more sun And yeah, and your interactions are less like stressful and chaotic with people. It's it's like a whole factor of things I've had clients lose body fat and get stronger simply from Incorporating a some kind of a relaxation or you know meditative or stress management Technique into their lives literally from just adding ten minutes of meditation a day or prayer or I've had clients actually no joke This is this is this has happened several times. 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Mod-01 Lec-34 Dynamical systems on manifolds-1

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems by Prof. Harish K. Pillai and Prof. Madhu N.Belur,Department of Electrical Engineering,IIT Bombay.For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

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So, welcome everyone to the next lecture. So, today and over the next two lectures, we will cover a topic called dynamical systems on manifolds. So, what is a dynamical system and what is a manifold? Dynamical system, of course you have seen, there is nothing but a differential equation, but today we will see in little more detail what is a manifold and that arises in non-linear dynamical systems and hence that is relevant. I would say this is one of the ways that people work in non-linear dynamical systems to be more precise. So, when we take x dot is equal to f of x, may be x dot is equal to f of x comma u if there is an input. Of course, this f and this f are different clearly. This f has only one argument x. On the other hand, this f has two arguments x and u in which it is implicit that u is an input to the system, but then the values of x itself at any time instant are where is the question. So, can x t take any value in Rn or is it that x of t is required to be in a subset of Rn? Is this subset a subspace or is it a more general set? Does it have some notion of dimension? When we speak of Rn, when we speak of the vector space Rn, we speak of it being n dimensional, but when x of t takes its values in not necessarily the whole of Rn, but in a subset, then what is the meaning of dimension? For those purposes, we will speak today in more detail about something called manifold. Manifold generally speaking are smooth manifolds. What is smooth about it that we will see soon? In other words, it is also called regular. What is regular about it? At every point its dimension is fixed. As we change the point, the dimension of the manifold, once we give the notion of manifold property called dimension, once we give that, we can speak about locally is the dimension constant as we change this point. So, that is what we will use to define a regular manifold. That is what is also smooth manifold. Then on a manifold, we will speak about tangent space. Why is tangent space relevant? Because it is in the tangent space that the vector field lives. Sorry for this bad handwriting. So, tangent space. So, we will speak about the notion of tangent space. If time permits, we will see some examples of manifolds, some equations today only. So, why is this relevant for dynamical systems? Suppose we say dynamics on circle or dynamics on sphere. So, it turns out that when we are speaking about the rate of change of angle, for example, we know that angle varies from 0 to 2 pi. Agreed, but not just that the angle equal to 2 pi is same as 0. So, in that sense, it is incorrect to view this set, this angle as a interval like this. Why I am not making it closed at both sides? Because the angle equal to 2 pi same as 0. So, we let angle to be equal to either 0 or 2 pi. We cannot let it be equal to both 0 and 2 pi, because they are actually the same. But then it appears, if we write it as an interval like this, it appears like some point, some angle value here and some angle value here, let us say 0.1, this is radians. When we say 0 to 2 pi, clearly the angle is being measured in radians. But suppose angle equal to 0.1 and angle equal to 2 pi corresponds to 2 into 3.14, which is let us say 6.28. Suppose 6.27 is slightly less than 2 pi, these two values of angles are not actually very far. So, one should note that this particular point is actually the same as this given that these two angles are the same and hence an open interval is not a good way to picturize this particular set of all values where angle, the set where angle takes its values. On the other hand, if we let that particular angle be denoted like this on a circle and we say that this is theta is being measured like this. So, we know that as theta increases and 0.1 angle and 6.27 angle indeed are close. So, here it is also very explicit that angle 0 and angle 2 pi are the same. So, when angle, for example, when dealing with angle, it is reasonable to think of the angle as angle theta takes values on a circle. At any time instant, we can say that theta of t is some particular point on this circle. So, that is one example where we like to think that our theta of t does not take arbitrary real values. Even though it is mod 2 pi, we know that angle is the same when if it is differing by a integral multiple of 2 pi. In spite of that, this is not a good set because it does not suggest that 0 and 2 pi angles are the same, for example, or that 0.1 and 6.27 angles are actually very close. On the other hand, instead of this, if we let the theta of t takes its values on a circle, then this is a correct representation of this set where theta takes its values. Now, we can ask that this particular set, the circle, is it one dimension or two dimensional? So, the question, the next question that arises is that what is the notion of dimension for such a set which is not r? If it is a vector space, if it is rn or rm or r or r2, the plane, clearly the dimension is here it is nm, here it is 1, 2, but then for such more general sets. So, this is what we will like to call a manifold. The circle is an example of a manifold. But for such sets, what is the notion of dimension? So, very soon we will make this more precise. So, we will like to say that if we are sitting at a particular point on the circle, then locally this just looks like a line. For example, when we are on this earth or when we are on this planet earth, that time we know that actually the earth is a very big globe, it is a big sphere. But at the particular place where we are, it looks like r2. We like to think that we are on this particular sphere which is r2. So, sphere. So, let us draw a sphere like this. So, when we are at a particular point on the sphere, then when we draw a tangent to this, at that particular point, tangent plane, we are not, at a very, at a particular point, we are not very concerned that far away this particular plane indeed gets rotated and becomes a sphere. Locally at a particular point it looks as good as a plane. So, that is as far as local, local view point. So, we will like to say that the dimension of a set is what it is when viewed very locally. So, how do we make this more precise? So, for that purpose we will speak about embedding, embedding a manifold in Rm. So, manifold just loosely speaking a set that looks like Rn locally. Locally meaning wherever we are at a particular point when we view around it, then it looks just like Rn, but not necessarily globally. Not necessarily globally. When we view the entire set together, then it need not be like Rn. It is only locally that we think that it is Rn. More generally such a manifold M might have to be embedded in a dimension Rm vector space and clearly in that case, M will be greater than N. So, as extreme case it might be in fact equal to M in which case Rm was equal to Rn. That time the manifold itself was Rm, except for that or it can also be a special case Rm equal to Rn is also manifold. The entire Rn is also a manifold. Open subsets is also a manifold. So, clearly manifolds can be bounded. It need not be unbounded like Rm is. So, one can have smaller subsets also now. So, how does one characterize it? So, typically manifold described by equations. For example, circle. If you take the unit circle, as far as the angle is concerned it does not matter what the radius of that particular circle is, but let us consider that the radius is equal to 1. So, x square plus y square equal to 1 is that particular circle that we already drew, a circle centered at the origin and radius equal to 1. So, we can view this as f of x, y equal to 0, where f of x, y is defined as x square plus y square minus 1. So, it turns out that manifold can be written as solution to a system of equations. In this case, there is only one equation and two variables. One can write f of x, y equal to 0, where f of x, y is defined like this. So, now what is a particular point? A particular point will be in the manifold. It will be on the circle if it satisfies f of x, y equal to 0. So, let us take a point is 3, 4 on manifold. What was the manifold defined as? This particular manifold, the circle was defined as the set of all x, y in R2 such that f of x, y equal to 0. So, the definition of our set, as far as this definition is concerned, 3, 4 we can check, 3 square plus 4 square minus 1 is equal to 9 plus 16, 25 minus 1, that is 24, that is not equal to 0. Hence, it is not on the circle. So, let us consider 3 by 5, 4 by 5. Is this an element of that manifold? Is this in that set? Set of all points will satisfy that equation. So, we can check this. It turns out that this will indeed be equal to 0. 3, 5 square plus 4, 3 by 5 square plus 4 by 5 square minus 1 is that equal to 0? Yes, it is equal to 0. This will turn out to indeed be equal to 0. So, we see that this particular point is on the manifold. Now, what we can do is we can take the so-called Jacobian, del f by del x, del f by del y. We can construct this particular matrix. That particular matrix turns out to be equal to 2x, 2y and this matrix in general will have x and y because f was dependent on x and y, f was the function of x and y. So, this one we will evaluate at a particular point. For example, 3 by 5, 4 by 5. At this particular point on the manifold, when we evaluate it, we get 8 by 5 and we get 6 by 5 and 8 by 5. This is what we get as del f by del x, del f by del y evaluated at a point, at a point P in the manifold. For the point P equal to 3 by 5, 4 by 5, we get it equal to this. Now, we are able to speak about the dimension of the manifold more concretely using this. So, let us come dimension of the circle manifold at P is equal to 3 by 5, 4 by 5 equal to dimension of null space. Null space of which matrix, of that particular matrix that we obtained, 6 by 5, 8 by 5. So, this is a particular matrix that we get by evaluating del f by del x, del f by del y and we can speak about its null space. Why we have to speak about null space? We will see in some detail very soon. So, f depends on two variables, del x, y rank of this particular matrix, del f by del x, del f by del y evaluated at a point P, at which point P equal to 3 by 5, 4 by 5 turned out to be equal to 1 and hence dimension of null space. Null space of a matrix is set of all vectors that go to 0, where that matrix acts on it. We will give a formal definition in the next slide. This is equal to minus rank, rank of this matrix which was equal to 1, this is equal to 1. This is the dimension of the null space at that particular point. So, notice that the matrix del f by del x, del f by del y depends on x and y and when you substitute different points, you get different different matrices and in general the ranks might change even though the number of columns is the same and hence the dimension of the null space might change in general. But one can verify that at every point P on the manifold, the dimension will indeed be 1. The rank of the matrix will be 1 and hence the dimension of the null space will indeed be equal to 1 and hence the circle manifold is what we will like to call as a regular manifold. This is what we will see in more detail now. So, before we see in more detail, we will just give a formal definition of a null space of a matrix. Suppose we are given with a matrix P, capital P this is different from the point P that we just now saw with n rows and m columns, then it is null space. Null space of P is defined as set of all vectors v sitting in R m such that P v equal to 0. So, take a matrix with all real entries, R for real entries with n rows, m columns, then its null space is defined as set of all vectors v such that P times v equal to 0, the matrix P times the vector v equal to 0. So, some other words for this purpose is called kernel, kernel of P also means the same thing. So, this is set of all vectors that go to 0, null space and kernel both mean the same. They are both in general a subset of R m. So, if P is a map from R m to R n, then null space and kernel both mean the same that is what is defined here are subsets of R m. Why do we say P which has m columns maps R m into R n? Why? Because it has m columns when it acts on a vector the way it is written here, it will require the vector v to have m components and hence the vector v is an element in R m. So, null space is an element of this. So, come back to our particular problem. So, del f by del x, del f by del y that particular matrix when we evaluate at a particular point small p equal to 3 by 5, 4 by 5, then we had got that this one is equal to 6 by 5 and 8 by 5. This particular constant matrix we can look at the set of all vectors that go to 0 and that turns out to be nothing but null space of p is of let us call this particular matrix as capital P. It is null space is nothing but the span of 8 minus 6. So, span means you take linear combinations of this particular vector and that particular that set which you get by linear combinations of this is precisely equal to the null space of this. They are precisely the vectors v which get sent to 0. This you can verify by just plain multiplication. So, what is the dimension of the span of this? Exactly one. We have only one independent vector and any linear combinations will all generate a one-dimensional subspace. So, this is dimension 1. So, that is how we conclude that the circle locally at every point gives you a null space of dimension 1 and hence it is a manifold of local dimension 1. The next question arises is at the point p we verified what about other point? The other point also will it be indeed null space dimension equal to 1 that is indeed the case that you can verify yourself, but we will right now define dimension of a manifold little more generally. So, suppose f is a map from R m to R n and we say f equal to 0 is a system of equations. So, please note this x here is different from the x that we wrote in the previous example. Why? Because f acts on R m and gives you R n because of that if f acts on x, x has to have m components already and f of x itself has n components. So, more precisely we can say f 1 of x 1, x 2 up to x m equal to 0 f 2 x 1, x 2, x m equal to 0 like this up to f n equal to 0. So, there are actually n equations that is why I wrote system of equations, this system of n equations to be precise and each equation involves m variables. So, this system of equations may or may not have a solution in general. So, suppose you take a particular point x 1 up to x m that satisfies all these n equations that particular x point you will include into the manifold. So, more generally manifolds are defined like this, large class of manifolds are all defined as solution to a system of equations, solution to a system of n equations and this already makes that manifold a subset of R m. So, what is our manifold? Manifold was a subset of R m more precisely it was set of all x in R m such that f of x equal to 0. So, n equations are satisfied. Now suppose we define del f by del x, this we can evaluate at a particular point small m in m. When we evaluate it at a particular point then this matrix that we get after evaluating becomes a constant matrix with how many rows it has exactly n rows because f 1 up to f n, n functions are getting differentiated and how many columns will it have it gets differentiated with respect to m components. Hence, it will have m columns. So, this particular matrix this matrix that we have has n rows and m columns one can speak of rank of this particular matrix del f by del x. After evaluating we speak of rank of constant matrices as far as this course is concerned. So, we will find out the rank of this matrix only after evaluating it at a particular point m on the manifold. Of course, in principle this matrix is defined for any point in R m. We can evaluate it at any point in R m, but then we are interested in what happens to this matrix at a point on the manifold. Hence, we are going to evaluate it at a particular point m inside the manifold m, capital M. So, this particular rank that decides what is that will help in finding out the dimension of the null space. Suppose this rank is equal to R, suppose R is that particular number then what is the dimension of the null space in that case by this according to this dimension of null space of del f by del x after evaluating it at a particular point m on the manifold will be equal to m minus R. So, I should point out a few things about the notation here. This m was because capital M is a subset of R m, it is a integer. So, this m is because of this particular m, it has this particular matrix has m columns while this m is a particular point p on the manifold. So, it is better that I change this to a particular point p on the manifold where dimension of the null space at point p in the manifold. At point p in the manifold, what is the dimension of the null space? m minus the rank of this constant matrix. Which constant matrix? The matrix that you get by evaluating that matrix at this particular point p on the manifold. So, this is the dimension of local. What is local about it? Because we have evaluated this matrix at that particular point, local dimension of that manifold at point p. So, now we can ask, when you go for different different points p, does the dimension change? Does the dimension, what is the dimension? m minus R, does the rank change? m itself will not change because this entire manifold is a subset of R m. So, m itself will not change, the number of columns of this matrix will not change, but the number of the rank itself might change depending on the point that you substitute. So, does the rank R change with the point p where you evaluate it? This matrix of functions, you can find out once and for all, but depending on where you evaluate it, its rank might change. If the rank does not change depending on the point p of the manifold, then the dimension of the null space will also not change because m minus R is the dimension of the null space at that particular point p. So, we will call this manifold. Manifold is called regular if dimension is constant. What dimension of what? Dimension of the null space. Dimension of the null space will be constant if the rank of this particular matrix is constant. So, such manifolds are called regular manifolds and they are the ones that are easiest to study and we will study only them. So, what are examples of such manifolds? Circle, sphere, all the ones that we can think of. So, circle is a one-dimensional manifold embedded in R2 because it is embedded in two-dimensional plane. Sphere, so this circle, this sphere, this sphere is also called S2. This is called S1. So, S2, the sphere S2 is a subset of R3 while S1 is a subset of R2. So, this is also a regular manifold in the sensor. At any point, we can evaluate the particular function. How is S2 sphere defined? It is defined using the formal x square plus y square plus z square minus 1 equal to 0. In R3, in three-dimension y, x, y, z, three components, if you take one equation, then if that equation, unless that equation is trivial, unless it does not set any constraint, we expect that a two-dimensional degree of freedom is there and this degree of freedom is exactly the dimension of the null space that we were talking about. So, at any point, there are two local directions, one can move and those two dimensions are indeed the null space of this particular del f by del x, y, z that we get by using this equation. So, that, hence, the sphere we will say is of dimension 2. So, what is an example of an irregular manifold? So, look at this particular set, the interior of this set. Here, it looks like R3. Here, it looks like R2. At this particular point, you can go anywhere in these two directions, but as this becomes like this, the same set, when we are here, there are only one independent direction. Either we go here or the negative of that gives the opposite direction. So, there is only one independent direction. At this particular point, on the other hand, in the interior here, one can go in two directions. Similarly, if we have a circle and its interior, on the interior, we have two dimensional. Here, we can go anywhere in two directions independently, but on the boundary, we have a problem. We cannot go here, we can go like this and the inside. In that sense, there are some constraints where all we can go on the boundary. So, these are situations where we say that the dimension is not constant. This is an irregular, this both are irregular manifolds. So, with that, we will not look into more detail about how manifolds are defined and what is the meaning of its dimension at a particular point because all our examples will have manifolds with constant dimension at every point and they are the regular manifolds. So, what is the vector field defined for a manifold? So, take a manifold m of dimension say r. So, this r is not to be confused with the rank r that we had in the previous few pages. Suppose, its dimension is r and this m we will like to embed it in rn. So, it is embed. What is embed about it? Even though as I said, the sphere itself is dimension 2 manifold, the sphere is physically being placed in r3. So, we embed it in a larger dimensional vector space if required. So, sphere S2 is a manifold of dimension 2. Dimension 2 manifold is embedded in r3. r3 meaning x, y, z our space has dimension 3. So, one can think of the sphere S2. Even though it is a manifold of dimension 2, it cannot be placed in r2. One has to embed it in a larger dimension vector space r3. So, it is an important question about manifolds, about what dimension vector space you have to minimum go larger and embed. So, such theory is explained in more detail in books by Spivak. He has one book on calculation manifolds, one thin book, but he has many more volumes which speak about such questions in much detail and also more complex questions about manifolds. So, as far as we are concerned, we are dealing with dynamical systems where the variable x evolves on a manifold. So, consider x dot is equal to f of x. For the time being this is a time invariant system and x of t takes its values in a manifold m and we do not want this manifold m to have a dimension that is varying. So, we will call it a regular manifold. Regular manifolds are the ones which are also called smooth manifolds. One can speak of C infinity function defined on manifolds, tangent spaces defined on such manifolds in a more general setting. So, let us take an example. We will like to say that while x evolves on the manifold, the vector field itself x dot, this function f, this f is different from the f that we had used for defining the manifold. There f was such that its solution set of all solutions was defining the manifold, but right now the manifold is already defined and if required it is also been embedded in a larger dimension vector space. Right now this f is defining the vector field, it is defining the dynamics. So, take a sphere and this x is evolving on the manifold only. Now we will like to say that x dot is a vector in which in which set we will like to say that it lives in the tangent space to the manifold at that point. So, take another, let us start with a circle. So, x of t takes its values on the manifold and suppose the manifold is a circle and suppose at some time instant it is here, then x of t, the fact that x of t has to remain on the manifold, x dot itself takes its values in a tangent space, in a tangent line to this manifold either positive or negative. That is where the rate of change can be. Why it is important to note that the vector x dot itself cannot be out going out. Why? Because you see if one is required to be on this manifold, the circle, then the rate of change cannot suggest that we go here. It will clearly come out of the manifold immediately, but if we say it has to go in this direction, then it will go little in that direction and then one gets a different point on the manifold and one evolves like this. At this point, we might say we have to go like this, here like this. Of course, we are not going to move here in the next time instant, infinitesimally after a little amount of time we will reach here and there the tangent is at a different point. So, x dot is equal to f of x is a differential equation at a particular x on the manifold, f x is a vector in the tangent space to the manifold at that point. More precisely, tangent space to the manifold of dimension r at point p of manifold m. So, it is a tangent space to the manifold. It is tangential to the manifold, but tangential at each point at the point p of that manifold. This tangent space is if the manifold itself was dimension r, locally it looked like r r. So, dimension r m of dimension r means locally it looks like r r is r dimension locally at point p. It is like r r, for example, a sphere. As I said, let us take a circle for example, at a particular point we said that it looks like a line. So, when we draw the tangent line to this particular circle at a point p, then the tangent space, this tangent space itself is certainly r r r r equal to tangent space to the manifold at the point p, where p is in the manifold. So, what is this tangent space to the manifold at point p? Of course, p has to also be in the manifold. We do not consider tangent spaces to the manifold and the tangent space is itself tangential at some point p, not on the manifold. No, that is not going to happen, because x of t lives in the manifold at any time instant. At this point, suppose this was x of t, then it can move either here or here. So, it is forced to be tangential to that particular manifold at every time instant. That is the rate of change and hence that particular set of all vectors, where the rate of change can belong to, that is called as a tangent space to the manifold at that particular point p. That tangent space not just looks locally like r r, which the manifold was looking like. Manifold was locally like r r at every point p, because it was a r dimensional manifold. This tangent space on the other hand, in fact, is equal to r r. It is equal to r r, where what about the origin of this particular vector space? The origin of this vector space is exactly the point p. That is the important thing that there are different copies of this tangent space. T tangent space to the curve at the point p is r r with origin of this vector space as point p, p of manifold. What do I mean by this? Let us take this circle. Let us take this particular point. This is one dimensional manifold, the circle and this is a point p. This is the origin of this particular line. We speak of line as r 1. This is the origin. We speak of this as r 2 and this is the origin. Now, when this r 1 happens to be the tangent space to this particular manifold, this manifold m itself is embedded in r 2. The circle itself is embedded in r 2, where this perhaps is the origin. So, origin for r 2 in which circle is embedded. So, this is our coordinates and our particular circle is here. So, notice that this particular circle does not have its center at the origin like the earlier circle. This is some other circle whose center is somewhere else radius is not necessarily 1. This is just a manifold example of a manifold. This also can be written by some such system of equations like we have written before. But now, on this manifold the point p is here and its tangent space is here. The origin of the tangent space itself is also an r 1. That is the tangent space to that particular manifold at the point p and the origin of that particular vector space r 1, its origin is this 0 which is exactly the point p. So, if you have another tangent space at this particular point, this is the origin for this, let us call this p 1, this p 2. Similarly, if you have this as another point p 3 and this is the origin of that. In that sense, we have plenty of tangent spaces. We do not have just 1, 2 or 3 tangent spaces. This circle has been embedded in r 2. There is a origin of r 2 in which this manifold has been embedded. That origin is a origin of r 2, but we are speaking of this manifold which is one-dimensional manifold. And for this manifold, this point p 1 at which that tangent space is tangential to the manifold at that point p 1, that p 1 is itself the origin of that tangent space. As I said, the tangent space is not just locally like r 1, it is in fact r 1. So, where is the origin to this particular of this vector space? Its origin is exactly p 1. What is the significance of this point p 1 being the origin that we will see when we actually consider the differential equation? So, let us consider a circle in which theta dot equal to 1. So, at every point, we will like to say that this is how theta increases. So, one may say, why is this not anticlockwise? Normally, we take anticlockwise as positive. This is just a manifold and one can have any convention as far as this manifold is concerned. So, now, at every point, rate of increase of theta is equal to 1. So, the rate of change is equal to a vector 1 in that direction. What about theta dot equal to 0? Where would that vector be? At every point, it is a vector of length 0. So, it would just be there, neither left side or right side. Where would theta dot equal to minus 1 be? Theta we have said is increasing like this, increasing clockwise. So, theta dot equal to minus 1 would be that theta is decreasing. So, it would be in the opposite direction. At every point, this one would correspond to, this was our theta, theta was increasing like this. At every point, the vector would be pointing like this. It is decreasing at a particular rate. What about the length of the vector? The length of the vector indeed denotes the rate of change. And length of the vector has actually units theta by time, the rate of change of angle with respect to time. And hence, the length of the vector itself cannot be directly related to the coordinates R2 in which this circle has been embedded. So, except for the length of the vector, the direction itself has lot of significance. But it also has some relative significance in the sense that we know that if this is theta dot equal to minus 1, then this vector corresponds to theta dot equal to minus 1.5 because it is longer than this vector. So, the vectors within the tangent space can be compared with respect to each other. But a length of a vector in the tangent space is not directly comparable to the length in the manifold itself because elements in the tangent space have dimension, value divided by time. So, in that sense, the units are different. So, notice that we can see that theta dot equal to 0 means that at that particular point that arrow has length 0, it neither increases nor decreases and that corresponds to the origin. The 0 is in the tangent space to that particular curve at that particular point and hence, it is exactly the origin. So, it is a point P neither increasing nor decreasing. So, important conclusion is origin of tangent space, origin of the tangent space Tm at point P is exactly at point P of manifold. So, as an example, x dot is equal to f of x, f of x equal to 0 at every x in the manifold. So, this is like constant solutions or solutions are constant. x of T is identically equal to x0 for x at time t. At any time, if at t equal to 0, it is equal to x0, it will identically be equal to x0 for all time t, for all t greater than or equal to 0 also. Why? Because the rate of change is 0. So, the tangent space at every point, which vector is been picked. So, this differential equation, from all the vectors that are possible in the tangent space at that particular point at an initial condition, f of x picks a particular vector in that tangent space. It tells us which direction it will evolve and if you say constant vector field, it means it will pick the 0 vector. So, it will just remain there that there is no arrow, there is no arrow because the arrow has length 0. So, that is an example where the origin is in fact the vector that the vector field has picked. So, x dot is equal to f of x on a manifold tells which vector in tm at a point p is picked for x dot. This picking is what f of x is doing, f of x decides. So, this is the way of understanding a vector field. There are vector field, a particular differential equation tells that at a particular point x on the manifold, f of x tells you which particular vector in the tangent space to the manifold at that point p has been picked and has been defined as x dot. When you integrate, you go to a particular future time and then f is evaluated at a different point of the manifold. But the fact that at each time instant, the vector belongs to the tangent space ensures that the vector does not, the rate of change does not make the x go out of the manifold. The fact that the dynamics are constrained to be in the manifold that is guaranteed by the fact that f of x is an element of the tangent space. f of x is not suggesting a vector outside the tangent space. That ensures that the dynamics remain on the manifold. To the manifold, dynamics remain on the manifold. So, this set of three lectures, this and the next two are not intended to be into a lot of depth about this particular way of viewing non-linear dynamical systems. It just suffices that we take the union. We just introduce some words. So, if you take the union over all points m in the manifold of the tangent space to the manifold at the point p, the union of this is called tangent bundle. What is a tangent bundle? It is a bundle, it is a collection of tangent spaces. How is the collection being defined? We said t m, p is a tangent space to the manifold at the point p, but you can vary this point p for all p in the manifold. That union, that collection together is what defines the tangent bundle. One can speak what is the structure of the tangent bundle itself. These are indeed questions that are asked from a research viewpoint. Since many years, what about control? Control of dynamical systems. So, how is control viewed here? Till now we had been viewing x dot is equal to f of x. At every point p, we pick only one vector from the tangent space, but if you have x dot is equal to f of x, u. So, as I warned in the beginning of today's lecture, these are different. There is only one argument. This is a different system of equations. Only one argument to f, while here we have two. When you see various papers, one should note that this f has two arguments. Two arguments and we would like to say that u is input. u is an input to the system. Now here, different u values helps pick different vectors in the tangent space. More precisely, it helps you pick a whole family of vectors in the vector field. So, what family? Let us take an example and see. Suppose, we are on a sphere and at this particular point p, this is a tangent space to the vector field, tangent space to the manifold at the point p. Suppose, this is how f of x dot is equal to f of x. When 0 input is given, this is how it is, but when some particular value u1 is given, it helps to say here. So, it is possible that this is a whole class of inputs that you get for different different values of u1. So, different u1 values, different u values fetches all these vectors in this, whatever has been shown, fetches a subset of TMP. One can speak whether this, it fetches a subset for different values, this f of x, u will be different vectors, you see. So, it will help in picking not just one vector in TMP, but a whole collection of vectors. In that sense, this whole family of vectors from the tangent space can be pegged by taking different values of u. So, now we can ask what about controllability? So, control itself means that you pick a whole collection of vectors, that whole collection is defined and now inside the collection which vector you pick is about choosing a particular value u. Controllability is about whether that collection is enough that you can go anywhere in the manifold. So, global controllability is that you can find some trajectory to go to every point. Perhaps you need lot of time to go there. On the other hand, we can ask that by just very small quick manipulations can we go to every point nearby. So, this is what we will say small time local controllability. So, given the fact that different u values might give you more than just one vector in the tangent space to the manifold at that point p, but by different choices of u's, can you go around some open interval, open neighborhood of that manifold at that point p? Can you go if that open neighborhood is made smaller and smaller? That is what is called small time local controllability. On the other hand, global controllability asks easier question, can you go from any point to any point by some choice? When you go to different points, you get a different family of vector fields which is a collection of the tangent space at that point. So, by such careful choice, can we go from any point to any point? That is what is global controllability about. So, this is as far as the different questions that are asked using this long way using this notion of tangent spaces. So, we will see some more properties of tangent spaces in a few minutes in the next lecture. Thank you.

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[Figure Fantasy] Trails & Traces - Shadow Pursuit | 3 Star Clears for Easy, Hard & Torment

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hey everyone welcome to figure fantasy we're here to start off with shadow pursuit uh this is going to be trails and traces starting off with your easy stage and let's see what i have for you okay guys so this one was a head scratcher uh did a lot of team combinations here um the two objectives are very hard to crack so probably had five different variations or even more and this stage shouldn't be the easy one this stage was really really hard so again um this will be a close clear guys because again this will be here probably the round 50 as you can see there so there you go guys this is the only lineup i think that works so three star clears and let's move on to the next okay next up is going to be hard and let's see what i have okay guys so this is what we have for your hard stage and again this is better and doable and this is my lineup better and doable than the easy one so two of the objectives are doable again so it's only regarding arena's health and the rest should survive the onslaught so not really a problem because you have two healers and there is no time qualifier for this one so this one should have been the easy stage for this event as you see three star clears moving on to the next okay finally we have torment and let's see what i have okay so here we have for torment this is this should have been the mid tier or the hard stage but it's under torment and um this is quite easier to clear so clear this definitely within 15 seconds and definitely all five will survive well so just have to eliminate as many and as fast as possible so we're down to 50 again very very doable and three star clears for torment so thank you guys for staying this far take care stay safe it's the warden and i'm out of here

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(Creepypasta) SpongeBob Lost Episode: The Solar Eclipse (by JunoTehPlanet)

DISCLAIMER: Creepypastas are only made-up stories and are NOT meant to be taken seriously. FYI: I don't take requests. STORY LINKS: https://spinpasta.fandom.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants:_The_Solar_Eclipse CREDITS: ChatGPT FakeYou @junotehplanet Nickelodeon Paramount ViacomCBS BACKGROUND MUSIC CREDITS: Myuu Otis McDonald SOUND FX CREDITS: Chosic Disney Wiki FindSounds FreeSFX Freesound SoundBible Sounddogs Soundeffects Wiki Sound Ideas Sound Image Storyblocks The Sounds Resource Videvo YouTube ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/ FakeYou https://fakeyou.com/ Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

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Those are medieval robots. At the bottom, the Krusty Krab stood proudly as the heart of the community. Inside, SpongeBob flipped patties with his usual enthusiasm, coming along to the sizzle of the grill. It seemed like just another day in the life of the fry cook, until he noticed something peculiar. For some reason, the Krusty Krab started looking like it was getting darker outside, right? Well, while Squidward Tentacles was running straight to SpongeBob, he said, SpongeBob, you need to go outside! It's getting dark! SpongeBob in response called out, That's what I've been wondering, Squidward. As he wiped his hands on his apron, he asked Squidward. Why is it getting so dark outside? Squidward Tentacles, perched lazily behind the cash register, glanced out the window with a board expression. Oh, that's just a solar eclipse, SpongeBob. Nothing to worry about. But Squidward's nonchalance did little to ease SpongeBob's curiosity. He had never witnessed a solar eclipse before, and the idea intrigued him. As the darkness outside deepened, SpongeBob's excitement grew. I'm gonna go outside and watch it! He shouted. However, Squidward's warning proved to be more than just a casual remark. As the eclipse reached its peak, a strange energy seemed to wash over Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob watched in astonishment as his friends and neighbors began to act erratically. Wait a minute, why is everyone acting like this? He asked. Everyone went crazy so much. I'll tell you some examples. Patrick Star marched into the Krusty Krab wearing a saucepan on his head, shouting about the end of the world. Sandy Cheeks swung from tree to tree, convinced she was a superhero on a mission to save the town. Even Mr. Krabs, usually obsessed with money, started giving away free Krabby Patties to anyone who walked through the door. SpongeBob's once orderly world descended into chaos. Tables were overturned, customers danced on the countertops, and the entire town seemed to have lost its collective mind. Amidst the madness, SpongeBob remained remarkably calm. He observed the chaos with a mixture of confusion and concern, wondering what had caused his friends to act so strangely. As the solar eclipse reached totality, the darkness deepened, casting a surreal blow over Bikini Bottom. It was then that SpongeBob noticed a shift in the air. The tension peaked, and the residents of Bikini Bottom seemed to reach a collective breaking point. As everyone had gone crazy enough, everyone had pitch black eyes, distorting facial features, voices echoing and reverberating through the darkening skies, etc. But just as suddenly as it had begun, the eclipse started to wane. The sun emerged from behind the moon, casting its warm light once again over the town. As if by magic, the chaos subsided, and Bikini Bottom returned to its usual state of relative normalcy. SpongeBob let out a sigh of relief, grateful that the strange events of the day were finally over. At least it's over now, but I'm still baffled as to why everyone got so distorted. He said. But as he reflected on the bizarre experience, he couldn't shake the feeling that there was more to the solar eclipse than that of the eye. With a shrug, SpongeBob returned to his duties at the Krusty Krab, knowing that no matter what strange adventures awaited him in the future, he could always count on the familiar comforts of home. The episode itself only aired one time on Nickelodeon during the eclipse of August of 2017, but many people were traumatized and afraid of the episode.

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Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's casewrakes.com coming at you with 2022 Panini Contenders football 10 box half case pick your team number three a big Thank you to Here's the list hot off the presses big. Thanks to this group for making it happen. I appreciate it Here on Sunday the 30th. Thanks for spending a bit of your Sunday with us last day of the month already Time flies by when you're having fun boys and girls Thanks everyone for making that happen. Remember We did the we did pick your team for first first to fill first to break So that second half ended up being pick your team three. We got some points there. That's gonna It's gonna be randomized to one person in the break, but We'll do that at the end. It takes it takes a place of an auto unfortunately, but 900 points is a decent amount There's more than one points card will randomize that as one lot to one person in the break We'll collect them all together winner take all tyco on Thornton to 175 Patriots. That'll be for Walter and MVP contenders Patty Mahomes nine out of 30 nice green Pulsar For the Chiefs that'll be for Sam and the auto is trailing Berks That's the teal parallel, which I think really pops looks really nice. That'll go to Tennessee. That'll be for Andrew German who won a lot of spots in the filler. It's 30 out of 30 30 for 30 What if I told you That the teal parallels really pop die cut out of there So we got Kyler Murray blue to 99 That'll be for Eric and the Arizona Cardinals. We got Chris Jones. That was the die cut Four out of 50 for the Chief. That'll be for Sam There's another Kyler Murray right there as well. It's the base not numbered behind Aiden Hutchinson is K Von Tividow Rookie ticket autograph for the New York football Giants It's gonna be for Andrew and then behind Aiden Hutchins is his teammate Jameson Williams Rookie of the Year contenders autograph for the Lions. That's gonna be for Jason K. You got to know when to hold them Know when to fold them Know when to walk away 17 out of 50. There's his teammate Aiden Hutchins All right next box Die cut and another set of points So again winter take all the points So someone's gonna get 1800 points. That's actually not that bad. All right. Here's Khalil Shakir for Buffalo as to 175 Ryan Harold Justin Jefferson Green Pulsar die cut is to 30. That'll be for the Vikings. That'll be for Andrew It's Kyle Pitts and behind Isaiah Spiller is Calvin Austin the third CA3 That'll be for Matthew Sharrah and the Steelers Another box another die cut back there. I got Aaron Jones. We've got Pierre Strong Jr. to 175 For Walter and the Patriots and we got to add a 75 to a tongue of Iloha die cut for Andrew and the Dolphins And the autograph is gonna be Brian Cook 49 at a 99 rookie ticket autograph for Sam rail and the Chiefs other box We have more in the store folks So this case was pick your team three and four pick your team five and six are loaded up right now on Jasky's case race comm if you want to grab your team straight up Yeah, make it happen Russell Wilson Jared Gough to 175 and Joe Montana Green Pulsar to 30 for the Niners. That'll be for Jorge The Jared Gough will be for the Lions. That will be for Jason Lions get a quarterback. They got Henden Hooker, right? Yeah, they got Henden Hooker Which is who I was hoping the Raiders might look for their Skyler Thompson Rookie Auto for Andrew and the Dolphins But it's a smart choice. I think by the Lions who made some interesting choices all draft weekend, but Henden Hooker can marinate behind Jared Gough for a little while For the season pretty much I don't know when took off contract is probably Gonna be over soonish and the Lions have a pretty good offensive line More points more points, so that's a lot of points right there now Winner take all in those points So even if you don't have if you've not been having a good draft Good draft a good break that is Here's a Sam Howell splitting image is that an ultra rare No, it's now contending, but I feel like I haven't seen a lot of these Inserts, so then I go to Ryan Harold Sam Howell All right, the autograph is Alec Pierce Rookie ticket autograph for the blue horseshoes. That's gonna be for Mickey and Jorge You get the Brock Purdy rookie ticket card here as well also Has enlisted as a wide receiver here. No respect for Mr. Relevant I don't know if that boosts the value of that card or not, but it looks like a little little misprint there Dak Prescott we got Saquon Barkley to 175. That's for Andrew and the Giants And there's Lamar Jackson Who got his money Last week before the draft that was which was good Good for Ravens. Good for the Ravens. There's Trevor Penning Rookie ticket autograph for the Saints. That's gonna be for Ed Pete and we got George Pickens nice 22 out of 75 Rookie ticket on card autograph for the Steelers. That's for Matthew Shirah. Is that more points? This is the most I've seen in a while winner take all the points for 900 point cards. That's what 3,600 points. It's a good amount. There's Debo Neon pink to 75 that'll be for the Niners. That's for Jorge base Terry McLauren Blue sauce Gardner That's to 99. That'll be for Jeremy S and the Jets And then we got Brian Robinson Jr. 48 out of 60 Rookie of the Year Autograph going to Ryan Harold and the Commanders. There's a rookie ticket not numbered Kenny Pickett For Matthew and the Steelers Saquon Barkley to 175 And so the New York football Giants, that'll be for Andrew. Here's Josh Allen winning ticket Card to 99 that'll be for Ryan and Buffalo and Joe Burrow And we've got Kavon Tibbeto Andrew with the New York football Giants, and we also have some overtime hockey, which is always exciting Panthers at Bruins Panthers with a With a goal like the last minute of the game sends us to overtime. That's pretty stressful for the Boston Bruins here We got sauce Gardner 23 out of 149 Your defensive rookie of the year going to Jeremy Short and the Jets Final box coming up. Good luck ladies. Good luck gentlemen. Good luck boys. Good luck girls Good luck children of all ages adults of all ages Everybody every single person. All right. We got a Drake London rookie Silver that'll be for Andrew and the Falcons We've got a Brock Purdy die cut nice Torre and the Niners and their Saquon Barkley and our final two autographs behind Tariq Wollin is Kenyon Green 46 out of 75 Steve Locke and the Texans and the last one here is Desmond Ritter 63 out of 149 I feel like there was a lot of conversation about Who's gonna get Replaced maybe I think there's some chatter about the Falcons thinking about going to quarterback. They never did and ended up being Malik Willis, but So good for Desmond Ritter. Let's hope he does well next season. This will be for Andrew Derman and the ATL Nice finish there. All right now a lot of points to give away here for 900 point cards winner take all as I usually do let's go back to this list here Let's gather everybody's names new dice new list and Name on top it gets all the points and that will be one and a five six times fingers cross good luck one two three four five and six So after six times congrats to Bryce very close But not quite but after six congrats to Matthew Shara. There you go Matt after six times a Bunch of points going your way. There you go gang. I'm Joe for jazby's case breaks comm Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us, and I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye

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of the legal tampering period, the Baltimore Ravens have been very, very quiet. They had not made any moves, any signings, any trades, any anything. And I know a lot of fans have grown impatient, but this is something that literally happens just about every single year with the Baltimore Ravens. But I tweeted on the flip side that while the Baltimore Ravens have been quiet, none of their pending free agents had gotten any deals. None of them had been signed. We hadn't heard about any soon to be former Baltimore Ravens getting deals, but in this last hour, all of that changed right away because first Gus Edwards, he got to deal with the charges, then Geno Stone, he got to deal with the bingles. So he stayed in the FC North, but now Devon Duvenay, all pro kick return of Devon Duvenay. And probably the least talked about pending free agent for the Baltimore Ravens, Devon Duvenay, because when we talked about pending free agents, a lot of people talked about Kyle Vernoij, Davion Clowney, Geno Stone, Patrick Queen, Gus Edwards. It's a long list of people, but nobody was mentioning Devon Duvenay, who had a big role for the Baltimore Ravens for the past three, four years, especially when he officially became their official returner. But nobody was talking about Devon Duvenay. And he's somebody that even when he was a receiver for the Baltimore Ravens, he did not look bad at all. So with Devon Duvenay, he became a free agent, but now he is free no more because he is joining the charges. The charges, I'm tripping. The Jaguars, the Jacksonville Jaguars. So Gus Edwards still on my mind. But anyway, let's read the report from Ian Rappaport. He said, all pro special team player, Devon Duvenay has agreed to a deal with the charges. He gets a two year deal worth 8.5 million base. So that's what he's getting, 8.5 million base salary with offensive upside to 12.5 million per his agent. So I guess it's going to be based on snaps, probably based on yards, based on touchdowns. Because you know, they throw in a bunch incentives to these deals to make them look better, to make them look prettier and whatnot. So they look more appealing for the player to sign. But shout out to Devon Duvenay, man. Shout out to him. I know the Jaguars, I believe they just signed Gabe Davis a couple hours ago, too. So it looks like they retooling that wide receiver room a bit. I'm not sure what the status of Zay Jones is. And I'm not sure what the status of, I'm sure Christian Kurgis probably still on the team because he signed that mega deal like a couple years back. And that completely reset the wide receiver market like, was that two years ago, I think I want to say. But anyway, the Jaguars are redoing their wide receiver room for Trevor Lawrence or Mac Jones, but no, it'll be for Tilo. So it'll be interesting to see how they use Devon Duvenay. Devon Duvenay, for any Jaguars fans that are unfamiliar with Devon Duvenay, he's a, he's a receiver that the Ravens drafted in the third round. What year was that? Was it 2020? I want to say it was 2020. But I forget what year it was. But anyway, they drafted him out of the third round in Texas, from Texas. And he never really got any burn as a wide receiver initially. But then as a return man, that was his thing. But with Devon Duvenay, he, he's not a shifty wide receiver. So he ain't going to make nobody, he ain't going to shake nobody, but he has really good straight line speed. But when it comes to cutting and changing direction and stuff like that, that's, that's not really his thing. But his straight line speed, oh, he got that all day. So him as a returner, especially if the Jacksonville Jaguars are going to use him in that role, if the blocks are set up perfect, oh, Devon Duvenay set, he'll take it to the house. But if he got to make somebody miss, then it's not, it ain't going to work out so good. But he does have hands. He does not drop the ball. So you ain't got to worry about him dropping the ball. As a returner, he is not somebody that fumbles the returns. Like, and I think in all the returns he got with the Raven, I think he might have fumbled maybe one, maybe, but he didn't lose it. But I think he fumbled maybe and maybe two at the most. But he is not a fumbler. He ain't a dropper at all. So Devon Duvenay is going to be interesting. Like I said, to see how the, the Jaguars, I'm going to say the charges again, but to see how the Jaguars use Devon Duvenay and incorporate him into not only that special team, but their offense as well.

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Nikos Sotirakopoulos & Yaron Discuss ARU, CRT & The Anti-Liberal Right | Yaron Interviews

Nikos is a visiting fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and an instructor at the Ayn Rand University. His area of focus is the history of political ideas and how they have shaped the world we live in. Nikos is the author of the book Identity Politics and Tribalism: the new culture wars, published by Societas in 2021. 00:00 Intro 02:10 Nikos Bio 03:33 Athens Conference https://events.aynrand.org/arceu/ 12:58 Ayn Rand University https://university.aynrand.org/ 17:20 Critical Race Theory Live Questions: 42:13 Is Nikos familiar with Noah Smith's writing on "Wokeness as old-time American religion". Seems like a more reasonable theory than the CRT = Marxism claims. 42:50 What does Nikos think of James Lindsay’s work? Is he on the right track? Seems he flirted with Christian Nationalism but has backed away. 45:08 Is there an”Ism”for believing social classes determine all outcomes?Genus of CRT+Marxism 48:00 Anti-Liberal Right Live Questions: 1:08:47 Has anyone told Nikos that he’s the spitting image of Oscar Isaac—as he appears in the movie Dune? Coincidence? 1:09:41 How do you guys deal with the argument, "welfare such as healthcare, unemployment benefits and free education is an INVESTMENT in individuals and the economy"? 1:14:42 Off topic question for later: what do Yaron and Nikos think about Varoufakis? 1:17:41 are there any Objectivists you work with that enjoy anime and talk about it openly and philosophically? 1:18:32 My son starts school this year and I know he’ll be subjected to a lot of bad ideas. Homeschooling is not an option so I need to prepare him as best I can. Any tips for arming a 5 yr old with good philosophical foundations? 1:20:30 have you seen The imitation game? 1:25:45 Why do Protestant populations have an easier time embracing capitalism than catholic populations? 1:29:29 What do you think about Andrew Tate? Is it dangerous that young men are following him? 1:35:52 Can you talk about the relationship between nationalist new right and the manosphere? New right politicians seem to talk about masculinity a lot. 1:37:29 Is hypergamy biological real? Do women chase high status men? 1:39:31 What does it mean to be an "auditor" in those classes? 1:40:23 Hi from Steamboat Colorado! Great skiing weather out here. Yaron, what is your favorite vacation spot and activity… besides Michellin restuarants? 1:42:49 Matt Gaetz is passionately praising Trump in nominating him for SOH. There have always been wing nuts in Congress. Are the current outsiders a continuation of the past or are the political fringes today different in some way? 1:44:53 What exactly did Rand hate about Kant? I know his ideas on reality is irrational and crazy, but what exactly did he say or write that was evil? 1:48:49 With J Peterson and Tate, it seems that men are looking for a work-hard and improve yourself message. What do the left have in this regard? 1:50:06 See pinned comment for timestamps of additional questions 2:07:42 Outro Follow Nikos on Twitter: @Nikos_17' Links to Nikos: ARU: https://university.aynrand.org/ ARCON Athens: https://events.aynrand.org/arceu/ Nikos' book: https://www.amazon.com/Identity-Politics-Tribalism-Culture-Societas-dp-1788360621/dp/1788360621/ref Show is Sponsored by Ayn Rand University https://university.aynrand.org/ as well as by https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron & https://www.fountainheadcasts.com Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/@YaronBrook/join Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the Yaron Brook Show: https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx Support the Show and become a sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/YaronBrookShow or https://yaronbrookshow.com/membership Or make a one-time donation: https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ Continue the discussion by following Yaron on Twitter (https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and Facebook (https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC ) Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the Ayn Rand Institute: https://bit.ly/35qoEC3 #criticalracetheory #NationalConservatives #Integralism #dugin #nationalism #Morality​ #Economy ​#Objectivism​ #AynRand #politics #AynRandInstitute

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The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Book Show. All right, everybody, welcome to Iran Book Show on this Thursday. I'm still getting used to the idea that it's 2023, but we will get there. All right, I'm excited about today's show. We have Nikos, who just goes by one name. There is no other name. He's like Pele and Wollandino and Messi and people like that. Nikos, did you enjoy the World Cup? Of course I enjoyed it. I was heavily supporting Argentina, but Messi goes with his first name, Leo Messi. So I'll stick with the Brazilian examples. Yeah, we'll stick with that. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was a good World Cup. And of course, the final was best game. I mean, one of the best games I've ever seen. It was amazing. Nikos is a huge football fan. Mostly basketball, but also football. Greek basketball. Yeah. The last team that beat Team USA for many, many years. You see, here it is. I know Happy Avocado. It has to be you on a time because you know what the first comedy makes? Let me guess. Talk about the conference in Athens. No, no, no. It doesn't give up the confidence in Athens. The suit. Yeah, of course. Nikos looks much better than you are. Look at Nikos. He's wearing a tie. He's got like the thing. I don't know what it's even called because I've never worn one in my life. A waistcoat. A waistcoat. He's got a waistcoat. I've never worn a waistcoat in my life. And he's got the whole, he's got the look going. Anyway, Nikos is a fellow. Visiting fellow. Visiting fellow. I have no idea what that means. It means he's in Athens. Nikos is a visiting fellow at the INREN Institute. He was a professor at York University until about a year ago. York turned on. Yes. You know, when he moved to permanently to the INREN Institute, he is in Athens. So it's midnight right now in Athens. I'm trying to do the math on this. It's midnight, but I had a good Greek frappe, the original one, not what they sell at Starbucks. So I'm good. Yeah, the real Greek frappe at night, but Nikos has coffee at night all the time. I know because I've traveled with him and doesn't affect his sleep anyway. So Nikos is in addition, so he teaches at the INREN University. We'll talk about that in a bit. He's also doing a lot of work with INREN Europe, given that he is based in Athens. He travels quite a bit about Europe speaking. He has been my sidekick at a number of events when I was in Europe. And yeah, all, so this is great. Great having you on. Thanks for joining me. Thank you for having me. Sure. All right. So I wanted, I want to talk a little bit about before we get to kind of the heavier stuff. We've got a conference coming up in Athens. And not enough of the Euronbrook show listeners have signed up for it yet. And many more of you guys need to sign up. So tell us a little bit about the conference. What's planned? What are we going to be doing? What is everybody going to be doing there? Talks, events? So the important thing is that this is more than a conference. Usually in a conference, what do you do? You go in a venue, you are within four walls, and you watch some talks. Imagine that for this conference, the whole of Athens is the venue. So the actual venue is Zappion, one of the most historic buildings in Athens, which is five minutes walk from Aristotle's Lyceum. So picture this. You're in one of these very beautiful buildings for some talks. And then you go to the Lyceum for a talk by Gregsard Mary or by someone else who is an expert in Aristotle, like Robert Mayhew. And you walk literally in the fields where giants like Aristotle walked. So this will be the conference. It will also have, we're going to immerse ourselves in the culture of Athens. We're going to have great food. And there's also the extra for those who want it, which is a couple of extra days with excursions in places that have a tourist interest with other objectives. So it will be very exciting. So for people who want just, if you just Google iron run con Athens, it will lead you to the page. And I think I've given you also the actual address, which is events.ironed.org. But just Google iron run con 2023 Athens and you will get to the page. Also, if you're a student or a young intellectual, try your luck with getting a scholarship. We have a lot of applications. There's a lot of interest. Time is running out particularly for the scholarships. So I would encourage people go now and apply. There's nothing to lose. Try your luck. You might get a scholarship. If you don't want to go for the scholarship, or if you just want to register, go where it says register now again, events.ironed.org or just Google iron run con 2023 Athens. So it's an experience which is going to be different from your average conference. And you won't want to miss it. Yeah, you're making me look bad. I mean, even Jonathan Honing is on the super chat saying, Nikos is very dapper. Nikos is elevating the look of guests on the Iran book show. Jonathan, if you were doing your job, you would have that link up on the chat right now. I don't know. And actually in a super chat to make sure that it's kind of highlighted. I think for at least 30 share kid. So come on, do your job. Let me just say that I think this is going to be a terrific event. I think for a lot of you, not only is Athens an amazing city. I've been there many times. A couple as Nikos is guest. It's an amazing place. It's beautiful. You really have that sense of Aristotle Plato walked here. And it's pretty stunning and amazing. If you've never been to Athens, this is the opportunity to go. Right. If you saved up money and you want to do a trip. This is a great trip to do. You're going to, you're going to have the experience of Athens plus be with a bunch of objectivist plus have all these speakers. But I'll add one thing to that, which I think is going to make this particularly exciting. I think they're going to be a lot of young people there. Right. I mean, we've got, we've got 150 scholarship applications. 200 almost almost 200. And I expect we'll reach by the time I'm done, we'll reach over 300 because I still have a tour of Europe to encourage more people to apply. So we might have three different applications. I don't know how many, how much budget the AOI has to give for these applications. But I think we hit 300. They're going to prove a lot. They're not going to, they're not going to turn down an overwhelming majority of these. They're going to be a ton of young, energized kids there who are excited about learning about Iran. And they're going to come from all over Europe. You'll get a real sense of how international this is. I know we're going to have a bunch of kids from Israel. We're going to have a bunch of kids from Georgia because I know we've got a lot of applications from there. Well, but we'll have from central, central Europe will have from, from the UK. We might even get some from Italy, from Spain and France, which we normally don't get anybody. I just to be in that environment. I think is going to, is going to be super exciting for everybody. So, and also the, we're talking the dates are seven till 11th of April. If you also take the tour or the conference seven till, till the 10th. And it's going to be on the Mediterranean. This is exactly. It's not hot. It's not like, you're not going to be sweating, walking around. Great time to be in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean is beautiful. It's usually calm in April. It's gorgeous. And it could rain, but it's typically dry around that mostly trains in March. By the way, we didn't pick the dates by just by luck. We checked the trajectory and the statistics of when it rains. And this is the weekend. It's almost never rain. So that's why we picked it. So if the Greek gods are with us, it won't rain. The Greek gods are definitely with us, particularly Apollo. Apollo is good. Okay. So we will have great weather. All right. So you should go guys. It's not that expensive. It's not that expensive to get to Greece. So it's hard. It's far. So it takes a long time to get there. And you should arrive at least a day or two early, but, or you can stop in London for a couple of days before you go to Greece or in Spain or something. But it is very much doable. It's a great way to bring your friends, bring your kids, make a vacation of it. If you're really going and you, you have the time and you have the resources, take a Greek island cruise right after, go see Ephesus, go see Santorini. I think the most beautiful, one of the most beautiful places on planet earth. And, and, you know, get a sea, get a sea, the place. So really, really exciting. And I, I, I hope more people sign up, more people sign up to go, you know, it'll be great conference, no matter what, because we'll have a lot of students, but it'll be great if we had a bunch of adults as well. Ephesus these days is in Turkey. So, but plenty of other good places in Greece, although it's an ancient Greek city. You can still do it. Ephesus is still on the road. All the cruise ships stop in Ephesus. And it's in Greece. It might be geographically in Turkey, but it's ancient Greece. Everything around is ancient Greek. So when you go to Ephesus, you don't mistake it for any other culture. This is ancient Greece. And, and really some of the best, maybe the best preserved ruins, ancient Greek ruins from the originals, you'll see anyway. It is truly magnificent and beautiful. I, I've been there twice, once with a bunch of objectivist on a bus with a bunch of objectivist with the Turkish bus driver taking the windy curves. And the joke was that the, the fate of Western civilization was in the hands of this bus driver, of the number of objectivist intellectuals on that bus. So I'll tell you what people. Yaron has been telling me stories about his trip to Santorini with Dr. Picoff, which happened what 30 years ago. So think how many memories you will create by coming to Athens this April. 1997. Leonard Picoff was on that bus to Ephesus, but what was, was in Santorini. We had an argument in Santorini. We disagreed. He was right. I was wrong. Not surprising. And, but it was, yeah, we had a fantastic experience on the, on those Greek islands. The boat we were on was left a lot to be desired. So that's one thing I wanted to remind everybody on and to, to really emphasize and get you guys excited about, and hopefully many of you will come. It is, again, I think I did a Yaron's rules for life, travel, travel, travel, and Greece is one of those places that you just have to go and see. All right. I want to also talk about Ironman University, partially because Ironman University is a sponsor of the Yaron book show. So they are paying me to, to, to highlight them, but of course, but also you're an instructor there, but I'm also an instructor then I will be teaching classes on public speaking in the summer. So you can sign up for those as auditors, by the way, if any of you want to be, want to take those classes as auditors, you can sign up. You can also apply for the university to be a full graded student. I think, I think there's a registration coming up in April or something like that. So the deadline. And even earlier. So here's the, here's the thing. Most universities, they start in September, they finish in May, not the Ironman University. So the Ironman University has four quarters and some modules run, for example, from quarter three to quarter four, quarter three starts right now. So if you want to take Yaron's course on public speaking, which I could talk for 10 minutes, why you should take that course. So this starts in Q4. This is in somewhere in June. So I would encourage people, again, our producers have the links. Just go to university dot iron, run dot org. And there you will find the courses. And for example, you can see oral, the oral communication course, which is run by Yaron. And it starts on July 14th. And I don't even know that nobody told me this. Yeah, that's good. Well, it's on the, it's on the website. Even the time is there. But here's the important thing. You can take it out. If I'm available, nobody's told nobody's told me what days. I'm sure they can change the program for you. So and here's the important thing, people, you might say, I don't want, I don't have time to write essays or to have people give me feedback on my assignments. But although I think the best experience, if you take it as a student, you can also take it as an auditor, which means you're just there and you observe. You can participate, you can ask questions live in class, but you don't, you're not assessed. Also on the public speaking class, an auditor would not actually present. We're not, we're not getting a direct critique from me, but you can watch me embarrass all the other students. Yes. Actually, this is a, this is one of our favorite things in the Institute. So before a big conference, we do a rehearsal, let's say, of the presentation in front of Yaron. Now allegedly, this is a roasting experience, but it's the experience that every time we look forward to it, because it's so useful. And the other thing our friends can do, you can apply as an auditor for all the courses. So you pay a particular amount of money and you can audit any course you want. And just to give you some name for the courses, this is the order of communication, introduction to writing. So you might be a professional, you want to improve your writing, or there's another one, philosophy, work and business taught by Onkar Gaten, Charles Fanny, or another one, it's about philosophy, Thomas Aquinas. So whether you like philosophy, science, give luck, it gives courses on physics. So no matter what your interest, you can find a course there. And also you can find my course on critical race theory, 16 weeks discussing the ideas that have shaped the culture in which we live today. So check it out. Hopefully someone will put it in the chat. university.inrend.org slash courses. You can find all the courses and where there you'll see a frame which is audit or pass. And you can find more information about how you can audit. Of course, scholarships are available for a promising students. So you can try your luck with the scholarships. Nothing to lose there. Yeah, definitely. This is the best place in the world today to get live instructions on objectivism. I encourage everybody to listen to everything and read everything by Ayn Rand and Linda Peacoff. But then if you want to go beyond that in a sense of actually having your stuff graded or your stuff reviewed, the Ayn Rand University is the way to go. And for the audit is just another way to engage in this content and engage it in a very deep way, in a very enhanced way. So I actually want to talk to you. So I think we should start, you know, we're talking about your course on critical race theory. So, you know, as Nico said, it's a 16 week. So the 16 class, this is a deep dive into critical race theory. This is not a superficial overview. So first question is why, I mean, and why 16 classes? I mean, God, I mean, these people, idiots, this is a stupid ideology. Why do you need 16 classes to understand it? The way the reason we need 16 classes is because critical race theory came from somewhere. And these ideas are everywhere. They're in business boardrooms. They're in universities. They're in your local bookstore. They're in sports. And the problem is that most people either accept them uncritically because it's the current thing, as they say, or the people who oppose them have zero idea. A, what these ideas say and how to oppose them, which means they don't impose them successfully. They don't oppose them efficiently. So whether it's intellectual curiosity or whether it is how to navigate the world today or how to understand it or how to fight these ideas, whichever your motive is, this course offers you, first and foremost, a good understanding of these ideas. So we want to be objective and fair. See, are there any merits? Are they supposed to correct any actual injustices? Do they have any good points? So we start from that. And then we examine all the history of these ideas from the Frankfurt School, the so-called quote cultural Marxism, to postmodernism, to Foucault, to environmentalism, to the New Left, to postcolonialism. So all these buzzwords that you've heard and either you think they're all the same or you have no idea what they are, we go through all of them. And we don't do this just out of academic interest. Every week we see how do they apply today? Every class has a section which is called I've Heard This Before. So we take an idea by a philosopher, by a thinker and we see how it applies today, how it applies on things that you've definitely have heard or that you've definitely have seen, even if you haven't studied the philosophy or political theory. So in a way we trace back how the world in which we live, the culture in which we live became what it is. So give us a quick, and I know you spent 16 weeks on this, but give us a quick overview on what is it that's made Critical Race series so successful? And they clearly, as you say, they dominate, I don't think they dominate, they don't understand the aspect of the culture, they dominate the elites, they dominate much of the universities, they dominate kind of people who think they're really cool and smart, all insist on mouthing these ideas. How did they get to be as dominating as they are today? So they did something very simple. They took the five biggest philosophical bromides that are out there, and they put them under one umbrella. So how many times have you heard, for example, that, well, this idea of universalism, that all human beings have an essence, we think in a particular way, that this idea is bogus and it's western century. Critical race theory has taken this idea. Or how many times have you heard that reason is inadequate, that we cannot understand the world only with the use of our mind? My reason is not the same as your reason, or it's not the same with the black reason or female reason. Critical race theory takes this as, yes, indeed, you understand the world based on the group you are. So most people were ready for this idea because they've heard it so many times that our mind is determined based on the group we are. How many times have we heard that capitalism is the system where the strong oppress the weak? And things like, quote, objective law or rule of law is just a tool of suppression of the strong to the weak. Critical race theory takes this and says that the law is a tool for racial suppression. Or how many times have you heard the idea that change is impossible, humans don't have agency, and when we try to fix things, we mostly screw things up. So critical race theory takes this and tells you that any development you've seen in racial relationships, the Civil Rights Act, the first black president, all this is just the white majority and the white elites throwing you some crumbs on the table so that you think things have changed, but actually things have not changed. Or how many times have you heard that the core of the United States is rotten? The United States is a nevel society beyond redemption. So critical race theory takes these bromides and puts them in one narrative, and puts them in one story. And it tells you for every bad thing you see out there, for example, the merger of George Floyd, here is a story that will explain it to you. And in a way, it was a story that many people wanted to listen. Many people were ready to listen. So in one sentence, critical race theory is a Frankenstein created by the philosophical monsters of the last decades. It's these bromides put in under one roof. To what extent? I mean, as James Lindsay has popularized the notion, the critical race theory is just, it's Marxism. There's nothing new here. It's just Marxism applied to fill in the blank, identity politics, or it's Marxism applied to culture. And the whole idea, and this comes out of the Frankfurt School, of cultural Marxism. Is there such a thing as cultural Marxism? Is that a legitimate, does it do justice to Marx? So in my view, if you tell me that critical race theory is just a new version of Marxism, it means that you don't understand Marxism, and you don't understand critical race theory. So for example, Marxism was or wanted to be, claimed to be a universalist ideology. What does this mean? It means that all proletarians have common consciousness or common interests. Critical race theory tells you that, because it's based on what is called intersectionality, it tells you that every single person, based on their identity, have a different way of viewing the world and a different way of navigating this world. So how can you say proletarians of the world unite, which was the slogan of Marxism, if you cannot find five people who can unite based on their identity, since there are so many different identities. That's the one thing. The other thing this Marxism told us, capitalism has given you all this, but you can have more. Capital and Marxism celebrated production, celebrated the idea of the factory, critical race theory believes that all these are western-centric things and you could be better off, potentially, without this materialism, without this alienation. And also Marxism had a political program. It said, come together in a political party and take power and then socialize the means of production. What exactly is the proposal of critical race theory? I haven't figured that out. What exactly is its program? What does it tell you to do? This is very unclear to me. So no, Marxism is not... Critical race theory is not a new version of Marxism. Actually, it's the verification that Marxism is defeated. It's the result of the defeat of Marxism. This is not to say that we should miss Marxism, but we should understand that critical race theory is the aftermath of the historical defeat of Marxism, more of the project of communism. So isn't it historically the fact that this comes out of kind of a post-modernist which was an attempt to solve a certain agenda as Marxism was discredited and Marxism came to a dead end? Well, yes. So most of these people had the reference to Marx. But the fact that they had the reference to Marx does not mean that anything that comes out of them is Marxism. I mean, think about it this way. Think what would happen if we, the faculty of the Iron Run University, then would go to completely different routes and because at some point we were objectivists, we would say, oh, this is quote, neo-objectivism. How silly would it sound to say, I'm a neo-objectivist, but I don't believe in the law of identity. I don't believe in rational selfness and I don't believe in capitalism. Oh, but I'm a neo-objectivist. It would make no sense. So critical race theory, we could find many, many reasons why it's bad. But not everything that is bad is Marxism. It goes back to this idea that I have that people somehow need to aggregate things into twos, right? They need to have only two options. So all bad stuff is Marxism and then all good stuff is, I don't know, they're not quite sure. But I think it's an insult to Marx because Marx was, I mean, it's bad of a thinker Marx was. I think he was better than these guys and he had eyes. So I give a lot of credit to Marx for actually looking around the world and seeing the value of capitalism in raising standard of living and something that when you read the critical race theories, guys, they give zero credit, zero to capitalism and they place no value on the improving life standards and improving quality of life. I had a Marxist professor at Kent's who used to read the first pages of the manifesto and he would say, find me one liberal, Mises or Friedman, find me one who praised capitalism in the way that Marx praised capitalism in the opening of the manifesto. Of course he had the red-eyed rant, but you get the point. And of course, Marx was praising capitalism in order to undermine it. That was his goal and purpose and ultimately he was a hater but he didn't evade reality to the extent that these people do and this idea that we lump, that Marx was the first philosopher or first thinker that was worried about oppression is funny because much of religion, much of Christianity is built around saving their oppressed and many, many philosophers dealt with oppression before Marx. He has no monopoly over that or any other thing. So what is your sense of critical race to where it goes from here? That is, is this, it seems like it is a dead end as well. I mean, in a dead end, certainly in the context of human life, but it seems like it's a dead end as a project. It doesn't lead them anyway because it is so nihilistic, you know, essentially. So what happens to it? How does it evolve? What's your sense of its growing influence? Does it become more influential, less influential? And how does it morph from here? Because of course, critical race theory is these ideas morphing over a century now. Exactly. So to understand where it goes, first we need to understand how fast it entered the scene out of nowhere. So when I was preparing the course, I can see it from here. I have a huge self in my library with social sciences books. So I would go there and I would go to the table of contents. There was nothing on critical race theory. Most of these books were circa 2012 to 2016. Even I would go in the index and many of these books had nothing from critical race theory. So that's why I told you that it's these bromides, philosophical bromides, that when the time was right, or Trump is a white nationalist, or George Floyd was murdered by white supremacy, then this narrative became quite successful. So there's a good possibility. Yes, and it was like it did exist as a theory within the kind of the legal profession primarily. Yes, from the 80s and from late 80s, it gets recognized with a name as critical race theory. It was quite obscure at that point. It was quite obscure and most people didn't know about it. Even social scientists didn't know about it. But here's the thing, even if within two, three years, critical race theory stops being the fashion. The ideas behind it unfortunately are here to stay. And here's something even worse. The ideas behind critical race theory, the central ideas are shared by people who never suspect that they would share these ideas. As for example, some modern conservatives or so-called dissident rightists. We can discuss this later. So even if you vote a politician who says, I ban the teaching of critical race theory from schools. You don't do anything because the building blocks of critical race theory are everywhere. They have spread everywhere and they have spread even in the political right. So you will see politicians posturing tough guys, no more critical race theory in Florida, the Sandys would say. And then you would see the same politicians supporting ideologies that if you see their fundamentals are quite not miles away to put it mildly from critical race theory. And we can explain later why. I'm talking about you national conservatives, by the way, but. No, I mean, and if you remember, I mean, we're going to talk about Dugan later, but Dugan explicitly says, you know, postmodernism has a lot of good things in it. And you know, in a sense, I'm a postmodernist. And let me explain to you because this idea of the universal is the first thing they reject, right? The universal and it lumps people together by different criteria instead of by race. It lumps them by nation or by ethnic group or by history, but it's the same thing. It's exactly the same thing. So how do you feel Trump supporters that you the strategies of your homeboy Steve Bannon admires a philosopher who openly says. I'm a postmodernist. So you think you fight quote postmodernist neo Marxist and you sleep on the same bed with proud postmodernist and who is the philosopher? Steve Bannon and he's who admires Dugan. Oh, Dugan. Yes. No, Dugan is a Dugan is explicit about his belief in postmodernism and his rejection of universality as all as you know, in terms of rejection of universality. That's one of the principles of the national conservatives. We're going to get there. Let's let's finish up on. So tell me again, looking forward. So it's every way that the building blocks have a critical race theory and maybe give us a couple of examples, the building blocks of every way. But in what sense, but where does it go from here? Because you know, at least to many Americans, it's so it's got to the point where it's so absurd. It's so stupid. It's so ridiculous that the population has rejected it, even if even if Steve Bannon has a completely, but you know, population has rejected it. How does it? How does it evolve from this point when it seems to have reached kind of a climax of absurdity, just like the new left did in the 1960s, right? And it disappeared for about 20 years as a consequence of that was soundly rejected. It didn't have a political agenda that was even mildly palatable for Americans. So it just went away. So yeah, before that, you said something important, which is, okay, where do we concretely see critical race theory? Two examples. How often have we heard the idea that the fact that we don't see explicit races, we don't see Ku Klux Klan lynching people? This doesn't mean that racism is not there. So a central tent of critical race theory is that racism is everywhere. That racism is a form of power, as Foucault would say. And with power, you don't need a guy with a week. Power happens whenever two people interact. So when you interact with a person of color, there you have racism reproducing itself, even though you might be literally a social justice warrior, your interaction with a person of color perpetuates racism. Why? Because we live in a racist society. And notice how impervious they are to the idea of change. They say in the textbook of critical race theory, even if we gave a pill, a magic pill, that you would swallow and you'd stop being racist. So every single person would not be racist anymore. Racism would still apply. How is this possible? We never know. But they say that even without a single racist, this society would still be racist. That has to do with the perspective on power, because you mentioned power before, and this is an important concept that kind of predates CRT. What is this idea of power? Because first of all, they conflate economic and political power, but they conflate race with political power. They conflate everything with coercion, with the ability to enslave, with the ability to coerce people to do your bidding. Advertising power, right? Whoops. Looks like something happened to Greek internet for a second there. No, we are back. I can see you well. So the idea is that power is not coercion, says Foucault. What is power? Power is my ability to make you do something. So for example, when my boss tells me at eight o'clock I want you in the factory gate, this is power. But power can also be even more invincible. For example, the way you carry yourself, or the way you lower your head when you see a group of people who might, you know, your black, their white. So everything is power. Every, the way you, even the way you walk is a result of power. So for these people, any human interaction, it's like a magnetic field, has some form of power. And this means also it's impossible to fight it because something which is everywhere, how do you recognize it and how do you find it? So this is one example. The other example where we see a critical race reaction is how often have you heard someone telling you, look, you cannot judge this phenomenon for example, because you are white. Let me give you an example. People would say, okay, the George Floyd's death is tragic. The police officer horrendous, but he was not racist. It was proven in court. And then they would say, yes, but who says this? You're a white person and you cannot make this argument or a man discusses with a woman. And the man says, look, I don't think we live in a rape culture because rape statistics go down. If I make a rape joke, my career is over. Therefore, are you sure we live in a rape culture? And says, look, you're a man and you cannot make this argument. What's the underlying thinking of that? That the way you think is based on your chromosomes or your genitals or whatever. And therefore it's as if we live in different realities. There's one reality for the way your mind works and another reality for the way that my mind works. So this is why I said that critical race theory in its premises is already everywhere. Now where it goes, it's impossible to predict. It's become way too, I wouldn't say toxic, but too hot for example, even for the Democratic Party, because then you ask questions. Why is the president a white guy? So it's the example you gave with the new left was quite good. In a way, it ran a bit faster than the time allowed. It went a bit too far. It went a bit too far. But I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back in a different form, now having gender at its core or maybe some mix with environmentalists which is already, I think, the environmental justice movement, but the premises, the anti-humanists, the anti-individual premises are there and are here to stay, unfortunately. But it's fundamentally a disintegrating ideology because again, it's not just that you have a way of thinking because you're white, you have a way of thinking because you're Nicos and you see reality differently than anybody else because you're Nicos. Now part of that is you particularly Nicos see reality in a particularly distorted, provoked way because you happen to be white, heterosexual, and what else? And male, of course, and Greek. So you haven't been oppressed enough. So that kind of the intersectionality. But you see reality in a completely different way. There's a sense in which it's a perverse kind of, it's not individualism, but it's a perverse view of complete subjectivism as applied to metaphysics and to individuals. Because each individual sees reality completely different. So it's not just has different values. It's like we live in a tower of Babel that we cannot communicate and there's no way that we can talk to each other. In that sense, I don't see how it can go further. So this is it. This is the ultimate culmination of complete disintegration. All it could do now is morph into a variety of different ways in which this can be applied. But intellectually, it's dead. It's a dead end. It's a complete dead end. The left will have to come up with something different if it wants to, I think, achieve anything or sustain anything. And you say these things are part of the culture, but it's interesting. I would argue most Americans, when you say something like this, look at you say, you know, that's a stupid, you know. And, you know, not if they're maybe not in the workplace, maybe not at certainly not at university, but most people out there in what's called flyover country, look at stuff like that and go, come on, that's just stupid. And that's why they can't attain political power with this kind of stuff, because it's too obviously. Crazy and nuts, right? By the way, if people want more of a deep dive on the phenomena that we're discussing, this is my book on tribalism that you can find on Amazon at a very reasonable price. We did a whole year on Brook Soul last year, last January on the book, so you can check it out. It's still available out there. We did. All right, so these are the ideas that dominate the non-political left. I'd say these are the ideas that dominate the kind of intellectual left, the cultural left, and the wacky left in the activists. You know, let's talk a little bit about the right before that. Let me just see. There's two questions here. Let me just do those, because they relate to this and the $20 or more. All right, so Ian says, isn't he because familiar with Noah Smith's writing on, quote, Walkness as an old-time American religion? No, but I'm familiar with the guy. I think we've been together on a panel before he was famous. But thanks for mentioning this. I'm not familiar with that, but I can check it out. Yeah, you should check it out. Walkness as old-time American religion. Ian says, seems like more reasonable theory than this critical race theory is the same as Marxism claims in terms of, all right. And then Rob asks, Rob from Australia asks, what does Nikos think of James Lindsay's work? Is he on the right track? Seems he flirted with Christian nationalism, but is backed away. Objectivism might prove his true philosophical home. Okay, that's a very interesting question, because I give James Lindsay a book, the one he wrote with Helen Plakros. He wrote the text books on the module, but I always say students keep in mind that this guy has changed from the time he wrote that book. So we will discuss this when we talk about the right. The problem with the right is that if the left has tribalist, the right these days are two times tribalist. So the way they view the world is they see, what does the left say? And then they go and say the opposite. An obvious example is the vaccines or the war in Ukraine. So their point of reference is less and less reality. And it's more that whatever my enemy says, I have to say the opposite. And unfortunately James Lindsay has fallen in that category. The book itself, Cynical Theories, that he wrote with Helen Plakros, it's quite a good book. It does justice to these ideas, and it helps you understand them in a clear way. So I would encourage people to check his book. But again, in the last couple of years, his intellectual journey is one that I'm not convinced that it's very intellectually productive. And he has become a big promoter of the idea of critical race theory as just being a version of Marxism. I mean, I get his emails and that's all over his email. Marxism, Marxism, Marxism. Yeah, his new book is about that, literally. Okay, let's see. How are we doing super chat-wise? Eh, not great. Come on people, it's post-midnight. A lot of like $5, $5, $2. We did just get $50 from Fendt Hopper, but to really make a dent in this, we need a few more 50s, 100, maybe a 200 thing. We need some big wheels to step in here. Here's again a Greek asking for money from the West. Oh, what's new? Fendt Hopper says, cheers to weekly guests, news updates, weekly, that'd be YBS fan. Best time to be a YBS fan. And cheers to Nico. It's one of my favorite voices on New Idea Live. Thank you. Ism for believing social classes determine all outcomes. Genus of CRT plus Marxism. So say that again, I didn't get it. Is there an ism for believing social classes determine all outcome? That's Marxism. So then he says, genus of CRT plus Marxism. What is the broader concept under which Marxism and CRT fall under? Well, I would say definitely collectivism. And yeah, I can't think of anything else at the moment. We could also claim that Marxism has tribalistic elements. But the main idea is that I see you as a person of a group. And also by seeing the world through the prism of the groups, I don't recognize the individual capacity of every person to take the reins of their life in their hands. What is missing from Marx is the idea that of human creativity that he talks about the wonders of capitalism, but they came here somehow. He talks about the means of production, the machines and the miracles that they brought. How did they come here somehow? And they still do it. And they still do it. I mean, most economists that I know left and right, it just appears. I mean, and there's a fallacy even among libertarians, right? I mean, Adam Smith has an invisible hand. And Hayek, when I say this libertarians freak out, but Hayek has spontaneous order. And if you listen to I-Pencil, Pencil's just come into existence through spontaneous order. And in both cases, there is no recognition of the entrepreneur and there's no recognition of human reason. Indeed, Hayek speaks negatively of human reason because it's obviously flawed because he can't do central planning. So, you know, there's no recognition of human reason or human mind in action. Mises doesn't make this mistake and neither do other Austrians, but certainly Hayek makes this mistake and Adam Smith does. I can forgive Adam Smith a lot, given that you wrote in the 18th century. Once you get into the 20th century, it's hard to forgive anything, anybody, of anybody, right? All right. Let's see. All right. So let's draw a few parallels. You've been doing a lot of reading on the right. So you like these intellectual extremes, extremes. Yeah, extremes is an okay word in this context. In, you know, these collectivistic people pushing the collectivism both left and right in different directions. And so you did critical race theory, did a course on that. You now have immersed yourself in some of the writings of the right, the right collectivists. Tell us a little bit about that. I'm also curious whether that's going to become a course or not and whether that's going to conflict with my wanting to do a lectured Ocon on the dangers of the right. So it's not because the earliest it will start is next year and it's not officially approved yet. So what happens here? You talked about disintegration. People see this chaos and they say we need someone to bring order. So conservatives have understood this. And what they're trying to do now, they're trying to create their own ideology. They understand, for example, that, you know, young people get inspired by ideas. So what is our answer to this? And one of the answers is, for example, national conservatism, very popular among very significant people from Rob DeSantis to Peter Thiel and an ideology led by intellectuals like Yoram HaZoni whom Yaron has debated in the Lex Friedman show and I encourage people to go check it out. And yet, although you might think that this is the opposite, the other extreme from critical race theory, you soon realize that these people share some very strong anti-individualistic tendencies. For example... So let me ask you this. Of the five, you laid out five foundations of critical race theories. How many of those are shared, you think, if you put those five up? Definitely the first one. Definitely the first one. The first one says... The first one says, there is every human being is capable of thinking and therefore there's something common in all humanity. This is what we can describe as universal, universal human in different ways to put it. Why is the national conservative a nationalist? First of all, they're a methodological nationalist. What does this mean? They say we need nationalism because we need to have some point of reference on what is truth and what is not truth. If we let every individual think for themselves, we're going to end up with a chaos. They end up with critical race theory. They literally say that, right? This is the consequence of letting people think for themselves. Exactly. So we need the protection of our forefathers and of tradition to make sure that we don't make the mistakes that the hubris that we think that we can think for ourselves will lead to. This is what we're dealing with. This is what we're dealing with earlier with the founding heads. The national conservatives are the dean from the first scene who has a discussion with Rourke. They're the people who are telling you how dare you think for yourself. Now, it is true that people can make mistakes. Actually, people make mistakes all the time. But this does not mean that the way to correct these mistakes is to just say, let's rely on tradition. Our tradition, the tradition of the Taliban, the tradition of the people in the jungles, the tradition of ensign Athens, of ensign Sparta, which tradition? So the answers they provide are definitely not satisfactory because they find themselves in this. Then they will say, well, we know that some traditions are better than others. How? Either intuition or God told us so. Yes, but what if my God told me something different from your God? Then we don't get an answer. So for national conservatives... You have your country and I have my country. You listen to your God. I'll listen to my God. And we'll deal with it, right? I mean, explicitly say that. It's why I think so many on the right are not criticizing Iran. How can you criticize Iran based on what? Only if you have an objective, universal, universally applicable standard. Can you say this is bad? It's bad because of this and this and this. And they're listening to their God? Yeah. And what could be more true than listening to your God? Another area very closely related where they meet each other is their skepticism to put it mildly for reason. So the national conservative will tell you reason makes you think you're a God. Reason will lead you to hubris. Reason will lead you to disregard of everything else. Everything that has happened till now. And it's like saying reason will make you a God of your own life, a God of yourself, a God of your own destiny. And for national conservatives apparently this is not good. And here's another area of agreement which is the most easily observable and the biggest reason to the idea of freedom. For national conservatives, freedom is at best a tool which we can use sometimes. It's like a suit that you can put when the weather is good, only though in service of a higher cause which is the common interest of the nation. So for example, are you going to open a factory and give us cheap cars? Then your freedom is okay. But then if you want to move your factory to Bangladesh, then your freedom is not okay because now you do it for yourself. You don't do it for your community. Go and listen people, the talk of DeSantis who for many of you, he's this new hope for freedom, listen his talk in the National Conservatives Conference. He says, we don't have a country to have an economy. Sorry, we have a country, not an economy. And he says that the economy is a means towards strengthening our country. Does this mean that I have to compromise my freedom quite often? Yes is the answer. And this becomes more and more often when you read under the surface. So go and read Hassan's book. He says, for example, that when your freedom goes against the proper morality, then your freedom must be curtailed. So for example, you want to create pornographic material, tough luck that goes against the morality. You might want to do economic transactions that are good for you, but bad for the guy next door. You might, your freedom might be curtailed. So freedom applies with many, many asterisks and conditions. To cut a long story short, they're not defenders of freedom and your freedom is not in good hands if you trust these people. And as I think the listeners of this show know, I think they're much more dangerous than CRT because well, CRT is so easily nuts and people react to it visually negatively. The common man, the common man would ultimately is the majority of people. National consumerism, you know, sounds reasonable. And it sounds reasonable because it is, it has an integrating ideology. Whether it's religion or the nation, it has an integrating principle. It's a wrong integrating principle, but it is one. But also because it Hawkins back to a sense of history, a sense of tradition, America was good, America was good, you know, make America great again, right? So America was great once all we have to do is resurrect the values that were great back then and they don't quite get those values right, but who is there to correct them other than us? So it's much more dangerous, much more appealing, much more seductive, I think, long run. If they can get the messaging right and if they can find a messenger who is charismatic and can deliver the lines. And it's interesting to see how Hazoni, again, the intellectual leader, let's say, of this movement, how he views American history. So in a way, there's nothing special about American. Everything which is good in American history has come from the continental tradition of the British and anything that has to do with what we would consider, for example, the principles of Thomas Jefferson was just a deviation that would lead to anarchy and luckily at some point he says we let Jefferson go and we stuck with the conservative principles of Burke and of more British conservative. So in a way, for them, there's nothing special in the United States. The only special thing is that they stuck with the proper British traditions. And I think what makes them more dangerous than past conservatives is the extent to which these guys are intellectuals. That is, it's not just a political agenda. It's not even mostly a political agenda. They have some politicians. DeSantis might be one of them. But that is not the essential. This isn't essentially an intellectual movement and they're not even the most radical. That is, I don't know how much you've read of the integralists who are even worse than the conservative, than the nationalists. Patrick Deneen, who's famous and Vermeul and Sahabamari. I mean, these guys are vicious authoritarian. And the national conservatives, they talk about religion, but it's a little soft. It's there. We see it. And it's dangerous and horrible. The integralists don't have any problem saying what they want is in a sense of theocracy. Well, Sahabamari, his biggest beef is with the free market. His biggest beef is with freedom. Because he's against the free market, but he's also against pornography, he's against anything that where individuals actually get to make choices which he doesn't like. He's against gay marriage. He's against gays. Generally, you know, he's against people having the ability to live their lives as individuals. Let me just, before we do have a $50 contribution for somebody with a Greek name, which is unusual. Tasos, I can't pronounce it. Sorry. Thank you, Tasos. I don't know. Thank you, Tasos. Great. And then, Merlin, thank you. Also $50 and Carolina from Mexico, 250 Mexican pesos. So thank you, guys. Thank you. Yeah. So here's the thing. You should only trust the politician if he tells you that my standard is individual rights. So the standard on which decision I will take is does this decision protect or does not protect your individual rights? The national conservatives openly, openly tell you that I have a different standard. My standard is they give different names, but it's basically either tradition or the cohesion of the nation. What does that mean? Common good is the big one. Common good conservatism. Common good constitutionalism. So he believes the constitution should be interpreted not as an originalist or individual rights. He doesn't believe individual rights exist really. It should be interpreted from a common good perspective. Yeah. Good luck protecting your rights with that. Yes. Yes. Go ahead, I'll catch you off. No, no, that's what I'm about to say. And they're explicit about this. It's not that we're reading under the lines. They tell you, look, freedom is overrated. And actually, Hazone says the biggest mistakes the conservatives have done is being fellow travelers with liberalism. Liberalism in the classical sense. So they say this has been a historical mistake. Okay, we won the Cold War, but we lost our souls while doing this. So it's time to correct this mistake. So we want conservatism without liberalism, which is another way of saying traditionalism. And some people in my chat think we should be fellow travelers with the national conservatives. What for? Seriously, what is to be gained? What is to be gained? I'm very curious to hear what these people would have to say on that. Feeding the left. I mean, you know this, right? The only thing that motivates the only thing that actually, you know, that actually inspires people these days is defeat the left. And this is the sense in which the right is almost completely reactionary, a reactionary movement today. It's the left. The left gets to set all the terms and then the right takes those terms and integrates them into something that they have been holding for a thousand years because they can't think of new thought if their life depended on. And how pathetic that they apply things in big issues like the war in Ukraine, for example, they say, oh, my enemies like Zelensky. Therefore, I'll be the useful idiot for Putin. I mean, that's pathetic. You give up your mind in a way you give up your mind to the left. You are telling to the left. Tell me who you hate so that I like this guy. Well, it's more than that, of course, right? Because Putin is the embodiment of what they really admire. Right? So when you read the National Conservatives and you read these people and they describe their idea leader, Putin is a good match. And we know he's inspired by people like Dugan, who are the philosophers who these guys love. So I don't think it's just that they reject the left. I think one of the things, if you listen to Jordan Peterson, what does he like about Putin? Why does he think Putin? Putin actually is fighting for the West. He thinks the war is wrong. He thinks Putin shouldn't have gone to war. But Putin fundamentally is on the side of the West against the enemies of the West who are the left. The left. Which happens to be the EU, right? The EU is the left. Ukraine is represents the left because it represents Europe. And therefore it's not just that the left hates Putin. It's that Putin represents the anti-left agenda. He hates gays, right? He believes in national, you know, in a fascist economy. Every respect he represents is their ideal. Here's the joke for the people who think that Putin is going to save the West. Who is one of the ideological expressions, let's say, Putinism for lack of a better term? Dugin. What does Dugin take on the West? I quote that the West and modernity and enlightenment have been the biggest disasters in human history. So Dugin sees the human history and his conclusion is for everything I've seen through these hundreds of thousands of years, the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity is the industrial revolution and the enlightenment and what we call today Western civilization. And he's explicit about that. He uses the term civilization. So you people who want to save the West, you are hand in hand with someone who says, I think that the West is the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity. So well done for picking such a good ally. Fellow travelers, us and Dugin and Hazoni and as long as they're not the left. By the way, even some libertarians like Dugin, I couldn't believe this. I had to double check it five times because this cannot happen. He's been recently in Libertarian podcast and one of his books is The Forward is written by one of the most prominent paleoconservatives with strong links with a very prominent paleo-libertarian institute. Who is this? Name names. It's good to name names. Okay. So he was in Thaddeus Russell's podcast, but notice, not because Thaddeus Russell wanted to criticize him. He was like, oh, that's so interesting news. And one of his books on Heidegger, the introduction was by Paul Gottfried. And of course, again, Steve Bannon, the chief strategist of God Emperor Trump, very bright, only very good words to say about Dugin, about the guy who says I'm a postmodernist, about the guy who created a political movement called National Bolsheviks, and about the guy who says that the Western civilization is the worst thing that has happened in history, worse than fascism, worse than communism. Remember that Hoppe, a hero among Libertarians, is, you know, freezes the Middle Ages and kingdoms and city-states. I have the book somewhere there, the book for the New, I think it's for the New Libertarian. One of his books in the front page is very interesting. It has a field with a small house in the field. So he's like, hmm, that's an interesting choice for a front page in one of Hoppe's books. And so many Libertarians I meet are Hoppe fans. I mean, he's not a minor figure within the Libertarian movement. He has a major figure within their movement. And it's, so I'm not surprised, going from Hoppe to Dugan philosophically, I don't think is that big of a jump. Well, yeah, America is the Satan, so they agree on that. Yeah. And they, you can add what about in on that. All right, let's, so we're doing pretty well in the super chat. We're doing pretty well. So I've got a competition going a little bit with all my guests on who can generate the most super chat. And I think, I think Nicos is getting very close to winning this. I mean, he's very, he's, you know, with a few more super chats, he can overtake Don Watkins. Really, if he achieves the 650 goal for each one of these shows, he will definitely take the lead and a commanding lead. We'll see. We've got, you know, we're going to be doing these every week. So we'll see how long. If you're watching, send supershots and I will buy you nice gearos when you come to Athens. There you go. Maybe, maybe, maybe the Greek, a Greek friend, maybe there's some tribal sympathies there. All right, let's see. All right, Shozbot asks, so first, Robert said, he posted this before the show started. He said, due to the schedule clash, life on Earth with Robert Neisser, I think I got that right, would like to apologize in advance for stealing all of your life viewers. That's why he was up now because that show is over. But I'm sure that, like me, they will watch afterwards. And Robert is here in the chat, so he's obviously. Yeah, so Robert, this is a show in Iron Run Center, UK on which every now and then I also, and it was my first objectivist home, so three tiers for ARC UK. Sorry. And then, you know, how, how exciting is it that more often than not, there are two objective shows running simultaneously. I mean, so often on the weekends, I'm running into Harry. I'm running into you guys in ARC UK all the time. It's pretty amazing. You know, again, I remember the days where there was nothing. You went to Fort Hope for him to see Leonard Pickoff speak. This is post Iron Man. And then in Ocon, those were the two events a year that you had. There was just nothing else. So let's support all these people who create good, activist content. Absolutely. Has anyone told Nikos that he's the splitting image of Oscar Isaac as he appears in the movie Dune? Is this a coincidence? Oscar Isaac in Dune. Do you know the movie Dune? Yes. Okay. I'm checking this guy. Whoever said this, this is a huge compliment. So I take it with a lot of, with a lot of pride. Shazad, Shazad is good. I mean, he, he elevates us. Kay fact just came in with a hundred bucks. I think you've, I think you've taken a solid lead here. Nikos. I'm always here for Nikos and Nikos's commentary on an analysis of contemporary philosophy. Thank you very much. Thanks. Justin from Australia, 50 Australian dollars. How do you guys deal with the argument? Welfare such as healthcare, unemployment benefits and the free education is an investment in individuals and in the economy. An investment by whom? I'm not even sure how to invest in my future two years from now. And so who is investing and with whose money it's like telling you, Hey, I have a good investment for you. Let me take your money and I'll invest in the way I want. So it's, first of all, it's, it's not an investment. So you could say that, yes, if in a country people are well educated, you might have a, you might have some benefits, but this doesn't mean that you have a right to, to, to take someone's money and do as you wish with it because someone thinks it's a good, it's a good investment. So I think it's a very poor argument. And actually practically, we see it very often that this is not the case. See how much money, for example, many countries are spending on, on education without any good returns. Or you mentioned health. Notice that the chaos that the national healthcare system is in the UK and they will let, they will have you believe this is austerity. And then you see health expenses per person or as part of GBDP, it goes up and up and up and up. So it's not an issue of, that it's an investment to anything. No, certainly. And you can't make that argument about welfare. You know, welfare is a disinvestment. You're not investing. You're actually encouraging people not to work, not to better themselves, not to advance. And you're taking capital away from people who might invest that capital and, and giving it to people who are going to consume it and not get that much out of it. Healthcare, it's not, you know, it would be like saying, you know, I'm going to make an investment in, in, in technology. We're going to nationalize Apple, Google, Amazon and YouTube. We're going to nationalize them all. That's an investment. You would all go, I mean, everybody in the culture would go, no, no, no, keep the government hands off my iPhone. I don't want to go healthcare is much more important than your iPhone. And yet you're allowing. So it's a disinvestment. It's exact opposite. The only one that has a semblance of reality. There is education. And Nicos is absolutely right. What you get is a negative. And if it's an investment, if there's real value to education, well, then what do we need the government for? I mean, that's the thing about these things, right? If they're really a value. If you can imagine an investment in them, then I'm willing to invest, let's go invest stuff, right? The investment means there's a turnoff of it. So the market takes care of investments really, really well. What do we need the government to step in and screw it all up for us? Perhaps in the worst article in the history of humanity, there was an article in the Guardian that the guy didn't like the new star that used to be the favorite or it was the yeah, the star was replaced with a heart. And he basically said that Twitter needs to be nationalized. I kid you not, because he didn't like the chain. And also there was an article in the Jacobin that also says that Twitter should be nationalized. Yeah, it's a public square. Let's just nationalize it. But actually the worst article ever was the one I read from this morning, which was the one about this, the best school in the United States, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Astounding kids go there and they go on to MIT and it's all merit-based admission. The smartest kids in the country move there so they can go to the school and get admitted to it. They're changing the standards of admission, CRT. They're going to make them race-based. There are too many Asians and they don't want merit. Merits shouldn't be characteristic. And then they stopped, you know, these kids were taking exams to get special scholarships and stuff. And they didn't let the kids know when they excelled at these exams so that they couldn't take advantage of it when they applied for college because they said that they focused on the individual not on his achievements. This is the answer to the people who think that these people actually care about human well-being and human flourishing. And this is an example of investment, right? If you really cared about educational investment, wouldn't you put more resources into the smart kids? Wouldn't you emphasize merit even more? Wouldn't you misallocate resources so that, you know, disproportionality so that the smartest would get the most? But it's not how our educational system works. We know that. Alright, you're like, Nico, you're $13 away from making the $650 goal. I mean, that's pretty amazing. Alright, Raymond. Thanks, your honor. Nico, let's keep up the excellent work. Thank you, Raymond. Volta, Volta who changed his name so I could actually pronounce it. Thanks, Volta. Good night. I have to go. I've got a question for later. What do you want and Nico's think about? One of our favorite people. Varoufakis. What do we think about Varoufakis? I'll let you know more about Varoufakis than I do. The tragedy with Varoufakis is that he's not a stupid guy. No, not at all. At least he has read his hyac. He has read his liberal economists. So here's before he became a politician, Varoufakis had great ideas about Greece. He said, we should give the trains to the Chinese so that they would create a Maglev trains. These are the super fast trains. And he went from that to what he later became a boring leftist with environmentalists in his party and everything wrong. I think it's a tragedy because that guy had a way better potential and also he's a good writer. At least he's a good speaker. And he's a good speaker. So I liked him in my transition from Marxism to let's say the free economy. I liked Varoufakis because he could make you understand economics in a good way. After that, no. I liked him once and he described himself as a Marxist libertarian. So he viewed himself as, you know, so he's like more of an arm Chomsky, I'd say, and he's developed into more of an arm Chomsky type than a traditional, you know, regular kind of leftist Marxist. He's, you know, I think you would agree with kind of the cynical syndicalism, which is kind of an anarchy that is an ideal that Chomsky presents. Of course, when he became fine and ministered, he was the typical boring Keynesian, which basically said, give us money. And he still, when he talks about economics, he's still boringly Keynesian. He actually moderated a debate I did with James Goebbeth at the University of Texas in Austin years ago. And he was quite friendly, quite friendly. I've tried since then on many occasions, and he goes knows this to debate him, to get his attention and to actually have us debate. And he's indicated he would do it, but he always backs out and he always, he always disappears and nobody hears from him. And so it always goes to zero. So his credit, he was in an event in Athens where Deirdre McCluskey was also there. Think 2014 by, by a liberal think tank or by the network, something like that. That was still relatively early. Okay. Fendi Hoppe, this is, this is, this one is mostly support, but if Nicos can answer, are there any objectives you work with that enjoy anime and talk about it openly and philosophically? Lots of virtuous heroes in anime, romantic realism, anime are really good. I'm really sorry that I'll disappoint you. I've never watched anime in my whole life. And I cannot relate. I don't know because it's a topic which is so out of, I have no idea about it. So thank you so much for the superset, but I have zero, zero idea. But if someone knows, put it on the chat so that they can get in touch with our friend. Yeah. I can ask around the institute to see if there's anybody there who has kind of any appreciation for anime or drop me an email and I'll, I'll also ask around. All right, Rob C. Ginger, thank you for the support. John, thank you for the support. John was also there this morning or wasn't there this morning, but still contributed. That was amazing. Rob says, my son starts schools this year. I know he'll be subjected to a lot of bad ideas. Home schooling is not an option. So I need to prepare him as best I can. Any tips for arming a five year old with good philosophical foundations? I have no idea. And this is too important for me to answer without having an idea. So I'll leave it to you at all. I mean, I would just say, when he comes home with some of the crazy ideas. So first, the way to arm anybody well is with reality and particularly a five year old. You know, ask him always, you know, if he comes up with a crazy idea, how does he know that idea? What, what evidence? What, what does he see around him to suggest him to that? What are the, so, so always link. Don't criticize it because he won't have any context for the criticism. Having him realize that he doesn't really know it because it's not connected to reality. And the most important thing you can teach a child is that knowledge is connection to reality. Knowledge is the knowledge of reality. There is no knowledge other than the knowledge of reality and you should be able to reduce everything to reality. And at age of five, everything they learn, and I'm literally everything that they learn should be connected within a couple of steps to reality. If the teacher is teaching them anything that is not within a few steps connected to reality, then he's doing a lousy job and the kid needs to understand his teacher doesn't know what she's talking about or he doesn't know what she's talking about because they don't have the mental capacity yet to form grand abstractions that are distant from sensual experiences, from sense data. All right, Eric says, I'm increasing my monthly donation. Thank you to support the new news update and with no ads in the podcast. All right. At some point I'm going to have to cancel these ads. So many of you are doing that. Okay. Is there a best platform to use to maximize your profits? If no, I will do YouTube. Thanks again. Please have you seen the imitation game? I have seen the imitation game. What was it? Was it about the magicians? I think it was about the magicians. I haven't watched it. I really enjoyed it. It was really good. I watched Glass Onion and it was so, so, so bad. It was perhaps the worst film I've watched since Don't Look Up. Don't Look Up was really, really, really bad. Although I did see theocracy. Shusbot paid me to see theocracy, which I hated. I don't know if you've seen it, Nicos, but thanks for telling me about it because I was tempted to watch it because of the actors. I'm sure you'll get someone who will donate for you to watch it because I'm very curious to see what you'll have to say about it. Imitation game is the one about Alan Turing. Yes, that's a fabulous movie. I really, really like that movie. Oh, is it the one where he breaks the code? Yes. Oh, I've watched it. Actually, I was working in the cinema that was playing it. So I watched it while being the cinema aster. Yes. It's an excellent movie. I enjoyed it a lot. It was a history. I didn't really know that well. I don't know if you have Alan Turing because of the Turing test, but it really didn't know the whole story about what he did in World War II. So I thought it fascinating. I also thought the way they dealt with homosexuality, I thought was really good and interesting. So generally, I very much enjoyed the movie, whether it's historical accurate or not, I don't know. And for that matter, I don't really care. I don't go to movies to learn history. I go to movies to be entertained. I go to movies to be inspired. And I thought that movie was inspiring. And it was a testament to the greatness of the human mind. So in that sense, it was a good movie. And Keira Knightley was great. And Keira Knightley was good. Yes. Eric, the reality is that the worst platform you could do it is on YouTube. YouTube takes the most money. The best platform for me is either Patreon or Subscribestar or even PayPal. Those three platforms take a lot less money than YouTube. I mean, YouTube is super convenient. And I love super chat and everything, but it's definitely the platform. YouTube does well from the Iran book show. And maybe they don't sell ads on my show, because if you've noticed, none of my shows, only the short videos, none of my shows have ads in them, but they make money off of the cut of the, whoops, you lost your video there, the cut of the super chats and your memberships. So if you really want to maximize my dollar, bang for the dollar, then one of the other platforms is better. Okay, happy avocado. We know that is, Nikos looks much better than Iran. Why is this a mystery? We always knew Nikos looked a lot better than me. Let me tell one thing to people. I'm not selling my looks. It's not what I'm asking for super chats for. People should try and check out the photos from last talk on the last night when Yaron wears a black shirt and a black suit. I've tried to persuade him to, like, do you know the manager Diego Simeone, who works black on black? You should do the same. It's so cool. It's so, it's very cool. But you know, that's how I travel, right? I mean, and Nikos has often commented on my, when I travel, I'm wearing a black, a black, what do you call it? Not T-shirt because it's long sleeves. Yeah, it's blouse. Let's see. It's black and a dark suit and the same, the same pants. And it's very, you know, I look pretty good when I travel. I should lecture that way. You know, I should break with the habit as a uniform. I should just do it as a uniform. No, not a turtleneck. I don't like turtlenecks. Anything that rises into my neck, I hate. Yeah. I have childhood. Yeah. I don't, don't get me started on all my, my problems with clothes, why I hate ties. I hate, I hate turtlenecks. Yeah. I just, I need to have a Steve Jobs look, not exactly like Steve Jobs, but a Steve Jobs like look, right? That's, that's what I need. I think the look I have is I come up on stage. With a jacket and within the first five minutes, take it off and hang it on the chair. That's kind of the ritual that everybody's noticed that I engage in because I get hot. I'm on stage. I need to get comfortable. See my, my emphasis on comfort. That's my standard. Mico's does not approve. I know. Michael asked, why do Protestant populations have an easier time embracing capitalism than Catholic populations? I have an answer to this. I'm curious what Mico's thinks. Don't tell me the protestant ethic, because I don't think the protestant ethic is too as compatible with capital as most people think. No, it's not that. It's the answer. It's the hatred of this world. So the Protestants are much more explicit about the fact that this world is grubby, horrible, materialistic, disgusting. You're predestined anyway, whether you go to hell or to heaven. So what differences make what you do here? The Catholics actually have a view of trying to be virtuous in this world. Protestantism, you know, is preached by Luther. And I think many of his disciples, it doesn't matter what you do in this world. And, you know, as Luther explicitly said, there's no usury in heaven. There's no capitalism in heaven. But here, in this world, who cares? It's not that they love it. They just don't care. Wait, didn't our friend tell us that protestantism is more friendly environment than capitalism? So they don't care. So go do whatever you need to do in order to make money. And that's why they're more friendly towards free markets. It's disgusting. It's immoral. But, hey, that's life, right? You know, it's the only way to get material goods. And here in this world, material goods are valuable. In the next world, you know, there's no capitalism in heaven. Heaven is a communist Marxist utopia. But in this world, go for it. And it's that sense of it doesn't matter that allows people to be free. And it's why Protestants have a much more attitude about laissez-faire, you know, just do whatever. You know, walk a damn, walley model, or flawed. Catholics take this world much more seriously. They're much more serious about this world. Yeah, and you have those two huge outliers, which is Italy and Spain, that skew a bit towards anti-capitalism. But, yeah, the sample is small, I would say. But Italy is Catholic. So Italy would be anti-capitalist. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But also it happens to be, or maybe it's not a coincidence, that you have fascism there. You have the communist party in Europe. But that's Catholicism because they focus on virtue. So they focus on applying the ideas of sacrifice consistently. So it's completely consistent with Marxism, completely consistent with fascism. It just replaces God with something else. It's the Protestants that have this kind of messy, call it messy freedom, a little bit of freedom, not too much. It's messy. They're no real principles because they're not interested in virtue. They're not interested in virtue. The Protestants are not that interested in virtue in this life. They're interested in the afterlife. And, you know, it's out of the Protestants that you get, you know, God wants you to be rich. You know, it's anything goes. Protestants is really anything goes. Whatever they think will attract an audience and fill their coffers. Yeah, if you're rich, because God wanted you to be rich. So, yeah. It's so harder for a rich man to get into heaven than a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Yeah, Jonathan said that. Al says, no question. Just a monetary thank you. Thank you, Al. Appreciate that. Whoops, I skipped that one. Justin says, what do you think about Andrew Tate? Is it dangerous that young men are following him? Okay, it's too late. So probably I won't get canceled. So I think the average young person is in such a lack of anyone to give him some motivation that you can do things in life, that anything they find is probably better than the default position that they find themselves in. Now, having said that, once you get to the specifics of Tate, he's proudly rational. He's the guy who says that two plus two equals five. If I threaten to punch you. So in a way, he's also a postmodernist. But the mere view that someone looks up to someone who is good-looking, successful, and looks happy. There's something healthy in it, but it becomes unhealthy when you get to the specifics of Tate. So it's a longer discussion, but that's my... So I'm not that worried when young people get excited with Tate. Because who else is out there for them to get excited to? That's the real tragedy. So I am, I have a much more negative view of this. People are excited about Hitler, and he got people excited about being healthy and fit and good-looking and dressed smartly and wear uniform. I'm not comparing Tate to Hitler, but I'm saying the fact that he gave them a role model and you could argue a positive role model. I think when people get hooked on the superficial, the materialistic superficiality and particularly Tate, the ugliness, the ugliness of... It's not arrogance. It's the narcissism. I mean, he's a narcissist. And that is a very, very bad model. And what it leads to, because ultimately Tate is a pragmatist philosophically, I mean, it leads to pragmatism, and therefore it leads to doing things that are going to really, really hurt you. And then you associate being hurt and doing bad stuff with self-esteem, and I think that is very bad. So to the extent that people think Tate has self-esteem and don't see that he doesn't, but think he has self-esteem and legitimate self-esteem, it's very damaging to young men. And given that he made most of his money, it looks like other than the fighting, but after that, that he made most of his money after running a porn ring or not exactly the most virtuous way to make money, but he has made money. And we'll see how the court case in Romania goes for him. And the other thing is that Tate is not really selfish the way we objectively would call him. Because if you think about it, he's a second hander. What does he say? He says, I like entering a club with nice women around me and I want everyone to see that. Why do you want everyone to see it? I mean, it could be cool. Maybe you enjoy the company of these women, but why do you want everyone to see them? And why do you want people to be afraid of you? So there's some second hand. Actually, there's some serious second handiness going on there. Yes. I mean, it's a fake self-esteem and a fake selfishness, and it's, I think in that sense, very damaging to young men. I mean, what's sad, and this I agree with Nicos is that they don't have alternative models of masculinity. That is, there are no positive masculine role models out there. Almost all the role models for masculinity today are either wimps or these kind of materialistic superficial false, second-handed kind of narcissistic types. Even in sports, it's difficult to find masculine models compared to the past. They're great achievers, but they're not great role models. I mean, anyway, too many. Yeah, they whine and complain. And you see that, you see it in basketball and the NBA. I mean, I don't remember in the 80s, Larry Bird or Magic. Any two referees about calls. I mean, you know, and Boston Celtics is good. Tatum is a great player. Half the game, he's complaining to the referee about a call from, I mean, who cares? Just get on. And the physicality that they played within the 1980s. I mean, play against the Detroit Pistons. The bad boys. The bad boys in the 80s and 90s. I mean, those were brutal. I grew up with the 90s New York Knicks. And because I was with the underdog, I wasn't with the Chicago Bulls. I was Knicks. Oakley, Mason, Ewing, Starks. These were these and Pat Riley. Talking about someone. I hated Pat Riley because of how he dressed. I still hate Pat Riley because of that. It drives me nuts. You're in a basketball court. Loosen up. Oh, come on. It's the opposite today. Have you seen them today? They wear this hood. It's like, come on. Don't wear a hoodie. You wear a T-shirt. You're good with the T-shirt. It's sports. You're not at it. You're not at it. You're not at a wedding or funeral. Don't dress like you are. And Nikos and I, there's a real schism brewing in objectivism about dress codes. Yeah, because I see the potential. You look so good with when you wear suits and black on black. Black on black. I don't mind. It's comfortable. All right. Let's see. Colt Savage. Colt Savage. There's a name for you. There's a model for masculinity. Colt Savage says Nikos looking fresh with these little emoji with cool sunglasses. He's got you, Nikos. Thank you, sir. All right. Rob says, thank you, your honor, Nikos. I hope one day to see you both in Australia. This country badly needs effective objectivist communicators like you. That's why there's so many YB fans here. Great. I mean, you guys need to get organized and invite me to come. I mean, it, you know, it takes a lot of money, but it doesn't take a lot more than that to get me to come to Australia. I'm eager to do it. Or get that. What's this quasi libertarian Institute in Australia, which makes some big events. There's a number of them. And there's the one in Perth is one that's very friendly towards objectivism. And they know me and they're very friendly towards the Institute. They used to send us. They went in Perth on the western side of Australia. All right. Let's see. Justin says, can you talk about the relationship between nationalist new rate and the manosphere? New rate politicians seem to talk about masculinity a lot. There's a whole chapter in the book about the manuscript into relationship with the right. So here's a short story. Unfortunately, what happens is people see a bad phenomenon. They say, oh, feminist has gone too far or the left has gone too far. And the reaction is not to spot what exactly is it in that movement that has gone too far, but to create a different tribe. So for example, they say the manosphere says feminism is bad, but why it's bad? It's bad because it's collectivistic. It's deterministic. It doesn't really believe in free will. And it sees women as victims. Notice, though, how these tropes repeat themselves quite often in the manosphere. And something similar happens in politics. The left is bad. So we're going to throw away any principle and we're going to do whatever is going to piece off the left. And by doing so, you end up giving up on reality altogether because your point of reference is not what do I see with my own eyes. It's what is my group, which is opposed to the left or to the feminist are doing. So that's why you find them in the same in the same circles because they're reactive movement. They haven't got something positive, something new to offer. We hate these people, so we're going to hate them all together. And these people are the establishment. So whatever is anti-establishment, that's what we are for. Anti-vax, anti-Ukraine, you name it. All right. Justin Ose asks, his hypergamy, biologically real, do women chase high status men? Okay. So there's a rational case to be made for quote hypergamy that doesn't involve any biological thing. It's that people like people who are valuers who go after value and who go after things in their life. It's not about money. Do you think that all women just dream of, I don't know, Mark Zuckerberg, no offense to Mark? No, there are many other things rather than money. So you could make a case, a non-deterministic case for quote hypergamy, which is women like people who go after, I mean, I like men also like people who go after value. I was going to say, doesn't it work for men as well? Sexually it works in a different way. Yes, in a different way. Yes. But it works. We admire this type of men who get after it, who achieve things. So it's not hypergamy. So it's not status. It's not status. And the way they frame it, right? Because status is a second-handed. It's achievement. It's values. It's success. Yes. I, you know, we attracted to successful women. We might measure success differently from men and women, maybe depending on the context. But it's success. It's achievement. It's values. So people in the manuscript have made the case that Atlas Rag, the dog, me goes through a hypergamous trajectory. But if you think about it, none of these is deterministic or biological. There's a reason why she falls in love with Reagan. There's a reason why she breaks up with French. Okay. Spoilers alert. And at the end, with whom she ends up, no spoilers. There's a very good reason why she gives up on Hank. And Hank is not her final choice. I mean, a reason that it doesn't need any biological determinism, which is a big part of what people mean by hypergamy. Volta says, what does it mean to be an auditor in those classes? It means that you can participate in class. You are there. So you don't know who is auditor and who is student. It just means you don't have to submit an assignment every week and you don't need to do a normal presentation or whatever that module means. So it's, it's a lighter option, less commitment. Marilyn says, Nico says a phenomenal public speaker. Yes, he is. He's very good. Thank you very much. Michael says, you have called the GOP pathetic. And I used to disagree. However, with what is happening in the house, the GOP has never looked worse. The Democrats look competent. Lincoln must be rolling in his grave. Yes. And not surprising. But yeah, anyway, Jacob Collins says, hi from Stebro, Colorado. Oh, it's beautiful. Great skiing weather out here. You're on. What is your favorite vacation spot and activity beside Michelin restaurants? Wow. I mean, that's really hard because I live on a tropical island. I have the ocean right in front of my window. It's hard to seduce me to a beach somewhere. Although that used to be among my favorite places to go visit a beautiful results on beaches. So I would say that my favorite vacation spots would be today. If it's not food, then it's art. So I'm planning a trip for a week to spend in Rome. I've spent a lot of time in Florence. I just came back from Madrid where there was food and art. And so it's, it really is Paris, of course, London. I love London partially because phenomenal museums and it's so much going on. So always there's always stuff going on. Paris is the same way. Those are probably my vacation's favorite vacation. The other kind of vacation spot I like, and then we'll go on because it's late, is unusual places. I like going to Asia partially because it's so different than what we have here. It really is interesting and fascinating, but it's completely different. It's clearly a different culture. There's no mistake about it. And that's fun. I find that enjoyable and interesting. The people look differently. The way that the language is different. Signs are not in a woman, alphabet. And the food is different. It's just visually. You get this dissonance, which I find enjoyable and interesting. Anyway, that is, do you have any favorite, favorite vacation spots? I'm going to sound so much cliche. Oh, I work too much. I don't go to the vacations, but because I was living for so long abroad, I've missed a lot on vacations, but I would say the Greek mountains and the Greek countryside, not necessarily the islands, because you get in the boat, you get in the boat, you get in the boat, you get in the boat, you get in the boat, you get in the boat, you get in the boat, it's too crowded, somewhere where I can drive with my car, Greek mountains or Greek seaside, in the island, you have to go off season. Yeah. Andrew says, Matt Gaetz is passionately praising Trump and nominating the SOH. I'm not sure where SOH is. They have always been wing nuts in Congress. Are they going outside as a continuation of the past, or is it a political fringe today different in some ways? I think it's different in some ways and I think it's different in the way that Trump was different. I think they are narcissistic in a way that they haven't been in the past. Maybe that's partially the social media world in which we live. They're narcissistic in a way and they're pragmatists in a way. They don't pretend to be principled anymore. The best politicians in the past, even the wing nuts, let's say, I don't know, who would have been a wing nut? Pat Buchanan. That's who I thought, yeah. But even worse than him, who came from the South, who still were racist or whatever, they had some love of the founding fathers. They had a certain love of the system of government or at least not that they loved it. They presented themselves as loving it. They presented themselves as loving the founding, loving America, loving certain principles. They considered American principles. These people have nothing. They're zeros. They're empty. Matt Getz is a slick, horrible, disgusting, little, skirmish individual and he's nothing. He really, really, really represents nothing. This guy who just got elected as a Republican and it turns out that everything in his resume, everything in his resume was a lie. I mean, he even claimed to be Jewish at some point and he's not Jewish at all. Anyway, no, I think this is much worse. This is what you get for electing Trump. Let's see. Michael asks, what exactly did Rand hate about Kant? God. You know, it's 1.45 a.m. in Athens right now. Nikos is running here on fumes, caffeine. No, no, no, no. I'm enjoying it as much as you can imagine. I know his ideas and reality is irrational and crazy. But what exactly did he say or write that was evil? Do you want to take this? Do you want me to take it? Absolutely not. That's yours. I mean, I don't know what exactly said because I don't understand anything he said. So I can't read Kant. I've never been able to. I've tried. I failed miserably. I don't have the mind that can comprehend because I've read secondary sources, not just objective secondary sources, others too. Basically, what Kant says is that we don't have direct contact with reality. Indeed, we don't have connection with reality at all. That our senses in a sense are feeding us something that might or might not be related to what's actual reality. And we have no means by which to know what that actual reality is. So that's irrational. But more than that, he then says, you cannot, since that's the case, you cannot get morality of reality. He wants to avoid saying you get morality from God because he's trying to ground his morality on quote, what he conceives as reason, which is a floating abstraction, a complete detachment from reality. So what he says is morality is just imprinted in our minds. We have categorical imperatives. It's just there. We all know it. We just have to find it in ourselves. It's intrinsic to our nature, how he explains the people who are evil and so on. They didn't try hard enough, I guess, or something. But note that that leads exactly to the CRT. In a sense, CRT is much more Kantian than it is Marxist. Because what that means, the next innovation beyond that is, yeah, it's in our minds. But our minds are different. So we each have different immoral standards. We each have different categorical imperatives. It depends on our race, depends on our gender, depends on our power relationship with other people. So there is no one morality. So Kant opens up the door to every subjectivist and intrinsicist evil out there. So he can be the father of, in a sense, Karl Marx and Hitler. He can be the father of Dugan and in some senses, the post-moderns and the CRT. He is the father of all of it because he opens it up and gives you no standard by which to judge. One of the reasons, this is an interesting point, I think, one of the reasons the white cannot answer the left and therefore has to basically take their philosophical premises is because there are no other. That is Kant is basically eradicated whatever good was in the Enlightenment. He's eliminated reason as a standard by which we can challenge what the left is saying. So all it's left is my emotion versus your emotion. So I'm against your emotions. That's what the right is against the left's emotions. And therefore, let's do our emotions. And our emotions have a bigger history. I emotions go back to and Kant would be proud of that because ultimately he was a Christian. So that's a little bit of it is duty ethics, the fact that he viewed self-interest so negatively. If you had a bit of self-interest in what you were doing to help the others, it's not Marvel anymore. You could go on and on and on with how evil his Marvel code really is. If our friend is interesting, you can check in the Iron Run Campus, not the Iron Run University. Iron Run Campus available to anyone. There's a course by Leonard Picoff, The History of Philosophy. There's at least two lectures on Kant so you can find more there. I think they have the last lectures in that course. I think it's right at the end because I think the course ends with Kant. Okay, Philosophical Zombie Hunter. With Jordan Peterson and Tate, it seems that men are looking for a work hard and improve your self-message. What do the left have in this regard? What does the left have in that regard? Does it appeal at all to people trying to self-improve in any kind of sense? No. So here's the thing with the left. They give you all this, oh, we want to raise women, but it's always through quote empowerment, which empowerment makes no sense. No one can give you power to do something. So with all its flaws, with all its problems, at least this world of self-development or this world of quote, the red pill, however you want to call it, it has this kernel which tells you you can be better. It has this kernel that says life is in your own hands. And then it gets lost in determinism and bad ideas, but at least there's this. It says you can do something better. You can be something more. So that's why I say, particularly if you have the context to tell the BS from the good stuff, I find it more, I find it healthier than the nihilism which says, well, don't bother. All right, let's see. Ryan says, hi guys. Just joined the show. Is cultural appropriation an anti-concept? How does it distract from the real discussion about good and bad aspects of culture? Well, a way to test an idea is to try to think what would be its logical conclusion. Cultural appropriation in its logical conclusion would mean none of you people should follow the law of identity because this is Aristotle, so this is my culture. So you see that it makes absolutely zero sense. It's a way to put people in identity groups. It's as racial as it gets. Actually, the Nazis used to literally do this. They would say this is Jewish art and actually Carl Schmitt, one of their ideological gurus, would say, you can say there are even good Jewish ideas, but these are other ideas. So the point is not whether they're good or bad. They're other. They're at a different box. Therefore, he would say, don't, he wouldn't use the term cultural appropriation, but at the end of the day, that's what it is. Your ideas versus my, your culture versus my culture, no communication. It's literally segregation. It's cultural segregation institutionalized. Paulo Zeus, thank you. Let's see, Michael asks, are Greek intellectuals today, mostly Kantians and Marxists, would Aristotle be walling in his grave? They are Marxist or those who are not Marxist are Rollsians. So if you're a Greek liberal, Rolls is your guy, unfortunately. Matthew, more traditional lefties like Spiked and Brendan O'Neill, real against CRT, but all they seem to dislike is the way that the new left is dividing society rather than the fact of division. So the way they're dividing it rather than the fact that they're dividing thoughts. So Spiked was the, was my escape vehicle from Marxism. I know Brendan, I've written for, for Spiked, particularly when it comes to the criticism of identity politics, I think they're quite good. So there are other areas where I disagree with them, but their criticism of identity policy is quite good. And again, it was a turning point for my life. So it's difficult for me to, to, to find much, which is wrong with it. Having said that, I'm not a regular reader of Spiked. So our friend might have seen something that I haven't. And, and are they still Marxist, essentially? No, but they take, supposedly the human is from Marxism. So the young Marxists who thought that history is an open field that human action can change history. But Brendan is very anti property rights and things like that. That's true. Unfortunately, they, they defend free speech, but they don't understand that property rights is the sine qua non condition for free speech. Yeah. So they, they want to nationalize Twitter. For more Brendan O'Neill with your own last year, we did a series your own debates Europe, there was an interesting discussion between your own and Brendan, I think on social media. No, I don't think we ever got Brendan on that one. Are you sure? We got somebody, we got Toby. Oh, anyway, go take that series anyway. It was an interesting series. But we did do an event with Brendan O'Neill in London a few years ago on, I can't remember what it was on. It was, it was on a topic we agreed on. So we, we ended up agreeing, but then the issue of property rights came up and we, there was a sharp disagreement between us. Nicos, Frank asked, what is this concept anti-racism and being an anti-racist? Do countries dominated by blacks like Haiti and African regions practice this? No, they don't. But the point is we cannot criticize this according to critical race theory because, and this is something that Duggin would agree. There is no outside from which to criticize it. There is no universal or objective standard for this. Therefore, you have no right to say what Haiti or Iran is doing. Now, their understanding of anti-racism means that since so there are two scenarios. One is that you're a racist. The other scenario. So let's say you see an injustice, a black person making less money than a white person. The two possible explanation is either the white person is more clever than the black person, in which case you're racist, or the other scenario is that you're a racist. The other scenario is you have to fight it directly. And this is why CRT says the only alternative is racist or actively anti-racist. Of course, it's a false dilemma. So you could say it even becomes an anti-concept. It's definitely an anti-concept. Ryan, just giving money to celebrate human excellence. Thank you, Ryan. Michael, will you have Andy Bernstein on again? Maybe. Richard, Nicos looks sharp. $5 for beard care tips. No need to actually read. I'm just contributing. Thank you, Richard. Thank you. Key facts. I heard an argument that CRT is Marxist in a sense because the race consciousness is analogous to class consciousness. And therefore, CRT has an element of the dialectical materialism thoughts on this. No, it's even, it's way more simplistic. So Marx doesn't say that if you're a worker, you think in a particular way. It's a bit more complicated than that. She says that under a particular system, everyone has false consciousness, whereas critical race theory tells you that we have different consciousness, not wrong, different. And at least Marxists say in a society where we overcome the division in their relation of production, we're going to get to proper consciousness. With critical race theory, there's no hope. We are destined to be in a tower of Babel. Michael says, thanks for all you do. Would you have an objective law professor, philosopher to discuss? Objectivism would be transferred to the legal system. I'm going to have some lawyers, absolutely. So what's that? Oh, Tara Smith. And Tara Smith, we didn't talk a lot about philosophy of law, but she's of course an expert in philosophy. But I will have had a master fund soon, and he's a kind of a puppy rights expert. Mark Thomas, for Nikos, what work of yours would you recommend for someone who is new to you? And as an author, what objectivist events will you attend later this year? Okay, so when it comes to content, I would say the daily objective or the new idea life. Mostly, though, my talks in the iron-run con and inocon because I put too much prep for that. If you like reading books, it's out of focus to be a court. Yes. So it's a small book, but it gives you a good understanding of cultural wars. It was, I was even more of a newbie as a student of objectivity. So cut me some slack maybe on some things. Or just follow me on Twitter and you'll get updates from there. But thank you for the interest. Yeah, Nikos is a good Twitter. So you should follow him on Twitter. And check him out on YouTube. His talks, I think Iron-run Institute put out his talks at the iron-run con and inocon. You can catch them there. And also I have a TikTok channel and my rule is I cannot post videos longer than one minute. So everything I post on TikTok or on YouTube has to be shorter than one minute. The ones I was referring to on YouTube are the long ones. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I have like a Nikos or Tiracopolis channel, the longer ones you can find it in the iron-run institutes and also in the iron-run center UK in the daily objective every now and then. I don't recommend anything that's a minute long, even your unbroke video shorts. But you are also on TikTok. You know that, right? I prefer to evade that fact. Okay. Yes, I am on TikTok. I, my representatives put me on TikTok, but I don't like one minute videos, but you need to do them. They need to be done. Good marketing. Okay, Joe says, for Nikos, what's the intellectual culture in Greece like any more or less chance of it swinging heavily towards a more free culture compared to other places you're familiar with? It's as bad as it gets because the two biggest influences is the left for historical reasons and orthodox church in the culture. So my talk in iron-run con Europe is going to be anti-American is in Greece and why a Greek culture is so anti-American. And my biggest worry is that if I tell you some stories, people are not going to believe me. If I tell you, for example, how Greek society reacted to 9-11, people are going to say, you are making these things up and what are you telling us? So it's bad. Yeah. And my experience of going into university in North Thessaloniki was the only university I've ever gone into where there were literally red flags with hammers, sickles, explicitly communists, not socialists, not social democrats, communists, Stalinists and presented that way and proudly so and only place I've been to anywhere in the world. You wouldn't see that in Russia in not in Russia. You would see that in Russia actually, but you wouldn't see that in China. You're much more likely to see it in place like Greece than you are in former communist places. So Greece has a communist party which is an orthodox communist party. So which means they believe that the biggest mistake in Soviet Union was distalinization. And there are some elections where they fled with double digits like 10%. Okay, Mike asks, what is your view of West Roberts as an economist? I mean, generally positive. I don't know him that well as an economist. I mainly know him as an interviewer of economists. And he's very good. And his channel is definitely worth listening to. He interviewed some of the best economists in the world. And generally, he's pretty good. I don't always agree with him. He won't interview me. So I guess I'm offended by that, but I'm not exactly an economist. So maybe that's the reason. Maybe not. Maybe she doesn't like objectives. Dave asks, Nikos, are you still training Brazilian jiu-jitsu? And what belt are you currently? You, me, and Alex, should do a jiu-jitsu exhibition for the Okon talent show. So in Okon, I rolled with Aaron Fried. And I'm very proud that he didn't talk to me for something like 45 seconds. Of course, he did within a minute. So no, there's nothing near where I live. So I'm training these days in boxing, but I'm trying to incorporate some self-defense on it. So I'm doing more of striking because of the geographical locality. We discussed this with Don in New Year's resolution. If you want to set a habit, make it easy. If you have to drive 40 minutes to train jiu-jitsu, you're not going to do it that often. Pick something else which is closer at home. So it's just big in objectivism. I didn't know that Fried was doing it as well, right? Yeah. Aaron is a blue belt. And Alex is? Black belt in Gracie Baja's jiu-jitsu. All right. PBE says, my sis mentioned to me she took kids to help clean public park and meet local politicians. I said she'd have asked politicians why the park wasn't clean already paid by taxes. How would you have approached that point? Well, there's an argument to be made that if it's your local park, there's a very selfish reason to clean it. And, you know, someone has to do it if the people who have to don't do it. But I mean, it's such a mess. Where do you start with what the state should do and what you should do about it? Do whatever is going to make your life better when it comes to your local park. It's difficult to give a principled answer. Don't you think there are better things your kids could be doing? Well, it depends how important it is for you, your local park. And then why meet with politicians? Because they're there. Just, no, I think this was a civics lesson to meet the politicians. Okay, last two questions. Then we'll let Nikos go to sleep. Justin says, many young beautiful girls who don't go after values and have little virtues are chased by high status men. Is that hypogamy? Well, I have my views on that. Okay, let's start with your own views and then I'll give you my opinion. I mean, that's just superficial stupid men. I mean, sorry. But it's not a man that you value, somebody you would value. You're not going to value a man who just goes sleeping around with pretty girls. If you're not, you know, think about the novels, think about the men in Ayn Rand's novels who you admire and the kind of women they seek. And that's the standard you should have. Now, it doesn't mean you're at their level of the women you seek are going to be at the level of Dagny. But that's the kind of relationship you want to seek women of values. We live in a very superficial materialistic culture in which men are attracted to beautiful women for no other reason than the beautiful women. So the question is, why would you do it? Why would you go after them? If there's some way that you find value in it, then I could discuss it. But if you do it because this proves something or because then you can brag or even worse if you consider it your duty as a man. So I know people who consider that they have to do it or maybe at some point in our lives with people did it because we thought, oh, that's what men do. But the question is, if it leaves you empty, then you are doing something which is literally a sacrifice, which is weird. I mean, love and sex is so nice, it should be anything but that. So my biggest problem would be it's not selfish enough with the true meaning of the word. And Rand talks about this. It's men seeking full self-esteem. She talks about the playboy mentality of achieving a full sense of self-esteem through conquest of meaningless sex, conquest of beautiful women and meaningless sex. It's not an ideal to strike towards. Agreed. Buzz says, oh, God. Buzz is in the same thing. He has the same question of everyone in my guests. Tips for burned out parents of seven month old baby. I mean, I've been getting this question since the baby was three months, I think he keeps asking. Then, then, since this is a $4.99 question, he also says, also, your opinion on Bitcoin, NFT, Elon Musk, drug crisis, economic predictions for 2022, I think he means 2023. This is part of the problem with the burnout and any promising politicians out there. Now, he has to have a Smith's. He has done Watkins' this. He's going to be asking this. So pick and choose. Do you have tips for burnout parents? No, but I see my sister and I would just say try not to try to anyway. Who am I to give advice? I enjoy it. Try to get the most out of it. Okay. Well, you have my admiration. That's all I'm saying. I'm rooting for you. Okay. Bitcoin? No idea. NFTs? Even more no idea. I was going to say Elon Musk, I want to read his biography. Instinctively, I like this guy. That's it. Drug crisis? Drug crisis. It's a drug crisis in the United States. It's sad. Economic predictions for 2023? Oh, drug crisis. Legalize it, but criticize it. Economic predictions. If we have Yaron here, it's like having me here and asking basketball questions to someone else. Like me? Yes. I know a little bit of basketball. My basketball. My team. I have one team. That's all I follow. All right. Any promising politicians in Greece? Absolutely not, unfortunately. All right. Nikos, bedtime. It's 2.08 a.m. Well, I'm going to have a Dakos. You know, this thing with the tomato and the, because I lost intellectual energy because this was so fun. So first the Dakos and then I'll go to bed. Sounds good. All right. So Nikos has set a new bar for all interviews. First of all, he's gone two hours and eight minutes. So that's a record. And we're at 700, you guys contributed $783 to the Iran Book Show during this episode. So the competition will continue. We've got 97 likes. I think that could go over 100. Come on, guys, before you leave, don't forget to like the show. And of course, if you like what I'm doing, please use the link to my website or Patreon or subscribe. So some mechanism to become a monthly contributor. That is incredibly valuable. Nikos, I will see you. Are you hanging out with me during my Europe trip? Well, it depends on Jonathan, who is the master of our speaking phase. But just to say a huge thank you, not only for today. You know you are, anyway, you don't need me to tell you are my role model and all that stuff, but you know you are. So thanks for everything. I appreciate it. Last time I was in Georgia, I'm going to Georgia again. I'm going to see our friends at Georgia. Nikos was with me. We had a good time in Tbilisi. So I'm heading back there. All right. I mean, I'm doing it in February, so it's probably too cold for you. Nothing is too cold. I live in a house where it's so expensive. That's why I wear this. It's basically without heating here. That's why I wear this in a barefoot in the shorts because I don't need heating here. All right, everybody. I will see you all tomorrow morning, and then there'll be a show on Saturday, and that'll be it for the week. That's eight shows in a week. I'm doing eight a week, just me. Well, I had a hope from Nikos today. All right. Thanks, Nikos. I'll see you, I think, at OConn if I don't see you before then. Hopefully before that, hopefully before there. All right. Bye, everybody. Have a great night, and thanks to all the superchatters.

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World Series of Birding 2021 - scouting report

Team Maine Audubon member Bob Duchesne does some early scouting for the NJ Audubon World Series of Birding in Petit Manan, Maine, and finds his favorite Spruce Grouse.

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This is the Hollingsworth Trail at Petit Manan. It's one of the best trails in Maine. Don't let that secret leave this room. Snow-bunting. I did not see that coming. So this is all for the World Series of birding. It's an annual competition that used to take place just in New Jersey, put on by New Jersey Audubon. But once the pandemic hit, now it's spread all over the East Coast. And there's team Maine Audubon scouring this state for unusual birds. Now the rules are that you have to find as many birds as possible in one day. But that doesn't prevent you from scouting ahead of time to figure out where they are. And this is a scouting trip to find some of those unusual northern forest birds that they don't have south of Bangor. On this trip at this location, I'm at the Spruce Grouse. So the last time I did this two years ago, I had five male Spruce Grouse all on territory along this path over a short distance. And I named them all. Yeah, I know that's kind of nuts. The first one is called blue because of that blue dot. He's usually in the woods kind of far in the woods over that way. Second one is cross right up here where the cross trail comes back in. So blue cross. A cedar swamp. Lots of peat moss. I love this kind of habitat. I don't think blue is here yet. The next three grouse are Huey, Dewey and Louie. I've only ever seen Huey once. So I don't really have a lot of confidence in finding him again. So the fifth grouse is Louie and he's home. The reason I suspect that he's here is because he's always been here. Spruce Grouse males have a tendency to go back to the exact same spot to attract females every year. So if you find it one year and he survives the winter, he's going to be right here next year.

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KILLING YOUR FATHER | John Sonmez of @BulldogMindsetArchive

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Another step in becoming a man that I discovered is killing your father, metaphorically, okay? I know you guys. So what does this mean? It means this, okay? It means killing the idea of your father, right? So when we grow up, our fathers to us, they're the king, they're the tribal leader. We seek approval from our fathers, rightfully so. We should, as were young men, as were boys, before we've gone through the initiation. And what has to happen at some point is we have to throw off that value system, right? We have our father's value system. We decide what is good and what is bad in relation to what does our father approve of. At some point, we have to become the father. We have to become the tribal leader. And so we have to metaphorically kill the value system of our father. We have to say, you know what? Dad, I love you, right? But I'm my own man now. And I have my own value system. And I don't need your approval. I still love you, but my value system, what I think is right, my judgment rules my life. I am the king. And so many guys that I work with, so many guys that I coach, this is the final, they can't do it. They can't bring themselves to metaphorically kill their father. I had to have this conversation with my own father. We had a falling out for about a year and a half, maybe two years, you know? He's gonna watch this video because he watches all my videos. We're the best of buds now. Because he's an awesome guy. But he very much was very controlling. He would use guilt on me. Like, why aren't you coming? Blood is thicker than water, you know? He would use all these guilt tactics. And at one point I had a conversation with him on the phone and I was like, hey, look, dad. I said, I love you, man, but I don't allow anyone who treats me the way that you treat me to be in my life. Doesn't matter. Like, I don't accept. These are my boundaries. This is who I am as a man. And he didn't give a shit. He ran right over that. He was like, who the fuck do you think you are? I raised you, I said, I didn't get into it. I said, you know what? Totally respect your position. I said, I would probably feel the same way if I were you. Regardless, what I said stands. And he said, well, I'm not fucking talking to you. You fucking ungrateful son of a bitch. And I said, love you, dad. Totally understand. All right. We didn't talk for about a year and a half. Eventually, eventually he came around and understood, hey, I want to have a relationship with my son who's now a man. And now we have a great relationship. But I had to do it. It wasn't, believe me, it wasn't easy to be on the other end of that phone. For one, it wasn't easy to say what I had to say, but for a second, it wasn't easy to not get sucked in to the argument because I wanted to give him all kinds of reasons why I was doing what I do. But as a man, one of the things I talk about is you don't complain, explain, or apologize. Your word is your word. What you said, it doesn't need to be explained to someone. You don't need to justify your actions. You take the action and you accept the consequences of that action. But you don't have to have everyone have buy-in. You don't have to have them understand why you did what you did. A lot of you that are stuck in the nice guy area, it's because of this. It's because it's like, oh, well, if they could just understand. No. No apologizing. One good exercise for you guys that are stuck with this is I sometimes get to my email. Someone will email me, it's like three days later. And maybe you've done this, like you start to email and the very first thing you type is, sorry, and then you gotta delete that. No, you can't start with sorry. And then you say, I was at this conference for three, oh, now you're trying to explain. Nope, delete that. Just fucking type. You don't own explanation. You don't own apology. You are who you are. So, getting back to killing your father, what this means is developing your own value system in life. And so many guys, so many young guys I talked to, one of the biggest problems that they have is that, and it doesn't necessarily have to be your father because some of you didn't grow up with a father, you didn't have a father figure, but society, the world has become your father, your surrogate father. And the problem is that your value system is whatever the world tells you or someone else does. I had a video up on my YouTube channel and it got like 13,000 downvotes and 1,000 upvotes. And the most common comment on that YouTube video was, see, you're wrong. I can't believe you still have this video up. I can't believe you haven't taken it down by now. And I thought, holy shit. You guys think that I should take a fucking video down because other people don't like it. I didn't make the fucking video for other people. I made it because I believe it. If I believe something and 13,000 fucking people tell me I'm wrong, that doesn't fucking change it for me. I still believe it because, guess who's the most important fucking person in my life? It's me. My value system is the most important. I judge things by what I think if they're good or bad. And so many of us have gotten away from that and we judge things by whether other people think they're good or bad. You can't be a man unless you have your own value system. That's why you have to metaphorically kill your father because your father, in this case, represents a value system that you're adopting, getting approval, seeking approval from the father, from other people, from society, seeking validation. You have to kill that. The next one here is one also I struggled with which is conquering fear.

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PM Modi ने की 9 अगस्त को Quit India Movement को समर्पित आंदोलन चलाने की अपील, जानिए क्यों?

#KshetriyaPanchayatiRajParishad #PanchayatiRajParishad #haryana #videoconference Today, PM Modi addressed the Kshetriya Panchayati Raj Parishad in Haryana via video conferencing. Addressing the gathering, the PM said, “Today, the country is moving forward with full enthusiasm to fulfill the resolutions of Amrit Kaal and to build a developed India. The PM said, "District Panchayats hold tremendous potential to drive significant transformations in various sectors. In this context, your role as representatives of the BJP becomes exceptionally vital." Subscribe Now: https://goo.gl/8qsb5E Stay Updated! 🔔 Follow us to stay updated: ► Download the NM App: http://nm4.in/dnldapp ► Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/narendramodi ► Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/narendramodi ► Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/narendramodi Kshetriya Panchayati Raj Parishad Panchayati Raj Parishad Video Conferencing Haryana

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Data Analysis Toolpak Activation in Excel 2016

How to activate the Data Analysis Toolpak in Excel 2016 on a PC.

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Hi this is Dr. Don and I want to show you how to activate the data analysis tool pack in Excel. Now this is for PCs it's a little different if you're doing it on a Mac and if you're on a Mac you may not even have the analysis tool pack depending upon the version of Excel you have. Okay here's your Excel you click on the data tab and you look over here and you don't see data analysis that tells you that it's not activated. Let's go to file click on file go down to options and then we're going to click on add ends and then down at the bottom make sure Excel add ends is selected in the drop down and then click go and you get this dialog box that lists available add ends you should see the analysis tool pack listed there and if it doesn't have a check mark which this doesn't click it to put a check mark and click okay and then the data analysis option will show up over here under the data tab the data ribbon you can click data analysis and there are the tools and among them is the histogram tool right there so I hope this helps

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Jenkins Governance Meeting January 9, 2023

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Welcome everyone. This is the Jenkins governance meeting. It's the 9th of January 2023. Thanks for being here. Topics on the agenda I had news. Action items. Elections. Build monitor view plugin. Governance board meeting time and date. Lost donations from ffs.de. I'm going to start with the CDF outreach. And if Oleg joins us. CDF topics and then community activity. Any other topics that need to go on the agenda today. Okay, great. Then let's let's go ahead with news. Wednesday we will release Jenkins 2.375.2. The next LTS in the 2.375 line. Thanks very much to everyone involved. Chris Stern is release lead. Thanks, Kevin, for writing the change log and the upgrade guide. The December 2022 newsletters being prepared. Thanks to Bruno Verochten for submitting the poll request to Alyssa Tong for gathering it. And to the contributors there are a number of things that I still have to contribute so we're not ready to merge yet but thank you very much for the progress. We had a Jenkins webinar on Google summer of code last month. And it's been a long time. And upcoming we've got Fosdom in Brussels February 4th and 5th. Alyssa is coordinating the Jenkins booth. In terms of any questions or comments on the news items. Okay, action items. Alex had the action item to help us require that. Community SIG office and other. As a manager or owner so that in case of issues we can get involved and actually make a difference. Anything you want to report there, Alex. Not hearing you Alex. Better. Yes, better. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Last week I had a chat with Koss okay. And he handed over ownership of the Brazilian, the Korean and the Japanese mailing list to me. Which I. Yeah, those three, one the Brazilian one, the Korean one and the Japanese one. Both three meeting language lists last used a few years ago. Which I have archived and in favor of community Jenkins at IO. The lists are still public accessible but no, but members can no longer post there. Great, thank you. Thanks very much. So was the archiving process difficult. Is it something that I know it's something that Kevin and I need to do with documentation list. Yeah, it's pretty simple and straightforward. If you go to the settings tab of the Google group, you can simply configure who can post that can be a mailing list member and manager or owner. If you simply change it to manager or owner the list is already read only. Great, thank you. Great. Thanks very much. Any questions from others on that progress. I did also, I did also mail Oleg and Olivier Vernon, but I didn't hear back from them yet. And those are for other lists for, for other lists. Yeah. Great. Excellent. Thank you. Anything else. Okay, I have the action item to create and distribute election badges. No progress. My apologies. I've got to go do the research to find out what that means and do the research, send them out before the next meeting. Kevin had the action item to use the community for the Jenkins docs mailing list. And as far as I understand, Kevin, no progress there. This is a, again, a mark weight thing. That's correct. Okay. This is my documentation by Oleg no progress as far as I've seen, but no requests in the ensuing month either. Okay, created an empty agenda item. This is working well. We'll keep doing it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this agenda. It was really nice that I'm not the only one typing agenda proposals. Thank you very, very much. Next topic was. Combine the sub projects and six into a single concept working groups. That's no progress. But Mark to complete by end of before next meeting. I also will submit roadmap updates. The roadmap updates need to be approved by board members. And the good thing for me to do that as a series of small poll requests. The roadmap as currently listed is badly out of date needs to be updated. So expect to see those coming soon. Oleg had the action item to send a proposal to Rick to retire the Jenkins Chinese site. The site is not getting updates and hasn't been receiving updates for multiple years. No progress as far as I know. Anyone else have other information? Okay, then archive the governance meeting notes. Gavin has prepared. The archive. We need a need a destination repository. And I have the action item to bring that to closure, whether it should be in Jenkins info or in the Jenkins CI organization. Okay. I think that's a good question. I think it's the question was raised back by the infra team. Raised a question about the location of the repository. That's all that I had on action items. Any other action items that may have been missed. Okay. Next topics then. We had discussed in our last meeting, this open proposal to allow up to two elected board members from a single company and said, I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. And then we have a final closure. Now, Uli, I know one of your concerns was that you were minus one. As you want to further explain your concerns here. So that others hear them and then, then we can have further discussion. I think that there's no much discussion required. I just before I work against my minus one. I'm not sure what your, you know, what was the reasoning for the whole thing because it was started before I entered the board. And yeah, since nobody actually replied to this requirement, this new requirement. So yeah. I think I'm not minus one. But I'm not plus one. So I'm here. Actually, I don't know why we are doing it really. I don't see the need to change anything now, but I'm not against it. So if you want to change it, you know, feel free to go. I'm sorry, if you open the next message, I did reply to the question. Yes, sorry. Nobody else. So my, my, my thinking about it was we need to have a discussion of all Jenkins developers about this topic. Since nobody besides Basil replied, we have no much developers left in Jenkins who are really interested in this topic. So yeah. So I won't block it just because I said it once before. So my reasoning was I want to block it for now because I don't want to go into the board and then I need to decide if I should change the rules. So because the rules. We are changing. Makes sense to be, yeah. We'll be, I think in the December next December or next November. The next election is so it's quite some time to go. And the reasoning of why I'm wondering is, I think, yeah. It's, it's not really important. So let's make the decision. And yeah, I'm fine with it. So I'm not plus one, but I will not block it. Okay. Are there others? Go ahead. So actually nobody could say until now why we need someone else in the board. So we have currently four persons in the board. Yeah, that's, I think it's fine enough. And yeah, we see how it will behave when the next elections came in one year. Well, but isn't it that if we don't, if we don't allow this rules change, we are assured that in the next election, we can at most have one person from cloud bees. And this, this reasoning that, that Basel gives and that I agree with a second person from cloud bees gives us a chance to do more, get more work done on governance action items. Yeah. And this reasoning I don't understand, but because we don't have so much action items in the governance board. So the last few meetings I was part of this meeting we have a couple of action items. So I'm not sure which action items you mean, which we don't work on. Well, so looking at, I'm the biggest, most guilty party here is, is the challenge. So, so things that, that I've struggled to complete include poll requests, right? Oh legs completion of the Chinese website. Oh legs completion of easy CLA. I mean, we've got a number of things that have lasted for a very long time as, as open action items on the, on the board's list of action items. Okay. Yeah, I think Mark you've done a heroic job with completing as many action items as you have, but even still there's, there's more that remain. Well, so part of my part of my rationale for the, the, the, another part, and it was a part that was not immediately obvious to me until later thought was that the current rules actually disadvantage two companies over any other company in the world. And that was when I was trying to describe later here of if Red Hat came and became actively involved. They could have two board members elected without any question any rules question, et cetera. Likewise, Google or JFrog or Microsoft, any one of them there are exactly two companies that are not allowed to have two board members. And that's because of the, the affiliation term we use with for Kosuke being affiliated with cloud bees and launchable. Yeah, but that does not, but that does not imply that we should change the rules in your way. I think we could change the rules that no company at all is allowed to have two seats in our four election seats. So I think one solution to your problem you're stating is that we change it in the way you proposed. But another proposal would be to say, okay, no company is allowed to have two seats, no company, even cloud bees and no Google, no Red Hat. Currently we have this problem in the definition because Kosuke is a part of cloud bees or his own company. But if we change the rule in other way, that means that we do not allow from these four members which are elected regularly, we can have a new rule saying that no company is allowed to have two seats of these four members. Then this problem will disappear as well. But then it really worsens the problem of getting the work done. Yeah, these are two different things. I don't want to mix these arguments. One argument is not the two companies or one company can have two seats. This is one argument. And the other argument is let's have our work done. I don't think that it makes sense to mix these arguments. Well, but I think we want to optimize results for the project. So I think we do need to mix those arguments, don't we? I don't think so. If we want to get more work done, we can have more seats in our group. That's far easier. And yet we did not have any contested seats in the last election. So adding more seats risks adding vacant seats. Why? I'm concerned that. When we have one seat and more than Basil can came in. Not if, not if. Because then we have not the majority. So my problem is that we don't have the majority from one company. But really, let's go ahead. I don't really want to discuss this thing anymore. From my perspective. So for me, it's fine. Just go ahead. So Uli, I think what you're saying, then just to be very clear, I think what you're saying, you're okay. If I call for a call for a vote in terms of. Of the proposed change. Yeah. Okay. All right. So then I'm going to, are there others who have concerns or, or. Items they want to avoid voice. Okay, then I'd like to call for a vote. All right. And as usual, we allow all who are participating to vote. So I'm going to call for a vote. And I try to dock. I will document those votes. So I'm going to say Mark. Mark W is Mark Waitress plus one. Uli, you had said you were. Zero. Yes. Zero is okay. Alex, I'm going to go to you next as the other member of the board, your vote. I'm plus one. Okay. Basil, you're next on my visible list. Next Kevin Martens. I see you visible on my list. Plus one for me as well. Okay. And Bruno. Let's come for me as well. Okay. All right. Okay. So based on that, my interpretation is we carry this forward with a yes. Accept the change. Any objections to that. Okay, great. Then let's go on to the next topic. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks everyone for the discussions. Uli, thank you very much for voicing your concerns. Next topic then build monitor view plugin. Basil, do you want to give us a, an overview here? Sure. The build monitor view plugin. It's non-standard and it's hosting and release process. And this has caused a number of pain points over the years. For example, when I was working on the guava project. I had to get a new release of this plugin out. And it was, it was difficult to do that. Given its non-standard release process. So to summarize the current state, it's, it's currently hosted in the Jan Molak GitHub organization. And uses GitHub actions for CI. And uses a custom CD. Which creates releases on every commit with, without any release notes, even for dependency updates. So one of the things that we've heard users complaining about is that there's no visibility into the content of these releases. So every so often when this topic comes up, I've offered to help normalize the release process for this plugin by moving it to our standard model of the Jenkins CI GitHub organization. Using Jenkins for CI. Using our standard project-wide CD setup and using release drafter to document the contents of the release. So I think this would solve the pain for users because this would avoid creating releases for dependency updates, which our process does not do. Unless the developer label is applied. And also it would give us release notes with release drafter. And in general, it would make it much easier to do releases of this plugin. For example, if there's a future UI change that requires that plugin to be adapted, it would be much easier to release that change if this plugin was using our standard process. So I had a discussion with the author of this plugin, and he noted that there were some conditions that he wanted our assurances about in order to transfer their repository to our GitHub organization. And one of them was retaining a note about the original author in the readme, which I thought should be noncontroversial. That seems something that we could easily accommodate. The other request was to retain the current noninvasive footer linking to his website. So this is on the bottom right corner of the user interface. There is this link to the author's website inside of the Jenkins UI. So you could you could call it branding, for example. But so that's, so this is already there in the current code that's hosted in his GitHub organization. But we are currently publishing this on our update center and have been for a very long time so this wouldn't be a new edition but rather this would be assuring the author that this existing link could be retained even as we move the hosting of the repository into our own GitHub organization. So that was a topic that I didn't feel that I could give him an answer one way or another as an individual, which is why I wanted to bring this topic to the board. But if the board does confirm that these conditions are acceptable, then I can proceed with normalizing the hosting and release of this plugin comments from others. Any concerns there. Yeah, I definitely agree with basil. I think I mean the Jenkins CI organization is definitely an umbrella organization for plugins hosted. And I strongly believe that plugins available on the update center should preferably hosted on the Jenkins CI organization. So yeah I think we should move on and get the repository transferred or fall to our organization. So and Alex I think specifically the question would be, are you okay with the conditions that the that the author or the yeah the original author has asked for for me I'm quite comfortable with those I feel like those are quite fair. I have no objections. Are you okay with them. Yeah, that sounds good to me. Do we have a screenshot of this, how this photo looks like. I don't. I don't mean the coat of the how it looks in Jenkins right right you wanted the visual. I don't have it. I don't have one that I can certainly embed one. I would expect this is not very in, as said not very not terribly invasive, because it's just sitting inside the footer. I have one somewhere I can pull it up before the end of this meeting. And how many people are using this plugin. Oh that's a good thing to check we have that answer installed in 16,000 of 300,000 installations so. And so something what is that less than 5%. But it's still enough that we can't release a court change that breaks this plugin so if you if you look at the releases tab of this you'll see the problem that users have been complaining about which is that none of this information is really is relevant I mean it's all. There's no there's no information about the content of these releases. It's actually not even picking up on this page the newer builds from 2022. And all of this is all this is due to the non standard scheme that is being used which is not it's not a bad scheme it's just that it's not the same as the scheme we use elsewhere so all of our tooling doesn't pick it up. So really, are you I found the screenshot I can share it in a minute or two here. Oh, you. You say you need a little bit of time to get ready to share. Yeah, let me just upload it somewhere. Okay, great. So I think it makes sense to move it to tank and see I. And if someone does not like the advertisement, I think we can, or the person who does not like it can fork the repository and create another one. So that's fine. Good okay. I'm, I'm as well comfortable with it anyone else have objections or concerns. Okay, I think it's, I think it's a good idea just to normalize and improve consistency. So, I think one other requirement that John had about making sure that his test suite was still enabled. So I'm still discussing that. But there's some problems with the test suite as well that that that were that basically the test suite is not currently working so we have to figure out what to do about that. I'm confident that I can come to a conclusion with john about the test suite, as long as these other conditions are accepted. Great. Thank you. Thanks very much. So the suite is currently broken. Yeah, the tests are not currently passing so the question I think is, do we want to go ahead with moving it to the Jenkins see I get help organization without running the tests, I turn them off which I think, I think john didn't want us to turn off the tests but my perspective was more that I don't think I would be making the situation worse by doing that, since they're already broken. So right, we've got to figure out if if somebody can get these tests passing again, or how much work that is. They also use a non standard test harness. So that's another complicating factor but we could probably come to a conclusion about that. With some more discussion. Hopefully, we could find a way to just fix these tests but if we can't then I'm sure that we could find a way to at least not make it any worse than it is today. Great. Any other discussion before we call for vote here on on the decision. I still want to see the screenshot or no. Oh yes please do want to so I'm going to stop sharing, or I can, if you want to just post the location of your of your, your screen share that you uploaded. It's a private link so it'll be easier if I just share my screen. Great. Okay. Okay. Can you see my screen now. Oh yes, yes. So this is, this is a screenshot of the plugins UI. And if you see on the bottom right corner it just says brought to you by John Malek. Can you see that really. Okay. I think it's okay. Just. Okay. Right. All right, I'll stop sharing. Yeah, that, at least to me that that doesn't look at all I mean we've got, I'm confident we've got much worse things than that in some other plugins so that's, that looks great. Yeah. All right, so call for vote then. Uli. That's one. So, Alex. Last one. What's the final puzzle plus one. Kevin. Plus one. No. Fine with me plus one. Great. Thank you. All right. And I'm plus one. Thanks very much everyone. Anything else on the on that topic. The next topic then was the governance board meeting time and date so thanks everyone for being here. The doodle poll. I had total of five responses and this time worked. Let me double check are all of you okay with this as a working time for your meeting for our meeting. Yes. Great. Okay, I see heads waving and that's that's, go ahead Uli. I think we need to check this again when we are switching to summertime. Yes, yes, but for now it's pretty fun. Right. In fact, that's a good point. We've found in the past that when, when governments change clocks we typically want to adjust our meeting time to fit our, our, our personal schedules again, and so we will just plan to negotiate that. Next time the government's metal metal with clocks, please, please lobby your elected representatives to stop government meddling with clocks but that's a different problem. Yeah, should we add an action item on anybody. No, no, I've had that action item for years and made no progress. The next topic was lost donations from ffs.de so Uli, I guess this one starts with a Kevin closing out the website topic and you bringing it back could you share with us some of the status etc. The, the, the item which is in this issue is not about the website. It's about the lost earnings we got from the German donations. There were a couple of thousand dollars, which were in this website ffs.de. This is a German, you know, affiliation, or it was a German affiliation now, I think the link is almost that and I think they don't work anymore. We, it was in my election period, or in my last election period I started to work on this issue because I'm from Germany so I tried to reach the contact person. And actually they still exist, but they don't react so without using a lawyer I think we don't have a chance to see or get our money back so I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. So I think it's okay to close this issue and now we have a good documented approach on where the donations should go. And we should not make such spin offs in the future anymore. Thank you. Well, and thanks for your work on that that I was really impressed to see this from two years ago official documentation making the request etc. Thanks for doing that and I, I agree that I don't think it's worth our energy to attempt to follow legal recourse because I suspect the money is gone and the person will just at least if it's consistent with US law will just waste money on a lawyer and still not get any money. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Yeah so Linux Foundation is is our their community bridge system is our way of accepting donations now. And that feels like a much more trustworthy location, and I agree with your phrasing no spin offs in the future no, no alternate paths to attempt to collect donations. Anything else on the last donations topic. Okay, CDF outreach reboot this is just FYI that the meeting was held and now will be happening. I believe once a month they'll meet as an outreach group from CDF to help increase the adoption, some of the action items that came out of that meeting include included ways to help the Jenkins project as we're broadening and deepening involvement in Google Summer of Code, how to encourage more mentors, etc. I'm going to delete the CDF topic since Oleg's not here today. The last topic I had was community activity and this is just at my attempt to summarize things that I'm seeing in the online forums and communities. So Google Summer of Code interest is definitely growing. We're certainly needing more act more mentors and more project ideas. Thanks to Basel to Bruno and to several others for good ideas across a broad range of topics, everything from documentation site to plug in maintenance to programming improvements are all included in the set of ideas. More ideas welcomed and more mentors certainly encouraged. We've also had questions and discussions on Gitter chat and on community dot Jenkins that IO in some specific areas, commonly configuration is code. And netties and pipelines and pipeline shared libraries are recurring themes. So as we go forward, being aware of those we may find ways to better document them better describe them or address the questions in advance. And then the big one thanks to Bruno for assembling for Basel for suggesting topics and concepts and to Kevin for content work. And this letter is intended to cover 12 months of Jenkins progress. So Basel or Bruno submitted the poll request, I've got some things that I need to add to it I'm sure. And as we were going back over the list, it's an amazing thing that's happened in the Jenkins project in 12 months. And so we've had questions, improvements, platform changes, major library upgrades major major changes in all sorts of things and a continued growing installed base. So congratulations, thanks to everyone in the Jenkins project. Oh, thank you Mark to any other topics that you wanted to be sure we review today in governance board. Let's call it an end for today. Thanks very, very much.

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E-Commerce Accounting Obejectives, Business Owner, Financial Info QuickBooks Online 2023

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When thinking about e-commerce, we're usually thinking about businesses and sole proprietors that sell physical items, inventory that is, with the help and use of online web-based applications, popular applications including, for example, Shopify and Amazon, although there could be many others that would fall into this general kind of scenario. These web-based applications like a Shopify and Amazon helping to facilitate the logistics of the e-commerce business, providing an online presence to facilitate the sales oftentimes, and providing help with the logistics in order to fulfill the sales. We want to think about this from the accounting perspective now and more specifically from the perspective of someone using QuickBooks Online. How does that fit into the picture? So what are the accounting objectives of the e-commerce business then? Like with many other businesses, the general objective is to get financial information into a useful format. That's usually going to be financial statements, including a balance sheet, income statement and related reports. Why do we have to do that? Well, if you're in the United States, one reason you need to do that is to help fulfill your federal income tax obligations. So if you're sole proprietorship, you at least need an income statement in order to prepare, for example, a schedule C most likely being required for your sole proprietorship type of business for federal income taxes. And if you're another kind of business entity, then you might have both the balance sheet and the income statement that you'll need to populate basically for taxes. However, from an accounting perspective, if you're using software, you usually have a lot more accuracy because you'll be using the double entry accounting system and you'll be able to generate both the balance sheet and the income statement. It's usually a lot more accurate than just trying to create, for example, a schedule C, an income statement without a balance sheet. You can track sales tax information to comply with sales tax laws. So sales tax, when we're thinking about the United States, has different tax requirements for different states and localities. And that, of course, adds a lot of complication when we're thinking about an e-commerce type of store to see if we're subject to sales tax in different locations and how are we going to be able to collect the sales tax and remit the sales tax that we need to be dealing with. So we'll try to dive into that in a little bit of detail in future presentations. Generate useful data for decision making. Now, obviously, if you're small business, you might be focused more on simply building the store and making sales and then trying to comply with the federal tax requirements. But obviously, as you grow, you're going to need more and more accurate information to make good decisions about what kind of inventory you want to sell and what's going to be the price of the inventory. So the more accurate your financial statements, hopefully that will lead to more and better decisions about price points and so on and types of inventory that might be good for an e-commerce business. Track inventory for decision making and for taxes. So obviously, when we're talking about an e-commerce business that actually sells inventory, we've got that added level of complexity we have to deal with, tracking inventory, which is more of a problem or more difficult than a service-based type of business oftentimes because we often have to do an accrual type of thing, recording the inventory as an asset and then tracking, of course, the inventory. So we want to think about how are we going to do that from a QuickBooks perspective when we have this e-commerce platform that's facilitating the sales, for example. Integrate applications for ease of use. So clearly, when we have this other application like a Shopify or Amazon that is fulfilling the logistics of fulfilling the orders, for example, we would like to be able to do some integration between possibly a Shopify or an Amazon, for example, and possibly with our banking system to pull in basically the bank feeds. And then we also could have other applications that add a little other layer of confusion, such as the payment processing, like a PayPal and a Stripe, those kinds of services. Okay, so let's look at this from a business owner's perspective. So most people, if you are like a sole proprietor and you're starting up a Shopify store, clearly your objectives aren't usually on the accounting. It's revenue generation. You want the Shopify store in order for it to start to generate sales, obviously. Picking products, clearly people that have a Shopify store that are quite good at it are usually the ones that are quite good at picking the right products, making their website look very nice, setting up their store. So they're going to be focused a lot on if they sell with a website or like a Shopify, then of course, making the store look very nice and all that kind of stuff. Advertising is usually where the focus is going to be, not so much on accounting to make the tax man happy. So oftentimes these are going to be very people that are quite creative on advertising revenue. That's where the interest lies and they're not so focused oftentimes on the accounting and that can kind of take a backseat to some degree. Obviously when you're small business and you're trying to start a Shopify store, that's where your priorities kind of should be because if there's no revenue, then the accounting doesn't really matter all that much. You don't have really any tax obligations or anything, but obviously as the business grows, then these things become more and more relevant and they can start to become overwhelming once the business gets to a certain size and these other kind of things haven't been handled like the accounting, like the taxes and that kind of stuff. So get financial information into useful format financial statements. That's one of our objectives to try to get that financial information into a useful format. That's going to be the balance sheet and the income statement. That's what software typically like a QuickBooks financial software is designed to do. So it usually requires integrations with financial software like QBO. So what we're going to need to do then is now you've got your QuickBooks software. Now obviously if you were just running like a service business or if you were selling inventory like physical in a physical inventory instead of in an online type of situation, you can enter your financial data as they happen into QuickBooks online. But obviously all the sales that are happening are being facilitated on another web-based application. And so now then we have to pull in some information from the other applications into QuickBooks. That's going to require some integrations and the kinds of integrations we can imagine is well can I connect QuickBooks to like the Shopify and the Amazon possibly but then there's the bank that's involved too. So we might have to connect to the bank and then you've got the payment processors like PayPal and Stripes and whatnot. So we can think of integrations but it's not quite so easy. We can think about a whole lot of different types of integrations that might happen depending on the particulars of a business. So that's one of the big things that obviously is quite important to get this right and not get overwhelmed. When thinking about pulling this information into QuickBooks online, it's useful to think about two main buckets and keep them separate in our mind. One type of transaction being the sales side of transactions, the revenue side of transactions and on the other hand in the other bucket, the transactions related to tracking inventory and cost of goods sold. If you have an accounting background and you're thinking about a perpetual inventory system, you might be saying hey wait a second those two things are basically related because when I sell some inventory what should happen at that time is the sales should go up, revenue should go up and the other side cash or accounts receivable should go up, inventory should go down and the related cost of goods sold should go up. All that should happen at the same point in time in a perpetual inventory system. However, oftentimes it's useful to think of more of a periodic type of inventory system when we're trying to pull in this financial data because the sales side of the transaction is usually something that we might be able to pull in from actually Amazon or a Shopify wherever the sales are happening and or from the related bank accounts on the deposit side of things depending on how much sophistication we want to put into our system and then on the inventory side of things usually the software platforms that we are using are not tracking the actual dollar amounts of inventory in the format that we would need like first in first out or a weighted average kind of method. So we have to come up with some kind of method to track the inventory where we might use more of a periodic kind of inventory system or we might try to pull all that data into our accounting system. So those are some of the concepts that we'll get into in a little bit more detail going forward.

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MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Battlecat & Panthor 1982

This Video is NOT made for kids, This video is for adult collectors MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE | Battlecat & Panthor 1982 | MATTEL Action Figures | He-Man and Skeletor Today we take a look at the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toys with Battlecat and Panthor. Comicgeddon hosted by Shannon Cornthwaite and John Wise A Dutch Oven Production Daily and weekly uploads. Where all geek culture collides! comic books, tv shows, cw arrowverse, star trek, star wars, movie reviews, toy reviews, video games, board games, comic books for beginners, and youtube challenge videos.

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So hey guys, welcome to comic in if you're new make sure you hit the subscribe button and a little bell Count below hit the like button. I may even share with your friends Good job. We have cookies and milk might be seen in that shirt Hey guys, welcome back to comic good and this week's tour review is going to be of the master universe collection vintage battle cat and panthor That's right. He man a Skeletor had beasts to help in their battle against good and evil So let's take a closer look First off We'll go ahead and we'll do battle cat A battle cat was pretty cool because well It was battle cat. He was the most powerful beast in the universe Battle cat was pretty much just a solid green tiger No pose ability However He did come with removable armor and a Removable helmet So you can see What do you look like underneath? Now a lot of kids my age at the time would take the armor and the mask off and He'd be cringer, which was his alter identity in the TV show In many comics, however, he was always wearing the saddle, but he was not always wearing The mask the only time you wore the mask is when he man called down for the power of grayskull and then the mask Or get put right back Like so and what was really cool is he man because of his squat pose would fit right on the action figure Pretty cool Next up was Skeletor's evil kind of part the battle cat Panthor panthor was always just a little little cooler than battle cat for one particular reason Now as you'll see he is the same Sculpt as battle cat with the same armor just painted a different color what made panthor your unique is If you look closely He has felt on him. Yes, I'm feeling the felt And I can move my finger away. I felt the felt He also had these awesome Yellow eyes painted right on there and these look out of the shows on the camera, but he's really shiny This is one of the few panthors. I've come across that actually has most of its felt still on because over time it's come off with age So this is pretty cool and Like he man Skeletor with his squatted legs can fit right on top of battle cat. No problem so there you go my friends we have the Masters of the universe Collection original vintage battle cat and panthor Panthor is fairly easy to find On places like eBay if you're gonna add him to your collection He can go anywhere from fifteen twenty dollars usually Battle cat is a little tougher fine complete because you can usually find them either with his Helmet and not his saddle or you'll find with a saddle and not his helmet or you won't find him with any of it You'll have to go Get a collect and piece together yourself, which is what I had to do with this battle cat I had to get a new harness This is my original battle cat, but for some reason I was missing The saddle so the saddle ended up cost to me probably around 20 25 dollars So just to get him completed Totally worth it though when I got the saddle on there and I got my completed he-man put on there It looked amazing. I was playing with him for hours. So There you go Happy hunting my friend Hit that subscribe button make sure you hit the like

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Learning English Podcast - Extremist Groups, Dwarf Planet, AI Robot System

On today's podcast, Dan Novak and Ashley Thompson host the show while Dan tells listeners what they are about to hear. First, Dan has a story about how violent extremists groups are spreading in West Africa. Several countries in the region have insurgencies that undermine their governments including Benin. Then, John Russell has a story about new findings about the dwarf planet, Eris. Scientists have found new details about the distant member of the solar system and its moon Dysnomia. After that, Bryan Lynn has the Science Report. Today's report is about a new AI robot system developed by Chinese researchers. They say the robot can make oxygen from Mars-like rocks. They say their discovery could speed a mission to Mars involving humans. Following that Dan asks Bryan about other systems that aim to create oxygen for use on Mars. Finally, Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins discuss possessive pronouns on Lesson of the Day. Extremist Groups Spread in West Africa https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/extremist-groups-spread-in-west-africa/7348775.html Recent Study Gives New Information about Mysterious Planet https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/recent-study-gives-new-information-about-mysterious-planet/7358263.html Study: AI Robot Finds Way to Produce Oxygen from Water on Mars https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/study-ai-robot-finds-way-to-produce-oxygen-from-water-on-mars/7358138.html

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Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners. So we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. On today's program, I report on the spread of Islamist groups in West Africa. John Russell has a story on a new study about the mysterious planet Eris. Brian Lin has the science report on an AI robot that could be able to produce oxygen on Mars. Later, Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins present the lesson of the day. But first, Islamist groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have been spreading across Africa for years. The groups came from the large area south of the Sahara Desert called the Sahel. They are spreading into wealthier West African coastal nations like Benin. Militants once were believed to want to use coastal nations like Benin, Togo, and Ghana as basis for attacks on Sahel governments. Now the militant groups are strengthening. Benin has been the hardest hit. This year it had more than 10 times the number of violent incidents involving Islamists than Togo did. That information comes from the armed conflict location and event data project. Attacks by militant Islamists, or jihadis, against civilians in Benin went from more than 30 to about 80. The overall number of incidents involving jihadi groups rose by more than 70%. The jihadis' activity in Benin is mostly in the north of the country. There they try to recruit people and create division within local populations. Residents of one small town told the Associated Press recently that civilians can no longer move freely. People in Materi live in fear because of the jihadi threat. The fighters place explosives and carry out kidnappings in the area. They aim to make people lose trust in the government. The government has put in place a curfew and a ban on gatherings. I can't sleep at night. We're not free to travel to move, Materi resident Florence Bhatti said. People are too afraid. People are being displaced from their homes as attacks increase. Some people fear a humanitarian crisis. In August, more than 12,000 people were displaced from their homes in the Atacora and neighboring Alibari states. That is an increase from about 5,000 in March, the United Nations said. The violence is also pushing people from their farms. The UN estimates that tens of thousands of people could face hunger. The government is trying to improve the situation by placing additional security forces along the borders and hiring more soldiers. Local people in the north say they have seen increases in soldiers but say the army is under-equipped and is sometimes late when answering attacks. Neighboring Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali are being overrun by violence. The nations ousted French troops after the militaries there seized power. But Benin is still open to help from its former colonial power, which left in 1960. The French do not have a permanent base in the country. At Benin's request, however, French troops can take part in training programs with Beninese soldiers, a French military spokesman said. People in the north told AP that Benin's government is also trying to hide the level of the crisis. The government has limited freedom of speech and arrested reporters who cover insecurity. Local officials have said the problem does not go beyond the border with Burkina Faso. There is no terrorist, no movement, no organization, no group that has settled or tried to settle in our department said Robert Wimbocasa, the mayor of Materi. Benin is an agricultural nation of 13 million people. It has invested billions of dollars in culture and tourism. It is also building a $1.5 billion industrial area outside of the city of Kotenu, aimed at creating 300,000 jobs by 2030. The lack of information has left people in other parts of the country unaware of the security problems in the north. People in Kotenu said they did not know about the jihadi problem. They did not believe the news or said that it was a problem limited to neighboring countries. Rights groups say the government is attempting to control information while arresting people believed to be working with the jihadis. The groups say the government is pushing people into the militants' hands. Ares, a very small planet similar in size to Pluto, has remained a mystery since its discovery in 2005. The American Space Agency, NASA, explored Pluto in 2015 using its spacecraft New Horizons. Ares, about 40% farther from the sun, has never been visited. But scientists are gaining a fuller understanding of Ares and its differences with Pluto. A recent study provides details about the little planet's structure and composition based on its relationship with its moon Dysnomia. Ares, researchers said recently, appears to have a rocky inside under a level of ice. Pluto also has an icy outside with rock below, but has a higher ice content and is thought to have an underground liquid ocean. We already knew that Ares is more rock-rich than Pluto but what we didn't know was whether Ares had separated the rock from the ice said study lead writer Francis Nemo of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The study appeared in the publication Science Advances. Nemo said Ares got hot enough at some point in history to melt and all the rock sank to the center. The ice is not motionless but is experiencing a slow churning motion driven by leftover heat from the inside. Most likely there is no liquid ocean inside Ares, Nemo said. Ares has a diameter of about 2,326 kilometers. Pluto's is a little bigger at about 2,370 kilometers. Both are smaller than the Earth's moon which has a diameter of 3,475 kilometers. Because of the greater amount of rock which is denser than ice Ares has about 25% more mass than Pluto. As I like to think of it, take Pluto and add every single asteroid in the asteroid belt and you get Ares, said study co-writer Mike Brown, one of the three scientists who discovered Ares. Ares orbits at an average of about 68 times further from the Sun than Earth. It completes a full turn around the Sun in 557 years. The moon, dysnomia, is about 700 kilometers in diameter and made up mostly of ice. Just like the Earth-Moon system, tides on Ares slowly push dysnomia away and slow down the spin of Ares. This process has gone to completion. Ares and dysnomia always present the same face to the other, Nemo said. Pluto has this same system with its moon Sharon, while the Earth-Moon system differs. The moon always presents the same face to the Earth, but the Earth does not return the favor, Nemo said. Ares and Pluto are located beyond Neptune, the outermost of our solar system's eight bigger planets. The International Astronomical Union, which sets definitions for planetary science, recognizes five very small planets known as dwarf planets, Ceres, Helmia, and Maki Maki, in addition to Ares and Pluto. Ares is the most massive of them. The new findings fill in some questions about Ares. Each of the largest dwarf planets is unique, and we should be cautious about inferring too much from what we know about Pluto, Brown said. I'm John Russell. Chinese researchers say they have built an artificial intelligence, AI, robot, that can carry out chemical reactions to produce oxygen from water on Mars. The system could be another way for space travelers in the future to make much needed oxygen on Mars. Humans visiting the red planet will need oxygen to support life. The gas could also be used to make rocket fuel, which is difficult to transport to space. Scientists have already established from multiple studies that Mars contains large amounts of water. Most of the water exists in the form of ice. Developers of the new robot system in China say it can be used to release oxygen from the planet's water supply. Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hafe led the research. The team explored whether an AI robot could use materials found on Mars to produce catalysts to break down water and release oxygen. A catalyst is a substance that permits certain chemical reactions to happen. Experiments were carried out on meteorites that either came from Mars or contained materials similar to the Martian surface. The researchers said the robot chemist first used an acid and chemical mixture to separate and examine materials contained in the meteorites. It identified several different metallic elements including iron, nickel, magnesium and aluminum. The machine then worked to identify different molecules that could be produced from meteorite materials. The team said the system found more than 3.7 million possible molecule combinations. The robot used that data to predict which catalysts would be able to split water molecules to produce oxygen. The catalyst chosen as the best fit was able to operate at minus 37 degrees Celsius. This temperature is similar to current conditions on Mars. A press release announcing the experimental findings said the AI chemist was able to complete the whole process without human involvement in just two months. The release claimed such an operation would take 2,000 years for a human chemist to finish. The publication Nature's Synthesis reported the full results of the study. The study's lead writer, Jun Zhang, told the website space.com that as a boy he often dreamed of being able to one day travel in space. So when we finally saw that the catalysts made by the robot could actually produce oxygen by splitting water molecules, I felt like my dream was coming true. I even started to imagine that I myself will live on Mars in the future. The researchers said they plan next to test whether their AI system performs well under a series of other conditions besides temperature found on Mars. A report explaining the study's results in Nature notes, Zhang suggests that for every square meter of Martian material, his group's system could produce nearly 60 grams of oxygen per hour. The researchers say this level of production could remove the need for future astronauts to transport oxygen from Earth. The robot can work continuously for years, Zhang said. Zhang told Nature he thinks his team's robotic system could also be used to produce other useful catalysts on Mars. This could include processes for making substances to support the growth of plants that could be used to produce food for astronauts. Different chemicals can be made by this robot, Zhang said. He noted that Mars might also not be the only place where it could find other uses, suggesting the moon as another possibility. I'm Brian Lin. Brian Lin is here now to talk more about his science report. Thanks for joining me, Brian. Sure, Dan. Glad to be here. This week you described an AI system scientists say can produce oxygen from water without any human help. The research centered on this system being used in the future on Mars. Are other oxygen-making technologies also being developed for use in space? Yes, so we learned that the AI system created by Chinese researchers could provide enough oxygen to support astronauts spending long periods on Mars. But there are other systems under development. Earlier this year, for example, we reported on a device shown to be able to convert carbon dioxide from the Mars atmosphere, essentially from air into oxygen. And this system has been tested on NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. So far, the testing has involved very small amounts of oxygen, but developers are confident such a system can be scaled up to provide much larger levels. Always interesting having you on, Brian. Thanks for joining me. You're welcome, Dan. Thank you. My name is Anna Matteo. My name is Andrew Smith. And my name is Jill Robbins. You're listening to The Lesson of the Day on the Learning English Podcast. Welcome to the part of the show where we help you do more with our series Let's Learn English. This series shows Anna Matteo in her work and life in Washington, D.C. In Lesson 37 of the series, Anna finds a backpack outside her office building and tries to find the person it belongs to. Let's listen. You know, I am from the country. And sometimes I miss it. But I really like life in the city. I love the city. Oh, look, someone lost a bag. Maybe it's theirs. Excuse me. Is this bag yours? No, it's not mine. It might be hers. Thank you. Hello. Is this bag yours? Yes, that's mine. These are all my travel things. Thank you. Thank you. Luckily for this traveler, Anna found his bag and brought it to him. Anna was thinking to herself. I wonder whose bag it is. I don't know. Anna was thinking to herself. I wonder whose bag this is. That's whose, spelled W-H-O-S-E, which refers to possession. That means to whom the object or idea belongs. Right. So if you find something and you're not sure whose it is, one thing you can ask is, Whose is this? Remember that this word, whose, is spelled differently than the contraction of the two words, who is. Those two words form a subject and verb, like this. Who's the President of the United States? The contraction and the possessive adjective both sound the same. They are both pronounced with the sound of the letter Z at the end. Whose bag is this? Who's the President of the United States? And when we talk about to whom something belongs, we use possessive pronouns. We heard these when Anna was trying to find out whose bag she found. Oh, look. Someone lost a bag. Maybe it's theirs. Excuse me. Is this bag yours? No, it's not mine. It might be hers. Thank you. Excuse me. Is this bag yours? No, it's not mine. It might be his. Thank you. Hello. Is this bag yours? Yes, that's mine. These are all my travel things. Thank you. Thank you. You'll notice that these possessive pronouns sound almost the same as possessive adjectives. For example, the adjective form of the pronoun you is your. Like when we say this is your bag. And then for the possessive pronoun, we just add the letter S. For example, this bag is yours. But notice that the S at the end sounds like the letter Z. Yours. If you listen carefully, you can hear a bit of the sound of the letter S at the end of a word like yours. So the sound of Z is not as strong or as long as in a word like zero. Instead, it's more like a Z with a little S at the end. Yours. Now listen to these five possessive pronouns. Yours, his, hers, ours, theirs. We'll listen to a chant at the end of today's lesson of the day to give you a fun way to practice saying these possessive pronouns. Oh, we will. Whose idea was that? That idea was mine. Well, I'm not surprised. Let's go back to lesson 37 and see what the owner of the bag and Anna talk about. Are you okay? You seem nervous. Well, this is my first visit to Washington, D.C. I'm from a small town in the country. I feel a little lost. I'm from the country, too. And I understand when I first came here, I felt lost all the time. So do you like living in the country or in the city? I like to live in the city. Why? The city is exciting. It has more culture than the country. There are many museums and restaurants. Every night there's theater and music. And there are more jobs. That is why I'm here. Well, I agree. There is more culture in the city. And there might be more jobs, but the country has more nature. It's peaceful and beautiful. There are more trees and mountains. The air is clean. You can go hiking and camping. The city is not beautiful. It's noisy and dirty. I disagree. I think all the different buildings are beautiful. And I like to watch all the different people. Anna and the man from the country. And we should note that when the man uses the word country, he means he is from a rural area, not a city. It does not mean he's from a foreign country. Good point. Anna and the man from the country are talking about which kind of place they prefer. Prefer is a verb. It means to like something more compared to another thing. Anna prefers the city, while the man prefers the country. So they are talking about their preferences. Preference is a noun. It means the thing or the choice that you like more. And we can use it or the verb form to form a question. For example, we can ask, Which do you prefer, the city or the country? Do you already know or have mentioned the choices you can just ask? Do you have a preference? Or you can ask, Do you have a preference between the two? Anna and the man prefer different things. In another lesson of the day, we'll listen to more of lesson 37 of Let's Learn English and find out if Anna and the man continue to disagree or if they share some preferences. And here's a question for our listeners. Do you have a preference between living in the city or the country? You can let us know which you prefer by writing to us at LearningEnglishatvoanews.com. So Andrew, we're almost out of time. How about we listen to that chant with possessive pronouns? Okay, let's do it. And special thanks to my friend Jennifer, who helped record the chant. Here it is. It's mine. It's mine. Is everything yours? Not everything's mine. This one's yours. And that one's hers. And those are his. But what about these? These are mine. But what about those? Those are mine. Are you gonna share? Of course I'll share. Whenever we share, It's not just yours. It's not just mine. It's yours and mine. It's yours and mine. It's yours and mine. It's yours and mine. And together, it's ours. I'd like the ending of that chant. It can feel good to share with others. And if you enjoy the lesson of the day on the Learning English podcast, we hope you will share it with other people. You can do that by finding us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. And you can find all of the Let's Learn English series on our website, learningenglish.voanews.com. Thanks for listening. I'm Dr. Jill. And I'm Andrew Smith. And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep Learning English through stories from around the world. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak.

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Top 5 Overtakes ⚔️ #GermanSGP | FIM Speedway Grand Prix

It was a test of technical skill at the #GermanSGP 💪 Take a look back at the top overtakes from Teterow! 💥 #FIMSpeedwayGP Keep up with all the latest news by signing up to our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2IvuSTY Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://bit.ly/BrM1C495lh Like Us On Facebook: http://bit.ly/2FDk7l5 Follow Us On Twitter: http://bit.ly/2tNPaBi Follow Us On Instagram: http://bit.ly/2VZbTIK The toughest 60 seconds in motorsport! 15 permanent riders battle it out for World Championship points on 500cc bikes with a single fixed gear and no brakes!

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For heat number six Johnson Doyle they are a touch impatient he's missed the start because Martin Vasili has made a superb start off the inside door hugging the inside here comes Lambert Lambert down the outside but Doyle is not an easy man to putt oh what an effort from Lambert he just literally stormed around the outside Doyle around the inside as Vasili hits the front but Robert Lambert just stuck to his guns at that point down the straight you've got to say absolutely no chance of stopping Jason Doyle's entry into the corner and I'll tell you what comes from the fence rides across him stops at the earliest opportunity they can stops that charge up the inside of Jason Doyle fantastic opening that from Lambert Lambert on right from the get-go here takes her up and we're away Nielsen's matter smashing star on the inside and it's Thompson now gets across from the outside oh is that outside gonna work it is and it's Thompson fabulous stuff from him trusted the bike didn't clamp down to the inside and it makes a decent start from gate four now he doesn't think I'm gonna have to stop the run of Tyre Wuffin and the magic you know ski just thinks like I let the bike run around the outside generates plenty of speed Kim Nielsen riding quite defensively going into turn three leaves him all the room in the world and within the space of a half a lap and as Thompson's pulled himself a decent this year and he's having to work very hard for every single point but that's his diminutive style back in the seat now he's gonna have a chance to run across the corner superb effort there from Smarsley Mikkelsen opened the door Smarsley there was ready to pound he realizes he's got too much traction but there that was the important part just caught the edge of the dirt that just gave him that little bit of extra drive a little bit extra speed just to run across the front there of Mikkel Mikkelsen already you can see Mikkelsen's head just turning sage you know that that's a mistake from me that is here we are then heat number 12 pressure time for the former three-time world champion and their underweighs made a good fist of it just about that hot

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Interview : Rebecca Tracey (Uncaged Life) -- You need a clear offer more than any marketing strategy

Business without Social Media (free training) -- https://theuncagedlife.com/no-social/ The "Uncaged Lifers" Facebook Group (great place to do market research) -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/UncagedLifers/ Becca's coaching program to help you clarify your offer: https://uncageyourbusiness.com

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All right, I believe we are live. So welcome, Rebecca, or Rebecca holds you. I know, I think this is my first time on YouTube. I'm scared. No, you've been on YouTube. I've seen your YouTube videos. You've seen me on YouTube? Where? I know, right? I'm like, what? I'm on YouTube? I'm sure that some things have been like, are you perfect? We don't have a YouTube channel. Yeah, yeah, but you've been interviewed several times on YouTube, so folks who like this interview, you can go look up Rebecca Tracy on YouTube and you'll find her other interview. I don't think I've been live on YouTube. Live on YouTube is definitely, yeah, that's just the same as being on YouTube, except we're not editing this thing, so it's going to be really authentic. So all right, we have kind of known about each other for years, I think mainly because of Tad Hargrave, marketing for hippies, you guys don't know, it's a great, great guy, great teachings and things. And how did you, like, you've collaborated with Tad over the years, like a couple of times, right? Yeah. Yeah, and yeah, so that's kind of the point of like kind of like colleagues from that place. And I've always thought, wow, you look like you have a pretty great business and you have a Facebook group of 15,000 people and your team is very active and kind of caring for the members and you have a coaching program, a year long coaching program that's very active as well and a couple of hundred people in there and I was just part of your series. And by the way, folks, we're going to talk about in this video, in this interview, I'm going to be, we're going to be talking about how do we grow a business, particularly in the beginning, because there are a lot of people who are watching this who are either in the beginning, like as a life coach or a nutritionist or a holistic healer, but haven't gotten traction yet or maybe it's been a year or two or even longer and you're still looking for the best ways to get traction in a way that feels authentic or feels good to you. So we are going to be touching on the topic of how do we do that without relying on social media? And because Rebecca just hosted a whole series of, it was like a dozen, no, like 15 or something people, right? Experts who all contributed to this topic of how might we do this without social media? I have to say I was the lone rebel saying, well, I'm going to talk about social media anyway. Actually, a few others did. A few others did. I actually listened to, I think all of them actually. Oh, cool. Did you learn anything new? I did. I mean, it was amazing how there were a couple of common strategies that people were talking about, like going to live events, meeting people and reaching out to your existing people and how people heard about you and having a good offer and things like that. But everybody talked about it in such interesting ways. And so again, right now as of this recording, the series is not available at this time, but Rebecca, you're going to relaunch it in the summer of 24. Yeah, it was such great content. We did it kind of as a time limited thing. And now we're like, well, shoot, we hope all this amazing content that we should reuse. So we are going to do an encore presentation of it, not till August. So it's very far away. Everyone who's watching this will forget about it by then. But maybe they'll be pleasantly surprised when they see us promoting it. Yeah. And, Becca, you already have an evergreen free training on how to do business without, so how to grow your business without social media. Yes, it definitely did not have as many strategies as was in the series. Yeah, but still, it's what worked for you and what you recommend to your people. So I will be linking that below. So those of you watching this on YouTube live, sorry, you got to wait until after I finish this, but you can actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to pull this up because I have your website up here and I just want to make sure that it's already, people can already go there if they want to. There it is. Yay. There it is. This is fun. Yeah. You need to do a website review for me? Oh, well, maybe, no. I'll roast it right now. No, well, let's go to the free. Can you imagine? You start tearing it apart. It's like, you weren't expecting that. So, and then here it is, how to build your business without social media for your training and there it is. So folks, check it out, theuncagedlife.com slash no dash social. And I'm sure it's good. So I haven't watched yet, but. You don't need to watch it. You know the strategies already. Well, hearing how you interviewed the others in the series, I know you know your stuff and the series itself, let me just take a minute to talk about this. Like, it was the most interesting collab, collaboration I've been part of, as far as long as I remember. And I've been here since 2009. Yeah. Because usually when you do a summit, right? And for those of you watching this, if you're thinking of doing collaborations with colleagues and like the traditional way is either to start a podcast and interview, do interviews like this, maybe YouTube live or whatever, Facebook live, Instagram live, the difference and or like create a whole summit where it's like really intense and you have to like so much organizing and the difference with how Becca did it was, we did it over voice messaging back and forth. Right. And you didn't use the Voxer app before this, correct? I never used the app. Okay, most other people had, I think it was you and someone else who were like, I've never used this before, but... Yeah, because if I were to do it, I'd probably do it on either Facebook messaging or like WhatsApp or something like that. But it doesn't matter because it worked out well. And what was special about this is when you're in the live interview like this, you have to respond in real time, kind of just off the cuff, right? Like just shoot from the hip. What other analogies can I use? No. So you just have to like say what's intuitively coming to you. Whereas with the messages we were passing back and forth, you know, you were willing to wait an hour or a day before you... Yeah, it was a few days in between some of them. I had to go back and listen. I was like, shit, what did they say again? Exactly. Yeah, so it was great because we worried, but I was like, these are the smartest people I've ever met. Like how come these interviews are so smart? I'm like, oh, that's right. They had time to think. Right. And most of them, you don't have time to think. And this is, I mean, were you planning on this being one of the major factors of why this is different? Or it's just kind of happened that way. It was more that I really like the Voxer. So the app that we use is called Voxer. It's a voice message app. It's similar to WhatsApp, but you don't need somebody's phone number to add them. And you can listen in real time. So like if you were leaving me a message now, I could be listening to it as you're doing it. So it's kind of like an easy way to have conversations when you don't want to get on like a call like this. And so I use it all the time in my business with other business colleagues and friends. And it's just kind of the way that we catch up and keep in touch with each other. And I like it because it's something you can do. Like I'll often be walking my dog and I'll be messaging someone being like, hey, about that strategy we were talking about, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, wow, I do this all the time. And it is where like so many good ideas come from. And it's so different than if I was, I don't, I would never get on a Zoom call with any of the people that I talk to normally on Voxer. Like we would do an interview, but we wouldn't have these kind of like casual conversations like we do in the app. And I was like, that's interesting. And there's something about it. And I liked that you don't have to get on video. And I liked that we're not setting, what actually what I liked about it was that when we were inviting our collaborators like you and everybody else, we didn't have to be like, okay, so we're going to schedule an interview. We're going to do the whole thing. It was like, it's going to happen over the course of these like one or two weeks. And that's pretty flexible. And you can answer whenever you want, if you're walking your dog, doing dishes, sitting at your desk, like, I don't care when you send your answer, it doesn't, it's irrelevant. And so it felt like there was just more flexibility and easier for people to be like, I can do that. I don't have to get ready. Don't have to look video ready. Don't have to be sitting at my desk at a certain time. Yeah. I mean, here on video, like Becca, you had to put on makeup and get a new house to be ready. No, I'm kidding. I was saying I put on the zoom filter today, but yes. No. Yeah, I mean, it's just a different, it's different. Yeah, it was different. And I loved how one of them, I'm now forgetting the name, like she was just waking up and she was like, oh, you know what, it felt so real. It felt so real. People are like, they're like doing, you can hear things in the background, they're like doing dishes. We tried to keep the audio. Shaking in the ears, you know, where you could hear the dogs, you know, shaking around. Yeah, that was me, my dog shaking in the background. Yeah, and like it did, it turned out really well. And I don't remember if I told you this, I did tell a lot of the people I was participating. We might have actually been finished our conversation, but I, in the middle of all of this, I was going through a pretty bad personal playing, a pregnancy loss, yeah, literally in the middle of the interviews. And so it was like, I was like, oh my God, I have to, so thank God I didn't have a bunch of Zoom calls scheduled because I could give myself, and I let people know we're gonna be delayed and I gave myself a couple of days and I was like, I just need some time before you'll hear a response from this. And it still worked, like the interviews, I don't know, probably didn't sound quite as cheery in the second half of the interviews, but I do think that's another reason why I love things that are not done with these scheduled time slots because it really does allow you to have the flexibility of like all the things that are gonna happen in your life. Yes, yes. And you put it into a private podcast feed and one of the people you interviewed was the founder of the private podcast feed software. Yeah, yeah, Lindsay, hello audio. Yeah, and so it was interesting. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that because anyone who's thinking of collaboration and doesn't want to do a lot of video and lights the flexibility of what we just talked about, again, you're just recording messages back and forth with your colleagues. And the nice thing, like I said, is that it gave me time to think. It gave me time to like, okay, what would be a better response? And sometimes I waited a day before I set something so that it would be a better contribution than if I just off the cuff immediately set something. So that was- I will say that as a strategy, it is, I mean, I didn't do the tech stuff because I have a wonderful team that does that, it is more to implement because you have to download every conversation individually. So we had to like figure out how to get ginger into those conversations and then stitch them all together and then actually get them into the private podcast. So there are a couple of little tech things that we had never done before because we never knew to us. It's not a big deal. And I think a lot of people again, who are just starting out, have more time than money. So it's- They got time to figure it out. It's not a big deal to just download these audios and then just use any kind of basic audio editing tool. These days, you go online, there's a bunch of free audio editing online. I'm sure you just piece of it. I don't know how to do any of that these days. Yeah, but these days- Yeah, I love Hello Audio. I would definitely put in a plug for Hello Audio because it's been such a cool tool. We use it for our blogs. So basically anytime I write new content on blog or newsletter, I read it on Hello and put it onto a podcast on Hello Audio. So if people are like, I hate reading blogs but I can easily listen to these 10 minute episodes. Kind of another way to get content in front of people. We've used it for freebies. Yeah, there's all kinds of cool ways that you can use it. That's really great. Okay, I wanna, as promised, talk about marketing without social media, particularly for those who don't have a large audience. Yeah, they can just email their list of 5,000 and then get a bunch of clients or whatever. But they're starting out, obviously they have some friends, colleagues who might be willing to help them out. But what is your, and I know you have a whole free training on this. So maybe kind of give me just a very brief outline anyway of what the strategy is and we'll have a conversation around that. Yeah, so a lot of the strategy is, it's funny, cause in the free training, we're like, bear with us cause we'll get to the strategies. But there's like this preliminary stuff that we need to talk about first. And that is all, a lot of, like that's what my program focuses on. So obviously we're gonna talk about that. But that is really, I think it's a strategy on its own but all of that is like clarity and specificity and clarity of the niche, ability to talk about what you do, specificity in what you do, ability for other people to just easily understand it, not covering it with kind of language and jargon, right? So a lot of it is that those like foundational bits that I could give you the best marketing strategy in the world. And if you can't articulate who you help, it doesn't, the strategy means nothing, right? So I feel like if you're gonna watch the training, know that we're gonna talk about those things first because those things need to be in place. And I'll sometimes have people come to me and they're like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, like I have all that. I just wanna know the strategy like YouTube, this or that. And I'm like, okay, well, I look at their website and I'm like, I don't even know what you do. Like the strategy is I'm not going to help you. And so we have to get these things nailed down. And that alone is a strategy because every single thing you do, every one you talk to, every piece of content you put out, you don't care where it is, is now gonna start to work better for you. So I feel like it's hard to talk about the like, go post five times on YouTube and go do whatever without having that base. Yeah, it's a good point because it's a very good point because it's true. A lot of times, beginners, people who are not super marketing savvy think that just like you said, oh, if you just use YouTube or if you just use Instagram, like suddenly all the clients are gonna start happening and you just need to post, some people tell me, George, just tell us like Tuesday at 11 a.m. you should post here. And then on Thursday at 4 p.m. Which cash thanks? If you just do that, then you'll be fine. You'll be checking all the boxes and somehow crimes will show up. And you're right. It's like, I always tell people like, money comes from, your income comes from other people deciding to spend money. And so they have to decide to spend money with you. And if they don't want what you have or they don't understand what you have, well, then it doesn't matter how much you post. You post five times a day and have a 10,000 person audience. And I've seen that. I've seen social media accounts with tons of thousands and tens of thousands of followers and having conversations with them privately. I'm like, wow, you really are struggling, aren't you? So, and then on the other hand, I've also known people who have no social media presence whatsoever, but they're kind of like a best kept secret because what they do is super helpful for people and people know exactly how to refer people. Or referral based. Yeah. So it's not enough, right? Is it not enough to say, I'm a life coach and I can help you with anything because my life coach will allow you to. Yeah, and I think I've just had that too where I've had people come to me and they're like, I am like, took a course in social media. I even hired it out. I hired an agency and they're doing all this work and I look at their social and it looks great. I'm like, oh, this is really pretty and I start poking through, but I'm like, you're not saying anything. Like there's nothing in here. You're not, first of all, you're never selling. There's nothing in here that's telling me that you have a service available. And it's a lot of like quotes and memes and images and like nice ideas, but like it's not, it's not something that's gonna make me click over and be like, holy shit, I need to pay you money right now for this. And so it's too bad because I feel like people who do that, like people are trying hard, right? New business owners, no one is sitting, most new business aren't sitting around being like, well, I hope the clients just come in. Like they're really trying to implement these strategies, at least the people when they get to me and probably when they get to you. And so it's sad to see that it's not working. And so I'm such like, just like I'm constantly beating the drum of this message of like, it just has to be niched in and it has to be clear. And it's not something to be taken personally. If people don't like what you're selling, it doesn't mean that you're not good at what you do and you're never gonna have clients. It just means you're not articulating it well or you haven't identified exactly what the thing is that they wanna pay for. And that's what the work is. There are so many problems in the world that people have so much pain that people are going through, so much healing that they want to do, actually, and things that they want to achieve that there's more than enough clients out there for everyone if we could only just offer them what they want. So one of the points I've been making, I like being a rebel as you know, and I'm curious what you think about this or whether we can agree to disagree. But I tell people, listen, if you're having a really hard time like taking all of your multi-talented, multi-passion stuff into one niche for your entire professional identity, I say, hey, listen, maybe you can let go of niching yourself, but you do need to niche your offers. Yes. Yeah. Okay, so. Yeah, no, I agree with that. I think what I've seen though is then people are like, okay, well, and they create like a bunch of different offers that are totally unrelated, but then try to sell them from kind of one home base. And I'm like, mm, it's fine. I think I agree. I totally think you can have a niche didn't offer that's super narrow. I think everyone should have that. And you spend the time marketing it and you sell it out. And then it would almost be like you're moving on to then switching all of your marketing, all your messaging to like this different offer, which is fine if it's just a lot of work. If some people want to do that though, I totally think it's fine to play around with different offers, but not at the same time. Like you can't be selling five different offers in different niches in an effective way at the same time. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands, but even then I don't think it works. Right, I think that's reasonable. It's the whole thing of, you chase two rabbits, you catch neither one. Right, yeah. So it is sort of like if there's a momentum being built with your audience, your network, remembering you for this, and then you switching gears and offering this other thing, it's just gonna, it's possible, it's just gonna take them, you know, adjusting their minds. Like if they have to build up again for the new thing, which is fine if you want to do that. And every time you do it, you learn how to do it better. Right, so it is like you, if you're really great at marketing, you can actually do that more effectively. The problem is it takes people some time to get really great at marketing enough to be able to do that. Yeah, so then this clarifying of the offer into something that people actually want to buy is one of those, maybe one of the foundations or the main thing that your coaching program helps with. Yeah, like a lot of my students will come in and have kind of a, even if they have a niche, they'll be like my niches, you know, life, like life transitions and grief, you know. Oh my gosh, I hear that a lot. The loss of a job, or getting divorced, or loss of, or moving cultures, or death. And I'm like, right, so they have what they feel is sort of like a theme, or they think it's a niche, it's really more of kind of a broad theme. And we just like work to get it to something so specific. Because I'd much rather somebody niche and offer and sell that out than stress about finding like the perfect niche for their whole entire business forever. Because, yeah. Yes, now, okay. What would you say to somebody who says, oh, I don't like, I don't know how I would say this, like it's almost like they're saying, I don't like being concrete about it, because the work I do is so much deeper. I don't know if you've heard that. Yeah, I mean, I have a lot to say to them. I mean, I will usually, I understand because I have been there, most of the people we've worked with have been there. And I think what, I will usually articulate all the reasons to go more narrow and remind them that like when you get in the door, when you get a client in, even in this narrow niche, they are still a client sitting in front of you with all of their problems. And so like, you still get to do the deep work. I'd argue you get to actually do deeper work when you're niched in because you can really get into it. Whereas if you're working with 10 different people, with 10 different, completely different problems and different niches, then you never really get to develop your skills around like that particular niche. So I do think you get deeper with your coaching and your skills when you niche in. And then I let people kind of choose. I'm like, great, like if you, I definitely have had students who are like, nope, I don't wanna do it. I'm just gonna stay out here and stay kind of broad. I'm like, great, go on to our next module, go on to the next steps, see how it goes. Like, I'm not here to tell you it's not gonna work, like maybe it'll work. And so we go on, they test it out. They almost inevitably come back and are like, okay, it's too hard. We're like, I'm finding everyone kind of wants this one thing. And so then it's like, okay, so maybe we like nudge a little bit more that way. So I think sometimes you do just have to experience it. Like any coach can tell you to niche. And if you're just resisting it, you're not gonna do it. So I do like to allow people to kind of find it on their own through taking the next steps versus trying to force them into something that's just not gonna feel good from the beginning. It usually feels good by the end. When they start to see, they're like, okay, I'm just gonna try this one narrow area and then clients come in and they start getting paid and they start being like, whoa, this work is like, I'm actually getting to do the work. They usually are like, okay, this is good. This is a good decision. But sometimes it just takes time to get there, which I totally respect. Yeah, and clients who come for this one thing, one specific thing, like you said, once they like your energy signature, I call it, I mean, they're much more willing to, it feels natural to talk about other things and you could start presenting other possibilities to them. But I'm actually glad we focused on this because marketing on social media, well, there's a whole free training that you offer, which we will link to. But this thing is so key that if you don't get the offer right, I mean, if you do get the offer right, let's say, it's not like it sells itself because you do have to still tell people about it, but it's like the telling people about it, it's not rocket science. You could literally write a list of 20 supporters in your life, friends, colleagues, class, fellow classmates or whatever, and then get their opinion about it, get their feedback. But it's like, if people light up and go, oh my gosh, I can think of, oh, this is very clear. Oh, I can think of this, oh, it's very, I can definitely imagine thinking of people that to refer to you, that's such good news. And then the marketing part of it becomes much easier and it becomes like a mission, I think. Because once you start helping people and you're like, oh man, I'm really good at this. Like people need my help. And then it's like, of course, I mind what people know. I feel like when you stay broad and you're kind of like still trying to even articulate what you do and you can't even get anyone in the door because no one really quite understands it, it's like you're not even getting to do the work that you set out to do. It's like you're just stuck in this marketing shipstorm where you can't get anything, right? Like you niche in and you get clients in and it's like, oh, okay, I was so resistant to niching, but niching is what's actually allowing me to work with people. And do I wanna focus on marketing being so hard because it doesn't make any sense or do I wanna actually work with people? And I think once people get in and they're actually doing the work, it's almost like they laugh at how hard niching was for them because they start to see it's not that big a deal. It actually allows you to do what you wanna do. And there's still wiggle room within the niche and there's room to go deeper and there's still room to pivot as you go. It's just so much easier to get started. Yeah, that's really good. And it's nice that you have a coaching program focused on that because you've got a couple hundred people in there that there's this kind of momentum that's built and people, members probably feel safer and more supported to actually take these steps, which is great. So I'm really glad you're offering it. I'll be sure to link that below as well. And my goodness, the time is already flying by. So is there anything else you loved saying to those folks who are in the beginning-ish stages of growing your business? Oh my gosh, I think a big piece of it, especially like with the conversation around niching is like being willing to let go of what you thought it was gonna be. Cause I find a lot of people come and I did this to where I was like, I had this concept or this idea and I was like, I'm gonna start a business around it. And once you get into it, it's like you start to realize like this is my idea but your business is actually about other people. Your business is actually more about other people than it is about you. And so being willing to like take the feedback and do the market research and take what they are telling you and shift your idea. Cause I find it's people who get her so rigid with like, no, it's gonna be this thing and are not willing to change it that just end up spinning in circles. And so I just think you have to have that flexibility where it's like, it's your idea and it's the market. And then like, how do we mesh those things together? I think that's the thing that I see my students coming into my program will often ask me like what's the difference between people who are successful in the program and people who aren't. And one of my first answers is like, you have to be willing to just move with what you're seeing and not get so hung up on the thing that you came in with. I love that. Yeah. This is, I think the danger of, well, ironically people, they might even come in thinking they've niched themselves. Right? Like they might even done the work with other programs or other coaches or whatever. And so they get, I call it like they get so ossified into one identity and it's painful to let that, this is me go. And this is why I soften the message by saying, you don't have to niche yourself, but do niche your offer. And you can have a thousand offers in your lifetime, a hundred offers in your lifetime at the very least. I certainly have. But if you want to make money sooner rather than later, or like you said, business is more about other people, if you want to be about yourself, then it's a hobby, which is fine. You could keep it a hobby and do it for friends. You can do it for yourself. I've said that cold hard fact to people too, where I'm like, do you want to make money? And of course we're not just saying, do you want to make money at any cost and throw out all your ethics and all the things, but like, do you want to make money or do you want to have an idea that you're kind of just going to try to play with because the way to make money is to go in this direction, the way to make money faster. And I think that's really important when you're new because the thing that makes people burn out is going for so long and not seeing any traction. And so I want to prevent people from doing that. And it's like, just get some money coming in from one niche offer. And then you can totally change your mind, I don't care, but like you need to see that positive feedback and that positive return, literally like in your bank account to have the motivation to keep going. So like, let's get that happening. And then we can talk about like the thing over here and all the other ideas. Yeah. And I mean, it's fine to have kind of two tracks in your efforts. One is, all right, this is going to create a livelihood sooner because I'm really solving people's painful problems or their most intriguing goals that they're willing to pay for. And then on this side, parallel, I'm doing my hobby and this might turn into a long-term audience who's going to buy anything I want to sell, that I feel like selling. But that is a long-term pathway. But yeah, so I'm grateful that we are talking about this because that really is like 80% of the way there whereas the marketing, social media part of it is way smaller. Honestly, to me, I'm like, that's so easy. Here's 12 ways you can go market your business. Like any of them are fine, they can all work, play around, see which one you like best. But like when the messaging is solid and the niche is there and there's like a compelling offer, it's any of them, I don't care which one you do. I feel like I'm like marketing model agnostic. I'm like, go on YouTube, go on social, don't go on social, network. It doesn't actually matter, all of them work. Yeah, yeah, this is great. Thank you so much. And by the way, the Facebook group that you manage, your team manages, 15,000 people is also a good place to go do market research. Yes, yeah, we sort of turned into like a market research hub which I'm okay with because I'm like, people are like, where do I ask people? And I'm like, go into the group, there's 15,000 people, it doesn't matter if they're in your niche, they're gonna know someone who's in your niche. Yes, yes. Yeah, so it's definitely great for that. And a great place to potentially find collaborations as well because a lot of people in there are growing and they're learning a lot of this stuff. So I'll be sure to link that below as well but you can also find it on Facebook, it's Uncaged Business. Uncaged Lifers is the free. Uncaged Lifers, L-I-F-E-R-S. So okay, well I'll link those things below. Yeah, great. Thank you so much for showing up. Yeah, thanks, it was nice chatting with you face to face. Yeah, for sure, it was great.

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City Of The Living Dead (Movie Review)

Carlin gives a review of the 1981 Italian horror film City Of The Living Dead, which was written and directed by Lucio Fulci and also written by Dardano Sacchetti. This movie is currently available on the Shudder streaming service.

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Thanks for checking out this movie review. This is for the 1980 film city of the living dead And this is a Luchio Fulci film and surprisingly enough to maybe some people out there But maybe not other people. This is my first Luchio Fulci film. I believe I know some people will be like Oh my god, why haven't you seen zombie? Why haven't you seen zombie 2? Which I believe zombie 2 is the one that has the shark and zombie underwater fight scene Which I've heard so much about so I'll get there. This is just another one of those things where I have so much on my horror list to get to and I'm just finally getting these things So city of the living dead is available on shutter currently So that's where I watched it when I'm dropping this review. It's there So go and check that out now. They actually have a bunch of Fulci on there, which is cool so I'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute because I do want to do more of the Fulci stuff Not just watching it myself, but also doing the reviews and putting them up here So you may see a bunch more of that and I'll probably even create my own playlist on my channel for Luchio Fulci films Like I did for Dario Argento as well because I'm going through a bunch of those as well So let's get into it written and directed by Luchio Fulci like I said some of the films that he's known for Don't torture a duckling which is available on shutter at the moment zombie also available on shutter The New York Ripper and a cat in the brain now I have not seen any of those because like I said city of the living dead is my first This was also written by Dardano Siketi or Siketi. I don't know which way you say it, but his other writing credits are demons demons to 1990 the Bronx warriors which is available on shutter at the moment the scorpion with two tails a Bay of blood and cat o nine tails which cat a nine tails is also on shutter at the moment And that's an Argento film. So I think it's interesting because Siketi worked with Fulci on this and then he worked with our gentle on cat a nine tails and he worked with both of them I believe on demons and demons to correct me if That is not correct people out there This is the first installment in the gates of hell trilogy that he ended up making So it's kind of weird because he made a film trilogy. That's not the weird part of it But the weird part of it is this came out in 1980 and then the other two films in the trilogy came out in 1981 so just one year later. So he had to kind of like work fast to pump them out So the other two films in this are the beyond and the house by the cemetery Which I said both from 1981 now I plan to do reviews on all of these so you'll see them popping up within the next few weeks So I I figured when I watched it and I figured and I found out that these were part of a basically a trilogy I was just like well, why don't I just do the whole trilogy because they're all on shutter, which is awesome So let's everybody go out there watch these and then let's do these reviews together Michelle So so Avi is actually in this and he might be known to you but from demons He's like the guy with that kind of like partial mask like in the beginning of the film in the subway and Then our train station and he also directed the film stage fright Which is a giallo film, which is a good one and I actually have a review for it on my channel So go check that out. That was fun. So the film City of living dead was shot mainly in the United States in New York City In New York in areas around New York and Savannah, Georgia with a bunch of the interior shots done in Rome Italy because this is one of those it's an Italian film, but it's all dubbed over in English This is what was going on in like 60s 70s early 80s. So we all know it was inspired by Lovecraft To a degree Siketi. I had read had been reading a lot of HP Lovecraft So when he was working on the script, he injected a bunch into it and actually I think I think when he started the script He wasn't reading so much Lovecraft and then he got towards the end of it And then he was so initially when he did the script the town that the film is set in it It's supposed to be Salem. It's supposed to be called Salem. So if you watch that and you keep that in mind there are a lot of like Things that you're like, oh, this makes sense if it was initially Salem because there's a lot of like witch stuff and It ties in quite a bit But they changed the town to Dunwich then because he was so heavily inspired by HP Lovecraft at that time Which is interesting Alright, so let's get in the actual film. I dig the music early on in this I think it's kind of cool and it gives me a bit of a Fantasm vibe which I'm a huge phantasm fan if people don't know so if anything's gonna remind me of phantasm I'm in I like it all about that There's a lot of jumping around in the start of this which made me kind of feel like What are we really gonna get here? How is this really gonna feel connected because it keeps jumping from like here are these people in this part of the town now Here are these people in this part of town here are these people over here So basically it was you know all these things going wrong and you know terrible things coming out of the ground and you know people coming back To life and all this terrible demonic stuff going on and they just keep like jumping around the town and showing these things So at first I was like this just feels so like chopped up and disconnected and weird and How's this gonna come together? and I mean it it kind of comes together, but it stays very segmented like that and There's a certain charm to that in itself and I kind of like that about the film But it also makes sure that you can't really have much of a story which to be honest the script doesn't have much of a story to it This is one of those films. It's just kind of more about Here's a fun time. Here's a fun concept. We're making it fun. We're doing cool kills We're making it look really great with some really good Directing some of the acting is a little bit over the top And then here's just some cool like visual scene ideas And so it's just a bunch of like those moments scattered throughout the film like to be honest The actual story just sucks like it's not a good storyline. It's pretty dumb. It's overdone. It's pretty crappy I mean the beginning of it feels very very akin to Night of the Living Dead it takes a lot from that has so many echoes of it at least early on in the film It does depart from it later, but it just doesn't seem very original or interesting story wise But like I said, there's a lot of amazing visuals in it. There's great directing to it. The music is really cool A lot of very cool inspired scenes the practical effects are awesome. The kills are really good Just a lot of good things about the film, but just the stories blows So I mean overall I like it though. So, you know The casual conversation about a childhood desire for incest in this is one hell of a way to introduce a character Granted that character doesn't stick well doesn't get like a whole lot of screen time But it was when that lady was you know with her therapist I guess and she was talking to him the shrink and she's talking about how she like had all these ideations of incest when she was a kid and it's just a weird way to introduce a character, but This was 1980 and you know, especially with horror where you're doing a lot of you know wacky in your face offensive stuff So, you know that that kind of fits for the time and then they keep with that kind of sexual Feel to the whole thing and I wrote it feels like the excessive talk about sexual matters It's meant to establish that it's a town of many sinful individuals Kind of to give the idea that maybe terrible things are happening into this town because there's so many terrible people there So this is the prime place for kind of the gates the gates the gates of hell under Ground to kind of open up and bring all these terrible things to the town So, you know, that's a that's a thing with horror films that happen a lot People who end up getting it or end up in a in a terrible situation like that It's often because they're sinning in one way or another. So I just kind of saw that in there Like I said has a lot of echoes of Dundee the living dead to it at least in the beginning The scene of the girl in the car coming apart from the inside is pretty Amazingly great. And that's the scene where the guy in it is Michelle. So Avi He's the one who gets killed. She like you it's the first time you see these like zombies Grabs back of someone's head dig their fingers in and pull the brain out Which is weird like it's a weird way for zombies to kill But the way they shoot it and the way they do to practice the practical effects It really looks good when they do it. It's just conceptually Weird for the film and I just like don't understand that choice, but I mean it looks good So I guess it's okay in the end but in that scene in the car specifically like It looks that scene of her like kind of like melting down in a sense looks amazing like kind of she's She's dying from the inside out and like, you know Her eyes just start like bleeding which you can see like when they do the close-ups that they had like Put some like really small tubing up around the sides of her face like under her I like under her tear ducts and they kind of like cover it up with makeup You you can see that if you look closely, but they did a good job with it So like that's a really cool scene the blood's going and then she starts like Vomiting out her insides basically and if you're really paying attention You can tell when it's actually her doing some of that and then when it's actually like a fake head That they're just like shoving stuff through, but it looks cool It's a great scene and it's a lot of fun And I feel like that's the moment that the film really grabbed my attention Because I was like, oh, this is interesting and cool and then they had a bunch more scenes kind of like that afterwards So I like how the woman who brought up the prophecy in this initially who had who was involved like I think she was involved in the seance early on All of a sudden when they're like traveling you go take care of things She's like we have to do this and make sure that you know the gates of hell get closed And then all of a sudden she's just like let's just slow down for a bit Let's let's take in the local cuisine all of a sudden this person who's driving a lot of the panic We need to take care of this issue. It's just like, you know what? I'm not that concerned about it anymore because I'm kind of hungry and I would love to partake in some local cuisine It's just a weird thing But that you know, that's one of the things about this film Like it's it's got this quirkiness to it because of those moments that go along with you know They're not being much of a story to it and it goes with the fun of it The camera motions in this and the way they do panning is really good. It looks amazing Like I said, the directing is really awesome But the cinematography is great in this as well in particular the camera movements inside of Sandra's house Super engaging the way they they kind of maneuvered within the house And if you know what I mean like they kind of start a one door showing like in the kitchen This is just one example They're showing the people in the kitchen and then it kind of like pans around and like shows them from the other door in The kitchen and just kind of like cool motions like that and very very fluid Very slick movements from one thing to the next looks great Like I said, especially within Sandra's house when they're kind of investigating what's going on there and Then my favorite shot the most gorgeous shot in this film is actually right before They go there in Sandra's house where the car pulls up in front of her house and comes like right up to the trunk of the Tree in front of it. It's just the way everything looks like the tree pulling into the frame or the car pulling into the frame The way the tree is positioned The lighting of the house the house structure itself and the kind of like light fog that's going on. It looks beautiful It's an amazing shot. It looks so good. I'm a fan It was pretty 80s for the guy in there to say that like 70% of women in the United States are neurotic That's definitely like an 80s thing to be said you wouldn't be getting that in horror films now But like I said, you know, it was a different time and those things were just like Actually those things range for people being like, oh, whatever. It's just a movie too. Yeah, I believe that but I wouldn't hold up now The blood coming through the walls after the window breaks is awesome I see I didn't see that coming and that's one of those scenes I was talking about that are just really interesting that are Scattered throughout the film and it seems super inspired like here's a really cool idea and they executed it Well, we're like they're looking around and I think it's in the attic like the window just bursts and all the glass flies and goes into the wall and Then from that like from all those entry points like blood just starts leaking through the wall What a great scene. What a cool idea And it just like those are the things that kept me engaged with this film and those are the things that are so fun There's so much fog in this film It's unbelievable like it's not a bad thing because I actually like the way they did the fog and it adds just like this extra level of You know mystery and you know spookiness to the whole thing But there's just a lot of fog and I was surprised by that. But like I said, I like the way it looked I Wrote I want to drink at that really crappy bar in Dunwich That bar looks so beat up and run down and like your typical like destitute town Bar on the corner that I was just like man That makes me think back to my college days when I like to go to dive bars And I was like I want to drink a beer and that crappy Dunwich tavern. I'm sure they would call it a tavern actually It looks terrible when the zombies just blink into existence. This is one big issue I have with the film where I mean they should just have like the zombies like walk out of somewhere and show up But all those moments were like they're showing it and like a zombie's not there and then blink it blinks into existence And there's a zombie right there the worst of which there are a few that are bad But the worst of which is like the one that shows up on top of a fence It was such a random moment They're like looking at the top of a fence and there's nothing and then bloop there's a zombie and it's it doesn't work It's terrible like I don't know if people were okay with it back then or if it seemed like it was better back in 1980 but just a bad choice Already talked about the brain-pulling thing. It just seems weird and dumb to me already got on that And then there's not a whole lot that happens in this film So I'm gonna talk about the end of it because like I said, there's really no story It's just going from like scene to scene and it's kind of slow But the end is so anticlimactic I said because it's done in a very slow way and the music does not at all match the material If you've seen this are you feeling me on that put some comments down there The music was so mismatched at the end of it They took forever to finish the film when they get to that the last sequence underground That should move a lot faster and been a lot more engaging But it was just so slow and I was just like what a bad Bad anticlimactic kind of like ending to this film, but overall like I said I enjoyed it. It was it was a good time Yes, Chloe, sorry my cats getting crazy Yeah, like I said the Stories just not there and what story is there actually sucks, but it's very stylized. It looks really good I mean another one of the great things in it that I thought was when Bob gets his face drilled When he gets his head pushed into that drill Mounted on the table and they show it go through and then they show it like sticking all the way through and still spinning That looked unbelievable and like like I was saying like the kill scenes the gore the practical effects all looked so good And they were so inspired with what they came up with and I love that. I like Christopher George in this He was also in the films the exterminator Graduation day and pieces just to name a few his acting was a lot of fun I wouldn't say it was like great acting because no one was like a great actor in this His acting was a lot of fun He had a fun character and he he just the way he plays roles He's a fun actor, so I enjoyed that and then at the end I just have to say the film is just a slow adventure through a town being plagued by zombies and other crazy random things But that makes it a fun film. So This sets me up to be very very excited to watch the beyond I have heard or I have read because I already did some of my initial research on the film I've read that it's considered to be one of Fulci's best films the beyond So I'm very very interested to get in that and then get into the conclusion of the gates from hell trilogy The house in the cemetery or what was that one? Let me look it up real quick. I'm sorry I forget these things sometimes The house by the cemetery I was one word off So very very excited to get into those like I said I will be reviewing them and putting them on this channel So It'll be cool to to kind of go through all those because I want to make comparisons as I go through as well to say Oh, this feels much like this or doesn't feel like this one So but anyway got to give you a star rating on this one. So out of five stars with half stars in play I gotta give it a three and a half. Um, I Feel like the way I was talking about, you know, how how the story is not really there and what story is there sucked Usually that that brings the the rating down more for me But it's just so fun and so many other aspects of it are covered so well that I have to give it a three and a half Stars like it's good. I definitely recommend it. It's fun I mean, I can't say fully that it's like a good film, but it's a it's a good time So anyway, if you haven't seen it, you probably shouldn't watch this because there's so many spoilers But go watch it put some comments down there if you've seen it and let's talk about it And are you excited for me to do the trilogy? Hopefully Do me a quick favor hit that subscribe because that is the only way I get motivated to do things here is when I keep Getting subscribers kind of want to know that I have more people I can talk to out there about horror stuff And then give me a thumbs up, especially if you're already subscribed just give me that thumbs up to let me know you're still there and watching and Comments are awesome. So thanks everyone for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal

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2 YEAR BOOB JOB UPDATE | IMPLANTS & BREAST LIFT

Finally sharing an update about my breast surgery, two years post op! I talk about how they feel now that they're fully healed, if I've experienced breast implant illness symptoms, if I have any regrets, how the surgery has affected my overall body image, and how my scars look. Original video where I go into a lot more detail about the actual surgery, pricing, recovery, etc.: https://youtu.be/DfNq3AuraCQ _______________________________ LISTEN TO MY PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/girlswhogetit3 SHOP MY MERCH: https://sam-vay-merch.creator-spring.com/ TAKE MY HAIR COURSES: https://bit.ly/3g6Ee8F _______________________________ FOLLOW ME Hair Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/styledbysamvay Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sam_vay _______________________________ CAMERA: Canon M6 Mark II EDITING SOFTWARE: Final Cut Pro X _______________________________ ABOUT ME Hi! I'm Sam and I'm a professional hairstylist from Pennsylvania. Here on my channel I post a variety of videos related to beauty and my life in general. I love teaching and inspiring others, whether that's through a hair tutorial or an advice video. _______________________________ FOR BUSINESS INQUIRIES EMAIL: [email protected] _______________________________ This video is NOT sponsored. However, some links may be affiliate links. (That means there's no extra cost to you, I just receive a small commission off of those purchases. It's what helps me continue posting free content for you!) Thank you so much for the support! It's so appreciated! :)

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Hey guys, welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new. Today I am finally doing an update on my boob job. Almost two years ago exactly, I got breast surgery and I did post a video at the time sharing all the information, I had vlogged the experience, recovery, etc. I think I was only like five months post-op at that point, so I will put a link to that original video in the description in case you didn't see it. So yeah, like I said, I am two years post-op now. The middle of October will be two years exactly. Just to recap what I got done, I got a breast augmentation, so I got implants and then I got a lift on one side. My surgery was more of a corrective situation. Starting out, I was about a 34C, 36B bra size, but my issue was that my breasts were two completely different shapes and they were very flat up top. I had a pretty decent amount of tissue on the bottom and along the outer sides, but they were very far apart and completely flat up top. Regular bras always had a bunch of gapping at the top. My left one looked pretty normal. Like I said, it was pretty flat up top, but it was relatively perky and a normal round shape, but my right one was a little bit more of a tubular shape and it pointed down more and the areola was also noticeably bigger on the right side. I ended up getting a lollipop lift on my right side, which what they do is they make an incision around your areola and then a vertical incision down the bottom in the middle and they just remove the extra tissue so that it lifts your breast up. And then I did get the implants to just fill out that flatness where I was lacking volume just to give them like a nicer shape really. So I got 445 CC implants. I said this in my original video, don't get caught up on the CCs. Like I literally just told my doctor what I wanted. I explained my issue to him and the concerns I had and then I showed him pictures of what I liked and what I didn't like and he measured my chest and he told me what he recommended and I just went with his suggestion because obviously he is the expert. So even though at the time I was like, oh 445 that sounds huge, but looking at me now and I'll show you some full body shots so you can see, but I don't think that they are too big. They're like perfectly proportionate to my body. So 445 CCs, they are smooth round silicone gel also known as gummy bear implants. I got moderate profile and they are under the muscle and then like I said, I got the lollipop lift on the right side. So like I said, I started out wearing a 34C bra and now I'm a 34D. Really they're not that much bigger than what I was starting with. I just kind of like filled in where that volume was lacking to like even it out with the volume I already had at the bottom. So how do they feel? How do they look? Can I feel them? Do they feel like natural to the touch? I think that they feel really natural. I was really worried before getting the surgery that it was going to feel like there was a foreign object in my body. Like that was just a weird concept for me to grasp, but honestly they, I think because I already had breast tissue to begin with, had I been like really, really thin and completely flat chested and didn't have as much natural tissue to kind of like cover over the implants then they would maybe not feel as natural. I do feel like up top where I didn't really have any natural breast tissue. They feel like a little bit, not hard, like they're definitely very soft, but they feel a little bit more firm. I think up top here, but then down on the bottom where I had breast tissue, when you feel them, you're feeling that natural breast tissue that's on top because the implants are under my muscle, like I said. So they feel like completely, I feel weird doing this on camera, but they feel completely natural unless you are experienced with implants or you have them yourself and you kind of like know what to look for. It's funny because now that I have my boobs done, I can tell looking at somebody if there's a real or not most of the time. Like I just, I have like that eye for it now, but I think that if you didn't know, you would have no idea. And I can't like feel the implants in my body. The only time that I can is if I'm doing something that is contracting my chest muscles. Say I'm like pressing down really hard on something or if I like need to lift myself up, sometimes I can feel like when my muscles are squeezing together, I can feel that like there's something there. It's, I don't know, it's like a weird sensation. It's not painful or anything, but it's a little like, oh, there's my implants, but they don't interfere with anything like I can sleep on my stomach. I'm not a stomach sleeper, but I can lay on my stomach. No problem. They're not uncomfortable. They don't get in the way. I can work out, lift weights, do everything normal like I did before. For the first several months to maybe even the first year, I do remember getting like occasional little like nerve pains, which weren't even, they weren't painful, but like I could feel, you know, like when you have surgery, some nerves kind of your, your nerve, it like messes with your nerves. So especially on the right side where I had that lift, I would, every so often I would just feel like a little like pinch, like my nerves were kind of like waking back up sort of, but that's about it. And I have full feeling. I mean, even right after my surgery, I never lost nipple sensation. The only thing that's like sometimes uncomfortable is I've noticed if I'm wearing like a super, super tight bra or a top after a few hours, it starts to kind of hurt a little bit because everything's just getting like pressed in so much. But I mean, I feel like that's just like anytime you're wearing tight clothes in general, like it's going to hurt and feel uncomfortable after a while, you know, so I don't even really think that that's like so much of an implant thing. But that's the only time that I really like feel any discomfort. I do want to talk about breast implant illness because I know this is a very popular topic and it's something that I get asked about a lot. If you're thinking about getting your breast done and you are unfamiliar with breast implant illness, absolutely do your research. There's tons of information out there now and that is a risk with getting breast implants. It's not a guarantee not every person that gets implants is going to experience breast implant illness, but it is something that can happen. But so far knock on wood two years in and I have not had any issues, but I do keep an eye out. I'm thinking that I'm very conscious of as far as any regrets. I know a lot of women talk about regretting the size that they went with, wishing oftentimes that they had went a little bit bigger. Personally I am very happy with the size that I went with and I'm glad that I just went with my doctor's recommendation. There are times every so often where I kind of almost wish that I went a little bit smaller and I think especially like within that first year, I really was like holy crap I should have went smaller like these are way too big. But I think as time has gone on and they've really settled and like fully healed internally, now I think that they are like the perfect size. I think they're perfect and proportionate to the rest of my body. Do your research, go to a doctor that does the kind of work that you like. Find someone that you really feel like you can trust and then go with their recommendations. And if you are scared of them looking too big, maybe go down one size. But if you're scared of them not being big enough, maybe go up a size because it is hard to tell when you're doing like your pre-op and you're trying on the implants because obviously once they're actually in your body, they're going to look different and once they heal and settle and all of that. But I have no regrets. One thing that I wanted to talk about a little bit is body confidence because I've always kind of struggled with my body image, especially when it comes to my weight and getting my boobs done. I wasn't even really thinking about how it was going to make me feel about my overall body image and how it was going to change my confidence one way or the other. And I do really think that if you struggle with confidence, plastic surgery can help to an extent, but if you're just struggling mentally, I think that sometimes it can be a slippery slope because once you go and get one thing fixed, then you can start noticing other things that you want to tweak and it can get a little bit out of control. So by no means am I saying like, oh, if you're struggling with confidence and body image, go get your boobs done, it's going to fix all your problems. Definitely not. But from my personal experience, getting my boobs done has absolutely boosted my confidence and has just made me love my body so much more. I think because I just wasn't proportionate before, I just always like hated my upper body. I always felt like, oh, my arms are so big. My shoulders are so broad. But now that I have boobs that are proportionate to everything else, everything just feels more balanced. And I just feel like way more confident and I just love my curves and the shape of my body. And lastly, let's talk about scars. I know I get a lot of questions about that. The only thing I feel about my breasts now that make them not perfect are the scars. And scarring is really just going to depend on what you do as far as aftercare. And it also comes down to genetics. So if you are a lighter skinned person, you most likely are going to have lighter scars. They're probably going to heal pretty well. My mom is Italian, her scars heal pretty well. My dad is Caribbean. His scars heal horribly. So I ended up taking after my dad when it comes to that, unfortunately. So I'll show you a close up of what my scars look like. They are quite dark and they are raised, which that's the part that bothers me the most. So my left side where I just got the implant. I just have a scar underneath my boob. And that one doesn't really bother me as much because you literally cannot see it unless I lift my breasts up or you're looking at me from down below. But my lift scar on the bottom, it's completely flat. You definitely can notice it. You can see it. But it's pretty light for the most part. It doesn't bother me. But the scar that's around my areola is just the scar on my left side. It's dark. It's thick. From a distance, it just looks like the same color as my nipples. But the problem with that is it makes the areola look larger than it actually is. And the whole point was to make that side smaller so that they would be even. They are even. Like he did a really good job. They are the same size. But the scar around it kind of stretches it out and makes it, you know, look bigger. But that doesn't even bother me. Like naked, I don't care about the scars. They don't bother me. What does bother me is when I am going bra-less, because the scar is raised, you can see it through my clothing. And it literally just looks, I don't know if you can tell on this top, but it literally just looks like a bullseye around my freaking nipple. That is something to keep in mind if you were also a brown skin girl, I put cocoa butter on them religiously. I got the scar healing gel from my surgeon's office and I was putting that on them in the beginning, but I feel like there wasn't really anything that I could have done to make them heal differently. So I'm just going to kind of like let it be. My dad and my brother both scar the same way I do and they have both had surgeries and their scars did after years, they have like flattened out and gone down. And the scars will still get like a weird sensation every so often. So I can tell that they're still healing. I've considered maybe going back to the doctor and seeing if there's something that we can do. I know I can get like laser treatments for them. Maybe that's something that I would eventually do in the future if they don't eventually get better on their own. But to be honest, they don't bother me enough that it's like a priority for me to like go get it taken care of, you know, but it is just like the one little thing that I feel makes them like kind of imperfect and I'll take the scars all day long over the uneven situation I had to start with. So I think that's pretty much everything. If you have any other questions for me, feel free to leave them down in the comments. I will insert some footage of me wearing like a few different types of tops so you can see how they look a little bit better. Other than that, that's going to be it for this video. Thank you so much for watching. I hope that this was helpful. If it was, please give it a thumbs up. It really helps my channel out a lot and hopefully I'll see you in my next video. Bye.

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Ultimate affiliate marketing made simple a step-by-step guide. If you want to know or you want to do affiliate marketing, you have to watch to the end of this video. You will know all about affiliate marketing and you'll know how to do it simply. Affiliate marketing is when an online retailer of a service or a product is willing to pay you a commission based on a sale that they get. You're sending them a customer and you're getting paid on it. There's a whole lot less risk for somebody who is paying out affiliates than there is for somebody who's paying out on clicks. Now, here are the steps that you need to do when starting affiliate marketing: ✅00:00 - AFFILIATE MARKETING GUIDE ✅01:19 - FINDING A PRODUCT THAT YOU WANT TO MARKET ✅02:23 - LOOK FOR PRODUCTS THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE ALREADY AFFILIATE FOR THAT YOU RESPECT 02:59 - WPBEGINNER https://www.wpbeginner.com/ ✅03:21 - YOU CAN JOIN AFFILIATE NETWORKS ✅04:14 - REACH OUT TO COMPANIES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT YOU ALREADY USE ✅04:46 - PICKING PRODUCTS OF HIGH QUALITY ✅05:26 - ADD HIGHLY USEFUL AND VALUABLE CONTENTS ✅06:07 - ALWAYS KEEP YOUR AUDIENCE IN MIND ✅06:52 - WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT CAN REALLY HELP YOU OUT 07:01 - ThirstyAffiliates https://thirstyaffiliates.com/ 07:47 - AdSanity https://adsanityplugin.com/ Selling online is kind of an up and down and having the affiliate money kind of smooths out those up and downs. I hope you understand some of this and if you don't or if it's a little above your head and you still have questions, leave them in the comments section below and I'd be happy to help you out. ✅ FREE eCommerce course click here: https://jrfisher.kartra.com/page/yt-description ✅ Join my inner circle here (free video) https://www.jrfisher.com/inner-circle-enroll Here's my recommended reading list: 📚 Can't Hurt Me https://amzn.to/37cge2m 📚 Show Your Work https://amzn.to/37cge2m 📚 Atomic Habits https://amzn.to/2Z9WZ55 📚 Conscious Capitalism https://amzn.to/2OpXHJq 📚 The Daily Stoic https://amzn.to/3qgrsL1 📚 Great American Food Shortage https://amzn.to/379e5EM (I wrote this book, LOL) 📚 One To Many https://amzn.to/2NnyONU 💬 Get Twillio for text messaging here: www.twilio.com/referral/FrD2oB 🗣 Best Teleprompter: https://amzn.to/3cbF7gp 🙀 Get Kartra Email & Funnel Maker for $1 - Click here: http://bit.ly/kartra-trial1 🛒 Get Shopify here: http://bit.ly/shopify-JR 🤑 Get 30% OFF TubeBuddy - Click Here: http://www.tubebuddy.com/reftb 📷 Canon EOS M50 camera - https://amzn.to/2zHiYHd 💡 Ring light - https://amzn.to/2ZaA5f6 📱 Cell phone selfie stick - https://amzn.to/2WBqPir 🧱 Brick wall backdrop - https://amzn.to/3fWsres 💻 MacBook pro computer - https://amzn.to/2Z725jX ⨒ Light stand - https://amzn.to/2X1PlbN 🎙 Lavalier Cordless Microphone: https://amzn.to/2Zq92wA 💼 Whiteboard Back Drop: https://amzn.to/2ALnvJa 🚥 “Live On Air” Sign: https://amzn.to/2LOxhwn 🎤 Rode Microphone NT-USB: https://amzn.to/36iYIbh 🎤 Rode Microphone Stand: https://amzn.to/2zlzY5V 💬 White Board I use: https://amzn.to/2Zp9ET4 🤳🏼 Extendable Wireless Selfie Stick: https://amzn.to/2TnLdSn 🔆 Lighting: https://amzn.to/2XiDh67 💡 Overhead Light: https://amzn.to/2ZsqII8 📱 iPhone Charging Cables: https://amzn.to/3e9G5ci ⌕ MacBook Multiport USB Adaptor: https://amzn.to/2zcRQ38 🎬 How to build a Wordpress website in 28 minutes: https://youtu.be/M8khHe5FwFA 🎬 A real way to make money online: https://youtu.be/55J9-bDfOWg 🎬 Use Google stop words for search engine optimization: https://youtu.be/b7MvGgrBAJ0 🎬 Make money online using technology: https://youtu.be/KK09UZ0nxX8 🎬Facebook ads success secrets part 1: https://youtu.be/Q2wtb5OtK6E 🎬$787 a day – free plus shipping tutorial: https://youtu.be/nYboKCbnzuA 🎬 How to rank on the first page in Google & YouTube: https://youtu.be/s4CEDCVTUkY 🎬 Facebook ads account disabled – suspended – banned: https://youtu.be/cvk6h-nwi5w 🎬 How to add a Facebook pixel to increase sales on Shopify: https://youtu.be/uzC0xfQQcOQ 🎬5 steps to build successful Facebook ads marketing: https://youtu.be/CWhyHozRod8 Go Ahead - Stalk Me! #askjrfisher #ecommercewebsite #internetmarketing How to find profitable products to sell online book: http://bit.ly/jrf-4step Kartra all in one email provider: http://bit.ly/kartra-JR Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/2kJiiX9 (free training and videos) Watch private mastermind live training: www.webcashacademy.com Learn how to build a successful dropshipping business www.digitalcashacademy.com Go to my webpage: www.jrfisher.com See my survival food products: www.survivalcavefood.com Join our facebook group for more ideas: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1020029441473118/ Click here to get the free ebook series http://www.jrfisher.com/7-ebook-series-start-business-online/ • Subscribe For More Videos - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=jrfishertraining • Survivalcave Inc./JR Fisher Training • Phone: 800-719-7650 Send packages to: 1 Chisholm Trail Rd. Suite #450 Round Rock, TX 78681

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Ultimate affiliate marketing made simple, a step-by-step guide. Hey guys, if you wanna know about affiliate marketing, if you wanna do affiliate marketing, by the end of this video, if you watch the end of this video, you will know all about affiliate marketing and you'll know how to do it. Simple, guys, you can do this. Hey, don't forget to subscribe, don't forget to ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications after you subscribe so you're notified every time I upload a video or I go live and give me a thumbs up if you like the video. Okay guys, let's talk about what affiliate marketing is first off. Affiliate marketing is when an online retailer of a service or a product, something like that, is willing to pay you a commission based on a sale that they get. So what you're essentially doing is you're sending them a customer and you're getting paid on it. There's a whole lot less risk for somebody who is paying out affiliates than there is for somebody who's paying out on clicks. So if something like Google AdSense or something like that, they're going to pay you based on clicks. But the problem with that is they aren't assured of sale so they're going to pay a whole lot lower commission. When affiliate marketing, you can get 10%, 20, 30. Sometimes things like ClickBank will pay you 90 or 100%. So that's pretty cool to get a payout that big. Okay, so check it out. Here's the first step in doing this. The first step is finding a product that you want to market. And I would suggest the first thing to do is market products you already use. Now, I use Cartra for all my marketing. Cartra is a fantastic piece of software. I recommend it and guess what? Down in the description, you're going to find a link to Cartra. That link, you can actually watch a video for free. And if you like Cartra, you can sign up for a dollar. Now, if you sign up for a dollar and you decide to stay, I get a small commission for that. But here's the key. I will only talk about products that I actually use and like. I don't do affiliate marketing for anybody else. Like right now, I have some lights here and cameras, some equipment, different things. In the description, you will find links to all those things on Amazon. So if you click those links and go to Amazon and buy some of those products, I get a small commission. But also you are cookied. So if you go to Amazon and buy anything else, go buy all you want. Because I actually get a commission on anything you buy once you use my link down there. But that's an example of me marketing something that I already use. Number two, look for products that other people are already affiliates for that you respect. So if there's somebody in your industry, maybe it's photography, maybe it's sewing, maybe it's cooking, look at what they're representing for affiliate products. Check out those products. And if you like those products, that's a great way for you to find products to sell. I've done that in the past where I've seen somebody I really respected and I saw some of the things they recommended whether it be a software or whatever. And I would go out and try that product. And if I like that product, guess what? I'm gonna be an affiliate for that product too. Now, let me show you on the screen how you can find if a product's an affiliate product. Let's jump over there right now. Right here, I've got WP Beginner. And as you notice, there's a special hosting offer right here. And if you look below that, when you hover over it, you see down there where it says bluehost.com track. And then it's got some letters and stuff. That is their tracking ID, which tells me that is an affiliate offer right there. And that's something that I could also offer to my audience. Number three is you can join affiliate networks. I'm a member of several affiliate networks and they're very helpful. And what an affiliate network is, is it's a portal. It's where a whole bunch of people who have products who are willing to pay affiliates can put their product. And a lot of people who wanna be an affiliate can join it and have access to all these different products. Some examples of that are Commission Junction, ClickBank is another big one. I'm also a member of Share a Sale. I have my products there. And I'm also an affiliate for products on Share a Sale. So any of those are really good to find because you don't have to worry about payouts or anything. You know that that affiliate network is gonna be paying you and you're gonna get paid on every sale. So you don't have any problems with stuff like that. But use some, you know, respected affiliate networks. I have other videos on this channel. If you just search affiliate in the search bar on my channel, you can find other videos on this too. Number four, reach out to companies of products and services that you already use. Now, normally you can go to a website for a company, look down in the bottom and try to find a link that says affiliates. And that will generally tell you about their affiliate program. However, if they don't have that on their website, you can directly send them an email and say, yeah, I like your products. I like your services. Been using them for years. I would like to be an affiliate for your company. Do you have a program like that? And they can respond and let you know what they have available. Okay, so we've gone over the basics. Let's get a little bit more in depth now. The first thing I wanna talk about is picking products of high quality. Pick products of high quality. I often will get emails from people who want me to do a sponsored video or talk about their product and be an affiliate for it. And I don't know the product and I haven't used the product. I don't know anything about it. So my suggestion to you is find products that you think are super high quality. Keep in mind, if you do recommend a product or service and your audience clicks and they go to there and they buy that product and it's inferior it's a poor product. Now you are the person who recommended it. Okay, so that's gonna hurt your reputation. So it's super important. Number one is to pick products of high quality. Number two, add highly useful and valuable content. So I could talk about Cartra and I could say get Cartra. It's a great software. It's down in the description below. You ought to click on it. You ought to watch the video and you ought to buy it. But what I also do on my channel is I do a lot of videos on Cartra showing people how good it is, how well it works. If you were to search my channel right now and you type in Cartra on my videos you're gonna find a bunch of videos on Cartra and I give you good content. I show you what it can do. I show you how it can help you. I show you how it can make you money. In doing so people are more apt to click the link and actually go there and buy the product. Thus as an affiliate I'll make a little bit of money. Number three, always keep your audience in mind. Now what I mean by that is don't offer products that aren't gonna bring value to your audience. My audience is learning how to start running grow businesses online. So since that is their interest I may talk to them about SEO products. I may talk to them about web hosting. I may talk to them about finances and that type of thing. But if I was running let's say a cooking channel, okay? I wouldn't be offering them things having to do with finance or credit cards or anything like that because it doesn't match the niche. Make sure any affiliate offers that you are offering your audience actually match your niche and have good value to your audience and match the audience. The audience is number one. You guys are number one. Now for those of you who have a WordPress website I wanna share with you some plugins that can really help you out. Let's go over to my computer real quick and I wanna show these to you. The first one is called Thirsty Affiliates. Manually adding links to your content becomes quite difficult as your site grows, okay? It's gonna get bigger and bigger. So what you have to do is copy the URL with your affiliate ID every time you mentioned the product and paste it into WordPress. This is where Thirsty Affiliates can help you. It's an affiliate link management plugin that allows you to easily add affiliate links in WordPress. It also will let you change lengthy affiliate links into cloaked pretty links which are more user friendly. Thirsty Affiliates also has the option to automatically replace keywords with affiliate links which can significantly help you boost your affiliate revenue. Now the next one I wanna talk about is AdSanity. Let's go over and look at AdSanity real quick. Okay, AdSanity is the best. I mean really the best WordPress management plugin tool there is and it's a must have for every affiliate marketers toolbox. What it's gonna do is it will allow you to create banners from your WordPress website and manage them from a single dashboard. Now that's pretty cool. AdSanity also makes it easy to insert ads into your WordPress posts, pages, sidebar widgets, any of that. You can use it to manage your third party ads like Google AdSense and ads and banners as well. For detailed instructions all you gotta do is go to AdSanity and you can read all about it. So when I got started I didn't know anything about affiliate marketing. I had no clue, didn't know anything about it. Nowadays I look back and I say my gosh I wish I had started sooner. So if you're watching this video now you need to start now because what happens with affiliate marketing is it builds. Your audience is gonna build. It's gonna get bigger as long as you work because your audience is gonna get bigger. And the bigger the audience is, the more they're gonna be exposed to your affiliate links which means the more things they can buy and the more money you're gonna make. In addition to that, I have products that I sell that I have affiliates for now. So that's worked out well for me. I've joined different affiliate networks like share sale and click bank and all those things. And when you start piling all these things on after time they start to build up and they start to make you more and more and more money. Having affiliate links for a few products is great but by themselves they aren't gonna make you much money but imagine if you had 50 of them or 100 or a thousand affiliate links out there that that income could generate so much money for you on a monthly basis that you wouldn't have to worry about anything else. Your actual business would just be gravy on top of your affiliate money. I see some people that make thousands and thousands of dollars a month just off affiliate links and that's aside from their business. And the other thing this does having these affiliate links is it smooths out your income. Selling online is kind of an up and down thing. We have a survival food company and depending on the time of year, depending on who's politically in office, depending on what world events are going on people are concerned about survival food and then they are and then they are and then they aren't. So that's something that can affect that business but having the affiliate money kind of smooths out those up and downs in the survival food industry. Now I also have, you know, spread out and I've gotten into teaching people how to make money online too. And that's added to my arsenal of things, okay? I can market other products to my customers because I have another list for people who are looking to make money online. So don't just pigeonhole yourself into one area. Make sure there's other things out there that you can make money on because there's always gonna be affiliate links out there. You can always sell something through an affiliate network. You know, by doing so you're just gonna have so much extra money coming in. Now I hope this has helped you out. I hope you understand some of this. If you don't, if it's a little above your head and you still have questions put it in the comments section below. Have you done affiliate marketing before and what was your experience? Put that also in the comments below. I love to get your questions. I love to get your comments. I really appreciate it. Let me know what you thought of this video in the comments too. Is this something that's useful to you? You feel like it's gonna help you out? Give me your input below. Don't forget also to subscribe. If that button down there is red you need to click it and turn it gray and you need to do what? 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Using dplyr's slice functions to pick specific and random rows from a data frame in R (CC042)

In this screencast tutorial, Pat Schloss shows how you can use dplyr's slice functions including slice, slice_head, slice_tail, and slice_sample to pick specific and random rows from a data frame in R. We'll then modify code from a previous episode to recalculate the specificity of 16S rRNA genes for each taxonomic group at each taxonomic rank using slice_sample to incorporate randomness into the analysis. This episode is part of a larger arc of episodes investigating the sensitivity and specificity of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), also known as exact sequence variants (ESVs). ASVs are growing in popularity for analyzing microbial communities using 16S rRNA gene sequences. Pat demonstrates these concepts by live coding at the command line interface using RStudio, GitHub Flow, and make. 0:00 Introduction 2:13 Today's issue 5:46 Slice commands 9:50 Outlining approach to downsample species with pseudocode 14:10 Filling in code to address uneven sampling of species 21:41 Trying different number of genomes per species 23:07 Comparing results using git diff 25:18 Conclusion The accompanying blog post contains the exercises and solutions can be found at http://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2020-10-26-slice

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We often use the select function to select columns from a data frame, or the filter function to filter a data frame for rows or certain criteria are met based on the values in the data. But what if we want rows based on their placement in the data frame? Say we want the first 30th and 130th rows. What if we want five random rows from the data frame? To do these types of operations, we need to learn about the slice functions from the dplyr package. And today's episode of Code Club will do just that. Hi, I'm Pat Schloss, and this is Code Club, where we learn about reproducible practices to improve our data analysis skills. Please be sure to subscribe to the channel and smash that bell icon so you know when the next episode is released. In the last episode, we learned about writing pseudocode, which helped us to chart a path to measure the specificity of 16S RNA genes to allow us to differentiate between different bacterial and archaeal taxa at various taxonomic ranks. One problem with that analysis, however, was that some species in our dataset are represented by hundreds of genomes and versions of the 16S RNA gene along with those, and other species are represented by only a single genome. In today's episode, we're going to use those slice functions I talked about to measure the specificity of 16S RNA gene variants, often called Amplicon Sequence Rants, or just ASVs, using a common number of genomes from each species. Along the way, we'll see that these slice functions don't exactly do what we'd like them to do, so we'll have to do some troubleshooting that leverages functions we've seen in previous episodes, functions like group by, count, distinct, and inner join. Finally, because we're documenting this analysis in an R Markdown document that we're keeping under version control with Git, I'll show you how we can use Git-Diff to see how our results have changed by subsetting the data. Even if you're only watching this video to learn more about R and the slice functions and don't have a clue at a 16S RNA gene is or why you should care about Amplicon Sequence Rants, I'm sure you'll still get a lot out of today's episode. Please take the time to follow along on your own computer. If you haven't been following along with the previous episodes but would like to, welcome. Please be sure to check out the blog post that accompanies this video, where you'll find instructions on catching up, reference notes, and links to supplemental material. The link to the blog post for today's video is below in the notes. So I've added a couple comments to our issue on GitHub, saying that we need to control for uneven sampling of our species, and that previous analysis suggests the decent number of species had five or more genome sequences. If you recall a few episodes ago, we made a plot showing the number of species that had different numbers of genomes represented in the database, and I think five was pretty decent. Let's see what the results look like with five and see how that changes our results. At the same time, it would be nice to kind of be able to modify that threshold. So that's something that we'll keep in mind as we go through our analysis, because maybe we'd like to use two, right? If we go to our terminal, I'm in my project working directory. You'll see we're still on that issue 31. We've got the green, which means we're in good shape. I'm going to go ahead and open up our studio. And again, opening it with this our project file allows us to launch into our working directory. If I go over to files, you'll see that because last time I use this, I was in our exploratory directory. It's put me in there as well. And what we want to open is this 2020 1021 ASV taxa overlap file with the RMD at the end. And you'll recall that this was what we worked on in our last episode. Something that I've tried, but it just really frustrates me is this chunk output. So I'm going to have the chunk output into the console, not in line, because again, that just it's just a pain. So again, kind of walking through what we've talked about in the last few episodes on this are markdown document. You'll see this initial code chunk reads in the metadata the information about the taxonomy for each of our genomes, which we'll need to use as we kind of again sample from each of our species. The second data frame ASV tells us what ASVs are found and in what genomes and in what abundance, we then generate metadata ASV. I'll go ahead and run this code chunk. We now have this metadata ASV data frame. You'll also then recall that in the last episode, we generated this overlap data data frame, and then we then went ahead and plotted it. And we then also generated this data table, a table using cable. Let me go ahead and run this chunk so you can see where we're at and where we left off with the last episode. And you'll see over here on the bottom right that we have our kingdom through species with our four different regions. And as we saw last time, the full length of the one nine data has the least amount of overlap at the species level, meaning that if you take two full length sequences from different species, that there's about a 3.6% chance that one ASV could be found in two different species. So if we look at the sub regions like the V4, the V34 and V45, then we see between like, what do we say, between 8.8 and 12.6% of the ASVs are found in multiple species. And that number of course, as we'd expect falls off as we go to the genus family order and up. But the problem with this analysis is that it uses all of the genomes. And as we saw before, E. coli has something like 900 genomes represented in the database, whereas something else may only have one genome represented. In the database. So we'd like to do is control for that uneven sampling to help motivate that. What I'd like to do is show you down here in my console some new commands related to what we call the slice function slice is part of d plier. So if I do metadata ASV, we see our data frame, right. And the slice function allows us to give numbers and the numbers then refer to those rows that we want to get out of our data frame, right. So I could do 130 130. Let's do 1300. And so output should be four rows from 130 130 and 1300. And so we see then we get out an output of a data frame with those four rows. So that doesn't really help us with what we want. Perhaps we could do something like, you know, slice one through five and get the first five rows. That's not so great. That that slice one through five actually is its own function. And that is slice head. And we can then say n equals five to get the first five rows, or we could do say three and get the first three rows. The default if you don't give an argument is actually one row. And to complement head, there's also tail. Right, so we get the last three rows of the data frame. So we could use like head and equals five to get the first five genomes from every taxonomic group. So that would work. Or we could use one colon five or we could use tail and equals five, but that's not random. If I want to randomly select five rows, what I could do is again, as we've seen metadata pipe that to slice sample. We could then say n equals five. And this will then give us five random rows from the data frame. If I run it again, I get another five rows, right. So this is an argument replace, which by default is false. But if we said true, that this would sample with replacement. So without replacement means I'm going to draw a row. And I'm going to put it to the side, and then I'll sample another row and put it to the side. That's that's without replacement with replacement means I'm going to draw a row. I'm going to identify it and put it into my new data frame. But then I'm going to throw it back into the mix, right. And so if I drew another, I could actually sample that same row multiple times. It's very unlikely when we have as many rows as we have in metadata ASV. I realize here I'm using the metadata data frame to illustrate this. It doesn't matter. So replace equals false is the default. And again, that's that's what we really want. Of course, this is taking five random rows from across the whole data frame when we want is five from each species. So the other thing that you might notice in all this is that the five rows that you get is different than the five rows that I get. If I want to peg it so that we all have the same randomness, if you will, we need to use a function called set dot seed. And we give set dot seed a number, you could give it one, you could give it any number. I generally like to put my birth date in the ISO standard. It's 1976 06 20. And so then if I run my slice sample, then I get those five rows. And if I then rerun the set seed rerun the sample, you'll see that the five rows I get here are the same as the five rows I get there. And so setting the seed is really important for reproducibility. Just because the numbers that you get are still random or pseudo random as we call them. The seed tells the random number generator where to start. And if we all start at the same spot, then the random numbers that are generated by the random number generator should all be the same. Okay. So great. Now how do we apply this to our project? Well, keep in mind that when we do slice sample with n equals five, that we're taking any five rows from the data frame. What I really want is five rows from each of my species. Let's come back and we will see how we can use slice sample in this overall output overall pipeline. So for the most part, I think all of the code we have here is in really good shape. What I'd like us to think about is how do we get five rows from every, every species. And if you will, let me show you one small problem that we'll have to deal with when we do this, right? So if I do slice sample, say I did n equals five, and then I do slice sample n equals seven, right? What do you think is going to happen? What we would like it to do is return nothing, right? But what actually happens is that it returns as many rows as it can up to seven rows. And again, if we had done replacement, a replace, sorry, equals true, we would get seven because it's going to sample with replacement. But that's not what we want, right? We don't want to sample this, you know, if there's one genome in the species, we don't want to sample that genome five times set. We want to have it discarded from the analysis. So that's something we need to be mindful of as we kind of chart our plan of attack. So what are we thinking? Again, our metadata ASV has the information we want is the species and the genome ID. So what I want to do is I want to get a list of genome IDs so that I have five genomes per species say. And then I'm going to use that to select or filter the rows out of metadata ASV so that my overlap data then only contains five genomes per species. Okay. So we have all this information in metadata ASV and my point is we don't have to use all of it. So we'll get the species and genome ID. We will then say, well, what are the distinct or return the distinct rows? Because if you looked at metadata ASV, we'll see that, you know, we have basically the same row for all four regions. So these four rows are duplicates. They only vary really by the region. And so if we only look at the genome ID and species, then we're going to have a lot of duplicate information. And so we'll need to return the distinct rows, or perhaps you think of as the unique rows, right? We will then want to group by the species. And we will then want to do slice sample on each species for n genomes. Okay. So that's going to get us every species up to five genomes per species. The next thing that we'll want to think about is that we want to return species that have five or have the n genomes, right? So have exactly five genomes. We'll then want to perhaps say, going back to original list of species genomes, we will want to say, to filter out species with fewer than n genomes. Okay. So this is a plan of attack, my pseudo code. You'll see I've started incorporating some R logic in here. And again, it's not critical to put in the R code as we're developing our pseudo code, but it's helpful to have the pseudo code again to help us to separate the what we want to do from the how we're going to do it. So we'll do metadata ASV. And I'm going to then pipe that to select to get genome ID and species. And again, we've got our data frame. And because we see those duplicate rows, we'll want to go ahead and do distinct. And then we get unique rows. And we can then group by species. Right. And then we can then do a slice sample n equals five. And something that occurs to me is that I want to set my seed, right? I want to set seed 1970 6 0 6 20. And I'll put in a comment here that set our random number generator seed to Pat's birthday. All right, so I'll run that. And we will then run these lines. Okay. So what we're getting here then is the genome ID and the species, and it's grouped by the species. So at this point, I want to double check what's going on, right? So I'm going to, as a test, pipe this out to count species. And I'm going to arrange a descending order of the end column. And we'll see that the most abundant of any of the species has five copies. And if I do an ascending sort that we see we have one, right? And so I'm going to call I'm going to remove this test code that I put in here. And I'm going to call this a sub sample species. And what I want to do are these next steps, right? And so we have sub sample species. And I'm going to then I need to count number of genomes in each species. And we'll do count on species. And then we will then say filter N equals five. And so running that we see that everything has five copies. And I will call these then what will we call them call them good species can't come up with a better name. And I'm going to go ahead and have it return only this the species name. So I'll then say select species. And so good species has those listings of names. Okay, now we want to go back to that original listing of sub sampled names. The sub sampled species. And we see that we've got genome IDs and the species. And I see that I've already done this thing where I filtered out filtered out species with fewer than N genomes. And one other thing I noticed is I have hard coded in the end. So remind me to come back to that in a minute. So we want to go back to the original list of species genomes and return the genome IDs from species with at least N genomes or with with N genomes not at least with that many genomes. So I'll do inner join. And I will then do I can never remember my variable names sub sample. Sub sample species with good species. And I'm going to join by my species column. Got to spell that right. And we see that we then have genome ID and species. I see also that I'm still grouping by the species up here. So I will go ahead and do an ungroup on that. And so now if I run my inner join, I no longer have that never no longer have that grouping. Actually I do. Why do I have that? That's probably because I have group by up here as well. So I'll do an ungroup on this for my sub sample species. And I actually didn't have a group by here. So I don't need this ungroup here. All right. And then we do our inner join. This should work. Great. And we can already see that these are sorted by the species name. And that we see we have five haemophilus ducriae and five acetylbacter pasterinus. And so that is great. And this will then allow us to get our, let's see, our sub sampled genomes as that. And I'm going to pipe this out and I'm going to then do a select genome ID. And that then gives us sub sampled genomes. And these are the names of the genomes we want. And so what we can then do is modify this code so that we do an inner join between metadata ASV and sub sampled genomes. And we're going to do it by genome ID. Don't forget that closing parentheses. Run that. And then look at our plot. And we can maybe toggle back and forth here in our studio. So this was using all the genome data. And you'll notice that like the v4 line is over 12. If we only use five, we're just over eight. So it seems the numbers came down a little bit. What I'll do is again, because let's see, we're running this set seed. So let me run it again with that seed. And we see that again, we're just under eight. And you can perhaps recall this table over here. If I rerun everything except for the seed, let's see how much things change. And so things have changed a little bit, I can tell. It might be nice if we had a fixed y axis to kind of see how much things are changing here for like v4. We see we have 9.1 earlier. Where was it? We had 7.75. So there is a fair amount of variation depending on which five we grab. So something we'll talk about in the next episode is how can we perhaps run this block instead of twice or once? How can we run it maybe a hundred times and then get an average? So we're not so sensitive to the random number generator, right? Okay, so something that you were supposed to remind me of was that I want to create a variable for my threshold. So I'm going to say threshold. And for now I'll make that five. And so I'm going to go ahead and replace these fives that I hard coded in with threshold. And we'll replace this as well. And let's make sure everything goes well. And this looks like the plot that we had two versions ago. Yep. So that works well. What this allows us to do is I could say let's do two instead of five. And so now we rerun and we get the analysis again and that we're taking two genomes from every species. And the advantage of doing say two is that we include more species. The disadvantage perhaps of two is that we're not using as much information per species. So there's maybe a little bit of a trade off. And I think though that we would overcome that trade off if we did a bunch of iterations. And so again, we'll talk about that in the next episode, how we can perhaps scale this up to run it 100 or 1000 times and then output an average. That's not so sensitive to the random number generator. So I think I will leave this. Let's let's do three. Just, I don't know why. So we'll run this, we'll get a result for three. And let's go ahead and come back to our terminal. And I will then do make exploratory 2020 2010 21 ASV tax overlap MD. And I'm going to run this. And we see that it runs and we see actually as we expect that our issue 31 label there has turned red, telling us that something has changed. And we see of course that our AMD file changed, our markdown file changed as well as our figure. So something I'd like to show you is something that's really cool. I think about using version control and thinking about reproducibility is that if we have a report like this, where the main output that changed is in our markdown file thinking about that final table. Right. What I'd like to do is let's do use a new function called get diff. We can do exploratory 2020 10 21 overlap that MD. This then shows us everything that's different between our current version of the MD file, as well as the current version to the version that we last committed. And this output we've kind of seen before. You see a colon in the lower left corner if I hit my space, I go down a page. And what this allows me to do then is to very concisely compare my tables. And so the the minus and the red tells me what's been removed. So this was was in there for using all the data. And this table is the output from using three genomes per species. Right. And so we can kind of see how that changed. And again, that's a really nice feature of using version control. And using version control to say, you know, what did we add as we ran this, what what changed in the output. And so if you think about that, from a reproducibility perspective, if we run an analysis multiple times, this file shouldn't change right unless we've changed code or changed how things have have gone. So, again, these are the slice functions. I'm trying that the slice sample function is really useful for cases like this, where I want to get an even number of representatives from any group. Also, it could also be useful if I've got say a data frame with like a million rows, and I really only want to maybe test something because I know that if I use a million rows, it's going to take like five minutes to run. I couldn't perhaps use slice sample to test something on say a thousand of those rows as a way of kind of developing my pipeline that I can then go back, remove that slice sample and do the full thing. But in this case, where we're trying to get an even number of representatives from each of our species, this works great with the slice sample using n equals whatever value we want. Again, we'll come back and look at this in the next episode. So keep playing with these slice functions. I know sometimes people will ask, well, how do I get row five? Well, we've seen today that there's a slice function for that. Keep practicing. In the notes below this video, feel free to ask any questions you might have or tell me where you think you might end up using the slice functions. Have you ever used this slice sample function before? Really powerful again for randomly sub sampling different groups. Please be sure that you subscribe to this channel. I know many more people watch this that are actually subscribed. So go ahead and subscribe it. Click on that bell icon so you know when the next episode is released. And we'll see you next time for another episode of Code Club.

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ESMARConf2022 Special Session 6: Quantitative synthesis with a Bayesian lens - Christian Röver

Presenter: Christian Röver Session: Special Session 6: Quantitative synthesis with a Bayesian lens Title: Using the bayesmeta R package for Bayesian random-effects meta-regression Abstract: The bayesmeta R package facilitates Bayesian meta-analysis within the simple normal-normal hierarchical model (NNHM). Using the same numerical approach, we extended the bayesmeta package to include several covariables instead of only a single "overall mean" parameter. We demonstrate the use of the package for several meta-regression applications, including modifications of regressor matrix and prior settings to implement model variations. Possible applications include consideration of continuous covariables, comparison of study subgroups, and network-meta-analysis. Please cite as: Röver, Christian (2022). Using the bayesmeta R package for Bayesian random-effects meta-regression. ESMARConf2022 conference presentation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6045698

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Hello and welcome everyone. I'm going to give a brief introduction into the new meta regression features that are now implemented in the base meta R package. So I'll first say a few words about simple meta analysis in general and the base meta package, and then I'll go to the case of covariables that are available at the study level. I'll briefly talk about different parameterizations, also about several covariables and binary and continuous covariables. I'll point out some more advanced applications and close with some conclusions. So so far in the base meta package, the simple normal-normal hierarchical model was implemented and that's sketched on this slide. So what we have is we have a number of estimates called yi here and along with their standard error sigma i. And the assumption made is that these estimates here are measuring a true parameter theta i with some uncertainty given by the standard error. And these true values are not necessarily the same or identical for all the studies, but they also have some variation associated with that's given by this heterogeneity tau squared or tau heterogeneity variance tau squared. So the parameters that we have in the end is first of all the overall mean mu, the heterogeneity tau. And sometimes you're also interested in these study specific means for shrinkage estimations, these theta i parameters here. So that's the model that is implemented in the base meta function. And the way it's done is using some numerical trick here. It's not based on MCMC. So yeah, and that's the neat thing that you have direct access to posterior densities, posterior distribution functions, and so on. And yeah, it gives you nicely reproducible and quick results. So extending to the case of meta regression, the set up is similar, so we still have a number of estimates and standard errors. And in addition, we have a number of covariables available at the study level here. So it's number D of covariables. And the model still looks similar here. So we still have the study specific means theta i here and their measurement error sigma given by sigma here. But the mean of these study specific parameters here is now given by a linear combination of the covariables times these unknown coefficients here. And so for the model, this means that instead of the single overall intercept or overall mean parameter mu, we now have a number of coefficients to be estimated. And then again, heterogeneity and the study specific means here. The model is similar and this computational approach still works. And that's now implemented in the so-called BMR function. And I'll go straight to an example here. So that's an example, including six studies here. We've got six estimates of a log odds ratio, log worth and odds ratio, along with a standard error, the uncertainty here. And in addition, we have this treatment covariable here. So we have the six studies that are based on two different treatments. So one is Diplizumab, the other one is this Basiliximab treatment. Yeah, and we can account for that in the analysis. And if we want to estimate two individual means for these two treatments here. And in order to do that, we need to code this information for the analysis. And we do that by putting it into this regressor matrix, capital X. It has, in this case, two columns for the two parameters that we're after, coding these two group assignments here. And we've got six rows cross one into the six studies. And we've got zeros and ones indicating which study belongs to which group here or which treatment. The actual implementation then looks like this. So we first of all load the package, we load the data set, and then we compute the log odds ratios and their standard errors. And then what we need to do in addition is specify the regressor matrix. So that's the matrix that we've seen on the previous slide now implemented in R with two columns, six rows for two parameters and six studies here. And to perform the analysis, we just need to call this BMR function here. We assign the result to this BMR01 object here. And we specify, oh, we supply the data, the estimates, and standard errors. We supply the capital X here, the regressor matrix. And in addition, we also have a prior for the heterogeneity here. We could also omit that. In that case, we're using the default of a uniform heterogeneity prior. So executing this command, we get this result here. So that's the default printout of the analysis output. And the exact details are not so relevant. Important thing is that if you're familiar with the previous base meta output, this looks very similar. It's just now we have three parameters in this particular case. So we still have estimates for the heterogeneity. And now we also have estimates quoted for the two regression parameters, the two beta coefficients here corresponding to the Vaseliximab and Daklisumab treatment here in this case. And we can also illustrate the results graphically. So for example, we can look at posterior densities or marginal posterior densities here for the heterogeneity, for beta 1, the one regression parameter, and beta 2, the other regression parameter. And I guess the more common way to illustrate things is also using a forest plot. And we can do that as well. So the forest plot looks slightly different from what you may be used to from the base meta package so far. So we have the usual setup here. So we've got the estimates and their standard errors quoted. And we have got them illustrated on the right here as well. And in addition, now we've got in the left half here, we also have the regressor matrix reproduced. So we can see which study corresponded to which regressor matrix settings here. And at the bottom now, we don't just have a single overall estimate, but we also have, we've got two parameters to be estimated. One is this basiliximab coefficient. The other one is the Daklisumab coefficient or the group mean and the other one group mean and the other group mean. And yeah, we've got the estimates quantified here and also illustrated in the plot on the right. Yeah, so from the BMR functions output, we assigned that to this BMR01 object here. And from there, we can actually access if we want more detailed information on the parameters, on shrinkage estimates, and so on. And for that, we have a number of functions that are included in this output object here. So in order to look at posterior densities, posterior cumulative distribution functions, quantile functions, and so on, we can use this D posterior, P posterior, Q posterior function. So the naming is similar to what you may be used to from other probability distributions in R. And so for example, we can look at the posterior quantile, the 99% quantile of the tau parameter here and get that number from the output here. Or similarly, we can look for quantiles of the beta parameters. We just need to specify which one we're looking for. Or we can also compute posterior cumulative distribution functions, and so on. Now, the difference to the simple meta-regression is that in the simple meta-analysis is that in a meta-regression, you're quite often interested also in linear combinations of the regression coefficients, the regression parameters here. And we can also access these. And for that, we also have, again, a set of functions available. And what we need to do in addition is we need to specify this covarial vector that we're after here. So for example, one example would be we've got the basaliximab and the daclysumab treatment effects. And one obvious question might be, well, is there a difference or how large is the difference between these two group means here? And we can implement that and we can say, well, the difference between the two coefficients is just one times the one coefficients plus minus one times the other coefficients. So that would be daclysumab minus basaliximab. We supply this contrast vector here, this x-coefficient vector here, and then we can get posterior density distribution function, or in this case an interval for this difference in group means here in this case. And then again, similarly, we can look for the prediction interval, in this case, for one of the groups here, including also the heterogeneity to make a prediction for a future study, for example. And we can also look at shrinkage intervals if we're interested in the study specific effects here by specifying which effect we're after either by the index or by the name. So I guess specifying these contrasts or these covarial vectors is quite convenient. And you can also do that for the forest plot, so to also illustrate that graphically. And so this shows essentially the forest plot that we've seen previously. But now we have supplied a number of contrast vectors here. So that's the ones that we've seen previously as well. So it's 1 and 0 and 0 and 1 for the two individual group means. But we can also include the difference in the same plot. And we see that at the bottom here, we can again see the corresponding coefficient settings here. And then we can get an estimate of the effect in the two individual groups. And then also an estimate of the difference between the two groups here by simply supplying the corresponding coefficient vectors here. And you've got a similar functionality here for the summary function as well. So you can get out the estimates from there as well, if you're not only interested in the plot, but also in the actual numbers. Yeah, just a general remark for the setup of the regression matrix or the regressor matrix, the covariable matrix is usually not unique at all. So there's different ways to code the same regression problem. So one example here would be the default that would often be used in our regression applications using an intercept and offset coding here. And there are other examples. But just general remark, these should lead to consistent results. And one note of caution, in case you're using proper priors for the regression parameters, for the beta parameters here, then that if you want to switch from one parameterization to the other that needs to be accounted for. So that's a difference from frequentist analysis in general. Yeah, so far we've only looked at binary covariables. This is just one brief example, also including continuous covariables. So in this case, it's meta-analysis including 35 studies. And each study was using a different onset of the medication and a different dose of medication. And we can see how that affects the efficacy of the treatment. In this case, we can code this in terms of four coefficients here. There's, again, of course, different parameterizations possible. In this case, we have a four-column matrix for these regressors here. And we can have a quick look at the output here. So we can see we can also model continuous covariables along with binary covariables. So we've got two groups here and a continuous covariable. And it looks like in one group, we have an effect of dose. And if the onset is late here, we don't actually see a substantial effect of increasing or decreasing the dose. Yeah, so just briefly, we've already seen that we can figure out the contrast between basaliximab and declizumab, the two treatments here. And so technically, that is a so-called indirect comparison. And that means that we are, to some extent, getting into the domain of network meta-analysis models. And yeah, we can, in fact, analyze some network meta-analysis problems here. And there's just some restrictions that we need to be looking at contrast estimates from the individual studies. We can only work with two-armed trials. And we have a single common heterogeneity parameter. Another extension is that from the BMR output, we can also get the margin likelihood. And that, of course, is interesting because that means we can compute base factors, which is often useful for model selection, for variable selection, also model averaging applications. Yeah, so just to sum up briefly, we've seen the extension from simple meta-analysis to meta regression. I guess the most popular or most common application is going to be meta-analysis, including subgroups of studies and looking at the different means in the different groups or whether there is a difference between the groups, actually. But there's, of course, a wide range of applications, including continuous covariables, including network meta-analysis model selection, and so on. Just a brief note of caution. If you're switching between parameterizations, unlike in frequencies models, you may need to account for that in the prior specification in case you're using an informative prior for the regression coefficients. So the new base meta package version should be available on CRAN, meanwhile. And yeah, I'm happy to answer questions or comments now or later. Thank you very much.

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Jamie Thomas, IBM | IBM Think 2019

Jamie Thomas, GM, IBM Systems Strategy & Development, IBM sits down with Stu Miniman & Dave Vellante at IBM Think 2019 in San Francisco, CA. #Think2019 #IBM #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/21/qa-ibm-evolves-quantum-edge-computing-pendulum-swings-think2019/ Q&A: IBM evolves quantum and edge computing as pendulum swings in IT Despite the advances in computing over the past five decades, computers must still constantly adapt to meet evolving technologies and demands. IBM has addressed the need for faster and more-evolved tech with its Z mainframes and Power Systems, as well as its supercomputers, dubbed Summit and Sierra, which are designed for data and artificial intelligence. It’s also recently unveiled its Quantum System One, which IBM dubbed “the world’s first integrated quantum computing system.” “Workload-specific processing is still very much in demand,” said Jamie Thomas (pictured), general manager of systems strategy and development at IBM. “Workloads are going to have different dimensions, and that’s what we really have focused on here.” Thomas spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the IBM Think event in San Francisco. They discussed containers, quantum computing, and edge computing. (* Disclosure below.) [Editor’s note: The following answers have been condensed for clarity.] Miniman: It’s interesting to watch while the “pendulum swings” in IT have happened, the Z system has kept up with a lot of these innovations that have been going on in the industry. Thomas: One of our big focuses for the platform, for Z and Power, is a container-based strategy. Last year we talked about secure container technology, and we continue to evolve secure container technology, but the idea is we want to eliminate any kind of friction from a developer’s perspective. So if you want to design in a container-based environment, then you’re more easily able to port that technology or your apps to a Z mainframe environment if that’s really what your target environment is. The other major invention that we announced at the Consumer Electronics Show is the Quantum System One, which is the world’s first self-contained quantum computer in a single-form factor where we were able to combine the Quantum processor. This is all self-contained with its electronics in a single form factor, and that really represents the evolution of the electronics where we were able to miniaturize those electronics and get them into this differentiated form factor. Vellante: What should the layperson know about Quantum and try to understand? Thomas: I think really the fundamental aspect of it is in today’s world with traditional computers, they’re very powerful, but they cannot solve certain problems. In the area of chemistry, for instance, molecular modeling — today we can model simple molecules, but we cannot model something even as complex as caffeine. We simply don’t have the traditional compute capacity to do that. A quantum computer will allow us once it comes to maturity to solve these problems that are not solvable today. And you can think about all the things that we could do if we were able to have more sophisticated molecular modeling. Miniman: How do you balance the research through the product and what’s going to be more useful to users today? Thomas: IBM is one of the few organizations in the world that has an applied research organization still. An organization like IBM Systems has a great relationship with IBM Research. I would say that Quantum is the ultimate partnership between IBM Systems and IBM Research. We have one team in this case that are working jointly on the product, bringing the skills to bear that each of us have — in this case with them having the quantum physics experts and us having the electronics experts. And, of course, the software stacks spanning both organizations is really a great partnership. Vellante: Is there anything you could tell us about what’s going on at the edge? Thomas: Well, I believe the edge is going to be a practical endeavor for us. If we look at the edge as perhaps a factory environment, we are seeing opportunities for storage compute solutions around data management. Being able to manage the data at the edge, being able to then provide insight appropriately using AI technologies is something we think we can do — and we see that. Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the IBM Think event. (* Disclosure: IBM sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither IBM nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering IBM Think 2019, brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to Moscone Center, everybody. The new improved Moscone Center. We're at Moscone North, stop by and see us. I'm Dave Vellante, he's Stu Miniman. And Lisa Martin is here as well. John Furrier will be up tomorrow. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. This is day zero, essentially, Stu of IBM Think Day One. The big keynote start tomorrow. Chairman's keynote in the afternoon. Jamie Thomas is here. She's the general manager of IBM's System Strategy and Development at IBM. Great to see you again, Jamie. Thanks for coming on. Great to see you guys, as usual. And thanks for coming back to Think this year. You're very welcome. So I love your new role. You get to put on the binoculars, sometimes the telescope, look at the roadmap. You have your fingers in a lot of different areas and you get some advanced visibility on some of the things that are coming down the road. So we're really excited about that. But give us the update from a year ago. You guys have been busy. We have been busy. And it was a phenomenal year, Dave and Stu. Last year, I guess one of the pinnacles we reached is that we were named with our technology, our technology received the number one and two supercomputer ratings in the world. And this was a significant accomplishment, rolling out the number one supercomputer in Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the number two supercomputer in Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. And Summit, as it's called in Oak Ridge, is really a cool system. Over 9,000 CPUs, about 27,000 GPUs. It does 200 petaflops at peak capacity. It has about 250 petabytes of storage attached to it at scale. And to cool this guy, Summit, I guess it's a guy. I'm not sure if the denomination actually, it takes about 4,000 gallons of water per minute to cool the supercomputer. So we're really pleased with the engineering that we worked on for so many years in achieving these world records, if you will, for both Summit and Sierra. Well, it's not just bragging rights either, right, Jamie? I mean, it underscores the technical competency and the challenge that you guys face. I mean, number one and number two, that's not easy. And not easy to sustain, of course, so you got to do it again. Right, right, it's not easy. But the good thing is the design point of these systems is that we're able to take what we created here from a technology perspective around Power 9 and of course the partnership we did with NVIDIA in this case and the software storage, and we're able to downsize that significantly for commercial clients. So this is the world's largest artificial intelligence supercomputer. And basically we're able to take that technology that we invented in this case because they ended up being one of our first clients, albeit a very large client, and use that across industries to serve the needs of artificial intelligence workloads. So I think that was one of the most significant elements of what we actually did here. And IBM has maintained a lot of, despite you guys selling off your microelectronics division years ago, you've maintained a lot of IP in the core processing and the design. You've also reached out, certainly with open power, for example, to folks you mentioned in NVIDIA, but embracing that alternative processor mode as opposed to trying to jam everything in the dye, different philosophy that IBM's taking. Yeah, we think that workload specific processing is still very much in demand. Workloads are going to have different dimensions and that's what we really have focused on here. I don't think that this has really changed over the last decades of computing. And so we're really focused on specialized computing, purpose built computing, if you will. Obviously using that on premise and also using that in our hybrid cloud strategies for clients that want to do that as well. What are some of the other cool things that you guys are working on that you can talk about? Well, I would say last year was quite an interesting year in that from a mainframe perspective, we delivered our first 19 inch form factor which allows us to fit nicely on a floor tile. Obviously it allows clients to scale more effectively from a data center planning perspective. Allows us to have a cloud footprint, but with all the characteristics of security that you would normally expect in a mainframe system. But really tailored towards new workloads once again. So Linux form factor and going after the new workloads that a lot of these cloud data centers really need. One of our first and foremost focus areas continues to be security around that system. And tomorrow there'll be some announcements that will happen around Z Security. I can't say what they are right now, but you'll see that we're extending security in new ways to support more of these hybrid cloud scenarios. Yeah, it's so funny. We were talking in one of our earlier segments talking about how the path of virtualization and trying to get lots of workloads into something and goes back to the device that could manage all workloads, which was the mainframe. So we've watched for many years system Z, lots of Linux on there. If you want to do some cool container, global Z, that's an option. So it's interesting to watch while the pendulum swings in IT have happened. The Z system has kept up with a lot of these innovations that have been going on in the industry. And you're right. One of our big focuses for the platform, for ZN Power, of course, is a container-based strategy. So we've created, you know, last year we talked about secure container technology and we continue to evolve secure container technology. But the idea is we want to eliminate any kind of friction from a developer perspective. So if you want to design in a container-based environment, then you're more easily able to port that technology or your applications if you will, to a Z mainframe environment if that's really what your target environment is. So that's been a huge focus. The other, of course, major invention that we announced at the Consumer Electronics Show is our Quantum System 1. And this represented an evolution of our quantum system over the last year. When we now have the world's really first self-contained universal quantum computer in a single form factor where we were able to combine the quantum processor, which is living in the dilution refrigerator, you guys remember the beautiful chandelier from last year, I think it's back this year. But this is all self-contained with its electronics in a single form factor. And that really represents the evolution of the electronics in particular over the last year where we were able to miniaturize those electronics and get them into this differentiated form factor. What should people know about quantum? When you see the demos, they explain it's not a binary one or a zero, it can be either a virtually infinite set of possibilities. But what should the lay person know about quantum and try to understand? Well, I think really the fundamental aspect of it is in today's world with traditional computers, they're very powerful, but they cannot solve certain problems. So when you look at areas like material science, areas like chemistry, even some financial trading scenarios, the problems cannot either not be solved at all or they cannot be completed in the right amount of time, particularly in the world of financial services. But in the area of chemistry, for instance, molecular modeling, today we can model simple molecules, but we cannot model something even as complex as caffeine. We simply don't have the traditional compute capacity do that. A quantum computer will allow us, once it comes to maturity, allow us to solve these problems that are not solvable today. And you can think about all the things that we could do if we were able to have more sophisticated molecular modeling, all the kind of problems we could solve, probably in the world of pharmacology, material science, which affects many, many industries, people that are developing automobiles, people that are exploring for oil, all kinds of opportunities here in the space. The technology is a little bit spooky, I guess, that's what Einstein said when he first saw some of this. But it really represents the state of the universe, how the universe behaves today. It really is happening around us, but that's what quantum mechanics helps us capture and when combined with IT technology, the quantum computer can bring this to life over time. So one of the things that people point to is potentially a new security paradigm because quantum can flip the way in which we do security on its head. So you got to be thinking around that as well. I know security is something that's very important to the IBM Systems Division. Right, absolutely. So the first thing that happens when someone hears about quantum computing is they ask about quantum security. And as you can imagine, there's a lot of clients here that are concerned about security. So in IBM research, we're also working on quantum safe encryption. So you got one team working on a quantum computer, you got another team ensuring that the data will be protected from the quantum computer. So we do believe that we can construct quantum safe encryption algorithms based on lattice-based technology that will allow us to encrypt data today and in the future, when the quantum computer does reach that kind of capacity, the data will be protected. So the idea is we would start using these new algorithms far earlier than the computer could actually achieve this result, but it would mean that data created today would be quantum safe in the future. Kind of in your arms race, internally. But it's very important, both aspects are very important. To be able to solve these problems that we can't solve today, which is really amazing, right? And to also be able to protect our data should it be used in inappropriate ways, right? Now, we had Ed Walsh on earlier today. You used to run the storage division. What's going on in that world? I know you've got your hands in that pie as well. What can you tell us about what's going on there? Well, I believe that Ed and the team have done, made some phenomenal innovations in the past year around flash, NVMe technology and fusing that across product line in the state of the art. The other area that I think is particularly interesting, of course, is their data management strategy around things like spectrum discover. So today we all know that many of our clients have just huge amounts of data. I visited a client last year that, interesting enough, had one million tapes. And of course, we sell tapes, so that's a good thing. But then how do you deal and manage all the data that's on one million tapes? So one of the inventions that the team has worked on is metadata tagging capability that they've now shipped in a product called spectrum discover. And that allows a client to have a better way to have a profile of their data, data governance, and understand for different use cases, like data governance or compliance. How do they pull back the right data? And what does this data really mean to them? So have a better lexicon of their data, if you will, than what they can do in today's world. So I think that's very important technology. I would imagine that metadata could sit in flash somewhere and then inform the serial technology to maybe find stuff faster. I mean, everybody thinks tape is slow because it's sequential. But actually, if you do some interesting things with metadata, you could... There's all kinds of things you can do. I mean, it's one thing to have a data ocean, if you will, but then how do you really get value out of that data over a long period of time? And I think we're just the tip of the spear in understanding the use cases that we can use this technology for. Jamie, how does IBM manage that pipeline of innovation? I think we heard very specific examples of how the supercomputers drive HPC architectures, which everybody's going to use for their AI infrastructure. Something like quantum computing is a little bit more out there. So how do you balance kind of the research through the product and what's going to be more useful to users today? Yeah, well, that's an interesting question. So IBM is one of the few organizations in the world, really, that have an applied research organization still. And Dario Gill is here this week. He manages our research organization now under Arvind Krishna. An organization like IBM Systems has a great relationship with research. So research are the folks that had people working on quantum for decades, right? And they're the reason that we are in a position now to be able to apply this in the way that we are. The great news is, along the way, we're always working on a pipeline of this next generation set of technologies and innovations. Some of them succeed and some of them don't. But without doing that, we would not have things like quantum. We would not have advanced encryption capability that we pushed all the way down into our chips. We would not have quantum safe encryption. Things like the metadata tagging that I talked about came out of IBM Research. So it's working with them on problems that we see coming down the pipe, if you will, that will affect our clients. And then working with them to make sure we get those into the product lines at the right amount of time. I would say that quantum is the ultimate partnership between IBM Systems and IBM Research. We have one team in this case that are working jointly on this product, bringing the skills to bear that each of us have in this case, with them having the quantum physics experts and us having the electronics experts, and of course the software stack spanning both organizations. It's really a great partnership. Is there anything you can tell us about what's going on at the Edge? The Edge computing, you hear a lot about that today. IBM's got some activities going on there. You haven't made huge splashes there, but anything going on in research that you can share with us or any directions? I believe the Edge is going to be a practical endeavor for us. And what I mean by that is there's certain use cases that I think we can serve very well. So if we look at the Edge as perhaps a factory environment, we are seeing opportunities for our storage and compute solutions around the data management out in some of these areas. If you look at the self-driving automobile, for instance, just to design something like that can easily take over 100 petabytes of data. So being able to manage the data at the Edge, being able to then to provide insight appropriately using AI technologies is something we think we can do. And we see that. I own factories based on what I do, and I'm starting to use AI technology. I use Power AI technology in my factories for visual inspection. Think about a lot of the challenges around provenance of parts as well as making sure that they're finally put together in the right way. Using these kind of technologies in factories is just really an easy use case that we can see. And so what we anticipate is we will work with the other parts of IBM that are focused on Edge as well and understand which areas we think our technology can best serve. That's interesting. You mentioned visual inspection. That's an analog use case, which now you're transforming into digital. Well, Power AI vision has been very successful in the last year. So we had this Power AI package of open source software that we pulled together, but we made it, we drastically simplified the use of this software, if you will, the ability to use it and deploy it. And we've added vision capabilities to it in last year. And there's many use cases for this vision capability. If you think about even the case where you have a patient that is in an MRI, if you're able to decrease the amount of time you stay in the MRI in some cases by less fidelity of the picture, but then you've got to be able to interpret it. So this kind of AI and then extensions of AI to vision is really important. Another example for Power AI vision is we're actually seeing use cases in advertising. So the use case of maybe you're at a sporting event or even a busy place like this where you're able to use visual inspection techniques to understand the use of certain products. In the case of a sporting event, it's how many times did my logo show up in this sporting event, right? Particularly our favorite one is Formula One, which we usually feature as the Formula One, folks here a little bit at the event. So you can see how that kind of technology can be used to help advertisers understand the benefits in these cases. Got it. Well Jamie, we always love having you on because you have visibility to so many different areas. Really thank you for coming and sharing a little taste of what's to come. Appreciate it. Well thank you, it's always good to see you and I know it'll be a exciting week here. Yeah, we're very excited. Day zero here, day one, and we're kicking off four days of coverage with theCUBE, Jamie Thomas of IBM. I'm Dave Vellante, he's Stu Miniman. We'll be right back right after this short break from IBM Think and Moscone.

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GLF partners make the connections: an invitation

Partners at the Global Landscapes Forum - the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, IFPRI, TNC, EcoAgriculture Partners and IUCN - tell us how a landscapes approach can enhance coordinated efforts, support inter-generational solutions, confront the world economy, improve human wellbeing, stabilize the climate and protect biodiversity. Join us at the 2015 Global Landscapes Forum (5-6 December, Paris) - a collaborative platform connecting more than 100 organizations to discuss practical land use solutions to turn climate and development goals into action. Register now: http://www.landscapes.org/glf-2015/register/ Full agenda online: http://www.landscapes.org/glf-2015/agenda/ To learn more about speakers, sessions and ways to get involved, visit: http://www.landscapes.org/glf-2015

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Destiny: The Dregs Promise!! WTF Is This? - F The Meta #7

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What's going on guys, it's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video and today I bring you another episode of the fuck the meta where today we use a weapon which I absolutely cannot stand, I've used it once before, I deleted that shit and now we're using it again and it is B1 guys you may want to get your sunglasses out because my titan looks fresh, there we go, but the weapon we're using is the Dreg's penis, I mean this, if the Dreg got his penis out you know it would look like that, spikes and everything, you know that's what it looks like at Dreg's penis, but if you guys want to see more live fuck the meta do drop a like and tell me down below in the comment section what weapon you want to see me used next, try like gap here we go, cons man, I ain't getting the kill, I've had one kill this whole game and I ain't going to get an all kill, Jesus, I ain't got nothing, I'm a fucking listing anything bloody leveled up, I don't know if you can put the levels into it, when you run around with a shotgun then, I don't know what the fuck this is then, about something about how shotguns need nothing, I got some shit on Twitter from some little mad ass fucking small ass streamer, if you do that shit on battlefield then I'm saying you good, you run around on this game with a shotgun, I can do that and I'm bad, oh shit, shotguns do not take skill to use on this fucking game, they're the easiest thing to use on this fucking game, you know a gun that you take skill, it's the last word you know what it takes to, I can't fucking use that shit, uh oh

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1.2 Introduction - HPC/SciComp Kickstart summer 2023

General introduction to the workshop. https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/kickstart/intro/ ----- This is part of the Aalto Scientific Computing "Getting started with Scientific Computing and HPC Kickstart" 2023 workshop. The videos are available to everyone, but may be most useful to the people who attended the workshop and want to review later. Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLVmS9rf3nMKR2jMglaN4su3ojWtWMVw Workshop webpage: https://scicomp.aalto.fi/training/scip/kickstart-2023/ Aalto Scientific Computing: https://scicomp.aalto.fi/

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Yes, here we go. So this is the workshop page, and well, if I move the stuff you can see the URL, but you probably can find that yourself in the email or in the Twitch description. So if we scroll down a little bit, we get to the schedule. So first off at the top, there's some basic important information which we'll keep updating every day. So keep checking back. Let's schedule. Yes, so this is our home base and how, our second home base and how you can find the different links where we are. So I'm going to open the summer kickstart intro here. And as usual, there's far more information here than I can possibly talk about. So let's see how much we can do. Okay. So intro, who are we? The team that you're seeing here is called Science IT or Altoscientific Computing. We work in collaboration with other universities sometimes. And there's one talk in collaboration with CSC. So together we're putting on this course and trying to make sure you have everything you need. Most of the teachers are from Altos University. So the contents of this course. So day one is sort of general big picture things. So there's a little bit of hands on to do, but for the most part, it's sort of demos and talking and learning about each other and how we do stuff and so on. But then once we get to days two and three, there's a lot of hands on and we're actually going to use the computer cluster. Attending the course is multiple different people. So we have people from different universities using different clusters. Even though our demos are based on Altos University, we try to adapt our material so it's suitable to others. But you might need to figure out a little bit other things if you're at other sites. So practicalities, how this workshop works. So as you may notice, we are a live stream. So this is not Zoom. You can't send a chat message directly to us. So I would look at it as like a TV production, which I think was Enrico's metaphor. So we're all here watching. We're broadcasting to the world. And then there's pauses like commercial breaks where you can go and you can work on the exercises yourself in groups or however you're doing it. There is a Zoom session for live help during the exercises, which you can be in if you'd like. But the main way we communicate is the HackMD, which I will show shortly. So the workshop has many different parts. There's a lot of talking and demos. There's some where we'll be typing and you're watching. There's some times where we will say, okay, now it's your time to work. And we mute the stream. And then you have 10 or 15 or 20 or 30 or however many minutes to work on stuff yourself before we come back and discuss. And then there's breaks. So at least the last 10 minutes of each hour or so, we would like to have a break time. So to communicate. So the Twitch chat, we don't really watch that much. So there's basically too much for us to be able to see that. But you can sort of try it if you need to have practical questions. But HackMD is the most important way to talk. And you can see an example here. So we have section headings and subsection headings for where we are. And then there'll be questions and then answers come in a sub bullet point. And the great thing here is anyone can ask at any time and you can sort of do it live. And you don't have to interrupt. So even though this is live stream, the number of questions we have is sort of far larger than I've ever experienced in an in-person or Zoom course. Because it's anonymous and asynchronous. You will get used to this as we do it. So if you see the people that know, yeah, it'll start making sense. The main point to remember is to ask questions at the bottom always. At the top, there's different buttons to switch between view and edit mode. So switch to edit mode, you can write stuff and then back to view mode. So we notice that if people are in view mode, that increases performance a little bit. So might have less chance of the whole system crashing. Yes. So where do you focus? So there's the screen sharing lecture, which is the first thing you should be focusing on when we're talking. During the times that where you're typing, you can be working on that. HackMD, there'll be more information that you can possibly follow during the course. So look at it when you need to, but don't let it distract you. And then of course, there's the lesson webpage to refer to things. The reason we have this really interesting vertical sharing mode is because, so that you can do this with Twitch, you can make part of it vertical and then have the other half of your screen for your own work. So it actually works pretty well. So hide the chat, go to theater mode, and then, well, you have plenty of space to follow along or even do your other work while you're watching what we're doing. Works pretty well. We try to be accessible to many different learning styles. And that's because mainly the recordings and the HackMD. So if you want to just watch and follow along later, you can. The recordings will be available. They'll be available tonight, even. And that's possible because there's no privacy concerns here. Any questions you ask, the writing can be there, but there's no way for your voice or video to be in the recordings. But regarding this, it's a good idea to remember to not post private information into the HackMD or into the chat. Don't put passwords or your email addresses or anything like that into the HackMD because, well, the HackMD might be shown on the screen. Yes. Okay. Yeah. And there's different paths you can take. So some people might be really active about watching and doing all the exercises. Some people might prefer to just watch and then do them later. Either way is okay. We won't get upset. And we also won't even know. Please remember to be nice to each other. So everyone here is at different level. Everyone here is both a teacher and a learner somehow. If you're with other people, talk to them and ask them how it's going and provide the help that they might need. And once something isn't going well, speak up immediately. So we're always watching the HackMD. So if you write in the bottom, hey, I can't see the screen. You're not sharing the right thing or you're too quiet. Write and we will see and fix it. So what can go wrong? This is fun. So yeah. So first off, you can get overloaded with information. Not just you can, but you will get overloaded with information. So don't worry. Once it gets like this, then change your watching style and watch some and come back later. Don't get so caught up trying to key it up up that you sacrificed the rest of the course. If there's too much information in HackMD to follow. So that's expected. That's going to happen. Our typical courses get several hundred questions per day. So don't try to follow it. Read it later for future reference or read the answers to your questions. If HackMD lags and you can't edit or it's going wrong, then that means it's getting a bit too long. And for that, we will archive the other, the old questions to an archive link, which is located at the top of HackMD. If we don't have time to cover everything, well, that actually will happen. So then we summarize and we leave you things that you can review later. So a lot of these lessons are more starting points to the lessons rather than trying to do everything with you right now. If we deviate from the schedule, well, we're sorry we tried to stay on track, but this is going to happen, especially if the audience gets really interested in something. We'll spend more time there and reduce time from other things. If there's major accessibility problems, like for example, the audio quality is bad or the screen is not visible, things are too small, we're typing too fast, then write the problem in the bottom of HackMD immediately and we'll notice and fix it. If the stream suddenly dies, that means that something has happened to my internet connection and my streaming machine. In that case, just stick around, we'll be back in about five minutes or so. It takes a while to get set up. If you don't have something ready, something installed or configured ready to go, well, that's too bad, but switch to watching mode, work on it for homework and come back the next day. If you can't attend the course every day, well, that's okay. We have the videos available. That's the whole reason of the live streaming, so that way the videos are available with no privacy risks. If a cat visits one of us, well, that's not a problem. That's actually what we hope happens. If the course is too cool and you want to know more about what we're doing, we have advanced information on some of the lessons. Ask your local supporters and, well, search around and you can find more. Final note, so this is recorded and will be put on YouTube. We will do a great effort to get the videos processed and on YouTube by midnight tonight, so far in most courses that works. You don't have to worry about being in the video because you can't possibly be in there because you're watching a stream. Don't add names or personal information in HackMD. Don't post personal information because it might be streamed to the world, so just don't say a name. Just say, like, yeah, I'm at this university. I have this problem and let us figure out. All the output, including HackMD, will get a CC by license and will be published for people to refer to later, so don't write anything private there either. If you want credits for the course, we don't give certificates for this course, but if you're in Finland, you can go to this online course and some scientific computing and you can get credits and it covers a lot of the same things we're talking about now. Yeah, and you can join us in helping to make courses like this possible later. So with that, I'm done. Let's switch to HackMD and see if there's any questions. Yeah, I'd one thing that throughout, like every day, through every day, we ask usually to give some feedback, something good, something bad, something that can be improved upon and that sort of thing. So please leave the feedback because that helps us design the courses for the next years and maybe sometimes even the next days, because if we notice that the pace is too fast, the pace is too slow, something was not gone through fully in the day's materials, we can then adapt on that. So please give us feedback there. Okay, so if there were any questions, you could be writing them right here right now and we'll see even after we go on to the next section. So with that being said, I believe it's Enrico next, is that correct? Yeah, I'm going to take over the screen share. Yes, please do.

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Infos du 11 au 17 septembre 2017

- Un essai clinique prometteur pour les personnes souffrant d’incontinence anale, - Les maladies chroniques et leurs impacts sur la scolarité des enfants, - Les journées européennes du patrimoine. Réalisation : Direction de la communication Journaliste : Mathilde LAPOTRE Voix off : Frédéric Lemonsu Images et son : Christophe DUVAL Montage : Jennifer LIOT http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CHUHopitauxDeRouen

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Bonjour à tous, ravi de vous retrouver dans ce journal. J'espère que vous avez passé de bonnes vacances. Pour cette rentrée, je vous propose de revenir sur les événements marquants de l'été avec... Un essai clinique prometteur pour les personnes souffrant d'un continent sanal. Les maladies chroniques et leur impact sur la scolarité des enfants. Les journées européennes du patrimoine. Nous commençons cette édition à l'université de Rouen-Normandie avec un essai clinique prometteur pour les patients souffrant d'un continent sanal. Une maladie qui touche près d'un million de personnes en France dont un tiers avec une forme sévère. L'une des causes, les muscles qui entourent la zone anale et que l'on appelle les sphinctères. Ces muscles peuvent parfois, après un accouchement ou une chirurgie difficile, perdre leur capacité à se contracter correctement conséquent des pertes de sel et de gaz qui rendent la vie très handicapante. Il y a différents traitements possibles. Dans tous les cas, on commence par un traitement médical. On recherche d'éventuels troubles du transit. Un type de diarrhée ou de constipation qui pourrait favoriser cet incontinence. On met toujours en place des traitements médicamentaux si ce problème existe. On peut aussi faire de la rééducation. C'est un type de rééducation particulière. Il faut des kinésithérapeutes formés à ce type de rééducation qui est vraiment une rééducation particulière. Et c'est seulement en cas d'échec de traitement médical de plusieurs mois qu'on peut envisager des traitements chirurgicaux. Les chercheurs de l'université Rouen-Normandie et de l'Inserm associés au laboratoire de biothérapie du CHU de Rouen ont testé avec succès une thérapie cellulaire visant à restaurer la capacité du sphincter à se contracter un essai clinique conduit par les professeurs Olivier Boyer et Francis Michaud dont les résultats s'annoncent prometteurs pour un futur traitement de l'incontinence anal. Nous travaillons sur les cellules souches adultes et notamment les cellules souches musculaires. En fait il faut savoir que dans chacun de nos muscles nous avons des fibres musculaires qui permettent la contraction et une petite cellule souche qui est là et quand il y a un claquage musculaire elle se multiplie, elle fusionne et elle refabrique du muscle. C'est cette propriété que nous voulons mettre en avant pour des maladies où justement il y a des lésions des muscles comme ça et c'est dans ce contexte que nous avons travaillé avec l'équipe de chirurgie digestif du professeur Michaud pour traiter l'incontinence anal. Il y a une étude expérimentale au départ il faut qu'on valide le principe, la preuve de concept comme on dit qui est d'essayer de savoir dans un modèle expérimental si ces cellules sont capables de réparer. Alors bien sûr ce n'est pas chez l'homme et donc c'était un premier travail. Ensuite il y a une autre question c'est comment produire ces cellules dans des qualités, dans des conditions suffisantes pour permettre de les administrer chez l'homme et donc il y a eu tout un travail de mise au point pour les développer jusqu'à ce qu'on appelle le grade clinique et une des questions qui se posent c'est on va me réinjecter mes propres cellules sous, mais qu'est-ce qu'elles vont devenir ? Est-ce qu'elles pourraient avoir des effets nocifs par exemple ? Donc on a étudié beaucoup de paramètres, leur stabilité, leur génome pour être sûr que ces cellules soient utilisables en pleine sécurité. Donc ça ça prend plusieurs années et donc c'est un travail qui remonte, on a commencé 2008 par ces premières études préalables pour arriver à un essai clinique en 2012 et qui voit son aboutissement maintenant en 2017. Prochaine étape, mettre en place une seconde étude d'envergure nationale, incluant davantage de patients. Est-il possible de suivre une scolarité normale lorsqu'on est atteint d'un déficit immunitaire et réditaire ? C'était le thème de la soirée d'échange entre patients professionnels de santé et de l'éducation qui a eu lieu le 8 septembre. L'occasion de promouvoir la publication d'un guide unique en France pourrait aider les parents et tous les professionnels en charge de ces enfants à mieux construire leur parcours scolaire pour éviter des décrochages et des échecs. C'est tout à fait possible de suivre une scolarité normale avec un déficit immunitaire et réditaire. Pour cela il faut de la communication entre les enseignants de l'école de l'hôpital et les enseignants de l'école de l'enfant est scolarisé mais aussi du médecin scolaire et du médecin référent qui suit l'enfant. Nous proposons une aide avec le guide de la scolarité que nous avons créé avec les enseignantes de l'école de l'hôpital du CHU de Rouen mais aussi du Centre hospitalier général du HAF et avec l'association Iris de façon à ce que les parents soient moins perdus lorsqu'ils expliquent la situation médicale de leur enfant. Ce guide est téléchargeable sur le site internet de l'association Iris à l'adresse qui s'affiche à l'écran. Rappelons qu'en France, près de 2000 enfants vivent avec un déficit immunitaire et réditaire. Pour en savoir plus, je vous invite à découvrir notre reportage en ligne sur la chaîne YouTube du CHU de Rouen rubrique pédiatrie. Les journées européennes du patrimoine auront lieu les 16 et 17 septembre. Plusieurs événements seront proposés par le CHU pour vous faire découvrir le patrimoine hospitalier à travers des conférences, des visites commentées et des expositions. La programmation débutera le vendredi 15 septembre avec une conférence sur le patrimoine culturel du CHU et le vernissage d'une exposition de photos à l'hôpital Charles-Nicolle. Le Musée Floubert et d'histoire de la médecine ouvrira gratuitement ses portes les 16 et 17 septembre de 10h à 18h. La préfecture de Rouen sera exceptionnellement ouverte samedi 16 de 9h30 à 17h. Le groupe d'histoire des hôpitaux de Rouen proposera une visite commentée de ce qui était autrefois l'Hôtel Dieu. Des comptes de la musique, des arts plastiques, des persplafonds en caravane ou encore une veillée déambulatoire seront également au rendez-vous. Consultez dès à présent l'intégralité du programme sur www.chutirerouen.fr Et pour finir cette édition dans le chiffre de la semaine 700, c'est le nombre d'enfants accueillis chaque année à l'école à l'hôpital. C'est la fin de cette édition. Merci de l'avoir suivie. Très bonne reprise à tous et à bientôt à l'écran.

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Alessandro Molina - Moving away from NodeJS to a pure python solution for assets

Alessandro Molina - Moving away from NodeJS to a pure python solution for assets [EuroPython 2016] [20 July 2016] [Bilbao, Euskadi, Spain] (https://ep2016.europython.eu//conference/talks/moving-away-from-nodejs-to-a-pure-python-solution-for-assets) The talk covers the complexity of managing an asset transformation pipeline through tools like Grunt and NodeJS, especially during deploy, test suites or when a new development environment has to be configured from scratch, and showcase how this complexity can be dodged by using tools like WebAssets and DukPy. No more need to keep around two languages, two package management systems and manage your dependencies between them by youself. Just pip install your app and have it working. ----- When working with WebApplications it is common to rely on an asset management pipeline to compile scripts, minify css or preprocess images. Most of the tools available today rely on JavaScript to perform those steps and always forced Python developers to rely on NodeJS to have grunt perform the pipeline tasks, coffee-script to compile their CoffeeScript or lessc to build their css. This causes longer setup times for projects newcomers, complex development environment, working with two package managers and dependencies that you use once a week but still need to be there. The talk will showcase the DukPy project and focus on how it is possible to build a pure python asset pipeline relying on DukPy to run javascript tools and WebAssets framework to perform the most common tasks that usually Nodejs and tools like Grunt handle for us, greatly reducing the development environment complexity and making its setup as simple as ‘pip install’. The talk aims at explaining the complexity of managing an asset transformation pipeline through tools like Grunt, especially during deploy, test suites or when a new development environment has to be created, and showcase how this complexity can be dodged by using tools like WebAssets and DukPy. No more need to keep around two languages, two package management systems and manage your dependencies between them by youself. Just pip install your app and have it working.

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We've got our next talk from Alessandro Molina, who will be telling us about moving away from Node.js and on to Python, if you could all welcome him, there will be a chance for questions at the end. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. First, I would like to start by telling you why I decided to have this talk, because I know that probably many of you are already using a solution to transform and manage their assets, probably you have been using it with success for months here, I don't know, and probably in this solution Node.js is involved in many ways, at least to run the tools that perform the translation or the transpilers themselves or whatever. But I know that many people approach the solution that they are using today for the reason that they don't know there are other ways to do that. Most people have been doing that that way. If you look on Google or wherever how to do that, the first result is probably how to do that with Node.js, and so people have been approaching that kind of solution mostly because that's the way you are meant to do it. But there are actually very good alternatives that can solve also the problem of having to cope with two different languages. I know for sure that anyone in this room is a Python programmer, but I'm not sure that everyone in this room also is as proficient with JavaScript or Node.js or whatever. So having to maintain two different environments with their dependencies, different tools, different package managers, and install both of them on your at least development environment if not even on the production environment is not always what you want to do. So let's talk about something that probably happened in the life of every one of us, which is that you've been able to start your project using Python for everything. Your web framework is probably Python-based. You serve your API or even your web page through it. You are able to run it using a Python-based solution that you can write plugins for using Python. So we can deploy it using supervisors, like a whisky, whatever you are using that it's probably comfortable because you know you can go into the code and have a pretty good grasp of what's happening or write plugins for it and extend its behavior and so on. You're probably also deploying it using a tool like Salt Ansible or Docker Compose which are in Python too. And you probably monitor the state of your application using a tool like Sentry, Datadog, Backlash which have all Python agents, some of them even have backend code between Python and so on. So we are fairly able to do everything we want by going into the Python code, messing with it, extending its behavior, doing whatever we want in our stack. And that's only not true for the assets part because one day you probably go on holiday, you come back and the front-end guy introduce a whole new language, a whole new dependency manager, a whole new set of things in the project which now need to be installed through NPM, through having a new interpreter on your system and things like that. Which is not bad because Node.js actually has a really good set of tools for doing this as a good set of transpilers as most of them transpile to JavaScript and have been written by the JavaScript community, have been written, of course, in Node.js itself. They have a good set of tools to automate testing of your JavaScript part and front-end part. And there's a good set of tools to automate tasks like, for example, Granting Group, which are actually made to do that job and provide pipelines that transform your assets and things like that. So the side effect of this is that while it's a great tool and everything you usually need, you now need to have a package manager to manage the package managers because you have to be sure that in the environment you are working on, you will have both PEEP or the premade wheels if you use the binary distribution. You need to make sure you have NPM to be able to set up the working environment from scratch, at least on your continuous integration or on the developer's machines and so on. So you will need a tool that installs both of those. In most simple cases, it might be just an upget itself. In more complex cases, you might want to provide something like an Ansible script to actually deploy the working environment. Then you have two different places where you need to be sure to update your dependencies because we will have the dependency for NPM and we will have the dependencies for PEEP. And in the most simple case, two different people work on the two different parts of the system and they update each one their own dependencies. But in some cases, there might be features that cross through the bridge of the two parts and you might need to be sure that to make the front end of your new functionality added, you will need to add the dependency in both places and have the client and several side dependencies of your functionality and make sure that they get installed both otherwise your feature won't work as expected at all. So you will probably end up adding a third solution on top of all of these to actually manage this complexity. And there are many and so far there is not really a standard de facto to rely on. I mean, you can probably try to achieve this by using Ansible for everything. You can probably try to achieve this by doing pre-configured docked images. You can actually try to solve the solution in many different problems. But it's actually a problem that you should not need to solve because it has been introduced for a purpose that in most cases can be solved without introducing the new technology that is actually triggering our problem with different stacks and dependencies. And there are pretty good frameworks in Python to manage assets. One of them is actually WebAssets, which has been the one that I prefer over the long run because it provides a really simple interface. You can configure it both through an API and through a simple YAML file. And it provides also the front end part of your assets whenever you need to use an asset, you can actually use it by importing it from WebAssets. So it will also take care of things like cache basting and things like that for you. So it can replace solutions like Groom and Gulp in performing the transformation of your assets because much like them works as a pipeline. So you get some kind of input, which is usually a file, and end up providing another output, which is usually a file itself, which will be the file transpiled, your CSS converted, or your images are scaled and things like that. And the advantage of using this approach is that if you need something, if you need support for scaling images, if you need support for compiling less, if you need support for SAS or whatever, you just track the dependency in your setup UI because the less compiler for WebAssets is just a Python package like WebAssets itself. So if you need less, you don't have to remember that you have a step to run before your application. So you don't have to remember that you need to perform MPM install. You don't have to remember that you need to run grand. You can actually make everything automatic through Python by having your application that when it's installed, if we need to install the support for less, and when it starts, it will automatically provide, compile the assets without having to actually provide yourself a solution to the debt. And it actually works with any Whiskey framework. So you can even use it as a middle one around your framework, which doesn't care about the language and the framework you are using and allows you to manage your assets independently for the framework, even if you use a plain Whiskey application without a framework at all. And as I told you, it's actually providing a HTML side API to inject the resources, which is good because in many other cases, when you inject the resource, you generate it to maybe grant a goal. You will have to provide the solution for things like cache-busting yourself. So in case the resource changes, in case you update the CSS file, you want the browser to load the new updated version and not keep using the old one just because the browser has it in cache. And usually this is something you might need to provide yourself, maybe by adding a timestamp to all the URLs or things like that. But WebAssets does it for you. So when it generates a mesh of your resource, and whenever the resource changes, the hash will change. And so the new resource will have a totally different URL. And as you inject them to an API, it will inject the latest URL every time you run your template language. And the way you define your resources in WebAssets is actually through bundles. So a bundle is actually any kind of resource. You can even be a bundle made of just one single thing. If you need to translate your single CSS file from SAS to CSS, you can create a bundle with single file inside. And the bundle is defined as something that has a name. In this case, we have two bundles, style and JSO. And each bundle might have a filter, which for the first case is CSS Utils, which is used to minify the CSS. And we'll have an output, which in this case for simplicity is just a file I've coded. So everything inside the bundle will be minified and squashed into that style.css file. And actually you can have content, which can even be a bundle itself, because you can see a point where we have a content, a sub-entry, which has CSS files inside and provides a different filter, which is LibSus, which is used to convert the CSS to CSS, of course. And LibSus itself is a Python package, so you can actually just add it to your setup PY and then everything managed through your package manager. So what happens is when our system will need the style bundle, it will actually end up compiling, performing all the transformation for the nested bundles. Like in this case, it will start by transpiling all the SAS files to CSS files. And then it will perform the upper part, which in this case is the CSS Utils filters on all the files we specified and on the result of the previous bundle. And we will end up with a single style.css file, which inside that's all that CSS files, or our scss file transpiled by LibSus, and the result is then minified too. And the same happens for JS all, which actually in this case applies to JS mean filter, as you can imagine, performs a minification of JavaScript. And it will get all these files and we will squash them into dependencies.js, and we'll minify them, of course. And to use them from your front end, it's actually pretty simple as web assets will provide you with an environment that has knowledge about all the bundles you created in the configuration. And you can just inject the resources through these environment. In my example, the environment is owned by the global application object, which is that G object you see there. And what's happening is that I just create, I loop on all the resources of the style bundle and create a new link entry for each CSS resource. You might be asking why I loop as I actually have the single bundle named style. So there should be only one. And the reason why I loop is that actually if you run web assets in the bug mode, you won't perform the minification and squashing anymore. So you can debug your resources separated and then when you are sure that things work as you expect, you turn the bug mode off and you end up having a single resource. So with these syntax, you are sure that everything works, both when you run in the bug and production mode. So both when you have a single or multiple resources generated by web assets. And the same happens for the JS old bundle because I just looped through all the URLs provided for the JS old bundle and I inject the script back for that. So in this case, the example I made using the Kajiki template engine or the game she won, the syntax is the same actually, but it works in any template language. If you look at the web assets site, you will find the samples in Jinja and so on. But we didn't really remove the problem totally because still for some more complex filters, we will need to have Node.js available. For example, if I want to convert my yes six code to a yes five to JavaScript that the browser is actually able to run, I will probably need to bring in something like Babel. And Babel actually is implemented in Node.js. So I will need to install Node.js and tell web assets where it can find the Babel executable file. Which is actually not really good in my opinion because I didn't really solve anything. If I need to have Node.js to perform the Babel, to run Babel, at that point it makes sense to just have Node.js for everything and don't have to actually have parts of my assets pipeline on one side and parts of my assets pipeline on the other side. And that's the point of this talk actually. What I wanted to do is solve this problem, not having to rely on Node.js at all in my Python environment. And that's why I created Duck Pie. And Duck Pie is actually a replacement for Node.js in many ways. It's specifically meant for assets management. So you won't be writing web application on top of Duck Pie. It doesn't have the concept of any or request. It doesn't have a server inside. It's just a JavaScript interpreter. We built things transpiler for the most common environments and most common languages and things like that. So we can now just add Duck Pie as a dependency of our setup file in our requirements. And we know that whenever we need something that relies on JavaScript, we just have Duck Pie installed without having to have some external tool taking care of installing it and so on because it's just a Python package. And there is a Python package which actually has no external dependencies. Duck Pie self comes, self contained and the only thing you will need is a C compiler because currently there is no binary distribution mostly until we support for Linux environment is totally clear how it should work in a reliable way. Currently, but the C dependency self doesn't use any C library apart from libc. So as far as you have GCC installed, you don't need anything else to actually install and compile Duck Pie. So you just run pip install and you will end up with Duck Pie installed at work. And the reason why I created it is that because I wasn't really satisfied with the other existing solutions because like PyXJS, SpiderMonkey, V8 and so on for Python require external tools like V8 and SpiderMonkey. And it's usually really hard to build those. I don't know if anyone of you ever tried to build SpiderMonkey but it's something we spent like two days only trying to get a binary that runs and work. So it's not really easy to have them integrated in your install and build process. And Duck Pie is also specifically tailored for web development. So it means that most things you will need are probably built into Duck Pie to make your assets pipeline in Python itself. A simple example is actually compiling coffee script. So I don't need to install anything because in Duck Pie itself there is the coffee script compiler built in. So I just import Duck Pie, run the coffee compiler function and I get the JavaScript generated out of that coffee script. And you should notice that this is not something that will have major problems or that might not be compatible and so on because it's not a coffee script compiler implemented in Python. It's actually the real coffee script compiler in JavaScript itself that it's running on top of Duck Pie. So whenever the coffee script compiler is updated with a bug fix, new release, new support for language or whatever, it will be just a matter of replacing a JavaScript file, maybe fixing two or three things inside that file and then your release of Duck Pie will have support for that without major issues. And the same applies for bubble. I can convert my ECMAScript 6 to plain JavaScript just by calling the bubble compile function and you see that I get out the plain JavaScript out of my class declared in ECMAScript 6. And also for TypeScript. So you can actually create Angular 2 web application using Duck Pie and no need for Node.js at all. I actually did it for real, this. So you can declare your application, your class in TypeScript and compile it and you will get the compile JavaScript out of it. And as I told you, Angular.js 2 perfectly works on top of Duck Pie. So these actually solved the problem of compiling and transpiling my resources and my most complex resources. For simple things, I can use web assets which already provides all the filters I need usually. And for more complex things, like transpiling TypeScript ECMAScript and so on, I can rely on Duck Pie, which provides the filters or web assets itself. So I can just import from the Duck Pie the filter for TypeScript, import from Duck Pie the filter for bubble.js, register them into web assets and from that point on, I will have support for TypeScript or bubble.js inside my bundles. So in this case, you can see for example that I added a bunch of ECMAScript 6 files which are compiled, minified into the JS app bundle and that's declared by the fact that they use the bubble.js filter, which is provided by Duck Pie. And you don't only stop there. You don't even need MPM anymore because Duck Pie has a package manager for MPM.org built in. So if you need to have a JavaScript dependency in your Python program, you can just use Duck Pie.install.js package, specify the name of the package, the version that you want to install and if you want it's optional, the directory where you want to install it, by default it will install it inside the JS vendor directory of your web application, which is from the environmental web assets. And it also will install any dependency of the package. So if your JavaScript package has dependencies itself, it will end up installing them all too. And if you mix these with the setup tools which have a setup requires function, you can tell that your web application setup requires Duck Pie and that all the JavaScript dependency installed by setup tools itself. So when you do pip install my web app, you get all your Python and JavaScript dependency installed without the need of any external dependency manager. And the only thing you should notice is that Duck Pie is not full of features as the MPM original one. So for example, in case of a collision, in case two different packages require two different versions of a package which collide, which are not supported one by the other, Duck Pie currently would just take the newest one. So it will take for granted that the newest one should work with both of them, but will not make more advanced things like filtering on the minor version and things like that. So in some cases, if you only specify the high level dependency, you might end up with collaging dependency installed, but that's something you can solve by just specifying the precise version for each dependency you want to have. I plan to extend this behavior by providing full dependency resolution, collision and version resolutions because the dependency resolution is already provided, but the collision part is not. And, but currently has not been a major issue for me because I tend just to specify the precise version of each of my dependencies to make sure that the software is always reinstallable even in 10 years from now. And one really interesting thing is that, Duck Pie is compatible on Node.js also for the requirements of packages. So Duck Pie provides a required function which is able to import Node.js packages. And that makes possible to use something like React to render your script from server side code in Python. So we can actually create isomorphic web application in Python alone without the need to mess with Node.js anymore because we can just render the isomorphic part, the part that uses React from our Python code by using Duck Pie.js compile and running then the render to static markup code which will render the React component to plain markup. Inject this markup into our template and never react from the client side continue from the markup we generated. Actually, if you want client side react to continue from the markup we created from the server, you should be using render to string instead of render to static markup. But that doesn't matter. You just switch the function name and things work. So you can provide the first version of your web page rendered from the server. So the user sees the result instantly and then the client side are very kick-seeing and continues from there without any problem because we actually run the real React code from our server. And not only that, if you need to export your Python code from Python, of course, and make it available inside JavaScript, as you can call JavaScript from Python, we can actually call Python from JavaScript. We just use the export function feature of Duck Pie and in this case we export the sorted function which is built in into Python and sort whatever it have above you throw at it. And we exported the sort number. So inside JavaScript we will be able to call it using call Python sort numbers and passing the numbers that should be sorted. And we will get back as a result of course the sorted numbers. And also you don't have to care about references to the objects and memory management because there is a choice I made which is to pass everything by value. So every value you pass back and forth from Python to JavaScript is actually copied. It's not the original object itself. This allows much simpler resolution of problems in memory management of references. And you won't end up with leaking dangling pointers in Python because some code in JavaScript is leaking memory which needs support and which needs a Python object. As leaking memory in JavaScript is pretty easy sometimes but that one actually do anything to your Python code because the objects you pass back and forth are copies and are not the original object. So this actually did everything I needed. I was really happy with Duck Pie as a solution because I could actually manage all my dependencies from setup PY without the need to maintain MPM or an external tool that maintains both MPM and PIP. And I could perform all the transpiling in Python so if I needed to add a feature or change something in my transpiler I could just mess up with Python code. And Duck Pie actually has been a quite performing solution for me. I would say you should not use it on production because there is a lot of C code. I mean not on production. You should not use it in the live running web application. You should use it during the packaging of the web application because there is a lot of C code inside. I cannot guarantee that you won't crash with a segmentation fault while ending 2,000 requests a second and things like that. But for everything that is related to packaging and building the resources and so on it's always worked without any problem for me so far. The bugs that I found are being solved pretty quicky and it has been like a few months that I have been using it without finding a new bug. So if you want to try it, feel free to. Duck Pie actually works for practically any used version of Python from 2.6 to 3.5. And if you find any bug feel free to open an issue on GitHub because it's totally open source. It's fully tested. I guarantee there is one under coverage on all the Duck Pie code and I have an example that ensures that all the transpiler is still working whenever I update the JavaScript side code of everything. And to use it, you just have to pre-install it and have fun with it. So thank you. If you have any question. So this is really awesome. Thanks very much for showing this off. Have you had any experience using it for things like Ember CLI, which is more opinionated? No, never tried with this Ember. I tried with Angular 2 React only. You feel free to try it. If you find any issues, send me an email. I try to solve it. Thanks very much. It's very cool to not have to run Node.js on my web server. So thank you for that. Do you know if your project will work with the less CSS compiler, transpiler? It should. I didn't try it on Duck Pie itself because you have a less compiler for web assets. So whether I mostly use SAS, but I know there is the less compiler for web assets itself. So it never came to my mind in my need. But it should be a matter of just loading the JS file of the less compiler, running it with Duck Pie, and see if it does what you expect. Usually it does. The only problem in my face is with regular expressions because Duck Pie actually applies the JavaScript standard more tightly than Node.js. So some syntaxes that Node.js consider valid in regular expression, and they're actually not. Duck Pie will tell you, hey, this is not valid. You need to escape this part of the regular expression. But as far as it's a matter of fixing the two free regular expression, then they will code. We usually just work. Thank you very much. A semi-related question. Have you investigated at all the state of pure Python JavaScript interpreters? I'm not saying it's not turning. That's a complex question because, yes, I did like a year ago. I tried to use some of them. But I'm not sure. At least a year ago, none of them could last year be so resilient to make sure that you throw a Node.js library to it, and it will just work. For example, Duck Pie has invested pretty much some time into providing a compatible support for the required function to make sure that the dependencies resolution and so on works exactly the same as Node.js. And so I did it. I did it some time ago, so it might be that the situation changed. OK, yeah. All right. I think that was our last question. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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How to BUY & SELL sell a home at the same time - Pittsburgh Real Estate with Michelle Goetzinger

For many people buying homes, they first need to sell the one they own today. This can be a complicated process that requires a lot of coordination. 1. Put your home on the market 2. Find your new home - but an offer on it 3. Once your home gets an offer, it will trigger the offer you placed on a new home 4. Do a double closing - all in one day. Sell your current home and then buy your new home This can be complicated and stressful, however this is something people do ever day and is something we can do together. **** BUYER TOOLS: How Much Can I Afford: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/affordability-calculator SELLER TOOLS: eBook: Stage It. Shoot It. Sell It.: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/ebook-stage-it-shoot-it-sell-it What's my home worth?: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/evaluation For Sale by Owner: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/fsbo Virtual Selling during Covid-19: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/virtual Demand more! My ‘Every House, Every Time’ plan: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/sell-with-michelle-mobile GET TO KNOW PITTSBURGH: The 'Pittsburgh. Your City.' show: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/Pittsburgh-Your-City All About Aspinwall: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/all-about-aspinwall Freeport Focus: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/freeport-focus AGENTS IN THE GREATER PITTSBURGH MARKET: Thinking of retiring? Join my team and still earn money: https://www.michellegoetzinger.com/retiring-agents Pittsburgh. Your City. Own It. https://www.MichelleGoetzinger.com TECHNOLOGY WE USE: DJI Mavic Pro 2: http://pycoi.com/DJI-Pro2 Insta 360 One X: http://pycoi.com/Insta360-X-One Sony a7iii: http://pycoi.com/Sony-a7iii Tamaron 28-75mm: http://pycoi.com/Tamaron-28-75mm Zhiyun Crane Plus: http://pycoi.com/Zhiyun-Crane-Plus Rode Smartlav+: http://pycoi.com/Rode-Smartlava Adobe Creative Cloud: http://pycoi.com/Adobe-Creative-Cloud

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So to buy and sell a house at the same time is very complicated. My advice to you is number one, to get your home for sale ready first. I would get in there, I would get packing mentally, get ready that you're gonna move and get your house on the market and then you start to shop for your next home. The reason why you wanna do that first is because if you go ahead and find a house first that you like, you put in an offer on it, it's gonna be what they call contingent on the sale of your home. Now you're working backwards. You have to put your house on the market, you have to get an offer and then you might lose the offer that's on the table with the other house. So you wanna make sure that you're able to go into this completely prepared. So number one, you need to put your house on the market. Number two, you find the house that you want to buy and you put an offer in on it. Then number three, you have to wait until your house gets an offer and then it triggers their house to go under contract. And then you both have to move forward simultaneously through inspections and we're gonna have to close on the same day. You are gonna have to sell your house first. Closing on the same day is the house that you're gonna sell. So you get the proceeds from your closing and then it goes directly towards the next purchase which is later on in the day. And then it goes to the purchase of your new house. Now this can get kind of hairy and I understand because you're probably gonna be sitting in the parking lot with a truck packed full of stuff. There's a lot of emotions that go along with it. It is stressful, but if you have a good agent with you they're gonna coach you through it and try and buffer as much of the drama and stress as they can. But this is something that people do every day. It's just something that you don't wanna have to do every day.

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Graphing square root and cube root functions

Graphing square root and cube root functions

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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss how to graph square root and cube root functions. First of all we shall discuss graph of square root functions a function of the type f of x is equal to square root of x is called square root function the domain of this function is set of all positive real numbers and zero because square root of a negative number is not a real number. Now let's discuss graph of square root functions. For this we consider an example. Here we have to graph the function f of x is equal to square root of x minus 2. First of all let us find the domain of the square root function such that expression under the square root must be positive or zero. So x minus 2 should be greater than or equal to zero which implies that x is greater than or equal to 2. So we say that domain is the set of all x greater than or equal to 2 where x belongs to the set of real numbers. Now we make table of values for the given function. We put x values greater than or equal to 2. In this table in the first column we have taken x values which are greater than or equal to 2. So we have taken 2, 3, 6 and 11. Now we shall find the values for f of x for the corresponding values of x. For x is equal to 2 f of x that is f of 2 will be equal to square root of 2 minus 2 that is equal to square root of 0 which is equal to 0. So for x is equal to 2 f of x is equal to 0. Similarly for x is equal to 3 f of x that is f of 3 will be equal to square root of 3 minus 2 that is equal to square root of 1 which is equal to 1. So for x is equal to 3 f of x is equal to 1. Similarly for x is equal to 6 f of x that is f of 6 will be equal to square root of 6 minus 2 that is equal to square root of 4 which is equal to 2. So for x is equal to 6 f of x is equal to 2. Similarly for x is equal to 11 f of x that is f of 11 will be equal to square root of 11 minus 2 that is equal to square root of 9 which is equal to 3. So for x is equal to 11 f of x is equal to 3. Now let us draw its graph. Here we have taken the x values along horizontal axis and the values of f of x along vertical axis. Now this is the graph of the function f of x is equal to square root of x minus 2. From the graph we can see that y takes values greater than or equal to 0. So range of the function will be equal to the semi-closed interval 0 to infinity. This is the required graph of the function f of x is equal to square root of x minus 2 where range is given by the semi-closed interval 0 to infinity and domain is the set of all x greater than or equal to 2 where x belongs to the set of real numbers. Now we shall discuss about graph of cube root functions. Cube root function f is defined by f of x is equal to cube root of x. The domain of this function is set of all real numbers and ranges set of all real numbers. Let us consider an example. We have to grab the function f of x is equal to cube root of x minus 3. Now we know that since it is a cube root function so its domain is set of all real numbers. Let us make its table of values. Now here in this table in the first column we have randomly taken values of x that is minus 5, 2, 3, 4 and 11. Now in the second and third column we shall find the values of x minus 3 and f of x for these corresponding values of x. So for x is equal to minus 5 x minus 3 will be minus 5 minus 3. That is minus 8. For x is equal to 2 x minus 3 is 2 minus 3 that is equal to minus 1. For x is equal to 3 x minus 3 will be 3 minus 3 that is equal to 0. For x is equal to 4 x minus 3 is equal to 4 minus 3 that is 1 and for x x is equal to 11, x minus 3 that is 11 minus 3 will be equal to 8. Now we shall calculate the values of f of x or y. Now for x minus 3 is equal to minus 8, y is equal to cube root of minus 8 which implies that y is equal to minus 2. Similarly for x minus 3 is equal to minus 1, y is equal to cube root of minus 1 which implies that y is equal to minus 1. Similarly we shall find the remaining values of y for the corresponding values of x minus 3 and we have found that for x minus 3 is equal to 0, y is equal to 0, for x minus 3 is equal to 1, y is equal to 1, for x minus 3 is equal to 8 the value of y is 2. So we say that for x is equal to minus 5, y is equal to minus 2, for x is equal to 2, y is equal to minus 1, for x is equal to 3, y is equal to 0, for x is equal to 4, y is equal to 1, and for x is equal to 11, y is equal to 2. Now we shall plot x and y values on the graph. Now we have plotted these values on the graph and then we have joined these points to form this curve and this is the required graph of the function f of x is equal to cube root of x minus 3 and from this graph we can see that range of this function is set of all real numbers. Thus in this session we have discussed how to graph square root and cube root functions. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.

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I can't remember how many ounces it takes but this is 10 ounces of art coat It's my favorite resin if you don't already know It's I See more in your picture than I do mine. Yeah. Oh, I am. Okay So my feelings here all vamp you've been sending floors all day you're worn out for sure She said she's gonna try stay awake for this All right, so because I want to test the transparency and clarity Transparent colors I'm using the 10s by color session. Yes. I got a color session shipment today. There were no tents in it, but There were a lot of fun color Y'all already know that's gonna be your favorite color I can how are you? Hmm, so the first one is Bondi the second one is It's getting there the art begins to keep up Our begins to keep up with I love you. Hi, Carrie And this is white face tint from fiberglass clothing Is that what that's called? Hey DJ, it's fiberglass clock and this It's my hypothesis that it's going to make my resin ridges so that it doesn't wilt or slump or Blue You know because that can be that loses shape or straightening Okay I did just get some double Mandy says hi. Yes. This is I you here. Oh, I'm a step closer. Oh Yay, she says she's got close to doing art because her floors are almost done so she can move in and do get everything ready That's so exciting for them I went with Judy today. Oh Boarded it I'll be posted probably on Tuesday or Wednesday while we're in travel mode down to, Florida. Oh And Miss Doris she said I'll let Erica know and she said she'll watch you next Tuesday, Miss Doris. Yes So first thing I'm going to do it. Jay set some glass in the middle just for some Awesome This is just fiberglass I'm not going to cover the whole thing because I want to be able to see through and check out the Hello, Brenda. How clear and awesome Also, there's four cups in the house You may hear them playing. Yes carry glass I always like to put my glass down first so I can pick it up move it do whatever Without worrying About um Messing something up or That's just me is there's something To make the silicone match shorter in what way maybe it is Um I knew me and see the texture of the clock is already disappeared where it's saturated Well, I close that I'm so pumped about this Possible answer to my stress about things being not holding structure. Yeah For now you do you will see how it's um Pink right now, it won't be pink. That's just the color of the silicone Do you want it as thin? It is the silicone dog mat How thick is the mat? It's not very thin. Um, I'd say My cat Carrie what's double a fourth inch that three fourth, what is that two fourth It might be now uh Doris they're right there playing Bowie and Joplin and then uh kujo's asleep on the bed on his bed counter Mike says one half everybody says one half Well, thank you Now you know it's not the math. Yeah Elbows math and I are We're enemies. Yeah JJ said one eighth overall at least mine is Carrie says a half. Thank you miss. Carrie. Thank you everyone Ditto and I had a tutor and everything forever for the math all the math I hated it And I think he hated the fact that he had to teach me because I could never retain it But he like super loved math like he was he was such a cool cat He really like loved was like a nerd about math. He loved it I don't know but at the same time he probably could could care less about english and I love english Oh, look at this Jeff I'm sorry you guys, um I'll have Scarlett speaks and she's right near the the phone. 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She said because It would have made her really late for her life Erica nene says that having got tracking numbers for her last two orders just worried orders got missed in the list Oh, we don't miss orders nene. Um I'm the most forgetful one. If it hasn't sent yet, it's probably because I was out of something But you should have gotten an email letting me know but I'll look Just give me an email to remind me I'll take care of it and I'll Take care of you for sure Hi chill mint and cakes. I like your name It is a fun name. Huh? Dude, this is fun. A lot of that just appears 100 percent. That's so cool. And no The thing is this material everyone like naturally without resin is super soft She wrote nice painting Was what looked like what did you say jack? What is it? You know for something you'll fight if you can't have a second Yeah, if it gives you an option to sign in with google just do that Something not common here. 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I don't want to After they see this how this turns out To probably get your oh, they're probably going to get that didn't we I don't know Okay, nanny says another email sent but this time through the shop For sure. Yeah, because otherwise you'll see but bubbles Mm-hmm. All right, I just turned it around because it was kind of starting to shift this way so that'll I start Jay that sounds beautiful move enough that's on the map. Is there a way um, you don't have to fill it all the Fill it to whatever level you want to go. Awesome. Just let me know when you're coming to town DJ you'd be surprised and get trolled all the time People just don't have anything better to do It's sad, but it is Thanks, JJ Yeah, thumbs up everyone. Please that won't come to a hammer. Good job, JJ Missed you who watched later. Claudia says missed you will watch later Maybe she's gonna hate Rob. So he's wrong Penny says hi all you talented people. Hi, Penny Glowfish decides by Brigida Fisher waves. 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I forgot to read. I got so into you. We're good. Oh my goodness. Hi ldr. It's linda Hey linda Yeah, I was just looking at you Uh-huh. Uh-huh. T. Y. V. M. Claudia I like that Look how pretty let me show my close-up Yeah, that's why I was holding these buttons over here. This is done. They're all loving it and hearting it and Super excited for it. Wow. Look at that. Isn't that rad? I mean, it's like a crazy ocean You're gonna have to watch it. I'm pretty sure I got some in from Judy's Oh It's not fiberglass, right? That's not fiberglass these papers. Yeah, it is. Oh, just kidding. It's fiberglass cloth Fiberglass cloth. I'm lying. Sorry, Joe fish. She said I can't do that for last all. Exactly. I'm not rad That's what she's talking about Look and you can only see that on the very very edge that where she didn't get it is where you can see She'll just cut that off when she's done. Wow. 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This one's the art regular art coat Miss Monica says can't wait to see this one off the mat DJ this this the third or fourth one Erica has done So this is the last one that I did super If I left it it's just still malleable and once it's completely set it'll be rigid and not It's latin Lou shape. Yeah, wilton Slump sodden Anyways, so I did this with this exact mold It's smooth on both sides. I think I have it linked in my amazon shop And It's also uh on the video so you guys can watch it. Hmm. That's great. She does clamshell Oh mystery says that's how you fix a corvette body fiberglass exactly and since that I know that sets up rigid For sure one way or the other all I know for sure is That fiberglass disappeared 100 percent The resin Yep, any famished to just resin having or you missed it One of these trans pieces in the middle vamp TWSM So let me give you guys an up close Look one more time before I bid you guys edgy I have some commissioned pieces. I really have to get done before we head down to florida Accurate you guys what you're seeing is a great color. It's just not vibrant Mm-hmm. It's like April says right my hubby's finally doing his boat. I might have to jack some of his some lines to try this Hey, pf They're saying beautiful. Love it. Hello from main Uh pf Very beautiful Love it. I love sparkle Oh Shoot me an email and we'll work within your budget. Thanks you guys So the gold I use since I'm out of 007 while I was till today Is this, um Gold leaf metal powder From No idea judy knows the brand But 007 does this and bright gold from just resin does it as well Not yet tricep, but we're heading down on tuesday Years look drunk when set up whatever calling DJ I'm sure you could because These guys So I'm sure you could twist the fiberglass because it's just um Like a cloth like this is how it starts. 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Ed Naim & Anthony Lye | AWS Storage Day 2021

Ed Naim & Anthony Lye talk with Dave Vellante for AWS Storage Day 2021.

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Welcome back to AWS Storage Day. This is theCUBE's continuous coverage. My name is Dave Vellante. And we're going to talk about file storage. 80% of the world's data is in unstructured storage and most of that is in file format. Devs want infrastructure as code. They want to be able to provision and manage storage through an API and they want that cloud agility. They want to be able to scale up, scale down, pay by the drink. And the big news of Storage Day was really the partnership, deep partnership between AWS and NetApp and with me to talk about that is Ed Name, who's the general manager of Amazon FSX and Anthony Lai. Executive Vice President and GM of Public Cloud at NetApp, two CUBE alums. Great to see you guys again. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for having us, Dave. So Ed, let me start with you. You launched FSX 2018 at Reinvent. How is it being used today? Well, we've talked about FSX on the CUBE before, Dave, but let me start by recapping that FSX makes it easy to launch and run fully managed, feature rich, high performance file storage in the cloud. And we built FSX from the ground up, really to have the reliability, the scalability you were talking about, the simplicity to support a really wide range of workloads and applications. And with FSX customers choose the file system that powers their file storage with full access to the file systems, feature sets, the performance profiles and the data management capabilities. And so since Reinvent 2018, when we launched this service, we've offered two file system choices for customers. So the first was a Windows file server, and that's really storage built on top of Windows server designed as a really simple solution for Windows applications that require shared storage. And then Luster, which is an open source file system that's the world's most popular high performance file system. And the Amazon FSX model has really resonated strongly with customers for a few reasons. So first, for customers who currently managed network attached storage or NAS on premises, it's such an easy path to move their applications and their application data to the cloud. FSX works and feels like the NAS app appliances that they're used to, but added to all of that are the benefits of a fully managed cloud service. And second, for builders developing modern new apps it helps them deliver fast consistent experiences for Windows and Linux in a simple and an agile way. And then third, for research scientists, its storage performance and its capabilities for dealing with data at scale really make it a no brainer storage solution. And so as a result, the service is being used for a pretty wide spectrum of applications and workloads across industries. So I'll give you a couple of examples. So there's this class of what we call common enterprise IT use cases. So think of things like end user file shares, the corporate IT applications, content management systems, highly available database deployments. And then there's a variety of common line of business and vertical workloads that are running on FSX as well. So financial services, there's a lot of modeling and analytics workloads, life sciences, a lot of genomics analysis, meeting entertainment, rendering and transcoding and visual effects, automotive. We have a lot of electronic control unit simulations and object detection, semiconductor, a lot of EDA, electronic design automation and then oil and gas, seismic data processing, pretty common workload on FSX. And then there's a class of really ultra high performance workloads that are running on FSX as well. Think of things like big data analytics. So SAS grid is a common application, a lot of machine learning model training and then a lot of what people would consider traditional or classic high performance computing or HPC. Great, thank you for that. Just a quick follow up if I may and then I want to bring Anthony into the conversation. So why NetApp, this is not a Barney deal, this is a lot of elbow grease going into a Barney deal, you know, I love you, you love me, we do a press release, but why NetApp, why ONTAP, why now? Good, that was to you. Is that a question? Was that a question for Anthony? No, for you, Ed. And then I want to bring Anthony. Oh, sure, sorry. Okay, sure. Yeah, I mean, David really stemmed from both companies realizing combined offering would be highly valuable to and impactful for customers. In reality, we started collaborating in Amazon and NetApp on the service probably about two years ago and we really had a joint vision that we wanted to provide AWS customers with the full power of ONTAP, the complete ONTAP with every capability and with ONTAP's full performance but fully managed and offered as a full blown AWS native service. So what that would mean is that customers get all of ONTAP's benefits, along with the simplicity and the agility, the scalability, the security and the reliability of an AWS service. Great, thank you. So Anthony, I have watched NetApp reinvent itself, started at a work station, saw you go into the enterprise, and saw you lean into virtual. So you told me at least two years, it might have been three years ago, Dave, we are going all in on the cloud. We're going to lead this next chapter. And so I want you to bring in your perspective. You're reinventing NetApp yet again. What are your thoughts? Well, NetApp and AWS have had a very long relationship. I think it probably dates now about nine years. And what we really wanted to do in NetApp was give the most important constituent of all an experience that helped them progress their business. So ONTAP, the industry's leading shared storage platform, we wanted to make sure that in AWS it was as good as it was on premise. We love the idea of giving customers this wonderful concept of symmetry. You know, ONTAP runs the biggest applications in the largest enterprises on the planet. And we wanted to give not just those customers an opportunity to embrace the Amazon cloud, but we wanted to also extend the capabilities of ONTAP through FSX to a new customer audience, maybe those smaller companies that didn't really purchase on premise infrastructure, people that were born in the cloud. And of course, this gives us a great opportunity to present a fully managed ONTAP within the FSX platform to a lot of non-NetApp customers, to our competitors, customers Dave, that frankly haven't done the same as we've done. And I think we are the benefactors of it and we're in turn passing that innovation, that transformation onto the customers and the partners. You know, one is the key aspect here is that it's a managed service. I don't think that could be overstated. And the other is the cloud nativeness of this. Anthony, you mentioned marketplace is great, but there's some serious engineering going on here. So Ed, maybe start with the perspective of a managed service. I mean, what does that mean, the whole ball of wax? Yeah, I mean, what it means to a customer is they go into the AWS console or they go to the AWS SDK or the AWS CLI and they are easily able to provision a resource, provision a file system and it automatically will get built for them and there's nothing that they need to do at that point. They get an endpoint that they have access to the file system from and that's it. We handle patching, we handle all of the provisioning, we handle any hardware replacements that might need to happen along the way. Everything is fully managed. So the customer really can focus not on managing their file system, but on doing all of the other things that they want to do and that they need to do. So Anthony, in a way, you're disrupting yourself which is kind of what you told me a couple of years ago. You're not afraid to do that because if we don't do it, somebody else is going to do it because you're used to the old days, you're selling a box and you say, we'll see you next time in three or four years. So from your customer standpoint, what's their reaction to this notion of a managed service and what does it mean to NetApp? Well, so I think the most important thing it does is it gives them investment protection. The wonderful thing about what we've built with Amazon in the FSx profile is it's a complete on-tap. And so one on-tap cluster on-premise can immediately see and connect to an on-tap environment under FSx. We can then establish various different connectivities. We can use SNAP mirror technologies for disaster recovery. We can use efficient data transfer for things like DevTest and backup. Of course, the wonderful thing that we've done that we've gone beyond above and beyond what anybody else has done is we want to make sure that the actual primary application itself, one that was sort of built using NAS, built in a non-premise environment, an SAP and Oracle, et cetera, as Ed said, that we can move those over and have the confidence to run the application with no changes on an Amazon environment. So what we've really done, I think, for customers, the NetApp customers, the non-NetApp customers, is we've given them an enterprise-grade shared storage platform that's as good in an Amazon Cloud as it was in an on-premise data center. And that's something that's very unique to us. Can we talk a little bit more about those use cases? Both of you, what are you seeing as some of the more interesting ones that you can share? Ed, maybe you could start. Yeah, happy to. The customer discussions that we've been in have really highlighted four cases, four use cases that customers are telling us they'll use a service for. So maybe I'll cover two, and maybe Anthony can cover the other two. So the first is application migrations. And customers are increasingly looking to move their applications to AWS. And a lot of those applications work with file storage today. And so we're talking about applications like SAP, we're talking about relational databases like SQL Server and Oracle, we're talking about vertical applications like Epic and the healthcare space. As another example, lots of meeting entertainment, rendering and transcoding and visual effects workflows require Windows, Linux and macOS access to the same set of data. And what application administrators really want is they want the easy button. They want fully featured file storage that has the same capabilities, the same performance that their applications are used to, has extremely high availability and durability and can easily enable them to meet compliance and security needs with a robust set of data protection and security capabilities. And I'll give you an example. Accenture, for example, has told us that a key obstacle their clients face when migrating to the cloud is potentially rearchitecting their applications to adopt new technologies. And they expect that Amazon FSX for NetApp ONTAP will significantly accelerate their customers migrations to the cloud. Then a second one is storage migrations. So storage admins are increasingly looking to extend their on-premises storage to the cloud. And why they want to do that is they want to be more agile and they want to be responsive to growing datasets and growing workload needs. They want elastic capacity. They want the ability to spin up and spin down. They want easy disaster recovery across geographically isolated regions. They want the ability to change performance levels at any time. So all of this goodness that they get from the cloud is what they want. And more of them also are looking to make their company's data accessible to cloud services for analytics and processing. So services like ECS and EKS and Workspaces and AppStream and VMware Cloud and SageMaker and orchestration services like Parallel Cluster and AWS Batch. But at the same time, they want all these cloud benefits, but at the same time they have established data management workflows and they've built processes and they've built automation leveraging APIs and capabilities of on-prem NAS appliances. It's really tough for them to just start from scratch with that stuff. So this offering provides them the best of both worlds. They get the benefits of the cloud with the NAS data management capabilities that they're used to. Great. So Anthony, maybe you want to talk about the other tip. Well, so, you know, first and foremost, you heard from Ed earlier on that the FSX sort of construct and how successful it's been. And one of the real reasons it's been so successful is it takes advantage of all of the latest storage technologies, compute technologies, networking technologies. What's great is all of that's hidden from the user. What FSX does is it delivers a service. And what that means for an on-tap customer is you're going to have on-tap with an SLA and an SLA. You're going to have hundreds of thousands of IOPS available to you and sub-millisecond latencies. What's also really important is the design for FSX for NetApp on-tap was really to provide consistency on the NetApp API and to provide full access to on-tap from the Amazon console, the Amazon SDK or the Amazon CLI. So in this case, you've got this wonderful benefit of all of the sort of the 29 years of innovation of NetApp combined with all the innovation of AWS all presented consistently to a customer. What Ed said, which I'm particularly excited about is customers will see this just as they see any other AWS service. So if they want to use on-tap in combination with some incremental compute resources, maybe with their own encryption keys, maybe with directory services, they may want to use it with other services like SageMaker, all of those things are immediately exposed to Amazon FSX for NetApp on-tap. We do some really intelligent things just in the storage layer. So for example, we do intelligent tiering. So the customer is constantly getting the sort of the best TCO. So what that means is we're using Amazon's S3 storage as a tiered service so that we can back off cold data off of the primary file system to give the customer the optimal capacity the optimal throughput while maintaining the integrity of the file system. It's the same with backup. It's the same with disaster recovery whether we're operating in a hybrid AWS cloud or we're operating in an AWS region or across regions. Well, thank you. I think this announcement is a big deal for a number of reasons. First of all, it's the largest market. Like you said, you're the gold standard. I'll give you that, Anthony because you guys earned it. And so it's a large market but you always had to make previously and have make trade-offs. Either I could do file in the cloud but I didn't get the rich functionality that NetApp's mature stack brings. Or you could have wrapped your stack in the Kubernetes container and thrown it in the cloud and hosted it there but now that it's a managed service and presumably you're underneath you're taking advantage, as I say, my inference is there's some serious engineering going on here. You're taking advantage of some of the cloud native capabilities. Maybe it's the different EC2 types but also being able to bring in we're entering a new data era with machine intelligence and other capabilities that we really didn't have access to last decade. So I want to close with, give you guys the last word. Maybe each of you could give me your thoughts on how you see this partnership in the future particularly from a customer standpoint. Ed, maybe you could start and then Anthony, you can bring us home. Yeah, well, Anthony and I and our teams have gotten to know each other really well in ideating around what this experience will be and then building the product. And we have this common vision that it is something that's going to really move the needle for customers providing the full on-top experience with the power of a native AWS service. So we're really excited. We're in this for the long haul together. We have, we've partnered on everything from engineering to product management to support like the full thing. This is a co-owned effort, a joint effort backed by both companies. And we have a, I think a pretty remarkable product on day one, one that I think is going to delight customers. And we have a really rich roadmap that we're going to be building together over the years. So I'm excited about getting this in customers' hands. Great, thank you. Anthony, bring us home. Well, you know, it's one of those sort of rare chances where you get to do something with Amazon that no one's ever done, you know. We're sort of sitting on the inside. We are a peer of theirs and we're able to develop at very high speeds in combination with them to release continuously to the customer base. So what you're going to see is rapid innovation. You're going to see a whole host of new services, services that Nenna developed, services that Amazon developed. And then the whole ecosystem is going to have access to this, whether they're historically built on the NetApp APIs or increasingly built on the AWS APIs. I think you're going to see orchestrations. I think you're going to see the capabilities expand the overall opportunity for AWS to bring enterprise applications over. For me personally, Dave, you know, I have demonstrated yet again to the NetApp customer base how much we care about them and their future. Selfishly, you know, I'm looking forward to telling the story to my competitors, customer base, because they haven't done it. So, you know, I think we've been bold. I think we've been committed, as you said, three and a half years ago, I promised you that we were going to do everything we possibly could, you know. People always say, you know, what's the real benefit of this? At the end of the day, customers and partners will be the real winners. This innovation, this sort of as a service I think is going to expand our market, allow our customers to do more with Amazon than they could before. It's one of those rare cases, Dave, where I think one plus one equals about seven, really. I love the vision and excited to see the execution. Ed and Anthony, thanks so much for coming back in theCUBE. Congratulations on getting to this point and good luck. Thanks, Dave. Thank you. All right, thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE's continuous coverage of AWS Storage Day, keep it right there.

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Applying for an internal transfer application

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Welcome to this short video which will explain how to apply for an internal transfer from your current program to a different program of study. Navigate to the internal transfer page. Click the Apply Now button. Enter your student number and password and choose Login. The My Applications page opens. Before you start, take a moment to read the application process outline. Make sure you have an electronic copy of all the required supporting documents. Choose Start a new application. Please note that you can choose to save your application at any point through the application process. Choose the Save button to be able to return to the application at a later date. If you're enrolled in more than one program, you'll be prompted to select the program which you wish to transfer from. Make your selection and choose Next. Now you can add the program that you'd like to transfer into. Type the program name or code into the search bar. As you type, a list of matching programs displays. Postgraduate applicants can only transfer into programs that are included in their nested suite of programs. For example, if you are enrolled in a graduate diploma of finance, you can only transfer to the Graduate Certificate of Finance or the Master of Finance. Select the required program, then click the Add Program button. Select the campus, attendance mode and trimester in which you wish to commence study. Confirm your fee status by making a choice out of the available options. Some programs will also require you to select an academic area of study. If this displays, select from the available options in the drop-down menu. Choose Accept. The program is added to the application. If your application for the requested program is unsuccessful and you wish to be considered for alternate programs, then choose the checkbox. Choose Next. If required, you can add multiple programs and order them by preference. Click the arrows to reorder your preferences. You will be assessed on your preferences in numerical order. Choose Next. It is recommended to attach any documents which support your application. Alternatively, you can personally submit documents at an on-campus student center using the attachment of a sheet, which is available on the Track Your Application page. To upload a document, choose Upload. Please note that the maximum file size limit is 10 megabytes per file. Select the file and click Upload. The attached file will be listed on your application. Continue to upload all required files. Choose the Next button to continue. Enter any other information which you feel may support your application. Choose the appropriate answer as to whether you have ever been excluded from an academic institution and choose Next. Before finalizing your application, download the PDF preview and review your responses. Make any required changes before submitting. Use the Previews button to navigate back through the pages. When all required changes have been completed, choose Next. Read the declaration and check the Acceptance checkbox. Choose Submit Application. Your application will be assessed and you will be notified of its progression via your student email. To track your application status, use the application link email to your student email. The status of the application will be listed. For some programs, you may need to provide further information to support your application. The email will request you attach the documentation in the Track Your Application page. Open the Track page and view the Supporting Documentation menu. Upload the required documentation and choose Save. The admissions office will resume their assessment once the additional documents have been submitted. Your admission into the NUDE program may depend on the grades you've received in the current term. If this occurs, then you will be sent an email to let you know that your application is awaiting grades. You will be notified of the outcome of your application when your results are finalized. Once your application has been finalized, you will be sent an email with the outcome. If you require any help with your application, please contact us on 1800 154 005. This is a toll-free number.

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Detroit: Become Human – Shorts: Kamski | [Archives] 4/4

During the promo of Detroit: Become Human, we published a few short videos. If you haven't seen them, now is the time to catch up. Watch NOW: Kamski Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2kFt1FE Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2UW2hTr Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialquanticdream Twitter: https://twitter.com/quantic_dream Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quanticdreamgames/

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In the space of a few years, androids have completely transformed the world in which we live. By letting androids into our homes and factories, the CyberLife company has made them everyday technology. The founder of CyberLife, Elijah Kampsky, is a very discreet man. Despite being the CEO of the highest valued company in the world, and being voted Man of the Year by Century Magazine, he remains a mystery for most people. That's why we at KNC are so excited to be here, as CyberLife opens its doors for the first time. Elijah Kampsky, could you please tell us where we are? Certainly. Welcome. We're currently in CyberLife's production center in Detroit, where all models are designed and manufactured. More than 10,000 androids come off the production line every day. Fascinating. Could you tell us what your goal was when you founded CyberLife? Well, I simply wanted to use technology to carry out all of our most annoying and repetitive tasks, so we'd have more time to enjoy life. I imagine you must have faced many challenges. Yes, there were technical challenges, but the hardest thing was to design an object that we would want to welcome into our homes. We had to imagine a machine in our own image that resembles us in every way. That moves, breathes, blinks like us. But yet it's smarter and more capable than any human being. Let me show you around. We're here in production unit four. Could you explain in a few words how the androids are made? Sure. Yeah, it's very simple. We use machines to manufacture machines. The removal parts are assembled on a production line, and then we apply a synthetic skin to the whole body. A human operator checks the cognitive abilities with a pre-established protocol, and finally the android is conditioned and sent out throughout the country. Here's your result. Say something. Hello. I am a RZ-400 model. How can I be of service? You can go now. Our androids are already replacing humans in many fields. For example, they represent more than 80% of all university professors and 63% of all medical staff. Tomorrow they'll replace our soldiers. And who knows, maybe one day our leaders will be able to make the best decisions in humanity's interest. Come on. Replacing humans with machines has led to record unemployment of 28%. What do you think about the situation? Uh, okay. The first steam engines also cause an increase in unemployment. But no one today would imagine turning back the clock. Artificial intelligence makes everyday lives easier. Nothing can stop progress. What's happening here is inevitable. These days, more and more people choose to live with an android rather than another human being. Does this development worry you? Everything's much easier than android. Your orders without ever complaining. They can cook, discuss philosophy with you, have intimate relationships according to your desires. They never say no. Obviously they are the perfect partner. Everyone deserves happiness. Why deprive yourself of so-called moral reasons when a machine can make you happy? Many science fiction books tell the story of how machines become more intelligent than us and end up confronting us. Aren't you worried about that possibility? I understand the irrational fears about artificial intelligence, but I assure you that will never happen with a cyber-life android. They're designed to obey humans. They're machines. They can't have a developer any sort of desires or form of consciousness. Are you sure? I'm absolutely certain. You can trust me.

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It strikes fear in the hearts of many. It eats away at machinery like fat men on cake, all while creeping up the butt cracks of its unsuspecting victims. Today, Tiffany approaches her first costume of the season and teaches you how to conquer the monster known as Spandax. This episode is brought to you by DXRacer, the ultimate seed of choice to heighten your gaming experience. Hey guys, it's Tiffany with your next cosplay update and I have a shirt. Thank you, Chris. I got it for my birthday. It was a while ago and it was my birthday and I finally got it. Thank you. Now that we have gone over some cosplay basics and some convention knowledge, I think you guys are ready for your first convention. Yay! In today's episode, I'm going to reveal which costume I'm gonna make first for you guys. And we head to the store for a tutorial and something that all male and female superhero needs in their lives, Spandax. First, the costume. It took me a while to decide which costume I was going to do for you guys because I wanted something that both had fabric and armor making in it. I've chosen to do a variation on Phoenix from the Phoenix Force story arc. And lastly, the fabric store. So many people are terrified of the fabric store but I promise you can conquer it. If you have a friend, you should take them. Consider it the buddy system and safety for your wallet. Me, Amanda, she isn't here to save me from the store but to save them from me. If you live in the larger city, I would go to the garment district first. By all means, they're going to have the best deal, the best price, the best selection, just go there. First to the pattern station. There is one pattern I always use for body suits. I have used it for Rogue, Black Widow, Bayonetta and now for Phoenix. The majority of superhero costumes and comic books has a base that is stretch, hence the reason for Spandax. Patterns will tell you what type of material it calls for. Next, make sure you have your body measurements to know the amount of fabric you need. Personally, I always get half a yard more just in case I mess up. You can also use the extra fabric at the end to cover boots or gloves but we'll go over that another day. When working with Spandax or Spandax Blend, there are three things to always consider. The utility of the Spandax, the body shape and cost. First, the utility of the fabric. What do I mean when I say utility? I truly mean that what all is this fabric going to be used for? Are you making it just for one costume or many costumes down the road? To me, this is without a doubt the most important thing when considering buying Spandax. I personally would rather spend more money on a good fabric now and use that base for many costumes than constantly have to remake my body suits. For example, if you need a simple black body suit for let's say black widow, consider how many other characters you can get out of that body suit. If it seems that you're going to have other costumes that use that body suit, invest in the good fabric and save you some time. Also, when considering Spandax and versatility, avoid a shiny fabric. So many people decide to get this because they think it looks good. However, it gives a wet look on camera and for the guys, it doesn't look so good. I'm just saying. Next, body shape. In no way am I trying to have a debate on body type and cosplay. Everybody does that. Personally, I think anybody can cosplay anything that they want. I have a flat chest. However, I still cosplay major from Ghost of the Shell. However, when it comes to Spandax, you have to think about the fabric, about those fibers and what it's going to have to go through. And it's not just about that stretch of the Spandax. It's also about the color. I don't care what size you are. If it's a light colored Spandax and it's even a little bit thin, double up your fabric. I have seen too many bits and pieces. And lastly, the cost. It goes right back to what I've been saying about trying to have body suits that have enough versatility to make it cost effective. While chains may have less of a selection, they do have coupons a lot of time, which will save you a lot of money considering that Spandax is upwards of $20 a yard. Here we are getting a bunch of white fabric for Amanda as she is cosplaying an original character and I'm helping her sew the costume. Don't forget, if you have a character that has detail, get the detail to be in Spandax as well. At this time, remember to get any thread that you may need. If you have the option, get a thread that has some elasticity to it as it'll help in your machine. So now with my pattern and my fabric, I'm gonna take it home and start cutting out the fabric pieces that I need for Phoenix. 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Someone's keeping me company while I'm waiting for my lecture. Trudden, are you gonna say hi to my vlog? Hi. Trudden's filming a video. Camera reception. Is it this way? It's got to be. I don't know. I lost. Great. Let me go on that. Oh my god, that's me. I hate myself. I don't know if you want to die. That's gonna be an interesting intro. I said no suicide threats while I'm filming. Hey guys, how are you doing? What's up? How are you hanging? Please don't be hanging. That'll be pretty bad if you're hanging. It's a life update video. We ain't done one of these in a long time. A lot of shit happened, guys. A lot of shit. Let me know while I'm near the someone. I quit. So, the life update is I'm under the home treatment team. I'll call you all back in a second. There we go. Peace and quiet. Right, so I'm back under the home treatment team. I've been under them now for just over a week and they are offering amazing support. I saw a consultant today and the consultant was actually really supportive. Nope. I'll say, is a relapse does not mean you fail at recovery, which is something that you're gonna see in this video. This video, I'm gonna delete out the triggering part, so it's not gonna be triggering. How I feel at the moment? I'm everywhere, bitch. I'm showing every emotion at once. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll link the link in the description and you can see what I mean. Like, it's a mess. I'm a mess. So, the main reason I went back under the home treatment team is because my mood has been shifting rapidly. I've been having a lot of flashbacks and I've been hallucinating a lot. That's just the blunt of it. And I've made a lot of videos talking about this. That's just what's going on with me at the moment. I've got a safety plan in place. I've got a transition plan for going back to my mom's for Christmas. I've got Christmas crisis numbers to call if I need. I've got my medication sorted. Everything is going good. If you are new here, make sure you hit the subscribe button. Leave a like, comment. Make sure you leave some video ideas and requests in the description. Or the description. In the comments. That's what I meant. In the comments. Leave it in the comments. Thanks for reading. You two are so lovely people. I know. Amen. I don't even know if I should probably talk and explain it to you all. Do what I want to do first. I don't want to explain it. It was actually somebody's birthday. My medication's getting left alone. I'll just add about that. I'm currently walking back to the overground and then I'm going home. It was kind of a waste of time. I'm not going to lie. I didn't know I had to complain. You know what I mean? I didn't know I had to complain. I'm not lying. That's kind of like my... We are running then. But kind of is. Yeah. You know what? My anxiety is a lot much higher. I'm going to give you a full mental health update in this video. It's a full day. I choose my actual camera but I'm still way too awkward to just don't like help my camera to record on. It's not really that normal to walk around to look into a camera as I'm going to the overground station because... with you needs an overground. Apparently I've got two left. I've got Siri giving me a live session and they're actually... So it just gave me a compliment on how well I talk about mental health and how I open up people and how it will probably help you feel less alone. I think I don't mind talking so I might allow it around here because I'm literally never going to come down here again. The consultant's happy to leave my medication to my GP to deal with. Happy to leave me on the benzo. Thank God. Apparently it works. I get told to go and have some sleep though. Oh, Lydia got lost trying to fight in the overground. You don't normally use the overground, which is why it bothers me. It's still really weird and alien to me the fact that I live in London. That's hard. But I don't know. I just... I genuinely cannot get my head around the fact that I live in London. It proper... I don't know. It does some wacky shit to my head. I don't know. I mean, I'm really like tired but hired and moored because of your energy truth. I wish monsters wanted me. Someone about tweet monster and get them to spawn me. I've got a turn left on accident lane. Thank you, Siri. I'd be so lost without, like, Apple Maps. As I was back, I threw it to Google because it actually takes me to the right place. I used to finish industry for half an hour ago. It doesn't have been. And, like, the whole update is that the home team and team are actually decent. Trying not to get hit by big pink glory, isn't it? And... The Maori driver. Update of the appointment currently after is I'm feeling a lot more confident now because I know they're not trying sectionally. I just want to be convinced what's going to happen. In case you missed my two live streams where I was ranting about it. Two hours each. I don't know. I run off very long. A lot of advice to speak to my team for you about potentially increasing the days of hand nails. I don't really want to because I know that I just have to declare that and do everything I can to avoid that. I'm just trying to get a little shot at the moment. So, yeah. Up and down. I wish I was more confident in filming on my whole camera because it's been my career to get with me, but I'm not. So... What are you going to do? Yeah, I am very happy with how I've been doing. I was terrified there was going to come a medication. I was terrified there was going to mess with my medication mainly because of what the medication I had. I think I just got left to my GEP, which is probably my GEP list is what I have to say. Are you all just opinion? Are you all just opinion and real opinion here? Possibly the best console that I've seen. I'm giving the fact that it is at that hospital. I can't believe I just said that. Actually, luckily we just said that. Like, I need to, like, start using my actual camera and more because deal with your quality on the smoke. Perhaps, we'll die in this way. We'll die in my hair. Should I do the update while I'm dying my hair and fixing the mast editors? I'd say that would be good content. And also an excuse to not lie in bed, of course, to try and make the destination for my rest. I know. If I could just tell me that I've arrived, I kind of know it is true. I do look nice in it. I'm a great person. What's up, guys? I just wanted to say that I stan Jordan, like, fucking stan. Jordan, you're fucking awesome. Let's have a cake unboxing then I'm going to film a life update video because, mental health. A. We have got a choco shot. Brownie bit. Ice cream. Got colour. Actual cake. I fucking stan it. Jordan. Yes, bitch. 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Be The Leader You Need - Megan Byrd Sanicki

(Apologies for the poor video capture) Open source crossed the chasm into mainstream with users in all industries. Maintaining the users’ trust and sustaining innovation is key to open source’s success. However, in a world where communities are passionate, multicultural, and primarily use online communication, it is challenging to move communities towards a shared vision in a frictionless, sustainable way. Community challenges can impact innovation, putting user adoption at risk and even more importantly, hurting community members. Stronger open source leadership can address these challenges and there is a call for more leaders in every project. Good news! Every contributor is a leader either through self leadership, leading others, or leading the community, yet most people have never been trained on how to lead. This talk provides the leadership the training you need and covers: - Why strengthen community leadership - Key leadership and emotional intelligence principles - Practical ways to lead as a contributor FOSSASIA Summit - Open Tech Main Track Speaker: Megan Byrd-Sanicki, Open Source Strategist, Google

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All right, I'm going to be handing you over to the audience who are all waiting very eagerly for your presentation. So everyone presenting Megan Bird, Suniki from the Google open source programs office. Thank you. Is that my intro to take over? Okay, great. I can't see anyone, so let me just start by saying how grateful I am to be included in today's program and to be able to dial in Berkeley. I'm wishing everyone great health and happiness and hopefully I will be with you all at your next event. And today I want to spend some time and talk about leadership and open source and there is no better time than now to learn how we can all be leaders, especially during these times of ambiguity. So let me just dive in since we don't have a lot of time. And my main question is, how many of you have thought I wish someone would just lead? Just pick a direction or just fix something, get people working better together? I know I have. I've definitely had those thoughts and those feelings before and it can be really frustrating. But I want to use this time to let you know that you can be the leader that we all need. And today I'd like to share some of Google's leadership resources so that you can learn a little bit about what leadership is. But before I go too far, I just first want to thank everyone for making time today to learn about leadership skills. Because when we become stronger leaders, our communities become more healthy and our projects become more sustainable. So with this talk I want to cover three things. One is leadership, how you can strengthen your leadership skills, and I want to provide some tips that you can take away today to start applying in your projects if you work with others. So hopefully that sounds good and I'm going to assume it is and let's just keep going. And I want to talk about leadership by illustrating it through a story that I picked up along the way in my last 10 years working in open source. So I was helping a project improve their contributor experience and we did this by interviewing a lot of contributors and there was one story in particular that stood out to me and it was someone who was a new contributor and they really wanted to participate in a project but they were looking around in the forums and the issues and they felt really overwhelmed. They felt that it was like a brand new language, they felt that the interactions especially with newcomers were challenging and they got nervous. They were intimidated and they just stayed away and they watched from afar for an entire year and then they realized okay this is not working and I really want to do this. So they made a decision to get help and they reached out to a mentor and said hey I really would like to contribute. I have this vision for myself that I can be part of this project but would you walk me through the steps and this person was inspired, they donated time and they helped this person who could finally go from being fearful to actually making their first contribution which is great but it also you know is unfortunate they had taken an entire year. This person though as they worked with the mentor they had a real great learning mindset and they really made sure they understood the steps so after they contributed the first time they did it again and again and again and today this person is a top contributor for this open source project. I think it's just a phenomenal story and this person really persevered in order to accomplish this but it's also really unfortunate that this person had such a hard experience at the beginning and you know I wonder how many contributions were lost because this person waited an entire year or a hundred commits a year and I also wonder how many contributions were lost because people did not push through they walked away it was like a contributor bounce rate and the answer is just too many we don't know but it's just too many so it doesn't matter what this project is it's really so many projects that I've talked to that have this challenge and it's a real shame because the story didn't have to be this way because you know open source is all about giving and helping people want to do the right thing it's just that sometimes when we step into help we are actually stepping up into leadership roles and we don't know it we don't realize it and we don't realize that we're in those roles that we're having an impact on people the way we talk models the culture that we're seeing this project should have and how we should treat each other and we might have an impact on someone just through our own interactions and it's unfortunate because in open source we don't have training we might have mentors that teaches how to contribute but we don't actually have training of core skills like leadership which is really unfortunate and it's also one of the reasons why I like to get this talk just to start to shine a light on that we need to focus on the core skills as well as the technical skills when we're working in open source so I'd like to just start to use this story to unpack what leadership is and let's start with who were the leaders in this story there were quite a few leaders one was the former moderator of the people in the issue queues that were interacting with others in those different channels and they may not have done the best job they might have the best intentions but it may not have been the best leadership skills being used there which is what made that person feel intimidated to begin the mentor was a leader they heard someone say will you help me and they said I have expertise and I will take time and I will help you which is wonderful and then there was another leader in this which might be a little surprising but that's the contributor the individual who was able to lead themselves to get from fear into action and impact and I want to talk a little bit more about what that means to be a leader in open source as an individual contributor so let's start by asking what is leadership now there's many definitions out there so there's there's not really one to point to but this one happens to be my favorite leadership is a process of social influence which maximizes the efforts of others towards the achievement of a goal and this is by Kevin Cruz is a leadership expert and the reason I like this is because it is about influence you can lead from anywhere it's not about authority in the role or position that you have and it's about working with others and influencing others towards a common goal that you both want to achieve together and sometimes to understand what something is it's good to see what it is not so leadership as I said it's not a title it's not a role it's also not a specific personality type it's not all the extroverts out there you can be an introvert and also be a leader it's also important to note that leadership is not management it is not about making sure people do things on time and on budget that's management and leadership is not about power it is not about commanding that people do things it is about influencing that's where real transformational change happens and there are three types of leadership there's the kind that we know the most leading organizations whether it's a CEO or a BDFL of a community or maybe it's the board and the executive director of an open source foundation another type of leadership is leading others so this might be a product manager at a company that's working across many functions marketing and sales engineering lots of different functions to create and push a product out to market in open source it might be managing a bunch of mentors working in a group of tech writers etc etc and then the third one is leading yourself and this is what that contributor did in the story that I told they led themselves they were able to manage their emotions and work with others to create an outcome that they wanted to create and what's important about these three levels is that you can't lead others until you can lead yourself and that's because the higher up you go the more people you start leading the more responsibilities you take on with your leadership the more stress you take on and the more responsibility and you have to stay calm and centered and be able to make decisions in hard times so that people feel confident and can follow you want to follow you and you know where to send them you know how to point them in the right direction and get them working and focused and that takes self leadership to do that really knowing how to control those emotions I'm gonna spend a lot of time on this level the leading yourself aspect today so as we're leading what do leaders do well you'll see it was very much illustrated in the story they shape a vision they translate that vision into strategy they get others to help them you know work towards that vision we have measurable results we know what success looks like and they focus on that and as the working they foster innovation and learning and they lead themselves while they do all of this and that's exactly what the individual contributor did in my story their vision was I want to contribute and they came up with a strategy I'm going to ask a mentor to help me I'm going to get out of this whole frozen state that I'm in and they recruited the mentor and that mentor said yes I will help you I will be part of your team and they had a very measurable result one contribution right and this contributor had that learning mindset you learn how to make that one contribution and then he did it again and again and again to make him now a top contributor in this project and he did all of this by leading himself he knew he was scared and he knew he was stuck and he did he managed those emotions and came up with a strategy to move forward so he achieved his vision and so as leaders do what they do they have to use skills and these are some leadership skills that are identified from research from the Harvard Business Review and so you'll see a lot of it is inspire and motivate display integrity and honesty drive results communicate collaborate build relationships and lots more in what I find interesting about this list is it's not about the technical skills that you have it is about your skills your ability to work with others and additional research looked into this and found that two-thirds of leadership is dependent on emotional intelligence which is really interesting because we don't talk about emotional intelligence very much an open source we actually don't even talk about it much in society as a whole which is a whole other problem what we focus on a lot are our cognitive abilities and that's because we are really good at solving problems we even celebrate it but if we want to be leaders in open source at any level we clearly need to focus on emotional intelligence if we want to be better leaders in open source and clearly we should want good emotional intelligence because according to Dan Goldman who wrote the book on emotional intelligence he said that it's emotional intelligence that makes its top performers and it makes our contribution stronger to our project when we have emotional intelligence and so he says that it's actually the difference between what makes you a good contributor and a great contributor like 90% of that difference is emotional intelligence and the best way to explain this is if there were two people in the audience that had the same cognitive abilities but the person on the right mental intelligence they're going to make a stronger impact in the project and that's because they're going to know how to work with others and set that vision and influence others to rally around that vision and make it happen and when you work with others you make a stronger impact than when you work alone so while our cognitive abilities are great in open source and we solve so many hard problems with them ultimately we need to focus on emotional intelligence our cognitive skills will only get us so far but our emotional intelligence can grow and that's the great thing is that we actually can grow our emotional intelligence skills by practicing it so I want to dive in a little bit into well what is this emotional intelligence that makes us better leaders and simply put it's being able to understand your emotions and the effect on others as well as your ability to understand and influence the emotion of others and this is all comes from Dan Goldman's book emotional intelligence and he brings emotional intelligence down into five pillars self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation which are all related to managing your emotion the other two pillars are empathy and having social skills and this is about influencing the emotions of others and you really need to have strength in all five pillars to be really strong and emotional intelligence but we don't have enough time to get into all of this I'm just going to focus on self-awareness and self-regulation because really they are two sides of the same point and what research shows is that when you strengthen these two pillars you have created a foundation to unlock and strengthen the others so you have to start here anyhow so self-awareness is the ability to recognize your feelings and the effect on others and people with self-awareness have more confidence they have a more realistic assessment of themselves and probably for that reason people with more self-awareness are able to laugh at themselves they can accept that they're human and what they're good at what they're not good at and that is an element of self-awareness to focus on where self-regulation is the ability to control and shift your emotion you can have a positive interaction with someone else and people who can self-regulate are more comfortable with ambiguity and change they can definitely see that there's something happening and they can control those emotions and they can figure out how to respond versus react which we'll get into later so you can see the self-awareness and self-regulation that those two work hand in hand and the contributor was definitely self-aware enough to realize he was stuck he was emotionally frozen and then he used self-regulation to work through his fear and ask for help and convince someone or I should say influence someone to donate a few hours of their time to help him with this goal but that is areas we really want to focus on if we want to grow our emotional intelligence so before we talk about how to do that I just want to I won't be able to see you so we'll just kind of use a little trust here so how would you rate yourself awareness you can think about that a bit maybe you want to raise your hand if you have if you think you rate high with self-awareness like if you think you have strong self-awareness well I can't see what the room is doing but if you don't have a lot of people raising their hands that's okay because according to Dan Goldman's research only 36% of people identify as having strong self-awareness so that is rather curious it explains a lot about interactions in general and why we sometimes have conflicts as humans and but the nice thing is that we can raise that number through practice and interestingly the best way to improve self-awareness self-regulation and therefore emotional intelligence is through mindfulness which I was rather surprised with when I started doing this research myself and when someone told me to practice mindfulness they recommended journaling meditating yoga and I'm thinking well I want to be a bit leader but I don't want to just you know sit quietly or do these things like I want to do I want to be I'm very action-oriented I want to do something and so I had a really hard time with this concept and I kind of dug in a little bit more and Google has done a lot of research in this area and they have actually embraced mindfulness because they have found the impacts from a neural neuroscientific perspective and how calming the limbic system with mindfulness allows you to control your emotions much better and therefore be a better leader in times of chaos and change and ambiguity and as I was looking into this research and I'm thinking I don't know like this isn't for me I'm not going to practice mindfulness to be a leader like I get the logic but like to actually change my behavior that's a lot harder and I needed to have a stronger why to get me to change and I wanted to share that with you in case that just hearing like oh just do some yoga you'll be a better leader isn't resonating with you either so let me share a little bit about Dan Siegel so he is a psychiatrist and a leader in interpersonal neurobiology and he has a whole way of explaining how the brain works how mindfulness works and how it can make you a better leader and he does it with this simple hand demonstration so I'll do this but I also have the picture available in case you can't see me very well so he illustrates the brain using a hand and the arm and the wrist is your spinal cord going into the base of your skull and your thumb is your limb system and that's your fight like breeze and your hand and the four fingers that is your cortex and then the fingernails where the fingers are touching the thumb that's your prefrontal cortex this cortex the prefrontal cortex refers to as the upstairs brain and the thumb the limbic system as the downstairs brain and when you have this integrated brain you have a system that's really working well and giving you emotional intelligence because when the prefrontal cortex is connected to the limbic system you have positive feedback loop so all day long you are getting triggered and signals are going into your brain and they go into your limbic system and they say oh my gosh oh my gosh something's happening but you're upstairs it's okay you've been here before using all the logic reasoning and it knows how to soothe itself and when you have this connection with a prefrontal cortex the front part it is able to provide all of your emotional intelligence your self-awareness your self-regulation empathy and it allows you to do it with the world around you in a really mindful responsive way instead of a reactive way but this stimulus it might be that it might be that you have kids at home really hard it could be that response and eventually this whole integrated brain and there's always just that one thing that flipped your leg today for me was the dog parking because we have a lot more activity going on in our house right now and I flipped my leg take a break and it can take up to 20 minutes for your body and to get that integrated brain and so I went on in the brain and that when we can be kind of when we flip our leg turn to this link this integrated brain a lot faster and we can regain that emotional intelligence and be able to be more self-aware self-regulated empathetic as we work with people who are able to respond versus react and that is what mindfulness does to our brain and why we need a mindfulness practice so that we aren't flipping our lids all the time because so often we're just going to the day like this totally run by emotion and that is not helpful to anyone but there's the flip your leg and in open source we really need to know how to keep this integrated brain and avoid flipping the lid because we work in an asynchronous and online environment and unfortunately that is going to make us flip our leg more because there's a lot of things that happen to our brain when we aren't interacting with someone in person so whether we're working on github or Slack or Twitter or email and all these online channels we're really at a disadvantage because we are suffering from something called online and in addition effect so our brains that cortex is always looking for cues social cues when we're talking to people so that we can self-regulate so if someone looks a little upset or they're really happy we know how to respond and it's what our brain is constantly looking for and we get that a bit with video which is good but when we are on email and Twitter we don't have it and our brains have a really hard time functioning and we try emoticons but that is not what the brain needs to stay the integrated brain so there's a lot of things that happen as we're working asynchronously and online and a few that I want to point out from this disinhibition effect is first of all lack of eye contact reduces our empathy for the person that we're engaging with and so because of that we are already engaging with people with less understanding of where they're coming from we're a little bit more worried about our response and what we're getting out of the communications than what they're saying so we have this lowered empathy when we're engaging with each other the other thing is there's this weird thing we do but we project a voice onto others so if someone's emailing you or there's a tweet research shows that 9 out of 10 times we are ascribing a more negative voice to that message than they intended so we're not empathetic and we don't really have full trust of their intentions and those are some big headwinds to work with with online communication and then there's a third thing that happens which is as we're working with each other and we're going back and forth let's say it's Twitter there's something that happens where the brain flips the lid and you are just run by your emotions and suddenly your argument on Twitter is really about survival in terms of how the brain functions and thinks and so survival means winning the argument at all costs and you've seen this it's a very strange and unfortunate phenomenon called flame wars but that's what's happening to win it's really hard to stop that and that is when we get to the worst great interactions with each other and this is where we need a mindfulness practice this is where we really need to be self aware of each other we have all these headwinds around empathy and trusting people's intentions in their communication and we need to make sure we're not flipping our lid all the time and we need to build up a practice to keep that integrated brain as we're working together and so mindfulness in itself is a good practice and you know we don't have a lot of time to go into that mindfulness is what once you're in a calm state people on the course project you also need strategies for how to collaborate well we don't get a lot of training on and so my pro tips are that you want to reset if something's triggered you and you have to be self aware if something has triggered you and so there are ways to calm down so that you can kind of put that integrated brain and some simple ones are a count of ten I think we've all heard this another one is take some deep breaths and there's a lot of science coming out around how breathing can really help especially if you take a shorter breath in and a longer breath out and sometimes things that just make you flip your lid so great you need more than ten seconds and you should maybe take a walk around the block and then my favorite is the hot tea and the reason for this is that when you have hot tea you are so focused on the moment of not burning your mouth that you slow everything down and just focus on that and you kind of forget for a minute that you had another issue and sometimes that's all your brain needs so I like that one a lot and another pro tip is once you've kind of calmed everything down you've taken that break you've reset then you want to make sure you respond logically you're not reacting like this idea I like this proposal I wish it had more in this week both study and self and another practice that I like to use online and verbally but I don't have a good listening skills so when someone gives a proposal they share their ideas I want to make sure I really understand them before I respond so I usually say oh what I hear you say is and I will repeat something and it gives them a chance to correct me if I didn't get something right and then I can build off of that to make sure we have a shared understanding before I make any suggestions it's really important to know when to switch to video or voice you know there are just times when online communication isn't going to work whether it's talking about strategy or it's trying to be a little repeated you really just have to know when's the right time to say hey let's shift to video and talk this through so I just covered a lot of stuff I know that was all covered in a short amount of time so I wanted to do a quick recap just to cover the main points that I went through today and that is now more than ever we need everyone to be leaders and open source and you absolutely can you can lead from any position to be leaders until you can lead yourself so it's important to start there and leading yourself means that you need to grow your emotional intelligence if you feel that's an area you're lacking in and the first places to start and building emotional intelligence is self-awareness and self-regulation and you can grow these areas through a mindfulness practice because it's going to change the neuroscience of your brain it's going to keep it integrated so you're not always being led by emotions and reacting and you can be responding and it's also important to not just be mindful and keep that calm integrated brain you need strategies at your fingertips so that you know how to respond and so I recommend you practice ways that are being triggered and use some of those communication strategies to help you respond and so that you know those are some simple steps I'm happy to be available for questions afterwards or beyond this because there's a lot to this and it's not a topic we discuss much in open source because it matters remember new contributors are watching you they're watching how you choose to interact with each other they're watching how you treat people because that's setting the tone and the culture of the project and they are going to mimic that they're going to model that and you could be making the difference gaining the next top contributor of your project or losing someone completely so I hope you choose to lead and be the leader we all need so thank you very much for your time today we can hear us questions from anyone alright in that case I will attempt to paraphrase a very long question from Mario to clarify can you hear me oh can you hear me a little bit it's a little muffled but I can hear you so Mario's question is about the role of leadership in open source and particularly Google's role in it in dealing with the coronavirus crisis that we find ourselves in the middle of and it has a sort of different character to most of what we deal with when we're really dying is there so apart from the sort of here are practical things that we can do as individuals to develop our capacity as leaders is there any relevant thing you would comment on on COVID and is there anything in particular that's relevant in Google's context on dealing with the ability to lead on responses to COVID I've been very impressed with our CEO's communication internally helping us understand and helping us understand how to navigate this as humans and employees and in terms of the outside world there are many initiatives going on and we've been putting out a lot of messaging around this and I'm actually not properly briefed to tell you all the details and I wouldn't want to do it you know I wouldn't do it justice by going into all the ways that we're helping I know that there's a lot of resources a lot of collaboration that we're doing we're offering our services for free such as Enterprise G Suite now is being offered so everyone can connect and from where I said it's easier for me to speak to this where I said in the open source programs office we fully believe that open source needs to be sustainable and we need to be the best citizens we can be especially during times like this we are reaching out to the projects that we use the foundations that support them we're reaching out to the industry organizations like open source initiative and outreach and we're finding out what the needs are so that we can make sure that we're there to support them as you know with event cancellation a lot of these groups have reliance on event revenue and they use that revenue to support their projects and we want to make sure that we and in partnership with lots of other organizations that want to be good citizens are coming to help them and make sure that they get through this and we are also participating in something that's starting up right now called FOSS Responders FOSSResponders.org and what we want to do with this group is create a central page to aggregate people's needs projects needs and amplify those needs so that others other companies individuals can see how they can help other people in open source there's going to be a lot of fundraising going on and there's a lot of ways to contribute to these people in need projects in need both financially and in kind through challenge and other kinds of contributions one of the things that FOSS Responders is doing is starting a open collective fund we use to support those that are kind of falling between the cracks that may not be part of a project getting money or may not be a maintainer that's well known that has been impacted there's going to be a lot of people that fall through the cracks of some traditional funding that happens in open source so we want to make sure we have a way to help them choose we've created this fund so those are the things that Google open source programs office is working on currently well that's brilliant thank you very much a round of applause for me again

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#M365AMA What is the best way to merge M365 calendars?

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question: “Multiple M365 calendars! The company I work for places consultants at other companies. These consultants have an M365 account and calendar at our company and a totally separate one at the client. I've had a few people ask about some way of merging both separate M365 calendars or using an online tool so when someone from our company or the client tries to book a meeting they can find the actual availability over both calendars. Any suggestions?" Participating in this discussion were: Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet Kirsty McGrath @KirstyMcGrath13 Sharon Weaver @sharoneweaver Hal Hostetler @tvwizard Jonathan Weaver @j_weaver74 Some relevant notes/links shared by the team: -- Share your calendar in Outlook on the web [https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/share-your-calendar-in-outlook-on-the-web-7ecef8ae-139c-40d9-bae2-a23977ee58d5] -- There are also a number of 3rd party tools that solve this out of the box, such as Calendly [https://calendly.com/]

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says I guess first the statement, multiple M365 calendars! Yay! The company I worked for places consultants at other companies. These consultants have a Microsoft 365 account and a calendar at our company and a totally separate one at the client. I've had a few people ask about some way of merging both separate Microsoft 365 calendars or using an online tool so when someone from our company or the client tries to book a meeting they can find the actual availability over both calendars. Any suggestions? It has to be a third-party tool. We talk about this a lot that we have a lot of calendaring questions which you would think would be a hint to Microsoft about consolidating the strategies around calendars across all these solutions but we are Microsoft's kryptonite so that's not happening. It is right up there with tasks in task management. There's more movement there. I think we all agree there are third-party solutions that solve this. I use every day I use I use Calendly that's my solution. Yep I use Calendly too. I know that there's there I mean I don't I'm not like loyal to anybody there's Calendly there's calendar bridge there's a there's a cut there I know there's several sync tools that will just do it but Calendly has been the one that I've used that's worked out the best and in fact it's really nice because you can have like so I have a Google calendar on multiple M365 calendars and then I get extra calendars from clients and I'm always trying to keep everything organized and so you can actually put in the different calendars and then pull all that into one interface and then if somebody books it automatically like checks all of your calendars and books it and you can decide like what to check and where to put it and things like that but I think at the end of the day right now there's nothing that Microsoft provides out of the box to do that so you would have to have a third-party tool. Yep so with Calendly to be able to add the multiple calendars is that a premium subscription or is that the base subscription serious question is that a paid subscription to do that it is a paid subscription yes okay the free version does not allow you to put multiple calendars in correct and I think the free the free one only allows you to book meetings against one calendar like you can pick a calendar but to do the multiple calendars I think is the paid subscription and you can only have one type of count of meeting also yeah yeah so I had this question come up recently and I started looking into a solution but I have not tried implementing it the solution is not a good solution it is a hacky workaround but assuming that both of your calendars are have a web-based like you know Outlook.com option you can use Power Automate with to listen to you could you would use two separate Power Automate flows one for each calendar that essentially listens for when a new item is created or when one is modified and then go and then basically write it to the other calendar and same thing on the other side however you have to be smart about that because if you don't have some sort of trigger condition then you will end up making the loop you will have a new new item on calendar one it will write it to calendar two calendar two says oh I have a new item let's write it to calendar one and now you have 37 meetings at the same time so trigger conditions very important also that's a hacky solution and it is not by any means a syncing opportunity yeah I I think the last time we discussed like something similar to this scenario we talked about that exact thing Jonathan about you know building that kind of automation to go and do and and it's yeah and it has inherent problems with that and if I think the last time we were talking about it somebody was syncing three calendars and it becomes just really burdensome to do that between so yeah like so mine I sync between three calendars and so Calendly is the best solution for that for me again there are the third party tools I don't think cost I've been using Calendly for years and so I'm I'm good I'm not looking around it can I save five dollars a month or whatever you know so you know speak up if you have another favorite tool that's out there but on the bridge calendar bridge calendar bridge yeah for me there needs to be a showdown between Cal and Lee and calendar bridge now

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Using Your Free Time Better In Medicine #Shorts

A career in medicine can lead you to a cycle of studying and working; take a break then you wonder why you’re not studying and working!  Let’s break that! Med students, trainees, residents and even attendings can have a lot to do no matter what the specialty. But when you get some free time, it becomes so foreign that you don’t know what to do with it. One thing you should not do after putting so much effort in your work, is to spend time thinking about that exact same thing when you have free time.  I talk about going through your medical journey with less stress and one way to do that is to have and take that free time. Remember those important to you outside of medicine. You will need them when planning your free time. More of that and a reminder that there is something outside of hospitals and clinics in this latest TMJ #Shorts Future Videos Ideas Survey https://bit.ly/2XUa7vZ Hope yall enjoy! Disclosure: This description contains affiliate links which means I may get a commission if you make a purchase through my link at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TMJ Podcast:⤵️ Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/tmjpodcast Spotify Podcast: https://spoti.fi/2NkC3mL Google Podcast: http://bit.ly/2QysouE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Popular Resources:⤵️ 8-Step How To Study Free Video Course: http://bit.ly/medschoolstudyguide How To Get 250+ On Step 1 Free Masterclass: https://bit.ly/36Yt3uM Popular eBooks & Courses:⤵️ Top Recommend Courses - https://themdjourney.com/courses/ 3-Week Studying Course: http://bit.ly/levelupyourstudyingcourse Step 1 Academy Program: http://bit.ly/Step1Academy Double Your Productivity: https://bit.ly/timemasterypro Crush Your Rotations - https://www.themdjourney.com/crushing-clinicals/ Med School Domination eBook Bundle: http://bit.ly/themdsalesbundle The Pre-Med Journey on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2r79D47 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be sure to follow me! 😄Website: TheMDJourney.com 😄Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themdjourney 😄Twitter:https://www.twitter.com/themdjourney 😄Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/themdjourney 😄Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themdjourney ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended Resources & Discounts ➡️OnlineMedEd: https://tinyurl.com/y7xy3zgm ➡️Physeo: http://bit.ly/physeodiscount 15% OFF with code: TheMDJourney ➡️Picmonic: http://bit.ly/picmonic_TheMDJourney (20% Discount) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Summer by Ikson: http://www.soundcloud.com/ikson Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/n2oTA5JSk80 Until next time my friends...😀 Want To Study Faster? Check Out Our Fully Studying Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUrlA8Yjkc&list=PLE12jDD-IG1u6jfcD1FegLHq2-nWVKvlX

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So one of the things that medical professionals deal with all the time, whether it be students or actual trainees or attendings, is just how we best use our free time. And it's kind of a sequela of the damage that's done when you're a pre-med and you're a medical student and all you're used to doing is studying. And if you're not studying, you feel like you should be studying. And you kind of go into this deathly cycle of never realizing how to best use your free time. One of the most important tips that I give to any kind of pre-med or medical student is make sure the things that matter most to you right now are still part of your life, even as life gets busier, because unfortunately as you get to later into medical school or later into training or as your life isn't attending, things don't get easier. As in your schedule will now be filled up with different forms of responsibility, you kind of wish that you went back to the free time of your old high school days, your old college days, and even your old medical school days. So one of the most important things you can do for yourself right now is to find the bits of free time that you do have and try to make the most of it by including the priorities that matter to you right now.

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Why Are Things Falling Apart 💔What to Do When Things Fall? David Hoffmeister -A Course In Miracles

Practice and live the mystical teachings of Jesus assisted by online courses, online retreats, and an online Tribe of Christ community: https://the-christ.net  Why are things falling apart? Because they need to! When things seem to be falling apart or crumbling, it is always part of God’s plan for you to remember your true inheritance: perfect, eternal happiness. Learn more: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/ This “Why Are Things Falling Apart” video contains footage from the Living Miracles Monastery in Utah taken on September 19, 2011 and on August 5, 2018. For upcoming online events with David Hoffmeister and the Living Miracles community, go to https://livingmiracles.org/events If you have enjoyed this David Hoffmeister video, please like, share, and subscribe here to get notified of the latest A Course in Miracles uploads ▶ https://www.youtube.com/user/DavidHoffmeister?sub_confirmation=1 Mystic David Hoffmeister is a living demonstration that consistent peace is possible. His gentle demeanor and articulate, non-compromising expression are a gift to all. David is world-renowned for his practical application of the non dual teachings of A Course in Miracles. His clarity about the function of forgiveness in spiritual Awakening and his radical use of mindful movie-watching in the release of judgment is unsurpassed. The purity of the message he shares points directly to the Source. Follow David Hoffmeister ACIM teacher on: Facebook ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Spreaker ▶ https://www.spreaker.com/user/davidhoffmeister Twitter ▶ https://twitter.com/ACIM_YouTube Pinterest ▶ https://www.pinterest.com/mysticspiritone Visit David Hoffmeister's website ▶ https://davidhoffmeister.com/david-hoffmeister-the-message/metaphysics-of-a-course-in-miracles/ Read A Course In Miracles for free ▶ https://acim.biz/a-course-in-miracles-book-acim/ Discover the amazing Mystical Mind Training program ▶ https://awakening-mind.org/resources/a-course-in-miracles/ Search and Read A Course In Miracles for free ▶ https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/ Listen to David read ACIM Text, WB Lesson 1, and his commentary ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imiGL2YS2uo Watch ACIM WB Lesson 1 video with David's voice as background ▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlwOZLlUGg #ACourseinMiracles #ACIM #Spirituality #Spiritual #Awakening #Enlightenment #DavidHoffmeister ———————————————————————————————————————— More ideas on the subject: From traditional Buddhist wisdom, Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart reveals her radical and compassionate advice for what to do when things fall apart Some may sit and wonder, why are things falling apart Listen to Why Is This Happening are things falling apart or falling together. "there are two reasons things fall apart. things fall apart has a lot to say about colonization and even something to say about decolonization. now things falling apart even the worse things falling apart may have a negative connotation. kyle cease - when the world is falling apart, do this. this video is about if things are falling apart here the great news. now let me share with you the good news if things are falling apart things are falling apart because something greater is coming into your life. this video we'll show you exactly what to do if things are falling apart. if things are falling apart, here's great news (how to trust 100%). if one finger brought oil - things fall apart part i: crash course literature 208. how to survive when things start falling apart. many times when things fall apart it's happening so that you can make some type of change in your life. understand that when things fall apart things are falling apart for you. Search results for what to do when things fall ap videos Why are things falling apart are things falling apart or falling into place? Why are things falling apart so suddenly -- A course in miracles is a self-study spiritual text and you can also buy the A course in miracles audio book. A course in miracles (ACIM) goes to the movies: MWGE.org If you read a course in miracles review you’ll find a variety of opinions on a course in miracles but the words of David Hoffmeister will give you a clear and uncompromising message on its ACIM teachings. Learn more - An introduction to A course in miracles .. if you are looking for an ACIM audio book that has a table of contents that is synced with the contents of ACIM we recommend the A course in miracles mp3 set which is available online. Read A course in miracles online at acourseinmiraclesnow.com. Watch videos about A course in miracles and healing. These are subjects of many popular videos that can be reinterpreted by the Holy Spirit through ACIM. You can also listen to A course in miracles audiobook and read the ACIM text preface - this book's official publisher is the Foundation for Inner Peace.

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We are the folks dear the witnesses that you can let it all crumble and we'll be there for you We are the let it crumble folks. I Mean I there's certain songs that I've loved throughout throughout time, but I love that That line in that grace slick song, you know, let the world around us just fall apart Baby, we can make it if we're heart to heart, you know, it's like yeah You could just feel it when she's singing it like there is nothing that can keep us apart it can crumble our belief in and unworthiness is going to just seem to Crumble and so will the world around it that was built to prop up this feeling of unworthiness and it's okay We can let it dissolve away and the Holy Spirit would not have you Linger in time that is not your inheritance. The things of time is are not your inheritance Eternal happiness and love and joy. That's the inheritance and so that's why things will seem to fall away things that have been with you maybe for Days or months or years or even decades may start to dissolve and that's part of the plan as well Humpty-dumpty, you know Had a big fall all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again We can't reestablish the self concept. It's it's crumbling and where we are in love. There's a deep love underneath that This is not a pathway of loss But the ego will say that all those things are real and then it will give you all kinds of wild goose chases in time and space to Try to avoid the loss avoid the lack avoid the Loneliness and the sadness and it's they never succeed. We we have tried we pursued Many of those roadways and and we just get there. We're just at the end. We're saying what was I thinking? What was I thinking? I think I've done this before Feels like I've reached the same dead end that I did before and it's like why was I thinking trying this again? it's all part of that That trust and letting go and we are so worthy all of us are So so worthy of that love, you know We we need to really test out the Holy Spirit and and and let it crumble and Trust it that love will be waiting there to catch you, you know, like that that the Libby Newton-John song magic, you know Catch you when you fall that the love is there when things crumble and we're so afraid that we're gonna mess it up or that you know, it's because we just don't believe we deserve it and we do and right before Kirsten called was on the phone with friend of mine Cindy Stanley and and It's the same thing She was calling and she was crying at the other end and all the twists and turns and feeling like my world's falling apart and feeling like my life is Crumbling and I just had to call you and reach out and it was just so beautiful and she said David, you know the Truman show. I said, yeah, she said you're my Sylvia I know if you remember the Truman show Sylvia is the one who's like Where's the t-shirt? How would end? She's rooting for Truman to Leave behind the whole show To let the show just fall apart to she's rooting for him to escape and And and then at the very end, you know when he's right there standing at the door to escape, you know, she's just in a state of prayer You know all along during the movie she's just rooting for him To let go To let go of the props to let go of whatever he thought the world helped for him You know, she's just praying for him and then when he finally makes his his little bow In case I don't see you Good afternoon. Good evening and good night. He takes a bow and all the people that have been watching him cheer and Sylvia comes running down the steps to go meeting. You know, that's the way the Holy Spirit is That's what Jesus. That's the message of Jesus. He's like saying I'm gonna be there for you when you When you just take your final bow To the world It's okay for the world to crumble It's okay, even though you think you're not worthy of what's to come you are worthy it's your inheritance and You know, that's what a true friend in Christ is is one who will be there for you No matter how many times you seem to fail. No matter how many times you seem to turn away No matter how many times you seem to mess it up. No matter how many times things seem to go wrong To have this loving presence That's there for you Just waiting to hold you just waiting to embrace you with love

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Let's see. So jade today says when is NFA next week not financial advice with me and guy from coin Bureau and Ben from the crypto worse. It should be every Thursday It's just that last couple times We've had some some things going on guy had to do something in the metaverse some kind of deal with finance and Like a shark tank type thing sounds interesting But it was on the exact same day and time. So that's done. So we're gonna be it should be every Thursday at 9 a.m. Eastern time and it'll be on guys channel and coin Bureau clips next week Yeah, it's probably true Rob. I think you can hammer out a lot of these crypto regulation issues If you just sit down with Gary at a cafe over some Cricket powder tea. I don't I probably it's it's probably very simple. I got to tell you between us It's no one's it's just us right now Nobody's watching I think that they're dragging their feet on purpose Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that they could make this all very clear very quickly and Just move forward, but it's like for some reason they don't want to have clear regulation and that's it No, that's nice Well, welcome Vicki says I have a new interview channel. I will let us interview in a month. Absolutely You know how to get a hold of me? Yeah, that's right. Hello tnd Do you hold chain like yes, I do And uh There was this great article Let me see if I can pull it up. Did you guys know? Let me show you this It's a couple things I want to show you This dynamic NFTs so chain link is This is updated on january 23rd. So that's already it's coming into fruition, but a dynamic NFT. What is that? Well, NFTs are pretty static, you know, they don't really change too much I mean upgrade a bowl and stuff like that But you mean you have to do that manually But I don't this is all metaverse stuff. So like it would be like Or like later in game like if you go into a certain section of a game and you conquer some boss Automatically you level up and then your NFT levels up and it's like an automatic type of thing Which is on chain stuff. But what about off chain and I thought it was interesting So chain link, of course is an oracle and it brings an outside data into On into the blockchain, right? So let's just say that in the future We have an NFT that represents a house. Well, how do you know what that house? What the value is what's happened to it in the past good and bad? And everything kind of like information that you want to get especially if it's on an NFT So what it does is it'll update it automatically without having put things in it's kind of like Think of like Carfax, but on the blockchain and it's for houses and it could be for cars And it could be for any kind of asset that you really have and you could just see like all the data On the blockchain for anybody And so like let's say like in this example, let's say it replaces the roof You're like, well, you know, that's good to know and and then of course We can we can put that in and take a look at comparables other houses as far as like new roofs in a certain section And and what is that the price per square footage or let's say that they did new doors new new windows New something or and also let's say that there was a massive foundation crack And they had to fix that and it would all be in the NFT data. So why is that important? I think it's important because like if we want to use these types of things In the future it makes our lives a heck of a lot easier to do. So if you're an assessor And you're trying to look at or a real estate agent You're trying to look at like like give me these houses and these properties and and this type of price and there's no, you know Wacky information that that comes out on closing. Well, this will be where it is I know some people will say well, that seems kind of I mean, don't we have people to do that? Yes, we do we do all those things and of course That's the whole points of technology is to make things a lot faster easier simpler and cheaper and cutting out middleman If we can do that that will be fantastic. So to answer your question I do own chain like and especially it's interesting that they're doing these types of things. So, yeah Interesting also, I wanted to talk like that story, you know, just took up a whole lot of a lot of timeframe, but Ah, hold on. Let's see here I'll answer this What's your opinion of the Celsius new co-plan? It sounds like an awful plan with retail clawbacks And those are the 5k on the platform get half back compared to those with less than 5k So people have been like asking me to cover The Celsius plan what things are going on with Celsius and how's this thing with Celsius? and I haven't done much of it because First of all, uh, so everybody knows, you know, I promoted Celsius I talked about it quite a bit as a matter of fact And I have six figures stuck on that platform So I'm right with you on on Celsius and Celsius was it was a project that worked until it didn't And it's the same thing with Voyager Voyager worked until different when tell it didn't until they made this awful mistake of Loaning 640 million to three rows capital uncollateralized geniuses So this with this Celsius plan To cover it I don't think I can cover it But it's a lot of minutiae and the back and forth And it seems like the only people that know what's really going on to me and my What I see is Simon Dixon. So follow him Aaron Bennett Tiffany Fong And Cam Cruz These four people know exactly what's going on and you can follow others and you know to see what's happening But they they really keep up with the details of what's happening I was asked to get to cover it when there was this thing called a Celsius squeeze going on And I sat in on on a twitter space is live and I listened to everybody Complain and throw mud back and forth and nothing got accomplished whatsoever And now those same people the Celsius squeezers are talking about how great Celsius still is I mean some of them are there was a report that came out that basically said that Alex Mishinsky and Celsius was a Ponzi and they said we can't say, you know The exact words but it operated as a Ponzi and these people looked at that and go wow It's fantastic. They didn't call it a Ponzi. I'm like, did you not read the report? so The things that are going on and there's like I forgot the name terrible for something like that is is coming in They're like, we're gonna, you know make this thing great and it's gonna be awesome and And I'll let you know if that is really what it comes down to it, but right now There's really in my personal opinion It's not like there's a huge amount and people would say but Rob what about these? Retail clawbacks and things like that. Well, look we try to fight Kirkland and Ellis for them to make The crypto that we had on that platform to not allow them to classify that As Celsius's property and that failed miserably and they were able to do that And then for everybody who has it in you know and loans and custody and of course we can fight them But really what it's going to come down to is just time and what happens me personally I would just rather liquidate And just move on because I have a much better feeling that I can Use my funds a lot better than a new company coming in and saying, you know, we're gonna do this great stuff and this great stuff I don't trust anybody involved with it and I'll go out of my way to uh to make sure I didn't really want to talk about it, honestly That's just it. I mean why can bring some people on I asked Simon to come on to probably be here next week We'll talk all about it quite honestly I think it's uh, I'm just kissing that six figures. Goodbye so all right Do you think Celsius plan will not I don't know because Oh, first of all this new place. They're like, we're not going to be They they they say it's funny because like they say that it's not going to do like the old ways and they're not going to bring in the old Uh management team and it's going to be totally new and it's going to be totally awesome Basically what it is is they're getting they're getting your assets on the cheap And they're going to fire up this bitcoin mining platform and everything's going to be fantastic. Look Maybe it will I just reserve judgment, but I mean from from here on out Like I'm just tired of people saying like you should get behind Celsius and those and like Celsius is a bunch Of fraudsters and and people would say well, Rob, you don't understand They're doing this this great bitcoin mining operation and then if you take a look at All the financials you'll see that they were hemorrhaging money left and right They were actually losing money This bitcoin mining operation when they should have been making money So if this new company comes in they're like, oh, this is going to be great. I'll reserve judgment. So that's it I have no faith in ever anybody who is around that project The Yeah, follower and ben at Tiffany Tampong They're great Please tell us citizens when we might get sweat coin probably never No, it's gonna be let's see gary genzler gets out of office in 2026 probably around then So I don't know man. How many times does it want it to be burned before they really sell these are a bunch of frauds? I don't know and like I said, I mean Simon Dixon has much more faith in in in this new company than I do So maybe he can talk some sense into me, but I just don't Yeah, I just don't You know what it would be great is if they do liquidate What's what's people like I lost my mind. It's awful Well, you know what? When they liquidate and all these things happen Now you can actually claim this on taxes as massive losses So like right now, you know, you can't because everything's up in the air in chapter 11 They could come out And it could be this or could be that I mean talk to your cpa. I'm not a cpa But uh, I mean, I just rather write it off and I can have massive losses and I can carry those over for years to come. So I don't see I don't see it Thank you. Jeff. We all got played moving on Let's see I think that's it. There was a couple things that um To answer there's a couple questions. Yes. I'm still dcaing. I still I still have big plans. I think we're gonna see I mean this this year is going to be pretty rocky. We talked about this yesterday and on uh, NFA But uh 2024 run the bitcoin having I think we'll start to see more a little more stability. Hopefully if we don't go and go into a major recession But I think like here's a here's the thing if we go into a recession I think it'll be i'm i'm hoping q3 or q4 this year And the thing about recessions they last about a year, right? Depending maybe 14 months maybe 10 months about a about a year or so and it's a natural progression So if we extrapolate that out Then where are we? Well, we're in towards the end of 2024 After the bitcoin having and what happens after the bitcoin having usually we see uh, some major price increases and a little bit more of like a Stare step action not that it goes straight up, but it looks a lot better So I think it's just perfect timing. I'm just hoping It works out like that if we don't get a recession we don't get a recession, right? Yeah, to me it doesn't really matter too much because I just put my money away I dollar cost hours and I take a look at some factors of what I'm going to sell There's a link in the description of the video of when I'm going to sell 80 percent of my crypto and I take a look at uh multiple of of data points and you can Put that into your plan or not Do whatever you want to do So Noah says are you worried at all about itrust's custody program? So we had we did an interview um From itrust for their new custody program and they're moving so the so the thing was is that They're still they were using coin-based custody and fire blocks and the person that set that up Was their custody provider and then the new one Uh, I shoot what was the name scaling not scale fortress and fortress they're more of a Not a better But they use the same they they use fire blocks for custody service and a couple of the different ones and it'll allow us to like do Not anything fantastic. Just a different way. They want to they want to move or they want to grow So for me as far as like the custody thing the big thing that I liked about that Was the documentation with the terms and conditions which talked about they don't intermingle funds and we took a look at Okb okx the crypto exchange They just were blowing up a couple of weeks ago and I was like I don't understand why this is going on Because in terms of conditions it basically said we can co-mingle your funds and we can label it as okx's funds Watch the video. I'll show you so for fortress And for itrust they said they say totally different like we keep everything separate It is in your name under your account If something happens with us we just switch custody providers and that's pretty much it So am I concerned? I'm not uh, I'm not uh like A hundred percent sleep easy. There's always a concern everywhere. There's always risk for every type of investment you do Great thing about uh, but I trust and Roth IRAs is that you can't put You know, you can't take your life savings and sell your house and your kidneys and your kids and go Okay, and put it all on black and then uh, you know gambling it away like essentially what you could do Well, a casino sir or actually any stock that's out there. So for me I'm not as concerned with it as uh I say like these d5 plays or these centralized exchanges That's it So meme says but in pr if you don't pay capital gains under the grant How can we have capital losses? So I moved here in 2021 and the majority of my crypto was purchased in 20 because I dollar cost average in 2018 2019 And well actually every single year. I didn't sell all my crypto So for my cpa what they tell me is even if you moved here The crypto that you had before It doesn't automatically hit like that the day that you move here and become a resident and file for uh x 60 It needs to be 21 and 22 Moving from that point forward You won't have any losses as far as like not losses all right capital gains But to say that you accumulated beforehand that's still Uh detrimental to you because you're gonna pay capital gains in that And that's how it goes. So that's it So for I guess that would be for me for everybody else who's not in portorico It's a little bit different. You have capital gains to pay Cocchino says how long do you plan to stay in portorico? We Well, we'll live here our entire lives But uh, we'll be traveling Yeah, we actually go back to texas end of march. So you have to go back there for business. So Beardy says rob can get a wound back lesson, you know, that's all I did for five years I just Instructed nurses practitioners and surgeons how to use the wound back I it's been a while, but I could still do it Uh Let's see rob. What are you buying at the moment as much as I can I got a bitcoin ethereum the blue chips Cardano chain link near polka dot Avalanche I'm always forgetting some and some other ones and there's a couple of risky ones. I don't talk about but yeah, that's it So mtb says what do you think of blur? So blur just did There was an act not an acquisition, but they're like They're the nft platform that is Kind of going against open c And their big thing is correct me if i'm wrong is not about The royalties for the nft creators They tried to cut that down or cut that out and that went against what Open c did and they were doing so well I think that the volume of nft that was uh nfts are being bought Rivaled that of open c and now you got more of blur Now blur did a big airdrop and a lot of people that were buying and selling nfts got a bunch of tokens So looks good me personally. I don't really get into nfts right now So it's not a big big thing, but for me it just kind of comes down to this people will always use a platform that is Faster and cheaper and really cheap. That's what it was down to as long as the as the quality is somewhat there So who knows blur might be the next Big open c. I don't know So noa says cool My only concern is that with the crypto is not subject to security regulations What insurance we have that our crypto is safe in the event fortress goes bankrupt. So again And you can look in the terms conditions At fortress and also what I trust and you should also reach out to the the folks that I trust and ask them the specific question because i'm just a guy Who is talking to his computer? on a really decent That pretty good green screen And uh again the video we talked about it said quite specifically No co-mingling of funds and again There could be other other parts of that that i'm not privy to but that's what I saw in the terms of conditions And if there's not a co-mingling of funds That means that your account and your crypto doesn't get mingled in with everybody else's so they can't use your funds to buy condos In the Bahamas like sam bakeman freed to the ftx people That's it James says stay with the one true crypto. I gotta tell you I should just do that. It's much easier I never defy was always a like everybody said it's like the next big thing It's gonna be awesome and it very well could be but there's a lot of bumps to get there So I don't know me personally. I just Like I don't know where things are going, but that's why I like layer one solutions. That's why I like you know, that's why you hear like ethereum and avalanche and cardano and poke it out chain link solutions because like what's built on ethereum Darn near everything is built on ethereum If you take a look at how many years you 20 tokens there are is a lot So does that mean it's gonna keep being that way? Who knows? But uh, you've got other players in there. That's why I do those things So even if like So like people build them a theorem they do defy projects or they do nft So they do play their own gaming. It's all built on one thing right layer one solution So you can try to pick those winners, but it's tough Yeah, who bring up blood? No, that's right Yeah, fame mma Let's see you better load up on mattock before zk evm release You know, somebody said like steven over at uh, San Juan smokehouse said he believes that uh, because coinbase They're working on uh on the optimism platform and they released this layer two solution called base He said that's gonna kill Polygon and I was like, I don't know because I mean Coinbase also came out with their nft marketplace. I don't know how good that's doing, but I don't really hear too much about it so Who knows Not for sure, but you know, polygons got so many so many partnerships and so many things are I mean It really Does pretty well at the gaming sector. That's for sure. So Who knows? I don't know Is cardano still a ghost chain? Nah There's a link in the description. It's called cardano ghost chain. It's a slideshow it shows you I don't think Cardano is a ghost chain per se onwards and operates Yeah, johnny says Please try to people trying to play the blur Farming game need to be aware that they are playing against 150 people who are controlling the platform So do your due diligence before bidding Yeah, that sounds risky to me Like, you know, think about it this way. I don't know how risky people are and people are some are risky Some are not just remember this like you know, there's great gains to be had so First of all, does anybody gamble here like in a casino? Raise your hand. I've done it before Yeah, and uh, I think Most people don't take their entire life savings and And gamble the majority right will say 95% right, but there's that 1 to 5% of degenerates who just cannot stop gambling. That's just how it is. So like For these these plays I think the majority of people I think I'm not sure are not degenerates. They just kind of want to like well, maybe I'll make a little money and I'll you know, I'll take 20 bucks or 100 bucks or $10,000 or whatever Whatever is not big money to you and just kind of play the game and see what you do I think there's no problem with that, right? No problems with that I just have a problem when people like they're sitting there and they're they're They're gambling on leverage And they're going I can make it and they can't pay bills. That's the problem. But again, not your dad So you got to make that decision for yourself Now J. H says well Rob's only my dad. No one else What he does isn't what you should do. Don't trust anyone after sell fdx, etc. Exactly, right? Oh, that's pretty good. Norman said I sold a little bit of bitcoin and you before they dipped a little and then You know, we did the meet-up on thursday And I got to tell you everybody that I talked to every single person I talked to at the meet-up They're great at buying dips and dollar cross average. They're fantastic at it. You know what everybody sucks at? selling Everybody sucks at selling So like if you can figure the good times to sell, I think that's The next narrative for the next bull run and that's that diamond hands Saying all the time. I think it's gonna hopefully go away, but you're gonna hear a lot of it Diamond hands bro Robby looked into real world assets on chain rwa is the next big narrative and this is low-key White base launch with black rock in on it. That's interesting black rock and base Black rock and base. It'd be interesting Yeah, real world assets on on chain You know who wants who was doing a lot of that a couple years ago and still doing is is bosson or boson protocol b o s o n protocol they were they were So you could take your real world assets and put them in the metaverse and move back and forth, but we'll see BNB is a scam chain. Ah my favorite word scam base will not kill polygon White tree says good morning I do a little sports betting Yeah casinos, right nothing's gonna kill mattok Only 270 thumbs up It's pretty good I'll take on a saturday Yeah, just look at how much was lost on superbowl. Well on the ads and things like that, of course Oh, uh real quick impromptu poll I don't do many Many live streams anymore Just don't so I might do some more later, but probably not But uh people like the conversation to to keep going and I think I by me not doing the live streams I kind of took that away from people so I have a question for everybody and lucas brought this to my attention What would be better for everybody? Telegram or discord To get a conversation going And the problem I've always had with telegram and discord is the amount of scammers and spammers there But what i'm gonna do is whichever one that we decide to launch on I'm just gonna the people who are wrenches Here will probably be the admins over there So we can do the same type of talking and they can protect people And that's the that would be the thing and then of course The link that you get to sign up will be private and uh There's a way to get it, but I first I had to figure out who's going to be is going to be telegram or discord Yeah, today's saturday. Can you believe this? There are some houses open. There's some houses open Yeah If only we could sell from the hard wall without fees, you know that but you know who's you know, who's making a killing Is the moon pays and the different plate and the different uh companies Wire or whatever else it is That allow you to to trade and sell in your wallet. They're making fat fee like five percent six percent four to six percent for sure like Visa doesn't even cost cost that much paypal doesn't cost that much, but those guys they're raking it. They're raking that money in So Yeah, let's see telegram discord discord discord discord i'll do a I'll do a poll like a real poll discord Discord to give me a wrench. Why does everybody like discord? I gotta ask you guys. Why do you like discord? Moon pay is awful. He says I have discord open all day every day No way salon is down. Huh? Yeah Easy to use and everyone uses it. Can you? Like I use discord on my on my uh on my um computer I don't really on my mac. I don't use it on the on the mobile device, but I really shouldn't start doing that Hmm. This goes a better layout less scammers on discord really uh Will Shaw says patreon now patreon is But then I got a charge Come on. Just save your money and put it into crypto bill bones. That's probably the thing about Celsius retail clawbacks bad news I mean, I will say like this like the clawbacks for uh the people that were A part of management they should do retail clawbacks I don't I don't think they should do but they probably will and again. I think this is again like Like people are like robbie should cover this you should cover this I just think it's gonna go really ugly for a while and uh that clawback will probably happen And what'll be interesting is that you know If that clawbacks if those clawbacks do happen, I'm pretty sure the the new company that tarah wolf, whatever it's called they're gonna Come out of that pretty happy because now they have all this crypto to play play with and uh good news for them They got added a massive discount. So I'm sure they're not gonna be like, you know what? Let's not claw back So that's all I need to know about that about them Maybe I'm wrong. I had a rough night Now this is good Ben and guy are both on telegram. That's true. I'm in ben's uh that little telegram group. It's quite interesting Sure, let's show So rob tell me to butt out if you know as if you could see your full-time job. We do other things I don't do anything so like I haven't worked for anybody since 2014 2015 somewhere around there And uh now like I got into online education And I was helping nursing students pass their clinical exam And this website's what allowed me to not Work for anybody else was pretty great. And then I got into real estate and that helped out a lot It was a more long-term rentals and things like that and then I That worked out pretty well from the money I got from the website and then did that and the money if we did that We got into uh an amazon business Amazon business is extremely boring, but it's quite profitable if you know what to do. It's very simple. You just Essentially reach out to distributors and say I'd like to give you a spreadsheet of the things that you have And I'll pick which ones I want to buy so like let's say you buy like a thousand 10,000 remote controls for an air conditioning unit and then you just profit off the difference You have them ship it to amazon warehouse and they sell it for you under your under your name And then uh, also sports facility in el paso. It's just all sand volleyball courts and uh Now we do more of uh the short-term rentals and air bnb. So This thing is that's why like I told everybody like on the next bull run When we hit the parabolic bull run and I that video in the link in the description Where I talk about how I'm going to sell like 80 of my crypto Once those parameters are hit. I'm stepping down And that's it for me. So what I'll do is to really drive the point home because Everybody's good at buying but everybody sucks. Well, most people suck at selling and I think once it goes up and goes down people like Let me ask you guys this how many of you out there are like boy I wish I would have sold some more when bitcoin was at 69 000 and the three was almost 5000 and codona was three dollars Or has everybody sold the top? Yeah, exactly So to drive this point home of you know at some point we have to sell because things don't go up forever Once I get to that point I'm just gonna step away and just like I sold everything and that's it So what I'll do is I won't do any more videos in the bull market because it gets crazy And I'll be a reminder that you really should think about selling not that you have to But I won't come back until things crash So I got two years left And then that's it It'll be good. I can do some other things. But yeah, like like these days. I feel like um I feel like I should do it So yeah, but that's it. All right, buddy coming up on an hour. I think that's good for a saturday. So look That's all we have for today. It was supposed to be an impromptu thing, but that's it So thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate it time to go to the beach play a little volleyball That's a couple hours. That's it for me. So enjoy the rest of the day. We're over at adios

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Errol Spence Jr Former Trainer Deny Neurological Damage | Blue Ray

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He looked good to me, like I didn't see anything wrong neurologically, like what these, this doctor on the internet saying. From this perspective, I've performed neurological exams on quite a few patients over my years. And people are trying to say, and then I'm not a doctor, so I'm not even finna diagnose it. My wife, when she saw Earl Spence enter the ring, she asked me, she's like, he looks like he's on marijuana. He has residual neurological damage. Don't boss talk one-on-one, one-on-one. Here we go. And the next question, do you feel like, because I hear people keep saying, the wreck still impact him. There's a violent crash overnight as a Ferrari flipped on a Dallas street. In that car was Earl Spence Jr. He's the boxing champion. I hear people saying that too. Do you feel, you knew him after the wreck. And before the wreck. And before the wreck and you were training with him even then. Do you feel like that wreck still affects him today? Not just mentally, I'm talking physically. One, two, three, four, five, up top, up top, up top. No butting, Earl. So I'm gonna say this, I trained him for the Pacquiao fight that was after the wreck, right? Cause Earl daddy called me to train him for Danny Garcia, but for some reason it never worked out. But when he got the Danny fight, okay, boom, we rocked in. And from what I seen, when I trained him for Pacquiao, with nothing wrong with him. Scratch business. From a physical standpoint, he was, from a physical standpoint, he was ready. Just like he was before. And I'm gonna tell you something. I believe this is my personal opinion. What was that? I feel like that, I feel like that it was God stepped in. Yeah. I believe it was God saving Mani Pacquiao from Earl. That's what I honestly believe. Really? Nah, that's what I believe. Earl is gonna kill that boy, no cap. So he didn't want, God didn't want that to be seen. Didn't want his legacy. Listen, listen, so. You believe that Pacquiao, that Earl was gonna kill Pacquiao when he come down to totally destroy, I mean, oh, you know, basically control the fight, maybe even knock him out. Nah, he was gonna stop him for sure. Knock him out for sure, because see the Mani Pacquiao fight, that was the first fight I ever trained him with weights. You know a trainer would weight with any other fight? No, no, no. Everything is body weight. Body weight, we did all body weight training. So why did you say that? He was that monstrous with body weight training. Why did you feel like it was important to do weights with this fight? Well, I always wanted to train him with weights. He just wouldn't let me. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because a lot of boxers think in their mind that if you use weights, that it's gonna slow them down, but it depends that a lot of trainers don't know what they're doing. You know what I'm saying? But I know what I'm doing. So that fight here allowed me to use weight. Now, we didn't use heavy weights. Now, don't get it twisted. But we did use, you know, to resist the training with weights for that particular fight. And I just believed, and I don't lie, as a trainer, I was like, this is because I finally got the, because he was gonna have a power that y'all never seen. You know what I'm saying? Because all that was before that, as dominant he was, that was what cal status. Now I get to really, really, he let the guy, Earl was like, trust me a little bit more and let the reins off. You know what I'm saying? So I finally got to use weights. That was my first fight with that. Man, I can't wait to see how Earl gonna be, but you know, I had messed up some. Now when you think about weights though, because you're a trainer, people who do anything with weights take the chance of getting injured as well. Yeah, if you don't know what you're doing. Right, compared to just doing body weight, you don't really get injured doing body weight. No, thanks. Totally agree. So that's another thing, and that's his career. No, I totally agree. But you know, like I said, we built a relationship so well, and you know, I'm like, man, Earl, let me do that. And he finally said, all right, big, but you know what I'm saying? But like I said, I had the situation. It was unfortunate, but you know. Do you think that after that, you didn't train him after that, I think, or did you train him? No, no, no. I didn't train him for Uggas. After I trained him. He wasn't somebody else, he wasn't somebody else. I said, Drew, you didn't train him. Yeah, he wasn't somebody else for this fight too, so. Okay, so what did you see when it come down to the way he moved around in the ring, far as after his eye training, because like I said, you've seen him from a perspective of you knew how he fought, you watched how he moved, you watched how his conditioning was. Make me understand how you felt about it, cause you was watching if that red new, if everything had healed properly. Well, he looked good to me. Like the Uggas fight, he looked good. You know what I'm saying? I don't, I don't, I don't think he was as strong as he was when I worked with him. But you know, but you know, he looked good to me. Like I didn't see anything wrong neurologically. Like what these, this doctor on the internet saying. You know, from this perspective, I've performed neurological exams on quite a few patients over my years. And people are trying to say, and then I'm not a doctor, so I'm not even finna diagnose it. My wife, when she saw Earl Spence enter the ring, she asked me, she's like, he looks like he's on marijuana. He has residual neurological damage. And I believe that Earl will have, you know, his dad loves him, his mom loves him. I think that it will be smart for him. He has the means to be able to go get the top people to analyze him, to make sure that everything is right neurologically. And then, you know, there's certain tests that you have to pass going into a, to a fight. So I would pray that, you know, that everything was done right. Nobody was paid off. And if something was wrong, that they would allow him to continue to fight. But I don't, I think Earl is smart enough to use his resources to be able to make sure that he's a hundred percent. Because this is his life. You know what I'm saying? He got to take care of his kids. He got to have life after boxing. And we've seen people in the past, like Muhammad Ali, Gerald McCullough, you know, people that I really like, you know, and we've seen the aftermath of not taking care of your body, you know, or not just having the right people around you to assess these things. When that car started flipping, I seen that car. He even said that his tooth, he had to get it too. Cause he says he thought his teeth had came out when he would put it at the partial end in the fight, you know, in the other fight where he almost, where he stumbled cause he, and he smiled. He thought, man, I thought my teeth had came out. To impact you, to where your car flipped, you fall out, your front's gone, your face cut. This is not a normal wreck. We know that. I agree. To throw out of a car moving and flipping like that car was flipping. Like, but to see him come back and then win that fight was big for me. You know what I mean? He was good. He was good against the damage. But to see him the other night and to see him, the way he was maneuvering around the ring after the fight took off and he got hit with a few blows from Terrence made me think about Neurological Damage. Neurological Damage. Neurological Damage. Because you don't know, but I heard Crawford say after the match, I hit him, I was hitting him in his ear to throw off his equilibrium. You heard him say that, No, I didn't hear him say that. Okay. Bro, I was done with that fight. When I say I was done, I didn't watch the post nothing. Yeah, I heard him say that. Going into this fight, do you think this next fight do even have a chance to win this fight? I believe he has a chance for sure. I believe he has a chance if he... Well, you put some money on it. No, I'm not putting the money on it. Oh, that boy got hurt last time. There it is. If I don't put no money on it. No, listen, if I don't work with him, I'm not putting the money on it. You put money on it before? I did, because I got faith in him. But now you feel like it's a little bit more strange. No, I still got faith in Earl, but I just believe that, like I said, I seen some of the all access, I seen some of the preparation. And me personally, I didn't like the preparation, but I had already made my best before I seen the preparation. So I was already locked in. So you got all those texts. Exactly, I was already locked in on the fight. When the fight was made, I made my best. You know what I'm saying? Okay. We're talking about the way in which Earl was fighting and stuff like that, or the different stipulations that the Boxing Federation have where you can't just go into a fight any and any how. Is there an option where, if the Boxer signs a waiver, like he takes all responsibility, like nothing falls on them, would they allow something like that? No, that's not even like, that's not even a thing in the Boxing. Okay, I didn't know. That's not even a thing in the Boxing. Okay, I was just curious. Like say everything is done by the people that put it together. You know what I mean? They got all the doctors and how they handle their situation, which I'm not privy to that information, but there is a process and a protocol on even getting the fight sanctioned.

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So let's think about this. Given any coefficient matrix A, we can reduce it to row echelon form by switching to rows, multiplying a row by a constant, or adding a multiple of another row to a given row. These can be performed by left multiplication by an elementary matrix, so we can represent the process as a product, where EI is an elementary matrix and R is the row echelon form of A. And since the determinant of a product is a product of the determinants, this suggests an easy way to find the determinant. For example, let's find the determinant of this 4 by 4 matrix. So if we wanted to row reduce this matrix, the first step in our row reduction might be multiplying the second, third, and fourth rows by 3. And to find the corresponding elementary matrix, we do the same thing to the identity matrix. Strictly speaking, this should be done by 3 elementary matrices, but we'll combine all the row operations into a single matrix. So if I were to take the identity matrix and apply the same row operations I'd get, so the first step in our row reduction could be accomplished by left multiplication by this matrix, and this is not just triangular, it's actually a diagonal matrix, and the determinant is going to be the product of the terms along the diagonal, which will be, now going back to our matrix, our next step would be to add a multiple of the first row to the second, third, and fourth row. And so those elementary operations would be, and again if we do the same thing to the identity matrix we get, and so the second step in our row reduction can be performed by left multiplication by this matrix, and notice this is a lower triangular matrix and its determinant will be, again our matrix looks like this, and so now we can multiply the third and fourth rows by 14, and this step in the row reduction can be accomplished by multiplying by this matrix with determinant 196, the next step in our row reduction with corresponding matrix and determinant 1, and similarly for the last two steps in our reduction to row echelon form, and our corresponding matrices will be, so remember the determinant of a product is the product of the determinants, so on the left hand side the determinant of that product is going to be the product of the individual determinants of our matrices performing the row operation times the determinant of A. On the right hand side we have the determinant of R, which is the row echelon form of our matrix. You might think that this hasn't really helped us because we still have to find the determinant of a 4 by 4 matrix, but the reason this is useful is that our final matrix is an upper triangular matrix, and since the row echelon form is upper triangular its determinant is easy to find, and now we can solve for the determinant of A.

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In this video, I'll show you how I taught AI to draw any picture, but only using twitch emotes. Twitch emotes are becoming their own language. Kids are using them at school, adults are using them at work, and grandma at the old folks home. What we're trying to do is replace the basic colored pixels in an image with twitch emotes, which is also known as mosaic art. Since doing it by hand is going to be a lot of work, I'm just going to automate everything into a simple bot. To make a bot that replaces pixels with images, we're going to need to do some color math. We're going to have to first split the picture into chunks. We can go with super small chunks, but it's going to be really hard to see the difference. Or we can go with really big chunks, but the actual image will start to be lost and it'll just look like a pixel grid. So for now, let's just go somewhere in the middle. Once we have our chunks, we can analyze them for a color. We just have to average the chunk into a number that we use to reference what it looks like. So we can calculate how much red, green, or blue it has. And then the combination of those colors is what we see. It doesn't matter how many colors are in it, but as long as we color the dominant one, it should look good. Then we just have to repeat the process for every single chunk in the picture. The more chunks, the more detail, but it also will take a lot more time. Now that we have our color labeled chunks, we need to replace them with some art. And this is when it got complicated. There's no real way to mass download twitch emotes. But there are sites that have done the hard and tedious work. So instead of doing it ourselves like they've done, we're just going to steal it from them without them knowing, of course. So I found a bot that can't steal from Twitch directly, but can steal from the sites that have stolen from Twitch. Once it was done, I had downloaded a couple thousand emotes from the top 1% Twitch channels. And then I added some of my favorites. Now we have to analyze those emotes for their color. Some emotes have a lot of detail, but from afar, they're all going to have a dominant color that pops out the most. So we're going to run the whole process back again. The same thing we did to our pixels, we're going to be doing to our Twitch emotes. And now they're all labeled so we can go to the next step, which is swapping them around. But there are different ways of doing this. The first version just uses basic logic. This is what I created. It takes the closest match to the pixel and then it swaps it and that's it. It's really hard to tell what's going on. So I threw in the original picture behind the pixels to see if it would blend in a bit better. But it's still not there. I'm not sure if you can see what's behind the image. So I redid the process with a much higher pixel resolution. And now it's starting to look a little bit better, but it's still not there. I wanted it to blend in more. So I did what all engineers do and copied someone smarter than me. This one uses a much smarter algorithm and lets you control a lot more on how it works. It also blends in the colors a lot better. So here's what my version looks like in high resolution and here's what this one looks like. It's so much cleaner. And from afar, it just looks like block images until you zoom in and see those high quality Twitch emotes. One thing that's cool about this bot is you can even get it to work on video. If you want to see that in the future or even enjoyed this video, do me a favor. Hit the like button and the subscribe button so that I can continue making these videos for your pleasure. See you in the next one.

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HOW TO GET 1000 Subscribers with THIS ONE HACK

This is how to get 1000 subscribers with this ONE HACK! A week ago, my channel crossed the 1K subscriber mark and i can only attribute it to this ONE Youtube Hack I've been practicing. Watch full video to find out. Follow me on Social Media: Twitter -----// https://twitter.com/fremekwame Instagram ----- https://instagram.com/fremekwame Check out: Gloria's Channel ------ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC13QRZJMVK5HptbLpS1V3Rg Pamela's Channel ------ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1dRIyEVmKgAVN_HdDZ8nnw Honorable Mention to Lydia ------ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pKWor-wOlaV0Jr0XpS6KA The Gear I use: Camera ----- Canon 80D Lens ------ Sigma 18-35mm A Microphone ----- Deity V-mic D3 Pro Light & Softbox ------ Godox SL60W and Godox P120H

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Alright, so before I tell you what's the one thing I did to get here really is, I think you gain more by understanding how it all happened first. So hi, my name is Kwame. I'm a documentary filmmaker and photographer, as well as a voiceover artist based in Accra, Ghana. And you are welcome to my channel. It's okay. Now, this channel is my attempt to make sense of life and the human experience in general. And I'm just happy that you're here. Now, today's video is going to be one about my sincere gratitude to every one of you, 1,092 subscribers currently part of my journey on this channel. You guys are just amazing. So the big 1K happened a week ago, Wednesday, 17th of June, 2020. And I got to say that, look, this day will forever be memorable in my life. And on the morning of that day, my account had 965 subscribers. And so I had been doing my usual promo post of soliciting for people to click that subscribe button and join me on my journey. I do that every once in a while. So a couple of days before this happened, actually, I noticed that my account was getting a lot of attention from new people who were so kind enough to reach out and express their love for what I was putting out. So let me just say shout out to Pam and Gloria. If you guys don't know them, they are also YouTubers. So I'll leave a link to their channels so that you can subscribe and follow their journeys as well. They are awesome people. They're really, really awesome people, very genuine and open. So that kind of gave me confidence, though, that I may be onto something, you know. And I've always had that creator's insecurity of not being sure about the true quality of my work. And so this external validation did a lot for my confidence. So back to the 17th of June, I'd been, you know, promoting on Twitter and Instagram, Facebook, the same avenues I used to share my work. And I needed just 35 to hit 1K, just 35 people to subscribe. Then something happened that evening. I discovered that Twitter had a new update for Voice Notes. I was like, whoa, so everyone that knows me, you know, kept pointing it out to me that this was specifically made for me. And I decided, you know, to test this voice note thing with a random voiceover and boom, like everything started going up from then up until 11 p.m. My phone was still blowing up. Suddenly, like there were new eyeballs on this thing that I've been doing for the last eight years, which is voiceovers. I've been doing it for such a long time and they were giving me compliments and whatnot. It felt really good. I got to say it felt really good. I'd almost forgotten to even use that attention. I was getting to direct more attention to what I did as a professional freelancer at the moment, which is filmmaking and YouTubeing and all that. But thankfully, I have friends who look out for me like that. So big ups to all those people. So I began using the opportunity to shout out my YouTube to the new people. So I went from 965 to 1013 in just a couple of hours. Look, I couldn't even sleep. I was just too excited. So if you're watching this video and you're waiting for some hack to grow your channel, yes, it's not magic. I'm not going to sit here and bullshit you about something you can easily do, just easily do. No, as far as my channel and my journey is concerned, I've done one thing and one thing only to get here and I can describe it with just one word, consistency. That is all I have been. I've been consistent. This year, I decided to live by the mantra of do, learn, repeat. I've always had that insatiable want of growth and improvement and that's what this channel is about in the first place, self-development and growth. So if I tell you I was so sure that I was gonna get 1000 subs this quick in six months, then look, I'll be lying. It took me by surprise. Same way that looking at my videos from a few months ago, I mean, takes me by surprise, realizing how much I've grown with the video quality, the look plus even how relaxed I am on camera and everything. So I'm not sure where I need to be, but I can see the difference. So that's good enough for me. For six months, I posted every single week and sometimes even twice at the peak of the lockdown season. So I've been doing a lot of work. All I've done is to post consistently even when I wasn't sure what to work on. Somehow I knew I had a quota to meet posting something every single week. Remember, presence is what counts. Presence is very important. So let me tell you what I've learned also about YouTube listening to the bigger YouTubers and this whole YouTube thing and how it works. So there are millions of new accounts that get created every single year, millions. Now YouTube does pay contents creators because your content is used to sell ads to other brands and in the beginning you only needed one case subscribers to be eligible for monetization. Just that, nothing more, just one case subscribers. Now a few years down the line, YouTube realizes that getting the 1,000 subscribers wasn't such a big deal. People could easily get it based on how much you can promote your channel using your social media to meet that 1,000 subscriber mark without necessarily putting in the work with your videos. So this is what they decided to do. With 1,000 subscribers and your 10 mediocre videos, you expect to benefit from it? Nah, it doesn't work that way. So YouTube decided to, I mean, change their tactics and make it a little more worth your while to be able to get the content from you to sell to advertisers and also start monetizing. So now they require you to have 4,000 watch hours in addition to the one case subscribers over a period of 12 months. That is the rule. 4,000 watch hours is equal to 240,000 minutes of watch. Now that's a lot of work. And even though I have one case subscribers, I'm nowhere near meeting that mark of four case subscribers. 4,000 watch hours. So that's why you should watch more of my videos. You know, I need the minutes. Yeah, plus if you're having a YouTube channel in the genre that is heavily saturated, then you do know that you have even more work to do to stand out. So anyway, what I'm saying is the one thing I've done all this while is being consistent, super consistent. I've been consistent with posting every single week, sometimes even twice. I've been consistent with improving the video quality that I put out. I've been consistent with researching. I've been consistent with promoting what I upload. I've been consistent with engaging people who watch my content, liking and commenting. Now, when I learned more about what it took to get somewhere good on this platform, I just lowered my expectations of expecting to blow up, for example, in three months or six months. I was aiming more for like a year to make it somewhere that I can look back and be proud of what I have done so far. So I didn't expect to see it in six months. So if you're looking for some magic hack, I'm sorry to disappoint you, do your research, commit to improving your content in every aspect of video quality, light, sound, presentation, everything. And make sure that you show up when you need to. That is how you see growth that you can be proud of. So consistency is the one hack. And on that note, I'm gonna say I'm truly grateful for all the 1K and over people who subscribe and watch my videos. That's if you like this video, don't forget to like, subscribe, and also hit the bell button to get notified when I post a new video. I appreciate all of you. And I'll catch you again on the channel another time. Peace and hopefully the hack works for you. Adios.

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But so this is an interest that I hope to build on after my PhD. Anyway, last year I fumbled on some new data on inequality in the Caribbean. And it appears that the data goes back from 1960 to 2013. Now, since 1960 to 2013, inequality has remained entrenched. And by inequality I mean top income shares, top 10%, top 1%, top 5%. Save and accept for countries like Belize, Jamaica, and Calgary called the other one. Inequality declining in those countries primarily because of what I'm arguing, exogenous shocks like hurricanes and so forth. So if we get new data in the future we should expect volatility and inequality data given the recent hurricanes. Now, so there's high inequality in the Caribbean and of course in the world we know given Piquet and so forth. Now an interesting thing about the Caribbean is that it's one of the major recipients of remittances in the world. Now I fumbled on the call for paper for this Ghana conference here. And it occurred to me that there might be a connection between remittances and inequality. Now I looked at the literature on remittances and growth and it's inconclusive. In some cases you see remittances increase economic growth, in some cases it reduces economic growth. There are some other studies, not many, on how remittances affect inequality and the measure of inequality in this case is a Gini coefficient, right? And once again that too is inconclusive. There aren't much theoretical work, however, on the connection between remittances and inequality. I hope to make some contribution in this direction. And hopefully at the end of the presentation I can explain why the literature is inconclusive, why we find in some cases remittances is growth intensive, in other cases it is not. So this is not a theoretical, this is not an empirical paper in any sense. There are some mathematics and so forth, but it should be very simple. Now the argument, the story is very simple. I'm arguing that remittances are important determinants of the functional income distribution. So not dealing with top income shares, we're not dealing with Gini coefficients, we're not dealing with T-Lindex. We're dealing with profit share, we're dealing with wage share. Now of course if you read Piketty you'll go back to Marx and the classical thinkers. There's strong theoretical argument and recently empirical support for how functional income distribution can lead to personal income distribution. So we can deal with Gini, we can deal with top income shares and the like. So this paper does not get into that. It focuses exclusively on the functional income distribution. Now I'm arguing that the channel is the labor supply decision. So in some countries you will find that remittances increase the functional income distribution or wage share and it might decrease the function distribution. And I'm arguing that has to do with the labor choice. Now given the ambiguous relationship between remittances and the functional income distribution we must expect therefore an ambiguous relationship between remittances and economic growth. Obviously therefore I'm arguing there is a connection between distribution and growth and there's lots of theoretical work, lots of empirical work in that direction. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the concept of wage and profit led growth. I'll say a bit more about it when we get into that. It's largely a post-Kinzian analytical concept. Anyway, so here we go. This is the basic work leisure setup. Very simple. Labor has a choice. Work. And by work I mean wage employment or leisure. Now in the paper I do extend the choice so you have wage employment, self-employment and leisure. But for this presentation we're just going to focus on wage employment versus leisure. Now what we have here is this is leisure, which is the difference between the total time endowment and hours work and this is the basic utility function, income and leisure hours. We have the basic budget constraints and this is the way the story is. So we have labor income being the sum of wage income from wage employment and V which is non-labor income. In this particular case I'm interested in remittances as an important source of non-labor income. I basically want to understand how would this non-labor income remittances affect the labor choice decision and I make a connection between that and the functional income distribution and then finally between that and growth. Now this is the basic Lagrangian. Everything else is basic is what we're familiar with. I have here if leisure is a normal good, we have the labor force inversely related to non-labor income where the reverse holds. Now we have a firm, we have a simple production technology where a firm combines labor hours with intermediate inputs to produce output Q or Q can be exported or consumed domestically and then we have the pricing decision of the firm which is basically a markup of a unit labor cost and intermediate inputs. Note that in the pricing decision here I have E which is normal exchange rate so we're dealing with a small open economy which fits the Caribbean and some other countries in Europe and even in Africa. Now this is the markup. The markup can be determined by number of factors. The traditional literature talks about a degree of monopoly but it can also be determined by public policy. So the markup basically represents the strengths of the bargaining power of employers so to speak and public policy whether it's for unions or against unions can certainly affect the bargaining power of employers and that would be represented by the markup. Now I have the cost of intermediate inputs. This is some cost of domestic capital and imported capital. Now I have here the firm's investment function. Now this is important because later on I want to make a connection between distribution and growth. So the firm's investment function is a basic post-keins investment function. Forgive the term post-keins. All this is saying is investment to firm level is a function of level profitability or profit shares, capacity utilization or aggregate demand and this is animal spirits in the traditional terminology or business confidence if you will. Now the goods market equilibrium I'm not going to focus on the role of government but I will talk about the role of government. If we do include the role of government the central findings will not change. I want to assume only profit income is saved to simplify the analysis. If we assume that some wages are saved that does not change the outcome. So we have an aggregate savings function where savings comes from profit so it's total profits rise, total savings rise. Now we have a current account equation where the trade balance sorry the trade balance, the current account balance is a function of domestic aggregate demand, foreign aggregate demand, net unilateral transfers to account for remittance inflow or capital flows and this is simply the real exchange rate. So what we have is the labor supply decision of the individual worker if you will, potential worker. Choose to work either in self-employment or wage employment or choose not to work. And then we have here the firm's pricing strategy which is a markup over total variable cost if you will. Then we have an investment function and a savings function and then we talk about the openness of the economy. So the goods market equilibrium, forgive me, the goods market equilibrium is basically where we have savings total to the trade balance plus the aggregate savings function. This is the basic IS square if you will which is this implicit solution here. Now basic, very elementary, K-intent stability condition is how does the economy adjust to excess demand. So there is excess demand meaning investment and the current account balance exceeds aggregate demand. How does the capacitalization or aggregate demand change? What we're showing here, this is a necessary condition for short-run stability. If aggregate demand increases in the economy, we expect a deterioration in the trade balance. So this is the basic income effect so to speak. And then we have here if aggregate demand were to increase, we expect excess demand to be eliminated as there's more leakage out of savings and there's increases in trade balance or investment. So all I've done here is to show that we can with a simple economy, very abstract, I get that, we can achieve basic goods market stable equilibrium. That's the first thing. Now we're going to get very briefly the wage-led and profit-led story. So a wage-led demand regime is if wage-sharing increases, aggregate demand increases in the given economy. It could be, and the empirical literature is divided, you find some countries are wage-led or profit-led. And by profit-led we mean if wage-sharing increases, aggregate demand falls. That's basically what it is. You can have the same story for profit-led or wage-led growth where if the wage-sharing increases, growth expands, that's wage-led. If the wage-sharing increases, growth declines, that's profit-led. Now I hope to show that these regimes are key to explaining why the literature is inconclusive. Now we get to the functional income distribution story and remittances. So very simple, we have aggregate income being the sum of wages where age is the sum of our work in the total economy and this is aggregate profits. Now aggregate profits can be defined as total prices minus total costs where this is the cost of intermediate inputs. Now this with a price for the individual firm, if you aggregate that you can say that this is aggregate price level equal to this here. So if we substitute these two into this equation nine, you get this as aggregate income. The sum of aggregate wage here, aggregate wage bill, forgive me, and the sum of the level of profits. Now if we divide this by the wage bill, we divide both sides by WH and take the inverse. We get the aggregate wage share. Now the aggregate wage share here is saying that if aggregate hours work in economy rises, the wage share rises. If labor productivity rises, the wage share rises and the same holds for hourly wage. But the wage share is inversely related to the level of the market or intermediate input costs. So we can tell a story here about bargaining power between what this market means. This market, as I said, illustrates the bargaining power of the firm. So there's a bargaining story here. There's a class conflict story, if you will, over this wage share. But there's also one that talks about hours work. Now we can rewrite this in terms of time in that one. So where T would be, aggregate time in that one in the overall economy, total leisure hours available in the economy, and what we see here is that remittances must affect the airport. So as long as remittances affect the leisure choice, it will affect the wage share. What does this mean then for countries that are major recipients of inequality? I can speak definitively for the Caribbean. Now I'm from South America, Guyana, but we speak English. So culturally we're Caribbean and we have an economic arrangement with the Caribbean. Now if you visit a Caribbean or Guyana, limers, is this term meaningful? A limer, a loiter? There are lots of loiter, lots of limers in the Caribbean space or in Guyana. So in a sense, these guys are not necessarily unemployed or even unemployed. They're just chilling. I mean, it may be difficult to imagine for some of you, I understand that, but from the space where I'm from, this is normal. How do you explain this reality? And I think remittances is a big part of the story. Anyway, so I have three theorems. All I'm saying here is that remittances is an important determinant of the wage share. Now if you have a flexible system and you have lots of remittance inflow, this will appreciate your exchange rate and therefore that will increase your wage share because this would fall. In a fixed exchange rate system, therefore that remittances will affect wage share only through the labor supply channel. But this is the exchange rate channel unlikely to be important. We know most countries have a managed flow to a fixed exchange rate system so that remittances will be only important through the labor supply channel. Now the basic story, if you pick up any work on the determinants of the wage share, they'll talk about class struggle. They'll talk about the degree of monopoly via the markups. They'll talk about aggregate prices. They'll talk about foreign exchange rate, et cetera. What I'm trying to say now, in addition to all these, is that remittances and through the labor supply decision, whether work or leisure, have an important role in determining the functional income distribution. Now I haven't seen any theoretical piece that tries to connect inequality, sorry, remittances with inequality generally, much as remittances and a functional income distribution. There is some empirical work in that, but even that is thin. Now, I want to connect this remittance story, this distribution story to growth. Now, for simplicity, let's keep this very simple. So we have the wage share here. So this is the last one we saw. We're just going to ignore all these intermediate inputs, et cetera, and the exchange rate movements. So the basic level, wage share is a positive function of our work, labor productivity, and inversely related to levy economic activity, and the markup. Why is inversely related to levy economic activity? I did that in the paper, so we can discuss that perhaps in the Q&A. Now, if you would to love this with respect to time, you see that this is the rate of change here, of the wage share. Now, I specify the rate of change of our work as this here. So what we're seeing here, this V is non-labor income remittances, and this parameter here, I think it's gamma. Can you see that clearly? This parameter, gamma, represents the preference for leisure. In this case, leisure is an inferior good with this parameter. This parameter represents leisure as a normal good, so that if the preference for leisure exceeds the preference, sorry, if leisure is an inferior good, if this preference exceeds the preference for leisure is a normal good, then we can see increases in our work. Is that clear? I'll repeat that. So this represents, this preference, meaning leisure in this case is an inferior good. That's what this parameter represents. This parameter says that leisure is a normal good. If this exceeds this, therefore, our work must expand. Now, after some substitution, that's what this becomes. Now, we need to specify the rate of change with non-labor income, or in this case, remittances. So I'm saying that the rate of change remittances has to do with an altruism parameter beta. So as altruism expands for our family or friends abroad, we expect the rate of remittances inflow to expand. Now, this says that remittances will increase, remittances inflow will increase. If the target wage share exceeds the actual wage share, in other words, what labor bargain for did it not get? So the expectations were not met, the target were not met, and in this case, we can assume that family will send more money abroad. Now, the target wage share is 1 minus the target profit share. And this is how we define the target profit share. In this case, all this is saying is, as our work increases or as employment increases, the bargaining power of the firm declines. That's all this says. Now, through some substitution, we get this as the final equation. So now we have two differential equations. I'm calling this here the wage share curve. Any point along this curve, the rate of change rate share is equal to zero. This I call the remittances curve. Any point, these terms might be changed later in the paper. This remittance curve here, any point along this curve, the rate of change remittances is equal to zero. So where they intersect, we have that dynamic equilibrium. Now, the wage share curve can either be upward sloping or downward sloping. It can be downward sloping if this exceeds this. And in that case, leisure is an inferior curve. If it's upward sloping, it means leisure is a normal curve. The remittance curve is always downward sloping. And then it looks something like this. So in this case, leisure is an inferior curve. In this case, leisure is a normal curve. This is a basic IS curve, specified earlier for wage-led economy. So simple exercise. Let's assume the altruism parameter expands, or increases, so that there's an increase in remittances and flows. So let's say, in this case, leisure is an inferior curve. So that remittances expands. Given that leisure is an inferior curve, hours of work will increase. Either hours of work in wage employment or time spent in self-employment. In that case, with an increase in remittances, wage share rises. Now, with an increase in the wage share in a small open economy, where in an open case in a small open economy, you have a profit-led dynamic, meaning the increase in the wage share for a small open economy reduces price competitiveness. So with remittance inflow and higher wage share, we get a shift to the left in the IS curve at a lower level of capacity utilization or lower growth if you have. So we can observe remittance inflow with higher wage share, surely a good thing, but poor economic performance. And this is the outcome of the preferences of workers in this given economy, where the preference for work is over leisure. If you have leisure as a normal good, with an increase in remittances from RC2 to RC3, what we see is a decline in the wage share from alpha O to alpha 3. Now, in a small open economy with lower wage share, external price competitiveness might be increased, and this can shift the IS curve outwards. So in this case, we have remittance inflow being growth-intensive. And that has to do with leisure. Sure, with leisure being a normal good. The point of this story is that if a given economy or a group of countries, leisure is a normal good, and it's a major recipient of remittances, you might find endemic or structural inequality, so to speak, or at least low wage shares, even though you might experience economic growth. So what we... And this is consistent with the evidence that passed three decades, meaning you have economic growth but rising inequality. In this case, I'm talking about wage shares. As explained earlier, this can translate into personal inequality. So as wage shares fall, we can expect up incomes to rise and so forth. What's the policy bang of this? We need to change preferences in a sense. If a given group of countries is going to be major recipients of remittances because of migration flows and so forth, and we expect that to occur in the foreseeable future, then we want to be in this equilibrium where remittances inflow and increase the wage share. Now, I recommend to increase the cost of leisure, the opportunity cost of leisure must rise, and therefore we can experiment with the higher minimum wages if we try to reduce labor market discrimination. Remittances in countries with ethnic conflict or poor societies, remittances can be an escape valve from the labor market. So if we can eliminate... If we can reduce labor market discrimination, it might incentivize people to work, even with remittance inflow. We can address in the paper to experiment with national internships at a high school level to create a work ethic. And the production diversification story addresses the second problem. So even if we were to deal with the work ethic problem, meaning with remittance inflow, we still work and therefore wage share rise, how do we deal with the decline in economic performance. Now this decline in economic performance in the paper is largely the outcome of a limited production base or a limited export portfolio. So remittance inflow, much of this, or much of this increase in wage share has spent on consumer durables which are largely imported and they tend to reduce your economic performance. So I recommend for that production diversification. We can discuss briefly what that means in the Q&A. I'm going to end it there. Thanks.

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ITU TELECOM 2019: Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary General, ITU

Interview with Malcolm Johnson, Deputy Secretary - General, ITU at ITU TELECOM WORLD 2019, Budapest, Hungary 9 - 12 September 2019.

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Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2019 here in Budapest, Hungary. We're very pleased to be joined in the studio today. I'm Mr Malcolm Johnson, who is the Deputy Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU. Malcolm, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much, Max. Nice to be here. Now, innovating together, connectivity that matters is the event theme for this year. What, in your opinion, makes connectivity meaningful? Well, without connectivity, there would be no innovation. I mean, if you look at the history of the development of telecommunications, it's the communication between people has been vital in that. You can look at the history of the printing press. Printing developed over 300 or 400 years, started in China, ended with the printing press in Europe. It took so long because communication was so long. Now, communication is instantaneous, developments are happening so much faster. So connectivity is essential for innovation. And everybody should be connected to give them the possibilities to innovate. And that's why it's very important that we have this connectivity to bring to everyone, everywhere. And the mission, of course, of the ITU is to provide for that. What innovative technologies, policies or approaches do you think have got the greatest power to transform lives everywhere? Well, there's still a lot of people that are unconnected, almost half the world population still not using the internet. That's because of various reasons, but one of them is connectivity. Low-cost connectivity. So there are some very interesting innovations coming along that will be addressed at the World Radio Communication Conference coming up in October. Spectrum for low-Earth orbiting satellite networks. Spectrum for high-altitude platforms. Both of these offer the potential to provide low-cost connectivity to the rural and remote communities. So those are very interesting developments. And then, of course, you know, the people have got to be able to know how to use that technology and benefit from it. And how important is collaboration in driving digital transformation between sectors and nations? Well, I'm always saying collaboration, cooperation and coordination are my three key words, you know. Because there's so many interests, so many organizations all trying to use this technology for the common good. And we have to make sure we each bring our own specific competencies to the table, work together, avoid duplication of effort, pool our resources for the common good. So collaboration is very important, and we're continually doing more and more to collaborate with all the various sectors, health, transportation, education, to make the best use of this technology. And this is why the membership of ITU is becoming much more diverse. Car manufacturers, for example, joining. So outreach to all these various sectors is very important. What's the role of ITU and ITU events such as ITU Telecom World in increasing connectivity and the benefits it brings? Well, ITU is very good at convening events such as this, bringing all the various stakeholders together to have a dialogue and exchange ideas and look at ways in which we can collaborate better to take forward the developments in the technology and ensure everyone benefits. And finally, what's your message to participants here in Budapest? Well, take advantage of the opportunity to network with all the various interests, develop your products. I mean, a lot of startups here, some very interesting and innovative ideas coming from young, bright people. It's very nice to see from all over the world, especially from the developing world. And really enjoy it and enjoy being in such a beautiful city as Budapest. Well, we've enjoyed having you in the studio here, Mark, and thank you very much for joining us. And we look forward to catching up with you again in the very near future. Thank you very much, Max. Thank you.

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A Church of Bones????? #churchofbones #weirdhistory

In the Czech Republic, there is a rather strange church. This is the Church of Bones or Sedlec Ossuary. With it’s history reaching back to 1278, we know that the shrinking of the dirt from the Holy Land kicked off the value in this property and propelled it into strangeness and oddity. Is there something sinister about this Church? *Want to support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=38072021 *Want to tip the channel: Venmo: @Brice-Watson-3 “Four Years at Yale” by Lyman Bagg: https://www.amazon.com/Four-years-Yale-Lyman-Bagg-ebook/dp/B017FECID0/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Four+Years+at+Yale&qid=1601753085&sr=8-1 Houska Castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKXyMGCkcfg&t=58s Himler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiOMkXib-Go&t=1074s 1871: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLMxy4OIv70 The Vatican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0C1mupsW6g&t=1117s Somerset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYzEHqiLSk&t=36s ~Todd Roderick’s band, The Flying Mystics: https://www.youtube.com/user/joselmorel ~Please join us ever Tuesday evening with David Zublick on The Dark Outpost! https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=david+zublick To follow Esoteric Atlanta on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esoteric_atlanta/ To follow Brice Elizabeth on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briceyogashtanga/ To follow Esoteric Atlanta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/esotericatlanta For Business: [email protected] ~~~One of our community members has written a novel regarding multiverses! He's still looking for a literary agent, if anyone knows of one his email is [email protected] For a sample of his book, here ya go! If you want the whole thing, please be sure to email him directly at the above address! "Martha Knight’s Sisyphean task The Novak family was finally safe, having escaped the clown-world Earth to a civilized alternate Earth. It’s not a metaphor thought up at a clever creative writing session. They had escaped by stepping through an actual shimmering portal, kind of like the Stargate, I suppose. What you’re about to read is a novel the Novaks wrote in their new reality. The book is loosely based on what they had gone through. Why write? Well, what better way to deal with trauma than writing about it? And they’d been through a lot, believe me. Not something most psychotherapists would understand. Planetary entrapment syndrome. The way you feel when you can’t leave a civilization in crisis. You feel trapped, hopeless, even furious at times. I’m sure you know exactly what I mean, dear reader. If you’re stuck in a terrible reality with no way out, playing the clown just to psychologically survive, maybe it’s time to come up with a new approach to life? No one else is going to do it for you. Write a short story. Heck, write a novel. Let your inner voice be heard. It works. Your mind will thank you. The Novaks had a literary agent - Martha Knight. An American in her late 40s, she was tirelessly working to turn the novel into a bestseller. Sadly, Martha’s job seemed like a Sisyphean task at times. Let’s just say the novel needed a lot of work. Martha knew the truth about the family but she saw it as – yet another – layer of fiction, a shrewd publicity stunt to create an aura of overly convoluted mystery. Needless to say, it was a healthy psychological response. The poor literary agent had no idea who she was really dealing with as she analyzed every single word in the novel. . ."

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A little while ago on this channel, we spoke about Husqa. Now, Husqa is a castle in the Czech Republic that is supposedly the gateway to hell. Well today, we're gonna be going back to the Czech Republic to a location that's only about an hour and a half away from Husqa Castle. Now this location is not a castle. From the outside, it just looks like a strange church. However, if anything these last few years have taught us, is that sometimes things aren't always as they seem. And this peculiar church might have some symbolism that points to something pretty nefarious. But before we go any further, you know what to do, hit that subscribe button and give us a like. Now, as most of you know, the mockingbird media and the powers that be behind all these media companies have been coming down pretty hard on those of us who are trying to deliver some sort of truth in our work. This channel has been eligible for monetization for a while now, and we did put our application in to be monetized. We were approved by AdSense, but for the past couple of months, YouTube has remained processing it. Now here's the thing, if we were to have opened up a drama channel where all we did was talk crap about other people, we would have definitely been monetized. But the fact that we are trying to breach on French topics to get to the truth of what's happening, YouTube has been pretty slow to give us the ads. And as you guys can probably assume, running a channel like Esoteric Atlanta does take a very long time. It takes a long time to research, to film, and to edit. We do try to get two to three videos out a week, and we will continue to do that regardless of whether YouTube monetizes us or not. However, if you would like to support the channel and help us out, there is a Patreon page down below. If that's not something you can do right now, we totally understand the world is going topsy-turvy, we are in the middle of a war, so we totally understand and we thank you for your support nonetheless. Alright, let's get started. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta, my name is Bryce, and today we're going to be talking about the Church of Bones. Our Sedelec Oshuary is a small Roman Catholic church in the Czech Republic. The chapel is beneath the cemetery that's known as the All-Sates Cemetery, and the cemetery is what gave fame originally to this church. In 1278, there was an abbot there who was named Henry, Henry the Abbott. He lived at the monastery, and King Atacar II sent Henry the Abbott to the Holy Land. Now, we remember Atacar II from our video on Huska Castle, and again, I will place a link to that video down below. Atacar II was responsible for building Huska Castle as a way to try to keep the demons from the pit of hell contained. Well, the story goes that while Henry the Abbott was in the Holy Lands, he picked up some dirt or some earth from Calvary. Calvary, of course, is a very, very, very important place for Christians. This is where Jesus Christ was crucified. Well, when Henry the Abbott returned back to his monastery, he took some of the dirt from Calvary, and he spread the dirt around the cemetery. This was almost like a blessing, not with holy water, but with holy earth. So, you can imagine this cemetery became prime real estate for death in all of this area of Europe. And then if we move forward in history, around the 14th century, Europe experienced the Black Death. Now, the Black Plague was an actual plague. You could see people dying everywhere, not this craziness that we have going on now, but like a legitimate plague. And so, of course, this upped the body count for this cemetery. And this is when they built the Gothic Church that has an upper and a lower level. The lower level became like an osuary that could take in massive amounts of bodies. This is a lot like we saw in the Catacombs in Italy, because at this point, from what I have now learned, Catholics didn't really or still don't really believe in burning bodies. So, they got to have a place to put these bodies. And so, during this time, around 1511, they got a monk to start to go through the bones, to clean the bones, to organize the bones. Now, it is said that this monk was half-blind. I don't really know what the significance of that is, except for maybe the bodies were so grotesque that they wanted a monk that couldn't really see. So, maybe he wouldn't be traumatized by all these plague-ridden bodies? Now, the Schwarzenberg family is an aristocratic, elitist family that has members in both the Czech Republic and in Germany. Now, in my opinion, this is when the story of the Church of Bones gets really, really fascinating. We know that all the Illuminati families, well, most of them anyway, are from Germanic descent. We also know that these Illuminati, Cabal, or Deep State families have been around for a very long time and have not only infiltrated our political systems globally, but have also infiltrated our religious churches. We have a deep church. Now, the Catholic Church was infiltrated a long, long, long time ago. We know that Vatican, as in the Vatican City, means the head of the serpent. We also know that our current Pope and many Popes of the past have not actually been Christian, but Luciferian. We also know from the Act of 1871 here in the United States that the three stars on DC's flag represent the military of America, the city of London, and the Vatican, the Vatican being the worship of Lucifer and the coming of the New World Order under Lucifer. Yes, the thing that Trump is fighting right now for humanity. We know that this New World Order is also called the Death Cult because they do partake in human sacrifice. We know this is not just conspiracy. We know from Epstein's Island, all the temples and the chapels that they had on the island that weren't Christian and all the bones and skulls that have been found on the island that were possibly from missing children and humans that had been trafficked. Trafficked to be their sacrifices. We know that the Clinton Foundation is now under heavy scrutiny because of its involvement in Haiti. They weren't there in Haiti helping out. They have been using Haiti as a resource for children for a very long time. So keeping all of that in mind, let's get back to the Church of Bones and the Schwarzenberg family. It was in 1870 that the Schwarzenberg family got involved. They hired an artist to come into this chapel and design the bones into art pieces. These art installations with all these bones is now what drives tourism to this Church of Bones. In fact, this church gets about 200,000 tourists a year. Now, two of the most famous pieces in the Church of Bones is the chandelier, which is said to hold every part of the human body and the coat of arms, that is the Schwarzenberg's coat of arms. Appropriately enough, this Church of Bones was also the inspiration for Dr. Satan's office in the movie The House of a Thousand Corpse. I mean, they tell us everything in the movies. The entertainment industry is part of their machine to indoctrinate us. Now, another thing about the church is there are gold skull and crossbones on the chapel as well as the fence. Now, this struck me as odd. The skull and crossbones are a huge Illuminati symbol. We see them as meaning death or poison, but the Illuminati has been using this symbolism and this sorcery for a very, very long time. In a previous video, we spoke about Himmler in the Nazi in the Third Reich and his obsession with the occult. Now, in Weevilburg Castle, again, we have a video on this and I will link it below. Himmler set up what he wanted to become basically the Mecca of the New World Order. Now, I won't go into too much detail because, again, you can watch that video, which will be linked below. But Himmler created these special rings that he would send out to his SS members and these rings had the skull and crossbones on them. The skull and crossbones are also very famously used by Yale University in their secret society called skull and bones. This is also called the Order or Order 322 or the Brotherhood of Death. Members of the skull and bone society are called bones, just bones, or they're also called members of the order. This order was founded in 1832 by a man named Russell Taft with 12 other accomplices. Now, Russell Taft, that name might sound familiar because he is the father of the 27th President, William Taft. You see, there's a lot of people in our government today who are part of the deep state that were a part of this skull and bones society. Like the Bushes and John Kerry and many, many, many others. Now, the skull and bone society, they are extremely racist. Here's the thing, the Illuminati, the deep state are extremely racist. They believe that the pure Aryan bloodline is the superior bloodline. And if you look on the rules of the secret society, most of the members have to be of European or specifically German descent. Now, the place where skull and bones meet is called the tomb. I mean, they're the Brotherhood of Death, right? So I guess it's appropriate that their meeting room, their assembly hall, be called the tomb. Now, the interesting thing about this building is it has no windows. Obviously, it has no windows for a reason. They don't want anybody looking in to see what it is they're doing. There's also a helicopter landing pad on the roof specifically for private helicopters. Again, we're talking about the global elite. Now, something I found quite interesting and comical too is that the skull and bones members in the society set their clocks off by five minutes. It's because they don't want to be on the same time as the barbarians, meaning us. I mean, that's really what they think of us. You think Nancy Pelosi actually cares about humanity? If she did, we would have got another stimulus check, but it's because of Nancy Pelosi and her little minions that the people have been left high and dry. Whereas Trump and most of the Republican Party have tried to give more stimulus to the people. Guys, the deep state people are not for us. They think we're sheep. They laugh at us behind our backs. Biden and Harris laugh at us behind our backs. They also kidnap our children and use them for their religious practices. Another interesting thing about the skull and bone society is that it's said to still control the CIA. I can totally believe that. Now, skull and cross bones, as we see on the Church of Bones in the Czech Republic as well as the skull and bones society here in Yale and with Hemmler's men and all these secret societies, they're symbolic of a symbolism used by sorcerers. And these sorcerers use the skull and bones to gain more power. We're starting to understand that more now, again, with Epstein's Island. The using of these children in terrible ways, in their faith, they believe that they're taking that child's life force. Children in the regular world or in the Christian world or in the good side of humanity, we see children as pure. Most people want to protect children. Well, the negative, the bad can't create on its own. It has to pervert the good. And so they also see children as valuable. But instead of being there to protect children, they use them to take their life force. In fact, it is said that if you join the Satanic group of people, your loyalty to the organization trumps your loyalty to your own family. And a lot of people in the Satanic cult pledge allegiance to the Satanic cult by offering up their first born child. Now the cross and bone symbols also remind us of our own mortality. We do know that the elites like to try to prolong their mortality. But one of the rules of Satanism or Luciferianism is do what thou wilt. In the Christian faith, we treat others as we would have them treat us. We honor the 10 commandments to be better people. But in the Satanic practice, it's all about perversion. This is why they drink the blood of children. And as we now know, eat them. It's called a pedivore. Look it up. And this idea of cannibalism is what brought people like Somerset Belanov to our attention. You see her daughter, Karina, as we said in one of our videos, which again I'll link below. Allegedly owns a restaurant called Hollydale in Los Angeles, which is a cannibal club. Some of your favorite movie stars like Merrill Street and Tom Hanks have been to this. Cannibal Club. So all in all, it appears that this church of bones in the Czech Republic that is on the outside, just a tourist spot of crazy art installation with the interesting history, in my opinion, has something else going on. I'm very curious about the Schwarzenberg family. We know that with these 13 different bloodlines that a lot of times they carry different last names than the actual bloodline name. For example, we know, or at least those of us who have done our homework and our research, know that people like Bill Gates is a Rockefeller. Mark Zuckerberg is a Rockefeller, but they have different last names because you have to follow the women sometimes, the mothers, and see exactly where it reverts back to. And we have to acknowledge that when the Schwarzenbergs came into this church, things started to change. There became a morbid beauty to death and the skull and the crossbones showed up. Now we do know that this group of people likes to mock Jesus, likes to spit in the face of God. So the fact that there was earth that was scattered from Calgary on this property is interesting to me. Did the deep state take over this property because they knew it had been touched by the Christ? Are there tunnels under this property? Do they use this property as a portal and has this property like Huska Castle become another gateway to hell? All right, guys, give me your opinions in the comment below. I would actually like to go to this church just to see it for myself. I really would love to go to the Czech Republic anyway. That's somewhere I've never been. I'd love to go to Prague. I hear the Czech Republic is beautiful and fun. I just love to see everything there from Huska Castle to the Church of Bones. So let me know if you've been there. Did you find it weird? Do you think there's something nefarious going on? Do you know of the Schwarzenberg family? Have you heard of the Skull and Bones Club? Give me your opinions down below. All right. Thank you again to Josh McKay for doing our music and to Todd Roderick for helping me produce this video. And I will talk to you all soon. Bye.

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Happy Mail From Lisa Swank

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Okay, I haven't gone to get today's mail yet, but this came in yesterday's mail Which I picked up kind of late yesterday, and I haven't had a chance to open it yet But it's something from Lisa Swank, which I don't know what it is She I think wrapped it in like a paper bag a paper grocery bag But she did some fun stamping and stuff on it So I might have to open that carefully so I can use that again. Let's open it. Shall we and see what it is? It feels like there's a box there She did a really good job taping it Can't get in it. There we go. Wait, got it. Oh, there's some prettiness on the inside I'm gonna have to rip it a little bit Take it into the box. I Can see pretty colors Lisa you taped it too well No, no, so look at the inside people. You see that? That's on the inside of the paper So that makes me not want to rip it any more than I have to That would make a fun collage material Maybe on a journal cover or something Lisa you did a great job Sweetheart, but I can't get it in in here. I can't get in here. Holy cow Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Let's let's see how we can Do this Oops See, I ripped it again. I was trying not to do that It would probably be easier if I got my box cutter out. I do have one I mean, you know, I was a retail merchandiser for a long time. I own a few box cutters See Okay, wow, there's a load of tape on there. Holy cow. All right, but look at the inside of this We haven't even gotten to the box yet, but look at the inside of that That's all kind of yumminess, isn't it? You see this shimmer in that? I don't know what she used Maybe some tattered angel sprays or something Very cool All right On top there's a watercolor postcard with a note Washy tape. All right, I'm gonna read the note. Okay I was on one of my broadcasts recently and I said that I was collecting dentine gum Containers the little trays because I want to do some happy mail and I want to make some little watercolor kits And I'm not a gum chewer. I'm going to save this washi tape And she happened to be on there and she said what do they look like and I showed her and she says, oh, I'll send you some She says there's some mark making tools in here, too So can't wait to see that I'm going to try to save all this washi tape and she said the sparkly um Designs on the inside of the paper are indeed tattered angel sprays Which are not waterproof. So if I collage it that I have to try not to get them wet because they'll move around At least I think I don't think they are I could be wrong. I'm frequently wrong Um, and the stamping on the outside is done with stays on ink, which is waterproof I might be wrong about the tattered angels. I don't think they used to be but maybe they are now I don't know. I'm wrong a lot. So, you know Again with the tape She really wanted this sucker to stay tape shut. I see some silicone puff holder yumminess Some patterns I don't own Look at this mini baby honeycomb look at that. I don't have that one Look at the little X's the little Look at this one Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lisa These are fabulous fabulous Look at all the dentine containers. Wow And this is kind of cool paper So cool. Look at those Yay Thank you so much Lisa and I love your watercolor postcard. This is fabulous It looks like it says watercolor Lisa's L swing watercolor Wednesday 2015. Oh, I Love that and she has a nice note in the back. I love that. So, thank you so much Lisa I certainly do appreciate it very very much Love you all bunches and if I didn't I wouldn't keep doing this But definitely these mark making tools are fabulous and thank you for the dentine containers Um when I get back from Las Vegas, I'm going to be working on some happy mail So these are going to come in handy. All right, I will talk to you all later. Don't forget the most important thing today Go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. All right. All right, and I'll see you later. Bye

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Episode 705: Mareya Ibrahim- One Simple Step to Improve Your Food Quality Now

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with Mareya Ibrahim, the CEO and founder of Grow Green Industries, Inc. and the patented co-creator of the eatCleaner®, eatSafe™ and eatFresh™ line of all natural and organic products that help offer cleaner, safer, longer lasting produce. In this episode Mareya dives into the challenges facing consumers when purchasing commercially produced foods. Even organic fruits and vegetables have residues that you are better off avoiding and Mareya and her company have created a very effective solution to keep your food as healthy and chemical free as possible. To purchase Eat Cleaner products go to www.eatcleaner.com/mindpump Subscribe to Mind Pump Radio: Official website : http://www.mindpumpmedia.com/ Find Mind Pump on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindpumpradio/ On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindpumpshow And Twitter: https://twitter.com/mindpump

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If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. Mind pump. Mind pump. With your hosts, Sal DiStefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. This was a fun interview. Yeah, we met her when we were down in LA when you and I did the LA FedExpo. That's right. We were scheduled to do a talk on intuitive eating and then do some Q&A. There were a bunch of speakers there and we weren't impressed with a lot of them. Obviously, it's a FedExpo, so it's a ton of supplements and stuff like that. And then this young lady comes out and she's this petite, very fit woman, good posture, lots of charisma. She comes out and she starts talking. Right away, me and Adam were like, oh, shit. Let me paint the picture a little bit better because I was so impressed with the way she kept her composure because when we first got there, they had all these tables out where we were going to be speaking at. So there must have been, I don't know, roughly 20 to 30 tables. And they like to fold up ones that you get from Costco or whatever that we're all laid out so people could be sitting there and they could have a drink or food in front of them. Well, there's probably about 10, 15 people that are sitting down already and then you see people starting to come in because she begins talking. Literally in the middle of her presentation, the guys that worked the fucking, the whole arena or whatever the hell that you call the place we were at, the expo that we were at, they come in and they just, I guess they need the tables for some other events or something else. And they just start like taking the tables. People are sitting down, tables are getting lifted up over their laps and she's like, She didn't skip a beat. Yeah, she's like mid presentation and I'm like, oh my God, I'd be so fucking mad. But at least I would have commented on it, you know? But she's a badass. She had her kids with her. And so she has this product called Eat Cleaner that is all-natural, biodegradable. And what you do is you use it to wash your fruits and vegetables with. According to the tests that were done on this product, it removes 99.9% of pesticides, herbicides, and then of course, bacteria and whatever off of your vegetables and fruit. And I thought for me, I was very, I was especially interested because I know when you buy fruits and vegetables, even if they're organic, they are sprayed with non-synthetic, but still pesticides, right? There's still stuff sprayed on these things. And what do you do? Like you wash it in water, do you use soap? And now you need to soap? And exactly. Yeah, it's this vicious cycle. And to get it that clean and to get all those pesticides off, that's very interesting. That's right. So it also dissolves wax. I think I think what are the, I believe the numbers and you hear it in this episode, I think it was 40% of what you still have 40% or more residue still left on even after you, like, if you were to wash it by hand, because I mean, I was thinking the same thing, like, OK, so we spray this thing on here. But how much more or what a difference is it if I just rinse with water? And what if I scrub it really good? She knows, she talks about the statistics. And she's very passionate about organic non-GMO foods. She's been in the food industry for a while. So fun, fun conversation with this lady. Interesting product. We're all using it now. Again, her name is Mariah Ibrahim. You can find her on Twitter at Eat Cleaner Food on Instagram and on Pinterest. It's at Eat Cleaner. And then we have a code. So if you want to get the product, you go to eatcleaner.com forward slash mine pump. And then you can check out what we're talking about. What is the text? You can what did she say? What is that for, Doug? Is that we could text it? Can we actually text in and do that? That's yeah. If you send a text to 22828 and you type in ECJ free, you get a free book. Oh, very cool. Ebook. Yeah. Very cool. So free ebook doing that or use the code, not the code, but the link, right? Eatcleaner.com forward slash mine pump. Very cool. So without any further ado, here we are interviewing Mariah Ibrahim. I spoke at the Sustainable Food Summit this morning and it is a gathering of people in the industry that really want to dive deep, that understand the science behind food that are very pro, I would say pro organic, pro non-GMO. And a gentleman from Impossible Foods was speaking. And they have created a burger, which you may have seen, but it looks like a burger. And it's it's plant derived, but it is genetically modified yeast that simulates, you know, kind of a medium rare looking burger. And he got railed because he really wasn't forthright with the understanding that they're using a GMO, a genetically modified yeast in order to do this. But yet they're they're claiming that it's FDA gross and it's not. They have applied for the gross status, which is generally regarded as safe. But you can't do an animal study on a mouse for 30 days and be designated as a safe product, especially as a replacement for ground beef. I mean, you guys, you know how the beef industry, the cattle industry, they're going to snap back on that fast. Of course. And then you're talking to an audience of people who really understand health and understand ingredients and the source of these ingredients. And they so the lesson learned is come forth and be honest and be upfront. And don't lead with that foot. Yeah, lead with that foot and don't play like, you know, the answers, you know, because even if the consumer doesn't know the answer and they don't even know how to ask the question, you are then hiding something and you're going to be exposed. So you better just be upfront from the beginning. You're you're it's hilarious, even to consider that they're taking, they're trying to make something taste like something else. And it requires a ridiculous amount of science and engineering to do so. And then they're going to put that forth as a health food. You know, that's to me, that's always been comical. Like if I see something that's made from plants and it's called bacon and they've designed it and engineered it to taste like bacon, you have to ask yourself, what were all the things that they had to do? What are all the steps and things that they had to do to change the flavor of this plant to make it taste like a meat and vice versa? There's a lot of engineering and processing that goes into that. Even if the ingredients are healthy, you have this super super palatability that you start creating with foods, which that also may not be too healthy. You know, eating foods that are that are engineered to be hyper palatable can cause you to override some of these natural systems of satiety where you just continue eating over and over again, because it kind of over overrides all that stuff. So I hear you. I mean, I think, you know, at the end of the day, we were at a sustainability conference. So we're talking about how food, you know, whether it be the packaging or the ingredients or how they're sourced, I mean, we dove deep. And they talk about insects at all there. Cricket protein. No, but I did I did a trends report about it. And we dove into the cricket that very sustainable, by the way, a great alternative to beef. But what I will finish with on that whole impossible food subject, though, is if you can find an alternative for beef that simulates beef, that's safe and proven safe. I think there's something there because the amount of natural resources and water and the methane gas emissions from beef. Yes, there is an environmental impact. The problem is they're only a quarter of the way there, but they're in restaurants across the country. It's kind of like the planes flying already, you know, and they're trying to get the groundwork underneath them. I think you need to slow down a little bit. Make sure you've got your data, your studies, you know, lay the groundwork the right way and then take off. Now, did they talk about the distribution of food? Because I know when I look at studies on food and the economics behind food and why, you know, if we look at how much food, for example, if you look at the food that India produces, total food produced actually is enough to feed everybody in India. However, that's not always the case. Obviously, we have a lot of people who starve or don't get enough food. And so economists have agreed that distribution is one of the main problems. Another example would be the Soviet Union because they were centrally planned. Obviously, they weren't as efficient as a market-based economy where you could, you know, read all these different signals in real time. They had fields and fields of wheat that would go rotten because they just didn't have the efficiency in knowing where it needs to go at what time. Supply and demand tells you pretty accurately signals to you what you need to produce and what you don't need to produce by its value, by its dollar value or whatever. Did they talk about any of that? Or was it mainly just producing things that have a less impact on the environment and then how to produce more of it to have a stuff? No, distribution was definitely brought up. And, you know, you have to look at what our natural resources cost and what farmers are compensated at. I mean, we rely so heavily on farmers to create food that is inexpensive because we truly don't believe that we value it the way that we should. And so it's become too expensive for people to do anything that's not subsidized. I mean, think about that or else you have to command a certain price and it's often very hard. And then all you need is a natural disaster, something to happen to your crops and infestation and you're screwed. So distribution is directly affected by the conditions, the growing conditions, what the market will bear. They did bring something up that was very interesting. They talked about the cocoa and cocoa, believe it or not, most of the cocoa of the world is harvested in Ghana and the Ivory Coast and 90% of that is slavery. I mean, it is these children and I'm saying kids are being held to do the work, to not get paid, treated horribly and this is happening right now in our day and age. This is not a thing of the past and huge companies and I'm not gonna name them one by one but they totally know what's going on and we'll, we just go to the store and buy a candy bar and we have no idea what is happening behind the scenes. Well, 90% huh? I don't know that. 90%. I wanted to back up a second because you mentioned subsidies and a lot of people don't realize that we subsidize a tremendous amount of our food. Subsidies mean, it's basically like a tax, like everybody, they take money from the government which comes from us and they pay farmers so that they can sell their product for cheaper. It's really crappy economics, it makes no sense but a long time ago we did it as a way to either save the farmers or because we thought wheat and dairy and these types of products were staples and we needed, so let's talk about that for a second. You said something, you said that farmers can't, it's too expensive for them to try to produce things that aren't subsidized. What does that look like? Like what is subsidized and what isn't in that case? So corn, wheat and soy are the three biggest crops that are subsidized and it's not a coincidence that those three crops are also the most genetically modified. Yeah, by far. So you've got the evil empire that is selling seeds and also getting, it's creating this rabbit hole of pesticide use so as these crops are becoming more and more immune, you need more and more pesticides and then we're seeing this crazy horrible drift happening from these pesticides that are killing other crops. So it's really, it's an endemic problem now and- Are you talking about herbicides or pesticides? Pesticides. And herbicides. Yeah, because there's that too, yeah, there's that too. And so when you look at, okay, strawberries for example, it used to be that you would maybe pay $6 or $7 for a pound of organic strawberries. Nowadays, you can find them and you can find them year round. It's not even a seasonal thing. So while we may be paying an exorbitant amount for these specialty crops, the truth is the farmer is not getting the benefit of that. Like going back to the cocoa example, they may be buying it for 12 cents a pound from the actual farmer, from the grower and then turning around and reselling it for $12 a pound. I mean, the markup is extraordinary. So kind of, I guess the short answer to your question is there are no subsidies for green vegetables. There are no subsidies for growing strawberries. There are no subsidies for growing organic, certified organic. It truly becomes more of a farmer decision if they feel like, okay, I'm gonna go through this transitional farming experience for three years and I'm gonna pay all of this money to go organic and they see the light at the end of the tunnel where they can get their investment back. Yeah, maybe they'll do it, but there's a lot of steps, a lot of hurdles and a lot of money, quite frankly, that they don't have. The question I would have is, do we even want them to though? Do we even want the government to get involved in that and create subsidies for green, for green organic? No, we want them to not give anybody subsidies. Right, that would be the ideal situation. Yeah, because the subsidies, what they're doing when they're subsidizing these crops is they're sending a distorted market signal that says, yeah, it says that the public or the market demands or wants or places a high value on these particular crops. And so the market becomes distorted where it looks like we want more GMO corn, wheat and soy but in the reality, the market may not, that may not actually be the signal. If you eliminated all those subsidies and prices reflected more accurately with the market wanted, I think you would see a lot more investment in organic and non, none of those other three big crops, you see more investment in the other ones because people would buy more of those things. You're already seeing that anyway. Even with subsidized corn, wheat and soy and all the genetically modified, how genetically modified they are, you're still seeing, I tell you what, 10, 15 years ago, I didn't see an organic section at Safeway. You had to go to a specialty organic store and now you're seeing organic everywhere and that's because the market is demanding it but it's still distorted. If they eliminated those subsidies, I think it would happen much faster. Well, and it's a tricky thing because a lot of the subsidized crops are actually feed for animals. So you're number one. Cost of beef would go up. Yeah, exactly. And guess where a lot of that interest is? It's, yeah. So when you look at, and let me back up too, less than 10% of the crops that are grown in the United States are certified organic. So it's still a very small piece of the pie even though it's gotten a lot bigger. At the end of the day, I think what's really important is that farmers look at raising whatever they're raising in a sustainable way. And sustainable to me can mean that they are using as few pesticides as possible. Maybe they're not certified organic but they are being mindful of the impact on the environment. Cause guess what? Not all the organic pesticides are good for the environment guys. I mean, just because we hear the word and I'm gonna sound like I'm kind of sidestepping this, but just because it says it's organic doesn't mean that it's necessarily healthy. Of course, we say that all the time. Yeah, so I mean, I've got an avocado rancher friend who's like, Maria, I would love to be able to make my ranch fully organic because the amount of pesticides I would need to use would be so expensive prohibitively. I would have to charge $5 an avocado. And not to mention the impact on the environment would be horrible because of how much I would need to use. So I think we need to encourage more local, more biodynamic, more using a system that cultivates different crops in an area so that you have the benefit of nutrients feeding each other and putting that back into the soil. Cause what organic does is it feeds the soil. It gives the soil the nutrients without eroding the top soil. We need to keep feeding that so that we actually are able to grow food that's got some nutrient value to it. I was talking to, I think it was Dr. Zach Bush who was actually talking about how the soil has been depleted for so long and there's these nutrients within soil that bacteria use to communicate with each other that we don't get as much anymore. And he thinks that's one of the reasons why we're seeing such a explosion of immune issues related to the gut. And he talks about how that process first started which was, I got early in the early 1900s where we figured out that we could just put nitrates into the soil and plants would grow. And we wouldn't, so the soil became depleted of everything except for the one thing that made plants grow big and green. And we thought, well, that's okay, that's good. Now we have plants that are dead. We have insects that aren't getting what they're supposed to. And you have these, we're creating these situations where, like you said, like we're creating super weeds, super beaks and super, similar to how antibiotics are doing. We have people now that are dying of infections that used to be able to be treated 15 years ago with simple antibiotics and now they can't, it's very similar, plants and insects, they evolve and if we keep dumping, I know that glyphosates for example, the amount of glyphosates that we dump into the soil is we would have to, if we stopped right now, I think it would take like 30 or 40 years before it cycles out. That's how much is in there. I would wager, even if anybody listening today says, I only eat organic, I would put money on it that you would find glyphosate in your urine. That's what's in the rain, yeah, exactly. It's gonna show up and sometimes at really alarming levels. So, I mean, and this sounds like doomsday right now because like, what the hell do you eat, you know? You're telling me my plants are contaminated, you're telling me the sea is, you know, you've still got plutonium in it from Fukushima, you know, you've got antibiotics and steroids and meats. What the hell do you eat? Right, air. No, air is not clean either. Presbyterian, yeah, yeah. Are you familiar with companies like Thrive Market? Do you know anything about Thrive? We actually sell our products on Thrive Market. Oh, no way. Excellent. I didn't know that. Big fan of what they're doing. Let's take a step back for a little, tell us a little bit about your background. Obviously, you're very passionate about food and food quality and Adam and I met you at the LA Fit Expo. We actually went down there to talk about intuitive eating and you spoke before us. And we never bring a girl home on the first time medium. So this is totally out of the norm for us. She must be special. Well, thanks guys. But we were really impressed with your presentation, how you talked to Charisma, had some questions about your product. We want to invite you down, but tell us a little bit about your background. Why are you so passionate about these things and what are you doing in this industry? Thank you. So, and likewise, you guys were great and very compelling and I believe so much in the concept of intuitive eating. I talk about it a lot in my upcoming book too. Awesome. So I am Middle Eastern and we grew up in a household that was eating breakfast and talking about lunch and eating lunch and talking about dinner and what we were gonna eat in between and then shopping for it. So life really rotated around food and there wasn't a lot of convenience there. I grew up in Egypt and we would go to the market for everything. We would buy live chickens. We would buy produce from the produce guy and herbs from the herb guy and bring our bags to the oven to get our fresh bread. Nothing was packaged. Everything came from the source. And then when we immigrated here, I just saw such a huge shift. We would walk into these sterile grocery stores where nothing seemed really fresh. You didn't know who you were buying it from. You had no idea what the source was. You had no idea how long it had been sitting on the shelf and everything was in these packages and it just was such a stark contrast for me. So early on in my career, I decided to go into the culinary world and I studied, I went to culinary school in France and I started working for a chain of natural food stores in Colorado called Alfalfa's Markets and I was their marketing manager for a while and started writing. I knew I wanted to use my love for food and understanding where our food comes from but not sit in the kitchen all day. So kind of to bring it full circle, I cut my teeth in that grocery industry but writing, doing the research, interviewing farmers for our store, writing stories about them, sharing that with our customers so they understood where their food came from and doing events in store where people could experience that food. And then I kind of, so I've dabbled in different areas of food, marketing, PR, writing, cooking and about I guess 10 years, no, little more, 12 years, because my son is 12, it happened right when he was born. I think we met when you're one or two years, right? You did, yeah, you met both of them. Yeah, I dragged them everywhere. I'm like, mom, God, really another event. But I'm a single mom and I think it's really important for my kids to see how hard it is to build a career, to do what you love but at the same time find satisfaction in that. So yeah, I cart them along with me. But what really was a huge game changer just in how I perceive health was number one, having my kids and understanding that everything that I put in my body affects their health. It imprints their DNA. So that crappy lunch that I had that I was just like, that's not a big deal. The doctor was actually telling me to be careful of what I was eating for the first time ever. I had never heard that message before, you know? Don't drink diet soda. Watch out for raw uncooked fish. Watch out for, because of the mercury, you know, watch out for preservatives and colors and things like that in your food. I had never heard that message. I grew up with it in the natural foods industry but no health professional had ever said to me, be careful. And then my dad got cancer. My dad was diagnosed with bladder and prostate cancer and my son was just born and my dad had to have his bladder removed. And he uses a catheter. He has an open stoma in his bladder area where he literally inserts a tube every time he has to relieve himself. And it was devastating, you know? It was devastating to see how it affected him, how it impaired his lifestyle, how it really affected his well-being and how he saw his life, his mortality. And what scared me the most was what the doctor then told him. The doctor told him to avoid raw produce, all raw food. So not only sushi and things like that but avoid eating raw salads, especially avoid eating raw greens. And I was like- Was this because he was afraid of bacteria or something for you? Yes. Okay. So when you have somebody that's that immune compromised, we don't even think about it because we're like, oh, it's greens. But greens are the number one cause of foodborne illness. They're the number one cause of E. coli, salmonella and some variation of those, listeria and norovirus and all of the myriad of other foodborne illnesses that it's not a sexy conversation, but the truth is it can kill you. And at the very least, it can put you in the hospital. I have customers who call me literally on the phone and say, I am so glad you created this product but let me back up for a second. So after that happened and my dad recovered, I was like, we've got to find a cure because knowing what I know about nutrition, you have to be able to eat salads. You need to be able to eat foods that provide you with enzymes that are uncooked, that are in their whole state and not feel like you are playing Russian roulette every time, you know? So we created a formula. My dad's an environmental scientist and I have no idea anything about chemistry. I was just like, you lead the way and I'll let you know what ingredients can't be in there. And we tested nine different formulas, everything from vinegar, because I know a lot of people out there listening right now are like, I use vinegar and I'm gonna tell you something that's not enough. Vinegar's only about 80 to 85% effective. And we wanted to create something that was 99.9% effective, which would be a log three reduction in the world of bacteria to log five, which is 99.999. Because if I tell you, you only have a .0001 chance of getting sick, don't you feel a little bit better than me saying, you've got a 20% chance? So it took us almost two years to develop the formula that we have now and it's called Eat Cleaner and it's non-toxic, plant-based, very simple science. There's seven ingredients in the formula that's lab proven to remove up to 99.9% of the pesticide residue that's on the surface of your produce. Wax, which can't be removed with water. And the contaminants that can carry bacteria that can really make you sick or kill you. So this is a wash that you use on produce, vegetables, fruits and it rinses all those things off. Does it leave its own residue on the vegetable plant? No, so it's completely biodegradable and what it does is you're basically chelating, sticking to the residue that water can't remove. And you're giving it a quick rinse afterwards with water. And what I would always tell people is, what else do you clean with just water that comes out of the ground? I mean, have you guys ever farmed anything or grown plants? There's shit in there. I mean, it's manure, it's fertilizer, it's, you're talking about environmental or ecological waste. So if you think that you're just gonna put your hands in it and then give it a quick rinse and it's gonna be okay to eat, you're crazy. And how many people have touched it? Where was it trucked from? How dirty was that truck? Was it sitting on the floor, the back of the retailer? How many kids sneezed on it and picked their noses and then picked it? You know what I'm saying? You just don't know what your produce has come into contact with. Yet we're being told to eat 50% of our plate produce and for the vegans and vegetarians out there, I hope they understand. When you are ingesting that, well, for everybody, when you're ingesting that much produce, it builds up in your system. So you might not get sick from it today. It may incubate in your system and 24, 48 hours from now, maybe even longer, that bacteria can manifest itself. I'm more interested too in just rinsing off the pesticides because, you know what I mean, immune system's pretty strong. I do wash things in water, but you're right, it doesn't do much, but it's the pesticides I really don't like, because that builds up over time. Well, I'd be curious too, how much pesticides are actually on the surface and how much of it are actually in the plant because it's in the soil. So what's the difference? So pesticides are interesting. I learned a lot from my father about this. So a pesticide is usually, it's applied topically and it can become endemic, which means it goes up into the root system. But most pesticides have a half-life, which means by the time they're harvested, there is a cooling off period where pesticides are not supposed to be applied. So in theory, most of that pesticide residue that's endemic has literally evaporated. It's deteriorated to the point where it's not effective anymore, it's degraded. So really, the majority of it is on the surface. Really? Wow. Yeah, and they even talk about how certain vegetables like avocados or whatever, because the skin is so thick, if you wash it, yeah, you're probably, okay, I think bananas was right. Bananas are also, absolutely bananas, melons, anything that potentially has a skin or a thick peel that can be removed, we always say, choosing organic, and by the way, organic does not mean they don't use pesticides. It just means they use organic approved pesticides. And I think that's a big misnomer. People think they're buying organic and they're buying something that's pesticide-free and that's just not true. But you can wash the vast majority, and I mean wash with something that is a solvent, because think about it, when it rains, if they were using pesticides that were water soluble, they would just wash right off. So the really crappy ones, the really scary ones are not water soluble. They need to be removed with something that can dissolve that well. What's the worst, berries? What would you say is the worst? Let's get the worst. Strawberries. Yeah, I'd say strawberries. Strawberries and apples and peaches are the top three that generally top the list of pesticide usage. The statistic is like 54 to 55 different pesticides can be used on an apple. More on strawberries, about the same on peaches. Now during this whole process of creating this product, did you guys find anything crazy in the studies or find anything when you're going through this? That was surprising. Yeah, our strawberry study was shocking to me because I was like, okay, people were like, okay, you can remove 99.9% of the pesticide residue from an apple, but that's got a firm surface. What about a strawberry? And I was like, what about a strawberry? Let's test it. So we worked with a third party lab and they incubated the strawberry or they injected the strawberries with the pesticide, okay? So they actually applied it internally and on the surface. So we would be testing both. And then they macerated the strawberries or excuse me, they use the product on the surface and then they macerated the strawberries. So they would have to test if there were any pesticide residues left over inside. And what we found was we reduced the load by over 98%. So total on the total strawberry. So what that said to me is, okay, the products is actually absorbing to some extent to the inside of the strawberry because it's porous. And again, I feel pretty good saying, we can remove over 98% when, if you do that on a regular basis, you're getting the benefit of the pesticides going away, the bacteria being reduced significantly. And one thing that we created was the ability for a to extend shelf life. So you've got a product that's, if you're doing meal prep or you're one of these people that's like, I don't buy fresh produce because it goes bad before I can eat it, you never have to throw it away again because it's helping it last up to five times longer. So one question that pops up for me with this is, because not all bacteria is bad, obviously we have an internal microbiome that's very important to our health. If I'm washing my vegetables and fruits with this product that kills bacteria or eliminates bacteria, and when I gest it, am I ingesting something that has any type of an antibiotic property that may affect my gut bacteria? No, so think of it this way, when you wash your face, for example, you're removing what's on the surface and you're removing basically dirt and debris and things like that. So that can carry the bacteria. So what we're doing is we're getting rid of what can carry the bacteria. So it's not antibiotic. It's not an antibiotic. It's allowing it to get rinsed off. Correct, because it's getting under what water can't. And this is a very important thing for people to understand. About 80% of our produce is waxed. So they're using an oil-based wax and you can't remove that. So if it's getting waxed before it's getting washed, guess what? It's trapping all of that crap under the surface. It reminds me of when you clean your shower and you get the scum or whatever that won't come off of water. So you have to use a special spray that allows it to become soluble with water so you can rinse it off. Kind of like that, although it's different, right? Yeah, I mean, that's a good analogy. I always say like, maybe you guys don't do this, but for the ladies out there, when you use like a facial mask, maybe you guys don't. Adam does, right? Do you guys do masks? We do each other's masks. I want to see that. Yeah, I do my own mask. But when you use a mask and it kind of sucks out the impurities, it's basically the same idea. Interesting. So you've been in this industry now for a little while, right? You started backed out in that grocery store chain, which was how long ago was that? If I say I'm gonna disclose my age. She's not on a date, but I know. You can do that. You look fantastic. You obviously work out. You're obviously very fit. So I think it would be an attribute anyway. 25 years. Okay. So you've been in the industry for over a couple of decades. What are some of the trends and things that you've seen have changed since you started versus now? And do you see a different trajectory or what do you see moving forward with this industry? Because I've seen it change dramatically over the last, just 15 years. And I find that we're fascinating. Yeah, we're 15 and 20. So it's always interesting to talk to somebody who's got as much or more experience in the field as we do. Yeah. There are a lot of changes. It's a fast moving train. I'll kind of take you guys back to when I first got started is when the whole organic certification was just getting started. Really? Yeah. And there was a lot of confusion, especially in the scientific community because for anybody who is science based, the term organic doesn't mean anything. It means made of carbon. And I remember my dad saying, that's just bullshit. What are they trying to sell with organic? What is that even? Everything is organic. But what they felt they had to do was create a standard so that there was something to comply to because otherwise it's like the Wild West. But okay, so that in and of itself is a good thing because I think it helps to create a standard of sustainability and to some extent health, but not always. The problem with that is people don't understand it. Here we are 25 years later and I would wager you to ask somebody what certified organic means and have them give you a proper definition. So with that, non-GMO, there was a really funny Jimmy Kimmel thing where he was out on the street and he was asking people, do you eat GMO products? And people were like, no, no, non-GMO, non-GMO. And then he was like, well, what does GMO stand for? And they were like, uh, I don't know, you know? So we wanna be, I think we have a thirst to be educated. I think we are so connected with social media, you know? We wanna stand up and millennials out there are like, I have a right to know where my food source is and where my food is coming from. And that's the right place to be. The problem is I don't know if anybody really understands it. Just like the use of pesticides. Well, there's so much smoke and mirrors in it too, like even the organic game. I mean, that's like the game now is just to say that it's organic free or what were we just talking about the other day now? When gluten comes out bad, all of a sudden you see the response. Gluten free water, gluten free water. Gluten free wine, I'm like. Why are you putting that on the label? Grapes are gluten free, dude, you know? Like, what are you talking about? So you wonder why, I mean, that's why people are so confused cause you get all this stuff that comes out with marketing right after. And then you have fitness professionals, you know, who are like personal trainers and nutritionists who are helping trying to talk to people about losing weight or cause that's a very common goal. And people are like, but I only eat organic, you know, I eat organic donuts for breakfast. Right. I have organic cereal for lunch. It's like, okay, it doesn't necessarily mean, you know, you're gonna lose body fat. So, but you've seen it from when it became a standard, a new standard too. Now, has it changed the organic certification process or what does that even look like? Like how, if a farmer wants to be organic, what does the process look like? What do they have to do? How often do they get, you know, looked at by officials like, is that hard or is it right? That's a great question. Yeah, when do they come in and check? Oh yeah, that's a great question. So there are standards in the upfront, okay? And it's a three year transition process. So if you're a conventional farmer, and you know, at the end of the day, I think it's the right thing to do because a lot of these conventional farmers don't really have, they're making the change because there's something that's happened. Their family's gotten sick or their employees have gotten sick. I met an organic farmer in Watsonville that decided to go organic because he had three of his workers that got cancer. Whoa. So there is an impetus there to clean up your act. It costs money, you know, tens of thousands of dollars, which sometimes they don't have. But the hope is that they can command a better price for an organic crop. But I think that's the right thing to do, but then I come back and say, okay, so organic Oreos, like seriously, organic, you know, products that are full of sugar or full of organic white flour, like that doesn't mean crap to me. And I said it today. I said it in front of the, I was like, by the way, just cause it says organic doesn't mean it's healthy guys. And you could hear the mic drop, you know? But I had to say it because I get tired of the term being abused. Eat whole food, eat lots of plants, eat lots of greens, eat high quality foods, you know? Tell me, don't tell me what you don't eat. Tell me what you eat, you know? I think that's where we get really bogged down because we like these, okay, coming full circle, Sal, labels. We want a label. We want to say organic. We want to say non-GMO. We want to say gluten free. We want to say vegan. We want to say paleo. We want to say keto. But how about we just, we eat balanced real food, you know? I just wonder why we feel so strongly that we need to label ourselves. When it comes to the certification of being organic, is that, I've heard, and I don't know if you know this or not, I'm asking you because I know you're in the industry so I'm not sure if this is something you can answer, but I've heard people tell me that the process of being organic can be, once you get it, it's almost like nobody really checks and it's not that strict. And I don't know, I've heard that from people for, people who've worked on farms. Is that true or is it a standard that you should aim for and then go further like other independent sources that will tell you, yes, this is organic, plus it's also certified, you know, by the non-GMO organizations. I mean, what do you think about all that? I'm not as intimate with the auditing of the farms. I can tell you that one of our products is Omri certified. So it's a type of organic certification where it's certified for use on organic produce. So we have a product that inhibits enzymatic browning on apples and avocado. Oh, she sprayed it and didn't turn brown. Right. Oh, okay. Or you soak it. People that make cut apples that can last 21 days use our product. It's all natural. I mean, there's nothing in it that's not plant-based. And we, I'll be honest, they never came out to the facility to check it. We provided them with all the documentation for our producer, our co-packer. They checked the labels on the ingredients but nobody actually came out to check. And every year we have to get recertified and pay a fee. Guess what? That's all they want. You know? I never got checked. So I worked on one of the first three ever organic dairies in California back when I was a kid and when I didn't even know what organic was. And I remember that all they did was, so they would come and when they picked the milk up, they would do a test and we had like ABC or degrading. And in order to, I had to pass, if it was gonna be all the tests passed, then they could be A, which is they could turn around and sell it for organic. And if for some reason something got contaminated or got in it, it would degrade it to like a B and then we'd have to sell it for a cheaper per gallon. But as far as like regulations and paying attention to what we're doing there, and it's just the main stuff that they're looking for. So for us, I remember it was like hormones because that's with the dairy industry, that's the big thing is to pump the cows with hormones. So they're producing four or five times the amount of milk, but I mean, I was there for three years and I never saw any sort of anybody come down to audit or do anything. Yeah, some of the arguments for local are, obviously it doesn't need to travel as far so that that's better on the environment. Yeah, let's shelf life. And because it's closer, maybe you can keep an eye on a little bit and you know the people you're getting the food from. So that there's that level of maybe an extra level of security and knowing that there's some integrity with your food. So interesting. Well, and that contributes to the nutrient content too, because the longer it's in transit, the more you're seeing, you know, like vitamin C, for example, six days after an orange is picked, it's lost a lot of that vitamin C up to 40%. So always going local, I think is really a great way to go and it connects you with your food source. You get to talk to the farmer, you get to understand, you know, ask questions, you get to be part of a communal shopping experience, which I think has a ton of benefit too. And even growing a little bit of your own, I mean, so one big trend I think that we're gonna see as people, you know, ask the question, where do you go? Where do you go to get sustainable foods that are not completely tainted? And I think what you're gonna start to see is more people growing some of their own, raising some of their own. I mean, I talked to people who have chickens and you know, yeah, chickens, eggs, you know, growing a little bit of produce, you can do it in a vertical growing system with no land, just so that they can feel some sense of security that they're taking up a part of that. And even my son's school, you know, they have six gardens on their property. My kids too. Yeah. It's so interesting how much has changed because it used to be, if you were poor, you grew a lot of your food. Now it's like the middle class and upper who have the chickens and are growing things. It's a different dynamic. It's totally different. And you know, the landscape has changed a lot. I mean, when you go, you know, pre-industrial revolution, a lot of the country was farmland. And today it's like a fraction of the country is farmland, but it produces a ton of food through efficiency and through, even through GMOs and stuff like that and figuring that kind of stuff out. So it's an interesting problem to tackle because the first issue was, can we get enough people, enough calories? That's really what it was all about initially. Like we need more food. And so quality wasn't even, it wasn't even something that really anybody thought about because it was just food. Nobody thought about that. Now we've got the food production. We're looking at better distribution, which markets are really good way of doing that. And now we're looking at quality where people are willing to pay a little bit more to get better quality. Where 15 years ago, if you saw two steaks and one was organic and one wasn't, but it was $5 more, you're not gonna buy the more expensive one who cares. What does that mean? I'm just gonna get the cheaper one. Whereas today now, whole foods is becoming a, they made their mark that way by putting these kinds of foods out there. So I find it very fascinating and very interesting how the market is starting to shift. Well, and I think when you look at some of that, there is some misleading terminology happening. I mean, you know, grass fed, grass finished. You know, has the cattle really been grazing on grass the whole time or was it grass finished where basically at the end, they were eating what they were supposed to? Wow. What does free range mean? Just wait, I'm back up there. That's a good point right there because grass fed beef is marketed like crazy. So you mean to tell me that someone could put grass fed beef on there, but then the whole time it was being grain fed, but just for the last bit of its life, it gets grass fed. It can be. No shit. Okay, you gotta give me more of these. I did not know that. That's fascinating. So the whole idea of free range, okay? Yeah, you can command a much higher price, right? For free range, chicken, cage free. Okay, what does cage free mean? Does it mean that the chickens are roaming around all day long? It means you let them out once a day. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm not joking you. So again, I go back to- Pasture raise is what you want. Pasture raise, right? Pasture raise. That's where they're actually out in the grass. Cage free really doesn't mean much. I mean, I've seen it with my own two eyes. Like they'll let them out for a little walk, five minutes, 10 minutes, they're back inside the cage. Let's talk about all the terms that don't mean shit then because there is a lot of those. There's a lot of fluff out there on labels that people pay an extra dollar or two because they think it sounds better because they see it on the label or they heard some buzz term. What are the biggest culprits with that? Well, I think we just named a couple. I think to some extent organic only because I think we touched on this but you can get organic certified and then who's auditing the process. I think the whole idea of additive free or- All natural. All natural doesn't mean anything. Well, all natural doesn't mean anything anymore. And they're starting to crack down on companies that are using that label anyways. But additive free, preservative free, what do you classify as a preservative? Is it considered gross or is it salt? Salt's a preservative. And I think of course the word healthy means nothing. I mean, who wants to take a stab at defining healthy? I mean, that's like a shit show. I think it used to be that healthy meant nutritious but it's definitely not used that way anymore. So when somebody says I eat healthy, I'm always like, okay, what do you eat? Like if you're eating just gluten-free bread and you're eating, I don't know. Vegan chips. Yeah, I mean, there's the vegetarian cheese and cracker people that I just, what I encourage people to really look at is what are you eating? So I think healthy is full of air. What do you think about a company like Whole Foods? Do you think that's a company that takes advantage of the buzz term organic and doesn't really pay that close attention to some of these details? Or what are your thoughts on them as a company? This is mind pump, by the way, you can say what the fuck you want. She's like, they carry my products. They don't anymore, actually. I don't have a vested interest in supporting that. It's a business, okay? I think that if you walk the Natural Products Expo, which is the largest natural foods trade show in the country, maybe the world, it's right here, well, it's in Southern California in Anaheim, you will see more packaged products than you could ever imagine exist. And where are they sold? They're sold at places like Whole Foods. Now, I always say convenience begets laziness, okay? The more you confine, like, seriously, do I need to buy a hard boiled egg that's been cooked for me? Like, has it really come to that, you know? Oh no, don't tell me. And they're peeled. They'll come in like a bag of like, like four, yeah, pre- But the problem is they're soaking in preservatives, you know, so I don't know. It's really hard, you know? Do we sacrifice our ability to get foods because they're convenient? I mean, you know, look, there's only a few things we need to survive and food is one of them. I think we owe it to ourselves to put it on the front burner, you know? I think we owe it to ourselves to say, I'm gonna take half an hour or an hour every week and I'm gonna get some food prepped and it doesn't have to be fancy and I can eat a lot of raw food. I can make salads. We don't have to complicate the preparation if we don't want to, but I think we owe it to ourselves to eat as close to his nature intended. The more we buy food that is in the center store that's stabilized, that's, you know, and there's some good advancements. HPP, high pressure, pasteurization is becoming a big technology advancement for a lot of different things like hummus and other things that used to be, you know, you had to use other means. What exactly is that? So they use a high pressure liquid water form of pasteurization. So it does help to preserve the integrity of the food more and the nutrient content so you can get more shelf life out of some of these products. You know, I go back- So it's not heat, you don't have to heat it up or add anything to it? Yeah, so it's not killing the enzymes like you would get with heat. But I just, I go back and say, if you, you know, really what do we need to survive? Is it a full store full of packaged goods? Whether you're a Whole Foods or a mainstream grocer, I mean, the mainstream guys are doing organic too. They have huge sections that are dedicated. Does it mean it's bad? It doesn't mean it's bad. It just means I don't think we should be bulking up on packaged foods, period. It's all consumer driven. So for me personally, the reason why I think the industry's changing and shifting and there's a lot of good things that I see especially compared to 15 years ago is because the consumer's just demanding more. So I think the answer is more just continue to educate the consumer so that the consumer starts to make these educated choices and then the, you know, producers and the distributors have to follow the market. They have to make more of these products. I was in, I tell you what, it was impossible to find a non-artificial sweetener that wasn't sugar in coffee shops, you know, five years ago. You didn't. You went to any coffee shop and it was either sucralose, aspartame or sugar. Now you're seeing Stevia. Yeah, Stevia, raw sugar. Yeah, Stevia in particular. Like, and although some of those are super high processed themselves aren't necessarily great options. It's funny because it's the market now. I mean, Gatorade, organic. Now they have organic Gatorade, you know? And so I think it's- What's the sugar on that? High 30 grams or whatever. Yeah, so it's the, really it's the consumers that are driving it. So as we become more educated and make different choices then we'll see more money getting put into giving us what we want. And the problem is people for a long time wanted convenience and they wanted taste and that was it. So those are the two areas that most of the money went into. I mean, you go into some of these companies that make some of these processed foods and the vast majority of money that goes into the food goes into how palatable it can make it and how long the shelf life is and market it. And that's it. Very little goes into the actual nutrition. Can I microwave it? Yeah, it's like the nutrition basically is, okay, this isn't gonna kill anybody cool. Now how do we make it taste as good as possible? So that's where all the money goes into because people value taste and convenience but as people start to value quality and the source and you know, I'm even starting to see now people are valuing the way that companies just their ethics. I'm starting to see now soaps that are fair trade certified and stuff like that and they cost more. And the only reason why it's on the bottle is because people are looking for it now. So I think we're moving in a pretty positive direction although you've always got the side shows, right? Where like we were talking about earlier, gluten-free organic candy, it's not healthy at all. How long have you been in business now with your company? We are going into our eighth year now. Oh, wow. We have expanded our distribution so that we're not just selling to consumers but we also have a B2B play so that processors, retailers that are doing fresh cut programs can use our products to put forward a cleaner, healthier, convenience item but that's still fresh. So eight years, how's the business growing? How's it been moving in that entire period of time? It's pretty incredible to see how the demand for fresh food has also increased the demand for our product. Have you seen a change in that whole period of time of eight years where all of a sudden it was like, boom. Yeah, especially on the B2B side. Really? Yeah. Where the larger processors are looking for cleaner alternatives that are non-toxic, that are non-corrosive to their equipment that are good for worker safety. So I think that's where manufacturers are stepping up because they see the value of taking care of their employees. I just wanna touch on, you've brought something up that I think Whole Foods does a great job. They tell the story. They give a venue and an outlet for telling the story. So if it is fair trade or if it is a local farmer, I think they have done a pretty laudable job of that and at the end of the day, maybe some of these terms are a little bit full of error but at least we're getting a little bit more of an education. Yeah, I see that when they rank their meat and tell you what that rank means, like how far they've checked and all the sources and stuff like that. I personally like that. I'm wondering, based off your background, if you've seen any sort of technological advancements and I know me personally, I've talked to somebody, you're on who works for this company called Neutrino, but they have their hands on a lots of different ground breaking sort of disruptive technology that will help the consumer themselves actually evaluate the quality. Oh, you mean like scanning just? Like a spectrometer type of a device where it's handheld and they can actually scan through like, have you seen anything in that direction and what do you speculate as far as what that will do? Yeah, well, I mean, we touched on HPP, which I think is a huge technological advancement and being able to control bacteria without compromising the nutrition of the food itself. And I think you're gonna see a lot more of that. Actually, there was a company that spoke at the summit, the founder of Annie's started a company called Once Upon a Farm. And believe it or not, there is no fresh food category for babies, for baby food. All the baby food that you find on the shelf is shelf-stable and they are creating- A loaded full of sugar, too. Yeah, that's true, I haven't seen anything. And they're creating the first fresh product for babies. Oh my gosh, that's so money. That's HPP, you know, because of HPP. So I think those innovations are gonna go far. You know, in terms of I don't have as much contact to the types of tools and things like that that you're talking about because I think for me, our products have been so focused on helping people enjoy fresh food. You know, when I started the company, my commitment was to give my father a way to be able to eat a salad without being hospitalized. And he loves salad. You know, so at its base level, I wanted him to be able to enjoy it without feeling risk. I also wanted to be able to address the whole raw seafood situation, which people eat sushi like crazy, but you have no idea. Parasite can put you out for the rest of your life. And I got a call from a woman, we sell our products on Home Shopping Network. So she saw me on HSN, she called and she, you know, I picked up the phone. She was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm getting to talk to you. I'm like, hey, if you call, I'm gonna answer the phone. I really believe in that with our customers. That's number one for me. But she told me about getting a parasite and how she had been hospitalized and really thought that she was going to die. And she said she had never been in that much pain in her entire life. She's in her seventies. And you can easily get a parasite from raw seafood. So we created a wash for seafood and poultry where you can still enjoy, you know, something that's considered pretty raw. I mean, it's kind of cured a little bit because there's citric acid in it, but at least experience a healthier version of sushi by treating it with our product. Oh wow. So, you know, that's been really my focus. And, you know, just as a chef and somebody who tries to encourage people to eat cleaner with our cooking show and our recipes and videos and things like that, I wanna show people that it's not cumbersome. It doesn't have to be time consuming. It doesn't have to be expensive. You can do this economically. If I can do it on a single income for my family of three, you can do it. And I think it's just giving that a little bit of attention, giving it a little bit of a priority. I mean, think about our grandparents. They didn't have the luxury of going into a grocery store or having a pizza delivered. Like, how did they strategize? There was a simple strategy. It wasn't rocket science. And I sure hope we don't get so disconnected with our food that we just give it up to somebody else to take care of it for us. Well, that's just the scary part is that all the signs are pointing that we are. You know, all the signs are pointing that we're becoming more disconnected from us. I mean, how often do you see people looking at their phone while they're eating? That mindless eating right there is kind of showing that there's definitely a division. We've got this side of us that are, like you said, millennials that wanted to demand, I want to know where my food's coming from. I want to know what's in it. So you have that. And then you have the other side who I don't give a shit on mindlessly eating while my phone, my face is in my Instagram the entire time. Totally. Totally. And my book that I'm working on, it's called The Real Edition. It's coming out early 2019. I totally addressed that. While we're eating real, let's have real conversations. Let's have our family around us. I can't tell you guys the conversations I have with my teenager, just wait till you have a teenager. I got one coming. You know what I'm saying? If you don't want your teenager to stray or to not know what's going on with them, get them to sit with you at the dinner table. It's amazing what they'll tell you. And I even let her bring her boyfriend over. I'm like, hey, come have a seat at my table. Let's talk, you know? Or you give them a ride. This is one of the best things you could ever do is take your kids with their friends somewhere. That's like a 20, 30 minute drive. Totally. They come, they totally for whatever reason they think you can't hear them. And they're in the back of the car and you just drive and you just hear everything that they talk about. It's so funny. So are you the sole priority of this company or do you have partners? We are currently in transition on a partner. We're bringing a new partner in actually. And the goal is really to grow our B2B distribution so that we are being used by every processor that's processing fresh food, that we are also working with manufacturers that are looking for clean label preservatives. We have a clean label preservative that extends shelf life, that inhibits the growth of yeast and mold. And you know, my goal is to make sure eat cleaners on every countertop, every sink. You know, if you're, think about this. Remember when hand sanitizers got really crazy? You know, H1N1, everybody was like sanitizing every, like slathering their body with Purell. I don't think it has to be like that. But I do think that we need to mitigate risk. You know, so I don't want people to come away from this thinking, oh my God, she's told us like not to eat anything. No, just the opposite. I'm just saying eat as close to his nature intended and take care of mitigating your risk so you don't get sick. If anybody's ever gotten sick, I got sicker than a dog once eating a salad and I wanted to die. I mean, I have never felt so horrible as that moment where you throw up more than you think you're humanly capable of throwing up. I can only imagine these children that eat something that's contaminated and get hospitalized. What does that put your family through? Oh, I got, I did it in Thailand. I was in Thailand and I had, I don't know what I ate, but it was something and I had a fever of 104, almost 105, which for an adult is super high. Oh, I was seeing things. It was, it was crazy. And they had to, I had to pay for a doctor to come to my hotel room to give me an IV and it took me like three days just to get better. Do you know I had a similar experience? Did you really? I'm not even kidding you. And it was on my honeymoon. I figured that was like the precursor to what the wedding was to be like. Yeah, it wasn't meant to be, but I was- I should have been your side right there. It was, dude, it was. It was like two and a half weeks of pure hell, but- In Thailand too? In Thailand too. Oh my God. Yep. That's crazy. Beautiful country, by the way. Yeah, it was great. It just sucked. It was great. Not excellent. So you're, I mean, you're, you seem very driven. Obviously you're very driven, motivated person. Where's that come from? Survival. Passion. Were you always like this? Family. Were you like that when you were a kid too? Totally. Really? But it was misguided. I know I look like the picture of sweet, nice, but I was a pain in my parents' ass. Like I was a total rebel, always. Like, cause when your mind works all the time and you can't stop it, you find yourself in a lot of trouble. And my judgment factor was not great when I was a teenager. I always tell my dad, but I came out okay, right? He's like, huh, huh, huh. Yeah. How old were you when you immigrated? Here. I was young. I was two, but we went back every year and spent the full summer there. So were you, were your parents like, oh my God, we moved to America. Now we have a rebel kid who wants to. I'm sure. I'm sure they felt that way, but I think I was, you know, not to digress, but being the child of an immigrant family, it's an interesting place to be. You know, you're trying to fit in. You're trying to be cool like all the other kids and your parents have an accent and they do things different, you know? And my mom screaming at my dad and my friends are like, what's going on with your parents? I'm like, he's just asking if dinner's ready. Like it's not a big deal. Same experience here. Yeah, all the crazy customs that you try and get used to. And they were, you know, trying to do the best that they could. And I don't fault them for that, but at the same time, I was trying to figure it out. But I, you know, for me, this mission about getting people to eat better, it's because it came from a place where I had an eating disorder for over a decade. And I was really misguided about what I should do. And I was trying to control something in my life that, you know, a behavior that was not about the food, but it was the only way I knew how to control it. And I got, I really skewed the way I looked at food. I got emaciated. I was losing hair in clumps. I was hospitalized. I mean, it was bad. And, but when I figured out how to eat in a balanced way and get my strength back, I became an athlete. I was racing bikes, you know, running, playing competitive soccer. Everything changed. My self-esteem changed. The way I managed stress changed. My relationships with people changed, you know? Ain't nobody like a hangry person. And if you are not, we don't realize the importance of food, you know, in our well-being when we're young. But then something bites you like that. And you just realize like, my life is too short to feel like this. So when I got it together, I just felt an onus to be able to pay it forward to people, to help people come to terms with maybe a not so great relationship with food. And unfortunately, I think a lot of the restrictive diets that we're seeing are coming from a place of actually having an eating disorder. 100%. Absolutely. You know? And so I think it's just really important where we heed caution. Our girls, especially guys too, my daughter's age are on chronic diets. 16 years old and they're just like, oh no, I don't eat that. I'm this, I'm that. And I'm like, babe, put some, you need to eat. Like don't be like this, you're gonna kill your metabolism. So if one person can take this message and say, I get it, you know, I understand that food is my life force. It's what gives me the ability to do what God created me to do on this planet. And it's not about restriction necessarily. I, there's a section of my book where I talk about the 90-10 rule. I think there is something to be able to say you can enjoy some of the things you love within moderation, but not feel like you're a martyr to your food. I think there's this crazy martyrdom syndrome that we're experiencing right now. And I don't think it has to be that way. I think you should eat and enjoy, do it with the people you love, and do it often. Cool, very cool. I can't wait to try your product. We have yet to try it out. Yeah, I know, I'm excited. I want to get excited to have you down here. We hit it off right away when we all met, and we love the message that you're giving right now too, which is great. There's not enough people like yourself that's putting out a message like those. Excellent, thanks for coming by. Thank you guys. Excellent, so check it out. Go to YouTube, Mind Pump TV. We have new fitness videos up there almost every single day. Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. 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Hey everybody, it's really exciting to have you join us again for another episode of the nonprofit show. We have an interesting and different and fun show today. And so we're really excited that you have joined us for another episode of the nonprofit show now you know, Camely Joy Patrick Jennings Fridays are a special day, because it is dedicated to ask and answer we are so delighted that our exclusive Fundraising Academy has joined in on this amazing, amazing opportunity for our nonprofit sector to ask questions, get some feedback, kind of take the temperature so what do you say guest of the day, get to it. Let's do it. Hey, well hey welcome everybody to another episode of the nonprofit show Friday special edition of ask and answer. We want to thank all of our sponsors who joined us pretty much since the beginning of when we started. And it's really really exciting. They are in business to serve you. And so we hope you check them out because they want to help serve our nonprofit sector. Okay, this is the second annual post feast ask off with Camely Jennings, we're thrilled you're here. Well, thank you. I'm thrilled to be here. Well, it's pretty exciting to get the millennial opinion of a nonprofit person in Camely Jennings also my daughter. Camely Jennings last year when you joined us for the first ever. You had just relocated from Germany. You've been working with I feel like this is your life. You've been working for the United Nations World Food Food Program share the meal. And you had just moved back to the states. Tell us a little bit about what's going on in your world right now. Thank you. Back in the States after about a year or so or been back in the States for about a year or so. And now I am doing consulting for nonprofits social sector organizations, and actually more specifically social impact within the tech sector So kind of reversing my role that I used to be working in at the World Food Program and now working with these private sector companies to help the social sector nonprofit organizations. Wow, amazing. Well, it's really I think fabulous that you have been on the client side now you're moving to the funder side. And I think that's really an amazing perspective that's going to be something that you share with us today on the ask and answer episode of the nonprofit show. So I say let's get into it what do you say, let's do it. Again, I'm Julia Patrick, if you haven't met. If you have with we haven't met. I have replaced my interpret co host Jared ransom the nonprofit nerd with Kamali Jennings so Kamali first question comes to us from Max and New Haven Connecticut. I'm a board member of a human services nonprofit. I just attended my first board meeting, and now I'm concerned that I have some legal liabilities that could be major. Yeah, you should be max do I need insurance. Is there even anything like this. I'm going to say yes, but I will leave it to you for all the details you're the expert. So, yeah, absolutely. Your organization as a nonprofit should have board insurance and this is a liability insurance. It should be reviewed every year to two years. It should be reviewed more often and if you get a bigger contract or say a new building where you take over somebody else's program or, or expand your services. It's very important in human services, because unfortunately clients pass away and things that are pretty tragic happen. I'll give you an idea, you know I served at the same time as a trustee for a major opera company as I did for as a board member for the nation's largest domestic violence shelter. I would say which was pretty crass it the opera people only died on stage, but in our shelter people passed away women, you know, passed away, often from their, from their injuries and that they have been brought in with. And yeah, it's a really big deal max so you need to make sure that you understand what those liabilities are, because they are serious. And I do, Kamely, you know I don't know if you've seen this but there can be fiduciary mismanagement that might come back on you, where the community, or investors, even investor donors might believe, or perceive that you have mismanaged their funds, and that can become a legal situation or legal entanglement. Absolutely. And can I ask, is this an insurance that's for the entire board or would this be an insurance that max would seek out himself to cover himself, or both really great question great question. So yes, the organization should have it for their elected board members, which they declare who those board members are. And then there's two answers to your question. This is if max and it doesn't say here but if max is part of a large corporation. Chances are they have errors and emissions insurance for their, their employees who serve on boards that help protect the organization that they're representing that's number one. I do max, you know you can look at your homeowners insurance and find out if there's an ability for you to buy a writer which generally there is. And it might be something to look at and investigate, depending upon the size of the organization that you're serving. And if it's a tenuous environment, you know I would be really interested to ask. So has the fallen this this board, have you had other times when you've been sued or you're you know you've been pulled into those actions that's that's something to look at because that's a real concern. Absolutely when when we do our board training at the American nonprofit Academy, I have to admit when we talk about this. This is the point with which everyone freaks out. Well, yeah, insurance is a scary topic I mean it's, you know, it's expensive can be can't be, you know, and so, and no one wants to be liable understandably so. So, no that's great question max. Yeah, really good question and I hope that you do pursue it. Okay, let's go to our next question Kamali Jennings Chanel from Chicago Illinois writes and I'm a young professional looking to get on to a nonprofit board. What should I do about the give or get policy. I'm not in a financial position to be writing large checks, but I am a hard worker. I like that. Again, you have the the experience on this one but I would say that, you know, one is not better than another. I think they're completely equally important. And so, I think it depends where Janelle works does she work at a tech company that can give services that she, you know, she work at a law firm she work, you know, in healthcare event you know I mean there's, there's a lot of things that companies her company, where she works for can help, you know, with the get policy. They could also help with the give but I think, you know, if she were to approach her company, the get would be an easier ask, people don't really see the resource conversion but they have a red flag if it's a financial question or ask. And so I would say that you know get policy. Again, depending if she's working somewhere that you know has resources, could be the, the better option. I think that's a really good idea for those of you that are the uninitiated, a give or get policy is very very common with boards which means with your board service every year. Not the tenure of your service but every year, you are asked to either give, which means you write a check for a certain amount, or you go out and you get that money, or that that value, meaning, you might host your own event, you might get it as as Camely just mentioned from your corporate partner. And sometimes that can be something done in trade, whereby, as you mentioned Camely, brilliantly I never really thought of that. Some type of service or product line that dovetails into that. And that is reported that is measured and that is something that varies. I have seen boards, whereby you have a $5 or $25 get, give or get and I've seen them over $100,000. So really depends but you need to know and understand about this. You know, Camely, there's another thing that we've been really, or I should say I've been promoting. You're promoting the idea to get younger board members to create a scholarship program, meaning that you could bring somebody in who you think is going to be a future leader, not only in your community, but your organization, right so you're looking outside just your organization. You scholarship them in, especially for those boards that have a significantly larger give or get, because you don't want to walk away from a young talent, because they can't come up with an extra $5 or $10,000. Right, no that's, yeah. How do you, in the application interview, you know courting process when do you think this is an appropriate question to ask, you know, is because it's kind of like you don't want to scare off the leadership to say I don't have money or I don't have resources but you know you, you're a great person and you want to be involved so when do you think, you know, this, it's a time to bring this up. You know that is a marvelous question and only somebody of your age would ask that question. And I appreciate that you brought that up. This is my take on it. It is not the prospective board members responsibility. It is the responsibility of the organization. For example, if you're being courted by the executive director, the board chair, a nominating committee, I don't care what this should be part of the disclosure. Part of the disclosure that is like, what is your liability, what is your responsibility, how, how much time is this going to take. Yeah, what are the costs associated with it. I mean, what are the nuances, you know, there are a lot of boards that will say you cannot be on other boards during your term. You cannot disclose certain things. You have to give of so many hours. You have to buy a table at the gala. These things need to be disclosed so that the prospective board member understands, is it realistic for them to even participate. Yeah, I think, you know, I think that's the ideal world, you know, but I'm sure that doesn't happen, you know, all the time so it's tricky it reminds me of applying for jobs. I mean, it's the same thing you're asking, when do I ask when what's the salary or you know what are my benefits I mean it's a kind of a, you know, dance around these topics that are uncomfortable. But they shouldn't be, you know, I think the more people talk about it the more it's out and open then, you know, people feel more comfortable about asking those questions are are giving an answer because that's also uncomfortable to, you know, for those right. It's a courageous conversation. You've got to be able to be bringing that up for the health of the organization, right. And also for the health of the relationship with a board member moving forward. Yeah, and you know, bringing in the millennial perspective I think, you know, not speaking on behalf of all millennials but I think a large chunk are really, you know, concerned and, you know, find transparency to be important. And, you know, if you're going to an organization that you've gone through this entire recording and interview process and then at the last minute they bring up this. Oh, by the way, you have to give us 50 K a year or whatever it may be, you know, that's an immediate turn off not just from the financial aspect but from, you know, not being transparent not being forthcoming not being organized is because really to me that's how that comes off. And I think, you know, for me at least that wouldn't be a place that I'd want to, you know, participate in because I think that, you know, being transparent and all of their financials and all of their, you know, programming is really really important. And I would say our generation is really keen on knowing those details. Well, and I think it's, it speaks to the intellectual nature of what that board members going to bring. Think about it and what you just said, when there are grants that have to be reviewed or contracts or hires or fires within the C suite. Yeah, that's when the rubber is going to meet the road. Interesting. Do you know, I hope that helps you and I hope that you don't get turned off as Kamely said about this, you know, ability to participate in the community and bring people along. Okay, Kamely James, I don't know if you know this, but name withheld questions are my favorite. Because there's a little bit of drama. All right, what do they have to say. Okay, name withheld from San Diego, California, my nonprofit just moved their annual holiday ask event to a virtual platform and frankly I was super disappointed. I'm in the fundraising, I am in fundraising and so it was not part of the and so I was not part of the production team. How do I navigate my comments and observations without making them are calm team upset. I have heard this question more and more. Yeah. Fascinating. We were just talking about this in the beginning, you know, um, everyone's dealing with this. You know, it's, it's hard because we're now in, you know, year two ish, you know, of the pandemic and people are tired of zooming and you know being on these webinars because you can only make them so exciting. You know, it's, it's exhausting it's it's, it's a it's a really difficult thing but it's, you know, could be the safe thing wherever you may be. It's about making the marketing and communications team upset. They're probably upset to that it got shifted. Everyone wants to be in person, you know, I mean it's it's not just you, of course on the production team because that's your job but I would say everyone wants to be in person and socializing and networking and you know we have this feeling that more can get done in person but I think as we've seen in the last few years, we still can, you know, run our world on a virtual space. I think it's a scary thing necessarily. But I think it's just harder. You know, I've dealt with this recently as we speak, you know, working on a big event and it's really hard to reach people, you know, without shaking their hand. You know, it's kind of got a hammer hammered in you know whether it's an email or it's a you know, a little gift delivered to their front door or it's a you know, Slack, you know notification that they get, you know, it's, you just got to really hammer in those messages and I would say don't worry about overwhelming people because I think a lot of people get, you know, scared oh my gosh is this too much messaging and am I being annoying, but it's okay to be annoying. I think if you're, if you're saying, you know, give me money, give me money, give me money that can be a little intrusive but you can be creative in that messaging and talk about you know being together being with your community, you know, talk about your beneficiaries or whatever you know project you're promoting to be creative with that and don't just ask, ask, ask, but I think you know it's doable. If you're alone with held your, you're not alone, I would say, you know, I think that's a really good comment. And, and I would say, Kamely, it's very similar to what you just said, you can apply that to in person events. You know, I've always thought that those organizations that were like at the end of event, the event you look around and their team is just like, you know, crashed on at the tables. And no, that's when the hard work gets started should be starting. You know, I think it's the same thing just because you have an event whether it's in person IRL, or it's, you know, virtual. Yeah, it doesn't just because the events over doesn't mean your work stops, it kind of is like the starting point, I think. I think it's a missed opportunity if you're not following up if you're not having subsequent events or maybe you don't have this big bash but you kind of do some smaller more intimate things because we all know if you get more than I don't know, I would say five, six people on zoom, you can't have a conversation it's just too crowded, you know, so maybe you have intimate little gatherings with you know local champions where you're talking about the initiative. And maybe that works maybe it doesn't. But everyone's in the same boat all experimenting all trying different things so you know it's a trial and error, I would say it is and I think it is very interesting I've been hearing this more and more about the mark on the marketing communication teams, working with production or production company or whatever, and they are not communicating with the development team, big mistake. You've got to make sure that those two teams are communicating. Yeah, because you know each team has their own goals, different goals and they should work together on, you know, the marketing communications team is going to know how to reach those people but then their development team fundraising team is going to say, this is what we want the message to be, you know, these are our goals, this is, you know, the outcome this is the impact that these, you know, gifts are going to have. So, yeah, close, close working relationship, even with the production team because now that production teams got a shift and you know, work behind a computer. There's still production to be done I mean you can't just you know click on zoom and then there you go there's a lot of work that needs to be you know put into it. There might even be a small cohort of folks who are in person putting on this event that everyone else is watching virtually. So, you know, don't don't think that there's nothing to be done on the event or production team, you know, I think that's very good, very good advice, production still needs to be occurring. So don't think that just because you're not in ballroom things aren't happening. Yeah, yeah, really, really important good advice. Okay, let's go to Francis in Denver, Colorado. We are in a crunch for attracting and hiring people to work for our nonprofit. Does it look inappropriate if we offer our current staff members, a financial reward for getting us new employees, we need help. I'm curious what your answer is. I don't know if you know my answer I'm curious what you would say you want me to go first. I, you should go first. I'm curious what are you going to say. Well yeah, I say offer, offer an incentive, you know, I think that the one issue I have here is it doesn't necessarily build diversity, because you know we, unless we have diverse lives you're going to get people that look like your employees and that kind of thing. But I also think that people, you know, they know people within the sector so for example let's say you work in a cultural organization. You're going to probably know other people that work in cultural organizations are that understand that segment of the nonprofit sector so maybe they are going to be good recruiters. We have this thing going on called the great resignation you know we have massive numbers of people leaving the sector retiring, determining they want to do different things. But at the same time we have a lot of new people coming into the sector that are saying, I don't want to work for corporate America anymore I want to take the next phase of my life and do something different. But I think it's okay. I really really do. I would say you'd need to talk to HR and find out this will probably be taxable income. Yeah. And so you need to make sure you understand that. And then I would put very strict parameters on it like, do they need to stay for three months or six months or you know how does it work. But what what say you can only enjoy Jennings. Did oh 100%. Yeah, I think, as you said, there needs to be structured to it because it can get, you know, everyone wants an extra 500 bucks $1,000 whatever it may be but you know if you don't have, you know structure if you don't have a cap on it to if you just say, oh, you know, get as many as you want. Wait, that's an extra five grand if I can recruit five people but that actually adds up you know for these companies, especially if you're smaller so I would say as you said put a cap on it sometimes companies have a tiered system so for the first employee recruit you get $1,000 for the next one you get $500 for the next one you get $250 whatever it is. You know, but I think as you said the diversity, you know, component is important but I think kind of on the flip side, if you're recruiting people you like, then you're probably more willing to stay at the company and create a better culture for yourself. Because people leave jobs not because of the work but because of the culture, the management, you know, the teams that they're on because, you know, that's not, they're not able to control that. But they kind of are in a sense if they're able to recruit their friends or colleagues or people who they think will really do a good job. So I would say it has a really strong benefit because you know you're only you know you're not going to recruit a friend to you think wouldn't be qualified, you know, because that's just more work for yourself. So I think that it's, it's a really important thing. And I think we're seeing it, you know, it's very common in the private sector. But I think it's becoming or should be becoming you know more common in the public sector and it also just makes the company look more attractive in general you talked about that you know great resignation. So companies are trying to do everything they can to have retention. And this is, this is a perk, this is definitely considered a perk, and is has a pretty low cost if you think about it. So, you know, I would say, go for it. Really interesting and, and I think what you said was just absolutely fascinating and we don't talk about this enough. The concept of culture. You're going to be actually maybe strengthening that cultural aspect that is very hard to articulate for a lot of organizations. It's hard it comes within you know you may have an employee who might not be a fantastic person at their job maybe their output is a little low, but they have a lot of culture, a lot of culture component, you know, to themselves that they're bringing to the team and that's, you know, a really really important person to keep around. And so I think, you know, not getting too much into HR but I think it's it's really important to, you know, have a balance within your team. Really interesting. I like that and I would imagine if you keep looking at these numbers. I think it's going to become this isn't just solved after the holidays of the new year or even, you know, the, the end of the pandemic. This is, this is an issue that has been amplified, I believe by the pandemic but we've already we've already been talking about this. If you just, you know, institute it for a short period of time then it then it does look a little gimmicky, you know, it does look a little strange but if you say this is a new company policy I think people will take it seriously. You know, and I think that's probably has more benefits to say oh wow my company again has another perk, you know has something cool going on they're really, you know, quote trendy, you know in the HR business side of things and so I think it's it's a positive thing all around. Yeah, I do too. Really good. Well, I hope that helps, because that's, this is a question that I would imagine the majority of our nonprofits are having this discussion. This is going to be with us folks and we need to do things that are creative. Okay, Charlene from Houston, Texas writes, our marketing team with the help of an ad agency just presented our new donor donor campaign to the board and they hated it. So we love, love, love it and feel that the board does not understand the donor marketplace. Wow, interesting. Any suggestions on how to navigate the rollout of this project. This is a loaded question. Mm hmm. Charlene. You know, part of this is who's on your board if you don't think your board is connected it goes back to what we were saying a few minutes ago. Where's that, you know, millennial or where's that older boomer, you know, on your Gen Z person, you know, on on your board because you'll be able to have a good feel of your donors and have a good representation of, you know, not just age but race, gender geographic location, you know, socioeconomic status even. And so I think that's probably at the core of this question is that's the first thing you have to figure out. But if you're talking about a new campaign right now you don't have time to restructure your board or have a deep diet. I'm maybe this comes from my tech background but I'm a firm believer in testing, we call it a B testing. So you show maybe it could be even on your Instagram story something you know, really, really, you know, easy. And you say, Okay, do you like color a or color B or do you like the fonts a or B, and you have people pick you don't need that many, you know, votes, if you will maybe you send a small email to a you know group of people or you ask your friends to the donors. Then it gives you kind of a different idea because we all have those gut instincts. But then it also gives you some data to support what your decision is because, you know, if you go back to the board and you say, we not only like this campaign but our small sample size of folks liked it too. Then they can say, Oh right okay I guess we should go with your idea, or maybe you are wrong and your cohort of people don't like it then you can go, you know, what the board thinks. What do you think, you know that's interesting I would have never said that I would have never thought that. But I think you're right. I think you're right I think we do need to be doing more testing I think back in the day when you rolled out a new campaign, it was like, you rolled out you had to buy the billboards you had to buy the ads you know it's like you're not going to get it yet would take you down another path. I like what you're saying and I also think to Kamali. I think that we are a more data driven society and with our decision makers. And I think if you can take that to a board that chances are they are disconnect disconnected to your donor demographic. Yeah, we see that across this country, we don't have boards that look like our donors necessarily. Wow. And testing doesn't have to be expensive like I said it can be on Instagram. That's free. You know, of course you could you know doing a Nielsen study and paying a lot of money. If that's you know the resources that you have but I think it's people get really overwhelmed by data, just that word data they think oh I'm terrible at math. I don't know how to do data but those are very different things, you know, I'm also not great at math but I know the data collection and so I think that you know just backing up what you have to say is great and you can do that with a small sample size of your marketing campaign and you can have results. Again if you use the Instagram example in 24 hours. You know so it's not going to really slow down your campaign rollout because we all know those run on tight deadlines but if you spent money with an ad agency and we know those are expensive. It shouldn't go to waste. You should really try to salvage it as much as you can. And maybe to your point, Kamely asked that ad agency. Yeah, exactly help in that process. Wow, this has been a pleasure. I'm sorry that our time is up. I mean I'm shocked that 30 minutes went by so fast. I mean, I love that this is the second annual tradition. I mean, who would guess that the mother daughter duo would have such sage advice. Yeah, we, we killed it. We did. We rocked it. Hey, Kamely Jennings thank you for joining us for another episode of the nonprofit show our special special Friday ask and answer, which is always one of my favorite days I'm always fascinated the questions that come to us from nonprofit leaders and donors and board members across this country it's really been an amazing thing. I can't wait to see what happens next year. Next year, we'll give we'll make sure that Jared ransom our co host has Friday off again, so that we can do this game we want to thank all of our presenting sponsors without you, we would not be here, having these amazingly robust discussions, as we do each and every day. Kamely it is the week of gratitude. I'm glad I have a lot of gratitude for you in my life. More importantly gratitude for you being in the nonprofit sector. Thank you. Right back at you and I think as I said last year the apple does not fall far from the tree so he which is a good thing. It's a good thing. So here we are but yeah can't wait for next year. I know well I feel like I have to apologize for that apple thing. Sorry. I'm thankful for that. Well everybody thank you for joining us. We'd like to end every episode with our mantra. Stay well. So you can do well. Have a great holiday weekend we'll see you back here on Monday everyone.

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